WEBVTT - I Just Bit Into A Cat Toy 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.720 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty arm Strong 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:24.320 and Jetty and Key Armstrong and Yeddy. This has never 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:25.000 happened before. 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:30.960 We have a prince, the son, favored son of Queen Elizabeth, 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:33.559 much loved Queen Elizabeth, now sitting in a. 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:34.600 Jail cell. 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.040 With we're told, a bed and a toilet in the cell. 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.440 But no one in the royal family has ever been 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.519 in this position. So, whether you know the royals or 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:48.280 you don't know the royals, this is incredibly shocking. 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.199 Katty k on MSNBC. First time a royal has been 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:58.480 arrested in four hundred years. Four years, so that take 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:02.160 it back to the time of shit since a royal 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.119 has been elected. So Prince Andrews in a jail cell 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.840 trying to turn his scepter into a shive, probably to 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:09.600 protect himself. 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:11.840 I assume he as a elfer soft for that sort 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:13.880 of thing. You think they carry it with them. I'll 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:15.720 tell you what you got arrested back in the day, 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:17.520 like you were talking about, you'd think, oh, this is 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:18.240 going to end badly. 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.560 H Here's another interesting report from another bread We'll listen 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:23.840 to anybody with a British accent. 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:24.520 Listen. 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.440 Prince Andrew's arrest lands at the top of the British 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.200 state and to have a senior royal and custody on 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:34.160 suspicion of misconducting and public office really shatters that aura 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.920 of insulation around the monarchy. But I think that it 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.039 also plays into a wider perception of Great Britain at 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.520 the moment, which is that of a country crumbling, a 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.680 country imploding. When you see this happening, even at the 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.960 symbolic top the royal family, it really does make you 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:53.160 think it feeds into that general mood of collapse, erosion, 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:54.200 authority frame. 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:59.960 I hadn't hadn't granted that myself, but yeah, they're Polity 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:05.160 are just diseased and the national spirit is terrible right now. 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.400 Well in their economy. So I've listened to a couple 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.120 of podcasts that I've mentioned in the last six months 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:17.160 from British reporters talking about, Hey, America, where where you're 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.799 going to be in five, ten, fifteen years, whatever the 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:24.280 number is. We're already there. We have overspent and time 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.359 is up and we can no longer afford to keep 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.000 on the track we're on, and a lot of it 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.000 for them had to do with their whole ridiculous net 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:38.000 zero caring about climate change thing. You couldn't do anything 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:41.200 in that country unless you had net zero impact on 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:45.280 the climate, which just crushed their economy and their GDP. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:49.000 Crushed innovation entrepreneurial spirit. Yeah, just terrible. 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.600 And you got Prince Andrew running around giving away state 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.600 secrets to h pervos touching underage girls. 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.560 That doesn't help anything in return for access to yeah, 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:05.400 Romanian women of loose morals. Yeah, that's quite a story. 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:06.760 I don't know if it's do you know what? 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.280 So it's a small segment of society in England that 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:14.680 wants to get rid of the constitutional monarchy system. 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:15.720 You know what. 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.799 They call them Republicans. That's what they call that crowd 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:20.799 in England. So if you hear the term republican, it's 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:22.280 people that want to do away with the King and 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.720 Queen having any power whatsoever. I don't know how much 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:28.000 power they have. It's a constitutional monarchy, but I don't 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:32.000 know how much. Not really any I don't Yeah, I 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.960 don't think, not the way I understand it, is there 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.120 really any power either? I mean the Prime minister. When 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.200 you're elected, you have to go ask for permission from 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:42.160 the Queen or king. 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.880 But if they said go f yourself, I'm not sure 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.400 it makes any difference. It's just an effort to tie 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.760 Britain to their history back when they were a big deal. 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:57.240 Or yeah, yeah, that's true too. It's just a feeling 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.600 of continuity that it's tough for Americans under But yeah, 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.280 the monarchies are stupid wherever they exist, even though I 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.880 call for them about once a month. Tough for Americans 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:07.360 understand for now. 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.440 I wonder if we will have to understand it at 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:13.440 some point, what it's like to go from being the 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:19.240 world superpower to just another country, right, like happened with England. 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.360 Well, now it's time for my trademark, Michael, you remember 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.600 what my trademark is, of course, right, yell and at 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.919 the staff. No, No, that's not it, idiot, No, My 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:33.359 trademark is to be interesting, then depressing. If you could 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:38.640 identify like three or four characteristics of a healthy, growing 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:46.599 dynamic system and a shrinking way past its prime dying system, 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:51.479 you'd pretty much have the difference between the US and Britain. 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.400 But even if you identified those things. Nobody would care. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:55.920 They would just vote for more money out of the 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.240 treasury for themselves. And in a related story, why the 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.120 federal defat it has projected a surge in five charts. 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.480 This from the Wall Street Journal. US debt will be 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.279 more than one hundred percent of our US gross domestic 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.960 product by later this year, according to the Congressional Budget Office. 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.760 Imagine if your credit card debt was more than you 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.840 make a year. Yeah, you would feel like you're in 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.159 a pretty bad spot, wouldn't you. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.120 Yeah, and interest rates are rising anyway, If that doesn't 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.480 depress you nothing, well, so perhaps we can move on. 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:30.480 Michael Joe brought us the story about Reese's monkeys last hour. 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.640 How about this hour we get to Reese's peanut butter cups. 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.080 Can we hear that? And I've got the background information 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:41.920 on it. You're clips six peanut butter on my chocolate. Well, 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:46.240 you got chocolate in my pant butter two great taste, 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:50.400 the taste great together. Reese's peanut butter cup, real milk chocolate, 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.360 good old fashioned peanut butter. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.400 U's peanut butter cup. 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.039 So why is peanut butter cup in the news today? 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:04.200 I love or loved a peanut butter cup in my life. 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.200 I've always found them delicious. But the grandson of the 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.680 inventor has lashed out at the Hershey Company, accusing the 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.240 company of hurting the Riese's brand by shifting shifting the 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.680 cheaper ingredients in many of its products. 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.479 Oh like not the prime cuts. A monkey in the 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:20.880 reesis peanut butter cuffs. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.360 Hershey acknowledges recipe changes, but said Wednesday there was trying 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.480 to be custard. Demand for innovation. High cocoa prices has 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.800 led Hershey, you know, their manufacturers to experiment. We're eating 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.240 less chocolate in recent years and a different kind of 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.800 chocolate blah blah blah, replaced milk chocolate with compound coatings 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:38.320 and peanut butter with peanut cream. 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.279 When did this happen? Has this already happened? 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.200 Because I feel like I had a peanut butter cup 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.200 fairly recently and I didn't think it was very good, 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.960 and I've always loved them, Do you know, Michael, has 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:48.880 that already occurred? 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:50.640 The cheapening of peanut butrix. 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.880 So because I'm with you, Jack, I'm eating them, and yeah, 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:54.840 they're not as good. 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:02.160 Like noticeably crappier by quite a bit in my experience. 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.599 Wow, I don't eat candy because I'm not a child. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.919 But it's kind of like, it's kind of like we 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.720 were talking about pizza Hut pizza a week or so ago. Yeah, 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.360 how that used to be a really good pizza, and 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:17.000 I feel like I feel like the ingredients changed. Yes, 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:21.200 over the years, Yes, and just aren't the same thing anymore. Honey, 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:25.880 why is cheese spelled with a Z in their ingredients? Well, 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.360 they asked themselves a question many companies do. Is this 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.360 economy change? Do we want to compete on price or 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.480 on quality? I just bit into a cat toy? Why 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:44.600 is that? That's weird? This sausage pizza tastes hard to 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:51.200 describe feline. Yes, no, we have no reason to believe 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:55.560 that that is certainly not no parody or satire or 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.160 some lack of stray dogs running around taco bells is 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:06.560 just coincidence, better better, better efforts to animal control. All 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.760 of this is parody and satire or whatever word you 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.320 have to say to keep yourself out of legal problem. 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:15.480 Clearly clearly intended to be ridiculous. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:20.600 Yes, so ridiculous, so far from the truth. Your honor 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:24.240 that no normal person could believe it was meant to 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:24.760 be true? 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:28.720 Right, I would ingest a pizza Hut pizza right now, happily, 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:33.040 including the cat sausage. I mean the sausage. Oh no, 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.760 you took it a step too far. Joe Getty took 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:41.319 it a step too far. They make fine pizzas that 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:49.600 I would eat zero cat. I'm reasonably certain negligible amounts 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:57.000 of cat. Practically hard to measure the amount that little 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:02.000 is enough? Oh boy, that has perhaps reset and come 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.199 back and talk to our lawyers during the taking and 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.000 the wedding. We'll be right back. 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.040 A new study into our food habits found that forty 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:18.520 trips to fast casual restaurants begin with simple fatigue. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:20.680 Yeah, we know. 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.800 There's a reason Olive Garden slogan is when you're here, 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:26.760 you just you. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:37.880 Just can't today. Yeah, that's funny, I just can't today. Wow, 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.160 there's a lot of truth there. It is. That could 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:46.000 be like the entire frozen pizza industry. I'm not cooking. 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:52.319 I just can't today. So a couple of brief things 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:56.760 for you. Then back to the incredibly interesting significant social 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.880 media trial at the bottom of the hour. Huh, yeah. Yeah, 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.400 So a couple of things. Number one, this is a 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:08.400 great point from Nelly Bowls in the Free Press. She says, 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.520 don't tell me to be scared of weaymo's. Here's a 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.560 ninety two year old who crashed into a grocery store 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.000 in the Westwood neighborhood in LA last week, killing three people. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.480 Ay I remember hearing that story. Oh, video is crazy. 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:26.240 She hits a bikelist zooms into the store. As of now, 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.520 she reportedly faces no charges for these three deaths, but 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.600 she gotta take away these people's licenses. Blah blah blah, 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.280 and you've got the weaymo That quote unquote hit a 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.600 little kid who ran out behind part cars. The thing 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:45.000 stopped miraculor slowed miraculously quickly, barely hurt. The kids, spared 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.280 a life. It was a miracle of technology, and it 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:52.880 was portrayed as Oh, these dangerous rogue Weaimo cars. It's 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.400 really crazy the way media can twist the story. 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.440 It is, and I'm not exactly sure why, because media 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:04.280 is left. I think they would be pro electric, you know, 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:08.280 and they're always into safety. Waimos are safer than people driving. 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:09.160 I don't know what's going on. 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.040 There. You know, I've been describing the media's lemmings for 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.600 a very very long time, and I think there's a 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:20.120 certain personality type that goes along. They are not They 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.160 don't appraise things based on the truth, but on the 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.760 social acceptability of them, and they just go along with 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.760 the crowd. And so they just repeat the same crap 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.000 everybody else repeats in the mainstream media. And I think 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:36.600 that skepticism of our perception that auto self driving cars 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.240 are super dangerous. I don't know. For some reason, that's 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.240 just what their people tell them to say, so they say, 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:42.640 or just. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:46.960 Not safe enough yet when they're already safer than although 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:48.800 I am confused about that statistic. 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:49.960 As I've said before, if. 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:54.679 You eliminated like the bottom fifteen percent of drivers, are 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.040 they safer than most drivers? 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.560 I don't know if that's true or not. Great question, Yeah, 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.040 don't know. Then we got this from the fabulous Matt 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:11.839 from Fremont, the anti Eileen Gou, the googan if you 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:19.560 will of figure skating, O, Katie, that was smooth, very good. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:24.360 Thank you. Yeah, ran across this, Matt writes while reading 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.880 about Alyssa lu the only American with shot at meddling 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.080 in the women's figure skating blah blah. Her father fled 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:35.200 from China after the Chian Men's Square massacre. Wow. Lou, 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.840 who grew up in Oakland, was targeted by China as 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.200 part of the same project that brought Eileen Gou into 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.360 the Communist fold for the twenty twenty two Beijing Winter Olympics. Ah, 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:49.160 that's interesting, but her dad told the CCP to f 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:53.040 write off. China apparently then sent groups of spies to 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.360 harass and intimidate Lou and her father. In retaliation, the 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.080 US State Department had to put special protection in place 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.360 to protect her. Have you heard that story? No, she's 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.280 a darn good figure skater too. It seems like a 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:07.400 nice young lady, and Matt writes thought it was interesting 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.560 to see the flip side of the Eileen Goo coin. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:13.160 Not everyone wants the dirty COMI coin they're offering. No, 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:17.000 Iileen Gou is probably too smart for her own good. 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:22.360 She's like super brilliant and has twisted her logic into 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.720 making this make sense. Why the media goes along with it? 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.280 I do not get. I mean that just seems like 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:32.400 so obvious. You're American born, going to Stanford and you're 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:37.880 skating for the communist Chinese. I mean, it's already made 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.360 story of interest, but they portray it the other direction. 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.319 It's awful. It's unforgiven, like it's just a feel good story. 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.040 Isn't this great as all this? She's pretty, she's rich, 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:51.800 she's rejected America. Yes, she's our friend, say the media. 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.920 Isn't that cool that she values her mom's cultural heritage 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:57.720 so much that she's skating for China? 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:02.840 You morons? And then Katie, you might appreciate this. Mikayla 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:04.520 from Michigan dropped us to note if you ever want 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:06.440 to write us an email, it's mail bag at Armstrong 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.240 Giddy dot com. We feature some emails early in the show. 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:10.719 Hour one of the show. I don't know, maybe we'll 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.520 change that, sprinkle them in. I don't know. But Mikaela 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.920 from Michigan is with child and is cursing me for 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.040 introducing her to Keyo's Potato chips. 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.080 Oh yeah, that was I was upset with you for 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:25.720 not sharing, and now I am. 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.880 Upset with you for sharing. Really they're that good? Huh, 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.920 they're so good? Jack, She was a fan since she 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.600 was in high school and now is birthing and raising chin. 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.640 I realize it's meant to be a compliment. That's not 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.720 how it lands. Hey, one foot in the grave. What 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.440 are you gonna do? Darn you, she says. How do 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.920 you sleep at night? Keeping those balsamic vinegar and sea 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.360 salt chips? They're freaking delicious. The ruffles crisp in the 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.160 most perfect way. I'm addicted. Did my pregnancy brain just 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.200 order six more bags because shipping his eye, Yes, yes 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:03.040 it did. Tes definitely don't sleep on the honey popcorn. Oh, 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.880 I love potato chips, so I got to try those. 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:07.360 Oh they're so good. 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:11.520 They're not inexpensive, but health wise they any healthier? 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.840 Are they just also just potato chips? Checking around to 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:19.680 see if I have an s to give. I don't, Katie, 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:20.520 what kind are you eating? 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:21.520 Oh? 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:25.480 The saltan the vinegar ones. I can't get off that 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.600 flavor right now. Oh it's a great flavor. It's a 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:32.160 good flavor. He's an onion one. I'm telling you. That's 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.080 I dream about it at night. Yes, Jack, I don't know. 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.560 What's going to be going on by the time Katie's 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.800 first kid is of school age, but I know right 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:47.840 now I've had a handful of conversations just in the 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.640 last week with parents about smartphones and social media and 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:55.320 stuff like that. If you're a parent and your kids 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.800 are older than like, I don't know, eight, it's just 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:04.240 a constant thing on trying to figure out how much 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.640 they're plugged into the bad world that is out there, 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.640 how much they've accessed the world of drug sex and 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:15.240 rock and roll or whatever in a way that was 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:19.880 impossible for us when we were younger, coming in contact 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:23.000 with the worst actors out there, and it's addictive. So 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.000 that's why I think the social media trial that's going 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.480 on in Los Angeles right now so interesting. We've got 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.800 a couple of more clips from that coming up. Zuckerberg 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.360 was on the stand yesterday. We'll be on the stand 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.720 again today. I assume they're going to talk to somebody 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:36.240 from Google at some point. 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.440 Yeah, I wish we could get Marxism sucks and your 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:43.800 teachers are insane onto TikTok somehow. Actually the commanis Chinese 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.240 are promoting the opposite of that, but seems like the 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:47.600 only way to reach the kids. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:51.479 Well, the two most dangerous ones, TikTok and snapchat, wisely 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:55.600 settled out of court before this trial began and are 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:56.880 kind of off the hook. 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:59.400 I can write a check for five million bucks and 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.600 we don't get try through the headlines done well, and 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.400 they probably are, would be be much harder for them 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:10.280 to justify their thing Snapchat, which seems to be designed 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.439 by someone who aids parents, by the way, but we 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.879 got more on that coming up at a second. Stay here, 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.119 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.160 They take a vulnerable child, while all kids are vulnerable 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.200 their self esteem and what girls face, especially on these 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.840 platforms is horrifying to have to go through that, and 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.760 it really has created such a huge mental health crisis 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:31.520 in this country. 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:33.840 If they take responsibility, then they're going to have to 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.639 change their business model and how they do business. 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:43.439 Talking about Instagram and YouTube specifically and the role it 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.760 plays in making kids miserable and how addictive it is, 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:50.920 and like, I understand why that mom there is so upset. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.560 There are moms in the courtroom there whose kids have 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:57.639 committed suicide, parents in the courtroom whatever, And obviously that 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:02.560 would be an unimaginably awful but but I just don't 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:11.119 get how you can blame Facebook, Meta and Google for 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:12.919 something that is just going to be part of all 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:14.120 of our lives going. 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:15.399 Forward, and we're going to have to figure out how 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:19.160 to navigate it. Well, I gotta QUI. I don't think 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.120 you can find them liable, but I think you can 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:25.879 blame them. I think you can say this is evil, 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.240 this is bad, this is not good for me, my heart, 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.720 my soul, my children, my family, this is something we 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:31.479 should shun. 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:36.160 So you would court, But so you would you think 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.120 they should like not be in the business and let 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:39.520 somebody else do the business, just. 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.440 Out of morals or oh no, no, no, it's the 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.600 same reason I don't go to strip clubs or smoke 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:46.920 potter or a number of other things that are legal. 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:48.280 But they're just a bad idea for me. 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.760 On the stand yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg, who is a gazillionaire 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.320 and owns Facebook Meta, said Meta no longer sets goals 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:58.159 to increase time spent on apps and focus instead on 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:02.560 making services useful. I mean, all these distinctions of we're 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.360 just so useful that people stay on it all day long, 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:09.080 as opposed to we're trying to keep you on in 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:13.120 an addictive way. I mean, these are very squishy ideas well. 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:13.760 He's a liar. 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.960 Plaintiffs introduced internal documents suggesting past efforts to grow user 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:26.000 engagement and time on the app, creating tension with that claim. 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.639 Creating tension with that claim. That's a hell of a 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:34.960 way to write it. Yeah, So Zuckerberg actually said yesterday that. 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:39.040 Ba ba bah bah bah. Let me find the exact wording, 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.240 because I thought it was so good. Quote. 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:46.080 Not trying to maximize the amount of time people spend 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.320 every month on the app, You're not. 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:50.760 That is silly. 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:55.040 That is like McDonald's saying, we're not trying to get 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:58.360 people to eat more often here and more when they 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.160 get here. I mean, that's so what you're in business for, 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:03.359 and which is fine, by the way, you get to 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:07.080 do that. And just the idea that Thomas the tank 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:10.040 Engine wasn't trying to get you to tune in again 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.560 tomorrow or Blues Clues when Steve at the end of 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.280 the show would say see you tomorrow. See so when 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:19.440 he said see you tomorrow, that was actively trying to 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:22.320 keep your kid engaged in the show for another episode. 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.480 If there's a damn cliffhangers, how can I resist? Of 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:28.639 course it was Yeah, boy, Zuckerberg had the chocolate he 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:31.840 faced kids, saying he didn't eat the cookies feel to him. 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:33.280 I can't believe he didn't go that far. 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:35.360 I thought the defense was going to be, We're doing 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:37.800 the same thing every product on Earth does. We're trying 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:40.280 to sell as much of it as we can to people, 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:40.960 just like. 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:42.320 We're trying to make it enjoyable. 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:44.679 Ford is trying to hook you on Ford Cars for 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:46.919 the rest of your life. You know, I've used all 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:49.919 the other examples McDonald's TV show Sports. The NFL wants 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:52.280 you to watch the next game. That's why they keep 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:56.560 teasing the next game. During this game, they scrolled immediately 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:57.960 to the next game because I as one of the 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:01.359 knocks on Instagram, there's no end to the scroll. The 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:04.080 endless scroll is designed to addict you. So is going 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:06.359 from the you know, touchdown in this game to the 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:08.440 kickoff of the next game. I mean, I don't see 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:12.800 the difference really, right. I hate what product. I wish 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:16.159 they didn't exist, but I don't I don't understand drawing 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:19.920 those lines between what Facebook is doing and every other 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:23.040 product on Earth. Yeah, I think it might become a 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:29.320 question of if they have said, look, we've realized our 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:36.360 product screws up kids' brains. The physical function of their 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:41.120 brains to their detriment. But we're going to keep doing it. 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:48.080 That's a different question. That's a more specific question. Would 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:51.760 that that might that might really hurt meta in that 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:55.320 they get sued for billions of dollars? But wouldn't another 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:57.520 company do the same thing but just not say out 0:21:57.560 --> 0:21:58.680 loud but they know. 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:02.119 It's addicting kids? Well? No, I think what's that precedent 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:05.520 is set and everybody understands the mechanisms of how your 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:10.320 brain changes, and whether TikTok it absolutely does whether they 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:12.840 do the same things in similar enough ways that they'll 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:15.280 be liable as well, Yeah, it'll all come crashing down. 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:17.800 So so crashing down in what way? What would it 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:23.560 look like? Oh gosh, just unlimited liability for screwing up kids' brains. 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:27.639 But what would do how significantly change their algorithms? Probably 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:30.120 in a deceptive way that this court spend the rest 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:31.760 of our lives trying to catch up to. 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:35.880 I don't know, Well, so are you only looking at 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:38.360 it as a problem for addicting kids or for adults? 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:42.240