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Now enjoy the Armstrong and Geddy replay. 12 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 4: So I came across this in substack yesterday from this 13 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 4: guy named Timothy Lee, who I do not know. But 14 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 4: his article was he writes about AI for a living, 15 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 4: and his headline was AI skeptics and AI boosters are 16 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 4: both wrong. 17 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 2: And I gave that a look. 18 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 4: Everybody's guessing to a certain extent here, but I just 19 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 4: thought this was an interesting tank, a take I hadn't 20 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 4: heard before. Earlier this month, he writes, I attended an 21 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 4: AI conference called the Curve in Berkeley, California, just a 22 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,559 Speaker 4: few miles from where we are. A lot of people 23 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 4: there were agi pilled he calls it. For example, I 24 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,919 Speaker 4: participated in a role playing exercise organized by this dude 25 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 4: who argues that AI systems will soon achieve human level intelligence. 26 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 4: Then they will rapidly improve themselves, leading to superhuman AI 27 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 4: capabilities and an extreme acceleration of scientific discovery and economic growth. 28 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 4: Then he went across the hall to another conference where 29 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 4: a different AGI pilled writer. That's someone who believes so 30 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 4: much of this, who believes the super intelligent AI will 31 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 4: kill everyone on the planet. 32 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 2: He said, to go back to the first one, he. 33 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 4: Said, at the opposite end of the spectrum, or skeptics 34 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 4: who believe AI is not just overhyped but practically useless. 35 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 4: This perspective wasn't well represented at the conference, but it 36 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 4: came up a lot. We mentioned this a couple of 37 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:16,679 Speaker 4: weeks ago. There was a piece in The New York 38 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 4: Times quoting this study one of your big godfathers of AI. 39 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:22,679 Speaker 4: You know, there's a handful of people that are really 40 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 4: well respected whenever they talk about AI. One of those 41 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 4: people wrote a column in The New York Times citing 42 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 4: this MIT study, which we have talked about before. A 43 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 4: recent study run by MIT's program that looks into this 44 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:38,519 Speaker 4: sort of stuff found that ninety five percent of companies 45 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 4: that did AI pilot studies found little or no return 46 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 4: on their investment and financial analysis projects an estimated shortfall 47 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 4: of eight hundred billion dollars in revenue for AI companies 48 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 4: by the end of twenty thirty. 49 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 2: That it's not going to pan out near the way 50 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 2: they thought. 51 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 4: So that article got a lot of attention at the 52 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 4: time and apparently came up a lot in this conference. 53 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,639 Speaker 3: Can contradict that right now, but go ahead to that later. No, 54 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 3: go ahead, Oh, just I happened to yesterday afternoon have 55 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 3: a conversation with a good friend who is an attorney 56 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 3: of great experience and success and worked for a fairly 57 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:18,639 Speaker 3: important law firm. And he's actually my friend who I've 58 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 3: mentioned to his license to practice both in the US 59 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:21,799 Speaker 3: and Britain. 60 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 2: He is no dummy. 61 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 3: He and his company are working with a certain university 62 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 3: on AI programs for law, and he was describing to 63 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 3: me how they were designing AI personas I think was 64 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 3: the term he used that would approach a problem as 65 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 3: he would not just as a generic attorney or as 66 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 3: a computer, but as he has and would throughout his career. 67 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 3: And that's based on extensive interviews and study of how 68 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 3: he doesn't, and he said the results were scary good. 69 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 2: Wow. 70 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't buy the it's not going to be 71 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 4: profitable or be a thinging. I lean more toward ruining 72 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 4: the world than toward making it better personally, even though 73 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 4: I think it will make it better and it'll be 74 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 4: able to cure diseases and help you figure out medication 75 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 4: and all kinds of different things. But it at the 76 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 4: same time is going to ruin the world. And you know, 77 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 4: if it ruins the world, what good does it do? 78 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,719 Speaker 4: If I mean, if nobody has jobs and nobody gets 79 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 4: together in relationships anymore, who cares if it's curing these obscure. 80 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 3: Answers right in the few remaining human beings, right produced Yeah. 81 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 4: But anyway, I wanted to get to this part and 82 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 4: then I will shut up about it because I won't 83 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 4: worry out. But I thought it was this interesting, this 84 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 4: guy writes. My view is between these two extremes. I 85 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:41,600 Speaker 4: think that AI has genuinely impressive capabilities that are likely 86 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 4: to improve further in the coming months and years. I 87 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,719 Speaker 4: think the AI industry is likely to be profitable in 88 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,599 Speaker 4: the wrong run, and that open AI's basic business model 89 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 4: is perfectly reasonable, but I don't think we're very close 90 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 4: to human level intelligence at all. I don't think AI 91 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 4: is about to drive the kind of massive social and 92 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:01,479 Speaker 4: economic changes that Agi Pilled folk expect. Then it gets 93 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,840 Speaker 4: into some of his reasoning after that that gets complicated 94 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 4: and uses phrases in terms that. 95 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 2: You have to look up. 96 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 4: But there is a crowd out there that believes, well, 97 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 4: kind of what I just kind of what I just said, 98 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 4: but not completely. He believes, Yeah, it's a thing, and 99 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 4: it's gonna come along and it's going to be impactful, 100 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 4: but it's not going to upend society and our economic models. 101 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 2: In ways that we need to be worried about. And 102 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 2: I hope the more right. Oh yeah, yeah, I don't 103 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 2: think he is. 104 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 3: I think there is a wide swath of so called 105 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 3: white collar jobs that will vanish. 106 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 2: I'm completely convinced to that there's that. 107 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 4: And then I think a lot of these people, because 108 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 4: they're computer geeks, which in most cases by definition means 109 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 4: you're kind of like not a normal person in society, 110 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 4: I think they vastly underestimate what it's going to do 111 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 4: to relationships and society and coupling and all that sort 112 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,279 Speaker 4: of stuff, because there's such outliers as human beings to 113 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 4: start with, and I'm not sure that a lot of 114 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 4: these people even can conceive of thinking about that issue 115 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 4: because they just don't live in that world of like going. 116 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 2: Out on dating and blah blah blah. 117 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 3: Well, and a lot of opinion leaders are also self 118 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 3: motivated go getters, and so they can't conceive of because 119 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 3: you no longer have to work to take care of yourself, 120 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 3: you become a blob of dinner on week because they 121 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 3: would find something right. But a hell of a lot 122 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 3: of human beings aren't made like that. Most, Yeah, the 123 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:41,479 Speaker 3: vast majority. And I feel like we've already seen enough of. 124 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 4: The people having relationships with chatbots when it's at its 125 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 4: current level of engagement, that it's inevitable. 126 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 2: That it becomes a huge problem. 127 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 4: I can't I can't imagine the argument that says, no, 128 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 4: it's not it's not going to be a big deal. 129 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 4: You aren't going to have millions of inceell dudes who 130 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 4: are so obsessed with their AI chat bot and porn 131 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 4: that they never get with a real woman. 132 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 2: That won't happen. I don't understand that argument at all. 133 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 3: Right, Oh my gosh, I've got a great think piece 134 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 3: around here somewhere about the rise of that very sort 135 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 3: of young man and how they quickly become embittered and 136 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 3: hateful and for instance, kill Charlie Kirk or try to 137 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 3: put a bullet in Donald J. 138 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 2: Trump's head for the very scenario you were describing. 139 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 4: And then then for women, because women tend to be 140 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 4: more about the emotions than most dudes in general. Man, 141 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 4: the getting some sort of comfort from a chat dude 142 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 4: that talks to you about your problems and agrees that 143 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 4: you've been wronged by your mom and your sister. 144 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 2: I just think that's going to be a huge thing. 145 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 3: Right, just as an aside as you were a speaking 146 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 3: Jack quickly did a search on how old is the 147 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 3: saying idle hands are the devil's playthings? Or are similar 148 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 3: phrasings of the same thought, And it definitely goes back 149 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 3: to the Old Testament. Sure it's in proverbs idle hands 150 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 3: are the dull It depends which just translation you have. 151 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 3: It endured throughout the early days of Christianity. Here are 152 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 3: a bunch of citations from the medieval period. Here are 153 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 3: early English usages in the fifteen hundreds through the seventeen hundreds. 154 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 3: The wording probably solidified in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, 155 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 3: but the idea itself is at least fourteen hundred years old, 156 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 3: with deep roots in early Christian moral teaching. It is 157 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 3: an idea that has never receded from human consciousness, that 158 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 3: idle hands are the devil's playthings. And yet we are 159 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 3: moving as quickly as possible toward a mechanism to idle 160 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 3: as many hands as possible. 161 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 4: That's only works, that's true, But it only works because 162 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 4: you believe that a lot of people are not self 163 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 4: motivated to do something. The remember Nancy Pelosi famously saying, 164 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 4: this will be a chance everybody can be an artist 165 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,320 Speaker 4: or a poet or whatever. Yeah, a lot of people 166 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 4: are going to kind of talk about that, but they 167 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 4: aren't going to like engage in eight hours of effort 168 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 4: every single day to be whatever they're going to be 169 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 4: and be occupied. No, they're going to sit around and 170 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 4: get you know, naval gazingly selfish and insular in their lives, 171 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:37,199 Speaker 4: and it's going to go off the. 172 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 3: Rails and high and I all right, here's a little 173 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 3: poetry for you. Nancy Roses are red, violets are blue. 174 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:50,439 Speaker 3: AGI is here, Humanity's through there you go, there's a 175 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 3: little uh artificial generalized intelligence. 176 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 2: That's the AGI. Right. 177 00:09:56,559 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it's not a good poem, but you know, 178 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 3: I'm a beginner. 179 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show. 180 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, Moreja your show, podcasts and our hot links The 181 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty Show. 182 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 2: So there are a couple of topics. 183 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 3: Climate cultism is one and gender cultism is another, where 184 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 3: the tide is finally starting to turn, although I would 185 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 3: argue you've got a hell of a long road to 186 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 3: go before sanity's really install restored. And we've got a 187 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 3: gender bending madness update coming up next hour. But on 188 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 3: the climate thing, Bill Gates made a lot of headlines 189 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 3: this week when he said, essentially, yeah, maybe like doing 190 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 3: everything we can possibly do to reduce emissions at the 191 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 3: cost of our economies and standards of living, et cetera, 192 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 3: as maybe not the right strategy. Why don't we just 193 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 3: deal with maybe some of that's come for slight climate 194 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 3: changes might cause and look after people being able to 195 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 3: feed themselves and not die of diseases and stuff like that, 196 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 3: instead of putting all of ours in the climate basket. 197 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 2: Why he made that change. 198 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 3: Maybe he just woke up to reality in my opinion, 199 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 3: or whether he's motivated by AI's voracious need for electricity, 200 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 3: I don't know. 201 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 2: Well, just his. 202 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 4: Flat statement of mankind is not going to come to 203 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 4: its end because of climate change. What's the flat out 204 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 4: opposite of what he've been saying for twenty years right? Well, 205 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:26,559 Speaker 4: and also the idea that we, in particular the Western world, 206 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 4: because the other parts of the world don't give a crap, 207 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 4: that we can make these enormous sacrifices and it will 208 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 4: turn the tide has never been true. It was demonstrably 209 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 4: false for years, and he's finally woken up to it. 210 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:44,559 Speaker 3: Anyway, I thought this was interesting headline, The World turns 211 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:50,680 Speaker 3: to Energy Pragmatism, happens to be in the Dispatch Energy 212 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 3: section sponsored by the Pacific Legal Foundation, good friends of 213 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:57,679 Speaker 3: the Armstrong and Getty Show, and let's see Roger Pilke 214 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 3: is writing about the fact that you've got leaders all 215 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 3: around the world saying similar things, like Canadian Prime Minister 216 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:10,319 Speaker 3: Mark Karney. A decade ago, he warned that remaining fossil 217 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 3: fuel reserves may become unburnable if the world wants to 218 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 3: avoid a climate catastrophe. 219 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 2: In recent months, he's. 220 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 3: Fast tracked approval of new liquefied natural gas export terminals 221 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 3: in British Columbia, promising quote, to transform our country. 222 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 2: Into an energy superpower. Okay. 223 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 3: In the UK, Prime Minister kir Starmer, who needs to 224 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 3: get out of office as soon as possible, must soon 225 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 3: decide whether to relax aggressive climate targets that have crippled 226 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 3: Britain's economy. A government insider recently told The Guardian, quote, 227 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 3: if it comes to a choice between hitting the climate 228 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 3: target and overpaying, or missing it and keeping costs down, 229 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 3: we're going to miss it. 230 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 2: Yeah. 231 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 4: Britain went net zero and just destroyed their economy. As 232 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 4: listened to a podcast about that a couple of weeks ago, 233 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 4: and it was shocking that I wasn't more aware of this, 234 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 4: the damage they did to their own economy over this. 235 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 4: Thank god we didn't. Oh yeah, yeah, you got your. 236 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 3: German Chancellor Freddie Mertz recently acknowledged the competing economic objectives 237 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:11,840 Speaker 3: that a company an ambitious climate agenda. 238 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:12,319 Speaker 5: Quote. 239 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 3: None of us are questioning the goal of climate protection. 240 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 3: All of us are of the opinion we must combine 241 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:21,839 Speaker 3: this with the competitiveness of European industry. All the people 242 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 3: who have had their economic prospects crushed over the last 243 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 3: fifteen years are probably saying, oh, great, way to wake 244 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 3: up now, Fred. 245 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 2: But it's actually more than that. 246 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:35,680 Speaker 3: Like your Greek Prime minister, Unpronounceable, writing for The Financial Times, 247 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:40,560 Speaker 3: argued in favor of a more pragmatic energy transmission transition. Quote, 248 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:43,199 Speaker 3: if we must accept some emissions for a bit longer 249 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 3: to save our industries or to maintain social cohesion, so 250 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 3: be it. 251 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 2: We have to have these debates. Honestly. 252 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 3: We cannot begin with climate neutrality and hope everything else 253 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 3: falls into place. 254 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of us have been saying that for 255 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 2: a long time. 256 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, practically word for word, one or two more and 257 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 3: then more. On that theme, Chris Coons of Delaware, a 258 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 3: highly partisan Democrat, recently told Politico that climate is not 259 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 3: a top three issue right now. 260 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:10,559 Speaker 2: Wow, I didn't know that. 261 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 3: Senator Brian Shatz of Hawaii, it's pretty name when even 262 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 3: further or arguing at an unfortunate event, Yes, at a 263 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 3: New York Times event last month, that costs need to 264 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 3: be front and center when talking about energy. Quote, you 265 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 3: could talk about the planetary emergency and mitigation and adaptation. 266 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 3: You could throw in some environmental justice rhetoric, but by 267 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 3: the time you're done talking, people don't think you care 268 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 3: about them. The way to victory is to talk about price. Okay, welcome, 269 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 3: glad to have you at the party. 270 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 2: Thanks. 271 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 3: Sure, we're just cleaning up and washing the dishes. You 272 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 3: know what, Yes, you've You've been having a shats on 273 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 3: the American people for too long with your climate cultism. 274 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 3: My god, so the one bitter note about people finally 275 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 3: coming correct. 276 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:01,239 Speaker 2: Careers were crushed, People run. 277 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 3: Out of science and academia for saying these very things. 278 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 3: People were like canceled on Twitter and Facebook for saying 279 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 3: the very things the left is now saying. 280 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 4: Have we learned something from COVID or climate and the 281 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 4: trans craziness that you got to let people have their 282 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 4: opinions out there? 283 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 3: Probably for a while we have, and then those lessons 284 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 3: get fuzzier over time and you repeat them. History doesn't 285 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 3: repeat itself, but it rhymes. As they say, still laughing 286 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 3: over your joke? How I agree, shut up? It's time 287 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 3: I agree with you. 288 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 2: Shut up. 289 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 3: You She's a poor autistic kid who got exploited by 290 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 3: adults who made millions of dollars off the climate scam. 291 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 3: I shouldn't be mean to her. I mean she's an 292 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 3: adult now. 293 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 2: But please, well then I should be back in school. 294 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 2: You know, you're right. They ran into the problem. 295 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 4: The climate change activists of like a lot of doomsday cults, 296 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 4: like you know, the world is going to end on 297 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 4: twenty nineteen, and then twenty nineteen comes in the world 298 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 4: doesn't and you kind of and ruins your credibility. And 299 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 4: that's what happened with a lot of your climate change stuff. 300 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 4: I mean, you go back and look at some of 301 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 4: the things Al Gore claim was going to happen by 302 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 4: twenty years ago. 303 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Well, and then the claims of the effect 304 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 3: that their policies would have. 305 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 2: Are completely fanciful. 306 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 3: You haven't changed the output of you know, crap globally speaking, 307 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 3: nearly enough to crap. That's a nice technical term, you know, 308 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 3: the fossil fuels and carbon and the rest of it. 309 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 3: You haven't changed it nearly enough to matter. So quit 310 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 3: wasting our time in economies on your cult. And again, 311 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 3: how often do you see this pattern? There are people 312 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 3: making billions and billions of dollars off of selling climate fear, 313 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 3: and then you've got the good hearted, soft headed gretitunbergs 314 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 3: the world and the college kids on the campuses who 315 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,960 Speaker 3: believe it with one sincerity, and they're the army that 316 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 3: marches for the activists. 317 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 4: I think in honor of Dick Cheney's passing, we should 318 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 4: waterboard Bill Gates to find out what made him change 319 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 4: his mind. 320 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 2: I love that idea. 321 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 5: Jack and jar here to tell you your day will 322 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:25,959 Speaker 5: be just fine. Just comes to you Armstrong and Getty 323 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 5: on the Man. 324 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:29,879 Speaker 2: That's the podcast. 325 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: Subscribe right now, Armstrong, the Armstrong and Getty Sharp. 326 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:46,719 Speaker 4: If you're I'm guessing most of you don't pay any 327 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 4: attention to think tanks at all, but if you, if 328 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 4: you're lean conservative and you do know anything about him. 329 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 4: Heritage Foundation was huge and big, and we talked a 330 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 4: lot last week about how disappointing it was that they 331 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 4: became so concerned not angering Tucker Carlson apparently and attacked 332 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 4: anybody who criticized him. 333 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:10,200 Speaker 3: Platforming Nazis story out to kissing Vladimir Putin's ass too. 334 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 4: By the way, story out today. This is in the 335 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 4: Wall Street Journal. The crack up at the Heritage Foundation 336 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 4: is a warning sign for MAGA. Employees at the Heritage 337 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:23,679 Speaker 4: Foundation who had been working on Ukraine policy were asked 338 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 4: to watch Tucker Carlson's monologues, which were full of conspiracy 339 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 4: theories about the war and just flat out lies, to 340 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 4: delete past tweets in support of Ukraine aid I guess 341 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 4: in case Tucker saw them, and to write papers reflecting 342 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:45,679 Speaker 4: the new more isolationist policy at Heritage. This was to 343 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:49,120 Speaker 4: the employees working on Ukraine policy, you need to watch 344 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:52,919 Speaker 4: more of the Tucker Carlson monologues at Heritage. 345 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:53,719 Speaker 2: Isn't that something? 346 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, to which David French, who I don't always agree 347 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 4: with but writes for The New York Times, the rot 348 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 4: is so incredibly deep. It's astonishing to me that the 349 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,439 Speaker 4: Heritage Foundation, of all institutions, would become an instrument of 350 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 4: Russian propaganda. That's what Tucker Carlson's monologues were, pure propaganda. 351 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:13,680 Speaker 2: So all right, there you go. 352 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 3: Like he's ooing an eyeing over the grocery store and 353 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 3: in Yeah, that was just shameless. 354 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,159 Speaker 4: Yeah, And how you know, Putin's standing up for Christianity 355 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:28,119 Speaker 4: and traditional values and stuff like that, and uh, you know, 356 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 4: like I said earlier, I don't quite understand how powerful 357 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 4: Tucker is or Candice owns or Nick Fwente's versus other things, 358 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 4: but Heritage apparently was scared of them. This is Joe's 359 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 4: been talking about this more than me. But this will 360 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:47,200 Speaker 4: continue to have other shoes dropping. The immigration problem they 361 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 4: got in Europe, particularly in this case Great Britain. Looking 362 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,719 Speaker 4: at this picture of a boat from today, fifteen hundred 363 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 4: Channel migrants. That's what they call people that who enter 364 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 4: Great Britain from France and just come across whatever it is, 365 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:00,639 Speaker 4: sixty miles the channel. 366 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 3: They were living in the English Channel and now they're 367 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 3: living here. 368 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:08,679 Speaker 4: Fifteen hundred Channel migrants have crossed illegally from France since Thursday, 369 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 4: for the third straight day. Hundreds more are crossing into 370 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:15,120 Speaker 4: UK waters. Total this year now is over thirty eight 371 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 4: thousan five hundred, which is a tiny number by US 372 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,120 Speaker 4: Joe Biden era standards, but a lot from there, well 373 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 4: ahead of the thirty six thousand who arrived during the 374 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 4: whole of twenty twenty four. So I got people showing 375 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:28,920 Speaker 4: up in boat loads illegals from all around, mostly from 376 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:33,679 Speaker 4: Middle East Africa, get into France. Once they get into Europe, 377 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 4: and then crossing the channel in these boats and for 378 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 4: whatever reason the rules in Great Britain they don't have 379 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 4: a way to stop the vessels and turn them around 380 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:42,639 Speaker 4: or keep them from coming on shore. 381 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, part of that's EU and part of its although 382 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 3: they did the breaks of part of it's that they've 383 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,879 Speaker 3: got progressives in charge. 384 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 2: Worth mentioning because I just happened to check this. 385 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:56,359 Speaker 3: The UK as a whole has about a fifth of 386 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,679 Speaker 3: our population, so if you want to talk about disruptive 387 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:05,160 Speaker 3: inflo luence of immigrants from other cultures, you know that's 388 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,360 Speaker 3: pretty big number that they were talking about, dwarfed by 389 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 3: the Biden era quite so. Oh, speaking of the immigration problem, 390 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 3: you mind if I squeezes in real quick. I mentioned 391 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:19,399 Speaker 3: earlier the shameless Metrocropolitan Police trying to downplay an ugly, 392 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 3: ugly murder by an Afghan immigrant on an old man, 393 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:28,160 Speaker 3: and how they just in Orwellian fashion, turned it into 394 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 3: an incident in which a man sadly died like you know, 395 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 3: he'd had a heart attack and died alone watching the TV. 396 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:40,879 Speaker 3: But then you've got this story out of it's reloading, 397 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 3: thank you very much. Swedish court ruled that an eritrean 398 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,959 Speaker 3: migrant who raped a sixteen year old girl will not 399 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 3: be deported because the rape didn't last long enough. 400 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 2: Oh my god, she. 401 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 3: Missed her buss was walking through a pedestrian tunnel after 402 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 3: finishing her shift at a McDonald's. An eighteen year old 403 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 3: eritree migrants, Yazid Mohammad, attacked or raped her. He was 404 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 3: sentenced to three years in prison, and the prosecutor wanted 405 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,919 Speaker 3: to deport him, but the Court of Appeals noted the 406 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 3: man has refugee status and to deport him would require 407 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 3: a quote exceptionally serious offense and allowing them to remain 408 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 3: in Sweden would pose a serious threat to public order 409 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 3: in safety. But the rape was deemed not serious enough 410 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 3: to justify the deportation, with the Court of Appeal citing, 411 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:34,679 Speaker 3: among other factors, the duration of the rape in its assessment, 412 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,679 Speaker 3: which is just stunning. I know, it's terrible. This is 413 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 3: Europe trying to figure out what the hell to do 414 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 3: with itself after allowing rampant immigration of people who in 415 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 3: many cases hate their culture, hate the dominant religion, and 416 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 3: stuff like that. Here's a freedom of information report from 417 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 3: the Center for Migration Control role in the UK. They 418 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 3: were keeping track of crime rates among various immigrant groups 419 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 3: that they refused to release to the press until a 420 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 3: freedom of information request. Which nationalities commit the most violent, 421 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 3: sexual and theft offenses. Conviction rates in England and Wales 422 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:22,920 Speaker 3: by nationality per ten thousand people for the years twenty 423 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 3: twenty one through twenty twenty three violent crimes per ten 424 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:33,479 Speaker 3: thousand people. Sixteen UK natives get convicted of those crimes. 425 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:39,120 Speaker 3: It's eighty, Gambians ninety one, iraqis one hundred and two 426 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:44,160 Speaker 3: per ten thousand, Afghanistan citizens, Somalians about one hundred and thirty, 427 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,359 Speaker 3: so we're almost ten times the rate of UK citizens 428 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:51,399 Speaker 3: and Kungales it's one hundred and eighty seven per ten thousand. 429 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:55,640 Speaker 3: It's about twelve times as many as UK citizens. Sexual 430 00:23:55,760 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 3: violence UK citizens six per ten thousand, Afghans it's sixty 431 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 3: per ten thousand Eritreans it's fifty four Namibians, fifty Chadians, 432 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 3: forty Moldovan's thirty eight and theft eighteen per ten thousand 433 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:17,200 Speaker 3: native born Britz folks from Algeria. It's three hundred and 434 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 3: twenty for ten thousand, eighteen for Britz, three hundred and 435 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,360 Speaker 3: twenty for Algerians, Moroccans. It's two hundred and twenty six Romanians, 436 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty two Congolese, one hundred and thirty 437 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:34,199 Speaker 3: folks from Chad one hundred and twenty. They're poor people, 438 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:36,959 Speaker 3: many unskilled, who come to a country where they're not 439 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 3: supposed to be and not supposed to work. Of course 440 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 3: they turned the crime, but the Brits are desperate to 441 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 3: keep that quiet. 442 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 4: Kids and I ate at a well known diner chain 443 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,119 Speaker 4: over the weekend. I'll call it Lenny's. I want to 444 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 4: talk about that in a second. But just came across 445 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 4: this information. We got an asteroid headed. It's not gonna 446 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 4: hit Earth, but it's gonna come. Asteroid Psyche sixteen is 447 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:08,719 Speaker 4: its name. Anyway, They believe it contains because you know, 448 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 4: we send up these probes and everything like that to 449 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 4: these asteroids. This asteroid contains gold reserves worth seven hundred 450 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,640 Speaker 4: quintillion dollars, which I don't actually know what a quintillion is, but. 451 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,680 Speaker 2: And I'd buy a new car if I had that. 452 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 2: Ash sounds like a big number. Yeah, seven hundred quintillion 453 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 2: dollars worth of gold on it. It's enough to make 454 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 2: everyone on Earth billionaires. Of course, there's a economic flaw 455 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,640 Speaker 2: with that argument. 456 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 4: I'm not sure gold would continue to hold the value 457 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:45,159 Speaker 4: it has. We each had seven thousand pounds. 458 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 3: Of it, and the costs of extraction from a asteroid 459 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 3: hurtling through space have got to be considerable. 460 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:54,880 Speaker 2: Would not be something if it hit Earth? 461 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 3: Trump aught annex its just in case everybody knows it's 462 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 3: ours all of a sudden, Gold's war because there's so 463 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 3: much of it. Yeah, that would be crazy. People would 464 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,159 Speaker 3: be just literally, Oh, that reminds me. I was gonna say, 465 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 3: making solid gold toilets. I've been meaning to bring this 466 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,359 Speaker 3: up for a long time, for days. Anyway, where is 467 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 3: that story? You remember the banana taped to the wall? 468 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 2: Guy? 469 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, the artist he taped a banana to the wall 470 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,880 Speaker 4: and it was what did it represent? 471 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 2: Man than humanity? Demand? And somebody paid like a million 472 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 2: dollars for the art. Yeah. 473 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 3: Well, the same artist behind the six point two million 474 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 3: dollar duct tape banana has created an eighteen carrot gold toilet. 475 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 2: How many? How many million did you say the banana was? 476 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 2: Six point two was more than I even remembered. Can 477 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 2: you believe that? 478 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 3: S Anyway, he sculpted a toilet out of two hundred 479 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 3: and twenty three pounds of gold. It's valued at about 480 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 3: ten million dollars just for the materials. Sothabies is betting 481 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 3: it can auction off the golden toilet bowl for even more. 482 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 2: They're going to start the bidding a ten million bucks. 483 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 3: That's just your break even never mind, is is labor 484 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,880 Speaker 3: for crafting a really pretty good looking solid gold toilet? 485 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,880 Speaker 3: I mean it looks like a toilet in like your office. Well, 486 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 3: what's the name with the industrial flusher and stuff? What's 487 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,239 Speaker 3: the name or the description of the art. 488 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,640 Speaker 4: What's it supposed to symbolize that we're flushing money down 489 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 4: the drain, or that everything you know turns to dust 490 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,640 Speaker 4: and your money's worth nothing and all your money brilliant? Well, 491 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 4: not another moment by As quoted by the rock group 492 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 4: Kansas Yes Yes, in their work of Genius, let me 493 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 4: first remind you that the fruit duct tape to the 494 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 4: wall was entitled Comedian the Solid Gold Toilet. Now don't 495 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,159 Speaker 4: march on this place and burn it down. The title 496 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 4: of the Solid Gold Toilet is America twenty sixteen. Yeah, 497 00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 4: Well that was pretty clever. This guy's clever. Some rich 498 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 4: progressive will buy that because they're progressive friends. They want 499 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:09,120 Speaker 4: to be known as the person that bought the Trump's 500 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 4: a Problem art. 501 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, I am going to protest the 502 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:18,160 Speaker 3: solid gold toilet, and the nature of my protest will be. 503 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 2: All too appropriate, I think, right. 504 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 4: I have something in mind, and it'll be called the 505 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,680 Speaker 4: person who bought this has s for brains. 506 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 3: Exactly. That's what I will entitle my performance art. I 507 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 3: can't watch of that show, or at least I don't 508 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 3: want good seats. 509 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 2: Neither do I. 510 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 1: The armstrong and getting shot. 511 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 6: Japan is grappling with a grizzly problem, deadly bear attacks. 512 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 6: A record twelve p people have been killed in more 513 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 6: than one hundred barren counters since April alone, and issues 514 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 6: so serious the country's pacifist military has taken the extraordinary 515 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 6: step to deploy forces to the northern Akita and Iwate 516 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 6: prefectures armed with shields, bear spray and. 517 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 2: Traps to watch out. 518 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 4: Bears are gonna go Pearl harbor on you what they 519 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 4: got a national emergency Bear. 520 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 2: Attacks in Japan? Bears exactly right, there's one. 521 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, Japanese bear attack the name of my new band. 522 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 3: We're going to tour with Toad the wet sprocket. That's 523 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 3: another good multi word panic at the disco. Yeah, you know, 524 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 3: in an all wordy band festival. Japanese bear attack. 525 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 2: What an interesting situation. 526 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 4: They rarely use their military for anything. We trained for 527 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,680 Speaker 4: a Chinese invasion or attack in the United States. Again, 528 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 4: we trained for all these things, but and got a 529 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:03,840 Speaker 4: lot of how to handle bears. 530 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 2: While we're watching China, our bears rose up. 531 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 3: Yeah you know what, Donald Jay got very little credit 532 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 3: when he was in Asia a couple of weeks ago 533 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 3: for brow beaten a number of our allies to spend 534 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 3: more on defense for God's sake, to get beefed up, 535 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 3: gets strong because they're. 536 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 2: Gonna need it because of bear tas. No, No, I 537 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 2: was thinking more in terms of China. 538 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,160 Speaker 4: But a couple of things I want to get on 539 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 4: before we have to take a break again. I do 540 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 4: want to get into this person from the Heritage Foundation 541 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 4: that resigned yesterday, so unhappy about the leader of that 542 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 4: conservative organation backing Tucker and Nick Fuentes the way he did. 543 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,960 Speaker 4: Now he has apologized even further. That's quite the interesting 544 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 4: inter intra conservative argument that's going on there. But and 545 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 4: it's kind of a cool thing too, because we police 546 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:56,800 Speaker 4: are crazies, unlike the left. 547 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:58,080 Speaker 2: We've been talking about. 548 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 4: Affordability is like the word of the last forty eight 549 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 4: hours with the election everything like that. Trump administration just 550 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 4: announced there's gonna be a big weight loss drug price 551 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 4: announcement coming today. 552 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 2: That is classic Trump, right there. 553 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,840 Speaker 4: Nation of fat people who want their fat drugs cheaper, 554 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 4: that's what Trump's thinking. And I'm gonna announce that we're 555 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 4: gonna cut those way down and you can afford your 556 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 4: don't be fat drug. 557 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 3: That's a nice way to step on yesterday's headlines. Yeah, yeah, 558 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 3: that's a good one. Came across this. Who's in charge 559 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:32,520 Speaker 3: of security at the Louver me? The Louver Museum surveillance 560 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 3: password was Louver. Holy crap. They shouldn't have put me 561 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 3: in charge because that's why I do things. Isn't that 562 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 3: something that's like the guest password at your dentist's office 563 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 3: right now? Wow, and that's the security password. 564 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 2: That's pretty funny. How much time I got, Michael, depends 565 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 2: how you keep eating? Yeah, about one minute though. 566 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 4: I know we came up with a word for this. 567 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 4: When you're flummixed by some sort of technical thing and 568 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 4: you just and it's the feeling you get when you're 569 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:10,680 Speaker 4: having that. 570 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,400 Speaker 2: It's just it's its only unique feeling. I think we 571 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 2: decided on texhaustion. 572 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,240 Speaker 4: I was trying to pay a bill online yesterday and 573 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,040 Speaker 4: you go, you had to go through like and you 574 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 4: have to pay it this way, And I had to 575 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 4: go through like ninety steps to get to the end. 576 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 4: It took probably fifteen. 577 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:27,600 Speaker 2: Minutes at least. 578 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 4: Wow, you know, press one for this, press two for that, 579 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,720 Speaker 4: and then they say it and blah blah blah. And 580 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 4: at the end it was we'll send you a code. 581 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:34,760 Speaker 4: You have to type in the code to show that 582 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:36,320 Speaker 4: you and you know this is the right phone. And 583 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,000 Speaker 4: every time I typed in the code, it would read 584 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 4: back the wrong numbers. I would type in six oh 585 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 4: three nine, and it would say five oh two six 586 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 4: is the wrong number. That's not what I typed in, 587 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,040 Speaker 4: you bastards. Anyway, I did it like three or four times. 588 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 4: I was getting so mad, I thought I was going 589 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 4: to punch a hole in the wall. That feeling is 590 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 4: my least favorite feeling. 591 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, the scourge of the modern man. 592 00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,400 Speaker 2: There's nobody to complain to. 593 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 4: Armstrong Getty store is open, so some of you buy 594 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 4: stuff for your family or friends for Christmas, if they're 595 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:08,760 Speaker 4: fans of this here radio program. 596 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 2: It's just I feel like it's one for me. 597 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 4: I feel like it's one of those great excuse me, 598 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:19,600 Speaker 4: easy gift, checked it off, didn't cost you much, straight 599 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,200 Speaker 4: from the heart, seems like you did something nice. 600 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 3: It was really there will be laughter, tears, hugs, it 601 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 3: will be the bell of the ball. 602 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 4: You go to the Armstrong and Getty store, and Hanson, 603 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 4: who runs a damn thing, is really pushing people to 604 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,720 Speaker 4: do it soon to make sure you get everything in 605 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,959 Speaker 4: time for Christmas. There was some talk about the Armstrong 606 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,040 Speaker 4: and Getty pickleball paddles. I thought it was pretty funny 607 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,120 Speaker 4: that we had them, and then there were some complaints 608 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,920 Speaker 4: about them, and Hanson brought one in and I don't 609 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 4: have any idea what a really high quality pickleball pedals like. 610 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:49,160 Speaker 2: I have them. 611 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 4: I bought mine at large five, I think, But they're 612 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 4: just like this. There's nothing wrong with this. This is 613 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 4: perfectly fie. Unless you like, get serious serious about pickleball, 614 00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 4: this is gonna be absolutely fine. 615 00:33:58,680 --> 00:33:59,560 Speaker 2: What is wrong with this? 616 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 4: This isn't doesn't feel like cheap Chinese crap it feels 617 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,080 Speaker 4: like something quality to me. I like everything about it, 618 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,200 Speaker 4: and it comes with this cool carrying case. Although they're 619 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 4: sold out, so they're I don't know why I'm even 620 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,000 Speaker 4: talking about it. We're sold out of the pickleball pedals, 621 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:13,520 Speaker 4: armstring can get a pick. 622 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,680 Speaker 2: A ball, but sold anymore. Not anymore. 623 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,719 Speaker 4: We're going to be back. But anyway, and go to 624 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:18,839 Speaker 4: the store and see what we got. 625 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, we put the lash to the Chinese slaves and 626 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:22,439 Speaker 3: they made several more of them. 627 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,759 Speaker 4: What if we had adult items like the sort of 628 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,359 Speaker 4: thing people were throwing on WNBA courts at one point, 629 00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,920 Speaker 4: like marital aids. We'll go on it for novelty purposes, 630 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 4: only take a and g to bed. 631 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,080 Speaker 2: Yes, I love that idea. Anyway, and you know we 632 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:36,960 Speaker 2: need to branch out. We need to have more things. 633 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,279 Speaker 3: They're probably not as popular as the hoodies, including the 634 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 3: new Conscience of the Nation hoodie, the star of the 635 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 3: lazy Stupid should hurt stars including the f yolickin Party, 636 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 3: which I wear proudly, or stocking stuffers, ang coasters, decals, 637 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,120 Speaker 3: coffee mugs, stainless steel. 638 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,960 Speaker 2: Water bottle, or the get your Words straight jack. No, 639 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:06,920 Speaker 2: look that solid Armstrong and Getty dot Com. Anyway, that's 640 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:07,400 Speaker 2: enough of that. 641 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,799 Speaker 4: I'm trying to figure out what to do for my 642 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,080 Speaker 4: kids this year. They're definitely the age they're almost fourteen, 643 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,919 Speaker 4: almost sixteen, They're definitely past the age of more cheap 644 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,560 Speaker 4: Chinese crap. There's just no reason so either an experience 645 00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:24,200 Speaker 4: or like accumulate the money into one actually worth something gift. 646 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:25,080 Speaker 2: I think this year. 647 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:29,800 Speaker 4: God, when they're younger, it's just endless piles of cheap 648 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:33,800 Speaker 4: Chinese crab is what they get when they're little kids, 649 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,000 Speaker 4: and they're delighted, and that's fine, and it is cheap, 650 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,680 Speaker 4: but it well, it was always interesting to me that 651 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:44,279 Speaker 4: we would give our kids the same beloved toy that 652 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,920 Speaker 4: we had, but you'd take it out of the package 653 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,600 Speaker 4: and instead of feeling like it could last, you know, 654 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:53,200 Speaker 4: one hundred years. Yeah, it's cheap Chinese crab. Yeah, definitely, 655 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,839 Speaker 4: Oh China. Definitely the modern version of something you played 656 00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,799 Speaker 4: with as a kid that is just so flimsy and 657 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,160 Speaker 4: light and poorly known. 658 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,160 Speaker 2: Exactly Armstrong and Getty