Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 1: Thanks one.
Speaker 3: P Diddy's girlfriend has taking the stand in that trial,
Speaker 3: and we're monitoring that and if she corroborates some of
Speaker 3: the horrifying testimony from yesterday or says anything exciting, will
Speaker 3: pass that along to you. Also, I'm liking this conversation
Speaker 3: that's catching on online of Hey, the French gave us
Speaker 3: the Statue of Liberty as a gift, Why Kate Katar
Speaker 3: give us a.
Speaker 1: Plane as a gift? What's the deal?
Speaker 4: As a as an argument, So that's yeah, that's interesting,
Speaker 4: and there are ethical questions here, but I feel like
Speaker 4: they can be resolved.
Speaker 3: I just so we brought this up, and it's always
Speaker 3: been true of Trump. I mean from day one, I've
Speaker 3: been pointing this out, how he often steps on such
Speaker 3: good news.
Speaker 1: So they he had the.
Speaker 3: Prescription Executive Order yesterday lower the cost of prescriptions, which
Speaker 3: should be a huge, like news cycle win for you
Speaker 3: and maybe the whole trade thing coming to an end.
Speaker 3: And you know, it ended up being for a lot
Speaker 3: of the dominant media. The whole receiving a plane from
Speaker 3: Qatar was the Yeah, obliterated it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The drug price thing is an interesting topic too. Maybe
Speaker 4: we'll take that on at some point today or tomorrow.
Speaker 4: You know how much can actually be done, but we'll
Speaker 4: keep you up to date on various stuff as it develops.
Speaker 3: Well, and it was an executive order. I just came
Speaker 3: across this from Sarah Iger of The Dispatch. Trump's has
Speaker 3: signed five bills into law in the first one hundred days,
Speaker 3: the fewest of any president since at least the fifties
Speaker 3: might be earlier than that, which means and everything that
Speaker 3: has been accomplished can be reversed with the stroke of
Speaker 3: a pen by the next president.
Speaker 4: I didn't want to do to your hopes. What did
Speaker 4: he and his pals did to his ex girlfriend?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's raining exactly.
Speaker 4: But yeah, there's a limited amount that he can actually
Speaker 4: do and and and where this ends is probably not
Speaker 4: anywhere near the promise. But anyway, having said that, I've
Speaker 4: been wanting to talk about this for a little while.
Speaker 4: That Colorado, which is in so many ways of wonderful state,
Speaker 4: I mean, just scenic as can be and for the
Speaker 4: longest time just normal, you know, just the great plains,
Speaker 4: good hard working, normal people. You get a little artsy
Speaker 4: FARTSI around Denver and but it's just it's a I
Speaker 4: love Colorado, I always have since the first time I
Speaker 4: was I was.
Speaker 1: There, and gorge and more.
Speaker 4: But it has gone full on woke lunatic right now.
Speaker 4: A few examples and and particularly from the Department of
Speaker 4: gender bending madness. It's called tolerance. As this person is
Speaker 4: pointing out Lathan Watson. We'll get to some of his
Speaker 4: words in a couple of minutes. But what they're tolerating
Speaker 4: is mutilating procedures that put radical ideology ahead of children's health.
Speaker 4: This is all about kids and the so called gender
Speaker 4: affirming care, which is radical gender theory experimentation on healthy
Speaker 4: young bodies. It's disgusting. But there's this one house build
Speaker 4: that would require insurance companies. It would force them to
Speaker 4: cover so called gender affirming drugs and procedures for both
Speaker 4: children and adults, including puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, and
Speaker 4: their removal of healthy breasts and genitalia. Insurance companies are
Speaker 4: forced to cover that. Here's a different build that would
Speaker 4: require courts to consider actions like misgendering a child or
Speaker 4: using your child's actual name. It would require courts to
Speaker 4: consider that a form of coercive control, which is a
Speaker 4: euphemism for child abuse.
Speaker 3: I would never hold up, but it would sure be
Speaker 3: a nightmare going through the process until you challenged it
Speaker 3: in rue.
Speaker 4: But in child custody decisions. Oh, be horrible. That's because
Speaker 4: that's what that was. Yeah, that was the rest of
Speaker 4: the sentence. That's where they're using this.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: Wait a second, Dad still calls Jimmy jimmy, so he should.
Speaker 1: Definitely lose customs. Oh my god.
Speaker 4: And if another if a court from another state gives
Speaker 4: custody to a parent who affirms the child's biological sex,
Speaker 4: a bill directs Colorado courts to ignore that decision and
Speaker 4: instead a word custody of the parent who pushes the
Speaker 4: child toward transition, purely because they pushed the child toward transition.
Speaker 4: You crazy people, right, and anybody who believes in you know,
Speaker 4: as for instance, the Gaze against Groomer's group says, we
Speaker 4: believe children are perfect as they are. They don't need
Speaker 4: drugs and hormones and surgery. They are what they ought
Speaker 4: to be anyway, And if parents seek compassionate cou for
Speaker 4: their child, and this is going to be brought home
Speaker 4: to roost with some audio we're about to play for you.
Speaker 1: If the.
Speaker 4: Parents say, my kid was the victim of something, or
Speaker 4: is confused, or has been led down the path of
Speaker 4: radicalism by teachers or activists, any counselor who speaks any
Speaker 4: message in Colorado that know you are what you should be.
Speaker 4: You are made that way by God. Let's come to
Speaker 4: terms with whatever's bothering you. But you're a boy, that
Speaker 4: counselor can be subject to steep finds and can lose
Speaker 4: his or her license.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping this is the last gasp of this sort
Speaker 1: of thing.
Speaker 4: I really hope. So this is awful. It's unspeakably. People
Speaker 4: are so crazy. It's just it's just it's amazing how
Speaker 4: crazy people.
Speaker 1: Can get well.
Speaker 4: And then the Nathan points out that, as Colorado's recent
Speaker 4: history demonstrates, bad legislation often leads to good case law law.
Speaker 4: So but his point, and it's so sad if you
Speaker 4: think about it, is how many more confused adolescent kids
Speaker 4: are going to be victimized before these cases get overturned.
Speaker 1: And these horrifying laws.
Speaker 4: You know, are exposed to the light of day, and
Speaker 4: you know, and I'll just say this very briefly, Europe,
Speaker 4: the US, everywhere that looks at this stuff says this
Speaker 4: does not help kids, that there is no scientific evidence
Speaker 4: that these experiments should continue on children. There is none anyway.
Speaker 4: Having said that, this is.
Speaker 1: A woman named.
Speaker 4: Brandy Cruz who's talking to Anna, who was I think
Speaker 4: a guy who was convinced that they were a girl.
Speaker 1: And they use the term CSA a couple of times.
Speaker 4: It's childhood's sexual assault that gets clarified later, but I
Speaker 4: just want you to understand that. So Michael, we'll start
Speaker 4: with thirty. This is a Brandy Cruz talking to Anna.
Speaker 5: Doctors told me that what was wrong with me and
Speaker 5: how I felt about my body was not from CSA,
Speaker 5: even though I went there and said, did CSA make
Speaker 5: me this way? Yes, it's a childhood sexual assault and
Speaker 5: they said no. They said no. They said being gay
Speaker 5: as innate and being trans as an eight and what
Speaker 5: you have is gender identity disorder. They diagnosed me with
Speaker 5: gender dysphoria. And I believed their books for about seventeen years.
Speaker 4: So they said no, no, no, childhood sexual trauma could
Speaker 4: make you feel uncomfortable with your body. No, it's innate,
Speaker 4: it's born in you. You are transgendent.
Speaker 3: Where now they come up with these letters for these
Speaker 3: like really you know, rough situations, to try to make
Speaker 3: them so academic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's not. Let's call it word it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: roll on, Michael, are you willing to tell me everything
Speaker 1: that you went through?
Speaker 5: I had facial feminization surgery. I had sex reassignment surgery.
Speaker 5: I was on HRT for seventeen years. Now I'm on
Speaker 5: a combo dose because I can't go off. I have
Speaker 5: multiple health conditions from transitioning young and for transitioning for
Speaker 5: so long.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that poor person.
Speaker 3: I saw somebody the other day in one of those
Speaker 3: TikTok videos that had had just got their atom app
Speaker 3: Adam's apple shaved.
Speaker 1: That's got to be quite the process.
Speaker 4: And oh so this poor confused child rape victim convinced
Speaker 4: that no, it's your transgender at his healthy penis and
Speaker 4: testicles removed, jabbed with powerful hormones, which now she I
Speaker 4: don't know how, I don't remember how Anna chooses to live.
Speaker 4: I think is a woman at this point, because they
Speaker 4: have such terrible hormonal imbalances. They've got to take these
Speaker 4: powerful hormones for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 1: Rollan, what was it for you that kind of woke
Speaker 1: you up to This isn't what I should have done.
Speaker 5: I found out that homosexual transition was environmentally caused in
Speaker 5: almost every single case by a childhood sexual assault or
Speaker 5: by internalized homophobia.
Speaker 1: Failed boy syndrome.
Speaker 5: I was given a blanket diagnosis given anybody who has
Speaker 5: a body issue as a child nowadays.
Speaker 1: Failed the boy syndrome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know there are a lot of technical terms
Speaker 4: in this, but it is if you are uncomfortable with
Speaker 4: your body, you're uncomfortable, you're attracted guys. Whatever, It's a
Speaker 4: blanket diagnosis these days, says Anna roll On.
Speaker 6: How do you find your story received by people who
Speaker 6: continue to sort of push medicalization?
Speaker 5: If they hate me, They call me a bigot, They
Speaker 5: say that trans women are women, they say that gender
Speaker 5: dysphoria is a valid diagnosis.
Speaker 1: And god forbid, You're.
Speaker 5: A feminate and you believe that something's wrong with you
Speaker 5: as a man because you like pretty things and are sassy.
Speaker 1: So how do you how do you identify nout?
Speaker 5: I'm a gay man.
Speaker 1: Have you lost friends or anyone by de transitioning.
Speaker 5: If I was canceled by every friend I had who
Speaker 5: was liberal in this city and had to leave the city.
Speaker 4: Oh, they hate me, they call me a bigot. Can
Speaker 4: you imagine that last clip?
Speaker 1: Why is it important for you to be here?
Speaker 5: Because people are being lied to and they're being diagnosed.
Speaker 5: They're not being diagnosed with what actually causes the gender disport.
Speaker 5: They're just being diagnosed with a symptom of a problem.
Speaker 5: And there are multiple problems that cause those symptoms. And
Speaker 5: when you don't appropriately diagnose people, you lead them into
Speaker 5: a life of ruin. All of these interventions are permanent,
Speaker 5: they're irreversible, and they lied to me.
Speaker 1: There's a huge scandal going on in the UK right now.
Speaker 4: Scotland's top social worker has now come out against the
Speaker 4: powers that be and she was also the director of
Speaker 4: the Scottish Child Law Center and said care bosses that's
Speaker 4: the welfare essentially failed to uphold existing equality lawns stood
Speaker 4: by way. Social workers who bravely challenged gender ideology were
Speaker 4: bullied and lost jobs. The Scottish Care Inspectorate and other
Speaker 4: government funded bodies all signed up to imposing belief and
Speaker 4: gender identity on social workers and on vulnerable service users,
Speaker 4: claiming that the law supported this. She accused the bosses
Speaker 4: of causing untold harm by abandoning child protection principles and
Speaker 4: giving into radical gender ideology. So they throw away all
Speaker 4: of the things they claimed that they were there to
Speaker 4: do to protect children in the face of the bullying
Speaker 4: by the gender activists.
Speaker 3: By the way, social go ahead, we have some breaking
Speaker 3: news on this story. The Pentagon is halting gender affirming
Speaker 3: healthcare for transgender troops as it implements Trump's new policy.
Speaker 4: Social workers were advised by these and other powerful bodies
Speaker 4: that they must offer automatic affirmation of gender identity, even
Speaker 4: in very young children whose parents are adopters were claiming
Speaker 4: to have identified this, including those with serious and complex
Speaker 4: psychiatric conditions. And then you got people autistic you're a
Speaker 4: rape victim, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: They get gender affirming care because they're transgender. Well, those
Speaker 1: are awful.
Speaker 3: And then you've got the ones where the parents are
Speaker 3: just so enthused about their kids being this. What's that actress,
Speaker 3: the blonde one who won the oscar for being the serial.
Speaker 1: Killer shar least thereon?
Speaker 3: Yeah, who says both her kids are trans at ages
Speaker 3: like two and four or whatever.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: And she finally said, unbelievably, we were also asked to
Speaker 4: accept the claim gender identity of serious sex offenders and
Speaker 4: to indulge them, etc. It's just unbelievable. How did a
Speaker 4: belief system this crazy get so far and claim so
Speaker 4: many victims? And Colorado is still you know, you said,
Speaker 4: we hope for past the peak of this, and on
Speaker 4: the way down, Colorado is trying to push it further.
Speaker 1: Right now, I do think we're on the other side
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 3: I mean, we can all feel that, but there are
Speaker 3: still places where they're fight, where they're fighting the good
Speaker 3: fight in their mind, the crazy fight, the insane fight,
Speaker 3: damaging the children fight.
Speaker 4: Your kid is effeminate, your kid is gay, your kid
Speaker 4: is fine. You don't have to if the idea that, yes,
Speaker 4: my kid is so sick they need surgery.
Speaker 1: Come on, Oh my God.
Speaker 3: Said, if you have any thoughts on any of this,
Speaker 3: you could text us four one, five, two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 3: Maybe the biggest celebrity trial in the generation p ditty
Speaker 3: according to some people. AnyWho, We'll have to decide whether
Speaker 3: we want updates on this on a regular basis. The
Speaker 3: star witness, his ex girlfriend of ten years, is on
Speaker 3: the stand right now, Katie any headlines for us.
Speaker 7: Yeah, at the moment, she's visibly upset. Also eight and
Speaker 7: a half months pregnant.
Speaker 1: Just as a note, Yeah, that's so fun.
Speaker 7: She's been asked to describe her relationship with Ditty.
Speaker 1: She said, quote, there.
Speaker 7: Were violent arguments that would usually result in some form
Speaker 7: of physical abuse, dragging, different things of that nature. And
Speaker 7: then she was asked to describe what a freak off was.
Speaker 7: It basically entails the hiring of an escort and setting
Speaker 7: up this experience so that I.
Speaker 1: Could perform for Sean.
Speaker 7: Him being able to watch me with another person and
Speaker 7: actually direct us on what we were doing seemed to
Speaker 7: be what he enjoyed. Eventually it became a job for
Speaker 7: me pretty much.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, as the guy testified yesterday, sometimes for as
Speaker 3: long as ten hours. I don't even I don't even
Speaker 3: know what that means. Ten hours, Yeah.
Speaker 4: And she was I'm just looking through some of the
Speaker 4: news accounts. She said she was naive and a total
Speaker 4: people pleaser and feared making him angry or comfortable with
Speaker 4: the rejection.
Speaker 1: Combs controlled much of her life.
Speaker 4: She said she feared that she'd be blackmailed with videos
Speaker 4: and images of her participation in the free coughs, as
Speaker 4: well as threatened with violence.
Speaker 3: I saw the part yesterday where somebody is saying he'd
Speaker 3: constantly be saying more baby oil. You need more baby oil.
Speaker 3: He had a thing for baby oil for some reason.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Wow, All right, Well that's your update on that. Anything
Speaker 3: else happens, we'll bring it on to you. Here's a
Speaker 3: grim story from the Narco state, that is our trading
Speaker 3: partner in country south of US, in Mexico. Some woman
Speaker 3: that was running for mayor in some town on a
Speaker 3: I'm going to stand up to the cartels sort of ticket.
Speaker 1: See Can I guess how that sentence ends?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no kidding, gunned down on live television in front
Speaker 3: of all her supporters yesterday, her and her daughter and
Speaker 3: several other people on her campaign and just yeah, murdered
Speaker 3: on television. No ya ain't is what the cartels said.
Speaker 3: And the New York Post runs through the six hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty one different attacks last year on politicians across
Speaker 3: Mexico who tried to stand up to the cartels. I mean,
Speaker 3: true patriots were really knowingly risking their lives to try
Speaker 3: to make the town they live in safe and worth
Speaker 3: a damn for their own family. But there's some gruesome examples,
Speaker 3: and it doesn't even really hardly make the news here anymore.
Speaker 3: It happened so often, got exactly one hundred and sixty one. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I got an example here of a guy who was
Speaker 3: a mayor in someplace.
Speaker 1: Well, this guy was shot and killed.
Speaker 3: This guy was shot and killed, this guy was shot
Speaker 3: and killed, and then he got one hero was.
Speaker 1: Beheaded in his head, left on the top of his
Speaker 1: car for everyone to see the next morning.
Speaker 4: Here's a woman who was the mayor wanted to continue
Speaker 4: his policies. She was murdered walking home from the gym
Speaker 4: with her bodyguard. Bodyguard when that didn't do that good
Speaker 4: a job, probably, Yeah, it's that's rough.
Speaker 3: That is really really rough, that that goes on to
Speaker 3: that extent, and we pay so little attention to it.
Speaker 3: What me right next door was But oh my point
Speaker 3: was I knew I had a point, man, hang on
Speaker 3: to your culture of law and order, because once it
Speaker 3: goes getting it back could be a hundred year project
Speaker 3: or more.
Speaker 4: And that's why a lot of us have been railing
Speaker 4: so hard against a lot of the progressive policies that
Speaker 4: have you know, made crime legal again and emptied the
Speaker 4: prisons again. It takes two weeks to do ndoe and
Speaker 4: maybe two hundred years to get back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is rough. We got a lot more on
Speaker 1: the way.
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Speaker 8: Government of Cutter a massive seven forty seven to eight
Speaker 8: luxury jet that's been called a flying palace. The jet,
Speaker 8: which is bigger and more luxurious than Air Force one,
Speaker 8: would almost certainly be the most expensive gift ever from
Speaker 8: a foreign power. It has two fully furnished floors, plush
Speaker 8: carpet leather couches, and two bedrooms.
Speaker 3: I had a good discussion on a podcast yesterday about
Speaker 3: how many people give a crap about this? Maybe you should,
Speaker 3: Maybe it's way out of bounds. Maybe it's an emolument's clause.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about the emolument's clause?
Speaker 3: But how many people this is register with even if
Speaker 3: it's a maybe you shue?
Speaker 1: I'll bet not a lot.
Speaker 3: Anyway. I've only read this, I haven't actually heard it.
Speaker 3: The back and forth the reporter in Trump yesterday.
Speaker 5: Here we go, say, people who knew that luxury chet
Speaker 5: as a personal get to you, why not leave.
Speaker 2: It behind me? See fake news?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Why not only only you see?
Speaker 9: Well a few of you would, let me tell you,
Speaker 9: you should be embarrassed asking that question. They're giving us
Speaker 9: a free jet. I could say, no, no, no, don't
Speaker 9: give us. I want to pay you a billion or
Speaker 9: four hundred million or whatever it is. Or I could
Speaker 9: say thank you very much. You know, there was an
Speaker 9: old golfer named Sam Sneed. Did you ever hear me?
Speaker 9: Want Ad two terms? Was a great golfer that he
Speaker 9: had a motto. When they give you a putt, you
Speaker 9: say thank you very much, You pick up your ball
Speaker 9: and you walk to the next hole.
Speaker 2: A lot of people are stupid.
Speaker 9: They say no, no, I insist start putting it, and
Speaker 9: then they put it and they miss it and their
Speaker 9: partner gets angry at them. You know what, remember that
Speaker 9: Sam Snead, When they give you a putt, you pick
Speaker 9: it up and you walk.
Speaker 2: To the next hole and you say thank you very much. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't like the kataris trying to buy a favor.
Speaker 4: I just don't I'm not comfortable with it. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't know if you bear the world's biggest backers of
Speaker 4: the Muslim Brotherhood. The Qatar was a pariah in the
Speaker 4: Middle East because the Muslim Brotherhood is an islam Islamist organization.
Speaker 4: It was causing all sorts of problems for the other
Speaker 4: governments in the region. And they've mended some of those fences.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I just I don't like the feel of it.
Speaker 3: No, if I have to choose one or the other,
Speaker 3: I'd rather we didn't take the plane from the Katari
Speaker 3: has been ranked very high on my list of give
Speaker 3: a craps.
Speaker 1: This yeah, bigger problems for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so a couple of things I wanted to mention personally.
Speaker 4: First of all, I just moved to chat GPT to
Speaker 4: the first page of my iPhone. Wow, okay, I am
Speaker 4: Judy and I are planning a trip. I've used it
Speaker 4: for a number of things, but we're planning a trip now.
Speaker 4: And I've heard that that artificial intelligence in general, whatever
Speaker 4: you know your favorite platform is, is really good at that.
Speaker 4: I am astounded by how great it is. Yeah, I just,
Speaker 4: oh my goodness, I'm only dabbling.
Speaker 3: But it is, like you said the other day, Why
Speaker 3: would you use Google? Now that you've got this, It's
Speaker 3: way better than Google, way better than Google for whatever
Speaker 3: question you've got for instance.
Speaker 4: So I've been an Anglo file fascinated by all things
Speaker 4: British since I was a little kid, and I've never
Speaker 4: spent any time in the UK really, which is just
Speaker 4: I'm horrified by that.
Speaker 1: I let myself get as old as.
Speaker 4: I am, and it's inexplicable anyway, except that I have
Speaker 4: a job that I got to show up for five
Speaker 4: days a week, and it's harder to take big long
Speaker 4: trips anyway. And so I was asking it what part
Speaker 4: of town should we stay in? Here are our interests,
Speaker 4: here's our budget, you know, and it recommended several different
Speaker 4: parts of town that would be great.
Speaker 1: Mostly Freigki.
Speaker 3: I like Figgie pudding and spotted Dick and I need
Speaker 3: Figgie putting in spotted Dick.
Speaker 4: In Kidney pot anyway, and then I said, well, our interests.
Speaker 4: I saw the results and I said, our interests are
Speaker 4: especially this, that and the other. End it refined the
Speaker 4: results and then I said, hey, what are some day
Speaker 4: trips we could take from London because we're going to
Speaker 4: stay for quite a few days. And it gives great
Speaker 4: day trips, the time it takes to get there, how
Speaker 4: you would get there. And then it said would you
Speaker 4: like an itinerary for a trip to Oxford to take
Speaker 4: in classical music? I said yes please, and it said,
Speaker 4: all right, take this. You know you leave that now
Speaker 4: you go to that they have a concert at ten am.
Speaker 4: Then you blah blah blah. It's just it's amazing anyway.
Speaker 1: So that's one thing. So second, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know there is such thing at travel agents anymore anyway,
Speaker 3: but they're out of a job.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now they could maybe handle some of the logistics
Speaker 4: like booking you tickets, behave more like a concierge.
Speaker 1: Than a I don't know than a planner.
Speaker 4: But anyway, because I got to admit, some of that
Speaker 4: logistics stuff is a little uh, not daunting exactly, just
Speaker 4: a pain in the butt. But the other thing is
Speaker 4: I want to thank everybody who through the years has said, Joe,
Speaker 4: you would love Black Mirror, the Netflix series.
Speaker 1: Have you watched that at all?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: But people keep referencing it and I think I need
Speaker 1: to check it out. It is Katie your fan, h fan,
Speaker 1: huge fan, so it is.
Speaker 4: I would describe it as a modern day cinematic quality
Speaker 4: Twilight Zone, which is probably not an original description.
Speaker 1: I'm sure other people have used that too.
Speaker 4: Each episode stands alone, at least so far that I've watched.
Speaker 4: They're not it's not a serial. It's like individual, fairly
Speaker 4: short movies revolving around the theme of man trying to
Speaker 4: deal with the new technological world, okay, and paranoia and identity.
Speaker 4: And it's all very not cerebral, but it themes are
Speaker 4: worth wrestling with. The first episode is one of the
Speaker 4: most hilariously funny, horrifying things I've ever seen. It was
Speaker 4: with the Pig Katie. Oh yeah, season one, episode.
Speaker 1: One, Oh yeah, we're going back but yeah, and the Politician. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Anyway, So if you haven't yet dived into it, I
Speaker 4: recommend it highly. It's themes are mature that you don't
Speaker 4: want to watch this with your kids, So if you're fright,
Speaker 4: I'm begging you don't.
Speaker 3: But so, if like me, you're constantly wondering where AI
Speaker 3: and Stuff's going to.
Speaker 1: Take us, this would be a good show for that.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yes, you mean example. Well, and I'm
Speaker 1: in the early days, Katie, what's you know? Later later?
Speaker 1: It's Okay, here's it. Whatever springs to mind.
Speaker 7: Possible spoiler alert issue, but oh that's all right. The
Speaker 7: latest episode I just watched they are living in a
Speaker 7: world in the UK where the honeybee is now an
Speaker 7: endangered species. So this company took it upon themselves to create.
Speaker 1: Little mini drones.
Speaker 7: That look like bumblebees and they pollinate and take care of,
Speaker 7: you know what, the bees job.
Speaker 4: That's a wonderful and inspiring idea. Thank you for telling
Speaker 4: us about the episode.
Speaker 7: Hey, so somebody hijacks all of the bees and they
Speaker 7: start killing people.
Speaker 1: Okay, going through the ears for everywhere bees.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh no, Hey, I tell you what nanodrones in warfare.
Speaker 4: I read about that years ago and it still haunts
Speaker 4: my dreams. Drones so small you can't even see them
Speaker 4: with the naked eye, individually swarming the battlefield and swarming
Speaker 4: the lungs of your opponents and just detonating their lungs.
Speaker 3: I'm highly interested in all those things, and a lot
Speaker 3: of those things can come true or will come true.
Speaker 3: And then you've just got the very basic thing of AI.
Speaker 3: Like you were talking about how good chat GPT is
Speaker 3: doing stuff. It's just if it shaves off even if
Speaker 3: it doesn't eliminate every job, If it shaves off ten jobs,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's going to restructure society in such a
Speaker 3: drastic way.
Speaker 1: Ten percent would be cataclysmic. Right.
Speaker 3: My brother, who has been a truck driver at various
Speaker 3: times in his life, sent me some stuff about the
Speaker 3: new Tesla semi trucks that they're trying in Texas right now,
Speaker 3: and he said, Man, if this works, it's just going
Speaker 3: to be devastating because that's a huge job nationwide truck
Speaker 3: driver and you eliminate all those and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: all of those dudes, mostly dudes, got to find a
Speaker 3: different way to make a living. This is underappreciated. Is
Speaker 3: how seismic a shift.
Speaker 4: This is going to be well, and we're dealing really
Speaker 4: so like maybe in the next year. Days we're already
Speaker 4: dealing with And we talked about this hour one of
Speaker 4: the show. I think how the budget negotiations going on
Speaker 4: right now in the House, especially fiscal conservatism is gone,
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Speaker 1: Trying to take away healthcare for the poor, and people
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Speaker 4: And it's just if the AI thing happens and that
Speaker 4: ten percent happens. I mean, how many Americans are working
Speaker 4: at this point. Honestly, it's like one hundred and forty
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Speaker 1: It's a half.
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Speaker 4: while Bill Maher was talking to Donna Brazil, a longtime
Speaker 4: Democrat activist. You know, interesting lady, no doubt. But they're
Speaker 4: talking about AI and the future and employment and everything
Speaker 4: we've been discussing. Here's how it went. This has come
Speaker 4: out this week.
Speaker 10: Graduation season is upon us and the unemployment rates of
Speaker 10: new grads way up.
Speaker 2: Why is that?
Speaker 10: Because AI is doing the jobs that even the white collar.
Speaker 1: Kids used to be able to code.
Speaker 10: There's a company, Aurora Driver driverless trucks.
Speaker 2: It makes well.
Speaker 10: They've already tested it over twelve hundred miles. So there's
Speaker 10: three point five to five million truck drivers in America and.
Speaker 1: This and that Uber drivers.
Speaker 10: They're going to be out of a job, cashiers. We
Speaker 10: already see it at the Amazon warehouse. What are we
Speaker 10: going to do?
Speaker 6: What are the robo possibilities of heaven? You know, these
Speaker 6: automated systems help us reduce you know, work workplace hazards.
Speaker 6: I mean, there are things that they can do that
Speaker 6: human beings cannot do. They can lift things, they can
Speaker 6: move things, they can box things. So we have to
Speaker 6: adapt to the future, Bill.
Speaker 1: We can't run from a Wow, what meaningless problem that was.
Speaker 1: We need to adapt to the future Bill. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. How workplace injuries or whatever.
Speaker 3: It's interesting how the left immediately jumps to its great
Speaker 3: that AI will be able to replace jobs. I guess
Speaker 3: leaning more into the idea that people shouldn't.
Speaker 4: Have to work, or that they'll become poets or I
Speaker 4: don't know, democratic activists if they don't have to put
Speaker 4: food on the table.
Speaker 1: Eh. Interesting, So some numbers are out.
Speaker 4: Labor market for recent college graduates deteriorated noticeably in the
Speaker 4: first quarter of this year. Unemployment rate jumped to five
Speaker 4: point eight percent, and the under employment rate rose sharply
Speaker 4: to forty one point two percent. I would have to
Speaker 4: click several times to get to their precise definition of underemployment,
Speaker 4: but I have a feeling it has to do with
Speaker 4: either not in a field they're educated for or not
Speaker 4: working enough hours. But yeah, and they don't really explain why. Again,
Speaker 4: that would take a fair amount of digging. But it's
Speaker 4: softened up and it makes sense. I mean, speaking of AI,
Speaker 4: there are just a lot of I'm a college graduate,
Speaker 4: I've got a cubicle job, I don't work outside with
Speaker 4: my hands jobs.
Speaker 1: How do you describe it? Office jobs?
Speaker 4: In short, I guess a technology is taking care of
Speaker 4: a lot of those and b As we've been discussing
Speaker 4: for quite a while now, college degrees are getting phonier
Speaker 4: and phonier the extent to which they indicate that this
Speaker 4: person has gained important skills and insights about.
Speaker 1: The world in life. That wouldn't mean anything to me.
Speaker 4: No, no, it could, but they did. That just doesn't
Speaker 4: mean that anymore. Having a diploma doesn't mean that.
Speaker 3: So once we start, I think we all, I think
Speaker 3: everybody agrees that we're going to be heading down a
Speaker 3: road where there is some sort of guaranteed income for
Speaker 3: a certain segment of society, maybe not like permanently, but
Speaker 3: transitioning in and out.
Speaker 1: Of work or something like that.
Speaker 3: But once that starts, are people going to be fighting
Speaker 3: each other to try to get it into that category?
Speaker 3: Like you want to be one of the people that
Speaker 3: gets the guaranteed income and doesn't have to work or
Speaker 3: would that seem like a horror to most people?
Speaker 1: It seems like a horror to me.
Speaker 4: I think we'll have the standard makers and takers, you know,
Speaker 4: division in society, but it'll be weighted way towards the takers.
Speaker 3: Would it have seemed like a horror to me when
Speaker 3: I was twenty two, I don't know when my standard
Speaker 3: living was so low that meeting it or exceeding it
Speaker 3: wouldn't take much. And I was perfectly happy with my
Speaker 3: standard of living, maybe with the idea of okay, that'd
Speaker 3: be fine, you know, and then I don't have to work,
Speaker 3: and I can I'll get a degree and this or
Speaker 3: that eventually, and then you just don't get around to it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And then I think they're your secondary effects or
Speaker 4: whatever that second tier effects. You deny the incentive for many,
Speaker 4: many people to excel at anything, to live a life
Speaker 4: of purpose, even to stay busy, and that will cascade
Speaker 4: into serious moological changes. I think, because you know, young,
Speaker 4: how do I put this? If you fundamentally change the
Speaker 4: purposes of people's lives and how they spend each day
Speaker 4: and why they spend each day doing them, that causes
Speaker 4: enormous political instability. Just everything changes, and the number of
Speaker 4: people who are on the government dole, and the way
Speaker 4: the government takes in revenue and then hands it back
Speaker 4: out again, the way private industry, even if it's all
Speaker 4: robots and AI, generates that income, and then how it's
Speaker 4: confiscated from them, and blah blah. I mean, that's that
Speaker 4: serious earthquake level changing of society.
Speaker 3: That I think is not one hundred years off or
Speaker 3: fifty years off or twenty years off.
Speaker 1: I think it's like two years off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know, but it's it's definitely not one
Speaker 4: hundred years old.
Speaker 3: Will you add the whatever he said three million truck
Speaker 3: drivers to the however many million uber drivers, they'll all
Speaker 3: be gone soon with the way MOS in that and
Speaker 3: you know a few more of those white collar jobs
Speaker 3: you're discussing, You're gonna have enough million people out there
Speaker 3: that are gonna need some sort of guaranteed didn't come,
Speaker 3: I guess. And why would the rest of us be
Speaker 3: okay with paying for them to not do anything?
Speaker 4: Because we're just satisfied with working hard and having our
Speaker 4: money confiscated by the government to hand out for those
Speaker 4: people who are you know, victims of AI or whatever.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what too.
Speaker 4: If they announced in the next however long period, do
Speaker 4: you want to pick that? Hey, you know that hallucinations
Speaker 4: problem with AI systems.
Speaker 1: We've fixed it.
Speaker 4: We've figured out what caused that, and so now there
Speaker 4: is zero chance our AI attorney will ever come up
Speaker 4: with a fake case or give bad legal advice. There's
Speaker 4: zero chance our AI accountant will hallucinate some sort of
Speaker 4: tax deduction that doesn't exist and you go to jail.
Speaker 4: We've got that taken care of. Then, man, you're gonna
Speaker 4: see white collar jobs disappear like crazy.
Speaker 3: And that if that robot stops swinging its arm around
Speaker 3: trying to decapitate people and starts lifting boxes, and you
Speaker 3: eliminate all those.
Speaker 1: Jobs, so you're either unemployed or decapitated. This is the future,
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