Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty. I'm strong and Jetty and
Speaker 2: he armstrong and Yetty. She Now those awards shows, how
Speaker 2: they give you like twenty seconds to say something and
Speaker 2: then they start playing music to tell you you gotta go.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I know, I'd always hated that. Really they'd
Speaker 2: started into something interesting. Well now I guess I know
Speaker 2: the producers know a lot of these people don't have
Speaker 2: much to say. So Adrian Brody actor. I loved him
Speaker 2: in The Pianist. Is that what he won? The oscar?
Speaker 2: For years and years ago, the piano whatever it was.
Speaker 2: I really liked him, but god, he won an oscar.
Speaker 2: Last night. He gets up there and he drones on forever,
Speaker 2: and they tried to play the music. So you're not
Speaker 2: playing me off. You're not playing me off. This isn't
Speaker 2: my first rodeo. And then he continues to drone on
Speaker 2: about nothing. It was so boring anyway. Here Hanson has
Speaker 2: edited it down his five and hour half minutes of
Speaker 2: droning on about mulling. I know, I kept saying to
Speaker 2: the TV, Henry and I are playing chess while we
Speaker 2: got it on TV, and I'm like, shut up, dude, geez,
Speaker 2: somebody pulled. Give them the five and a half minutes
Speaker 2: of drowning on nothing. This is edited down to just
Speaker 2: the ums and ohs.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, winning and and and and I'm oddly
Speaker 3: just brilliant and I'm wrapping up. Please please please, I'm
Speaker 3: wrapping up.
Speaker 4: I will wrap up.
Speaker 3: Please turn the music up.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll get out here. And if you heard the
Speaker 2: entire five and a half minutes, it was not more
Speaker 2: meaningful than what you just heard. Yikes, yikes. He also
Speaker 2: did a reason to watch the Oscar. I also did
Speaker 2: the weird thing, so he's you know, they announced the
Speaker 2: Oscar and then everybody acts like they just won the
Speaker 2: Nobel Peace Prize or something. The reverence that everybody has
Speaker 2: in the crowd, I guess they all feel like they
Speaker 2: owe each other that, or they want to receive that
Speaker 2: if they win someday or whatever the way they it's
Speaker 2: just it's weird, the reverence for such a not that
Speaker 2: big a deal. Craft to me, Okay, you can act,
Speaker 2: good for you, that guy's really good at bill bird Houses,
Speaker 2: good for him and whatever.
Speaker 5: But the only thing they're better at than making movies
Speaker 5: is self importance. Got no, and you know obviously their
Speaker 5: awards are. It's a festival of self importance.
Speaker 2: Eh. So hard to watch, which you would wonder why
Speaker 2: did I watch? But he gets announced when the bad
Speaker 2: saskar he's kissing her hugging him a and he heads
Speaker 2: up and he really he realizes he's got gum in
Speaker 2: his mouth. He turns around, he yells to his girlfriend,
Speaker 2: throws his gum at her, and she kind of on
Speaker 2: her high heels stra reach over and catches it. Boy, thought,
Speaker 2: that wasn't the classiest move I've ever seen.
Speaker 5: It's just wrong to check it to tucket in your cheese,
Speaker 5: shy savage swallow it.
Speaker 2: No, it's disgusting. I've swallowed about five pounds of gum
Speaker 2: in my life.
Speaker 5: Probably Katie one more reason to judge Jack if she
Speaker 5: keeps the list for us.
Speaker 6: At this point, I have a scroll that's nineteen feet long.
Speaker 5: I just yeah, yeah, that was a mistake, going with
Speaker 5: a scroll instead of a notebook.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 5: So, speaking of status and that sort of thing, briefly,
Speaker 5: I had a very busy day yesterday. I volunteered at
Speaker 5: the golf tournament that my community slash home course hosts.
Speaker 5: It's a college golf tournament. Teams from around the country.
Speaker 5: It's wonderful, it's great fun. But I had an eleven
Speaker 5: hour workday on my day off yesterday, I was a
Speaker 5: spotter slash Marshall. And also, because you know, it's a
Speaker 5: charity tournament, we don't have money or anything, I was
Speaker 5: a divot filler, so I have binoculars on and these
Speaker 5: guys who hit the ball a mile, it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 5: I watch them hit I try to follow it in
Speaker 5: the binoculars and oh, it's over there in the trees,
Speaker 5: and we go try to find it or whatever. And
Speaker 5: then sometimes it's in the middle of the fairway whatever.
Speaker 5: But after they hit their shot, I've got my little
Speaker 5: sand container and I go in.
Speaker 2: I fill the divot. It's part of my job.
Speaker 5: And some of the teams, some of the guys will
Speaker 5: say thanks and thank you all for being here and
Speaker 5: helping as you fill the.
Speaker 2: Divot, which is nice.
Speaker 5: They've obviously been coached by their coaches you know you
Speaker 5: will do this, and they probably say it, you know,
Speaker 5: thirty seven times in the course of the tournament. But
Speaker 5: it's really nice. Other guys, particularly if they've hit a
Speaker 5: bad shot or whatever, just walk off grumbling as you
Speaker 5: fill the divot. And I want to say to some
Speaker 5: of these guys, kid, I get it, they're passionate young men,
Speaker 5: and you hit a bad shot, you're kind of seeing
Speaker 5: your scholarship and your dreams maybe go a couple of
Speaker 5: inches further away or whatever. I get it. I've competed myself.
Speaker 5: But I want to say to them, Look, there's people
Speaker 5: out here with a net worth they could buy a
Speaker 5: golf course and they're not me. But and they're filling
Speaker 5: your divots. You can't give them a little thanks as
Speaker 5: you walk away.
Speaker 2: What does that cause?
Speaker 5: Just say appreciate it, thanks, something like that. But I've
Speaker 5: never said anything, and and I won't. But that's fun though.
Speaker 5: If you love a game, for you to pick up
Speaker 5: another skill. And the way the radio things going.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't know what divot filling pays in general, but
Speaker 5: it's not the best work for an old fellow with
Speaker 5: as long as it has health insurance. Yeah yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 5: So anyway, that was big fun. But speaking of working
Speaker 5: and getting things done, one of the more hilarious and
Speaker 5: flailing aspects of the anti Doge resistance, as personified by
Speaker 5: Chuck Schumer and Amy Klobach, are bellowing at demonstrations.
Speaker 2: Oh did you know so tomorrow night Trump is addressing
Speaker 2: both houses of Congress. It's not right. It's not a
Speaker 2: State of the Union address when your first first one
Speaker 2: is not yeah whatever, it's a State of the Union
Speaker 2: dress and uh. And he's gonna go out there and
Speaker 2: see a bunch of things. But the Democrats are all
Speaker 2: bringing people that have been laid off by Doge as
Speaker 2: their guests. So they're gonna go aheadack that house for
Speaker 2: our government employees who've lost their jobs. And after that,
Speaker 2: I think most of America is going to say, oh
Speaker 2: my god, you lost your job, How awful for you.
Speaker 2: They just are misreading the country.
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, I was gonna say, as those the
Speaker 5: aforementioned villains and others are bellowing and demonstrating in favor
Speaker 5: of government waste and bloat, which is an odd way
Speaker 5: to go, you know, an odd philosophy to advocate. I
Speaker 5: came across this. I believe it was one of our
Speaker 5: beloved listeners. Clip number fifteen, Michael, This is Dianne Feinstein.
Speaker 5: Back when she was coherent and significantly with us.
Speaker 2: She died. Uh yeah, I have trouble remember and who's
Speaker 2: alive and who's dead after being clearly dementia ridden for
Speaker 2: last year more of her career. It's just sad puppet anyway.
Speaker 5: This was Diane in nineteen seventy one, is a moderate
Speaker 5: Democrat city councilwoman in San Francisco, talking about government workers
Speaker 5: and how if you let them, they don't do anything.
Speaker 1: They are serving an enormous public trust, and this public
Speaker 1: trust must be honored in the deepest sense of the word.
Speaker 2: And I believe that very deeply.
Speaker 4: The number one topic of conversation right now is whether
Speaker 4: Diane Feinstein is serious about looking in on city employees
Speaker 4: to find out how hard they're working.
Speaker 1: I received a number of comments from people who are
Speaker 1: concerned that many city employees don't keep regular hours or
Speaker 1: their various infringements.
Speaker 4: How do you feel about Supervisor Einstein walking in on
Speaker 4: announced to see whether you're working.
Speaker 2: I don't appreciate people coming down here to looking on.
Speaker 1: Us, you know, And I think that city employees, of
Speaker 1: course should realize that they are a public body and
Speaker 1: that they're subject to the scrutiny of the public at
Speaker 1: all times, and that this is quite proper.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's all right with me, doesn't matter. I don't
Speaker 2: worry about it. Because we are busy.
Speaker 1: We're going to have to look towards some management studies
Speaker 1: of individual department.
Speaker 7: I think she can come here anytime she is, She'll
Speaker 7: be welcome.
Speaker 2: How busy are you in this department?
Speaker 1: Well, we never have too much rest, but we could
Speaker 1: use roller skates sometime. A part of the thing that's
Speaker 1: become difficult now is because of the press. It's very
Speaker 1: difficult for me to go in and out on an
Speaker 1: unobserved basis.
Speaker 4: This much can be said without exaggeration. If there are
Speaker 4: a popularity contest to be held in city Hall today,
Speaker 4: Diane Feinstein would scarcely take first place.
Speaker 5: So my favorite aspect to that video, and it's partly
Speaker 5: a visual, but she asks three different the reporter ask
Speaker 5: three different people, is that cool with you? And the
Speaker 5: first guy's like, no, no, I don't appreciate that at all.
Speaker 5: And he had the look and the office he was
Speaker 5: in had the look of we do stuff sometimes if
Speaker 5: we have to, but not much and nobody cares because
Speaker 5: nobody ever checks. And the two other gals. It's not
Speaker 5: a great data set. But the reason why they didn't
Speaker 5: mind it was because they're busy as hell.
Speaker 2: They're like, hey, drop in any time, we don't care, right,
Speaker 2: And clearly.
Speaker 5: Guy number one, the reason he objected was because she
Speaker 5: would drop in and say, what are you doing right now?
Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly what Elon has said. His experience has
Speaker 2: been at Tesla and Twitter and other places. The people
Speaker 2: that complain the loudest are the people that can be
Speaker 2: easily replaced. Yeah, which is not surprising. I couldn't stop thinking.
Speaker 2: I mean, San Francisco has always been a lefty town.
Speaker 2: Diane Feinstein's always been a Democrat. How did the party
Speaker 2: move so far to the left of that?
Speaker 5: Well, exactly, it's the classic I didn't leave the party.
Speaker 5: The party left me to be liberal in nineteen seventy one. Meant,
Speaker 5: you know, we got to make sure black kids have
Speaker 5: as good as schools as white kids, and there's no
Speaker 5: segregation and that sort of thing. Now it means if
Speaker 5: a dude don it's a wig, you should be able
Speaker 5: to beat the hell out of girls on the sports field,
Speaker 5: which is a bizarre notion.
Speaker 2: Or if you played that for people and said it was.
Speaker 2: Now they would assume it. It must be the mayor of
Speaker 2: some super right wing red county and you know, red America,
Speaker 2: because it certainly couldn't be a Democrat.
Speaker 5: Right, When was the last time you heard a Democrats say, well, yeah,
Speaker 5: a public employee is being paid by the taxpayer, and yeah,
Speaker 5: constant accountability is part of the deal.
Speaker 2: If you don't like constantcountability, maybe public service isn't for you, right, exactly?
Speaker 2: That is wild. That's really good. Where'd you come across
Speaker 2: the well the internet in effect?
Speaker 5: But a beloved listener sent the link along and said,
Speaker 5: I think you'll find this interesting.
Speaker 2: Thanks for that. That's a good one. Charming. Wow, wonder
Speaker 2: what this diseases I have? I do not feel good.
Speaker 2: I'm on day nine. Yeah, cold lasts ten days though,
Speaker 2: so yay to be sickered in the cold, the underappreciated cold.
Speaker 2: Cold's very though, right every time you have when it's
Speaker 2: a little different. Yeah, and different people suffer differently than others.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the soft, for instance, suffer differently than the strong
Speaker 5: and resilient.
Speaker 2: The kind of person that puts cream in his coffee
Speaker 2: tends to succumb the golds more than the more Hearty
Speaker 2: of Us, More on the Way, Stay Here.
Speaker 5: Strong.
Speaker 7: Two people at a movie theater in Washington State watching
Speaker 7: Captain America Brave New World were surprised when we theater's
Speaker 7: ceiling collapsed on them. Surprised but grateful. What a steam
Speaker 7: and pile? Why are sequels so often bad and they
Speaker 7: get so far away from like the original goodness?
Speaker 2: What is that? Oh, it's a different impulse.
Speaker 5: I have art I want to create, and then I
Speaker 5: want to capitalize on the money my last start made.
Speaker 5: So I'm going if I can come up with a
Speaker 5: different story. And sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 2: But aside from that, the fact that a movie was
Speaker 2: just way too long and convoluted, and Harrison Ford is
Speaker 2: too old. God he's my mom's age. I like my mom.
Speaker 2: She probably shouldn't be an action movie star. But the
Speaker 2: other thing that happened at the theater that was new
Speaker 2: to me. There were a couple of previews. The movie
Speaker 2: started thirty two minutes after start time. Movie was at six.
Speaker 2: I got there at six, actually started at six thirty two.
Speaker 2: You always expect some previews. Fine previews in general tend
Speaker 2: to be worth watching. Yeah, fun, There are a couple
Speaker 2: of previews. There were about I tried to count between
Speaker 2: fifteen and twenty just flat out commercials. I mean like
Speaker 2: TV commercials for a soda, for medicine, for a car,
Speaker 2: for just like TV commercials you see anywhere. When did
Speaker 2: this become a thing. It's the first time I'd seen
Speaker 2: it in a movie. How freaking annoying is that? And
Speaker 2: I guarantee you what's gonna happen. People are gonna start
Speaker 2: showing up at six thirty for the six o'clock movie
Speaker 2: and you're gonna accomplish nothing. So whatever. Yeah, i'd be
Speaker 2: like skipping the opening band. Oh wow, so and so loud.
Speaker 2: So for years and years and years movie theaters, if
Speaker 2: you're old that they had kind of poor sound and
Speaker 2: sometimes it's even kind of hard to hear. Now it's
Speaker 2: just deafenitely loud all the time, so damned loud. Both
Speaker 2: My kids were your protection, like you're going to a concert. Wow.
Speaker 5: I was starting to get tempted to go back and
Speaker 5: maybe see a movie in the theaters, the h Dylan movie,
Speaker 5: for instance. Now you've convinced never mind, I'll wait.
Speaker 2: Running through a couple of things from the weekend, I
Speaker 2: came across some Tesla owners feel buyer's remorse and get
Speaker 2: egged as Elon Musk tears through the government and they
Speaker 2: quote a bunch of people who loved their Tesla when
Speaker 2: they first bought it and wanted to stand up for
Speaker 2: this or that, and now they're embarrassed, all right, buying whatever?
Speaker 2: Fine whatever? This was around the internet. How many countries
Speaker 2: tax their citizens and send money to the United States.
Speaker 2: I realize there's a difference between a poor country and
Speaker 2: the richest country that has ever existed. But true, true
Speaker 2: that you taxing those people after a day's work and
Speaker 2: sending the money here like we do all over the world.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess I see some point to that, but
Speaker 5: it's like me yelling at my kids. I don't see
Speaker 5: you paying my tuition. I mean, it's just not the position.
Speaker 2: Problem to me is what do you get any credit
Speaker 2: for it? We don't get any credit for it. The
Speaker 2: world hates us. A lot of the world hates us.
Speaker 2: Half the country or all the young people hate It's
Speaker 2: like we're terrible. Those countries aren't sending us money. We're
Speaker 2: sending them money.
Speaker 5: Right, And it does become well, it's the classic taking
Speaker 5: something for granted thing It's like hereah benefits programs in
Speaker 5: the US, whether the benefit is deserved or not, or
Speaker 5: necessary not, or good fiscal policy or not, you try
Speaker 5: to take it away, then you're the bad guy speaking
Speaker 5: yes exactly, speaking of AID.
Speaker 2: I didn't see this episode of Tucker Carlson's show, but
Speaker 2: he had this guy on named Bob Amsterdam. How USA
Speaker 2: it is helping Zelensky destroy Christianity with fake churches and violence.
Speaker 2: It had three million views on Twitter and I'm sure
Speaker 2: many more million views on his own website, so a
Speaker 2: lot of people very interested in that point of view.
Speaker 2: I do not believe at all that Zelenski is out
Speaker 2: to destroy Christianity, but it's very popular. And then this
Speaker 2: thing that I came across, and.
Speaker 5: It's directly out of the Kremlin's messaging.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wall Street Journal had an essay from a woman.
Speaker 2: Can white men finally stop complaining? For fifty years we've
Speaker 2: been hearing from men who feel threatened by the gains
Speaker 2: of women and minorities. Now that the manosphere is in charge,
Speaker 2: the victim mentality has got to go. Surprised to see
Speaker 2: this in the Wall Street Journal seems like a WAPO
Speaker 2: New York Times sort of piece anyway. Matt Walls, Remember
Speaker 2: Matt Wall, she did the couple of different things that
Speaker 2: we like. What is a woman? What is a woman?
Speaker 2: He tweeted in response to that article. The woman who
Speaker 2: wrote this article is, of course too stupid to understand
Speaker 2: that its very existence is proof of exactly the kind
Speaker 2: of anti white male bias that she's denying. No mainstream
Speaker 2: publication would ever in a million years publish an article
Speaker 2: titled can women finally stop complaining? Or can Black people
Speaker 2: finally stop complaining? This is the kind of open contempt
Speaker 2: that can only be expressed toward one demographic group and
Speaker 2: no other white man. Correct.
Speaker 5: There was a headline out of the USA today I
Speaker 5: was going to talk about in rant about last week
Speaker 5: that we never got to. The headline was, and I
Speaker 5: quote as I found it, a Supreme Court appears likely
Speaker 5: to side with straight women in reverse discrimination case. Reverse
Speaker 5: discrimination or reverse racism whatever is an invented term that
Speaker 5: doesn't make any sense. Is racism? Discrimination is discrimination? One
Speaker 5: is because for a while, in one place on Earth
Speaker 5: it tended to be one person and another sort of
Speaker 5: person doesn't change the meaning of the terms.
Speaker 2: Join in on any of these things. On the text
Speaker 2: line four one five k ftc Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: The Oscar campaign for Best Picture nominee Emilia Perez was
Speaker 7: badly damaged after problematic old tweets about George Floyd surfaced
Speaker 7: from transgender star Carla Sophia Gascon. And I think we
Speaker 7: can all agree what.
Speaker 5: That's a convoluted premise, Yes, amusing.
Speaker 2: I was speaking of amusing.
Speaker 5: I left that one part of my experience as a
Speaker 5: golf tournament marshal. There's this on the whole that I
Speaker 5: was patrolling. There's like a a hazard that's a fairly
Speaker 5: steep incline covered with plants down to a little lake,
Speaker 5: and a couple of times guys hit it in there,
Speaker 5: and I bravely ventured in to find their ball so
Speaker 5: they could decide whether they could hit it or whatever.
Speaker 5: It was part of my job, but I wanted to
Speaker 5: say to the guys, tell you what, looking for a.
Speaker 2: Ball in there is a slippery slope.
Speaker 5: But I just couldn't figure out exactly how to perfect
Speaker 5: and they just looked at me.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I got a question for you. This is on
Speaker 2: a theme we talked about last week. I don't remember
Speaker 2: how it came up. And then how to protect yourself
Speaker 2: from hackers. This is about the journey versus the destination
Speaker 2: or the point of life, or accomplishment in our effort,
Speaker 2: or what it means to be human or something. But wow,
Speaker 2: let's do it. What if you could take a pill
Speaker 2: that would make you five strokes better at golf? Would
Speaker 2: you do.
Speaker 5: It five strokes better?
Speaker 2: Or make it ten strokes if you want? Would you
Speaker 2: take a pill that would make it ten strokes golf?
Speaker 2: Would you take it? I would hope not. I would
Speaker 2: hope not. If I were a couple of drinks in
Speaker 2: I might.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I would hope not, because that it devalues,
Speaker 5: you know, the whole point.
Speaker 2: Right, I think that I think that means something.
Speaker 5: Although I think all mediocre golfers like myself hate the
Speaker 5: kid who he just picked up a golf club a
Speaker 5: month ago and he shot four under par for the
Speaker 5: third time today. You know, I hate people like that.
Speaker 5: That's crazy because he didn't work at all. He just
Speaker 5: happens to have the muscle memory and the talent and
Speaker 5: a good teacher or whatever.
Speaker 2: But the efforts the whole thing, right, it's a lot
Speaker 2: of it. I feel like if there was a pill
Speaker 2: that would make me play guitar like John Mayer today.
Speaker 2: I don't think I would take it. What would be
Speaker 2: the point? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 5: If on the other hand, you're on the back nine,
Speaker 5: you're down, I'm like a hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: I would take the pill. This would make me rich
Speaker 2: and get me a lot of girls. Okay, where's the
Speaker 2: pill now, I.
Speaker 5: Don't worry about the water. I'll choke it down. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: probably not. I'd like to think I wouldn't so. Uh.
Speaker 5: First of all, a quick a couple of technoes, including
Speaker 5: on AI broadly. I've never heard of this guy before,
Speaker 5: but he's well known in tech circles. Shake Tanun bin
Speaker 5: Zayed all nyon how many names? Right off, he's from
Speaker 5: the UAE. He's sometimes called the spy Shake. Interesting guy.
Speaker 5: He is Richard and God as they say, and has
Speaker 5: enough money to indulge every one of his passions. So
Speaker 5: he you know, he decides I want to be a
Speaker 5: martial arts expert, and he becomes one, then a chess master,
Speaker 5: then a video gamer and whatever. And he's a really
Speaker 5: interesting fellow. But he's also decided that the UAE needs
Speaker 5: to get heavily, heavily into AI, and he is.
Speaker 2: The chairman.
Speaker 5: As the chairman of two Abu Dhabi wealth funds, he
Speaker 5: controls more than more money than almost anyone on the planet.
Speaker 5: The Abu Dhabi Sovereign Wealth Funds have an estimated one
Speaker 5: point four trillion dollars in assets. And this guy has
Speaker 5: an enormous personal fortune and he's decided AI is the future,
Speaker 5: and so he's set up a new AI fund MGX,
Speaker 5: set to be infused with more than fifty billion dollars. Well, okay,
Speaker 5: his wealth and other Abu Dhabi sources.
Speaker 2: First of all, wouldn't it be fun to live in
Speaker 2: a country that fun to say all the time Abu Dhabi,
Speaker 2: Abu Dhabi and write a song every day, including a dab.
Speaker 2: Probably more importantly on the AI front, any effort by
Speaker 2: Elon or Congress or whoever to sign up set up
Speaker 2: some guidelines that make sure people play within you know,
Speaker 2: the rules of AI. No flipping way. I mean, China's
Speaker 2: doing it, Russia doing it, this guy's doing it. It
Speaker 2: seems almost silly. Yeah, it really does.
Speaker 5: I get the intent. I'm one hundred percent down with
Speaker 5: the intent. But it's like standing next to a super
Speaker 5: highway and streaming slow down at every car that goes by.
Speaker 5: I appreciate the spirit here, Jim. Not sure it's gonna work. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's kind of quaint anyway.
Speaker 2: Enough of that.
Speaker 5: So there are people all over the world who think
Speaker 5: that AI is the future, and they're pouring zillions of
Speaker 5: dollars in the wrong.
Speaker 2: No more change in my lifetime, can I Can I
Speaker 2: sign up for that? There's been enough change. Let's stop
Speaker 2: the change for the rest of my life. Or maybe
Speaker 2: there could be some sort of trade off. I will
Speaker 2: unplug the Internet and exchange for leap forward in cancer
Speaker 2: treatments or something like that. It's like, you know, every
Speaker 2: every bill needs to be balanced by a bill that's
Speaker 2: a limited or regulation, this alimited ere a dollar spend
Speaker 2: just it's got to be a break even anything changes forward,
Speaker 2: we go back.
Speaker 5: To something else there you go, Okay, how to keep
Speaker 5: hackers from destroying your digital life?
Speaker 2: Jack, you're gonna hate this.
Speaker 5: You're going to vow probably the moment I get started now,
Speaker 5: I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2: I'll save you the trouble.
Speaker 5: Cool so and and The Wall Street Journal had a
Speaker 5: story about this former Disney employee whose life was just
Speaker 5: destroyed with a single download that he thought was innocent.
Speaker 5: But this thing not only hacked into his computer, but
Speaker 5: it managed through means that I don't quite get to
Speaker 5: hack into his password file his password protector app and
Speaker 5: published that and all its contents on the internet. And
Speaker 5: he got fired from his job and all sorts of
Speaker 5: other stuff.
Speaker 2: But now fired from his job because he made the
Speaker 2: mistake on company time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, on the company computer. Wow wow, And it caused
Speaker 5: problems for his company.
Speaker 2: I don't know how sloppy it was, but I mean
Speaker 2: a lot of these would be pretty easy to fall for.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, And again I've read the story. I don't
Speaker 5: remember precisely how Oh, that's right. He was trying an
Speaker 5: open source bit of software that he thought would be
Speaker 5: useful and appeared to be okay, but it wasn't okay.
Speaker 5: It was a trojan horse, and it went crazy once
Speaker 5: it got onto his computer. But anyway, they say you
Speaker 5: got to have two factor authentication for your passwords password
Speaker 5: manager itself. You can't just go to your password manager
Speaker 5: and type in your pin or your password or whatever.
Speaker 5: Then you have to have it text you and say, hey,
Speaker 5: somebody's trying to open your on the very phone you're using.
Speaker 5: We can't live like those people. Something needs to be
Speaker 5: done there, he is, folks right on time. But you're right,
Speaker 5: you're right. That sounds like an enormous pain in the butt.
Speaker 5: They say not having two factor authentication. Authentication can make
Speaker 5: your life easier, but if you're paranoid, make sure it's
Speaker 5: turned on.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. Yeah. I tried that for one day
Speaker 2: because they added that to my hospital, my medical care
Speaker 2: app thing that I use, And so I was checking
Speaker 2: that several times last week for me and my son
Speaker 2: while we were sick, and doing the two factor every
Speaker 2: single time. I finally said, screw it. I turned it off.
Speaker 5: M Yeah, here's another one. I don't like. Think twice
Speaker 5: when a website offers to remember you. Hackers have recently
Speaker 5: ramped up the theft of what they call session cookies.
Speaker 2: According to the FBI.
Speaker 5: These are files that are stored by your browser and
Speaker 5: save you the annoyance of logging in every time you
Speaker 5: need to read a Gmail. Check up on face chook,
Speaker 5: order another box of your favorite protein bars in my
Speaker 5: case because they have my stuff memorized, or you know,
Speaker 5: I have a n Espresso machine for coffee at home,
Speaker 5: and I got to order the pods and stuff, and yeah,
Speaker 5: they know me. I just click what I want to order,
Speaker 5: confirm it's me.
Speaker 2: Zapit he do dah. But they say, don't do that,
Speaker 2: don't do that with these rules, need to live in
Speaker 2: the real world.
Speaker 5: Well, you're gonna get hacked. The premise of this is
Speaker 5: you don't want to get hacked. And then the third
Speaker 5: thing they say is and this was interesting about dude
Speaker 5: because dude who got hacked, the former Disney employee, really
Speaker 5: computer savvy, and he had what he thought was a
Speaker 5: super robust anti viral defender thingy virus projection, that's what
Speaker 5: they call and it didn't see it. And he downloaded
Speaker 5: a different one and it saw it immediately. Somebody like
Speaker 5: me is doomed if this guy can get caught. That
Speaker 5: is my point. Indeed, you're doomed, we're doomed, we're all doomed.
Speaker 5: And then finally, because we ran out of time in
Speaker 5: the segment I remember this Thursday or Friday, we really
Speaker 5: glossed over Meta and their shorts thing, the shorts videos
Speaker 5: on your reels tab. They had really wildly inappropriate videos.
Speaker 5: They need to be described to get the full effect
Speaker 5: of the story. The videos which were recommended on some users.
Speaker 5: Reels to have included people who appear to have been
Speaker 5: shot to death or run over by vehicle. People dead,
Speaker 5: people being killed, videos of people being shot, mangled by machinery,
Speaker 5: ejected from theme park rides, off and back to back
Speaker 5: to back.
Speaker 2: Oh, oh my god. Yeah, I'm telling you, Katie. Was
Speaker 2: it you as somebody? Somebody said that they saw some
Speaker 2: of these on their Instagram feed? Was that you? Yeah?
Speaker 6: It was, and it was out of.
Speaker 2: Nowhere anything horrifying? Were sexual porn? Like you said.
Speaker 6: One of them was a group of people on a
Speaker 6: malfunctioning ride that I ended up looking up and they
Speaker 6: all died.
Speaker 2: So it was totally death video.
Speaker 6: Yeah, one of those spinning swinging I don't know what
Speaker 6: they're called.
Speaker 2: And then what happened on it? They threw them off? Yeah,
Speaker 2: they come on tethered.
Speaker 5: Well she looked away, Thank god it Jack. The videos
Speaker 5: originated on pages that the reporter did not follow. This
Speaker 5: happened to with names such as black people being hurt?
Speaker 5: What do you get on that site? Shocking Tragedies and
Speaker 5: people Dying Hub.
Speaker 2: There's a website called people Dying Hub. I suppose there.
Speaker 5: Is, yeah, said an Instagram spokeshole quote, we have fixed
Speaker 5: an error that caused some users to see content in
Speaker 5: their Instagram reels feeds that should not have been recommended.
Speaker 5: We apologize for the mistake. Then they declined to come
Speaker 5: in on the scale of the issue. But despite that assurance,
Speaker 5: videos of shootings and accidents dominated a journal reporter's reels
Speaker 5: feed into late Wednesday night, appearing next to advertisements for
Speaker 5: law firms, Massage Studios, and e commerce retailer Tamu.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that is. Are we are we
Speaker 2: angry at someone over this? Or is this just pointing
Speaker 2: out that this happened and oh my gosh, that's too.
Speaker 5: Bad, or well, their explanation of how it happened and
Speaker 5: why it happened is just uber lame. I mean, because
Speaker 5: I'm sure Zuckerberg wants it less than you do to happen, right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I suspect so. But it reminds me of what was
Speaker 5: Apple's incredibly lame non explanation for something that went sideways
Speaker 5: the other day that we'd be raised.
Speaker 2: When you look up Trump and you say Trump and
Speaker 2: it says race, it prints out racist and they call
Speaker 2: it phonetic overlap. Yeah, yeah, classic case of phonetic overlap
Speaker 2: two completely unrelated words. Who would be so stupid they'd
Speaker 2: buy that? Tim? Tim Cook?
Speaker 5: So anyway, just own up to it and Facebook, we've
Speaker 5: fixed an error that caused some users. Does he content
Speaker 5: in their Instagram reels fees feeds that should not have
Speaker 5: been recommended? Well, wait a minute, no, no, it's not
Speaker 5: like you're showing me opera videos or how to produce
Speaker 5: a beautiful I don't know roast beef.
Speaker 2: I mean, actually I like beef. But no, you had
Speaker 2: people being maimed and killed and bloodied. What happened? I'll
Speaker 2: we fixed it. Air air?
Speaker 5: What kind of air shows me black people being dismembered?
Speaker 2: They did describe that air for me. That's a very
Speaker 2: Nike similar reaction of like pretending we're too stupid to
Speaker 2: know that your explanation was a nothing. Right. Here's this guy.
Speaker 5: He was shocked to see graphic videos of people getting
Speaker 5: shot run over and over on his reels tab Wednesday.
Speaker 5: I watched ten people die today. He said, it's hard
Speaker 5: to comprehend that this is what I'm being served. Again,
Speaker 5: Zuckerberg wants it less than you do right, clean up
Speaker 5: your acts?
Speaker 2: Lucky and kind of getting to your point about the
Speaker 2: hacking is you know, Zuckerberg's throwing the very best tech
Speaker 2: and money he can, making sure nobody can disrupt his reels,
Speaker 2: and somebody was able to.
Speaker 5: I wonder if it was a disgruntled current or former employee.
Speaker 2: What's messing about. Could be doesn't like his new Zuckerberg's
Speaker 2: new hair, probably doesn't like him going maga. All right,
Speaker 2: that's exactly it. You solved the problem. We will feel
Speaker 2: strong next.
Speaker 7: Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky yesterday.
Speaker 2: Let's see how it went. You're gambling with millions of people.
Speaker 2: See you're gambling with World War three. You're gambling with
Speaker 2: World War three.
Speaker 7: Pretty good, and now thanks to that meeting, now you
Speaker 7: actually can gamble on World War three.
Speaker 2: On FanDuel so Elon tweeted out that the United States
Speaker 2: should leave NATO and the UN.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 2: I just think that's interesting, from highly influential advisor to
Speaker 2: the trumpetdministration and just influential person in general, making a
Speaker 2: statement that strong about something so important where we are
Speaker 2: in terms of like navigating the world or what other
Speaker 2: countries think our actual policy is or what we think
Speaker 2: our policy is is not like anything that's ever been
Speaker 2: in my life.
Speaker 5: Right, and even if certain people are correct that we
Speaker 5: need to totally readjust our worldview and the structure of
Speaker 5: global security and the rest of it, the transition could
Speaker 5: be well, birthing the new reality could be a lot
Speaker 5: like birthing a baby, messy and painful.
Speaker 2: Just a question of how painful. Yeah, and this one
Speaker 2: not quite as important. Democratic strategist James Carvel gets an
Speaker 2: awful lot of attention as a very very old man
Speaker 2: who I think is getting a little nutty. Has revitalized
Speaker 2: the theory that President Trump has syphilis. He claims has
Speaker 2: driven Trump mad. James Carvill over the weekend said, and
Speaker 2: this was a Saturday actually checking my bingo card. Nope,
Speaker 2: didn't have Trump as syphilis. James Carvill said on a
Speaker 2: video cast on Saturday that boy ain't right. James Carvill
Speaker 2: thinks Trump could be suffering from syphilis, which apparently was
Speaker 2: a story that was going around last year when there
Speaker 2: was a photo that showed some red spots on Trump's hand,
Speaker 2: which some say is a sign of syphilis. I don't
Speaker 2: know that. Wow, Wow, they well, they have a cure
Speaker 2: for syphilis. Now you get suicida antibotic, right, it's not
Speaker 2: like it's not like seventeen fifty where it's something you
Speaker 2: die of.
Speaker 5: I think some resistant strain of syphilis, but I doubt
Speaker 5: he has it.
Speaker 2: James, thanks for having in though. Admit me chorus to
Speaker 2: this history. Who prologue like your humble patients.
Speaker 5: Pray gently to hear, kindly to judge the final thoughts
Speaker 5: of Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: That's the tones of Lensky need to strike right there.
Speaker 2: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Let's get
Speaker 2: a final thought from everybody on the crew. To wrap
Speaker 2: up the day.
Speaker 5: There is Michaelangelow pressing the buttons. Michael, which final thought?
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna happen soon.
Speaker 7: We are actually gonna see a physical fight between two
Speaker 7: world leaders on live TV.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that'd be cool. Wow Who Trump and Zelenski? Somebody?
Speaker 2: I know somebody?
Speaker 5: But oh wow, Hei So, I'd pay you a dollar
Speaker 5: to see that. Katie Green are esteemed to use woman
Speaker 5: as a final thought.
Speaker 6: Katie So, I watched a couple of clips from this
Speaker 6: inside North Korea after five years of isolation.
Speaker 2: You have to see this.
Speaker 6: I put it on our hot lengths today at Arfryangetty
Speaker 6: dot com.
Speaker 2: It's really incredible. Yeah, it's pretty interesting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, can't wait to see that Jack of Final thought,
Speaker 5: why is.
Speaker 2: Watching a bad movie so painful? I guess because if
Speaker 2: you're in the theater, you're probably not gonna get up
Speaker 2: and leave you're so invested. Whereas at home you just
Speaker 2: say are you digging this to somebody and you might
Speaker 2: turn it off. But it just seemed like such a
Speaker 2: life suck to watch Captain America, Like two hours I'll
Speaker 2: never get back in my life.
Speaker 5: Well, exactly, You've donated some of your life hoping to
Speaker 5: gain pleasure and relaxation from it.
Speaker 2: Instead you get boredom an annoyance. That's no good.
Speaker 5: My final thought I guess is the spicy times get spicier.
Speaker 5: If the next fifty years are geopolitical tumult in war,
Speaker 5: it would not shock me.
Speaker 2: I hope not. But it's starting to feel that way.
Speaker 2: I think that's the most likely. Armstrong and Getty wrapping
Speaker 2: up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 5: The war I can take, but the tumult too much.
Speaker 5: So many people thanks so a little time. Go to
Speaker 5: Armstrong and Geeddy dot com. The hot links including that
Speaker 5: fabulous North Korea video or documentary. Drop his note mail
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Speaker 5: I am sporting as we speak, the Ange hoodie.
Speaker 2: We'll see you tomorrow. God bless America. I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 2: I will not sugarcoat this. This is a disappointing day
Speaker 2: for us.
Speaker 5: I expected more the ketchup of journalism with the mustard
Speaker 5: of undercover work, but there's no freaking burger.
Speaker 2: This is insane. So I'm going to get some cheeks
Speaker 2: after this one.
Speaker 4: Really, but you have to pay attention to the cries
Speaker 4: that people have.
Speaker 2: What now, I haven't said a word, so stop yelling
Speaker 2: at me. Okay, thank you all very much, Armstrong and
Speaker 2: Getty