WEBVTT - Writing Crappy Poetry Doesn't Count 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:14.800 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio of the 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:19.880 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:21.959 and Jeckie and Key. 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:37.199 Arms the over under on more people being arrested. 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:43.080 I'll take the over live from Studio C. See signor 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.960 a dimly lit room, dipping deep, dip deep within the 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:51.160 bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And hey y'all, 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.760 today we're under the tutelage of our general manager. Until 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.360 moments ago, the general manager was going to be the 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:03.040 don Roe doctrine, the don Row. It's a play on words, Michael. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:07.800 It's not like pancakes, et cetera. See Donald Trumpy Monroe doctrine. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:14.000 You see but a last minute substitution. Portland Trailblazers coach 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.560 Chauncey Billups is our general manager. One of at least 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:22.040 a handful of people arrested in an FBI gambling scandal. 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.400 One not an FBI gambling scandal. Nobody's gambling on the 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.399 FBI one. James Comy might be, but one of the 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:35.840 head coaches of an NBA team actually in cuffs by 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:40.479 the FBI for cheating scandal, as was Miami Heat guard 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.560 Terry Rosier. So a player, a couple of players in 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.120 a coach so far, and that's all it takes. I 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.480 mean for it to be plenty of big deal. A coach, 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:54.920 an NBA coach, right, Wow, it's one thing to get 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.240 a you know, the backup guard for some team. I mean, 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:03.520 that would be a giant scandal, su sure, one referee, yeah, 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:09.040 coach wow. And Chauncey Phillips is if you're an NBA fan, 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:10.919 well known guy, five time All Star, played on a 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:14.280 bunch of dot reams, a you know, big name, but wow, 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.080 this will be interesting to follow. And he was on 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.560 the sidelines for the Trail Gangster's game against the Timberwolves 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:25.280 last night too. In one unabashed unashamed in what uh 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.920 easy to understand how players would cheat you know, you 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.720 miss a free throw on purpose or whatever. How to 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:40.440 coach swing games for betting reasons? Uh? Point shaving is 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:44.000 the easiest way you put in the scrubs to make 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:48.000 sure that you don't cover the spread, for instance, or 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.600 there are variety of ways you could do that. Not 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.680 to mention all of the prop betting that goes on 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.120 these days. You remember in baseball I can't remember what 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.080 the term was, but there were a couple of pitchers 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.359 busted because there are bets that the first pitch of 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.639 this inning will be a ball, and then they'd throw 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:06.320 it about three feet off the plate and then get 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.880 back to pitching. You'd never notice it. Yeah, that's true. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.320 Betting has gotten I mean we do price picks ads 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.880 every single day. Betting has gotten so specific with all 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.480 kinds of different things for a lot of different websites 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.960 and apps. If if you're getting down to will the 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:26.520 first basket be a three pointer from I don't know 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:28.840 players on the Portland trail Blazers, but somebody, well you 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:33.720 run plays where he's not gonna get a shot or 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:35.760 something like Yeah. Yeah, if we thought about it for 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.560 ten minutes, never mind a basketball like for they could 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.560 come up with, you know, dozens of possibilities. Yeah, that's 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.880 a big deal though, but remember Jack, in this country, 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.040 we don't hang a man without a try. I don't 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:51.240 know if we ought to hang a guy innocent until 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:55.320 a little stiff. Of course, he is coaching in lawless Portland. 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.760 He probably walks down the street seeing people shooting up 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:03.360 drugs on the side walk you're Antifa guys fighting cops, 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:08.040 you know, junkies and bums and filths, and he's thinking, ah, 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.800 the rules aren't the rules anymore. So he's thinking, with 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:12.720 Antifa on the loose, why don't I make a little 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.440 car payment money with a couple of moving some players around? 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.120 And what's a big deal? Right? My car keeps getting 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:24.600 broken into so right, I'm surprised in sports that it 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:28.159 it it it doesn't come down more often too, because 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.760 in a couple of sports like an NBA, you could 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:35.960 call a foul anytime you want, I mean just all constantly, 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.200 and and in football you could call pass and interference 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.160 anytime you want, just wherever. I'm surprised that doesn't that 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:46.000 more often, because how you gonna challenge that? Right? Refs 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.599 fixing games? Uh yeah, And it's it gets more and 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:55.640 more pervasive too with the micro I can't remember what 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.400 the term was, the micro propositions or whatever that are 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:03.520 so easy to fix. I mean, my god, And yeah, 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.200 it's it's going to be very very difficult to police. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.920 One more sports note, just because I'm against bringing computers 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.559 into sports. I hated I hate replay, I hate bringing 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.160 in the computers. I just I don't like any of 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:15.640 that stuff. And I realize I'm an old man and 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.000 a grandpa and old manuals of Clouds, and my day 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.040 has passed. But man, but man, there was a bad 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.560 third strike call the other night in that really close 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:27.280 Toronto Mariner's game. I mean, that was a close game 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:31.680 and at the end called third strike and the player 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:33.679 was like Haydes thrown out his bat and he started 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.159 like players often do, but they turn around He's like 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:39.560 what and the announcers were like, WHOA, Okay, Well that 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:44.000 is a tough call. I mean, he was just so wrong. 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.200 It was just wrong. And so I don't know, I suppose 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.200 they're gonna bring computers in and start dealing with that. 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.240 Ah boy, yeah they are. Actually that's I think that's 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.640 the plan. Just a TV show. It's just it's just entertainment, 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.279 kind of like the Third Day in the Row at 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:04.560 MSNBC led with tearing Down the White House being the 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.360 lead story and hilarious Friend of the Armstrong, Friend of 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.920 the Armstrong and what are we called Friend of the 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:16.640 Armstrong and Getty show. Ian Bremer was tweeting about I 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:18.800 wish to media would care more about the destruction of 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:25.599 democracy than the destruction by house remodeling the East Wing. 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.800 For God's sake, they're adding on a ballroom. It's not 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:33.400 a threat to the republic. Seriously, if you want to 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.120 talk about Trump's sins, I could list you. And this 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.200 is as a conservative who thinks he's doing a lot 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:39.920 of good stuff. I could give you a list of 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:44.880 ten that are far more significant than remodeling the East Wing. 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.040 But speaking of Ian Bremer, I wanted to bring him 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.239 up because one of the big stories is Trump finally 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:54.600 pulled the trigger on some major oil sanctions against Russia yesterday, 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.360 the stuff that people had been pushing for a long time, 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.400 and he'd been holding off for whatever. Ian Bremmer tweeted out, 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.640 Ian Bremmer a friend of our show, but no friend 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.680 of Donald Trump. Does not like Trump, he said, with 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.359 Trump putting new sanctions on Russian energy, where are all 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:13.120 these people saying Trump is a Putin asset? Trump engagement 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.520 with Putin has been effective. He's given the Russians many 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.240 opportunities to climb down. But the idea that he's somehow 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:23.920 in Putin's pocket is the laziest trope out there. Especially now, Wow, Okay, 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.520 because these are very very damaging to the Russian economy, 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.200 sanctions that Trump announced yesterday, and once again he said, 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.800 I have get on the phone with Vladimir. We have 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.280 a good call, and then he does nothing. I don't 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.280 know how this is news to you, how long it 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.520 takes for that to sink in, but he's there. Yeah. 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.120 Trump has amazing instincts in a lot of ways, in 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.680 just shocking blind spots in several ways. And one of 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:54.920 his blind spots is he cannot comprehend fanaticism. He cannot 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.720 comprehend ideology because he doesn't really have one of other 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:00.920 he's getting a good deal. It reminds me of about 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.240 the businessmen I've known that that just don't even understand 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.400 what you're talking about when you start talking about politics. 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.960 I think because of that, because there's only one ideology, 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.240 is this gonna make me more money or not? I mean, 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:15.360 I've known so many successful businessmen that are just agnostic 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.480 on hold the whole Republican versus Democrat. They look at 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.680 every issue as a was this gonna help me make 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:22.480 money or not make or make or make it harder 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.040 for me to make money, period, Because there's no bigger 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:28.280 there's no like big government small government safety. None of 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.840 that stuff is an issue for a lot of businessmen 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:35.239 I've known successful, it's just is this a good financial 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:39.000 idea or not? And that's the way Trump looks at everything. 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.000 And he can't understand when somebody is working against that, 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:43.959 like why would you keep doing this? This is not 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:47.000 making you more money, this war? What are you doing? 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.520 And as certainly an atheist or a fuck well, you know, 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.360 he might be less than of an atheist afore you 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:56.360 got shot, But as a KaiA who had no particular 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.839 religious belief for the rest of his life, he is 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:05.679 utterly in comprehend. He cannot comprehend religious fanaticism, and to 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.360 a point that it is disturbing to me. I mean, 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:09.920 there are a lot of things I can't understand, but 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.439 I recognize that they are true. We didn't play that 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.079 stuff the other day where he was talking about getting 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:15.920 into heaven. It was pretty interesting. I have to dig 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.720 that up. I got the quotes said somebody brought up 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:21.319 getting into hevening he said, I'm not getting in it. 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.760 That ship is saled. That ain't gonna have it. I 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:28.520 wondered what he was thinking, what particular sins in his 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.599 life were on his mind when he was saying the 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.280 very small chance of me getting into heaven. You know, 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:39.360 apparently he's not acquainted with a Christian notion of forgiveness either. 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.880 But those have to be some pretty good sins that 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.679 you would just say, no, no, no. I wonder what though, 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:49.360 you think it's the cheating on his wife's stopper. I 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:53.400 don't know. I tell you what. You are a contractor, 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.440 a major developer in New York City. You have dealt 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:01.520 with the mob your entire career. The mafia, especially in 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:05.880 the seventies, eighties, nineties. There are guys buried in the 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:11.200 foundation of hotels. I'm just I'm guessing, but I feel 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:16.360 pretty good about it. Speaking of Christianity, King Charles is 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.719 praying with the Pope today, first time the King of 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:24.520 England has prayed with the Pope in five hundred years. Wow, 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.640 and finally, And so I have a feeling when he 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:28.640 goes back there's going to be a revolution in the 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.920 streets and I wouldn't be surprised to see him beheaded 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.520 By this weekend. I've been listening to this podcast about 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.200 English history starting a thousand years ago, and I'm up 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:42.120 to Queen Elizabeth and constant beheadings in civil wars all 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.880 about whether or not you're a Catholic or a Protestant. So, 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.199 just based on what I've listened to so far the 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.480 history of England, he's going to be beheaded by this weekend, 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.319 right right, Well, I think that's probably appropriate. That was 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:58.160 a joke. That was a joke, taking that eight plus 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.080 hour walking tour of London with our fabulous guy Judy 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:04.720 and I have back a couple of months ago. Yeah, 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.280 there was a tremendous I mean it got to be 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.200 dizzying after a while, all of the kings and queens 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.560 and the beheadings, and then her cousin was backed by 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.760 the nobleman who blah blah blah back and forth. But 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.920 oh yeah, yeah, being a king is a great gig 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.800 until you lose it. They don't give you the cardboard 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.880 box and frog march you out of the palace. No, 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.319 they remove your nogging. And at least back in the day, 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.040 your stance on the church was the whole ball of axe, 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:35.319 right right? We should is that an influence on the Donrow? 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.880 Doc Trent Okay, I went to hear that we should 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:39.959 start to show officially before we get in trouble. I'm 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.160 Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is Thursday, 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.280 October twenty third, the year twenty twenty five. Were armstrong 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.840 in getting we approve of this program? All right, then 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.840 let's begin officially according to FCC rules and regulations. Here 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.720 we go leaping into action at mark. All the banging, 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.600 the jackhammering, the dust, the confusion, the noise of all 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.839 places to do construction is happening right here the front 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:07.199 lawn of the White House. It's a four year renovation project, 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:12.560 estimated cost three hundred and seventy six million dollars. Wow, 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:18.040 the controversy continues over Trump's insane king like destruction of 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.440 the Wait, what was the control rooms talking about? Now? 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:24.319 That was in twenty ten, during Obama's administration, a giant 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:29.720 three hundred and seventy six million dollars remodel construction project. Yeah, 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.720 so that doesn't destroying the people's holls. It's all those halls, 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.400 those the peopil who that's that That clip does not 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:39.640 destroy the controversy around tear down that wall or history 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.520 or whatever. But in terms of the cost, which I 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.079 keep hearing brought up at a cost of two hundred 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:45.520 and fifty million dollars. Do you hear that one? That 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:49.000 was almost four hundred million dollars adjusted for inflation, and 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.559 and and you don't even remember that it happened. That's 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.120 how big a deal it was, because nobody cared when 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:58.920 it was Obama. We got Katie's headlines on the way. 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:00.760 We'll keep an eye on this. A scandal. How do 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.840 you have a coach in Portland and a player in Miami, 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.160 At least so far, the only two people arrested. It's 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.480 very far apart. That does that make you think that 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.719 maybe there's more to this, the fact that those two 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.679 people are so far apart. It certainly could be. But 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:17.920 I don't know. They're history together. They might be best 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.000 friends since childhood. Very good point, Very good point. They 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.120 might have been, Yeah, I'm in charge of this investigation. 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.240 They might have been together on the same team two 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.960 years ago, for all I know. We got a lot 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:33.800 on the ways. Stay here, you know, yo yo. You 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.280 can smell the weekend from here. It's a little Friday. 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.040 That's what that smell is. If you smell something the 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.320 weekend coming getting closer. Sure, that's what it is. Depending 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.000 on your lifestyle, maybe the smell of the weekend is debauchery, 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.240 or maybe it's uh, you know, caramel apples with the 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.760 kids or something. Had that on my mind because I 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:51.319 want to make caramel apples. I haven't had one of 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.200 those in a long time. Somebody brought that up your day, 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:58.640 and I thought that sounds fantastic. Peanuts. I have not 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.400 put nuts in my carmel apple. But I'm not a deviant, 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.960 so I guess that you're well, I'm not a child. 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:09.040 So I go ahead, and the amen, who's thank you? 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.319 Let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead story with 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:15.160 Katie Green. Katie, here's my question, Katie, Oh boy, how 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:19.920 are cats like strippers? Actually? Somebody tested this. Somebody texted 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.280 this to us yesterday. I don't know. They sit on 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.600 your lap and make you think they love you. That's 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:30.400 pretty funny. I like that one. That's a good one. 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:35.160 That is not a dad joke. Michael Alright, he's starting. 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:35.720 With Fox News. 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:40.040 Former NBA player Damon Jones arrested in FBI gambling probe. 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.840 Thirty one arrested in all an FBI director to hold 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:44.760 a news conference. 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.920 WHOA, I didn't see that. Thirty one people have been arrested. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.680 Not all players and coaches, but that's a lot of people. Wow. 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.680 And Cash Betel's going to have a press conference and 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:59.680 announce it soon. Wow. This could easily be the greatest 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.480 sport scambling scandal in American history. It sure seems like 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:05.680 it is. I wanted to go big. I want the builder. 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.800 I wanted to be like what was that book they wrote? 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.200 Tom Hanks did the movie where he had the Catholic 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:15.000 Church and the Freemasons and I'm oh, the da Vinci 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.080 cod want it to be like that. Wow. So many 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.200 organizations tied in and so do and they all filtered 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.120 their winnings. Tell Kaita or something. 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:29.280 What From the Wall Street Journal, AI workers are putting 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.640 in one hundred hour work weeks to win the new 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:34.040 tech arms race. 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:40.440 Oh yeah, yeah, I was just reading that. Yeah. They're 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:44.680 convinced that they are at a pivotal moment in history 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.920 and they will be the people who usher in the 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.720 brave new world. I'm afraid they're right. Boy. 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:57.000 From the New York Post, Chinese owned TikTok allegedly meddling 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:00.400 in New York City mayoral race by boosting mon Tommy 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.880 content over Cuomo. Why wouldn't they. 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:08.280 They want to sew confusion and despair and just us 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.600 fighting with each other. So yeah, one hundred percent. I 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.800 just I was listening to a fascinating podcast about Chinese 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:19.280 military history and their their techniques, and one of them 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:23.880 is they plan for years to undermine their opponents from within. 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:28.840 They plant agents, they sew discord, they have sleeper cells. 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:33.720 Years and years of planning guarantee there are thousands of 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.800 Chinese nationals in the United States right now whose sole 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.920 purpose in being here is to wait for orders. We've 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.120 got highlights from the second debate that happened last night too. 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.840 It was a lot spicier debate than the first one. 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:51.960 Michael No, Joe Getty Cold Warrior. I mean that was 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.800 a pretty good screen that was, if I do say 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:58.680 so myself. I was get Cold Warrior. 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.520 And speaking of the NBA, this one from the Babylon 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:10.480 b Lebron performs ceremonial flop to open new NBA season. 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:14.760 There you go, or Lebron. There's a funny Michael Jordan's 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:16.440 story out there that he told the other day that 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:18.879 we ought to play for you if you haven't heard it. 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.120 Lots of stuff on the way actual news and fun 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:23.600 and everything like that. If you miss it, gets the 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.240 podcast Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.400 New York Times communist John mcwater recently published a list 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.800 of the ten old television series every kid needs to watch. 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.359 I'll get right on that, said the one kid who 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.000 reads the Times opinion section. 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:43.879 Oh I've got something good today about shared experiences and 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.720 the death of American culture that I came across yesterday. 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:50.080 Oh so damn good and interesting. We'll talk about that later. 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.920 We are following this giant story, sports story that broke 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.359 right when we came on the air. Is it a 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:00.439 sports story or a crime story? NBA gambling. Thirty one 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:06.800 people arrested so far, thirty one at least one head coach, 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.639 head coach of the Portland Trimplazers arrested, and a player. 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.040 The FBI is going to have a press conference, but 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:18.240 right the latest is his arrest into illegal gambling not 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:20.560 related to games he coached. Is this going to be 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:22.879 NBA end up being like a Pete Rose sort of thing. 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:26.320 I didn't gamble on anything I controlled. I just like 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:28.520 I'm a gambling addict, and I know a lot about 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:34.080 the NBA. Oh right, because I play. It's entirely possible. Yeah, 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.520 because you can't. You can't sidle up to gambling in 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.320 any way as a professional athlete or coach. Just got 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.240 to stay the hell away. I've just been scrolling through Twitter, 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:47.240 where you get news faster than other places, and a 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.720 lot of people saying, and this is true, I don't 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:51.760 think the government should outlaw any kind of gambling. We 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:53.720 should be able to free to do this however the 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:57.520 hell we want, as much as we want. But all 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:00.159 this gambling didn't exist very few years ago, as we all. No, 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.199 I mean, we do price picks ads every single day. 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.320 There's so many gambling opportunities out there, and leagues now 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.240 talk about it constantly through their postgame, pregame, in a 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:12.000 halftime various lines, and gambling networks are all in on it, Yeah, 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.960 NonStop ads and everything like that. So is it that 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.520 shocking that this would happen? Oh? No, it's utterly unsurprising 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:22.520 to me. Yeah. But you can't have a sport where 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:26.600 people suspect the outcome might be predetermined or even tweaked 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.240 a little bit. No, because oddly enough, all the gambling 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:31.720 will go away when people think, well, it's not on 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:33.960 the up and up why would I even try. I 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:35.879 used to have a friend who is like an avid 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:40.760 horse racing better and I once brought up, you know, 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.720 the race is being fixed, because i'd heard something about that. 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:46.639 He said, Oh, yeah, yeah, a lot of them are fixed. 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:48.720 You just got to figure out how they fixed it. 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:54.120 So that's interesting. And now I don't recall him elaborating 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.600 on that, but he was like, oh, yeah, you look 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.600 for patterns and blah blah blah, and then god, I'm 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:01.840 just going to pick the pretty horse, put two to 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.320 win on him and have a drink. Fair amount of 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:09.480 memory already about Michael Jordan, who famously is a really 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:11.920 big time gambler, was never tied to the NBA, but 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.880 there were rumors forever that his dad being killed had 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:19.080 something to do and him leaving basketball for two years 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:22.520 as part of some giant put together. He got caught gambling, 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:24.720 you got to leave the league. Dad was murdered, blah 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:27.480 blah blah. That has always been a rumor. I don't 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:31.200 think any of it's true, but wow, it has a 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.840 bit of truthiness to it. You know, it's good fodder 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:40.440 for speculation anyway. So a couple of stories we've referenced 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:43.880 briefly already the Wall Street Journal with a big piece 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:48.520 about how inside Silicon Valley's big AI labs, the top 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:52.199 researchers and the executives are regularly working eighty to one 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:55.920 hundred hours a week. Just doing a little quick math 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:59.440 for you. If you work twelve hours a day, seven 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:03.720 days o week, years still well short, it's hard to 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:07.639 imagine keeping up that schedule. Several top researchers compared the 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:13.399 experience to war. They quoted this one bloke who worked 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:19.480 for Anthropics. Anthropic, we're basically trying to speed run twenty 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:23.879 years of scientific progress in two years. Extraordinary advances and 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.520 AI systems are happening every few months. He said. It's 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:29.880 the most interesting scientific question in the world right now, well, 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:31.720 and the most profitable one if it turns out to 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:34.880 be the way. You know, a lot of the experts 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:37.600 think the reason they're working these kind of hours is 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:40.399 because it's a sprint to a pot of gold, unlike 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:44.480 anything that's ever been seen. Right right, first person there 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:48.920 maybe gets the biggest chunk of trillions of dollars. I 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:52.280 read another great piece on a similar topic. It was 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:56.760 an expert in the field describing how AI combined with automation, 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:01.240 could make the global supply chain a lot like a 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:07.680 living beast in that it could adapt itself instantaneously to 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:11.280 everything that popped up as it keeps track of orders here, 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:16.639 manufacturing there, shipping over here, there's a short, there's some 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:20.320 sort of hiccup in the supply chain. Prices can immediately 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:24.080 adjust and reflow the merchandise to where it's needed the 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:27.280 most or desired the most. Because the prices and it 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:29.720 was really thought provoking. It was a little drive. So 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:32.280 could it so it could take the whole eye pencil 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:41.280 idea and just make it way more quicker and efficient. Wow. Yeah, 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:46.040 if you're not familiar with that wonderful essay from nineteen fifties, 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:49.760 I think eye pencil very old. Yeah, that's why the 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:51.600 free market works the way it works in all these 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:56.720 different instructions. Directions you get from the free market in 0:22:56.840 --> 0:23:00.119 terms of building anything like a pencil, but man with 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:03.680 AI involved. Although maybe I'll grab that and check it 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:07.560 out to you. I wonder about the race between that 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:11.679 destroying jobs and all that sort of stuff and then 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:13.560 what it does to society. If you didn't hear the 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:16.160 One More Thing podcast, we did yesterday after the show. 0:23:16.520 --> 0:23:18.600 It's separate from the show, and you should look for it. 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:22.840