Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty. You
Speaker 2: can hear this in the background. The attacks here in Keep,
Speaker 2: Ukraine stopped at above seven am this morning.
Speaker 3: It's now close to one pm and the attacks have
Speaker 3: started again.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna go n cover.
Speaker 3: You can hear a you can hear the drones above.
Speaker 1: That's a report from Kiev where they've been under attack
Speaker 1: for like twenty four hours and us thinking the last
Speaker 1: night is trying to imagine this is watching some of
Speaker 1: the videos to live in because Cave Cave looks like
Speaker 1: whatever city you've been to. It just it looks a
Speaker 1: lot of these towns in Ukraine. Do just imagine if
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you heard whistling and then a
Speaker 1: rocket hits the library or whatever, and that's just your life.
Speaker 1: It's so hard as an American to wrap your head
Speaker 1: around that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the apartment building you live, five apartments just got
Speaker 3: taken out. Thank god it wasn't mine, honey. Anyway, what
Speaker 3: do we want to have for dinner?
Speaker 2: So crazy? Yeah, anyway, brutal.
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna talk electoral politics because we've talked a
Speaker 1: lot of that today on this voting day. But one
Speaker 1: interesting thing is that you ought to be aware of
Speaker 1: if you haven't caught onto this. It's almost all Democrats
Speaker 1: and lefty pundits that are beaten up on this Platiner guy,
Speaker 1: Platiner guy now trying to drive him out of the race. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because they realize he is a tainted goods and he's
Speaker 1: going to cause them to lose, and so they want
Speaker 1: him out of the race because CNN.
Speaker 2: New York Times.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're just killing the guy now over his
Speaker 1: Nazi tattoo and sexting and.
Speaker 2: All this different sort of stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, back to Ukraine just for a second. I
Speaker 3: thought it was super interesting his piece in the Washington
Speaker 3: Post that pressure is mounting on Putin over how to
Speaker 3: end the war because they're offensive, stall, they're running out
Speaker 3: of guys, blah blah blah. Financial resources are dwindling in
Speaker 3: the Russian officials have been issued increasingly shrill threats to
Speaker 3: intensify bombings of Kiev and are making more and more
Speaker 3: aggressive moves toward other countries in Europe. They're thinking Putin's
Speaker 3: desperate and about to do something crazy.
Speaker 2: I hope they're wrong.
Speaker 1: Wow, as we go back and forth, here we're doing
Speaker 1: the weave like Trump does. Back to Platner, he's the
Speaker 1: you know, oyster fisherman guy, hard working, regular dude who
Speaker 1: went to a super super fancy boarding school as a kid.
Speaker 1: Here's a black progressive pundit on CNN. We've lost the
Speaker 1: plot on authenticity to think Graham Platner is costplaying working class.
Speaker 1: He wears it like a Halloween costume that has been
Speaker 1: placed on him by the same people who have run
Speaker 1: a lot of progressive people out of.
Speaker 2: The race and blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's getting attacked by his own crowd because
Speaker 1: he's They know there's more bad stuff to come out
Speaker 1: before before they do their voting, which I think is
Speaker 1: next week. AnyWho saw this headline up on CBS this
Speaker 1: morning didn't actually grab the story, but just saw some
Speaker 1: of the details around it.
Speaker 2: What's behind the to clean and to clean?
Speaker 1: I guess it's kind of a word. You can clean
Speaker 1: and declean. I guess messing something up would be decleaning it.
Speaker 1: The judges will allow it what's behind the decline in
Speaker 1: teen summer jobs a very tight teen summer job market.
Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 1: There's lots of things, including a whole bunch of you
Speaker 1: who think it's awful for teens to get jobs and
Speaker 1: have put all kinds of restrictions in place. Then we
Speaker 1: got the whole liability law thing which has made it
Speaker 1: very very hard, and all kinds of different jobs that
Speaker 1: used to exist when we were kids, they all went.
Speaker 3: Away artificially high minimum wages that one did it sixteen
Speaker 3: year old with no work experience isn't worth What you've
Speaker 3: said is the bottom wage that can be paid, so
Speaker 3: they will be paid nothing.
Speaker 2: Thanks for helping.
Speaker 1: My sixteen year old has applied for a couple of jobs,
Speaker 1: including I'm hoping he gets one at a well known
Speaker 1: coffee company that's not far from me, and it'd be
Speaker 1: very easy for him to get to him back on
Speaker 1: a regular basis. But yeah, that's a good point in theory.
Speaker 1: They'll hire you with no experience whatsoever and all that.
Speaker 2: But I don't know, do you?
Speaker 3: What do you?
Speaker 1: How much do you think it hurts him being a
Speaker 1: white male applying to big corporations like that?
Speaker 2: I don't know these days. I don't know either.
Speaker 3: It doesn't help, certainly, but no, it's not a stroke
Speaker 3: in your favor.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: You know, the The New York Post slash California Post
Speaker 3: the other day printed the story that you probably haven't heard.
Speaker 3: I think we touched on it briefly here, but CARLS
Speaker 3: Junior is shutting down nearly fifty California stores over the
Speaker 3: states staggering minimum wage.
Speaker 2: As they put.
Speaker 3: It, it just doesn't make sense to stay in business anymore,
Speaker 3: so shutting down and all of those people are losing
Speaker 3: their jobs.
Speaker 2: How many? Almost fifty?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 3: The biggest franchise e is leading the Chapter eleven action,
Speaker 3: putting forty nine of its California restaurants up for sales
Speaker 3: part of the proceedings.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. How come they haven't gone with the
Speaker 2: touch screen that they're doing at McDonald's. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is fifty restaurants, not three hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3: But this French owner has had to declare bankruptcy. And
Speaker 3: you know, I don't know the particulars of it, but
Speaker 3: they go into the research done by UCLA and other
Speaker 3: places that the minimum wage hike has cost the fast
Speaker 3: food sector eighteen thousand jobs just since April twenty four
Speaker 3: when it went into effect, representing a three and a
Speaker 3: half ish percent decline in the sector compared to fast
Speaker 3: food sectors in other parts of the country.
Speaker 2: Eighteen thousand people out of work.
Speaker 1: I don't know how old you have to be to
Speaker 1: work it to like Burger King or Carls Junior or whatever.
Speaker 1: But all the various things, including in the Minimu Waige,
Speaker 1: You're definitely right about that one. That we've done to
Speaker 1: stop teenagers from having jobs. It seems so opposite of
Speaker 1: all that we talk about regular in the regularly in
Speaker 1: the modern world about young people and their lack of
Speaker 1: maturity and not understanding this or that, and then we've
Speaker 1: made it impossible for them to get jobs, which is
Speaker 1: one of the greatest schools you could ever go to,
Speaker 1: is having a job.
Speaker 2: That's well said. I think part of it is the whole.
Speaker 3: And I'd love to blame Obama for this, but I
Speaker 3: think he was, you know, he was much as much
Speaker 3: a reflector of this as a leader of it. But
Speaker 3: the attitude that everybody has to go to college, the
Speaker 3: only dignified path in life is to get an undergraduate
Speaker 3: degree and then go sit in a cubicle.
Speaker 2: Or whatever, and that.
Speaker 3: Working with your hands was somehow embarrassing. The trades were embarrassing.
Speaker 3: Kids getting summer jobs and flipping burgers was somehow exploitive
Speaker 3: as opposed to a great blanking opportunity, which is how
Speaker 3: I looked at.
Speaker 2: It, trust me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it just this demonization of anything but modern university,
Speaker 3: shallow intellectualism. Anything else is invalid. It's an ugly embarrassing life.
Speaker 4: Boy.
Speaker 1: Both my kids had just been dying to reach the
Speaker 1: age where they could go out and make some money,
Speaker 1: have some money in their pocket.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I saw one of my nieces in particular, her
Speaker 1: maturity over a year once she entered the work place
Speaker 1: was absolutely amazing, not surprising, but amazing.
Speaker 2: Can you break down maturity more for us, oh, boy,
Speaker 2: in the way that I mean it?
Speaker 1: Well, one went from like talking to a kid like
Speaker 1: to talk into a grown up somehow through the experience
Speaker 1: of dealing with other grownups all the time, I guess.
Speaker 2: But just the.
Speaker 1: Topics that would come up about money and all that sort,
Speaker 1: you know, the understanding the value of money, How much
Speaker 1: does that change when you get a job you know,
Speaker 1: your parent's given you a fifty bucks or whatever they
Speaker 1: need to go eat with your friends or something. It
Speaker 1: takes on a whole new meaning when you realize how
Speaker 1: long it takes you to make fifty.
Speaker 3: Bucks, right, right, Yeah, money becomes a question of time. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's true. I'd imagine it makes well and I know
Speaker 3: this from experience. It makes people more realist than idealist
Speaker 3: than they were.
Speaker 1: My brother was talking were I was talking to my
Speaker 1: brother the other day about how the first time his daughter,
Speaker 1: who's now in her mid twenties, got a paycheck, and
Speaker 1: it's like, wait a second, how come I'm only getting
Speaker 1: this much? You know, because you've never had the whole
Speaker 1: everything taken out before. Well, there's taxes, and then there's
Speaker 1: this so security thing, and then there's this and that,
Speaker 1: and there's a little for insurance, and then there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of fees you don't know what they are paying
Speaker 1: off the War of eighteen twelve or whatever, and they
Speaker 1: took that out of your check too.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well somebody's got to pay for it eventually.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 3: And I'm kind of just noodling through this thought. You've
Speaker 3: got your entire practically education system, especially universities demonizing capitalism.
Speaker 3: It's a force for evil. It's exploitive of workers. Do
Speaker 3: you go into work for in and out burger, Carl's Junior.
Speaker 3: I was a caddy, among other things, bus boy, half
Speaker 3: a dozen different things. That's not opportunity, that's exploitation. And we're,
Speaker 3: you know, on the fifteenth topic of the month, seeing
Speaker 3: the fruits of those attitudes being implanted in kids. We're
Speaker 3: hearing them express them now as adults that no, this
Speaker 3: is not an opportunity, it's exploitation. And so we've got
Speaker 3: to raise the minimum wage at Carls Junior much much higher.
Speaker 3: And they don't care what the outcome is. They just
Speaker 3: care about how espousing that policy makes them look, if
Speaker 3: it makes them look noble. Never mind the eighteen thousand
Speaker 3: people who now don't have a job, or you know,
Speaker 3: they don't even get into the number of folks who've
Speaker 3: had their hours cut back.
Speaker 2: That just it makes me insane.
Speaker 1: You know, the one thing I've never done is work
Speaker 1: a retail or a restaurant or anything where you work
Speaker 1: with we have the public, Oh, we never done that.
Speaker 3: As the one thing you've never done, so you've fornicated
Speaker 3: with beasts, you've sacrificed a human to your god or gods.
Speaker 3: You've murdered a political figure. No, workwise, I get it.
Speaker 3: That's funny. I've done that a lot.
Speaker 2: Well, I know a lot most people have.
Speaker 1: And well you've probably never built a fence on the
Speaker 1: top of a hill in the middle of nowhere, all
Speaker 1: day long in twenty degree below weather all alone, which
Speaker 1: I don't know what value you get out of that, but.
Speaker 2: I've done that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and working with the public would definitely be a
Speaker 1: lesson that I'm sure would be helpful in a lot
Speaker 1: of different ways. Yeah, this job has some of that,
Speaker 1: coming through texting, emails and all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: and every once in a while back in the day
Speaker 1: doing events and meeting people. But I've never worked the
Speaker 1: you know, constant customer customer is always right dealing with
Speaker 1: that returning stuff to the store or not liking their meal,
Speaker 1: or I've never done that before.
Speaker 3: My son worked at TAJA for a couple of years anyway,
Speaker 3: and he was in like customer service, and he it
Speaker 3: was it was a master's degree in a how people
Speaker 3: really are as opposed to the fanciful idea that you
Speaker 3: have as a young idealistic person. You're always talking about
Speaker 3: how the left always seems every seems to think everybody's
Speaker 3: always trying as hard as they can and the only
Speaker 3: reason somebody'd be down and out is because the system
Speaker 3: was against them or blah blah blah, And my son declan.
Speaker 3: He quickly realized, Oh, there are a lot of scumbags,
Speaker 3: and they lie and they cheat and they steal. They'll
Speaker 3: look you straight in the eye and lie to you.
Speaker 3: They're not down and out. There's scumbag. That's a good
Speaker 3: lesson right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you do retail, Michael yep? I did the
Speaker 2: fast food. I serve people yogurt.
Speaker 3: I did restaurant work, all sorts of public stuff.
Speaker 1: I would like I did lots of different things at
Speaker 1: this job, but I would uh. For instance, I would
Speaker 1: get to work at like six in the morning. I
Speaker 1: would load a whole bunch of rolls of wire in
Speaker 1: the back of my truck and post hole digger and
Speaker 1: posts and drive off into a field so far away
Speaker 1: from anyone else that I wouldn't see I couldn't see
Speaker 1: another human being looking any direction the entire day, and
Speaker 1: at noon I would get out my sack lunch and
Speaker 1: sit there on the ground and eat my sandwich by myself.
Speaker 1: Then I would finish my sandwich and go back to
Speaker 1: digging post holes and building my fence, not being able
Speaker 1: to see or talk to And this is pretty smartphone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, see another human being the entire day. At five o'clock,
Speaker 2: I'd drive back and go home. Hell that was pre
Speaker 2: brick phone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, can the Mercedes was a Halloween Hollywood producer.
Speaker 3: There's no way to communicate with another human except shouting, pratt,
Speaker 3: How good was that?
Speaker 2: Probably for my brain? That kind of solitude good or
Speaker 2: ruin us?
Speaker 3: I don't know, right in tell us what you say,
Speaker 3: idiotsat to us mail bag at our stringing kidding hut,
Speaker 3: I got a theory.
Speaker 2: Okay, we got more on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 5: Tracy Morgan, the comedian getting ready for one of his
Speaker 5: biggest gigs, the NBA Finals, Sent to help the city
Speaker 5: and get excited the time Knicks fan is lending his
Speaker 5: iconic voice to the subway.
Speaker 4: It's pert Settle Nick fans, It's Tracy Morgan. Game nine,
Speaker 4: New York starts on a subway. Do city in arge blue,
Speaker 4: rolling in together, arms and brue skies. Baby.
Speaker 1: Okay, Tracy Morgan doing the voiceover for the subway headed
Speaker 1: to the Knicks game the finals start tomorrow night. Reminding
Speaker 1: you that Tracy Morgan, the comedian, when he was in
Speaker 1: his limo when a Walmart truck hit him, he got
Speaker 1: ninety million dollars. Out of that ninety million dollars, that's
Speaker 1: why he's in the front row sitting next to John
Speaker 1: Stewart and Timothy shallowmagy because he got that kind of money.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wow, I've known somebody who got not nearly that high settlement.
Speaker 2: But man, you wouldn't want to go through what they No, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: get it. No. Yeah, dang. Yeah.
Speaker 3: He's a hilarious dude coming up sting and his thoughts
Speaker 3: on toxic masculinity. Okay, right now. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: I just thought it was such a good tease. I
Speaker 3: wanted to tease it, even though I'm going to do
Speaker 3: it right now. I actually I think this is really
Speaker 3: interesting and he doesn't really talk about toxic masculinity per se,
Speaker 3: but he says he believes the fact that men no
Speaker 3: longer use their hands and physicality on a daily basis
Speaker 3: may be driving a lot of the problems with men,
Speaker 3: however you want to describe it, you know, lacking purpose,
Speaker 3: drug abuse, porn and video games, you know, toxic masculinity
Speaker 3: to the extent, it's really an issue. He's he's written
Speaker 3: this musical about the last days of a shipyard in Britain,
Speaker 3: and he says, I work with my hands every day
Speaker 3: as a musician, and I'm lucky. It's a rare thing
Speaker 3: for modern men to actually use their hands and use
Speaker 3: their strength to do anything. We've lost something there. I
Speaker 3: don't have any answers, but maybe the toxicity in society
Speaker 3: at the moment is a result of the fact that
Speaker 3: we've lost a direction for that energy, the male strength.
Speaker 2: It's rare. We have to use it. Sure, our.
Speaker 1: Forefathers did not work with their hands out of a
Speaker 1: better character, though they had no choice.
Speaker 3: That's going to be a problem for the entire existence
Speaker 3: on earth.
Speaker 1: Sure, but yeah, you gotta you have to go out
Speaker 1: of your way to make yourself work with your hands,
Speaker 1: because most people are not going to make a living
Speaker 1: having to use their hands.
Speaker 3: The other thing that's interesting is a what do you
Speaker 3: call it an Anglo file, which I am is that
Speaker 3: he blames Margaret Thatcher and her dream of a service economy.
Speaker 3: And I would say to Dare Stinger, first of all,
Speaker 3: love the songs, love the songs, but I won't Gosh,
Speaker 3: let's just be friends and hang out together a lot anyway.
Speaker 3: And I would also say to him Margaret Thatcher didn't
Speaker 3: have any effect on the United States, and we've got
Speaker 3: a giant service economy where men can't channel their strengths
Speaker 3: into building ships either.
Speaker 1: All right, we kind of had this topic earlier on something,
Speaker 1: but she saw the changes coming. This is what the
Speaker 1: economy is going to be. This is what the modern
Speaker 1: world's going to be. Get prepared for it. You couldn't
Speaker 1: have said no to the service economy taking over and
Speaker 1: say we're all gonna build ships or fences or rail
Speaker 1: you know, rail lines or whatever what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: And you know, Roxanne, you shouldn't data prostitutes, think Armstrong
Speaker 3: and Getty.
Speaker 6: Finally, in a recent post on x US Ambassador de Grease,
Speaker 6: Kimberly Guilfoyle celebrated a new McDonald's location in Athens and
Speaker 6: called it a quote the most technologically advanced McDonald's in
Speaker 6: all of Europe, which just means the ice cream machine works.
Speaker 2: Boy, old gilfoil boy.
Speaker 3: What do you do when your ex's dad is the
Speaker 3: president and says, look, nobody wants you in this country. Well,
Speaker 3: we'll make it easy for you. How about an ambassadorship?
Speaker 3: Oh to have that sort of.
Speaker 2: Back Oh, no kidding. Oh, I'd love to do that
Speaker 2: if your.
Speaker 1: Worst case scenario you end up in Bastard to Greece.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow wow.
Speaker 3: So a couple of interesting notes from the world of science.
Speaker 3: I'm very curious about science. I like hearing about it.
Speaker 3: I'm not nearly smart enough to comprehend most of it.
Speaker 3: But scientists number one have finally figured out how fast
Speaker 3: the universe is expanding.
Speaker 2: They've known for.
Speaker 3: A very long time, or they think they know that
Speaker 3: there's a big bang in the universe has been expanding
Speaker 3: from a single point ever since into what a bigger thing.
Speaker 3: Call it creation, called it the Big Bang, whatever you want.
Speaker 3: Even about fourteen billion years later, this expansion moves objects
Speaker 3: like Galaxy's in it farther away from us, and they're
Speaker 3: trying to figure out what the rate of expansion is,
Speaker 3: because then you can extrapolate how old the universe is.
Speaker 3: International gathering of experts last year in Switzerland confirmed that
Speaker 3: objects received faster as they become more distant. All right,
Speaker 3: now I'm starting to get glazed eyes, and you know
Speaker 3: the look to once again quote the great on Henley
Speaker 3: like cow at a passing train. Uncomprehendingly. For instance, a
Speaker 3: galaxy three million light years away will move away from
Speaker 3: us at forty six miles per second. The scientist calculated
Speaker 3: a galaxy at twice that distance would be moving away
Speaker 3: at about ninety miles per second. So I can't comprehend that,
Speaker 3: but they do illustrate it in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Speaker 3: They say that rate is most precise ever calculated. It's
Speaker 3: also mind bogglingly small. If you took an empty space
Speaker 3: the size of a football field expanding at the rate
Speaker 3: our universe is, it would take more than a million
Speaker 3: years to expand by a single centimeter. When you look
Speaker 3: at the size of the universe.
Speaker 2: The universe is expanding into what the other place over there?
Speaker 2: The void?
Speaker 3: See that's where my mind gets blown yeah, really fast.
Speaker 3: It's like the Book of Genesis. Before the creation, there
Speaker 3: was nothing. Ooh wait a minute, nothing is something, well,
Speaker 3: space is nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean there's nothing, right, but that's something. But before
Speaker 1: the big bang, there was just a whole lot of nothing.
Speaker 1: It's hard to wrap your head around infinite nothing.
Speaker 2: You can't, yes, you can't, or even a little nothing.
Speaker 3: The calculation is called in a question of major scientific theory.
Speaker 3: It's about ten percent faster than what the standard model
Speaker 3: of cosmologism changes everything.
Speaker 2: Why would they.
Speaker 3: Ask cosmetologists anyway, it's essentially the theory of how everything
Speaker 3: works in the universe says the rate should be. It's
Speaker 3: about ten percent faster. Anyway, if you're in astrophysics, I
Speaker 3: suggest you dig.
Speaker 2: More into that.
Speaker 3: I found this even more interesting though, and this is crazy.
Speaker 3: Your son has got to read this. I don't think
Speaker 3: I've passed it on to you yet. It's been assumed
Speaker 3: for a long time that humans haven't really changed, adapted,
Speaker 3: evolved in like forty or fifty thousand years. A lot
Speaker 3: of that belief, as they're writing in the Free Press,
Speaker 3: is in large degree in the shadow of famed paleontologists
Speaker 3: and naturalist Stephen J. Gould, whose theory of punctuated equilibrium
Speaker 3: held the genetic evolution proceeds and fits and starts, and
Speaker 3: that the humanity was in a period of genetic stasis
Speaker 3: like for forty fifty thousand years. There's been no biological
Speaker 3: changes in humans in that time, he argued in an
Speaker 3: interview published in the year two thousand. Everything we call
Speaker 3: culture and civilization we've built with the same body and
Speaker 3: brain as way back in the day. He had no
Speaker 3: way to look into the ancient genome itself, and so
Speaker 3: neither did anybody else at the time, So the view
Speaker 3: that human genetic change belonged in the past became predominant.
Speaker 3: The idea that genes could both shape and be shaped
Speaker 3: by lifestyle was discarded. They quote another a couple of
Speaker 3: super heavyweights who anybody who deviated from that line were
Speaker 3: shunned and dismissed as race.
Speaker 2: Or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, but now the conventional wisdom is imploded.
Speaker 3: There was a tour de force of big data science
Speaker 3: published in Nature last month that showed how a mountain
Speaker 3: of genetic data backs up the idea that human revolution
Speaker 3: the ideas about human revolution that date back to Darwin
Speaker 3: were wrong. By using cutting edge genomic methods, the researchers
Speaker 3: showed that natural selection has been ubiquitous across the last
Speaker 3: ten thousand years, reshaping our appearance, our immune systems, and
Speaker 3: even predispositions to mental illness, huge changes in humans in
Speaker 3: the last ten thousand years. Now, it appears that culture
Speaker 3: did not replace genetics as the vehicle for human adaptation
Speaker 3: in order to put an end to humans biological fluidity
Speaker 3: over time. These scientists show how the movement of people
Speaker 3: in the rise of agriculture at least a surge of
Speaker 3: genetic changes. The title of the paper is Ancient DNA
Speaker 3: reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia.
Speaker 2: How thoughtful were we?
Speaker 1: That's what I always wonder, not just how smart, but
Speaker 1: how capable were we of being thoughtful?
Speaker 3: Like depending flowers on somebody's wedding anniversary.
Speaker 1: Exactly, you know, picking up after yourself. Fifty thousand years ago?
Speaker 1: Were people living, you know, and everybody's living to like
Speaker 1: age twenty before you get rock falls on your head
Speaker 1: or you get eaten by a wine or something like.
Speaker 2: That, die of the plague here? But were people looking
Speaker 2: around and thinking, Wow, what is the point of all
Speaker 2: of this? Right?
Speaker 1: Is what happens when you die? I mean just I
Speaker 1: just I don't understand. It's just say, every day and
Speaker 1: I see other people suffering and getting older, and what
Speaker 1: are we doing here? Did they have those thoughts and conversations.
Speaker 3: Some days I get up and I think, moving this
Speaker 3: mud from here to over there? Is there really a
Speaker 3: point to it? I mean, the king told me I
Speaker 3: have to my being exploited.
Speaker 2: Is this what I want to do with my life? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So anyway, the idea that this paper illustrates is
Speaker 3: that we're an adapting animal, not just in theory, but
Speaker 3: in reality.
Speaker 2: I thought this was so cool.
Speaker 3: After analyzing ancient DNA from exactly fifteen eight hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty six West Eurasians that is, Europeans and West Asians
Speaker 3: who lived over the last eighteen thousand years, the Harvard
Speaker 3: team reported four hundred and seventy nine gene variants where
Speaker 3: there was strong directional selection over the millennia. Skin color,
Speaker 3: eye color, celiac disease, schizophrenia, bipolar risk, and intelligence are
Speaker 3: just some of the traits that have changed since the
Speaker 3: end of the last Ice Age, which is a little
Speaker 3: more than twelve thousand years ago. We're not simply cavemen
Speaker 3: wearing suits. We wear different beasts all together.
Speaker 1: Is intelligence? What's causes human beings to have the thoughts?
Speaker 1: So we were just discussing the what is The point
Speaker 1: of this, is there something bigger happening here? Is that
Speaker 1: just purely intelligence? Is that why we assume dogs don't
Speaker 1: have these thoughts, or cattle or even monkeys. Is the
Speaker 1: level of intelligence or is that something different? It might
Speaker 1: be something different. Maybe we're going to find that out
Speaker 1: through AI. Because if AI becomes more intelligent than us
Speaker 1: but never questions what am.
Speaker 2: I doing here?
Speaker 1: You know, then it's not intelligence saying it's something else. Okay,
Speaker 1: two more points from this. One of the more interesting
Speaker 1: details is that West Eurasians developed a host of adaptations
Speaker 1: in and around the class of genes that control immune function.
Speaker 1: Provides a clear demonstration of how the pressures of natural
Speaker 1: selection worked in humans. The rise of endemic diseases and pandemics,
Speaker 1: along with the acceleration of trade and the growth of
Speaker 1: the growth of cities, seem like excellent candidates for selection pressures.
Speaker 1: Since the last of the Ice age, constant selection pressures
Speaker 1: buffet a world of plagues, twisting and turning genomes, generation generation,
Speaker 1: so a lot of disease related stuff. The research is
Speaker 1: most startling and potentially controversial results and the reason you
Speaker 1: have not heard this come from the analysis of polygenic traits.
Speaker 1: These are characteristics controlled not by single genes, but by
Speaker 1: a whole set of variants, and this analysis was made
Speaker 1: possible by advances in computational horsepower that let the head
Speaker 1: scientists his name is Akbari, sift through a mountain of
Speaker 1: paleogenetic data. In genetic terms, it looks like Europeans have
Speaker 1: been selected for higher IQ, higher educational attainment, and less
Speaker 1: schizophrenia and bipolar disorder over the last ten thousand years.
Speaker 3: This is a startling result. The selection for educational attainment
Speaker 3: seems to predate even the most ancient education by thousands
Speaker 3: of years.
Speaker 2: Surprising as that is.
Speaker 3: It seems to be the case with latter samples, reflecting
Speaker 3: selection for the combination of genes associated with years of
Speaker 3: schooling in modern studies. Similarly, Neolithic farmers in the data
Speaker 3: set carried more variants associated with higher intelligence and modern
Speaker 3: samples than Mesolithic foragers. It's the strong sign that the
Speaker 3: emergence of farming and village culture changed human brains get
Speaker 3: smarter because you were dealing with a lot more people
Speaker 3: and the logistics of farming economics, and so smarter people
Speaker 3: got selected and survived and bred and the rest of it.
Speaker 2: Because I was thinking, so the inn you.
Speaker 1: Got the cultural part of it, right, what just whatever
Speaker 1: world you're born into. I was thinking about this the
Speaker 1: other day when I was reading about the Bubonic played
Speaker 1: from the early sixteen hundreds in London, which when the
Speaker 1: bubonic plague hit around that time, or just life expectancy
Speaker 1: before the Bubonic played hit it was something like one
Speaker 1: out of four babies died in the first year or something.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was something extraordinarily high. Yeah, so every
Speaker 1: family lost a child pretty much. I mean, it wasn't
Speaker 1: the rare occurrence that we all wonder, why how do
Speaker 1: you go on after that happens?
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It happened to everybody. And I'm sure that's most of
Speaker 1: human history. So how much did that change people's outlook
Speaker 1: on everything culture?
Speaker 2: Who knows?
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm sure there are fascinating books on that
Speaker 3: very topic. But the answer to that is long and fascinating.
Speaker 2: So you combine that with different levels of intelligence. I
Speaker 2: don't know how much we worried about these things. I
Speaker 2: really don't. Nobody knows. Yeah, yeah, because you wouldn't think.
Speaker 1: You watch some old timey movie, even if it's like
Speaker 1: Monty Python or whatever, and you think God, living in
Speaker 1: that village, just surrounded by mud.
Speaker 2: And dung and.
Speaker 1: Endless just backbreaking labor to die in your twenties, how
Speaker 1: do you even get out of bed in the morning.
Speaker 3: Just step over the dung to step in the mud instead.
Speaker 3: It's terrible.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, and and.
Speaker 3: You know, we don't have time to really go into
Speaker 3: depth on this paper, but the relationship between environment and intelligence,
Speaker 3: and then that's how that's passed in passed along rather
Speaker 3: in you know, your your sets of genes. It's it's
Speaker 3: crazy interesting and super important. I get why people are
Speaker 3: super uncomfortable talking about it when it comes down to
Speaker 3: regions of the world and or races. But the idea
Speaker 3: that we pretend scientific fact doesn't exist because it makes
Speaker 3: us feel uncomfortable. It's just it's dumb. It's dumb. Yeah,
Speaker 3: don't let the worst people in the world direct the
Speaker 3: way we interpret reality. I mean, like, if it turns out,
Speaker 3: for instance, to cite the most explosive trope that for
Speaker 3: whatever reason, people of African origin are somewhat less intelligent
Speaker 3: on the average than European people, if that turned out
Speaker 3: to be true, that doesn't for an effing minute. Mean,
Speaker 3: I'm smarter than Thomas Sowell, trust me, And as an individualist,
Speaker 3: that's the only question matters, right, And anybody who would
Speaker 3: extrapolate that to a sou Malhike won't be able to
Speaker 3: survive the job because he's a blackfellow. Well, you're an
Speaker 3: idiot and you don't deserve to have that blackfellow's talents
Speaker 3: in your organization. Townsand I'll hire him. You can't. Don't.
Speaker 3: Don't blind yourself to science because it makes you feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: That's Middle Ages crap, and we should have evolved from that.
Speaker 2: From that.
Speaker 3: Oh, I was so proud of how I'd wrapped it
Speaker 3: all up with that sentence. I stumbled over the words.
Speaker 3: Maybe that next generation will be smart enough.
Speaker 2: To finish the sentence unlike me. Stupid, stupid, stupid, one crick.
Speaker 1: Extrapolation would be if we evolve faster than we thought
Speaker 1: in the past, than this evolving to a more sedentary
Speaker 1: lifestyle where we don't work with our hands. Getting back
Speaker 1: to what Sting was talking about or whatever, should happen quicker.
Speaker 2: Than maybe we were thinking about. It could happen eventually.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ail wipe us out before that, unfortunately, but eh.
Speaker 1: Good transition, right, there. Trump just now signed an AO
Speaker 1: executive order. That's a fairly big deal. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that among other things on the way.
Speaker 4: He yet.
Speaker 1: Got my letters mixed up before the break, I said
Speaker 1: Trump was signing an executive order about AO.
Speaker 2: No, it's an.
Speaker 3: EO about AI EI aio.
Speaker 2: It's an AO no an EO about AI. There you go.
Speaker 1: Executive order about artificial intelligence that Trump just signed that
Speaker 1: asked technology companies to give the government oversight of new
Speaker 1: AI models before releasing them to the public. This is
Speaker 1: a shift for an administration that had been more hands
Speaker 1: off so far, follows months of debate. They were looking
Speaker 1: at doing this back in May and then decided not to.
Speaker 1: The new executive order shifts the White House from it's
Speaker 1: anything goes approach with AI companies, which the President also
Speaker 1: known as liberty, which the President had said was necessary
Speaker 1: for us to compete in the race with China, to
Speaker 1: more hands on stance. The new order asks tech companies
Speaker 1: to give the government a shorter thirty day window for
Speaker 1: their new AI models to be reviewed by the government
Speaker 1: before they are publicly publicly released. The idea that there's
Speaker 1: anyone in government that has the slightest idea what would
Speaker 1: be a good regulation or a bad regulation or whatever
Speaker 1: is hilarious, hard.
Speaker 2: No populist nonsense. There are like.
Speaker 3: Eight people in the world that really understand this, and
Speaker 3: they don't work in the government well, and they're continually
Speaker 3: befuddled by a team Yeah, and they don't understand it themselves.
Speaker 3: China ain't regulating it is populous nonsense. People are worried
Speaker 3: about AI, rightfully, they're booing it at college graduation ceremonies.
Speaker 3: The average worker is concerned layoffs blah blah blah, and
Speaker 3: so they're saying, yeah, we're standing up and doing something
Speaker 3: about this evil AI.
Speaker 1: Which seems to mostly be a Democrat position, although Trump
Speaker 1: doesn't care about that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: He's a populist.
Speaker 3: The Republican Party is making overtures to the teamsters, starting
Speaker 3: to go populist on various things like the minimum wage.
Speaker 3: That's uh yeah, the Democrats Party of liberty, economic liberty
Speaker 3: doesn't exist.
Speaker 1: Where's a guy like me supposed to go eventually Uruguay? Anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll see. Do you see any problems with this? Is
Speaker 1: this isn't gonna have any free speech issues or anything
Speaker 1: like that, where it won't hold up because it's an
Speaker 1: executive order and these things hold until the next president
Speaker 1: comes along unless you gets shut down by court.
Speaker 3: It'll get shot down by a court, and ultimately it'll
Speaker 3: go away and no you'll ever refer to it again.
Speaker 2: Okay, check this, Tim stop, Jack and Joe.
Speaker 6: They've got go and if they don't get can they
Speaker 6: be bats tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe getny. My final
Speaker 3: thought is going to be refining my previous answer. But
Speaker 3: let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 3: to wrap things up to the day. Mike lags Low
Speaker 3: lead us off. Yeah, I've got into seaweed snacks.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel like a fish now.
Speaker 3: My wife got me into them, and so I'm eating
Speaker 3: all sorts of plants.
Speaker 1: The key sentence being you feel like a fish now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know goldfish and you usually give them seaweed.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think so you've never had a pet goldfish.
Speaker 3: I have had a seaweed snack though, and they are
Speaker 3: quite delicious. Jack final thought for.
Speaker 2: Us kind of threw me off.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I read Oh, I'm gonna go vote today
Speaker 1: in person, and I'll have a story about that.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I'll be interested to see because I'm gonna just show
Speaker 1: up at a random polling place, not the one from
Speaker 1: my neighborhood and no Ida, and just walk in and
Speaker 1: see what happens.
Speaker 2: Well. Interesting.
Speaker 3: Uh My final thought is I'm trying to think of
Speaker 3: can the government demand to review a word processor to
Speaker 3: make sure it's processing words properly or an accounting software
Speaker 3: before it's released, or because computer stuffs just intellectual property?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure we'll have a lot more info on
Speaker 1: this by tomorrow. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling
Speaker 1: for our workday.
Speaker 3: Interesting new world of legal questions. Man, so many people,
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Speaker 2: God bless America. I'm strong in Getty. It's selection day
Speaker 2: throughout the USA. So you better out of Joe's advice.
Speaker 3: Your civic duty is more important than your health, and
Speaker 3: we gotta get her rid of the damns the.
Speaker 2: A' don't let ebout to stop you. Head to the
Speaker 2: polls right now. Don't let about to stop you.
Speaker 3: You can now later, just not right now, don't let
Speaker 3: Eybota stop you.
Speaker 2: We gotta get a rid of them, damn clown, Armstrong
Speaker 2: and Getty