Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jettie and no Hee Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: Meta, which of course runs Instagram, announcing new default settings
Speaker 3: designed to restrict the content that teens can actually view.
Speaker 3: One on Instagram, anyone under eighteen will be put in
Speaker 3: a restrictive teen account, allowing them only to see PG
Speaker 3: thirteen content. The settings can't be changed without a parent's permission.
Speaker 3: The company also adding an even stricter setting that parents
Speaker 3: can set up for their younger children.
Speaker 4: Darn it, I wish they wouldn't go that direction because
Speaker 4: I have a thirteen year old and a fifteen year old,
Speaker 4: and what I've found on like almost everything that I have,
Speaker 4: I have taken off the child restriction on because it's
Speaker 4: too restrictive. It's way too restrictive. They can't watch stuff
Speaker 4: that is you know, by mine and most parents, I know,
Speaker 4: standard okay for a teenager to see. I mean, they
Speaker 4: they get relegated to you know, paw patrol cartoons and
Speaker 4: just I mean stuff that's for little kids. So far,
Speaker 4: that's been my experience with all these age LeMans and
Speaker 4: him saying right there, thirteen year old on Instagram. Okay,
Speaker 4: that's going to eliminate like ninety percent of the stuff
Speaker 4: they want to see and bad stuff I don't want
Speaker 4: them to see. Is there some way to have like
Speaker 4: it be? I don't know, like R rated movies. I
Speaker 4: guess where you get closer around. Yeah, I don't want
Speaker 4: you watching this till you're a full on adult. As
Speaker 4: opposed to it, you have to be a little kid
Speaker 4: to enjoy this.
Speaker 1: Come on, I don't think that technologies within a million
Speaker 1: miles of being good enough, because I mean, like, you
Speaker 1: get those warnings on TV shows and movies includes rough language, violence, smoking,
Speaker 1: smoking right exactly?
Speaker 2: Or Or what's the consumerism?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, the common sense media thing that I check
Speaker 4: all the time. It'll have some horrifying rating and I'll think, oh,
Speaker 4: we can't watch this until I realize that it's mostly
Speaker 4: because it's got smoking cigarettes and consumerism.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not really that worried about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how about the bear arst blanking no, and the
Speaker 1: trip to the toy store. Yes, that would be fine,
Speaker 1: even if there's a guy smoking a cigar outside of it.
Speaker 1: How about brightly lit two dudes raw dogging.
Speaker 2: I don't want that.
Speaker 4: But if somebody's drinking a Coca Cola and I can
Speaker 4: clearly read the logo of the coke can, I'm not
Speaker 4: so bothered.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what raw dogging means, but I
Speaker 1: don't want it on my screen.
Speaker 4: But anyway, I've had that problem with a bunch of
Speaker 4: stuff where I took the restrictions off, like Netflix or
Speaker 4: Hulu so they can watch the Simpsons or something like
Speaker 4: that right then. And then, what I was thinking about
Speaker 4: is some of this is wanting to stay on the
Speaker 4: right side of public opinion for Mark Zuckerberg since he's
Speaker 4: gotten beaten up by some But.
Speaker 2: Then there's also fietly, Yeah, there's also what's going to.
Speaker 4: Make me the most Money's what's just flat out going
Speaker 4: to be the most profitable. And I think that gets
Speaker 4: to what Sam Altman announced yesterday, which we've talked about
Speaker 4: a couple of times, where ease greenlit erotica for chat GPT,
Speaker 4: and it's going to be a similar sort of thing
Speaker 4: where it's going to be a.
Speaker 2: What is he calling it the phrase right here.
Speaker 4: We're going to go with treat adult users like adults.
Speaker 4: That's going to be our principle from now on. And
Speaker 4: so if you are an adult, we're going to treat
Speaker 4: you like an adult, and all this different stuff is
Speaker 4: going to be available to you, erotica and sexy stuff
Speaker 4: and all that different sort of thing. How you keep
Speaker 4: that out of the hands of underage people, I don't know,
Speaker 4: but he, I'm guessing, for profit's sake, thinks he wants
Speaker 4: to be first in for grown up content. I mentioned
Speaker 4: I was making groc videos yesterday. Groc we couldn't make.
Speaker 4: I couldn't make somebody in a picture flip somebody off,
Speaker 4: couldn't make our dog say the F word, which.
Speaker 2: We're trying to why is he religious? But anyway, couldn't
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 4: I'm like, how old does somebody need to be for
Speaker 4: content that is your dog saying the F word, which
Speaker 4: is pretty funny. I feel like thirteen's good enough, or
Speaker 4: certainly fifteen, but uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 1: Oh, speaking of the chat GPT sexiness though, I love
Speaker 1: that idea because it could be like, oh yeah, just
Speaker 1: like that. Oh yeah, and by the way, can you
Speaker 1: help me troubleshoot my toaster oven?
Speaker 2: It's not working right?
Speaker 1: So you got like the most knowledgeable lover in the
Speaker 1: world can help you through if you think, oh, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's great what you're doing there. But don't let me forget.
Speaker 1: I got to troubleshoot my toaster oven. It's not working right.
Speaker 4: Right, So she can talk sexy to me, and I
Speaker 4: can say, I've got a ninety two Chevy S ten,
Speaker 4: the windows are leaking.
Speaker 2: What's the most common cause of that? And she'll tell
Speaker 2: me exactly.
Speaker 1: What happened exactly right. Oh oh, speaking of technology, this
Speaker 1: is stupid. But so I've got a silly technical thing
Speaker 1: going on, and so I've had to go from a
Speaker 1: touch screen for something I do all day long during
Speaker 1: the show to a mouse screen. What's the over under
Speaker 1: for the number of times I'm going to reach for
Speaker 1: the screen to try to do it as a touch screen,
Speaker 1: because I'm already at like six hundred and three.
Speaker 2: Keep jabbing at it. Why doesn't this work? Not a touchscreen,
Speaker 2: you idiot.
Speaker 4: I've done that before, like at ATMs or gas stations
Speaker 4: or whatever.
Speaker 1: Or my wife's laptop. Yeah, oh, one more technical thing
Speaker 1: or tech thing. It's going to take a couple of minutes,
Speaker 1: but at some point, if not today, maybe tomorrow. The
Speaker 1: People's Liberation Army. Some of their that's the Chinese Commingist
Speaker 1: Army have some of their publications on psychological warfare against
Speaker 1: the United States have been found in translated and it's
Speaker 1: amazing and nobody's.
Speaker 2: Talking about Now I haven't heard this. This is right
Speaker 2: up my alley. I want to hear that, all right,
Speaker 2: stay tuned.
Speaker 4: So just a quick question, going back to the the
Speaker 4: social media platforms and the ai I and all this
Speaker 4: sort of stuff. Do you think Altman being first in
Speaker 4: with adult content is going to make all the other
Speaker 4: companies go more that direction?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, because I feel like it is.
Speaker 1: There are bunches of companies, but they're not like in
Speaker 1: that top tier that we talk about all the time,
Speaker 1: and they're already fully on board.
Speaker 2: Right Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just thought it was kind of precious and silly
Speaker 4: that groc wasn't allowing my dog.
Speaker 2: To say the F word. It's like, Okay, I mean,
Speaker 2: I understand what you're trying to do, but let's live
Speaker 2: in reality here. How about your dog doing the F work.
Speaker 4: Well, they're like, like, you know, that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 4: There are ninety other platforms I could go to right
Speaker 4: now if I wanted to take the time and get
Speaker 4: the dog to say that. So what are you accomplishing
Speaker 4: here with your precious.
Speaker 2: Little rule.
Speaker 4: It's reputational, I think gotta be. Yeah, Elon's got enough
Speaker 4: money though he can. He can be a lagging indicator
Speaker 4: if he wants. I'm giving into that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well Elon has gone.
Speaker 4: To have your pug sitting there saying give me my
Speaker 4: effing food.
Speaker 2: Kind of voice do you envision for the pug that
Speaker 2: sort of cartoon. We didn't pick a voice, It just
Speaker 2: picked a voice. I suppose we could have changed it.
Speaker 4: It kind of looked like what you'd expect a pug
Speaker 4: to sound like a pick a dog.
Speaker 2: British accent would be funny. Oh, you're right. We got
Speaker 2: that stuff Joe mentioned, and about a bunch of other
Speaker 2: stuff on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 5: Hi Kea has announced plans to build a small format
Speaker 5: store in Manhattan that will be twenty five thousand square feet.
Speaker 5: No word yet on when it'll open. It's got like
Speaker 5: a jillion pieces and all Day Give You is like
Speaker 5: one tiny Allen ranch.
Speaker 2: I can get it, yeaps. Mocking the very product.
Speaker 1: We are so fat and naive and trouble as a
Speaker 1: country and individuals, but as a country specifically to the
Speaker 1: threat of China. Talk about this a lot, but it's
Speaker 1: so obvious and so troubling.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was thinking, you remember, and maybe I'll
Speaker 1: dig it up again. We had that collection of all
Speaker 1: the quotes from Chinese Communist Party high up officials and
Speaker 1: intelligence agents and the military people talking about what an
Speaker 1: incredible tool TikTok was and is for Chinese propaganda. And
Speaker 1: that is known, it's a known known, And yet what
Speaker 1: the hell's going on with the TikTok deal?
Speaker 2: I haven't heard recently. I don't know.
Speaker 1: We just let it happen, and then you have this
Speaker 1: that nobody's really talking about, maybe because it takes a
Speaker 1: little explanation and we're a very very short attention span people.
Speaker 1: But the People's Liberation Army scholars have explained China's whole
Speaker 1: of society cognitive warfare doc in a big report that
Speaker 1: came out in twenty twenty two entitled Effectiveness, Mechanisms and
Speaker 1: Strategic Selection in Cognitive Domain Operations and the name it's
Speaker 1: been translating in English completely. This is kind of a
Speaker 1: summary of it. It's written by a guy who is
Speaker 1: in this world. So it's full of a lot of jargon,
Speaker 1: which I'm going to skip around mostly, but it's authored
Speaker 1: by a couple of scholars from the National Defense University's
Speaker 1: Political Academy.
Speaker 2: The piece which I just gave you the long name
Speaker 2: of positions.
Speaker 1: CDO or Cognitive Domain operations as a sophisticated evolution of
Speaker 1: psychological warfare, drawing heavily from Konnman's theories, Tirsky's he heuristics
Speaker 1: and biases, and research and information theoretic concepts like overload
Speaker 1: and entropy not to build resilience but to weaponize cognitive vult.
Speaker 4: Wow, you get the word heuristic say and entropy in
Speaker 4: the same sentence.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, it's it's a good day for
Speaker 1: me anyway. But it emphasizes strategies like meme propagation, algorithmic manipulation,
Speaker 1: and echo chambers to disrupt enemy decision making, foster cognitive biases,
Speaker 1: and achieve strategic dominance without direct combat. And it goes
Speaker 1: into without direct comity detail. That's what I was talking
Speaker 1: about the other day.
Speaker 4: What I thought was so clever from watching sixty minutes,
Speaker 4: the way they're hacking into allar systems stuff like that
Speaker 4: is to avoid the full on nuclear war with a
Speaker 4: power that rivals you, and you know, take it down
Speaker 4: or defeat it in other ways.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, well, said the authors situate China's approaches within
Speaker 1: the context of Western doctrines blah blah blah, but with
Speaker 1: a distinctly offensive bias exploiting focus rooted in sun sous
Speaker 1: quote subduing the enemy without fighting. M They are pouring
Speaker 1: as much energy and well maybe not as much, but
Speaker 1: energy and a hell of a lot of money into
Speaker 1: this style of attacking their enemy, the United States and
Speaker 1: or just blissfully unaware, which astounds.
Speaker 4: Because we've been counting on for so many decades now,
Speaker 4: the fact that we can just obliterate anybody. We're the
Speaker 4: opposite end of it. We don't need to whatever that is,
Speaker 4: defeat you without going to battle. We want to go
Speaker 4: to battle because we could beat anybody. And that has
Speaker 4: worked for a very long time.
Speaker 2: But wow, that's they're.
Speaker 1: Not trying to win hearts and minds. They're trying to
Speaker 1: twist hearts and minds just a little more. Because there's
Speaker 1: a stunning amount of detail to this, and I'm kind
Speaker 1: of skipping around but.
Speaker 2: Two features of.
Speaker 1: The source of what they're doing are especially valuable analytically
Speaker 1: and weren't foregrounding. That would be the five step sequence
Speaker 1: figure that operationalizes how attention capture framing an algorithmic curation
Speaker 1: lead to chamber driven bias, amplification and reinforcement, and the
Speaker 1: chemical reaction model triad that maps content et cetera. And
Speaker 1: roles both improved a bunch of technical stuff. But they
Speaker 1: have their best scientists, their best cognitive scientists, working on
Speaker 1: this stuff and are doing it through you know, social media,
Speaker 1: including apps that the Chinese Communist Party itself controls, and
Speaker 1: we're just letting them. I don't know what else to say.
Speaker 1: I don't know how is every podcast in America not
Speaker 1: talking about this well right?
Speaker 4: I don't understand how that story from sixty Minutes or
Speaker 4: first story Sunday Night isn't like the biggest story in
Speaker 4: the country.
Speaker 2: The President has already addressed it. Every town in America.
Speaker 2: There have been people saying to their mayor, are we
Speaker 2: prepared for this? But we're not.
Speaker 4: Because we are what you said earlier, Yeah, fat lazy content.
Speaker 4: We just been dominant for so long. We just don't
Speaker 4: think anybody could actually touch us. We're going to find out.
Speaker 4: I think maybe over confident is the best.
Speaker 2: This confident is the best as the best.
Speaker 4: We're uh, we're Mike Tyson thinking nobody could possibly possibly
Speaker 4: be this. At some point we're gonna be crawling around
Speaker 4: on the canvas looking for our.
Speaker 1: Mouthpiece, which is unfortunately and our trainer is trying to
Speaker 1: tell us. Our trainer being us in this case. Hey,
Speaker 1: this guy's got a wicked left. You've got to watch
Speaker 1: out for it. I'll be fine. And you haven't been
Speaker 1: training me about his left. You haven't been training quite
Speaker 1: the way you used to be.
Speaker 2: I'll be fine. My pigtons been feeding my pigeons. I
Speaker 2: don't know why I had.
Speaker 4: To bring in his pigeons and use his lisp. I
Speaker 4: don't know why I needed to do.
Speaker 2: That, because he's such a colorful character he is.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, that story'll be around for the rest of
Speaker 2: our lives.
Speaker 1: Us versus China, it's all about the grass of OFV doctrine, Jack,
Speaker 1: And just scroll down a little further. What the grass
Speaker 1: and OFV doctrine that blends us so often hard power
Speaker 1: to achieve victory without fighting Russia? The Soviet Union than
Speaker 1: Russia has been trying to do this sort of thing
Speaker 1: for ages, but China's way way better about it, way
Speaker 1: more sophisticated.
Speaker 2: Yipes.
Speaker 4: Do you have any opinion on US giving Trump saying
Speaker 4: he'll give twenty billion dollars to Argentina if they re
Speaker 4: elect Malay, but won't give him the money if they
Speaker 4: elect someone else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's really good because they would squander
Speaker 1: it if he if it's not Malay in charge.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, who's persuaded? Excuse me?
Speaker 4: That's not us trying to affect an election in the
Speaker 4: way we're not supposed to or something.
Speaker 1: It clearly is. Yeah, yeah, we want that guy, not
Speaker 1: the other guy. Yeah, yeah, I'm not worried about that.
Speaker 1: I'm more worried about the Argentinian people and the fact
Speaker 1: that they could be a great and prosperous ally in
Speaker 1: our hemisphere. And I was persuaded by an article I
Speaker 1: read in the Wall Street Journal a monetary guy speaking
Speaker 1: of technical jargon, but he was saying, no, you don't
Speaker 1: do it this way. You've got to dollarize Argentina. You
Speaker 1: got to get rid of their their local currency and
Speaker 1: just do trade in dollars. That will stabilize the economy,
Speaker 1: because Malay has got the the inflation down to I
Speaker 1: think now thirty percent, which is a miraculously low number.
Speaker 2: For urgent in the last decade. How do you live
Speaker 2: in a society like that? How do things even work?
Speaker 2: You take big bricks of cash to the store. It's ridiculous. Wow, in.
Speaker 4: Unimportant news. Here's a book I won't read, but he'll
Speaker 4: probably make the rounds Kevin Federline. Does that name ring
Speaker 4: a bill bell for anyone? Britney Spears' ex husband and
Speaker 4: baby daddy anyway, But we used to.
Speaker 1: Make mild fun of But then in the infamous Britney
Speaker 1: Spears some people may be ahead of us video, it
Speaker 1: became clear that he was the bright one.
Speaker 4: I think he is, and he is the one kind
Speaker 4: of holding things together and trying to take care of
Speaker 4: the kids. And he's got a new memoir out in
Speaker 4: which he explains that the decision to release her from
Speaker 4: her conservative conservatorship was a bad idea. He's a great
Speaker 4: He's making the argument in his memoir that she's not
Speaker 4: capable of being a mom or taking care of herself.
Speaker 2: And but that's kind of interesting. I doubt I'm ever
Speaker 2: going to read it. I might listen to a short
Speaker 2: interview with him, though, Do we have a title?
Speaker 1: I'm thinking towing the fetter line or I'm trying to
Speaker 1: come up with a Brittany a Brittany related title.
Speaker 2: Oops, she did it again. My life with Britney spears
Speaker 2: and go we have a winner.
Speaker 4: I walk into the kitchen and there she is, half
Speaker 4: naked dancing with knives, posting on Instagram while I'm trying
Speaker 4: to get the kids to bed.
Speaker 2: Oh honey, honey, again with the knives.
Speaker 4: Oh oh boy. I want to get into some of
Speaker 4: the antifa ice stuff. Those battles continue to go on
Speaker 4: in cities all across America. That's a complicated issue too.
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Speaker 6: High Speed Chase ends on Chicago's Southeast Side. After Border
Speaker 6: Patrol agents locate to Venezuelans they say are in the
Speaker 6: US illegally. The suspect allegedly rammed a Border Patrol vehicle
Speaker 6: and attempted to flee the scene. They were eventually stopped,
Speaker 6: but as an angry mob formed and threw objects at agents,
Speaker 6: crowd control measures like tear gas were deployed. Meantime, across
Speaker 6: the border, DHS as Mexican criminal gangs are placing bouties
Speaker 6: on the heads of federal law enforcement in coordination with
Speaker 6: domestic extremist.
Speaker 1: Groups, including Antifa, which we'll get to in a moment
Speaker 1: or two. The chaos right there at the edge of
Speaker 1: Chicago that's really emerged.
Speaker 2: It's kind of the.
Speaker 1: Hotbed of the crazy is Portland, Sorry, move aside, Chicago's
Speaker 1: on stage now. Mike Tobin of Fox News continues his report.
Speaker 6: Protests turn to riots almost every weekend in broadview, and
Speaker 6: the Illinois governor threatens prosecution of ice in border patrol agents.
Speaker 2: The tables will turn someday.
Speaker 7: Maybe they're not going to get prosecuted today, although we're
Speaker 7: looking at doing that, but they may get prosecuted after
Speaker 7: the Trump administration.
Speaker 2: You're getting prosecuted for what I miss that. Play that again, Michael.
Speaker 6: Protests turn to riots almost every weekend in broadview, and
Speaker 6: the Illinois governor threatens prosecution of ice in border patrol agents.
Speaker 2: The tables will turn someday.
Speaker 7: Maybe they're not going to get prosecuted today, although we're
Speaker 7: looking at doing that, but they may get prosecuted after the.
Speaker 1: Trump administration, you're going to bring state charges against federal
Speaker 1: officers for doing their.
Speaker 2: Jobs, doing their jobs in a way you don't approve of.
Speaker 4: But I assume his goal was there to send a
Speaker 4: chill wind through the halls of the Ice Agency to
Speaker 4: where agents think.
Speaker 2: I don't want to deal with that. This sucks. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's possible.
Speaker 1: I think more it's just him trying to out Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom Gavin Newsom and show himself to be the great
Speaker 1: battler against Trump. I guess the next clip Michael seventy two.
Speaker 6: Two hundred Texas National Guardsmen are now stuck in a
Speaker 6: training facility southwest of the city as a federal appeals
Speaker 6: court ruled they cannot patrol where the governor does not
Speaker 6: want them, prompting President Trump to threaten using the Insurrection
Speaker 6: Act to override both the court and Governor.
Speaker 3: Pritchger, I think he should beg for help because he's
Speaker 3: running a bad operation and whatever you mentioned insurrection.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I could do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm tired of that. It's I mean, the
Speaker 1: left trying to make January sixth.
Speaker 2: It was a riot.
Speaker 1: It was ugly, it was bad, it was highly regrettable,
Speaker 1: but calling everything an insurrection all the time on both sides.
Speaker 2: Not every riot is an insurrection.
Speaker 4: Well, and Trump threatens that stuff because he gets the
Speaker 4: media to jump and talk about it on a panel
Speaker 4: segment on cn N or MSNBC for eight hours every day,
Speaker 4: and then he doesn't do it so far, so far
Speaker 4: he is abided by whatever judge rulings come down.
Speaker 2: Right. Indeed, so Pam Bondi was making the rounds.
Speaker 1: She was talking to Hannity and addressed the situation seventy four.
Speaker 8: Michael, you know how many missing children we found in Memphis?
Speaker 8: Of forty four, finding one missing child makes it all worthwhile.
Speaker 8: Abducted children who are on their own, all under the
Speaker 8: age of eighteen, teenagers and younger. Forty four missing children.
Speaker 8: Some have been taken by non custodial parents, but forty
Speaker 8: four have been recovered.
Speaker 2: And then you take that to Chicago.
Speaker 8: They had five hundred and seventy one homicides last year.
Speaker 8: Pritsker should be begging Donald Trump to come in. Pritzker's
Speaker 8: lost his mind.
Speaker 4: That's both Hannity and Pambondy tipping their caps to the
Speaker 4: crowd out there, because I know some of you who
Speaker 4: your number one issue is the three hundred thousand children
Speaker 4: being trafficked by Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama's actually a man,
Speaker 4: and Pizzagate and all that.
Speaker 2: Sort of stuff. That's well, that was.
Speaker 1: Interesting, interesting, well, and then she talks about why don't
Speaker 1: we she talks about Antifa, but before we do that,
Speaker 1: they played a little montage of Democrats.
Speaker 2: Seventy six. Michael, there's no Antifa. This is an entirely
Speaker 2: imaginary organization.
Speaker 3: There is not an Antifa, and it's all in this
Speaker 3: guise of going after Antifa, which is nothing. There's no
Speaker 3: organization called Antifa.
Speaker 1: I hope he can first define what Antifa is because
Speaker 1: there is no Antifa organization.
Speaker 7: There really is no and as an institution organization.
Speaker 1: That is such an odd dodge. I heard a great comparison.
Speaker 1: I can't remember what it was. Oh goodness, it was
Speaker 1: so good. Another organization that doesn't have a great deal
Speaker 1: of central control.
Speaker 2: But to deny they exist is ludicrous. Anyway. Seventy five
Speaker 2: is Pambondi talking about Antifa.
Speaker 8: It would be organized crime, and that's what they're doing,
Speaker 8: and you're watching it in Portland. Portland really is the
Speaker 8: prime example. And President Trump just had so many of
Speaker 8: the influencers whose lives were threatened, who were Caitlin, the
Speaker 8: beautiful blonde woman who had the black eye from an
Speaker 8: Antifa member. They're threatening them online with violent acts.
Speaker 2: It's organized crime.
Speaker 8: They're at all of these events, they're encouraging violence. They're
Speaker 8: calling everyone fascist. But it's more than that. It's hurting
Speaker 8: the American people. And that's why they're no different than
Speaker 8: MS thirteen or any gang out there.
Speaker 1: Well, are kind of different, but yeah, they absolutely exist.
Speaker 1: And again that's such a weird dodge. They don't have
Speaker 1: any central organization. They know they don't exist well.
Speaker 4: And as I heard on NPR just a week ago,
Speaker 4: and to the extent that they do exist, ANTIFA stands
Speaker 4: for anti fascists.
Speaker 2: They're anti fascists. Ah, it's like being an anti racist.
Speaker 2: It must be good.
Speaker 1: It can't possibly be just a mask that Marxists swear
Speaker 1: to try to tear down civilization. Which seriously, if you
Speaker 1: spend thirty seconds looking into it, it becomes obvious and clear.
Speaker 1: But anyway, chaos, chaos, that's the way you wrap it up. Anyway, chaos, Right, Well,
Speaker 1: what else are you going to say? The ongoing chaos
Speaker 1: in multiple cities around the country. Is the immigration thing
Speaker 1: is still a roiling Americans?
Speaker 2: You know what I'm excited about.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I wish we had a Congress because then they
Speaker 1: could pass a law, but we don't.
Speaker 2: Yess, Jack, what are you excited about?
Speaker 4: I had been talking on the about my prune intake, yes,
Speaker 4: as advised by my doctor, because I was all stove up.
Speaker 2: My system wasn't.
Speaker 4: Working right, and my doctor said, I have two prunes
Speaker 4: every day and if that doesn't work at it, just
Speaker 4: keep adding in a prune every day until you get
Speaker 4: to the right amount. Anyway, I talked about that openly
Speaker 4: on the air, and California Prunes heard us talking about that,
Speaker 4: and we are I think, going to start working with
Speaker 4: California Prunes and endorsing.
Speaker 2: Their very product.
Speaker 4: It is a fine fruit and I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 4: And I've had this conversation with my son and some
Speaker 4: of the salespeople involved. I don't know where the prune,
Speaker 4: the Humble Prune got the reputation it has. I was
Speaker 4: talking with our sales girl, Michelle the other day. She
Speaker 4: had the same experience as me, is that she grew
Speaker 4: up her grandma always had prunes around and so you
Speaker 4: get in your head that it's like some sort of
Speaker 4: weird old person's food, but it's just it's just slightly
Speaker 4: different than a raisin. Nobody has any like judgments about raisins.
Speaker 2: Prunes are the same.
Speaker 4: Thing, all right, And so I don't know where that
Speaker 4: came from. Because it, in addition to being a fine fruit,
Speaker 4: helps your you know, system work the way it's supposed to.
Speaker 4: It got labeled as like, I don't know, like a
Speaker 4: medicine fruit or something.
Speaker 1: Well, when people say an apple a day keeps the
Speaker 1: doctor away, that's specifically what that old saying refers to,
Speaker 1: right digestive system.
Speaker 4: But people don't turn away from apples because it's something
Speaker 4: old people to take because they can poop the way
Speaker 4: they do it prunes, And I'm not exactly sure, and
Speaker 4: I want to bring back prunes. We're here to stand
Speaker 4: up for prune exactly.
Speaker 1: They're in the face of this fruitist criticism makes fruitism.
Speaker 4: And California Prunes send us a bunch of stuff, a
Speaker 4: hat and some stuff to just they they appreciated us
Speaker 4: talking about it and trying to, you know, shine.
Speaker 1: The light on the wonders of the humble prune it's
Speaker 1: my go to dog walking hat now.
Speaker 4: But we've been eating them at home and really and
Speaker 4: John and I'll tell you what it works. And for again,
Speaker 4: for me, the numbers between four and five daily. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and then I'm regular. Is the is the trains?
Speaker 1: Well, I you know, I I said at the time
Speaker 1: when you were your doctor said start with two.
Speaker 2: I'm like, they're not hand grenades, they're prunes. Have a
Speaker 2: handful of them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't overshoot, and uh, it'll be fine, but
Speaker 4: I do have a big book to read.
Speaker 2: But well, do you mean it'll be fine. You'll spend
Speaker 2: the day.
Speaker 4: You'll you'll spend an entire day of your life staring
Speaker 4: at the walls.
Speaker 1: You won't no, no, and this is not that was
Speaker 1: not a great angle to take some days if you
Speaker 1: overdo it. You don't want to overdo anything, Jack moderation.
Speaker 4: Well, four or five a day, that's quite a few
Speaker 4: if everybody did that, Think how much money they would
Speaker 4: break in there at California prune. If everybody is taken
Speaker 4: four to five prudes a.
Speaker 1: Day, and everybody would be happier, Yes, exactly, it would
Speaker 1: be a happier, healthier country.
Speaker 4: And again, as regular as Southwest Airlines. Sometimes there's a delay.
Speaker 2: But you know what a brief delay exactly? Okay, well
Speaker 2: make my connection. We will finish strong.
Speaker 9: Next Arby's is releasing their new first of his kind
Speaker 9: steak nuggets that they claim are an easy to eat
Speaker 9: way to have steaks with no knife needed and forked optional.
Speaker 9: Arby's has liberated us from the tyranny of utensils. We
Speaker 9: are finally free to eat our meat as God intended
Speaker 9: in big saucy hunks, with our bare hands hovering over
Speaker 9: a trash can in the dark.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll try those because I like Arby's, you know,
Speaker 1: good imagery, but and funny mildly, but I like the
Speaker 1: idea of a knife and fork free steak.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no kidding. So I started the program today with
Speaker 4: my question was Who's we? President Trump said yesterday, and
Speaker 4: it got a lot of a news attention. Hamas needs
Speaker 4: to disarm. If they don't disarm, we will disarm them,
Speaker 4: perhaps violently.
Speaker 2: Okay, Who's we? Still waiting to see what the answer
Speaker 2: to that question? Is?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I still say it's Israel with our assistance and
Speaker 1: or full permission to whoop ass.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where this road goes?
Speaker 1: Nobody knows for sure, but the Free Press that we're
Speaker 1: big fans of mentioned that many times. They One of
Speaker 1: the things they do is they will have three or
Speaker 1: four writers right on more or less the same topic,
Speaker 1: just taking different looks at it. And it's more than
Speaker 1: I think most people want to take in generally speaking.
Speaker 1: But if you are into a topic, it's fantastic. And
Speaker 1: I just wanted to hit you with a couple of
Speaker 1: headlines about the peace deal. One by Michael Lauren, who
Speaker 1: we've cited a handful of times, former ambassador.
Speaker 2: Yeah to the United States.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he fought a number of their wars. Very
Speaker 4: decorated military guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So his article is entitled how three real estate moguls
Speaker 1: ended the war in Gaza. The expert class believed that
Speaker 1: peace depended on pressuring Israel and appeasing its enemies. Trump
Speaker 1: and his allies succeeded in rejecting that myth. Specifically, they
Speaker 1: didn't fall for the truism that, look, you can't even
Speaker 1: begin to solve this until there's a Palestinian state, right,
Speaker 1: And Trump and Witkoff and Kushner just said, you know, no,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it a different way. And so far,
Speaker 1: so good. I like this piece by who wrote this,
Speaker 1: Aaron McLain. Donald Trump gave war a chance and it worked.
Speaker 1: And he makes the obvious point that rejecting the piecemeal
Speaker 1: week stupid Biden appeasement and and and Burah and uh
Speaker 1: and and Barack Obama's you know, I'm slick and I
Speaker 1: can negotiate anything crap. He brought the team delivered results
Speaker 1: through pressure, principle and timing. It's a good piece and
Speaker 1: really makes that point, the idea that it's somehow ugly
Speaker 1: or untoward for a superpower to flex its muscles in
Speaker 1: a righteous cause. And you know, I realized one person's
Speaker 1: righteous cause is not necessarily another's. But the idea that
Speaker 1: that's somehow shameful and shouldn't be done. Where how did
Speaker 1: that notion come from? Show me in the history of superpowers?
Speaker 1: Where one said, you know, we can do all sorts
Speaker 1: of good stuff, but we're not going to because we
Speaker 1: don't want to be mean. And then finally VDH Victor
Speaker 1: Davis Hansen, the genius of Fresno. Fresno, right, Yeah, his
Speaker 1: piece is Trump's ten moves that changed the Middle East
Speaker 1: is Middle East policy defied every rule of diplomacy. It
Speaker 1: also produced results we haven't seen in decades. Maybe we
Speaker 1: can touch on this one tomorrow because it's so good.
Speaker 1: He's so damn smart.
Speaker 4: I wonder if maybe the lesson here is if you
Speaker 4: end up with a really long, ongoing problem intractable is
Speaker 4: the fancy word, Uh, then maybe that's when you blow
Speaker 4: up the boxes and try something completely different. Look, this is,
Speaker 4: you know, whatever your problem is life, This has been
Speaker 4: going on exactly the same way for so long. Let's
Speaker 4: try something completely freaking different, right, and or well, it's
Speaker 4: kind of the same thing. But you know, everybody refers
Speaker 4: to Gordian knots, you know, intractable problems. But do you
Speaker 4: forget the end that the guy came along with a
Speaker 4: sword and he chopped it in half. That's how he
Speaker 4: untied the ununtiable knot. Sometimes you have to do that.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you got to crack people's heads together to get
Speaker 1: him to stop fighting.
Speaker 4: You ever tried to make an omelet without breaking some eggs?
Speaker 2: Something egg free omelet?
Speaker 1: Idiot a shell in there, you're trying to chew the shell.
Speaker 1: It's an excellent point. Let's see what's my favorite of
Speaker 1: Vdh's points. He talks about Iranian oil income. How important
Speaker 1: that was. Trump allowed Benjamin Nutt Yahoo to destroy Hamas
Speaker 1: cripple Hasbola and retaliate it will against the houthis.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Trump allowed note daylight between the US and Israel. Actually
Speaker 1: there was a little bit, but not in a significant way.
Speaker 1: He cites the UH. Well, that's not important. He used
Speaker 1: the Abraham Accords, the tariffs. Trump and carrot and stick
Speaker 1: fashion promised a defense protection packed with Qatar, the proverbial, destructive,
Speaker 1: distrusted wild card of the Middle East. But then he
Speaker 1: let Israel attack Hamas leadership in cutter and said, I
Speaker 1: think we all get the point.
Speaker 2: Are we gonna work together or no?
Speaker 4: A number of people have pointed out that the pro Hamas,
Speaker 4: it would seem college crowd that was so worked up
Speaker 4: about the genocide and everything like that, don't seem to
Speaker 4: be celebrating like you'd think they would be with the
Speaker 4: end of the so called genocide.
Speaker 1: They were calling for a ceasefire every day. Now there
Speaker 1: is one, they got nothing to say. They're unhappy. The
Speaker 1: Palestinian people have been forced to submit. There's no states.
Speaker 1: Still we're still angry. All right, Yeah, there's such liars.
Speaker 1: Let's get into that more tomorrow. Here's my favorite thought
Speaker 1: from VDH. Trump dealt with enemies, allies and neutrals from
Speaker 1: a position of strength, comparative advantage, and national ascendants. Unlike
Speaker 1: the appeasing and anemic Joe Biden ears or the apologetics
Speaker 1: of Barack Obama, the successful Complex bombing and the Ranian
Speaker 1: nuclear facilities, past elimination of Solimani and the ISIS founder
Speaker 1: Alt bag Daddy ensured Trump was seen as more serious
Speaker 1: than either Obama or Biden ever were.
Speaker 2: No doubt here, You're a holster. Final thoughts, Joe Getty,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna jump the queue.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a final thought from everybody to wrap
Speaker 1: up the show for the day. The guy who did
Speaker 1: that theme we just played worked hard on it and
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Speaker 2: That's not better. I don't think it's a better world.
Speaker 2: But what are you gonna do? All right, Michael Aangelo,
Speaker 2: what's your final thought? My final thought is also AI related.
Speaker 1: The fact that chat GPT is now gonna have adult
Speaker 1: material is the end.
Speaker 2: The end. We've announced the end.
Speaker 1: People, We're all gonna end up in some sort of
Speaker 1: porn video whether we like it or not. It's fine
Speaker 1: if somebody wants to make a porn to me, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Katie Greener, esteemed Newswoman, has a final thought.
Speaker 4: Katie, my final thought and my forever way of ending
Speaker 4: a conversation is from here on out going to be
Speaker 4: anyway chaos exactly.
Speaker 2: Chaos Jack a final thought.
Speaker 4: We're talking about making an omelet and egg. So I
Speaker 4: was my son was making eggs every morning. I mentioned
Speaker 4: this ye other, and he keeps getting shelves in his eggs,
Speaker 4: and he wanted to see me do it. So I
Speaker 4: did it Saturday morning and I cracked and he said.
Speaker 2: How did you do that? That was perfect?
Speaker 4: And I said, I have probably cracked eight thousand eggs
Speaker 4: in my life.
Speaker 2: How many have viewed six? That's why you just got
Speaker 2: to keep practicing. And that is true for a lot
Speaker 2: of things in life.
Speaker 1: Experience. Life experience, they matter a lot. You get better
Speaker 1: at things.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, and you know things you didn't know.
Speaker 2: You didn't know.
Speaker 4: Boy, you got to tell teenagers that all the time,
Speaker 4: you do not know everything. Armstrong in Geddy wrapping up
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Speaker 4: Yep uh, what a great plan to have something with
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty on it. Well, see you tomorrow, God bless America.
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Speaker 1: She looks like an angry hormunculus.
Speaker 4: She's the best water carrier for the California Dims, and.
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