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Speaker 1: We're already at Little Friday. That's what happens on your
Speaker 1: short holiday weeks like this.
Speaker 2: Love it. The title with Mondays, Down with Mondays, Hello,
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Speaker 1: The title of today's show is take the Greenland off
Speaker 1: Ramp or.
Speaker 2: Europe to No good Boy.
Speaker 1: You like the wordplay, I enjoy the wordplay. That's correct.
Speaker 1: That's just you need to know about me. Beg fas. Yes,
Speaker 1: your profile would include enjoy's word play. Fantastic. The Oscar
Speaker 1: nominations just came out. Maybe we'll get to that a
Speaker 1: little bit later. I heard it on the news as
Speaker 1: I was walking through the door, and I was reminded, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you nominate like fifteen pictures. So halfway through the list,
Speaker 1: I kind of lost track of what we were doing.
Speaker 1: I wish they had never started. That took all the
Speaker 1: fun out of it for me. Anyway, we'll get to
Speaker 1: that a little bit later. How y'all doing today, fantastic boy.
Speaker 1: I have as much interest in the Oscars as the Bowling,
Speaker 1: you know, finals, whenever they are At this point, I
Speaker 1: like being tipped off to Hey, that's a good movie.
Speaker 2: You'll enjoy that.
Speaker 1: That's all it is for me as a list of Okay,
Speaker 1: these are movies. When I come up on Netflix, maybe
Speaker 1: i'll check one out. I want to see the Marty
Speaker 1: Supreme movie, the Ping Pong movie with Timothy.
Speaker 2: Show Ye his name.
Speaker 1: Hell, that got nominated for Best Picture also and him
Speaker 1: nominated for Best Actor, and he won a Golden Golobe.
Speaker 2: So I want to see that.
Speaker 1: AnyWho, we'll get to that a little bit later. Apparently
Speaker 1: we have a deal for Greenland, according to Trump, a
Speaker 1: forever deal and work. The details have not been announced,
Speaker 1: but that'll come out later. And then it's like that
Speaker 1: Gaza thing. It's fine, give you got a framework, it'll
Speaker 1: be good. So that's funny, the Gazza thing. So they
Speaker 1: announced the what's it called the Board of Peace, the
Speaker 1: super Friends, I don't know, something of peace ministry piece,
Speaker 1: the Board.
Speaker 2: Of Piece, is it, Katie? Is that sound right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Which is being mocked in all mainstream news outlets in
Speaker 1: the same way that they mocked Space Force Space Force,
Speaker 1: which in retrospect was absolutely needed and makes perfectly good sense.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I watched Jared Kushner's presentation today, Trump's son
Speaker 1: in law. Man, that guy is really sharp, and his
Speaker 1: speech of explaining of what they want to do and
Speaker 1: how they're gonna do it, I thought it was really
Speaker 1: really impressive.
Speaker 2: It seem like.
Speaker 1: Idea, perhaps he should have a position in the administration
Speaker 1: or something. Well he does not officially, but it plays
Speaker 1: a role in a lot of different things. But may
Speaker 1: if they can pull it off one of the greatest
Speaker 1: pieces of real estate unplanet Earth and build it into
Speaker 1: you know, hotels, restaurants, all that sort of stuff. He
Speaker 1: says they're gonna one hundred percent employment soon. They already
Speaker 1: started moving the rubble away. Everybody will have a job,
Speaker 1: and you know, one of the poorest areas on planet Earth,
Speaker 1: that will be a really big step up for most
Speaker 1: of those people, right to earn any wage whatsoever. And well,
Speaker 1: it was a horrible, miserable a place by their own making,
Speaker 1: and that of Hamas, which was essentially of their own making.
Speaker 2: Too.
Speaker 1: The problem is always is the number of people out
Speaker 1: there who just want to destroy things and kill people
Speaker 1: over whatever it is, money, religion, whatever, whatever your particular
Speaker 1: reason is, and that crowd needs to be dealt with.
Speaker 1: So we'll see how that turns out. But I was
Speaker 1: verally impressed with it. And then I just heard NPR
Speaker 1: saying most European countries refuse to enjoin the Board of Peace,
Speaker 1: seeing it as an effort to undermine the UN. Ooh,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't want to undermine the effective, effective UN and
Speaker 1: all the things that they accomplished. The only thing they
Speaker 1: accomplished in that area was they had a bunch of
Speaker 1: a bunch of people in the UN who were fighting
Speaker 1: on the side of AMAS and participated in October seventh.
Speaker 2: That's what the UN did with that piece of land.
Speaker 1: You had me at North Korea on the Human Rights Commission, Yeah, right, exactly.
Speaker 2: Shut up might undermine the UN.
Speaker 1: Oh No, similar story about the WHO, which I'd forgotten
Speaker 1: that we pulled out of. And at least they were
Speaker 1: fair enough on NPR to say some of the critiques
Speaker 1: of the WHO include how they handled COVID. Oh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: really siding with the Chinese from day one because they're
Speaker 1: getting paid off. Yeah, that's reason actually covering up the
Speaker 1: real origins in impeding the science and the effort for
Speaker 1: a cure of vaccine for many, many months, letting many
Speaker 1: many people die.
Speaker 2: Yes, I have criticisms.
Speaker 1: I'm giving you a thank you for acknowledging them, giving
Speaker 1: you a quick homework assignment, Katie. The movie Sinners, which
Speaker 1: I've barely heard of, just set the all time OSCAR
Speaker 1: nomination record with ten nominations, which means it probably is
Speaker 1: pretty good.
Speaker 2: And I know nothing about it. So if you can
Speaker 2: come up with any information about.
Speaker 1: The movie Sinners, I would like to know because maybe
Speaker 1: it's something I want to stream this weekend.
Speaker 2: Is it's just a lot of sinnings. It's just a
Speaker 2: cast of people in the area.
Speaker 1: Transgender drug Lord movie set a record last year.
Speaker 2: I oh no, but oh, I got sixteen nods. I
Speaker 2: misread it.
Speaker 1: So I'm guessing a movie about sinners. You got somebody
Speaker 1: coveting somebody's wife, you got somebody stealing, you got somebody lion.
Speaker 1: So much gluttony, Yeah, you get some gluttony. Oh, mister sloth,
Speaker 1: I wonder who plays the sloth guy. What's the theme
Speaker 1: of the Saw movies. Is that seven days since at
Speaker 1: least the first one?
Speaker 2: Actually it is.
Speaker 3: That's a horror movie, it is, Yeah, trying to leave
Speaker 3: their troubled lives behind. Twin brothers return to their hometown
Speaker 3: to start again, only to discover that an even greater
Speaker 3: evil is waiting for them to come back.
Speaker 2: Aw shoot, damn. The whole going back to our hometown
Speaker 2: things seemed like such a good idea, and then now
Speaker 2: what do we have?
Speaker 1: A greater evil? A greater freaking evil? Well, is it
Speaker 1: actually more the way things go?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Uh, Ryan Kugler's blues steeped.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means. Music. Vampire Epic of Vampiremander,
Speaker 2: Vampire Horror.
Speaker 1: Vampire Natural hor got the most nominations of any film ever.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't want to bite your neck, baby, and so
Speaker 1: the blood ride out of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good stuff. That was your vampire blues song.
Speaker 1: I'm just a you know, in the early stage, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure that got nominated for the Best s Rough Draft.
Speaker 2: I just hope the film's not woke, you know, a
Speaker 2: woke vampire movie. V Empire movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's white sucking the blood of bipocs.
Speaker 2: It just like in history. It looks well, there's a country.
Speaker 1: Sorry, a vampire movie looks woke. How do you get
Speaker 1: woken us into the vampire movie? They will find a way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm I just saw it's it's a
Speaker 3: majority black cast and it looks like the only bad
Speaker 3: guy is a white guy.
Speaker 1: Well, I was just thinking that maybe you know, a
Speaker 1: vampire movie rises to the top, as somebody thought, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm going to stay away from all these
Speaker 1: different issues and make a good old fashioned vampire movie.
Speaker 2: But I haven't seen it, so I don't have any idea.
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Speaker 5: Then after the war, which we won, we won it
Speaker 5: big without us. Right now, you'd all be speaking German
Speaker 5: and little Japanese.
Speaker 2: Perhaps you get it, you understand spaking German. So you
Speaker 2: get in line and your donna say.
Speaker 1: My favorite part of that is you got a picture
Speaker 1: of the Germans and they're thinking, yeah, we are speaking.
Speaker 2: Is that bad? Am? I not supposed to be thinking German.
Speaker 1: It's a nice language, very precise, and a little bit
Speaker 1: of Japanese. I just a little uh domrigatto minfuror that
Speaker 1: sort of thing. Yes, I like that as a I
Speaker 1: like that as a threat. Or you're putting people in
Speaker 1: their place there you go, huh when for me you'd
Speaker 1: be speaking Germany because that's that's the way to run
Speaker 1: a friendship.
Speaker 2: Ah well, whatever, whatever, what are you gonna do? So
Speaker 2: are you familiar with as a series.
Speaker 1: Of rhetorical questions, Apparently, what are you familiar with the
Speaker 1: phrase catch of the day?
Speaker 2: And how a controversial this has become? No, I don't
Speaker 2: know that one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So apparently the ice people up there in Minneapolis have
Speaker 1: something they announces the catch of the day, and it's
Speaker 1: the worst criminal that they apprehended.
Speaker 2: But many people are horrified at the.
Speaker 1: Flippant way to describe illegals being rounded up by no.
Speaker 2: Sounds like it.
Speaker 1: It might be a nice salmon dish with spring vegetables, yes,
Speaker 1: and just like a little bit of Japanese yes.
Speaker 2: Little soy sauce on there.
Speaker 1: Huh. So that's what we can talk about that. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't see it as that controversial. I actually
Speaker 1: think it's probably pretty good pr for what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Here's the worst person we caught the day. Look at
Speaker 1: this guy, freaking pedophile murderer. It was living over the
Speaker 1: in the country illegally. If the Left is really really
Speaker 1: good at one thing, it's pretending to be offended or
Speaker 1: working themselves up into actually feeling offended by something that's
Speaker 1: completely inoffensive.
Speaker 2: Another good case of it.
Speaker 1: How long is this, Michael? Because I can't handle much
Speaker 1: of it before I've had my coffee. Okay, it's a
Speaker 1: Mica being unhappy about this.
Speaker 5: Maine is the latest state to see ICE agents arresting immigrants,
Speaker 5: calling it grossly catch of the day.
Speaker 2: It is gross. Oh my lord, I barely I was
Speaker 2: almost vomited, all right, God dang it. Catch of the day, right, Oh.
Speaker 1: No, forn't for me. You'd be speak speaking German or Mika.
Speaker 1: How about to port one get one dog? No, I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's brainstorming. That's just a policy. Okay, we
Speaker 1: support one, get one free. Look, well, toport a bad guy,
Speaker 1: and then this he's kind of a nice guy.
Speaker 2: We'll let him stay. It's the dogo.
Speaker 1: Doubling down on flipp and it's what you're doing. We've
Speaker 1: got Katie Green with the headlines. We've got more news
Speaker 1: of the day. We'll see if the framework comes out.
Speaker 1: And now Greenland's our fifty first state, I guess, and
Speaker 1: I can't wait till they get a football team and
Speaker 1: everything all on the way. Here's our text line four
Speaker 1: one five two nine five KFTC. I was just reading
Speaker 1: more about this movie Centers that got the most nominations
Speaker 1: for Oscar in movie history, and sounds like an interesting
Speaker 1: idea genre, a blending idea. We'll talk more about that later.
Speaker 1: All right, A lot of stuff to talk about. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, these are weird times, troubled times, and comfortable time.
Speaker 1: Sure you got your New York police detectives got into
Speaker 1: a scuffle with a violent suspect, had to go to
Speaker 1: the hospital get their wounds treated. Hospital turned them away
Speaker 1: thinking they're ice agents. Oh my god, yeah, I know
Speaker 1: they're like, we're NYPD detectives. What are you doing?
Speaker 2: Even if I'm an ice agent? What am I supposed
Speaker 2: to do?
Speaker 1: Oh and the excuse by the hospital administration absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 1: We'll get to it in a little bit, but first,
Speaker 1: who's supporting audits? The lead story with Katie Green and
Speaker 1: Katie all right.
Speaker 3: It's all about Greenland NBC Trump sought Greenland deal that
Speaker 3: would hand us more.
Speaker 4: Control over security. ABC.
Speaker 3: Trump announces quote framework for a future deal on Greenland
Speaker 3: and drops the NATO tariff threat and ce NBC Denmark
Speaker 3: opened to quote Golden Dome talks after Trump tout's framework
Speaker 3: Greenland deal.
Speaker 1: Well, unless you know something I don't know, it seems
Speaker 1: like it would be hard to criticize or praise this
Speaker 1: deal since he says the details are to come. Oh right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Although to the extent you can tell what it is,
Speaker 1: it seems good for national and NATO security definitely. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: some sort of cooperation with the United States and Greenland,
Speaker 1: which is obviously a good thing. I suppose that if
Speaker 1: you had a great it would be why did we
Speaker 1: have to go about it this way? Well, and that
Speaker 1: has been the critique by a lot of Republicans too.
Speaker 2: And Trump loyalists.
Speaker 1: Honestly, this one was clearly out of bounds.
Speaker 3: From the New York Post, Trump and Zelensky meet behind
Speaker 3: closed doors for brief one on one conversation at Davos.
Speaker 4: End quote it was good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this could be big because the last time they
Speaker 1: got together at the Vatican. Remember, Trump came away pretty
Speaker 1: bolstered to help out Ukraine. So we'll see what he
Speaker 1: says about that today.
Speaker 3: From Reuters, witnesses say Iran deaths went beyond protesters, hitting
Speaker 3: bystanders as well.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure they did. Oh my god, I think
Speaker 2: about spraying bullets. Is that supposed to be like news?
Speaker 1: Oh no, really, they didn't just hit protesters, they hit bystanders.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the Mullows are really upset about that.
Speaker 3: From the Wall Street Journal, the US is actively seeking
Speaker 3: regime change in Cuba by the end.
Speaker 2: Of the year. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Pretty interesting and pretty promising too.
Speaker 2: Yet another world leader. We could yank, buy the beard
Speaker 2: and get him out of there.
Speaker 1: Raul's got a beard. He probably does. It's the family look.
Speaker 3: From the New York Times, the American murder rate has
Speaker 3: never been lower.
Speaker 1: This story should get more attention. We should talk about
Speaker 1: this more later. When the numbers came out while we
Speaker 1: were on vacation at the end of the year, stunning
Speaker 1: drops across all kinds of categories around the United States.
Speaker 2: And as usual, why why why not? I felt much
Speaker 2: more murdery in twenty twenty two myself. You feel more
Speaker 2: mellow these days, less murdery.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I got people I think I could murder
Speaker 1: them than I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so much trouble, I understand, But I feel so embezzled.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that's about. That's funny.
Speaker 4: From Rolling Stone.
Speaker 3: The Super Bowl was already getting political, and now Green
Speaker 3: Day has entered the chat of what what's Green Day's
Speaker 3: role in the super They're going to be part of
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl halftime show as well, with Bad but
Speaker 3: Bad By.
Speaker 2: With Bad Bunny.
Speaker 1: Bad Bunny has the opportunity to turn into a full
Speaker 1: on ICE's bad situation, doesn't it, Because he's huge in
Speaker 1: the uh Hispanic world, lots of Spanish music or Spanish
Speaker 1: language music, so he's going to come out there to
Speaker 1: make some giant political statement. Almost San Francisco Bay Area
Speaker 1: of musicians who are going to tell us how to
Speaker 1: run the world. Can't we go back to seeing Janet
Speaker 1: Jackson's nipple. I mean, that was a happier time.
Speaker 2: Good times, Those were the.
Speaker 4: Good old days.
Speaker 3: CBS Peter announces it wants to replace punk Satani Phil
Speaker 3: with a hologram.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, don't use it. Excuse me.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out where to put that on
Speaker 1: my give a damn meter relative to Green Day.
Speaker 2: At the Super Bowl. Let's if they're kind of jockey
Speaker 2: in from position. I'm going to put it right below
Speaker 2: wire index cards three by five. Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 3: And finally from the Babylon Bee new subarus now come
Speaker 3: with built in ice tracker.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, that's unfortunate.
Speaker 1: I wonder, Peter, you're so yesterday. Peter, you gotta like
Speaker 1: blame the Jews. That's what's hot for grasps. It's really
Speaker 1: hot for just whatever you don't like about animals, the
Speaker 1: treatment of animals or whatever. I'm just reading about the
Speaker 1: various radical organizations on the right and left, Hello horseshoe
Speaker 1: theory that have decided.
Speaker 2: You know, why don't we just blame the Jews.
Speaker 1: Holy crap, we are only about a dozen days away
Speaker 1: from America's most embarrassing tradition. Crowned Dogs day, So we'll
Speaker 1: look forward to talking about that more winning gets here
Speaker 1: or less do.
Speaker 2: We work that day? I'm taking it all.
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like it'd be appropriate to work that day,
Speaker 1: does it, Respectful, you're forgetting the reason for the.
Speaker 2: Season right, right exactly.
Speaker 1: We'll get into some more news of the day, because
Speaker 1: there's you know, there's lots every day right now. The
Speaker 1: President's still over there and dabos and everything. If you
Speaker 1: miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on.
Speaker 2: Demand Armstrong and Getty. Well, we have a concept of
Speaker 2: a deal.
Speaker 5: I think it's going to be a very good deal
Speaker 5: for the United States also for them, and we're going
Speaker 5: to work together on something having to do with the
Speaker 5: Arctic as a whole, but also Queenland, and it has
Speaker 5: to do with the security, great security, strong security, and
Speaker 5: other things.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I was taken in a lot of punditry yesterday, and
Speaker 1: the pundits that you know, lean toward really hating Trump,
Speaker 1: but talking about Canada being pushed into the arms of
Speaker 1: the Chinese or very Fewuropean countries being more willing to
Speaker 1: deal with China.
Speaker 2: No matter what Trump says. How could China possibly be
Speaker 2: a better option for you. Right.
Speaker 1: That seems crazy to me, Right, it's it's your boyfriend
Speaker 1: was rude, so you've been forced into the arms of
Speaker 1: a known rapist.
Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't make any.
Speaker 1: Sense now you work out the problems, right, exactly who's
Speaker 1: going to enslave you? Right, make you get your money
Speaker 1: picted to drugs and beat you? Yeah, exactly, that's uh.
Speaker 1: I love the Canadian people, and I love the country
Speaker 1: of Canada, but Mark Carney is an embarrassment anyways, just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But some of my a couple of my favorite pundits
Speaker 1: were saying this yesterday. This is going to make Europe
Speaker 1: think about you know, China is a more reliable partner.
Speaker 2: What how is that even possible? Reliably reliably awful and
Speaker 2: want to take you over. I don't get it. Well.
Speaker 1: And in six months, two three years, Trump is going
Speaker 1: to be completely gone from the scene and perhaps the
Speaker 1: face of the earth, and and China will still be
Speaker 1: overtly aggressively evil. So that seems like a really bad
Speaker 1: strategic choice. We could we could go into a fair
Speaker 1: amount of detail on the topic du jour, which is
Speaker 1: the the fracus over Greenland by the way, you suggested
Speaker 1: they should have an NFL franchise. You got a nickname
Speaker 1: in mind for him? I mean, the Iceman is what
Speaker 1: leaps to mind. They gotta have a hockey team, is
Speaker 1: what they got to have. Oh my gosh, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: place the Iceman would be a little weird and hockey
Speaker 1: because they all play on ice.
Speaker 2: What have they got in Greenland?
Speaker 1: I nothing, rocks and smell minerals, the Greenland minerals, the
Speaker 1: Greenland barren landscapers. Yeah, that's that's that's swordy anyway. That's
Speaker 1: and the topic is it generally it's in you know,
Speaker 1: two to three sections, depending on who you ask. Number
Speaker 1: one the question of Arctic security, on which Trump is
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right.
Speaker 2: But in very very Trumpian fashion.
Speaker 1: Then section two of the discussion is the deal going forward,
Speaker 1: which is unclear, but the hints and glimpses we're getting
Speaker 1: through the forest are it's really good and really smart,
Speaker 1: and I think it'll end up in a really good place.
Speaker 1: And then topic three, of course, is the way Trump
Speaker 1: went about getting to the point that we are now
Speaker 1: and that we're likely to be. And I think it's
Speaker 1: very reasonable to say it's been absolutely terrible.
Speaker 2: It's been just a disaster in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: Now feathers will be smooth and feelings will be unruffled,
Speaker 1: I guess, or that would be feathers. Butts will be
Speaker 1: less hurt down the road as time heals all hurt butts,
Speaker 1: as they say, or they should have anyway. But I
Speaker 1: think it's an illustration of Trump. And I was just
Speaker 1: reaquenting myself with the you know, I'm not a Freudian guy,
Speaker 1: but the whole id and ego and super ego thing,
Speaker 1: and Trump is just all in and ego, and it
Speaker 1: frequently results in things that were way way overdue that
Speaker 1: nobody else had the balls to do, I mean over
Speaker 1: and over again in a way that's like awe inspiring,
Speaker 1: great president. And then there's the stuff that's just a
Speaker 1: way out of bounds, hitting the quarterback when he's three
Speaker 1: steps out of bounds.
Speaker 2: Well, we can.
Speaker 1: Get a glimpse into what most people think about where
Speaker 1: things are going with this new time Siena Pol New
Speaker 1: York Times, Sanapol, which is one of their They only
Speaker 1: do it a couple of times a year. Really big
Speaker 1: spend a lot of money on a pole that usually
Speaker 1: gets a lot of attention, and we can check in
Speaker 1: on that maybe to kick off hour two. But people's
Speaker 1: mood just overall, it's pretty sour toward what the government's doing.
Speaker 1: And I mentioned that not as a critique of Trump,
Speaker 1: but just that's what the people's mood was about. Biden also,
Speaker 1: and that fits in with a lot of Western civilization
Speaker 1: where people, just administration after administration are unhappy with the
Speaker 1: direction of things. And I think that's its own interesting story,
Speaker 1: that Western sieve people are just unhappy with the direction
Speaker 1: of the countries. I don't know if people are just
Speaker 1: unhappy in general or what. I don't know, but we'll
Speaker 1: get into the numbers an hour or two. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can easily hear a historian, you know, whispering in our ears. Hey, dude,
Speaker 1: a seventy five year period of relative peace, prosperity, and stability,
Speaker 1: that's all you're gonna get. I mean, it's like way
Speaker 1: way overdue, you know, serious upheaval and change and reshuffling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe doesn't sound.
Speaker 1: Super attractive to live through, but I mean that makes
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Speaker 1: from the Associated Press breaking immigration officers are asserting sweeping
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Speaker 2: Now. One response to that from our libertarian crowd is.
Speaker 1: Literally what used to be the right's worst nightmare, federal
Speaker 1: agents empowered to kick down anyone's door for any reason.
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Speaker 1: which maybe we can get into later, is I, as
Speaker 1: a guy who takes in media for a living, when
Speaker 1: I hear a story like that, my first thought is.
Speaker 2: That might be true, it might not be true, and
Speaker 2: I move on to someone else because I just don't know.
Speaker 2: I just don't have any idea, and it would take
Speaker 2: a lot of work to try to figure out if
Speaker 2: that's accurate or not. And so I just think I
Speaker 2: don't know and go on. And if I'm doing that,
Speaker 2: somebody takes in as much news, subscribe to every freaking
Speaker 2: thing you can subscribe and everything, and I just feel
Speaker 2: like I have the idea if that's true or not.
Speaker 2: Might be completely true, might be completely false, might be
Speaker 2: eighty percent one direction to the other.
Speaker 1: I don't have any idea, and I'm not going to
Speaker 1: take the time to find it. That's gotta be where
Speaker 1: the average person is on most stories. Yeah, yeah, two
Speaker 1: thoughts immediately leap to mind. Number one, that's always been
Speaker 1: the goal of the Soviet slash Russian propaganda efforts to
Speaker 1: get us so cynical and hit each other's throats that
Speaker 1: we don't believe anything. And the second thought that leads
Speaker 1: to mind And I found this super super interesting. The
Speaker 1: Free press was on this. Where is that when when
Speaker 1: the iyatolas cracked down on the Internet. I wish I
Speaker 1: could find that thirty percent of the anti government accounts
Speaker 1: on Twitter. I think it was went dark in a
Speaker 1: bunch of different countries. Oh, a lot of the really revolutionary.
Speaker 1: This place sucks, tear it down. We need to storm
Speaker 1: the dorm or the capital or whatever. A lot of
Speaker 1: that stuff is coming straight out of Iran. Well, imagine
Speaker 1: how many would go dark if you could turn off
Speaker 1: the internet in Russia and China and China. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: Well that doesn't help.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You combine that with legit news sources having no
Speaker 2: interest most of the time in being honest brokers for
Speaker 2: what's real and what's not, and I honestly I am
Speaker 2: befuddled as how to go forward at this point doing
Speaker 2: this job or just being an American citizen with the
Speaker 2: attitude I've got it.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's true, maybe it's not. I don't know, and
Speaker 1: I rolled my eyes and go onto something else because
Speaker 1: it's so hard to figure out what's true and what's not.
Speaker 1: Takes work. It certainly takes more work than most people
Speaker 1: have time for. Yeah, maybe it's going to take a while.
Speaker 1: Maybe over time. So many Barry Weiss or whoever emerges
Speaker 1: as a I can trust them most of the time.
Speaker 1: Most of the time, I know they're doing their best
Speaker 1: to give me what's true here and you can go
Speaker 1: to right now I don't mean to be discouraging. The
Speaker 1: only problem with that is that I'm a big consumer
Speaker 1: of the free press. As y'all have noticed, the uncomfortable
Speaker 1: reality is that it's very difficult to be truthful without
Speaker 1: being thorough.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: To oversimplify something often is to be misleading, and it
Speaker 1: takes time to do that, an attention span in an
Speaker 1: era when that is the last thing people are willing
Speaker 1: to devote to digging into difficult stuff. So we're doomed.
Speaker 1: In short, we're doomed. One final note and then we can.
Speaker 1: I want to chat about this in a little bit,
Speaker 1: but but favorable unfavorable for the two political parties. The
Speaker 1: Republicans are underwater fifty two and a half to thirty eight.
Speaker 1: The Democrats are underwater fifty six to thirty two. Miserably uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: It's kind of.
Speaker 1: Funny that the entirety of our media apparatus practically tells
Speaker 1: us every day that Republicans bad, Democrats good. Right, And
Speaker 1: we had that gallop pole last week that for the
Speaker 1: first time ever, a majority of people are neither.
Speaker 2: Of those right.
Speaker 1: Circling back to your overall points, there's just enormous unhappiness
Speaker 1: and discontent in a lot of the developed world. Yeah,
Speaker 1: why is that earned?
Speaker 2: We'll off talk about that, I guess yes and no.
Speaker 1: We got mail bag on the way. We'll get deeper
Speaker 1: into that pole. I want to hit on a couple
Speaker 1: of the things coming out of the OSCARS today.
Speaker 2: Gets a gout some movies that I want to check out.
Speaker 2: I have a little more time. My kids have hit
Speaker 2: the years where I've got a little time finally that
Speaker 2: maybe I could possibly watch a movie I want to
Speaker 2: see at some point, which is.
Speaker 1: Just amazingly freedom. I can't even imagine for the past dozen.
Speaker 2: And a half years. That's kind of fun, isn't it. Anyway,
Speaker 2: we got a lot on the way. Stay here. Got
Speaker 2: one of those stories parents love to hate of a
Speaker 2: mom who let their kid play outside in their neighborhood unattended,
Speaker 2: and the state got involved. A neglectful parent now has
Speaker 2: to have visitation to their home, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1: I'm not impressed by humans kidding, how notion so looney
Speaker 1: tunes as that or some other obvious you know, points
Speaker 1: that we've talked about. A lot could go from that's
Speaker 1: hilarious and idiotic to that's an odd idea too.
Speaker 2: As you don't adhere to this, I will. Who's the kudu?
Speaker 2: How's who they were in the space of just a
Speaker 2: few years? Yeah, I mean, what the hell again?
Speaker 1: Humans my least favorite species except for mosquitoes. Here's your
Speaker 1: freedom hating quote of the day, once again from the
Speaker 1: Chancellor of Germany, Dolf Hitler, not the current one. That's
Speaker 1: a guy named Meritz anyway. Uh, the second to last
Speaker 1: of his blockbuster quotes this week.
Speaker 2: The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Speaker 2: That's a good one. Oof ooh, that's a good one.
Speaker 2: I tell you what.
Speaker 1: Lois Schickelgruber the embodiment of evil but incredibly clever and
Speaker 1: practical and worth studying. Yeah, he lost his freaking mind
Speaker 1: along the lines of Churchill's you know the winners write
Speaker 1: the history right right? The victor will never be asked
Speaker 1: if he told the truth? Mailbag, Tell the truth when
Speaker 1: you write us an email mailbag at Armstrong Egeddy dot
Speaker 1: com in an exciting and innovative mail bag today. Two emails,
Speaker 1: one topic. That's it, Matt the land Surveyor. Is this
Speaker 1: kind of like two girls, one cup? Is it similar
Speaker 1: to that or good God. Matt de Land surveyor unofficial
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty everyman philosopher, along with Matt the Idaho
Speaker 1: farmhand different Guy. Yesterday doing the first segment of the show,
Speaker 1: you're discussing what Elon Musk said about AGI Universal high
Speaker 1: income and of course the old rob the River of Blood.
Speaker 1: Elon said that we will have free healthcare. But if
Speaker 1: AGI is providing mankind with all of its wants and
Speaker 1: needs so much that money is now obsolete. Who's going
Speaker 1: to study for years to become a doctor?
Speaker 2: Better?
Speaker 1: Yet, why would that individual want that egg of dealing
Speaker 1: with the public if they have no financial incentive. It's
Speaker 1: one of the issues I have always had with socialism
Speaker 1: and communism. If everyone is given the same amount of money,
Speaker 1: who is going to do the harder, dirty job. Woul
Speaker 1: anyone want to work at the sewage treatment plant if
Speaker 1: you make the same amount as a quote unquote poet.
Speaker 2: They wouldn't.
Speaker 1: Therefore, what governing entity is in charge will have to
Speaker 1: whatever governing entergy is in charge, will have to force
Speaker 1: some people to do jobs they don't want to do
Speaker 1: for no extra compensation, and freedom is dead. Pay them more,
Speaker 1: and then it obviously becomes a completely different thing. And
Speaker 1: then Matt, in his way, anticipated my first probing question.
Speaker 1: Now I know that Elon would say AGI will provide
Speaker 1: the healthcare and run the sewage treatment plant. I'm guessing
Speaker 1: he is envisioning robots that are built in programmed by
Speaker 1: AGI that will do every job for us. But if
Speaker 1: you want a good sci fi dystopian future, imagine humans
Speaker 1: stop passing on the knowledge that they have gained to
Speaker 1: the next generation because quote, AI does a better job
Speaker 1: than any human ever could.
Speaker 2: One hundred years goes by and.
Speaker 1: Humans have stopped using their brains to think critically, and
Speaker 1: there's a glitch, some computer bug that shit shuts AI
Speaker 1: down and no one is skilled at anything. We have
Speaker 1: officially re entered the dark ages. AI won't come to
Speaker 1: our come for our vital jute. This is because it
Speaker 1: is a machine. Will eventually fail and people will be
Speaker 1: back to killing each other with sticks. I can talk
Speaker 1: about that email all day long because I'm really into
Speaker 1: this topic. But that first question, Yeah, why would anybody
Speaker 1: study to become a doctor, put in the ten years
Speaker 1: of work, the stress, everything, if everybody gets paid exactly
Speaker 1: the same. And that's true, It's no allowing you to
Speaker 1: money at all, as everything you need is available, whether
Speaker 1: you are a neurologist, sewage.
Speaker 2: Plant worker, or a crackhead.
Speaker 1: Or a guy who plays his guitar and writes crappy
Speaker 1: poetry right right. Second email on the same topic, this
Speaker 1: one from Michael. Appreciate all the ways y'all keep to find.
Speaker 1: Can I have a second take on that and put
Speaker 1: the words in something approaching the right order? I'm sorry
Speaker 1: I read so much faster than I can talk and
Speaker 1: get to all to tangle up all the ways you
Speaker 1: all keep finding to help me laugh up here in
Speaker 1: the Emerald City, Oh Portlandia. God bless you to your
Speaker 1: point about AGI moving us to a future where our
Speaker 1: every need is essentially managed. I cannot imagine a scarier
Speaker 1: place to live. Dostoevsky touched on this in his book
Speaker 1: Notes from the Underground, So I won't waste precious time
Speaker 1: reciting and here the book is short enough sufficing to say,
Speaker 1: as I'm sure you're aware, we humans are created to
Speaker 1: crave meaning. Meaning is most readily found in delta, or
Speaker 1: the difference between what is and what could be.
Speaker 2: The chase if we as a species.
Speaker 1: Embark on a reality where algorithms dictate our desires and
Speaker 1: in doing so flatten our desire to chase, then Huxley
Speaker 1: will have been a prophet beyond compare. You know it's
Speaker 1: funny as a giant fan of both Huxley and or Well.
Speaker 1: The classic question.
Speaker 2: Is who got it more right?
Speaker 1: I've always thought that was a stupid question, both of them.
Speaker 1: It depends on what tool the evil doers need at
Speaker 1: the any given moment, in any given situation. Are they
Speaker 1: going to beat us into submission or drug and pleasure
Speaker 1: us into submission?
Speaker 2: I think both.
Speaker 1: I really think the missing piece to a lot of
Speaker 1: this when we touched on this yesterday is people like
Speaker 1: Elon Musk and Sam Altman and you know the guy
Speaker 1: who runs Google, whoever that is, are so driven they
Speaker 1: to just accomplish things. They can't imagine that most of
Speaker 1: humanity is not like that, right, So let's I mean,
Speaker 1: accomplish things for accomplishment's sake. Most of them. A man,
Speaker 1: he's not like that. I need, you know, I need
Speaker 1: to get a win here. I need to make enough
Speaker 1: money or something. And without that, most people just gonna
Speaker 1: lay around and do nothing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's it's really useful when a person realizes, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of an outlier in this. I'm like in
Speaker 1: the outer ten percent of people who think like this
Speaker 1: or are like this because it helps you relate to
Speaker 1: humanity a little better.
Speaker 2: And I think you're absolutely right. Let me finish up
Speaker 2: Michael's email real quick.
Speaker 1: If we go down that road, I'm sure it will
Speaker 1: all be be all rainbows and unicorns to begin with.
Speaker 1: Candy houses in the woods for starving children.
Speaker 2: Candy houses.
Speaker 1: Boy, this is a really literate email. I'm really enjoying this.
Speaker 1: But the need for meaning will emerge from under the
Speaker 1: weight of stasis, and it wouldn't surprise me to see
Speaker 1: those same savages that Huxley mentioned in A Brave New
Speaker 1: World chasing meaning once again, much to the consternation of
Speaker 1: the central planners. Anyway, thank you all for what you do.
Speaker 1: Whatever comes next, don't be a gamma. Final Huxley note
Speaker 1: there we should bring up, especially that first email maybe
Speaker 1: an hour or four and have a lengthy discussion about it,
Speaker 1: because that's a hell of an interesting topic. We'll get
Speaker 1: into that New York Times Siena poll and a bunch
Speaker 1: of different topics that's out and see if you agree
Speaker 1: or disagree where the nation's mood is.
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