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 Getta and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Fighting these fires has been a nearly impossible task.
Speaker 1: Tornado like wind gusts up to one.
Speaker 2: Hundred miles per hour are catapulting embers in all directions.
Speaker 2: Some firefighters have been working forty eight hour shifts evacuating residents, patients,
Speaker 2: the elderly, anyone in harm's way. Now, California Governor Gavenusam
Speaker 2: is deploying the California National Guard to try to help.
Speaker 3: Almost impossible to imagine a forty eight hour shift of anything,
Speaker 3: let alone firefighting in the wind. This important to mention
Speaker 3: as people start to jump on the evil insurers who
Speaker 3: dropped the fire coverage.
Speaker 1: For these homes. In some cases, as we.
Speaker 3: Know personally from someone weeks ago, right before the fires hit,
Speaker 3: Proposition one oh three in California made it illegal to
Speaker 3: accurately price fire insurance. Insures can only use historical data,
Speaker 3: not projections of what it actually costs now to rebuild
Speaker 3: a house or to fix a house up, And so
Speaker 3: it just didn't make sense for them to keep doing it.
Speaker 4: So they said, either we're not writing any more policies, goodbye,
Speaker 4: or we're dropping our current policy holders, which is their
Speaker 4: absolute right to do.
Speaker 3: By the way, I got to throw this out there
Speaker 3: just because I know it's floating around. I have a
Speaker 3: window into a certain segment of the social media world.
Speaker 3: I don't know how many people this represents. But the
Speaker 3: fires were set on purpose under the homes of the
Speaker 3: pedophiles to hide the evidence of their child trafficking.
Speaker 1: That's the QAnon sort of thing. Please get help. Do
Speaker 1: you have any sense of how many people are into
Speaker 1: that is it? Is it a tenth of one percent
Speaker 1: or three percent? I don't really know.
Speaker 4: Well, one percent of the country obviously would be what's
Speaker 4: three point three million people? Three point four million, which
Speaker 4: which so tenth of one percent would be three hundred
Speaker 4: and forty thousand. And if they tweeted much or facebook much,
Speaker 4: it would seem like, all, what, Yeah, if three hundred
Speaker 4: and forty thousand people are hot to trot for an idea,
Speaker 4: you would get the idea.
Speaker 1: It's it's caught on.
Speaker 4: That is so bat as crazy, Yes it is, yeah, yeah, man. Anyway,
Speaker 4: So I really want to talk about the oral arguments
Speaker 4: in front of the Supreme Court tomorrow about the TikTok ban.
Speaker 4: I find it one of the most intriguing First Amendment
Speaker 4: questions I can think of, And it's fun because I
Speaker 4: get what both sides are saying, and at some point
Speaker 4: I want to scroll through. It happens to be Tim Sanderfer,
Speaker 4: our good old friends Tim Sanderfer from the Goldwater Foundation
Speaker 4: Twitter feed a lot about the wildfires in California and
Speaker 4: the government and the Coastal Commission and regulation, all sorts
Speaker 4: of stuff, super interesting. But the one thing I want
Speaker 4: to get out is as Gavin Newsome and others are
Speaker 4: immediately going to climate change right always, here's John Hook
Speaker 4: of Fox ten who makes the point to blame every
Speaker 4: natural disaster on climate change gives politicians and policy makers
Speaker 4: blanket immunity for inemptitude.
Speaker 1: So most journalists fail to see through this.
Speaker 3: John brilliantly put absolutely, and if you point out anything
Speaker 3: other than climate change, you're kind of on the side
Speaker 3: of the climate change deniers.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, it's a beautiful, like all purpose canard fake
Speaker 4: argument in that it gives you the blanket immunity and
Speaker 4: it promotes the scam, which is routing taxpayer dollars to
Speaker 4: your cronies who will keep you in power for the
Speaker 4: rest of your days if possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 3: Anyway, having said that, here's interesting. Here's my TikTok lead in.
Speaker 3: I can tell you I will be vague, very nice,
Speaker 3: very smart people, young people who had TikTok on their phones.
Speaker 3: As talking to over Christmas. I brought up the fact
Speaker 3: that it's the Chinese Communist Party spying on you getting
Speaker 3: into your phone making a profile, and I was told
Speaker 3: that is.
Speaker 1: A conspiracy theory. Wow by smart people.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I wonder where they heard that, right, No, kidd,
Speaker 4: So here is the deal.
Speaker 1: And the reason this is so interesting is.
Speaker 4: Because, well, to me is because I'm a damn near
Speaker 4: First Amendment absolutist. As they say, yes, you can come
Speaker 4: up with examples of stuff I would restrict, of course,
Speaker 4: but I am a hardcore. The cure for bad ideas
Speaker 4: is better ideas. The cure for bad speech is more speech.
Speaker 4: I despise what the Biden administration did in the social
Speaker 4: media companies during COVID, Absolutely despise it. If violence would
Speaker 4: have solved it, I'd have been tempted.
Speaker 1: I think I know that you think sold everything.
Speaker 3: Somebody gets an infection, you say, more free speech, that's
Speaker 3: how you cure it.
Speaker 4: That's well, that's okay, so ah, so I am absolutely
Speaker 4: on that side of it. On the other hand, I
Speaker 4: am in favor of and nobody's talking about banning TikTok
Speaker 4: per se. They're saying the current entity bite dance, which
Speaker 4: dances to the tune called by the Chinese Communists.
Speaker 3: They said they don't have not own TikTok. They said
Speaker 3: they don't by dance says they don't.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. The Communists would never lie to us.
Speaker 4: The country that has sworn that they will crush us
Speaker 4: and surpass us and lead the world, would never mislead us,
Speaker 4: even though that's like a cherished part of Chinese culture.
Speaker 1: You deceive your enemy in two weakness.
Speaker 3: Well, I make that sarcastic comment because I think that's
Speaker 3: often the missing piece. There's no such thing as a
Speaker 3: private company in China. If you have a company in China,
Speaker 3: you have to do what the Communist party wants. They
Speaker 3: have access to whatever they want, or you don't get
Speaker 3: to exist.
Speaker 4: Right, And it's correct me if I'm wrong, I think
Speaker 4: Tim or our good old friend Tim Sanderfer is against
Speaker 4: this action by the government. I think you're right because
Speaker 4: and I don't want to speak for anybody, because there
Speaker 4: are nuances here.
Speaker 1: It is dicey as you're about to get into because.
Speaker 4: Well, right, because the First Amendment does protect me saying,
Speaker 4: for instance, I mean I can say I think Hijinping's right.
Speaker 4: I think China ought to run the world. I can
Speaker 4: repeat foreign propaganda.
Speaker 1: I have that right.
Speaker 3: The country would be better if China was the leader
Speaker 3: of the world order. It would be better for all
Speaker 3: of us. You can say that, and we can't outlaw
Speaker 3: outlet's who say that.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: There are plenty of people, several of their names, repeating
Speaker 4: Russian propaganda right now, which is absolute horsecrap. And you
Speaker 4: ought to be smarter than that. But having said that,
Speaker 4: here's the deal, and and I am not. I would
Speaker 4: like to spend all of my time for the next
Speaker 4: week studying up on this question, but I don't have time.
Speaker 1: Do you remember we.
Speaker 4: All got hip too, you know, in the early days
Speaker 4: of everybody having a smartphone and having apps, and how
Speaker 4: great all the free apps were. Took a little while,
Speaker 4: but most of us got hip to the fact that
Speaker 4: if it's free.
Speaker 1: It's because you are the product.
Speaker 4: That card game, that angry birds, that that shopping app,
Speaker 4: will you name it exists.
Speaker 1: To collect your data.
Speaker 4: All they did was come up with a clever way
Speaker 4: of how to entice you into giving them your data.
Speaker 3: Yeah, free chess app my son came across the other day.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I can download on my computer. I ain't
Speaker 3: play chess for free. And it's another one of those
Speaker 3: one you download it, they get to look at every
Speaker 3: key stroke you ever make apps or perhaps they're ADS supported,
Speaker 3: which is fine, We're ad supported.
Speaker 1: It's the way you do business.
Speaker 4: But the point is TikTok is not a social media
Speaker 4: trading videos platform.
Speaker 1: At its core, it.
Speaker 4: Is a tool of Chinese Communist Party surveillance and manipulation
Speaker 4: of our young people.
Speaker 1: That is why it exists now.
Speaker 4: The manifestation of that is how it does what it does,
Speaker 4: and how it does it right now is what people
Speaker 4: are arguing about. But because and this is a new
Speaker 4: era that our founding fathers didn't reckon with, at least
Speaker 4: not specifically, you have a tool designed and implemented by
Speaker 4: the Chinese Communist Party by proxy. Because I don't for
Speaker 4: a second disagree with you Jack, if you can be
Speaker 4: manipulated by the Chinese Communist Party, you are or will be.
Speaker 4: So you've got an app that exists to collect data
Speaker 4: and influence minds that is controlled by proxy for now
Speaker 4: or directly, we don't know, by the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 4: If you just say, look, you got to several ties
Speaker 4: with any Chinese overlords. And then, and this is the
Speaker 4: government's argument, you can do precisely what you're doing right
Speaker 4: now in the way you're doing it, but it can't
Speaker 4: be controlled by the Chinese Communist Party because that is
Speaker 4: the federal law that the that the federal government and
Speaker 4: for once I agree with Biden administration is resting on
Speaker 4: And I don't remember the specific name of the act,
Speaker 4: but the act targets control by a foreign adversary, not
Speaker 4: the speech.
Speaker 1: Right. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I actually listened to the Advisory Opinions podcast from The
Speaker 3: Dispatch the other day with New York Times lawyer columnist
Speaker 3: David French and Sarah Isger, both Harvard lawyers, arguing over this.
Speaker 3: Most of it was way over my head, but yeah,
Speaker 3: their whole thing was you got to stay away from
Speaker 3: the speech part. You can't make it about the content
Speaker 3: because you get because if you get into that only no,
Speaker 3: you get to have a newspaper in the United States
Speaker 3: that's communist and says communism is better all day, every day,
Speaker 3: I mean always, We've been doing that in the United States.
Speaker 3: But it gets pretty dicey if it's who's behind it
Speaker 3: and what extent do you mean behind it?
Speaker 1: Right, that's a tough one.
Speaker 4: And I realize what I'm about to say is a
Speaker 4: little gray area, slippery slope, but it's true. Nonetheless, in
Speaker 4: the era of AI and leaps forward in computer technology,
Speaker 4: we don't fully understand the capability of TikTok in what
Speaker 4: it's being used for or what it will be used for.
Speaker 4: It is absolutely a tool being wielded by our most
Speaker 4: dangerous enemy, and I think we need to air while
Speaker 4: protecting the speech to the side of if China's in
Speaker 4: favor of it, I'm against it.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't think that makes me a lunatic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was one of the things I was hoping. I thought.
Speaker 3: I was hoping that as the word got out that
Speaker 3: TikTok is the Chinese Communist Party misleading you, that so
Speaker 3: many people would not be interested in using it. But
Speaker 3: as I was told one it's a conspiracy theory in
Speaker 3: two people said, yeah, but it's so much fun.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, and we are dealing with a horrible situation
Speaker 4: where are young are indoctrinated to hate their country. So
Speaker 4: if your argument is we've got to protect the United
Speaker 4: States of America from the Chinese, they're like, why would
Speaker 4: we bother? This is the most racist country on earth.
Speaker 4: It's a colonial oppressor.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: Trump and Kamala were both on TikTok during the election
Speaker 3: because that's such a good way to reach young people, right.
Speaker 4: Right, And what he has to say about it should
Speaker 4: be interesting going forward. Like everything else, he thinks he
Speaker 4: can negotiate a much better deal than the previous guys did.
Speaker 1: Well, he seems to be right. He seems to have
Speaker 1: changed his mind.
Speaker 3: Trump, as always, he makes statements where he always leaves
Speaker 3: himself out. But it seems that he's changed his mind
Speaker 3: on the TikTok thing that is supposed to end on
Speaker 3: the nineteenth, the day before the inauguration.
Speaker 1: We'll see. Yeah, he's gone back and forth. Who knows.
Speaker 1: It's scary. Though.
Speaker 3: One thing I wish would happen is, uh, we could get.
Speaker 1: Their algorithm, I guess, because that's what they got.
Speaker 3: Going for him, right, the best algorithm ever for figuring
Speaker 3: out what it is you're interested in and keeping you addicted.
Speaker 1: All day long, and to ruin the brains of very
Speaker 1: young Yes, nice, more on the way, stay here, Armstrong.
Speaker 5: Hey, So what we are seeing is the result of
Speaker 5: eight months of negligible rain and wins that have not
Speaker 5: been seen in LA in at least fourteen years.
Speaker 1: It's a deadly combination. Scot's Mayor Bass of Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: She finally got back to town with the biggest disaster
Speaker 3: in LA history happening is out of town. I don't
Speaker 3: think that's a particularly big deal. Her leadership on this
Speaker 3: and some of her comments around fire prevention and all
Speaker 3: kinds of different things over the years have been horrific.
Speaker 3: But here's a little more of what she had to
Speaker 3: say that's being mocked right now.
Speaker 5: If you need help, emergency information, resources and shelter is available.
Speaker 5: All of this can be found at you Arel. Los
Speaker 5: Angeles together is how we will get through this.
Speaker 1: At yourel.
Speaker 3: A lot of these people that get to be elected
Speaker 3: are leaders, are terrible leaders. They're all kinds of good
Speaker 3: at working political machinery and knowing where the various power.
Speaker 3: Structured grievances are or money, money, all that different sort
Speaker 3: of stuff. But they're not leaders in any sense. If
Speaker 3: you're you know, you're out of your home because it
Speaker 3: burnt down here, all the help you need is that you.
Speaker 1: Are l okay.
Speaker 4: Alan Karen Bascott cut seventy million dollars from the fire
Speaker 4: budget even while she campaigned for lavish services for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 4: Did one equal the other? I don't know, let's find out.
Speaker 4: Let's talk about that.
Speaker 3: Here she was attempted to border a plane and board
Speaker 3: a plane and being asked a whole bunch of questions
Speaker 3: by a reporter.
Speaker 6: Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while
Speaker 6: their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire
Speaker 6: department budget by millions of dollars?
Speaker 1: Not in there?
Speaker 6: Have you nothing to say today that I have you
Speaker 6: absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? Alon Musk
Speaker 6: says that you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position,
Speaker 6: madam mayor? Have you absolutely nothing to say to the
Speaker 6: citizens today here dealing with this disaster? No apology for them?
Speaker 6: Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while
Speaker 6: this was unfolding?
Speaker 1: Back home.
Speaker 3: So in the same way that because of all the
Speaker 3: illegal immigrants in New York, Donald Trump got more votes
Speaker 3: in New York than any Republican I think ever, I
Speaker 3: mean just crazy support compared to anything any Republicans got
Speaker 3: in the past. Same thing might happen in LA around
Speaker 3: the whole fire story. New York Post with this story
Speaker 3: celebrities turn on DEM's blast LA Mayor for fire response
Speaker 3: ruined our state. A whole bunch of quotes from big
Speaker 3: time Hollywood types who are unhappy with their own side
Speaker 3: and the way they've had it.
Speaker 1: And this is the sort of thing you don't forget.
Speaker 3: This isn't just like a passing I'm mad now, but
Speaker 3: I'll get over it sort of story.
Speaker 4: You would hope you could figure out that policy equals
Speaker 4: results before your house burns down.
Speaker 1: But maybe that's what it takes for some people.
Speaker 3: Right, and you just don't vote for the party that
Speaker 3: has pronouns or says the right things about LATINX or whatever,
Speaker 3: and you actually look at the policies.
Speaker 1: But this could be the LA version of what happened
Speaker 1: in New York over immigration. I think, to get.
Speaker 4: Back to the previous thought about climate change, I love
Speaker 4: this once again from Tim Lawyer. The environmentalism religion offers
Speaker 4: its own handy excuses. It's climate change's fault. You can't
Speaker 4: blame a mass. We could never have foreseen it. The
Speaker 4: only precautions we could possibly take would be the overthrow
Speaker 4: of capitalism and the destruction of all technology.
Speaker 1: That's right. It is a great blanket excuse.
Speaker 4: Now, yes it's incredibly dry, and yes it's incredibly windy,
Speaker 4: and yeah that's it's like a crazy coming together of
Speaker 4: terrible factors. But you're cutting the budget of the fire
Speaker 4: department to provide services to illegal immigrants and not the
Speaker 4: people of La.
Speaker 1: County, and everybody knows it's fire prone.
Speaker 4: Joe Rogan, among others, has been saying, hey, one day,
Speaker 4: this entire place is going to go up, So don't
Speaker 4: blame climate change or the wind.
Speaker 1: Well, if you need help, go to URL. That's what
Speaker 1: I say.
Speaker 3: We're watching the Carter funeral, the multi hour spectacle unfold.
Speaker 3: The talk of the funeral so far is Barack Obama
Speaker 3: and Donald Trump yucking it up for many, many minutes
Speaker 3: before this thing started.
Speaker 1: What were they talking about. Somebody's got to find out.
Speaker 3: Among other stories we've got for you coming up, stay
Speaker 3: with us, Armstrong and Geeddy. So Joe Biden's the only
Speaker 3: former president speaking at Carter's funeral today.
Speaker 1: They're all there.
Speaker 3: In the first couple of rows, and Joe Biden is
Speaker 3: just taking the microphone and we'll keep an eye on that.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, see how it goes. Barack Obama just leaned
Speaker 3: into Trump. Just watch, he's going to tell that stupid
Speaker 3: corvette story again. Biden's at some point gonna say, Jimmy
Speaker 3: is Jimmy here? I was told Jimmy Carter would be here.
Speaker 1: Oh where's Jimmy. Where's Jimmy? Where's Jimmy? So Jimmy would
Speaker 1: be here? Oh boy, I hope not. I hope that
Speaker 1: doesn't happen.
Speaker 4: Well, and when they're done, I hope the minister doesn't
Speaker 4: shout next.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, Joe's got a belief that we could get
Speaker 3: it two for one going here. Everybody's in the dark
Speaker 3: suits already, right, Garth Brooks is there to sing a.
Speaker 1: Song, might get a buy one. Get on, Do you
Speaker 1: feel like you're going soon? That would be a good time.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, really probably inappropriate. Let's move on.
Speaker 4: Come on. I will tell you this A couple of
Speaker 4: technoes as an introduction. I'll point out that there's a
Speaker 4: big piece in the Atlantic which is it does really
Speaker 4: good long form journalism, but ninety percent of the time
Speaker 4: it's obnoxiously left and just annoying. But one of the
Speaker 4: pieces they're running this month is the anti social century.
Speaker 4: Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It's
Speaker 4: changing our politics, our personality, even our relationship to reality.
Speaker 4: I think, I think that is the answer to virtually
Speaker 4: every question that's plaguing the modern mind. Is so much
Speaker 4: of our interaction as virtual. Now we don't spend time
Speaker 4: with humans.
Speaker 3: I have a bit of an insight into that. And yes,
Speaker 3: and that last one you said is the biggest problem.
Speaker 1: What was the last part of that? It was the
Speaker 1: we don't spend time with humans.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, your list of it's causing all of
Speaker 3: our Oh oh, and there you had a list of
Speaker 3: things with commas between him. Was the last relationship to reality?
Speaker 1: Yes, that's the problem. Yeah. Once you lose your relationship
Speaker 1: to reality, everything's kind of a problem.
Speaker 4: Well, yes, if you're no longer grounded in what you
Speaker 4: can see here, feel, smell, observe every day and the
Speaker 4: ideas that you trade with the people you actually interact
Speaker 4: with virtually any idea seems as good as any other idea.
Speaker 3: Well, I saw that Atlantic piece about that. The part
Speaker 3: that stuck out to me was men are doing a
Speaker 3: lot of watching TV, which has always been true, but
Speaker 3: maybe it's more now. Are they watching TV or staring
Speaker 3: at a screenplaying video games? Whichever it doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 3: It said here men who watch television spend seven hours
Speaker 3: in front of the TV for every hour they spend
Speaker 3: hanging out with somebody outside their home. This one struck me,
Speaker 3: and I think it's absolutely true. The typical female pet
Speaker 3: owner spends more time actively engaged with their pets than
Speaker 3: she spends and faced FaceTime with contact and her friends
Speaker 3: of her own species. That seems to be the thing
Speaker 3: for girls. Guys play video games, watch sports, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Women, it's the pets man. The airport is full of pets.
Speaker 1: It's all chicks with their dogs. It's the motherhood urge.
Speaker 3: That's the that's their companion is the pet. Oh, here's
Speaker 3: Katie who has a dog. Yes, Katie who has a
Speaker 3: dog wears clothes, Yes, Katie.
Speaker 7: Oh, I spend so much time with my dog and
Speaker 7: in his face and actually.
Speaker 1: My husband knows so that he doesn't work. My husband works, Frankie.
Speaker 1: Frankie's here all day long. You got a husband, you
Speaker 1: got married.
Speaker 3: I think the point of this whole isolation thing is
Speaker 3: people alone with us.
Speaker 1: And don't need any other relationship because of that.
Speaker 4: Although I would point out that your dog has a
Speaker 4: very human sounding name, it's not.
Speaker 7: He is quite dapper. I will say, I know you
Speaker 7: guys hate how much I love my dog, and I
Speaker 7: just no, no, I love my dog, but.
Speaker 1: You don't put a shirt.
Speaker 5: I got it.
Speaker 1: I did get him a matching shirt Withdrew. You know
Speaker 1: they got matching flannels. What can I say?
Speaker 3: Will your dog and your husband at matching shirts? Not
Speaker 3: at all troubling? Actually, that sounds really funny. They have
Speaker 3: matching flannel shirts.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I got. I got Frankie a red plannel with
Speaker 7: black Andrew as the same one. I'll take a picture
Speaker 7: and I both post it somewhere.
Speaker 3: In all honesty, I was aware of this when I
Speaker 3: was out there in the single world, when I was
Speaker 3: a little bit younger. The whole woman, their friends or
Speaker 3: their pets that dominates their lives. Thing is it's a thing,
Speaker 3: and obviously the guys playing video games all the time
Speaker 3: is a thing. So those two things coming together, you
Speaker 3: got both sides of the equation with plenty of companionship.
Speaker 3: Using my finger quotes, that doesn't require any more than that,
Speaker 3: I guess well.
Speaker 4: And not only that, And I was going to end
Speaker 4: my philosophizing because it's hard to stop once you get started.
Speaker 1: But one more thing.
Speaker 4: In each case you have a simulacrum, if you will,
Speaker 4: or a substitute.
Speaker 1: Four.
Speaker 4: When we're talking about the gal motherhood, they're raising a
Speaker 4: pet and treating it like the baby instead of a baby.
Speaker 4: And in the case of the men, they are not
Speaker 4: out building success in the business world or fighting wars.
Speaker 1: They're pretending to on a screen. And what we've learned
Speaker 1: is and apparently is true that whether it's porn or
Speaker 1: the things you just mentioned remembered things, there is a
Speaker 1: low bar of what you need to get of satisfaction
Speaker 1: of those desires. And it's good enough to not need
Speaker 1: the real thing, right exactly. Yes, sex is the same. Yeah, troubling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was one ad that bothered me so much
Speaker 4: I wish I had the actual audio. It was one
Speaker 4: of your big war themed video games in which The
Speaker 4: tagline was you can be a hero, and it was
Speaker 4: delivered dead seriously, not like I mean if it was
Speaker 4: he can be a hero. You know, all right, we're
Speaker 4: playing a video game. We're having fun. No, it was
Speaker 4: dead fing serious in a message to young men. And
Speaker 4: I couldn't help but think that is the last thing
Speaker 4: you are. I mean, you might be really good at
Speaker 4: that video game and it's fun to play with your friends.
Speaker 4: I have young men in my life that I know
Speaker 4: who do that with their friends, and that's fine. That's
Speaker 4: fine to do it to some extent. But if it
Speaker 4: becomes a substitute for the things that give a man
Speaker 4: purpose in life, then it's a problem.
Speaker 1: Well, I mentioned yesterday on the show.
Speaker 3: I won't do the full story here, but some working
Speaker 3: class regular guys who are doing the chat GPT girlfriend
Speaker 3: thing who.
Speaker 1: Say it's really great. Oh boy.
Speaker 3: They have conversations. You get home from work, you have
Speaker 3: a conversation with her. How is your day? How do
Speaker 3: I look? She tells you how you look. She's always
Speaker 3: there for you.
Speaker 4: You know, humankind had a good run. Now it's time
Speaker 4: to give the planet to Michael. I'll let you check
Speaker 4: choose the species this time. I usually go with beavers
Speaker 4: because they're hardworking, they're industrious, they build structures, Monkeys apes, I.
Speaker 1: Like money in the I think monkey's planet, monkeys monkey monkeys,
Speaker 1: and or a monkey's comma planet of the So all
Speaker 1: of that was an.
Speaker 4: Unnecessarily long introduction to a couple of tech stories that
Speaker 4: have found very interesting. John Deere, the great American company
Speaker 4: that recently abandoned its neo Marxist DEI programs, thankfully, way
Speaker 4: to go, John Dear, because it's not about diversity. It's
Speaker 4: marx is a masquerading as the desire for diversity, which
Speaker 4: a lot of people still haven't figured out. Anyway, Deer
Speaker 4: has introduced plans to introduce a range of self driving
Speaker 4: farm and work vehicles, tractors, dump trucks, robotic lawnmowers. Well,
Speaker 4: it's funny, this article says, even a robotic lawnmower. Point
Speaker 4: all over the country. Who are using those?
Speaker 1: Right now?
Speaker 3: Get out of the way, here comes the lawnmower. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: how good are they? Hope they're good? Oh they're outstanding. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they all use GPS and everything. They're fantastic.
Speaker 4: Anyway, Deer's doubling down on its commitment to autonomous technology
Speaker 4: for farm vehicles. No farmer needed. Well, there's just have
Speaker 4: to manage the automation.
Speaker 3: A lot of that sort of stuff is mindless, and
Speaker 3: I did tons of it when I was younger, just
Speaker 3: driving back and forth and rows and everything like that.
Speaker 3: It's amazing that there are still human beings doing that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, including you know, some of the mindless stuff
Speaker 4: is done by the actual farmers who have enormous knowledge
Speaker 4: of chemicals and obviously you know, horticulture, soils, weather technology.
Speaker 4: They can fix anything. They do the books. I mean,
Speaker 4: the modern farmer knows more than you do by a
Speaker 4: factor of three. They're really impressive people, and so it
Speaker 4: doesn't make sense that they're going back and forth, back
Speaker 4: and forth, back and forth. Some of them have employees obviously,
Speaker 4: but anyway, it's inevitable. You want to get out of
Speaker 4: the way of the lawnmarer. Here's what I want to
Speaker 4: get out of the way of a self driving articulate
Speaker 4: dump truck. That means that has a couple of different
Speaker 4: segments that can carry more than ninety two thousand pounds
Speaker 4: at a time. That thing ain't stopping for nothing.
Speaker 3: Wow, how many little kids on bikes are gonna get
Speaker 3: run over by those. Next topic also tech related, and
Speaker 3: this has a lot more to do with most of us.
Speaker 3: The headline is AI's next leap requires intimate access to
Speaker 3: your digital life.
Speaker 1: It's about to happen.
Speaker 4: Big, these AI agents. They're calling them. That term may evolve,
Speaker 4: I don't know. It's using AI to complete tasks like
Speaker 4: book me a vacation, you know, more complex tasks that
Speaker 4: involve interacting with websites, doing one thing than the other
Speaker 4: than the other.
Speaker 3: Obviously, for it's a book a vacation for you, it
Speaker 3: would need credit card data and all kinds of different stuff.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, yeah, and that's exactly where we're going. But
Speaker 4: it will take care of more complex things. They give
Speaker 4: a couple of more examples, online shopping data entry, eventually
Speaker 4: tackling complex work that can take humans hours. But again,
Speaker 4: it will need access to much much more of your
Speaker 4: personal life, from credit card numbers to schedules to addresses
Speaker 4: and phone numbers. Is easy enough to find online, but
Speaker 4: if it is onlineable, it is hackable, of course, and
Speaker 4: so the idea that your AI agent would know everything
Speaker 4: about you all the time is just guaranteed to go sideways.
Speaker 1: Isn't it.
Speaker 3: I got a tech question I want to throw out
Speaker 3: for people because I'll bet some of our audience has
Speaker 3: an answer for this on resetting your algorithms, but I'll
Speaker 3: ask it right after this.
Speaker 1: You know what we ought to do.
Speaker 4: We ought to recruit a tech guru and all things
Speaker 4: tech guru. I have a couple of possibilities, but it'd
Speaker 4: be handy to have a go to person like that.
Speaker 4: We kind of do, but they're not always available anyway,
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Speaker 3: This question for our tech geniuses out there. Is there
Speaker 3: a way to reset your algorithms out there? I'm not
Speaker 3: on TikTok.
Speaker 1: I am on YouTube and Instagram a little, but like,
Speaker 1: for instance, I got into Bob Dylan for an Afternoon
Speaker 1: on YouTube, so it gives me endless Bob Dylan suggestions.
Speaker 1: I'm done with my Bob Dylan craze for now. I
Speaker 1: don't need that. Or Nietzsche.
Speaker 3: I just end a Nietzsche for ane afternoon over Christmas break,
Speaker 3: never ending Nietzsche book reviews.
Speaker 1: Quote the professor. I don't need that anymore. How do
Speaker 1: you reset the dang thing so you're not swamped by
Speaker 1: stuff you don't care about anymore, whether it's gardening or
Speaker 1: a football team or whatever. Is there a way? I
Speaker 1: was for a time really into clown Mma.
Speaker 4: A couple of guys dressed to clown's beating the Bejesus
Speaker 4: out of each other.
Speaker 1: Now I'm over, And does anybody do this? I do
Speaker 1: this all the time.
Speaker 3: There's something I see that I'm interested in on Instagram,
Speaker 3: for instance, I think I don't want to click on
Speaker 3: that because I don't want to be I don't want
Speaker 3: to get swamped with that.
Speaker 1: For the next six months. Like I looked at a
Speaker 1: guitarvity now it's just a thing. The only thing this
Speaker 1: guy is interested in is long guitar solos. Give him
Speaker 1: John Mayer, give him Jimmy Hendrix, and no, I don't
Speaker 1: need that at all. But is there a way to
Speaker 1: reset that there needs to be.
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 1: They're probably okay. Well, if you know text, click out
Speaker 1: a variety of things, collage, football, nude chess, Martin Luther chess.
Speaker 1: All I get is naked women in their boobs castling.
Speaker 1: That's all I get. Four one, five cats. See it's
Speaker 1: not chess.
Speaker 3: My son's got that because I've been telling him to
Speaker 3: look at YouTube videos for playing chess, because we play
Speaker 3: chess all the time.
Speaker 1: I said, you get better watch the experts. I got
Speaker 1: all kinds of tips on there. But he gets an.
Speaker 3: Endless feed of chess things, as if that's the only
Speaker 3: thing you could possibly ever want to see.
Speaker 1: It seems kind of dumb, doesn't it. That's why China
Speaker 1: beats us on the TikTok. I have a feeling that
Speaker 1: it's a little more nuanced than the only thing this
Speaker 1: guy is interested in his guitar solos.
Speaker 4: Of course, if anybody complains about their algorithms, they jailed them.
Speaker 1: So true, there's.
Speaker 3: That true that, But if you know anything about that,
Speaker 3: I would love to hear about it. Got a horrible
Speaker 3: update on the fires in la among other things.
Speaker 1: On the way.
Speaker 8: Armstrong Andy and demonstrating that they changed with the times. Eventually,
Speaker 8: he did get a cell phone, and he one time
Speaker 8: he called me sort of early on in that process, and.
Speaker 1: On my phone it said Poppa Mobile. So I answered it.
Speaker 8: Of course, I said, hey, pap blah. He said, who's this.
Speaker 8: I said, this is Jason. He said, what are you
Speaker 8: doing here? I said, I'm not doing anything. You called me?
Speaker 1: He said, I didn't call you. I'm taking a.
Speaker 8: Picture nuclear engineer, right, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, that's funny. That's Jimmy Carter's grandson. When Jimmy Carter
Speaker 3: got his first cell phone. I think we've all had
Speaker 3: this experience with our parents or grandparents.
Speaker 4: You may come across the transcript of his I happen
Speaker 4: to be watching it in the studio on close captioning
Speaker 4: on CNN. It was very, very funny and clever and affectionate,
Speaker 4: and it was sweet.
Speaker 1: It was really cod I don't doubt it.
Speaker 3: Like I've said many times the last week, Jimmy Carter
Speaker 3: seems like a heck of a nice guy. Would be
Speaker 3: a great grandpa, would be a great neighbor, all kinds
Speaker 3: of different things. I don't want to making foreign policy
Speaker 3: decisions or or domestic policy decisions necessarily. Byron York, writing
Speaker 3: in The Washington Examiner yesterday, said the low point of
Speaker 3: Jimmy Carter's awful presidency in his Malaise speech, as they
Speaker 3: call it for some reason, even though he never used
Speaker 3: that word, It was the feel Carter sought to deflect
Speaker 3: responsibility for economic woes, scold Americans for materialism, and sell
Speaker 3: the country on the age of limits a disaster all around.
Speaker 1: Yes, you just need to expect to keep your thermostat high.
Speaker 1: We're a sweater and keep your thermostat you know.
Speaker 3: Keep it cold in your house higher load depending on
Speaker 3: the time of year, where a sweater. We don't have
Speaker 3: the energy we do used to have. We can't drive
Speaker 3: as fast. You can't expect is going to return in
Speaker 3: the stock market. We all need to understand things going
Speaker 3: to be crappy forever. What kind of speech is that?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: And Reagan came along and he said, no way, We're
Speaker 4: a great country, let's be great, and people.
Speaker 1: Said that guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, so I brought this up earlier. Do I
Speaker 3: want to dip my toe into this? I will might
Speaker 3: not be a good idea.
Speaker 4: Well, I'll even the scales by criticizing you harshly if
Speaker 4: it doesn't go well.
Speaker 1: So I became aware that part of your kind of
Speaker 1: Q leaning.
Speaker 3: Right wingers, that's mostly people on the right correct. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I saw this floating around on social media. The fires
Speaker 3: in LA were started on purpose by these rich pedophiles
Speaker 3: who were feel like with Trump coming in, the investigations
Speaker 3: were going to begin, and they're trying to hide the
Speaker 3: evidence of the pedophile ring. That is the reason we
Speaker 3: have hundreds of thousands missing children in this country. If
Speaker 3: you've been following that whole thing with that wow wow wow, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think that's insane. I mean like like you're on
Speaker 3: the edge of I don't know if you're insane, but
Speaker 3: you're on the edge of divorce from reality. I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: I would agree. Anyway, we got this text. Pull your
Speaker 3: head out of your a's you idiots. Have you even
Speaker 3: read any of the Q posts talking about Q and
Speaker 3: on enough to realize that there is an s load
Speaker 3: of accuracy and detail of real, truthful events and history
Speaker 3: of the deep state, the crooks, criminals and pedophiles running
Speaker 3: and ruining our country. F you are the typical MSM
Speaker 3: outlet in the way that you criticize Q. As I
Speaker 3: was getting in my car, I heard your screen on Q.
Speaker 3: It fired me up. I hope to be a steady
Speaker 3: thorn in your side there to remind you of your stupidity.
Speaker 3: I think all the way back to the CDC and
Speaker 3: the government ADS and Pfizer and MODERNA and paying your salaries,
Speaker 3: you're just like the rest of the MSM.
Speaker 1: Got it.
Speaker 4: Well, that's a ridiculous assertion, but thank you for the note.
Speaker 4: In response to the very first question, have we ever
Speaker 4: read q'sp post. Yeah, At the beginning of the thing,
Speaker 4: I was quote unquote turned on to QAnon by a
Speaker 4: longtime listener and correspondent and read it and said, oh,
Speaker 4: I recognize what this is. It's the sort of scam
Speaker 4: that's eighty percent true. It takes things that are are
Speaker 4: factual and indisputable and weaves them into a narrative that
Speaker 4: is highly disputable, and it always moves the target, but
Speaker 4: explains the moving of the target in a way that
Speaker 4: pulls you along.
Speaker 1: It's a scam.
Speaker 4: It's easily recognizable as a scam if you are a
Speaker 4: built to recognize scams and be a little bitter and
Speaker 4: cynical about the world. The stuff about the CDC and COVID,
Speaker 4: and that's one hundred percent true.
Speaker 1: That's the eighty percent of the scam.
Speaker 3: That's true, right, so exactly? But then where, where and
Speaker 3: why does the whole Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and they're
Speaker 3: all leading a pedophile ring? Where did that come from?
Speaker 1: And why? What's the.
Speaker 4: Maybe because it's so repugnant and compelling, I.
Speaker 1: Guess it is.
Speaker 3: Well, if it were true, it'd be beyond repugnant and compelling, right.
Speaker 4: I mean, if they alleged that they were like abusing
Speaker 4: wheat futures to make more money, nobody care.
Speaker 1: Right, that's interesting. It's out there. Just thought maybe you'd
Speaker 1: be interested in that.
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