Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Jettie I know, he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: And then after the war, which we won, we won
Speaker 2: it big. Without us, right now, you'd all be speaking
Speaker 2: German and little Japanese.
Speaker 3: Perhaps that's an interesting thing for the President of the
Speaker 3: United States to say to European leaders.
Speaker 1: If it were frust you'd be speaking German. That is
Speaker 1: straight out of like a parody movie from yesteryear that
Speaker 1: some American would say something like that in Europe. That's
Speaker 1: out of a comedy. By the way, let me say
Speaker 1: it again, just because I can't get it out of
Speaker 1: my mind. I watched the movie Fury over the weekend.
Speaker 1: This is a ten year old movie, so I'm like,
Speaker 1: a dozen years i'd never seen it.
Speaker 3: Brad Pitt Tank Commander, April forty five, end of World
Speaker 3: War two, like when the Germans are really fighting to
Speaker 3: the last. WHOA, that is some real life this is
Speaker 3: what war is like movie if you want that flavor.
Speaker 3: And it's from everything I've read pretty accurate, I mean
Speaker 3: about the end of World War two.
Speaker 1: But I mean, it's if you've.
Speaker 3: Got a fanciful view of like you know what it's
Speaker 3: like to be a.
Speaker 1: Hero, and it's just gruesome. War is War is awful,
Speaker 1: just awful.
Speaker 3: Even when you win. But I couldn't recommend that movie
Speaker 3: more highly. If you like that sort of thing. AnyWho
Speaker 3: to actually come out eighty some years later say you'd
Speaker 3: be speaking German if it wasn't for us is.
Speaker 1: A hell of a flex. Yes. So obviously Greenland and
Speaker 1: the idea of America's snatching Greenland is on everybody's mind.
Speaker 1: And so Trump stood up at Davos and addressed that directly,
Speaker 1: start with Ady Michael.
Speaker 2: And the fact is, no nation or a group of
Speaker 2: nations is in any position to be able to secure
Speaker 2: Greenland other than the United States. Were great power, much
Speaker 2: greater than people even understand. I think they found that
Speaker 2: out two weeks ago in Venezuela. We saw this in
Speaker 2: World War two when Denmark fell to Germany after just
Speaker 2: six hours of fighting and was totally unable to defend
Speaker 2: either itself or Greenland. So the United States was then
Speaker 2: compelled we did it. We felt an obligation to do it,
Speaker 2: to send our own forces to hold the Greenland territory
Speaker 2: and hold it. We did at great costs and expense.
Speaker 2: They didn't have a chance of getting on it, and
Speaker 2: they tried.
Speaker 1: Denmark knows that you got rolled by the Nazis once
Speaker 1: you Dane, So don't be talking tough. Wow, you know,
Speaker 1: we can put as many bases there as we want.
Speaker 1: But he went on eighty two, Michael.
Speaker 2: After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How
Speaker 2: stupid were we to do that?
Speaker 1: But we did it. But we gave it back. But
Speaker 1: how ungrateful are they now? Yeah? Okay, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: Jack's not going to say it, so I'll say it.
Speaker 1: The idea that the uh, the territory of our allies
Speaker 1: that we occupied to fight the Nazis were then by
Speaker 1: rights ours and we should have kept them is horrific.
Speaker 1: Well would apply horrific? Would that apply to France and
Speaker 1: Belgium and wherever country we went into it? In a
Speaker 1: good chunk of Germany in Spain and Italy and the
Speaker 1: rest of Italy would be nice. I mean north, that's
Speaker 1: the scenery, you know, the wine everything. H Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a that's an interesting attitude. Yeah, okay, okay, let's see
Speaker 1: And then Wow. Wow. We were there fighting the Nazis,
Speaker 1: and then once the Nazis are defeated, we're just going
Speaker 1: to stay here the stars. Now you should have defended yourselves. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Interesting again, a unique foreign policy idea from the current
Speaker 1: American president eighty three. Michael Oh, this one. He well,
Speaker 1: go ahead, go just just play it.
Speaker 2: So now our country and the world face much greater
Speaker 2: risks than it did ever before, because of missiles, because
Speaker 2: of nuclear because of weapons of warfare that I can't
Speaker 2: even talk about. Two weeks ago, there were weapons that
Speaker 2: nobody ever heard of. They weren't able to fire one
Speaker 2: shot at us. They said, what happened? Everything was discombobulated.
Speaker 2: They said, we've got him in our sites, press the
Speaker 2: trigger and nothing happened. No anti aircraft missiles went up.
Speaker 2: There was one that went up about thirty feet and
Speaker 2: crashed down right next to the people that sent it.
Speaker 2: They said, what the hell is going on? Those those
Speaker 2: defensive systems were made by Russia and by China. So
Speaker 2: they're going to go back to the drawing boards.
Speaker 3: I guess, well, that's pretty interesting for those of us
Speaker 3: who have been wondering how we pulled off the snatch
Speaker 3: and Maduro thing. So there's the president saying out loud,
Speaker 3: we used some sort of new weapon that isn't regularly
Speaker 3: talked about. I guess yeah.
Speaker 1: I think probably the evildoers around the planet noticed that
Speaker 1: he wasn't giving anything away. I hadn't heard anybody put
Speaker 1: that specific. Was he talking about the description to it?
Speaker 3: Was he talking about the old brain scrambler ray that
Speaker 3: we know we used it?
Speaker 1: Or is this just like shutting off the power and
Speaker 1: everything a brain scrambler and shutting off the power wouldn't
Speaker 1: cause a missile to go up to two hundred feet
Speaker 1: then fall to the earth, right, So there's something else
Speaker 1: going on. And then we'll skip eighty four and just
Speaker 1: ended with eighty five.
Speaker 2: Michael, United States alone that can protect this giant mass
Speaker 2: of land, this giant piece of ice, develop it, and
Speaker 2: improve it, and make it so that it's good for
Speaker 2: Europe and save for Europe and good for us. And
Speaker 2: that's the reason I'm seeking immediate negotiations to once again
Speaker 2: discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States, just
Speaker 2: as we have acquired many other territories throughout our history,
Speaker 2: as many of the European nations have.
Speaker 1: They've acquired. There's nothing wrong with it. Many of them.
Speaker 1: Some went in reverse. Actually, if you look, some had.
Speaker 2: Great vast wealth, great vast lands all over the world.
Speaker 2: They went in reverse. They stuck back where they started.
Speaker 2: That happens to.
Speaker 1: So new age of conquest? Is that what he's settler colonialism?
Speaker 1: I hate to make the idiot lefties right. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: then I guess we're still working on a clip where
Speaker 1: he says that people thought I would use force, but
Speaker 1: now I want to negotiate out. No, that is that's
Speaker 1: the headline of the day.
Speaker 3: Definitely that he flat out said the United States is
Speaker 3: not going to use force to take Greenland.
Speaker 1: So how long is it? Michael?
Speaker 2: Let's hear it probably won't get anything unless I decided
Speaker 2: to use excessive strength and force where we would be
Speaker 2: frankly unstoppable.
Speaker 1: But I won't do that. Okay.
Speaker 2: Now everyone's saying, oh good, that's probably the biggest statement
Speaker 2: I made. Because people thought I would use force.
Speaker 1: I don't have to use force. I don't want to
Speaker 1: use force. I won't use force.
Speaker 2: All the United States is asking for is a place
Speaker 2: called Greenland.
Speaker 3: Wow, So all that build up, which if I'm the Euros,
Speaker 3: I'm sitting there thinking.
Speaker 1: He's going to try to take Greenland. He at the
Speaker 1: end discussion of all the fearsome weapons and stuff like that, Yeah.
Speaker 3: You can't stop us. He then at the end throws in,
Speaker 3: I won't use force. He said, he would be appreciative
Speaker 3: if the world acquiesced to our desire to take over
Speaker 3: the territory.
Speaker 1: You can say no and we will remember. That's how
Speaker 1: he ended. You know what I would love, What opportunity
Speaker 1: I'd love is to like be in the same room
Speaker 1: with uh, you know, the Republican leaders of the House
Speaker 1: and Senate and Marco Rubio, who you always bring up,
Speaker 1: say what do you think all this? Behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: there are stressed out conversations taking place. What was he
Speaker 1: was he I'd living there at the end though we
Speaker 1: won't use force. Was there anybody on earth that knew
Speaker 1: he was going to say that at the end other
Speaker 1: than him? Did he start idea?
Speaker 3: Did he start the speech with the intention of saying that,
Speaker 3: and in the you know, toward the end of it,
Speaker 3: decided to say that, I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, No, what a great question. I don't know. I'd
Speaker 1: be guessing. I think he threw that off the cuff.
Speaker 3: Now, He might have gone out there planning to say that,
Speaker 3: but I'll bet.
Speaker 1: Nobody knew he was going to say that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think he Yeah, I don't think he
Speaker 3: sits around with speech writers coming up with these things.
Speaker 1: Right right, They might hack out the outline for him.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so yeah, yeah, I don't know. So you
Speaker 1: think he looked around the room and saw those faces
Speaker 1: and was like, no, we're not going to use force,
Speaker 1: all right, Michael? Or do you think he planned to
Speaker 1: say that? My guess would be.
Speaker 3: My guess would be he never intended to use force.
Speaker 3: It was just at what point was he going to.
Speaker 1: Say it out loud? Right?
Speaker 3: He even Trump knows that's you know, that's too far.
Speaker 3: Michael's very happy because Michael had been doing the calistatics
Speaker 3: because he was worried the draft was.
Speaker 1: Going to come back. And we don't need strong men
Speaker 1: to take Greenland. Why don't he in charge of like
Speaker 1: getting the right size uniforms for everybody. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: we need you like on the cross country with a
Speaker 1: rifle in your hand in Greenland. Yeah, I like your
Speaker 1: idea better. Yeah, logistics, I think is a field for
Speaker 1: you on the cross country skis with a rifle right right.
Speaker 1: If we're down to the crew of this show, it's yeah,
Speaker 1: learn to speak Chinese.
Speaker 3: Yeah, once you get to us. Greenland is putting up
Speaker 3: more of a defense than we were expecting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're in big trouble if you're defending you know,
Speaker 4: depending on me.
Speaker 1: These are insane times, completely insane.
Speaker 3: I know when the when the headline all around the
Speaker 3: world is Trump announces he won't use force to take
Speaker 3: Greenland because everybody was concerned that he might.
Speaker 1: That's something hella, it's it's horrific. I'm horrified. Eh keeps
Speaker 1: life interesting.
Speaker 3: That's bored. I was bored with my previous life. That's
Speaker 3: interesting every single day. World War Three's is close. We're
Speaker 3: gonna go and solve it any second. Yeah, tollyse things.
Speaker 1: Are very exciting.
Speaker 3: Ah boy, any thought to any of this text line
Speaker 3: four one, five, two nine five k FTC, one of
Speaker 3: the most important owners in the NFL is pushing for
Speaker 3: adding another game to the season to make it an
Speaker 3: eighteen game season.
Speaker 1: Maybe some of the details on that later or not.
Speaker 1: Wow wow, Okay, As my favorite team was decimated by
Speaker 1: injuries by the current number of games, I'm not a
Speaker 1: big fan of that idea, but we will discuss so,
Speaker 1: putting aside the madness of Trump for the moment, I
Speaker 1: feel like the Kamala Harris phenomenon was too short. We
Speaker 1: didn't have enough time to enjoy it. It was over
Speaker 1: and it was like a perfect movie. It's just very
Speaker 1: sad when the credits run. Yeah exactly. Josh Shapiro in
Speaker 1: preparation for his look I'm a Reasonable Guy presidential run,
Speaker 1: in which he will be working that lane that. The
Speaker 1: very term makes me shutter because it means presidential politics
Speaker 1: is being discussed. But he'll be competing in that lane
Speaker 1: four with Rama Manuel. He's a Jew, Yeah exactly, Manuel,
Speaker 1: another Jew. Can you make it clear that you're being
Speaker 1: ry here?
Speaker 3: You sound like a nazy Well accepted wisdom seems to
Speaker 3: be that the reason Josh Shapiro wasn't the running mate
Speaker 3: is because he's Jewish, and now you got Rama Manuel Josh.
Speaker 1: Shapiro, both Jewish. The Demommeratic parties pro hamas I'm not
Speaker 1: anti Jew, I'm anti Zionists and all Jews are Zionists attitude. Yeah, indeed,
Speaker 1: that's going to be a bit of a rub, as
Speaker 1: they say. But anyway, that factors into the story. I
Speaker 1: guess Josh is writing the Inevitable Memoir as he gets
Speaker 1: ready to run for president, and according to it, Comparison's
Speaker 1: VP vetting team led by a pair of dudes, Calder
Speaker 1: and Dana Remus. Now these are the people, keep in mind,
Speaker 1: who came up with old Coach Walls as the VP choice.
Speaker 1: Is there a weaker act in American politics than old Josh?
Speaker 1: Sure you can build the Treasury walls. At least Kevin
Speaker 1: Newsom's a skilled liar and a capable con man. Yeah.
Speaker 3: They should have figured it out through interviews, I guess.
Speaker 3: But I remember that that that unveiling of him at
Speaker 3: the convention.
Speaker 1: He was good. He was freaking good that night. True, true,
Speaker 1: just didn't have much depth. But so anyway, those two geniuses.
Speaker 1: They actually asked Josh Shapiro, the governor Pennsylvania, whether he
Speaker 1: ever had been an Israeli agent or communicated with undercover
Speaker 1: agents of Israel since he was a Jew? Wow, had
Speaker 1: I been a double agent for Israel? Wrote Shapiro, who
Speaker 1: is Jewish? Was she kidding? I told her how offensive
Speaker 1: the question was.
Speaker 3: Should have said to Eric Holder, were you ever in
Speaker 3: contact with the Black Panthers?
Speaker 1: At any point. Yeah, because you're black. Yeah, and Remus
Speaker 1: this h Dana, Remus u answers, what we have to ask?
Speaker 1: Have you ever communicated with an undercover agent of Israel?
Speaker 1: Shapiro responded, If they were undercover, how the hell would
Speaker 1: I know? Wow? Wow, Wow.
Speaker 3: That makes it really sound like they were overly suspicious
Speaker 3: about a Jewish running mate.
Speaker 1: Harris's consideration of Shapiro sparked backlash from left wing activists
Speaker 1: who launched a no Genocide Josh campaign.
Speaker 3: Well, I wish it would have happened. It would have
Speaker 3: been great to have had that national conversation.
Speaker 1: Oh, to expose them. Yeah yeah, yeah. That maligned the
Speaker 1: governor's support for Israel and his criticism of illegal protests
Speaker 1: on college campuses that were in favor of the Hamas
Speaker 1: October seventh attacks of it. Blah blah blah. She claimed.
Speaker 1: Now Harris, when she picked Waltz, said as anti Semitism,
Speaker 1: bab like, no role in the decision or the dialogue
Speaker 1: with the vice president, blah blah blah. Memoirship. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Shapiro's memoir tells a different story, the governor said. Remus's
Speaker 1: questioning said a lot about some of the people around
Speaker 1: the VP. Shapiro also revealed, according to the Atlantic, that
Speaker 1: Harris asked him quote if he would apologize for some
Speaker 1: of his comments about protesters at the University of Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: who'd built encampments. Shapiro flatly declined. Harris defended those anti
Speaker 1: Israel campus agitators, saying, quote, they are showing you exactly
Speaker 1: what the human emotion should be. As a response to Gaza.
Speaker 3: I forget has Harris officially said she's not running. She
Speaker 3: said she's not running for governor in California, but she
Speaker 3: hasn't taken president off the.
Speaker 1: Table as she No.
Speaker 3: No, Well, that'd be something if she and Josh were
Speaker 3: runn at the same time. That would get ugly fast.
Speaker 1: Boy. If she could find somebody's head that was so
Speaker 1: soft they would contribute money to her for a presidential run.
Speaker 1: He gotta take that money. I mean, somebody that's stupid.
Speaker 1: Their money's gonna go somewhere. It might as well go
Speaker 1: to you. So why would she, you know, to paraphrase Trump,
Speaker 1: why would she take that off the table. They're probably
Speaker 1: gonna lose it or drop it anyway. So because they're
Speaker 1: so dumb, you might as well give it to her raw. Wow.
Speaker 1: Eric Holder is raking in as much as twenty three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars an hour conducting racial equity audits for corporations
Speaker 1: like Starbucks. Wow. And with his blessing, they're taking steps
Speaker 1: to promote equity. Yeah, that's like the old Jesse Jackson thing.
Speaker 3: So you hire him and pay that money, and then
Speaker 3: you're safe because you can tell any activist that ever
Speaker 3: comes after you for anything. Look look what I did here.
Speaker 3: I hired Eric Holder and gave him twenty two hundred
Speaker 3: dollars stuff, right right. It inoculates you against any criticism.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you buy a no blackmail pass
Speaker 1: for that. Of course you've been blackmailed, but you know
Speaker 1: it's less expensive than if you got accused publicly and
Speaker 1: had to scramble to cover. So some damn interesting AI
Speaker 1: stuff out of a lot of fronts, including Elon's Mouth,
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Before we get to some really interesting AI stuff, scary
Speaker 3: AI stuff if it's true. Robert Kraft is one of
Speaker 3: the most powerful owners in all of football. He owns
Speaker 3: the New England Patriots, and if you follow the NFL
Speaker 3: at all, you know that whole story. And they may
Speaker 3: go to the Super Bowl again this year.
Speaker 1: Anyway, he and other remembered they mentioned it during one
Speaker 1: of the games that he was a season ticket holder,
Speaker 1: just a huge fan, and Richard Nell too, and he decided,
Speaker 1: you know what, I like this team so much, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna buy it. I know that either be nice to
Speaker 1: have that sort of money to throw around. Although you
Speaker 1: get me a couple of you know, Cubs beers, I'm
Speaker 1: at Wrigley Field or something, I start thinking crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: I sure like his cheese. I like his cheese slices.
Speaker 3: But Robert Kraft says he and the other owners are
Speaker 3: going to pose adding another game to the currently seventeen
Speaker 3: game season, taking away one or two preseason games.
Speaker 1: So you wouldn't actually, but they don't.
Speaker 3: The starters don't play in the preseason game, so I
Speaker 3: don't see that as a balancing act anyway. But one
Speaker 3: of the games has to be in another country because
Speaker 3: they're they're trying to spread this sport, because they don't
Speaker 3: understand why this can't be popular around the world like
Speaker 3: soccer is.
Speaker 1: He pointed out that of.
Speaker 3: The top one hundred television shows last year, the NFL
Speaker 3: accounted for ninety.
Speaker 1: Three of them. Wait a minute, Actually, I'm not surprised
Speaker 1: by that. It's amazing though, that is a stark statement
Speaker 1: of its importance. Yes, yeah, wow, anywow wow. I agree
Speaker 1: with you, brave firefighters in a variety of cities around
Speaker 1: America that the show is named for a cops or
Speaker 1: CSCO guys or what no foot the ball over and
Speaker 1: over again, you know, the whole Golden Goose parable. But
Speaker 1: it's too brutal a sport for that many games. But
Speaker 1: one of the great things.
Speaker 3: About the NFL college football the same way, to a
Speaker 3: certain extent, there are a few enough games that every
Speaker 3: week matters, every week matters a lot, and you know,
Speaker 3: you become like the NBA, where you know the starters
Speaker 3: are going to sit some of these games because the
Speaker 3: season so long and on all that order of thing.
Speaker 1: But well, in an eighteen game season, you might be
Speaker 1: able to lose six games in a row and still
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, right, exactly, it's a difference. Thing shouldn't happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So Elon said this yesterday in an interview. He said,
Speaker 1: we are in the singularity, which we will get to the.
Speaker 3: Definition of and everybody's got a different definition of this,
Speaker 3: but we'll get to the GROS version of the definition,
Speaker 3: and GROC is Elon's chatbot, so it should know what
Speaker 3: Elon means by singularity. Elon said, we're in the singularity.
Speaker 3: We are at the top the roller coaster and we're
Speaker 3: about to go down. It blows my mind. It blows
Speaker 3: my mind. Multiple times a week I'm like wow, than
Speaker 3: two days later I'm more wow. I think we'll hit
Speaker 3: AGI next year or this year. Twenty twenty six. He
Speaker 3: was replying to posts from AI researchers and engineers who
Speaker 3: are describing how current AI tools, especially advanced coding agents
Speaker 3: and various models like Claude Opus, are dramatically accelerating their work.
Speaker 3: Things that used to take years now happen in weeks
Speaker 3: or months. Onboarding to massive code bases takes days instead
Speaker 3: of months. Even top experts are stunned by the emergent
Speaker 3: capabilities recently. That's what this says, with you know, the
Speaker 3: caveat that we always have to throw in that most
Speaker 3: everybody who's talking this stuff up is asking for more
Speaker 3: money to be invested. Doesn't mean it's not true, though,
Speaker 3: what or even if it's two thirds true, that's a
Speaker 3: hell of an exaggeration.
Speaker 1: But a hell of a headline too. Yeah, So what
Speaker 1: did Elon mean by the singularity.
Speaker 3: It refers to the hypothetical point when artificial intelligence becomes
Speaker 3: super intelligent, capable of improving itself recursively, like bending back
Speaker 3: on itself. It teaches itself to do something, then learns
Speaker 3: from what it taught itself, and no humans involved at
Speaker 3: that point, it just is off to the races, then
Speaker 3: finds the flaws in what it just did, corrects.
Speaker 1: Them, and over and over and over again with speed
Speaker 1: that we can't comproms at.
Speaker 3: An exponential rate, and exponential speed leading to technological progress
Speaker 3: so rapid and profound that it becomes unpredictable and incomprehensible
Speaker 3: to unheted human unaided humans.
Speaker 1: And then whoops, there go your kidneys, says the enormous
Speaker 1: to your organs.
Speaker 3: Normal forecasting for where it goes completely breaks down. It's
Speaker 3: like an event horizon for civilization. Like we are at
Speaker 3: a new point. Now, nobody knows what's going to happen.
Speaker 3: Let's just sit back and watch and see what the
Speaker 3: computers decide to do with the planet and the humans
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of so this would be like
Speaker 1: living through the but what nothing like it? Not at
Speaker 1: the speed anyway. I mean the invention of oxygen. No,
Speaker 1: that was already here. We didn't have to invent it.
Speaker 1: The development of.
Speaker 3: Speech, it'd be like living through the agricultural revolution or
Speaker 3: the industrial revolution if it were, if it were compressed
Speaker 3: into like a minute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, honestly, the development of speech would
Speaker 1: be a pretty good kind of parallel, to the extent
Speaker 1: that you can have a parallel if again, that was
Speaker 1: compressed into a year's time.
Speaker 3: So Elon's signaling he thinks that this year we will
Speaker 3: cross the threshold into the acceleration phase and the pace
Speaker 3: will be supersonic. He's used the term supersonic some tsunami
Speaker 3: for AI and robotics advances that, I mean it'll be
Speaker 3: building its own robots.
Speaker 1: For whatever it decides robots need to do. I mean
Speaker 1: it just it'll build, It'll have a plant, it'll buy
Speaker 1: some land.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've read a bunch of books like the
Speaker 3: AI might decide to it's it's made enough money off
Speaker 3: of what it's doing. It buys some land, it builds
Speaker 3: a plant, it starts making robots. Yeah, there are fences
Speaker 3: around it. You don't even know what they're building robots for, and.
Speaker 1: We're like, excuse me, excuse me, what are you doing
Speaker 1: over there? Yeah, don't worry about none. Yeah robots.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, twenty twenty six fields like the year this
Speaker 3: becomes undeniable to more people, possibly tied to expected breakthroughs
Speaker 3: toward that will exceed all anything human tasks that can
Speaker 3: be done, and then gets to.
Speaker 1: This part about.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have to get to the universal basic income
Speaker 3: sooner than anybody even.
Speaker 1: Thought, and then the universal high income that they're process
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, and then whoops, there goes your kidneys or
Speaker 1: your eyes for some reason that needs eyeballs. I don't
Speaker 1: know why, but they need them anyway. Elon is Now
Speaker 1: I think they are going to take SpaceX public, which
Speaker 1: they'd resisted for years and said, no, we're not going
Speaker 1: to do that until we have people flying back and
Speaker 1: forth to Mars. But now they're going to.
Speaker 3: We have people flying back and forth to the Marsh currently
Speaker 3: we do not, sir.
Speaker 1: Now they're going to partly at least because there's a
Speaker 1: rush now to put AI data centers in space, which
Speaker 1: has prompted some skepticism from engineers given the technical challenges
Speaker 1: posed by building solar powered AI AI data centers that
Speaker 1: are zipping around the Earth as satellites. But a Musk
Speaker 1: has become obsessed with the idea of SpaceX being the
Speaker 1: first to do that. Such feet would be hard to
Speaker 1: attempt without the billions of dollars in capital an initial
Speaker 1: public offering could develop in one or deliver in one
Speaker 1: fill swoop. And that's partly it has to do with
Speaker 1: his obsession with staying ahead of long running rival Sam Altman,
Speaker 1: who's in charge of Open AI. So Elon, who's now
Speaker 1: essentially said Tesla doesn't make cars anymore, that's a sideline.
Speaker 1: We make robots. It's all about the AI. In fact,
Speaker 1: we're going to and i'm paraphrasing, I'm describing he hasn't
Speaker 1: said this, but we're going to mortgage SpaceX to get
Speaker 1: more AI money. So what by July.
Speaker 3: By the way, we talked about this a little bit earlier.
Speaker 1: So this.
Speaker 3: Universal high income as Elon calls it, so not basic
Speaker 3: income not you know, that experiment's been tried in various
Speaker 3: towns where you're given enough money to like get by.
Speaker 3: Everybody's given that much money, and it's like a social experiment.
Speaker 3: Elon's talking about a situation universal hiring equipment, where everybody's
Speaker 3: making well. He says, money will become pointless because everybody
Speaker 3: all have plenty of food, plenty of healthcare, plenty of energy.
Speaker 1: I don't know housing.
Speaker 3: I mean, because I assume where's the cutoff for this
Speaker 3: high income. I assume some people currently are.
Speaker 1: Above it and would have to take a step backwards.
Speaker 1: I think Elon would tell you, oh, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: everybody's going to be raising edge.
Speaker 3: One precise Yeah, we're all going to be one percenters, yeah,
Speaker 3: or even ten to one percenters. Yeah, allegedly, as we
Speaker 3: discussed earlier, though, by what mechanism, with what people enforcing it,
Speaker 3: and how long will that take to set up and
Speaker 3: actually successfully distribute that money so people aren't in the
Speaker 3: streets fighting for their lives with no employment, no prospects
Speaker 3: of employment, and the conventional economy is broken down.
Speaker 1: While we wait for our robot overlords to save us.
Speaker 1: I mean, even the most wildly optimistic prediction, what does
Speaker 1: that interim period look like.
Speaker 3: I have not heard a single person, and I take
Speaker 3: in a lot of AI information podcast read a lot,
Speaker 3: I've not heard a single person talk about that part
Speaker 3: the mechanism for who's collecting this money. So your your
Speaker 3: AI just bought a farm and now is running it
Speaker 3: more efficiently than anything has ever been done before and
Speaker 3: making more money than anybody's ever made before. Okay, that
Speaker 3: money belongs to your company, and now you're gonna give
Speaker 3: it out to everybody. Why, I guess you're a nice guy.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't understand what's the forcing mechanism there
Speaker 3: and how much you give out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're supposed to trust them. Oh, it'll be great
Speaker 1: for everybody. It sounds like the sort of thing somebody
Speaker 1: would say before they absolutely lay waste to the economy
Speaker 1: and the populace for their own gain. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: that's their actual purpose or even that they know that
Speaker 1: they're doing that. But oh, trust me, it'll be fine.
Speaker 1: Everybody will have plenty. Yet, explain to me, and I
Speaker 1: tell you what, just the two minute version, what will
Speaker 1: those mechanisms look like? Nobody's talking about that. And again
Speaker 1: earlier I said, and I approached this to somebody who's
Speaker 1: you know, spent out of lifetime looking at political systems
Speaker 1: and how they actually work on the ground. What is
Speaker 1: that taxation? Is it voluntarity. What are the I mean, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have robots and computers distributed it all and
Speaker 1: put it into everybody's bank accounts nearly instantaneously.
Speaker 3: Well, I feel like it's always presented and I could
Speaker 3: be wrong here. They never get into the details, which
Speaker 3: seems like an oversight to me. But it always seems
Speaker 3: like it's presented to me that it's just like out
Speaker 3: of the goodness of their heart, all these big AI
Speaker 3: companies will be so wealthy, they'll just everybody will have plenty. Well, why,
Speaker 3: that's not the history of mankind. Well, no, certainly, the
Speaker 3: Arab princes have more enough money to give out to
Speaker 3: everybody as much as they want to, but they don't.
Speaker 3: They give out a fair amount, but they keep most
Speaker 3: of it from themselves.
Speaker 1: They keep enough to keep everybody pacified, or I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: they give out enough keep everybody pacified. Well, it just
Speaker 1: occurred to me. I think one of the answers they
Speaker 1: might give to my previous question is, Joe, you don't
Speaker 1: understand money. We're not gonna give money to people. The
Speaker 1: stores will be open. Just go get as much food
Speaker 1: as you want, that's fine, and then go to the
Speaker 1: You know, go to the golf store and get some
Speaker 1: new sticks if you need them or want them. The
Speaker 1: disco tech and dance the pardon me, go to the
Speaker 1: Disco dech the disco thck and dance because there will
Speaker 1: be no cover charge. Go to Disneyland and ride on
Speaker 1: the rides. Prettyf and crowded over here. Hey, we'll have
Speaker 1: the robots build another one, and then if that becomes
Speaker 1: less popular, the robots will tear it down and build
Speaker 1: you whatever you want. It's like like Charlie and the
Speaker 1: Chocolate Factory, Willy, howonka if you prefer I I oh
Speaker 1: for what it's worth. Now, that's the the singularity or
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. The current state of things.
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal with a really interesting piece that say
Speaker 1: CEOs are saying wonderful things about how much time and
Speaker 1: money AI is so saving the companies these days, but
Speaker 1: the people who are actually doing it and doing the
Speaker 1: work and stuff for much much less optimistic about it,
Speaker 1: or they have much lower numbers that could be just
Speaker 1: to preserve their jobs, and we don't really have time
Speaker 1: to talk about it. Maybe we'll get into that tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I feel like.
Speaker 3: That's the most likely thing that happens at least in
Speaker 3: my lifetime. Is companies are able to do a lot
Speaker 3: more with AI. They lay off a whole bunch of people.
Speaker 3: They're just keeping their profits like companies always have, which
Speaker 3: is fine. They get to they're not doling out money.
Speaker 3: There's no basic income or in it. There's just millions
Speaker 3: and millions and millions of people that can't get a job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the current concentration of wealth in a few hands
Speaker 1: will look like you know, communism in five years exactly.
Speaker 1: We will finish strong. Next. So what's that kid's name
Speaker 1: that America fell in love with?
Speaker 3: The quarterback for Indiana and his fun personality and winning ways, Fernando.
Speaker 1: What's his last name? Mendoza, mend Mendoz. You know what
Speaker 1: his big prize is.
Speaker 3: Hey, your prize is you get to be quarterback for
Speaker 3: the Oakland Raiders or the Los fe Looks.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, your prize. That's not a prize, that's
Speaker 1: a punishment. I know it, I know it.
Speaker 3: Congratulations, After all that work and luck and glory and
Speaker 3: all the good stuff that has happened in your cool attitude,
Speaker 3: you get to beat the.
Speaker 1: Quarterback for the Raiders. My ridiculous accent reminds me that
Speaker 1: during the game, I saw that Dosequies has brought back
Speaker 1: the most interesting man in the world. He's aged a little, Yeah,
Speaker 1: heaven't we all? Yes, yes, still very very interesting man though.
Speaker 1: Glad to see that, right, absolutely, So.
Speaker 3: Headline of the day is Trump backed off taking Greenland
Speaker 3: by force. Hard to believe that anybody was ever taking
Speaker 3: that seriously, but apparently lot's.
Speaker 1: Hard to believe he ever proposed it. True. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you can't blame people for taking him seriously, I guess
Speaker 1: because he said it like a fifty thousand times. So
Speaker 1: there you go, there's your headline of the day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. And I've been harshly, strongly, unapologetically critical about
Speaker 1: certain aspects of Trump's act and his foreign policy, and
Speaker 1: I don't withdraw that at all. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: I'm reminded every day of how fantastic the administration's been
Speaker 1: for business compared to the Biden administration, with the exception
Speaker 1: of the tariffs, which I think are just a bad idea,
Speaker 1: a lot of great economic stuff, a lot of good
Speaker 1: deregulation stuff, just absolutely wonderful. It's just a shame that,
Speaker 1: you know, you got to order the entire cable package
Speaker 1: and can't just like take the channels you like. People
Speaker 1: have said that about me and lots human beings in general.
Speaker 1: I think you. Uh so.
Speaker 3: Trump was asked today though, because the Supreme Court is
Speaker 3: going to rule one of these days on whether or
Speaker 3: not he's allowed to do this tariff stuff, and he
Speaker 3: was asked today he said, what what if the Supreme Court,
Speaker 3: you know, says you don't have that part?
Speaker 1: And he said, well, we'll have to figure out a
Speaker 1: different way, which.
Speaker 3: Was unusually accepting of the idea that maybe they could
Speaker 3: decide that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. One of his aides, I can't, one of his
Speaker 1: top aids was out saying roughly the same thing. We'll
Speaker 1: find a different authority under which to do it, but
Speaker 1: you won't be able to it'll really really weaken it.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think so strong A strong Ready. Yeah, here's
Speaker 1: your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Hey, let's get
Speaker 1: a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap
Speaker 1: things up to the day. Wouldn't that be charming? How
Speaker 1: about Michael Angelo leading us off from the control room.
Speaker 4: Michael, I'm just checking out this email I got from
Speaker 4: a coworker. They are emptying his office reconstruction, so he
Speaker 4: has all this free alcohol and beer and says, come
Speaker 4: grab all you want.
Speaker 1: Wow, Hey, help a brother out, would you. Yeah? I'm
Speaker 1: not a drinker, but I'm sure a lot of people
Speaker 1: would like that. Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a
Speaker 1: final thought, Katie, if I boost does the guy have
Speaker 1: in his office? And why? Ye, that's get past the lead. Sorry, Katie,
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 4: If I'm ever in a restaurant that serves like a
Speaker 4: whole fish, I'm forever going to picture them in a
Speaker 4: sleep mask, close its.
Speaker 1: Eye out of decency? Would you Jack?
Speaker 3: A final thought for us, it's both very exciting and
Speaker 3: terrifying that we all could live through the most interesting
Speaker 3: period in the history of humans in the next couple
Speaker 3: of years.
Speaker 1: Ever, by far Man, we'll get to experience been on
Speaker 1: a roll too. How about the status quo? Can I
Speaker 1: opt for the status quo? Is that a you know,
Speaker 1: like choose your room on a hotel app or something? Anyway,
Speaker 1: My final thought is also AI related. The current situation
Speaker 1: is annunciated enunciating by a guy in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Executives automatically assume AI is going to be the savior
Speaker 1: I can't count the number of times that I've sought
Speaker 1: a solution for a problem, asked one of the LM's
Speaker 1: large language machines, and it gave me a solution to
Speaker 1: accessibility problems that was completely wrong.
Speaker 3: Yeah, keeping in mind that the smart people who tell
Speaker 3: you these chatbots that we're all using are like a
Speaker 3: web page is to the Internet.
Speaker 1: That's not what AI is. That's just one little piece
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