WEBVTT - I'm Starting To Get A Little Twitchy 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:22.040 Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty. Hi, y'all doing. 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:24.080 So. 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:28.280 We're about to talk a little bit about misinformation disinformation. 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:32.320 Mark Zuckerberg was on Joe Rogan's Much Listen To podcast 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:36.400 on Friday, said some things that should be giant news stories, 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:40.720 but partially not because of the fires eating up a 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:44.480 lot of time and space and newspapers and broadcast TV 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:45.400 and that sort of stuff. 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:49.000 But yeah, I think it's more about the media's hesitation 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.559 to admit what is plainly true about censorship and the 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:54.080 Biden administration in COVID. 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.440 But for instance, on misinformation disinformation, this is a breaking 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.600 story in the La Times right now. Investigators looking into 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:04.720 electric towers possible eating fire origin site. That's the big 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:08.160 fire in the Pasadena Altadeene area. Then you got the 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:13.279 other fire, the bigger fire the Palisades area. They think 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:15.759 the last story I read about it, and I think 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.480 it was also in the La Times some fireworks from 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.360 New Year's Eve had been smoldering and started that whole thing. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.640 There was an illegal arrested. Well, a bunch of people 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:29.160 detained an illegal they saw who had a fire torch 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.360 in his hand, like the way you light fires. But 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.600 there's nobody's nailed down that he started any fires. I'm 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.440 seeing lots of social media just blanket statements of illegals 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:42.319 are going around starting fires in La. Well, there's no 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:44.760 evidence that that any of these fires were started by 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.760 illegal I'd be more than happy to jump on that 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.480 story if it's nailed down, trust me, I'd love that story. 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.000 But there's no evidence that that's actually happening. 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.760 But if you're on social media for a big crowd, 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.960 it's as if it's completely true and nailed That's the 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:02.400 way information works. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:04.680 That's the way information works in the modern era. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.840 For I know that for a lot of people on Twitter, 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.440 for instance, that story's done for the rest of their lives. 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:16.000 Illegals started these fires, even though that's not what happened, 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:22.720 at least not yet. So that's that's a difficult situation. 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.400 Even if you're trying to do your best in social 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.000 media and you know monitor what's true and what's not. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.280 You go further the other direction, which Zuckerberg's about to 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.480 talk about with Joe Rogan on Friday, where you're putting 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.959 out things you know to be true and the government's 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:39.880 screaming at you and doesn't want you to do that. 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:41.600 But let's let's start at the beginning here. 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:45.480 Here's Mark Zuckerberg, guy runs Facebook on Joe Rogan on Friday. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:50.160 But it was really in the last ten years that 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.880 people started pushing for like ideological base censorship. And I 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.880 think it was two main events that really triggered this. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:06.040 Sixteen There was the election of President Trump, also coincided 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:10.079 with basically Brexit in the EU and sort of the 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.400 fragmentation of the EU. And then you know, in twenty 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:17.200 twenty there was COVID, And I think that those were 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:21.080 basically these two events were for the first time, we 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.960 just placed, we just faced this massive, massive institutional pressure 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:32.600 to basically start censoring content on ideological grounds. 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:37.080 Institutional pressure to censor content. Well, where was that coming 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.440 from and in what way? He talks more about it here. 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:41.560 It was during the Biden administration when they were trying 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:48.120 to roll out the vaccine program. And I'm generally like 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.840 pretty pro rolling out vaccines. I think on balance the 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:55.440 vaccines are more positive than negative. But I think that 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.920 while they're trying to push that program, they also tried 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.720 censor anyone who is basically arguing against it, and they 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.920 pushed us super hard to take down things that were 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.000 honestly were true, right, I mean, they basically pushed us 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:17.000 and said, you know, anything that says that vaccines might 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:22.320 have side effects you basically need to take down. And 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.800 I was just like, well, we're not going to do that, Like, 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:26.400 we're clearly not going to do that. I mean, that 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.560 is kind of inarguably. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:31.440 We don't have the audio of this, but he says 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:35.799 Biden administration officials used to call and scream at us, 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.880 demanding that we remove COVID related content, even things that 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.359 were facts or memes in humor. When we refused, we 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.120 found ourselves under investigation by several agencies. 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.720 Well, right, And I thought it was ironically kind of 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:55.920 ridiculously charming that he said we faced incredible institutional pressure. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.480 The institution in question is not like the National Association 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.760 of orthod Donnists. It's the executive branch of the federal 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.159 government was calling him in, screaming at him and telling 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.680 him what to print and what not to print. It 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.080 sounds like censorship to me. 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:17.080 Well especially, I mean when there is a clear penalty there. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:21.120 When we refused, we found ourselves under investigation by several agencies. 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.400 Well right, yeah, As I said at the time when 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:28.600 I was howling about this, whether it's investigations or regulations 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.120 or lawsuits or just impediments, I mean, if a federal 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.359 government decides to f with you, pardon me, f with you, 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.839 they will they will make it impossible to do business 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:42.880 through the tax code. Witness the conservative organizations during the 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.600 Tea Party era or whatever. The Pea Party era is 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:51.040 a completely different era. I apologize I'm as spoke, but yeah, 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:57.360 it's and I was so bitterly disappointed when the Supreme Court, 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:02.360 in I think it was Murthy versus Missouri, essentially struck 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:06.160 down a lawsuit about this. Having gone back to refresh 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.120 my memory about it, it's the sort of you didn't 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:13.400 have standing to sue, assuming that past censorship would equal 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:17.640 future censorship. So they weren't asking the Supreme Court. Hey, 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.800 was that awful or not? It was at about a 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.120 particular injunction. So I would love to have the Supreme 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:28.960 Court hand down in whatever former, whatever pretext, the word 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.880 that no, this sort of censorship by proxy or through 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:36.839 the threat of action is a violation of. 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:37.560 The First Amendment. 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.800 Yeah, rockstar lawyer Randy Barnett, who's got a great book 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.880 out right now, tweeted over the weekend the Biden administration 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.000 pressure on Facebook should be big news and a huge scandal, 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.280 big enough for Scotus to hear about it. 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.760 But will it. He thinks it should be a Supreme 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.240 Court case like you're just talking about. I think so too. 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.000 I mean, this is a big deal. The fact that it. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:04.880 Landed on Friday with very little coverage, again partially because 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.080 of the fire obscuring everything like that is well, and 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.920 I don't know, I get what you're saying. 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:15.640 I think the fire is a pilot light compared to 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.400 the utter you know, discussed that most of the media 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.440 has with the idea of saying, you know what, all 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.160 that stuff that we were one hundred percent for suppressing, 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.440 like the the you know, the scientists who are advocating 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.920 for the Great Barrington Declaration, for instance, who are pointing out, yeah, 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.480 there are side effects, who are pointing out, no, the 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:39.080 vaccine does not prevent transmission, who are pointing out we 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:43.000 should open the schools who were saying that young healthy 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.840 people had no need. Anybody who had natural immunity had 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:47.840 no need to take the jab. All of those things 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:53.160 are now unquestionably and unquestioned fact. But the media was 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.640 complicit in silencing those people. So no, they're not going 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.560 to turn around and say, gee, that censorship was awful. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:00.840 Without the fire, I think Fox would have made this 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.080 a very big story over the weekend. But you're right, 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.960 I don't think Meta Kress faced the Nation would have 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.360 touched it at all, because if they can post the 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.640 New York Times, maybe they would have been completely implicated 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.080 in this sort of thing. One more clip from Rogan. 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.680 I thought was interesting. You were just lying to us 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:19.920 about this, that and the other thing, and now I'm 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.000 supposed to believe you're one of the good guys, you're 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:28.360 one of the straight shooters. Now, yeah, I don't know 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:29.480 where that goes from there. 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.400 I tell you what, with all due respect to our 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:38.640 need to not prop up people we compete with, allegedly, 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:43.840 that's a great question by Rogan, That's an incredibly uncomfortable question. 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:44.439 Yeah. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.160 Yeah, Well that's been the pushback since last week when 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.400 Zuckerberg first came out and all of a sudden, as 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:54.880 a Bill Wright's first Amendment, guy, is okay, which one's. 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:55.200 The real you? 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.600 Or do you just yeah and fair enough? Although you know, 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.680 my goal in this discussion is not whether I should 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.760 like more Exegerber sure, not that sup has sailed. It's 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.760 about the First Amendment in government censorship. 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.560 That's horrifying that that could happen though at that level 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:16.800 on things that were really important. Yes, are there side 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.520 effects on the vaccine the government is forcing you to 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:20.040 get or you. 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:25.199 Lose your job, not allowed to say, what are you kidding? Mind? 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.280 That included a hell of a lot of firefighters and 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:32.560 soldiers and sailors and marines. So you young, healthy, primarily 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:34.640 men who would not get the JAB, many of whom 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:35.920 already had natural immunity. 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:39.679 So you're employed by the government at some level, and 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:44.040 the government's not allowing discussion on whether or not the 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.719 vaccine has side effects, but you're being forced to take 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:47.439 it to keep your job. 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.880 That's exactly the sort of thing you don't. 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.319 Want to in a free society, I would agree, And 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.520 the technicalities of who can sue and who has standing 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.199 and blah blah blah gets you know. 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.040 I'll let the lawyers argue about that. But yeah, I 0:09:59.080 --> 0:09:59.880 agree with you completely. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:04.040 The Supreme Court has got to issue some sort of 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.400 edict about this censorship by proxy. 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.560 Zuckerberg did have the option, didn't he though, of going 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:17.320 full profile and courage and with his I mean, especially 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:19.280 then Facebook was bigger then than it is now in 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.760 terms of people paying attention to it. If he had 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.240 to come out and said, the Biden administration is really 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:30.439 pressuring us to take down things that are true or 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:31.560 at least possibly true. 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.839 God doubt of it, a huge story. Yep, absolutely, I 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:36.480 wish he had. 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:37.959 I mean, that could have been one of those on 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.040 a Sunday morning where they do the full five, where 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:41.640 he goes on like face the nation, meet the press, 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.880 by all the shows, and talks about how the Bedministry 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.400 people are screaming me on the phone and threaten me, 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.439 threatening me with investigations if I take down things that 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:51.000 are true. 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.000 Oh my god, what a story that would have been. 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:54.319 But he chose not to do that. 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.839 He either lacked of moral courage or he made the 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.679 decision as a businessman, what will be best for my company, 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.320 and you've given him he decided it just shutting up 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:03.920 would be the best. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.640 I think he's probably a weasel, but I am giving 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.360 him a little benefit of the doubt, like in the 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:12.160 midst of the pandemic, where things were crazy there for. 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:17.160 A while, and uh, and in Silicon Valley there was 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:21.520 such uniformity of progressive thought. I mean, you got people 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.840 there who are still friggin masked. Pardon me, I get 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:26.480 fired up over this stuff. We have a lot of 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:33.439 new listeners. Generally, I can contain my mild obscenity is 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.120 a little better than I am. But this stuff really really. 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.199 Fires it is it dry January wearing on you? 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.360 I'm starting to get a little twitchy. Yes, always been disappointing, 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.160 and we've talked about this so many times. I don't 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:48.200 feel nearly as good as i'd anticipated, having given up 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:49.080 the booze. 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:51.360 Kind of hoping it feel better. So this is just 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.560 what I feel like. Hum. I'm still a sleepy half 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:56.360 wit for like the first hour and a half of 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:57.960 the day, and it's disappointing. 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:00.800 I have a whole bunch of interesting nuggets that I 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:04.959 captured over the weekend that are not the news of 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:06.599 the day, but are all interesting, So I'm hoping to 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:11.480 get to those this hour at some point. Excellent for instance, 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.439 how big a deal is AI? Uh, something China's doing 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.760 that's horrible. North Korean soldiers are dying like crazy in Ukraine. 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.880 And something that Elon Musk says that if you're not 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.800 doing this with your doctor recommendations, you're really making a 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:29.440 mistake that I thought I'm going to employee in my life. 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:34.920 A bunch of stuff on the way. Stay here, Satty. 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:39.280 Austin's husband, Emmanuel, an orthopedic surgeon, has been named in 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:45.320 a New York reco case involving federal insurance fraud. So here, 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.360 he's a great surgeon. Even did Joy Behar's hoof replacement? 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:58.560 Oh that's cold? What as that's shallice? What hoof for replacement? 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:00.920 Do I take off my coat like a girl? We'll 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:07.920 discuss this later. It became a topic at dinner last night. Wow, Wow, 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:12.120 a couple of things to discuss. Just notes I took 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:16.679 over the weekend. Somebody tweeted this out and Elon Musk tweeted, 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:21.720 retweeted it true. If you're not double checking your doctor's 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:26.680 diagnostics with an LM, that's a language learning model AI chatbot. 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.400 If you're not double checking your doctor's diagnostics with an LM, 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:34.280 you're being negligent in your health. I've never considered doing that, 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:35.760 but maybe we all should in the future. 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.719 Exactly take my doctor's diagnosis and ask social media what 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:40.240 they think. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.679 I'd exactly go on Twitter, go on Reddit. Does this 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.320 look like something to you? And then you show them 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.480 a picture of a blotchy thing on your skin. 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:51.960 This is a joke. 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.280 It was a girl woman, sorry, woman talking to a mechanic. 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.719 My car's making a terrible noise. The mechanic says, try 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:00.240 taking the Taylor Swift seat out. 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:03.760 I get it. I thought that was shot at thought 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:05.400 that was mistress of note right. 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:10.439 Uh. Diary of a dead North Korean soldier reveals grizzly 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.040 battlefield tactics. 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.200 Oh yeah, whoa, I got into that a little bit. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:16.880 That was heavy. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.200 The troops are exposed, green, loyal, and dying by the 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:24.520 thousands in frontline combat against Ukraine. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:28.640 I didn't realize North Korean soldiers were dying by the thousands. Yeah, 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.920 and you just you don't even try to protect your 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:32.320 own life. 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.000 You just march into the machine gun fire because there's 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.600 a chance your family will have a slightly better life 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:38.920 back in North Korea. 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:40.320 If you're a quote unquote hero. 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:41.440 God, dang it. 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:42.240 That is brutal. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:46.360 I was listened to a podcast with David Petres remember him. 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.480 He was the commander in Iraq and Afghanistan and CIA 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.480 director and probably should be in the government at some 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.560 level because he's brilliant. But he had an affair with 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.280 a woman and that kind of ruin is great. 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.600 He said. His numbers were the. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:07.520 Russians have lost five hundred thousand soldiers from the battlefield 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.720 that can't return dead or wounded, to the point that 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.040 they can't return half a million. 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:14.080 Wow. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:15.760 That's a stunning number. 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:17.440 Wow. 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.720 And that is the history of Russia, just feeding people 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.080 into the meat grinder until the other side wears down 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:26.600 and it looks like it's going to work again. 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.720 Except their birth rates are a tiny fraction of what 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.560 they were fifty one hundred years ago. 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.960 Now true ad Speaking of bad countries, China is removing 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:39.240 Tibetan children from their families and placing them in schools 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:43.240 where they face political indoctrination. So they're literally taking children 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.920 out of homes in Tibet, taking them to China and 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.600 re educating them to believe in the Communist Chinese Party. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:49.480 That is horrific. 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.320 That is happening right now. College students are not protesting 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.280 on campuses about that. In America, government schools are teaching 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.800 your children that they can change what sex they are. 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.680 On a whim Bill Maher said, rumors he's retiring are 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:04.840 not true. I hadn't heard those rumors. He is gonna 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.680 retire from stand up comedy as he's a very old man. 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:09.560 But he said they will have to drag him off 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:11.800 the set of Real Time. He will continue to do that. 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.760 I'm glad because it's a good show and at least 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.440 lately I generally agree with him. Came across this Ian 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:21.160 Bremer retweeted it the percentage of companies worldwide who plan 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:25.440 to reduce workforce in the next couple of years because 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.440 of AI. Forty one percent of companies say they're going 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.440 to reduce their working force in the next couple of 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:31.520 years because of AI. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:32.720 I'm not very bright. 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.120 And I tweeted that out and somebody said, yeah, that 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:40.080 could be a receptionist, and they would say, yes, which 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:40.520 is true. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.560 Well, if I'm feeding my family as a receptionist, I'm concerned. 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.080 True, But if it's on an employee here or there, 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.800 it's not quite as devastating as the number indicated, right. 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.680 All right, I guess they didn't indicate the size of 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.960 the workforce ruction and they had in mind. So we're 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.680 going to touch a bit more on the utterly unthinkably 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:02.240 devastating wildfires and stuff than California. Next to chat with 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.840 legendary meteorologist from La Rick Dickert, and then on to 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:06.919 more of the news of the day. 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.159 If you can't stick around, grab the podcast. Armstrong and 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:13.080 Getty on the band. And it was like a hurricane. 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:16.639 This fire no water, but like eighty miles an hour plus. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.960 It feltser real. There's a fire like racing down the 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.800 hill at that point. Yeah, well that's what's scary about this. 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.200 It just was shooting like a blow torch, Like a 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.919 blow torch. It was literally just shooting off of the mountain. 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:32.920 Man, I just watched a video I hadn't seen this 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:37.080 doorbell camera captures early moments of the eating fire. That's 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:41.600 the one up by Altadena and Pasadena and these people. 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:43.600 She was coming home from work and she saw a 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.760 little orange glow off in the distance underneath the power lines. 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.199 That's why they're now reporting. The La Times is reporting 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.760 that they they get started under the power lines. But 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.560 it's got the minute by minute on here of how 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.600 fast it went from tiny little fire to a pretty 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.159 big fire to holy crap, and they loaded up their 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.080 car and got out of there. It's just crazy how 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:07.160 fast that happened. And also I found the three letter 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:11.600 warning for today comes up with this stuff. They declared 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:18.080 it a PDS for today particularly dangerous situation. Okay, that's 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.800 like the official and I guess when you declare something 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:21.720 a PDS, then. 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.320 All kinds of things happen. Do we need that, I 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:26.480 don't know. It's what I wonder. 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:28.720 So I would say it's a pleasure to talk to 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:30.480 our next guest, and it is in a way, but 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.240 it's a terrible, a terrible topic. Rick Dickard is a 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:38.040 legend of LA Media Fox eleven Morning News, among other 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:42.920 credits for years, certified broadcast meteorologist, heard many, many, many 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:48.359 many times on our beloved affiliate seven ninety KABC, and 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:49.800 he joins us, Now, Rick, how are. 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:50.040 You, sir? 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:54.399 I'm well, given what's happening here, Thank you for having me, 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.800 Jack Joe. And you mentioned the PDS, and that is 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:02.960 an official term used by the National Weather Service to 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:07.480 express the heightened risk of severe weather, and here it's 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.679 a wildfire or the potential of more wildfires that they 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:15.680 issue those PDS's for severe weather hurricane tornadoes. So this 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:19.440 is an extreme situation. And unfortunately we're looking at another 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:24.200 powerful wind event, not quite what we saw last Tuesday, 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:26.560 but close to it in terms of wind velocities that 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.680 are anticipated over the next forty eight hours. Wow. 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:30.840 And I want to get to that in just a second, 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:34.720 But first, can you describe to folks what the weather 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.560 was like last week when the fires started? Giving your 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:40.800 perspective of reporting on this sort of thing for years 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:41.320 and years. 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.200 And I worked in the broadcast media here in southern 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:46.400 California for thirty plus years, twenty of which I spent 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:50.800 up in an airborne capacity in a helicopter covering these events, 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.320 these wind driven events. This is the worst I have 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:56.720 ever seen, and I was on the ground for this one. 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.560 And essentially what happened dynamically in the atmosphere, Things came 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.800 together to produce these hurricane force wind gusts in those 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:07.560 areas that we call the urban wildland interface here in 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:11.480 southern California, two of which above Pacific Palis States above 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.280 that iconic shoreline if you're on the East coast, you've 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.840 seen it in pictures and movies of Malibu. And then 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:21.600 the Eaten fire above just to the north and northeast 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.800 of the iconic Rose Bowl and Colorado Boulevard where you 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:27.800 see the Rose Parade every year, those two areas, there 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.840 was some sort of trigger in the wild land just 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:36.880 above those communities. Those two sparks happened, and then dynamically, metrologically, 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:40.040 we have this powerful wind event that allowed that fire 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.800 to spread. You heard what people in those areas said, 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:46.400 like a blow tours. It was a firestorm, eighty mine 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:49.960 hour wind gusts burning that chaparral, that forest land, those 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:53.919 dry hinder dry blasdshed We had months of no precipitation 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:58.240 essentially here in southern California. That Breashcot fire, the winds ignited, 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:01.960 and that fire spread directly down into those communities. They 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:06.520 Eaten fire Pasadena over towards Alcadina, Sierra Madre, and then 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:10.560 the Palisades fire encompassing the Pacific Palisa there even part 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.000 of Santa Monica, and then up the coast towards Malabus. 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:17.800 Yeah, I thought I knew what these videos would be 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:20.560 like when I started watching them. But some of the 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:23.040 videos they had in sixty minutes last night and somebody 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:25.919 saw this morning on my phone. It was so windy, 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:29.080 it was like it was like CGI special effects, because 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:31.560 I'd never see anything like that anywhere. 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:34.639 No wonder it's been so difficult to fight, and it 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:37.960 was like a machine gun of embers being shot over 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:40.040 tremendous distances. 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:44.400 Miles that those embers that Ember cast and the Ember intrusion, 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:45.920 as we call it, it gets caught up in the 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:49.119 eaves of homes two miles away from the fire zone 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:52.960