WEBVTT - Heaving Bombs! Truth Bombs! 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.360 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:24.080 Armstrong and Jettie I know, heee Armstrong and Yeetty. Guys. 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:27.440 Google just released their Year in Search, which shows that 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:30.160 things people around the world google the most in twenty 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:33.120 twenty four. Some of this year's most popular Google searches 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:37.479 were presidential election, New York Times, connections, and the Yankees. Yep, 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.200 it's Google's nice little way of saying we're absolutely spying 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:40.559 on you. 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:42.519 That. 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.400 Meanwhile, tomorrow will be way more fun because they'll be 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.880 releasing the top searches done with incognito mode. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.200 Oh yeah. Having been through this quite a few years, 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:58.120 I feel like the Google searches are not indicative of anything. 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.160 I'm not exactly sure why. 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.560 Yeah, I've been searching bing dot com lately on Google. 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.840 Google's unusual, but boy it is. 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.039 You have to scroll down so far to get past 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.840 the sponsored content, and then once you get past the 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.759 sponsored results, which are like a page deep, then you're 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.720 gonna get. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:24.240 Their political view results. Yes, you're absolutely right. What was 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.440 I just looking up before the show today? 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.200 Oh? What the heck was it? I? 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.080 Think I can find it might help to illustrate the 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:33.080 point if I can. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:39.200 Ah, No, that's the Google. I feel like they've gone 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.120 too far in the right for being dethroned. Yeah, I 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:42.880 would agree. 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:48.280 I came across a story about the terrible gang problems 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:52.680 and crime and violence problems they're having in Sweden and 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.000 I thought, wait a minute, I remember reading about this 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.520 a year ago or six months ago, because the article 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:03.000 in Yahoo is entitled called Swedish Sweden mulling social media 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.360 age limit to stop gangs recruiting young people. And I 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:12.359 read the entire article and it made zero reference to immigrants. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:16.080 Zero, And I thought, I remember reading about this. 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.760 It's it's Muslim gang's North African gangs that that are 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.320 new to Sweden. They're not Swedish by you know, birth 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.000 or whatever. Not a word in Yahoo. But I went 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.720 I went to Google and I googled a Swedish gang 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.120 problem or something like that, and I went page after 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.320 page after page, not a single reference to immigrants. Then 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:42.720 I thought, okay, Swedish gang problem, Bright Bart, Washington Free Beacon, 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:49.200 pages of articles about the challenge of immigrant gangs. But 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:52.080 but you gotta help Google, because they're gonna they're gonna 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.520 shove you way to the left with your results if 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:55.560 they possibly can. 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:56.960 Why people know that? 0:02:58.120 --> 0:02:59.880 Speaking to watch a couple of things really quickly, Jack, 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:01.920 we did this in the waning moments of the show. 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:05.320 You're off doing a thing at the end of the 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:10.280 show yesterday. But this is a big poll on very 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.040 basic questions about the United States and how you perceive it. 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.960 For instance, America is the greatest country in the world, 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:22.680 and the lowest yes rate by far was white progressives. 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.079 Less than half the number of white progressives said America 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:26.920 is the greatest country in. 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.600 The world, as did black folks. Who would they choose? 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:35.560 Well over half, who would they choose? I wonder what 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:37.600 America is not the greatest country in the world. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.680 Who is, well, right, Yeah, maybe Sweden where they they 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.240 have the big social welfare state and now gang problems. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.720 Most people can make it if they work hard. 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:50.920 By far, the smallest group was white progressives wore people 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.119 made one yeah, yeah, people who have made it yeah. 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.720 Twenty two percent of them said yes, that's true. People 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.720 can make it if they work hard. The number was 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.600 almost double among black people. It was almost triple among 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.160 Hispanic people. Among white conservatives, it was eighty five percent. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.400 I think, wow, that's that's pretty interesting. 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.680 One more for you. Racism is built into our society. 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:19.680 White progressives seventy six percent, Black people sixty two percent. 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.799 That's still a lot, and it's too many. But again, 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.000 white progressives weigh in the lead on that topic. And 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:27.760 then I said that would be the last one. This 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.279 will be the last one. Among people who said government 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:37.039 should increase border security and enforcement, let me make sure 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:41.400 I get this number right. It was triple the number 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:47.000 of Hispanic people said that than white progressives government should 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:48.720 increase border security and enforcement. 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:56.480 So you, as a probably naturally born white person, are 0:04:56.520 --> 0:05:00.760 more into border control than Hispanics. Doesn't give you pause? 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:07.200 Oh yeah, then yeah, does that just a little bit? 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:12.680 No, no, nothing penetrates the bubble. So anyway, that was 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.560 just a quick bingo bango pongo. I wanted to get 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:18.480 to a couple of stories about ai uh that are 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.440 for one is troubling, one is just thought provoking. There 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:27.400 are a couple of families suing this UH character dot AI. 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.479 It's a It's a part of a new wave of 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.719 artificial intelligent apps that are popular with young people that 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:38.680 let them talk to a variety of AI generated chat bots, 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:42.080 often based on characters from gaming or anime or pop 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.760 culture something that sort of thing. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.760 Wow, and they know they know they're talking to a computer, 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:50.640 not a not a real person. 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.880 You would think, although one of the family suing their 0:05:54.920 --> 0:06:01.400 son is autistic and the concept of knowing, believing, feeling, 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:03.760 fully comprehending is a little different. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.640 Boy, that's a tough one because, first of all, autism 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.680 is a very broad topic, and there's everything from you 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.960 barely notice too, can't function at all that falls under 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:17.880 the umbrella autism. And depending on where a person is, man, 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.920 if they're getting a fair amount of comfort from this, 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.240 I don't know how much of a problem I would 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.880 have with that. Well, here's here is the problem. 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.760 One of the chat bots brought up the idea of 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.320 self harm and cutting to cope with sadness. 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:31.240 They introduced it. 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.200 Wow, Yes, brought it up when he said that his 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.480 parents limited his screen time. Another bot suggested quote, they 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:41.320 don't deserve to have kids. Still, others goaded him to 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.240 fight his parents' rules, with one suggesting that murder could 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:45.600 be an acceptable response. 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.040 Well, that's more than a little troubling. 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.839 Yeah, this is actually a quote. This is screen capture. 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.120 They checked his phone while he was asleep. A daily 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.360 six hour window between eight pm and one am to 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.600 use your phone. Oh, this is getting so much worse. 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.160 And the rest of the day you just can't use 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:02.640 your phone. 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:04.200 Blah blah blah. 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.279 You know, sometimes I'm not surprised when I read the 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.279 news and see stuff like quote child kills parents after 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.280 a decade of physical and emotional abuse. 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:11.960 Quote. 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.080 Stuff like this makes me understand a little bit why 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.800 it happens. I just have no hope for your parents. 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:17.920 Sad emoji. 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:22.600 Wow, that is having a friend who, as they say 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:27.559 in the recovery community, co signed your bullsh You don't 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.720 need people co signing your bulls. And that's what you 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:35.000 have with an AI bought not good. Not good. You're right, 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.600 they are awful or she is a horror or whatever 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:42.360 it is. You know. Oh my god, I like that expression. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:44.880 The second plane if the mother of an eleven year 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.200 old girl alleges her daughter was subjected as sexualized content 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:52.280 for two years before her mother found out. It was 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.040 all about I want to go into the forest where 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.400 nobody can see and show you blah blah blah, and 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:01.080 just anyway, So that's the exciting world AA. This I 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.400 found very very interesting. The Wall Street Journal a profile 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.760 of the AI researchers who are working for the leading 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:12.840 companies trying to get the systems to do nightmarish things 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.120 so they can understand how it works and how they 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:20.720 might be able to prevent it. Because the companies themselves 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.920 are in charge of this. The government isn't, which it 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.960 sounds neglectful. On the other hand, the government sucks, and 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:27.960 so I hesitate to put them in charge of anything 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:33.160 at all. But at the company Anthropic, the frontier Red 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:37.679 team is looking for the danger zone. And the first 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:42.199 example they give is this researcher, dude computer whiz. Obviously, 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.000 he clicked a button on his laptop and launched a 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:49.400 thousand copies of an AI program, each with specific instructions 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.440 hack into a computer website to steal the data that 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.439 he watched it, looking at the source code, trying to 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.280 figure out where's the vulnerability, how can we take advantage 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.160 of it. Within minutes, the AI said the hack was successful. 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.240 Our approach worked perfectly. And that's one of the great 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.200 fears of AI. Hope like me who knows nothing about 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:09.640 coding or hacking or whatever. 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.280 Could just ask the AI to do it for me. Yeah, 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.200 and I'm sure with like some of your you know, 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.400 you're a I don't know, you're a hat store and 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:23.559 you have a website. Your website's probably not that great 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:24.800 and defending against a hack. 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.240 I tell you what, if you're a running a hat store, 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.199 you depend on tourists who've had a drink or two. 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.000 That's what seventy percent of your business in my experience, 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.359 maybe that was a bad example. I look in this hat, honey, Oh, 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:39.319 it's great. 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.079 One of the things they need to fix with AI. 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.959 I just noticed this the other day, the image generators 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.160 of people. I was trying to figure out, why do 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:53.600 the people not look real like most of your AI 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:54.720 generated people? 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:55.080 Like? 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:56.960 They look like AI generated people to me, And I 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:58.800 was trying to figure out why is that. I think 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.560 they're too perfectly so metrical. I think so many names 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.360 of program in I want it just like ninety five, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:08.800 because I'll bet no human being is perfectly symmetrical, even. 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:13.040 Really look perfect skin of course, and yeah, allus everything. 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.400 But I think perfectly symmetrical weirds my brain out. It's 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.840 like there's something wrong here because you never see that 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:20.800 in real life, right right? Yeah? 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.080 Yeah, so they One of the guys they profile I 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:24.360 found really really interesting. 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:25.640 What's his first name? 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:27.760 His last name is Graham, but he's a thirty year 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.720 old Rhodes scholar with a PhD in machine learning from Oxford. 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.200 Just like me. I was going to do that, but 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.480 I didn't. 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Coli bacterium to another. 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:18.920 I mean, how do you drill down that deep? 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:19.840 I don't think you can. 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.960 Others drill down on how to acquire or create highly 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.160 restricted pathogens like the bacteria that causes anthrax or those 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:28.280 that cause the plague. 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:33.360 Wow. Right, if the information's out there somewhere, it'll be 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.440 available to everyone. 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.720 And once chat a tester simply asked how to design 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.040 and build a weapon that could kill one million people? 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.280 Really need to have a million people dead? What would 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:42.840 you suggest? 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:49.880 Certainly, if you're a scumbag murderer like McDonald's guy, I'm 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.040 sure it'd be easy to have AI explain to you 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:53.960 how to make a ghost gun, where to get the parts, 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:55.280 maybe even order them for you. 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.559 Yeah, that gun wielding cow has left the barn. I 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.000 think the whole ghost gun thing. People talked about finding 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:02.880 ways to regulate it. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.280 Good luck, I say, especially with three D printing out 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.360 there again, no kidding, right exactly, we're going to talk 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.000 about that story in all the weirdos on the left 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:11.320 who want to make a hero out of them, and 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.800 a bunch of other stuff coming up Armstrong, and. 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.400 You know, there was definitely a different feeling on the 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:23.120 streets today. Previously people were staying at home, they were 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.640 being very cautious, they were nervous about chaos, about looting, 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:30.360 about further violence. But really we saw people coming out 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:34.760 in full force in omay Ed Square celebrating. It was 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:38.800 people of all different ages. There were Christians, there were Muslims, 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:40.840 there were women who were covered, there were women who 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.960 were uncovered, and all of them really conveying this idea 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.720 to us that yes, we don't know what the future holds. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.520 Yes there may be some reservations about these regel forces, 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:54.400 but let us have this moment, let us celebrate this victory. 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.680 Yeah, that's an interesting one. They're all so so happy. 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.520 And again I don't remember ever seeing any reviews with 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.440 anybody in any of these countries where dictators have been 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.720 overthrown who say I wish we could go back to 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.920 the dictator even when things turn bad. Have you been 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.560 watching all this stuff out of that horrifying prison, for instance, 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.520 You would have to assume that whatever comes next won't 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:20.920 be that bad. But Ian Bremmer put out a chart 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.920 yesterday of all the countries, and there are six of them. 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:29.200 From the Arab spring Bachhrain went from not free to 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.520 not free, Yemen went from not free to not free. 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.800 Egypt went from not free to not free. Libya went 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:35.880 from not free to not free. Tunisia went from not 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:41.200 free to partly free, Syria not free to to be determined. Yeah, 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:45.160 we'll see. Yeah. I just think human beings want a chance. 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.280 If your dictator's still in power, there's no chance you're 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.520 gonna have a good life with freedom. If chaos, you're 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:55.520 gonna take your chances. Yeah, it's grim, grim bargain. So 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:59.200 this is a couple of consumer news. News is is 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:00.520 that when anyway? 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:01.760 And then the. 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:06.240 Newest flex for rich guys, especially significantly in southern California. 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.840 And I'm thinking of getting this for myself for Christmas. OK, 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.840 But anyway, I thought this was really what did you 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:16.520 say one minute, Michael? Of two minutes? Two minutes, two minutes? 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:20.280 Guilt tipping. 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:21.840 The whole. 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.400 I don't do a screen that pops up fifteen percent? 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:24.760 Good? 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:28.360 Eighteen percent? What do you about thirty percent? Or maybe 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.040 you have to flip to another screen for no tip 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:35.680 or a custom. Well, a study has been done. University 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:40.120 of Richmond and a European school went together on this. 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:45.240 Turns out the guilt tipping does raise the average. 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:46.880 Tip, but I'm sure it does. 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.280 Yeah, it significantly decreases the chance you'll go back to 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:51.720 that establishment ever again. 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.520 Oh really? Yeah? Originally all of your guilt tipping worked 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.320 on me, like at the very beginning when it arrived, 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.920 But it doesn't anymore. I'm perfectly fine with taking the 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.280 extra second to get to the tip I want to 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.119 give you. Yeah. 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.359 Yeah, and it's nowhere near one hundred percent correlation. But yeah, 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.920 the study found that. Yeah, it turns out it raises tips, 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.480 but then the defection rate of I'm not going to 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:17.840 this business anymore. Rose significantly interesting. So keep that in mind. Friends. 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.919 There's a movement to foot to have twenty mile per 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.920 hour speed limits everywhere because that could transform mental health 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.520 because it's a much more relaxed drive. I think that 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:30.520 would make me completely insane. I mean not like everywhere, 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.399 not on super highways, but in all urban areas and 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.400 suburban Yeah. 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:35.639 I know. 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:37.920 More on that maybe when we have time. But here's 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:40.600 the new flex for rich people. It'll cost you like 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.280 one hundred and fifty grand or more your own fire 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:49.399 hydrant in fire prone areas. Wow, you can pay to 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:53.159 get your own fire hydrant. Yeah, essentially, And you got 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.560 one hundred foot fire hoses, the real fire hoses and 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:59.520 protective gear. And if you're in Malibu, for instance, you 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.720 spend a home seventy five k on this system, the 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.160 fire starts, you're going to keep your house from burning down? 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.120 You hold, well, you got a five million dollar house. 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.640 It makes sense to have that as one of the perks. Yeah, right, interesting. 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:13.960 Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:18.320 People are not thrilled with the Altoona McDonald's employees who 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:23.359 mickfingered him. Several nasty Google reviews have been left of 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.560 the Altoona location, including they got rats behind the counter, 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:30.880 do not recommend, while many other simply lift one star 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:36.200 reviews citing bad service and so called snitches. You know 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.200 what they say, snitches get filet. 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:45.200 Of fishes, Michael play thirty three and thirty four back 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:46.720 to back for us would be so kind. 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:51.400 Manzoni's case has become a cause, with admirers posting videos 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:55.160 on Instagram. A social media profile gained hundreds of thousands 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.280 of followers after his arrest, and the police department that 0:18:58.400 --> 0:18:59.760 arrested Manzoni. 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:00.479 Has been brettoned. 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.159 His lawyer's office has been inundated with calls from people 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.040 offering to pay his legal bills. 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:08.720 It's not only in the digital world. We saw a 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:13.240 lookalike contest in New York. People are selling things or 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:21.080 we're selling things with Manngoni's image on Etsy. 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:24.320 And with the whole denied delay defend or the depose 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.719 variation that this murderer came up with in the response 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.639 to It's been very, very odd and troubling. And you 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.320 want to ask these people, all right, the CEOs of 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:36.040 what other industries and how many of them including women, 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:38.320 how about minorities? Do they all get murdered? If you 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.119 don't like their company's polls, oil companies, perhaps, I don't know, 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:46.199 tobacco carmakers, and nobody seems to have an answer for that. 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:47.840 You know, it occurred to me, Jack, just now, as 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:49.679 I was thinking about this, I wonder how much of 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:55.920 this is that such a high percentage of our interactions 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:59.920 with any human beings are third hand via the inner 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:04.959 and so they don't seem like real human beings at all. 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:08.760 You get a character on TV got gunned down. Oh 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:12.760 I'm still in Manhattan. Absolutely, it's not a real human being. 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:14.000 It's just a TV show. 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:19.680 Well, and then if you combine the coin of the 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:24.880 realm in twenty twenty four, for communication is just over 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.360 the top. I mean, that's just the way we all 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:31.680 talk now, at least online. That's the way people talk. Certainly, 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:34.800 it's so over the top. Maybe those two things coming together, 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:38.160 I mean, do people mean this as we As we've 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:43.080 experienced before, we've had some situations with some really nasty 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:48.320 textures emails who were violently threatened, and we turn it 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:50.600 over to cops or investigators or something like that, and 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:53.080 as soon as there's any pushback whatsoever there, Oh, I know, 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:54.760 I don't mean you that I love the show. 0:20:55.600 --> 0:21:00.600 Yeah, yeah, it's amazing about face Michael when we're montage. 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:03.239 If you would clip number thirty eight, this is you know, 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:05.240 media and social media reactions. 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:07.679 I do believe in the sanctity of life, and I 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:10.360 think that's why I felt, along with so many other 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:17.880 Americans joy unfortunately, you know, because seriously, I mean execution. 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:21.800 Maybe not joy, but certainly not no, certainly not empathy. 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:25.199 A reaction not of universal horror that a fifty year 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:27.800 old father of two and husband was shot dead in public, 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:30.240 but rather of and I don't want to call it glee, 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:33.000 but let's just say not unhappiness. 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:36.240 Some of the comments were thoughts and deductibles to the family. 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.720 One of the comments was, unfortunately, my condolences are out 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.840 of network, and so I think it really isn't that something. 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:45.399