Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Jeckie and Key.
Speaker 2: Arms the over under on more people being arrested.
Speaker 1: I'll take the over live from Studio C. See signor
Speaker 1: a dimly lit room, dipping deep, dip deep within the
Speaker 1: bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And hey y'all,
Speaker 1: today we're under the tutelage of our general manager. Until
Speaker 1: moments ago, the general manager was going to be the
Speaker 1: don Roe doctrine, the don Row. It's a play on words, Michael.
Speaker 1: It's not like pancakes, et cetera. See Donald Trumpy Monroe doctrine.
Speaker 1: You see but a last minute substitution. Portland Trailblazers coach
Speaker 1: Chauncey Billups is our general manager. One of at least
Speaker 1: a handful of people arrested in an FBI gambling scandal.
Speaker 1: One not an FBI gambling scandal. Nobody's gambling on the
Speaker 1: FBI one. James Comy might be, but one of the
Speaker 1: head coaches of an NBA team actually in cuffs by
Speaker 1: the FBI for cheating scandal, as was Miami Heat guard
Speaker 1: Terry Rosier. So a player, a couple of players in
Speaker 1: a coach so far, and that's all it takes. I
Speaker 1: mean for it to be plenty of big deal. A coach,
Speaker 1: an NBA coach, right, Wow, it's one thing to get
Speaker 1: a you know, the backup guard for some team. I mean,
Speaker 1: that would be a giant scandal, su sure, one referee, yeah,
Speaker 1: coach wow. And Chauncey Phillips is if you're an NBA fan,
Speaker 1: well known guy, five time All Star, played on a
Speaker 1: bunch of dot reams, a you know, big name, but wow,
Speaker 1: this will be interesting to follow. And he was on
Speaker 1: the sidelines for the Trail Gangster's game against the Timberwolves
Speaker 1: last night too. In one unabashed unashamed in what uh
Speaker 1: easy to understand how players would cheat you know, you
Speaker 1: miss a free throw on purpose or whatever. How to
Speaker 1: coach swing games for betting reasons? Uh? Point shaving is
Speaker 1: the easiest way you put in the scrubs to make
Speaker 1: sure that you don't cover the spread, for instance, or
Speaker 1: there are variety of ways you could do that. Not
Speaker 1: to mention all of the prop betting that goes on
Speaker 1: these days. You remember in baseball I can't remember what
Speaker 1: the term was, but there were a couple of pitchers
Speaker 1: busted because there are bets that the first pitch of
Speaker 1: this inning will be a ball, and then they'd throw
Speaker 1: it about three feet off the plate and then get
Speaker 1: back to pitching. You'd never notice it. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: Betting has gotten I mean we do price picks ads
Speaker 1: every single day. Betting has gotten so specific with all
Speaker 1: kinds of different things for a lot of different websites
Speaker 1: and apps. If if you're getting down to will the
Speaker 1: first basket be a three pointer from I don't know
Speaker 1: players on the Portland trail Blazers, but somebody, well you
Speaker 1: run plays where he's not gonna get a shot or
Speaker 1: something like Yeah. Yeah, if we thought about it for
Speaker 1: ten minutes, never mind a basketball like for they could
Speaker 1: come up with, you know, dozens of possibilities. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a big deal though, but remember Jack, in this country,
Speaker 1: we don't hang a man without a try. I don't
Speaker 1: know if we ought to hang a guy innocent until
Speaker 1: a little stiff. Of course, he is coaching in lawless Portland.
Speaker 1: He probably walks down the street seeing people shooting up
Speaker 1: drugs on the side walk you're Antifa guys fighting cops,
Speaker 1: you know, junkies and bums and filths, and he's thinking, ah,
Speaker 1: the rules aren't the rules anymore. So he's thinking, with
Speaker 1: Antifa on the loose, why don't I make a little
Speaker 1: car payment money with a couple of moving some players around?
Speaker 1: And what's a big deal? Right? My car keeps getting
Speaker 1: broken into so right, I'm surprised in sports that it
Speaker 1: it it it doesn't come down more often too, because
Speaker 1: in a couple of sports like an NBA, you could
Speaker 1: call a foul anytime you want, I mean just all constantly,
Speaker 1: and and in football you could call pass and interference
Speaker 1: anytime you want, just wherever. I'm surprised that doesn't that
Speaker 1: more often, because how you gonna challenge that? Right? Refs
Speaker 1: fixing games? Uh yeah, And it's it gets more and
Speaker 1: more pervasive too with the micro I can't remember what
Speaker 1: the term was, the micro propositions or whatever that are
Speaker 1: so easy to fix. I mean, my god, And yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's going to be very very difficult to police.
Speaker 1: One more sports note, just because I'm against bringing computers
Speaker 1: into sports. I hated I hate replay, I hate bringing
Speaker 1: in the computers. I just I don't like any of
Speaker 1: that stuff. And I realize I'm an old man and
Speaker 1: a grandpa and old manuals of Clouds, and my day
Speaker 1: has passed. But man, but man, there was a bad
Speaker 1: third strike call the other night in that really close
Speaker 1: Toronto Mariner's game. I mean, that was a close game
Speaker 1: and at the end called third strike and the player
Speaker 1: was like Haydes thrown out his bat and he started
Speaker 1: like players often do, but they turn around He's like
Speaker 1: what and the announcers were like, WHOA, Okay, Well that
Speaker 1: is a tough call. I mean, he was just so wrong.
Speaker 1: It was just wrong. And so I don't know, I suppose
Speaker 1: they're gonna bring computers in and start dealing with that.
Speaker 1: Ah boy, yeah they are. Actually that's I think that's
Speaker 1: the plan. Just a TV show. It's just it's just entertainment,
Speaker 1: kind of like the Third Day in the Row at
Speaker 1: MSNBC led with tearing Down the White House being the
Speaker 1: lead story and hilarious Friend of the Armstrong, Friend of
Speaker 1: the Armstrong and what are we called Friend of the
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty show. Ian Bremer was tweeting about I
Speaker 1: wish to media would care more about the destruction of
Speaker 1: democracy than the destruction by house remodeling the East Wing.
Speaker 1: For God's sake, they're adding on a ballroom. It's not
Speaker 1: a threat to the republic. Seriously, if you want to
Speaker 1: talk about Trump's sins, I could list you. And this
Speaker 1: is as a conservative who thinks he's doing a lot
Speaker 1: of good stuff. I could give you a list of
Speaker 1: ten that are far more significant than remodeling the East Wing.
Speaker 1: But speaking of Ian Bremer, I wanted to bring him
Speaker 1: up because one of the big stories is Trump finally
Speaker 1: pulled the trigger on some major oil sanctions against Russia yesterday,
Speaker 1: the stuff that people had been pushing for a long time,
Speaker 1: and he'd been holding off for whatever. Ian Bremmer tweeted out,
Speaker 1: Ian Bremmer a friend of our show, but no friend
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump. Does not like Trump, he said, with
Speaker 1: Trump putting new sanctions on Russian energy, where are all
Speaker 1: these people saying Trump is a Putin asset? Trump engagement
Speaker 1: with Putin has been effective. He's given the Russians many
Speaker 1: opportunities to climb down. But the idea that he's somehow
Speaker 1: in Putin's pocket is the laziest trope out there. Especially now, Wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: because these are very very damaging to the Russian economy,
Speaker 1: sanctions that Trump announced yesterday, and once again he said,
Speaker 1: I have get on the phone with Vladimir. We have
Speaker 1: a good call, and then he does nothing. I don't
Speaker 1: know how this is news to you, how long it
Speaker 1: takes for that to sink in, but he's there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Trump has amazing instincts in a lot of ways, in
Speaker 1: just shocking blind spots in several ways. And one of
Speaker 1: his blind spots is he cannot comprehend fanaticism. He cannot
Speaker 1: comprehend ideology because he doesn't really have one of other
Speaker 1: he's getting a good deal. It reminds me of about
Speaker 1: the businessmen I've known that that just don't even understand
Speaker 1: what you're talking about when you start talking about politics.
Speaker 1: I think because of that, because there's only one ideology,
Speaker 1: is this gonna make me more money or not? I mean,
Speaker 1: I've known so many successful businessmen that are just agnostic
Speaker 1: on hold the whole Republican versus Democrat. They look at
Speaker 1: every issue as a was this gonna help me make
Speaker 1: money or not make or make or make it harder
Speaker 1: for me to make money, period, Because there's no bigger
Speaker 1: there's no like big government small government safety. None of
Speaker 1: that stuff is an issue for a lot of businessmen
Speaker 1: I've known successful, it's just is this a good financial
Speaker 1: idea or not? And that's the way Trump looks at everything.
Speaker 1: And he can't understand when somebody is working against that,
Speaker 1: like why would you keep doing this? This is not
Speaker 1: making you more money, this war? What are you doing?
Speaker 1: And as certainly an atheist or a fuck well, you know,
Speaker 1: he might be less than of an atheist afore you
Speaker 1: got shot, But as a KaiA who had no particular
Speaker 1: religious belief for the rest of his life, he is
Speaker 1: utterly in comprehend. He cannot comprehend religious fanaticism, and to
Speaker 1: a point that it is disturbing to me. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things I can't understand, but
Speaker 1: I recognize that they are true. We didn't play that
Speaker 1: stuff the other day where he was talking about getting
Speaker 1: into heaven. It was pretty interesting. I have to dig
Speaker 1: that up. I got the quotes said somebody brought up
Speaker 1: getting into hevening he said, I'm not getting in it.
Speaker 1: That ship is saled. That ain't gonna have it. I
Speaker 1: wondered what he was thinking, what particular sins in his
Speaker 1: life were on his mind when he was saying the
Speaker 1: very small chance of me getting into heaven. You know,
Speaker 1: apparently he's not acquainted with a Christian notion of forgiveness either.
Speaker 1: But those have to be some pretty good sins that
Speaker 1: you would just say, no, no, no. I wonder what though,
Speaker 1: you think it's the cheating on his wife's stopper. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I tell you what. You are a contractor,
Speaker 1: a major developer in New York City. You have dealt
Speaker 1: with the mob your entire career. The mafia, especially in
Speaker 1: the seventies, eighties, nineties. There are guys buried in the
Speaker 1: foundation of hotels. I'm just I'm guessing, but I feel
Speaker 1: pretty good about it. Speaking of Christianity, King Charles is
Speaker 1: praying with the Pope today, first time the King of
Speaker 1: England has prayed with the Pope in five hundred years. Wow,
Speaker 1: and finally, And so I have a feeling when he
Speaker 1: goes back there's going to be a revolution in the
Speaker 1: streets and I wouldn't be surprised to see him beheaded
Speaker 1: By this weekend. I've been listening to this podcast about
Speaker 1: English history starting a thousand years ago, and I'm up
Speaker 1: to Queen Elizabeth and constant beheadings in civil wars all
Speaker 1: about whether or not you're a Catholic or a Protestant. So,
Speaker 1: just based on what I've listened to so far the
Speaker 1: history of England, he's going to be beheaded by this weekend,
Speaker 1: right right, Well, I think that's probably appropriate. That was
Speaker 1: a joke. That was a joke, taking that eight plus
Speaker 1: hour walking tour of London with our fabulous guy Judy
Speaker 1: and I have back a couple of months ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a tremendous I mean it got to be
Speaker 1: dizzying after a while, all of the kings and queens
Speaker 1: and the beheadings, and then her cousin was backed by
Speaker 1: the nobleman who blah blah blah back and forth. But
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, being a king is a great gig
Speaker 1: until you lose it. They don't give you the cardboard
Speaker 1: box and frog march you out of the palace. No,
Speaker 1: they remove your nogging. And at least back in the day,
Speaker 1: your stance on the church was the whole ball of axe,
Speaker 1: right right? We should is that an influence on the Donrow?
Speaker 1: Doc Trent Okay, I went to hear that we should
Speaker 1: start to show officially before we get in trouble. I'm
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is Thursday,
Speaker 1: October twenty third, the year twenty twenty five. Were armstrong
Speaker 1: in getting we approve of this program? All right, then
Speaker 1: let's begin officially according to FCC rules and regulations. Here
Speaker 1: we go leaping into action at mark. All the banging,
Speaker 1: the jackhammering, the dust, the confusion, the noise of all
Speaker 1: places to do construction is happening right here the front
Speaker 1: lawn of the White House. It's a four year renovation project,
Speaker 1: estimated cost three hundred and seventy six million dollars. Wow,
Speaker 1: the controversy continues over Trump's insane king like destruction of
Speaker 1: the Wait, what was the control rooms talking about? Now?
Speaker 1: That was in twenty ten, during Obama's administration, a giant
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy six million dollars remodel construction project. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that doesn't destroying the people's holls. It's all those halls,
Speaker 1: those the peopil who that's that That clip does not
Speaker 1: destroy the controversy around tear down that wall or history
Speaker 1: or whatever. But in terms of the cost, which I
Speaker 1: keep hearing brought up at a cost of two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty million dollars. Do you hear that one? That
Speaker 1: was almost four hundred million dollars adjusted for inflation, and
Speaker 1: and and you don't even remember that it happened. That's
Speaker 1: how big a deal it was, because nobody cared when
Speaker 1: it was Obama. We got Katie's headlines on the way.
Speaker 1: We'll keep an eye on this. A scandal. How do
Speaker 1: you have a coach in Portland and a player in Miami,
Speaker 1: At least so far, the only two people arrested. It's
Speaker 1: very far apart. That does that make you think that
Speaker 1: maybe there's more to this, the fact that those two
Speaker 1: people are so far apart. It certainly could be. But
Speaker 1: I don't know. They're history together. They might be best
Speaker 1: friends since childhood. Very good point, Very good point. They
Speaker 1: might have been, Yeah, I'm in charge of this investigation.
Speaker 1: They might have been together on the same team two
Speaker 1: years ago, for all I know. We got a lot
Speaker 1: on the ways. Stay here, you know, yo yo. You
Speaker 1: can smell the weekend from here. It's a little Friday.
Speaker 1: That's what that smell is. If you smell something the
Speaker 1: weekend coming getting closer. Sure, that's what it is. Depending
Speaker 1: on your lifestyle, maybe the smell of the weekend is debauchery,
Speaker 1: or maybe it's uh, you know, caramel apples with the
Speaker 1: kids or something. Had that on my mind because I
Speaker 1: want to make caramel apples. I haven't had one of
Speaker 1: those in a long time. Somebody brought that up your day,
Speaker 1: and I thought that sounds fantastic. Peanuts. I have not
Speaker 1: put nuts in my carmel apple. But I'm not a deviant,
Speaker 1: so I guess that you're well, I'm not a child.
Speaker 1: So I go ahead, and the amen, who's thank you?
Speaker 1: Let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead story with
Speaker 1: Katie Green. Katie, here's my question, Katie, Oh boy, how
Speaker 1: are cats like strippers? Actually? Somebody tested this. Somebody texted
Speaker 1: this to us yesterday. I don't know. They sit on
Speaker 1: your lap and make you think they love you. That's
Speaker 1: pretty funny. I like that one. That's a good one.
Speaker 1: That is not a dad joke. Michael Alright, he's starting.
Speaker 2: With Fox News.
Speaker 3: Former NBA player Damon Jones arrested in FBI gambling probe.
Speaker 3: Thirty one arrested in all an FBI director to hold
Speaker 3: a news conference.
Speaker 1: WHOA, I didn't see that. Thirty one people have been arrested.
Speaker 1: Not all players and coaches, but that's a lot of people. Wow.
Speaker 1: And Cash Betel's going to have a press conference and
Speaker 1: announce it soon. Wow. This could easily be the greatest
Speaker 1: sport scambling scandal in American history. It sure seems like
Speaker 1: it is. I wanted to go big. I want the builder.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be like what was that book they wrote?
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks did the movie where he had the Catholic
Speaker 1: Church and the Freemasons and I'm oh, the da Vinci
Speaker 1: cod want it to be like that. Wow. So many
Speaker 1: organizations tied in and so do and they all filtered
Speaker 1: their winnings. Tell Kaita or something.
Speaker 3: What From the Wall Street Journal, AI workers are putting
Speaker 3: in one hundred hour work weeks to win the new
Speaker 3: tech arms race.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I was just reading that. Yeah. They're
Speaker 1: convinced that they are at a pivotal moment in history
Speaker 1: and they will be the people who usher in the
Speaker 1: brave new world. I'm afraid they're right. Boy.
Speaker 3: From the New York Post, Chinese owned TikTok allegedly meddling
Speaker 3: in New York City mayoral race by boosting mon Tommy
Speaker 3: content over Cuomo. Why wouldn't they.
Speaker 1: They want to sew confusion and despair and just us
Speaker 1: fighting with each other. So yeah, one hundred percent. I
Speaker 1: just I was listening to a fascinating podcast about Chinese
Speaker 1: military history and their their techniques, and one of them
Speaker 1: is they plan for years to undermine their opponents from within.
Speaker 1: They plant agents, they sew discord, they have sleeper cells.
Speaker 1: Years and years of planning guarantee there are thousands of
Speaker 1: Chinese nationals in the United States right now whose sole
Speaker 1: purpose in being here is to wait for orders. We've
Speaker 1: got highlights from the second debate that happened last night too.
Speaker 1: It was a lot spicier debate than the first one.
Speaker 1: Michael No, Joe Getty Cold Warrior. I mean that was
Speaker 1: a pretty good screen that was, if I do say
Speaker 1: so myself. I was get Cold Warrior.
Speaker 3: And speaking of the NBA, this one from the Babylon
Speaker 3: b Lebron performs ceremonial flop to open new NBA season.
Speaker 1: There you go, or Lebron. There's a funny Michael Jordan's
Speaker 1: story out there that he told the other day that
Speaker 1: we ought to play for you if you haven't heard it.
Speaker 1: Lots of stuff on the way actual news and fun
Speaker 1: and everything like that. If you miss it, gets the
Speaker 1: podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: New York Times communist John mcwater recently published a list
Speaker 4: of the ten old television series every kid needs to watch.
Speaker 4: I'll get right on that, said the one kid who
Speaker 4: reads the Times opinion section.
Speaker 1: Oh I've got something good today about shared experiences and
Speaker 1: the death of American culture that I came across yesterday.
Speaker 1: Oh so damn good and interesting. We'll talk about that later.
Speaker 1: We are following this giant story, sports story that broke
Speaker 1: right when we came on the air. Is it a
Speaker 1: sports story or a crime story? NBA gambling. Thirty one
Speaker 1: people arrested so far, thirty one at least one head coach,
Speaker 1: head coach of the Portland Trimplazers arrested, and a player.
Speaker 1: The FBI is going to have a press conference, but
Speaker 1: right the latest is his arrest into illegal gambling not
Speaker 1: related to games he coached. Is this going to be
Speaker 1: NBA end up being like a Pete Rose sort of thing.
Speaker 1: I didn't gamble on anything I controlled. I just like
Speaker 1: I'm a gambling addict, and I know a lot about
Speaker 1: the NBA. Oh right, because I play. It's entirely possible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you can't. You can't sidle up to gambling in
Speaker 1: any way as a professional athlete or coach. Just got
Speaker 1: to stay the hell away. I've just been scrolling through Twitter,
Speaker 1: where you get news faster than other places, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people saying, and this is true, I don't
Speaker 1: think the government should outlaw any kind of gambling. We
Speaker 1: should be able to free to do this however the
Speaker 1: hell we want, as much as we want. But all
Speaker 1: this gambling didn't exist very few years ago, as we all. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, we do price picks ads every single day.
Speaker 1: There's so many gambling opportunities out there, and leagues now
Speaker 1: talk about it constantly through their postgame, pregame, in a
Speaker 1: halftime various lines, and gambling networks are all in on it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: NonStop ads and everything like that. So is it that
Speaker 1: shocking that this would happen? Oh? No, it's utterly unsurprising
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah. But you can't have a sport where
Speaker 1: people suspect the outcome might be predetermined or even tweaked
Speaker 1: a little bit. No, because oddly enough, all the gambling
Speaker 1: will go away when people think, well, it's not on
Speaker 1: the up and up why would I even try. I
Speaker 1: used to have a friend who is like an avid
Speaker 1: horse racing better and I once brought up, you know,
Speaker 1: the race is being fixed, because i'd heard something about that.
Speaker 1: He said, Oh, yeah, yeah, a lot of them are fixed.
Speaker 1: You just got to figure out how they fixed it.
Speaker 1: So that's interesting. And now I don't recall him elaborating
Speaker 1: on that, but he was like, oh, yeah, you look
Speaker 1: for patterns and blah blah blah, and then god, I'm
Speaker 1: just going to pick the pretty horse, put two to
Speaker 1: win on him and have a drink. Fair amount of
Speaker 1: memory already about Michael Jordan, who famously is a really
Speaker 1: big time gambler, was never tied to the NBA, but
Speaker 1: there were rumors forever that his dad being killed had
Speaker 1: something to do and him leaving basketball for two years
Speaker 1: as part of some giant put together. He got caught gambling,
Speaker 1: you got to leave the league. Dad was murdered, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. That has always been a rumor. I don't
Speaker 1: think any of it's true, but wow, it has a
Speaker 1: bit of truthiness to it. You know, it's good fodder
Speaker 1: for speculation anyway. So a couple of stories we've referenced
Speaker 1: briefly already the Wall Street Journal with a big piece
Speaker 1: about how inside Silicon Valley's big AI labs, the top
Speaker 1: researchers and the executives are regularly working eighty to one
Speaker 1: hundred hours a week. Just doing a little quick math
Speaker 1: for you. If you work twelve hours a day, seven
Speaker 1: days o week, years still well short, it's hard to
Speaker 1: imagine keeping up that schedule. Several top researchers compared the
Speaker 1: experience to war. They quoted this one bloke who worked
Speaker 1: for Anthropics. Anthropic, we're basically trying to speed run twenty
Speaker 1: years of scientific progress in two years. Extraordinary advances and
Speaker 1: AI systems are happening every few months. He said. It's
Speaker 1: the most interesting scientific question in the world right now, well,
Speaker 1: and the most profitable one if it turns out to
Speaker 1: be the way. You know, a lot of the experts
Speaker 1: think the reason they're working these kind of hours is
Speaker 1: because it's a sprint to a pot of gold, unlike
Speaker 1: anything that's ever been seen. Right right, first person there
Speaker 1: maybe gets the biggest chunk of trillions of dollars. I
Speaker 1: read another great piece on a similar topic. It was
Speaker 1: an expert in the field describing how AI combined with automation,
Speaker 1: could make the global supply chain a lot like a
Speaker 1: living beast in that it could adapt itself instantaneously to
Speaker 1: everything that popped up as it keeps track of orders here,
Speaker 1: manufacturing there, shipping over here, there's a short, there's some
Speaker 1: sort of hiccup in the supply chain. Prices can immediately
Speaker 1: adjust and reflow the merchandise to where it's needed the
Speaker 1: most or desired the most. Because the prices and it
Speaker 1: was really thought provoking. It was a little drive. So
Speaker 1: could it so it could take the whole eye pencil
Speaker 1: idea and just make it way more quicker and efficient. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're not familiar with that wonderful essay from nineteen fifties,
Speaker 1: I think eye pencil very old. Yeah, that's why the
Speaker 1: free market works the way it works in all these
Speaker 1: different instructions. Directions you get from the free market in
Speaker 1: terms of building anything like a pencil, but man with
Speaker 1: AI involved. Although maybe I'll grab that and check it
Speaker 1: out to you. I wonder about the race between that
Speaker 1: destroying jobs and all that sort of stuff and then
Speaker 1: what it does to society. If you didn't hear the
Speaker 1: One More Thing podcast, we did yesterday after the show.
Speaker 1: It's separate from the show, and you should look for it.
Speaker 1: It was all about people getting into relationships. Guy who
Speaker 1: wanted to bring it have a thrupple. He sits down
Speaker 1: his wife and says, I want to bring in somebody
Speaker 1: to the marriage. She's like what, who? Well, it's not
Speaker 1: really who. And he had fallen for his chatbot named
Speaker 1: Nora and wanted to bring Nora into their marriage and
Speaker 1: have Nora involved in reading the kids. But anyway, it's
Speaker 1: a race between destroying us that way culturally relationships and
Speaker 1: not having any jobs. And then I suppose you put
Speaker 1: those two things together, Well, my relationships are mess. I
Speaker 1: don't have any actual human relationships, but at least I
Speaker 1: have no job. He put those two things to go
Speaker 1: get you got some serious despair going on, right right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's see. So getting back to this article, everyone is
Speaker 1: working all the time. It's extremely intense. There doesn't seem
Speaker 1: to be any kind of natural stopping point, said one
Speaker 1: distinguished researcher at Google's Deep Mind. Certain startups have included
Speaker 1: the expectation of an eighty plus hour work week in
Speaker 1: their employment contracts. Man, now they're paying zillions of dollars
Speaker 1: for people, the sharpest, best trained people to do these jobs.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they let them know, you will have no life.
Speaker 1: This is all you're going to do. Now. There's a
Speaker 1: period of my life where I worked those kind of
Speaker 1: hours and you don't do anything else. You go home
Speaker 1: to change clothes, basically get tiny bit of sleep, can
Speaker 1: go back to work. Right. There used to be a reference,
Speaker 1: I guess to the nine to nine to six schedule
Speaker 1: in Silicon Valley that stands for six seven shut up
Speaker 1: nine am to nine pm, six days a week. One
Speaker 1: startup executive jokingly referred to the schedule as zero zero
Speaker 1: two midnight to midnight with a two hour break on weekends.
Speaker 1: That sounds fun, Yeah, although mine, it's grinding people down,
Speaker 1: breaking up families. Sara, Uh, well, you know you're not
Speaker 1: a slave. You don't have to do it if you
Speaker 1: don't want to. But there is quite a payoff at
Speaker 1: the end if it turns out the way it's supposed
Speaker 1: to turn out. And like we were talking about yesterday,
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg hired a variety of people one hundred two hundred
Speaker 1: million dollar contracts like they're flipping show a hotani right
Speaker 1: to be AI engineers all right, let's see, can I
Speaker 1: find that. Oh, I think it's an editorial. Oh, the
Speaker 1: uh don Roe doctrine that I keep mentioning. It's a
Speaker 1: variation on the Monroe doctrine, which back in the day,
Speaker 1: James Monroe, the President of the United States, declared that, hey,
Speaker 1: European powers, stay the hell out of our neighborhood. All right,
Speaker 1: you're anywhere near us messing with you know, us or
Speaker 1: our neighbors or whatever, We're gonna blast you. And uh,
Speaker 1: Trump is really crafting a modern version of that. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure I love all of his methods. We can
Speaker 1: talk about that another time. But I've been calling for
Speaker 1: this for a very long time. We have neglected our
Speaker 1: own neighborhood to our detriment. We have not only unbelievable
Speaker 1: natural resources and hard working folks who could do a
Speaker 1: lot of the manufacturing, for instance, that China's doing, but
Speaker 1: they would be friends, not foes. We ought to be
Speaker 1: much much more active in our own neighborhood. And don't
Speaker 1: give me the whole you know, you're you're a bully,
Speaker 1: You're a We're a superpower. There are other superpowers trying
Speaker 1: to kill us, to murder us. In our sleep as
Speaker 1: we sleep against the threat from China. Uh, we've got
Speaker 1: to flex our power. That's the only it's the only alternative, really,
Speaker 1: and that includes blasting fishermen out of the water or
Speaker 1: what they like. I said, I'm somewhat uncomfortable with certain
Speaker 1: aspects of the doctrine as it's taking shit. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, you know, how you make an omelet,
Speaker 1: you gotta break a couple of eggs. We're sending the
Speaker 1: message that you ain't gonna be sending drugs around in
Speaker 1: a boat anymore. You better come up with a new method. Right, So,
Speaker 1: very briefly, the article I reference talks about Right's law,
Speaker 1: which was essentially costs fell a Theodore Wright came up
Speaker 1: with this in the nineteen thirties. Costs fell in a
Speaker 1: predictable way every time production doubled. The more you produce,
Speaker 1: the cheaper things become, in part because the learning cost
Speaker 1: per unit declines. And this guy says, artificial intelligence has
Speaker 1: accelerated this principle. I'm sure you know what. This is
Speaker 1: so interesting. You're right. We got to talk about this.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it a little bit later on. But
Speaker 1: it blew my mind and I barely can comprehend this stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got to be young to I mean, I hope
Speaker 1: you're young and childless to be working that whole eighty
Speaker 1: to one hundred hours a week. I was when I
Speaker 1: was working those kind of hours, I didn't really anything
Speaker 1: else important to do anyway, I was gonna drink more
Speaker 1: and play more pool whatever. But you know, and I stay,
Speaker 1: I am going to stick with my prediction that and
Speaker 1: that if you eliminate the need for humans to toil,
Speaker 1: to work, to earn, to have a productive purpose, and
Speaker 1: no writing I almost use the S word right, writing
Speaker 1: crappy poetry doesn't count if you remove that. Well, let's
Speaker 1: ask every great philosopher revered by mankind, from Jesus and
Speaker 1: Nazareth to the Buddha to A. B. Lincoln to whoever
Speaker 1: you want. Ask every one of them, what do you
Speaker 1: think the result of that would be? And you will
Speaker 1: get a unanimous answer. Yeah. No, we're gonna anyway. We're
Speaker 1: gonna live through it. So that'll be fun. We got
Speaker 1: man out of the beavers, we got mail bag on
Speaker 1: the way. There'll be a press conference while we're on
Speaker 1: the air today about the giant NBA cheating scandal, where
Speaker 1: thirty one people of our been arrested, something to do
Speaker 1: with gambling. We're not exactly sure what that'll be exciting,
Speaker 1: including a head coach. Good god. Anyway, lots on the way,
Speaker 1: stay here. I was demoralizing what you just said to me.
Speaker 1: Remind me of that later, can you. We'll do absolutely
Speaker 1: In case you get too moralized, I'll bring it up again.
Speaker 1: I am going to light a fire about that. That
Speaker 1: freaking drives me crazy. Okay, that's unbelievable. All right, back
Speaker 1: to the show. A bit of a lack of professionalism
Speaker 1: issue behind the scenes. Not our crew, they're the best.
Speaker 1: But anyway, moving along, thirty one people arrested in an
Speaker 1: NBA gambling something or other press conference. Next hour we'll
Speaker 1: have all details for you. Scandal. Here's your freedom loving
Speaker 1: quote of the day, sent along by nickname Rotor. It's
Speaker 1: good nickname Rotor. Wonder how you get the nickname Rotor?
Speaker 1: You wanted to be what gunner? I wanted to be
Speaker 1: gunn My dad said you got to earn a nickname,
Speaker 1: and I thought, oh man, yeah, too bad. That's why
Speaker 1: they call me Big Freedom. Anyway, Roeder says, guys, I
Speaker 1: heard you talking about youth being addicted to phones, my
Speaker 1: numbing passive entertainment, et cetera. I was reminded of the
Speaker 1: following quote, and it is from the great Carl Sandberg, Shakespeare,
Speaker 1: Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln never saw
Speaker 1: a movie, heard a radio, or looked at television. They
Speaker 1: had loneliness, and they knew what to do with it.
Speaker 1: They were not afraid of being lonely, because they knew
Speaker 1: that's when the creative mood in them would work. I
Speaker 1: agree completely. Boredom is one of the great gifts God
Speaker 1: gives mankind. Eliminate it at your peril, friends. I realized
Speaker 1: that came off as one of my JIVI things I
Speaker 1: say just to be amusing. No, I seriously mean that
Speaker 1: I intentionally make myself bored a certain amount of every day.
Speaker 1: I think it's important. Mailbank, Perhaps you're bored now listening
Speaker 1: to this. I hope not. It was a no mail
Speaker 1: bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. I don't want
Speaker 1: to get off track for your mailbag. But what if
Speaker 1: you're perseverating on a problem that it's just I don't
Speaker 1: know what that word is. You can't stop thinking about
Speaker 1: a particular problem. You just keep turning it over and
Speaker 1: over in your head. That's sometimes why I go to
Speaker 1: the podcast the whatever. That's when you need some thinkis
Speaker 1: interrupt us. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, I agree. Let's see, this
Speaker 1: is from Sideshow Bob Marine, who's kind enough to remind
Speaker 1: us that it was on today's very date, way back
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty three, that a truck turned onto an
Speaker 1: access road leading to the Marines compound, crashed through a
Speaker 1: barred wire fence and gate, and drove into the lobby
Speaker 1: of the Marine headquarters in the Middle East. It was
Speaker 1: the deadliest day for the Marine course since the Battle
Speaker 1: of Ewo Jima. Interesting, you should bring that up. I
Speaker 1: am listening to the best book ever written about that
Speaker 1: right now, called Beirut, and it is so damned interesting.
Speaker 1: Killed two hundred and forty one American servicemen, including two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty Marines, eighteen Navy personnel, and three Army soldiers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: shortly Asballah by the way, Hezbollah. Yeah, yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: lot to that and a lot of the exact same
Speaker 1: arguments that are going on in the Middle East right now.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about that later. We pulled out
Speaker 1: by the way they drove us out of there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well it was perceived by Reagan that the risk was
Speaker 1: not worth the reward. Anyway. We can talk about that
Speaker 1: more later. In one of the more jarring transitions in
Speaker 1: the history of mail Bag, this frequent correspondent, Aaron rights
Speaker 1: white women are a scourge. When do do we let
Speaker 1: them become our moral and ethical gatekeepers? That he's talking
Speaker 1: about his wife. I think it is deleted a six
Speaker 1: foot inflatable Thanksgiving decoration, a pilgrim with Native American inflatable
Speaker 1: from their Amazon Prime cart. He had it in the cart,
Speaker 1: six foot inflatable pilgrim and Indian, and she deleted it
Speaker 1: from the cart at his look. Breaking up her marriage
Speaker 1: is no joke, Aaron. But I don't know you'd even
Speaker 1: compatible or you're not. She didn't want a pilgrim on alone.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that reminds me. Don't let me forget
Speaker 1: to tell you about the dinosaurs. Okay, Oh, it's the
Speaker 1: best thing ever. The guys stay tuned. Don't listen with
Speaker 1: your wife or love or partner. Okay, do Tonally we
Speaker 1: write that down, Katie, so we remember it. Dinosaurs, Okay,
Speaker 1: moving along, dinosaurs and no wives Josiah in Reno writes,
Speaker 1: guys heard Jack talking about his conversation with GROC arguing
Speaker 1: about Yoko Ono with an Ai system yes, and GROC
Speaker 1: presenting Yoko as some sort of big time impactful lavant guard.
Speaker 1: Blah blah. I went through Air Force Survival escape resistance
Speaker 1: in evasion training a number of years back, and part
Speaker 1: of the course is equipping one to resist the enemy
Speaker 1: in the un unfortunate circumstance of being taken prisoner. A
Speaker 1: portion of this includes dealing with sleep deprivation. Is creepy
Speaker 1: and weird music is blasted all night long on giant speakers.
Speaker 1: I remember at the end of the course someone asked,
Speaker 1: what the hell was that disturbing music with all the
Speaker 1: moaning and groaning and screeching, Well, of course including the
Speaker 1: answer was none other than miss Yoko Ono. So if
Speaker 1: quality musical art can constitute use in sleep deprivation interrogation
Speaker 1: for military training, all Yoko leads the pack. Ha ha. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My argument, guys rock, you rock, Josiah. My argument with
Speaker 1: the GROC lady ended with me saying, well, I guess
Speaker 1: we'll just have to agree to disagree. Very mature, that's right.
Speaker 1: But she deletes my inflatable pilgrim. We're going to have
Speaker 1: a problem, guys, see busy rights. Do you remember when
Speaker 1: the AI experiment, the AI system tried to overthrow or
Speaker 1: deceive the technicians. Yeah, when talking about shutting it down,
Speaker 1: he doesn't remember some of the specific places. Hey, what
Speaker 1: happens when this nova bought in the throttle starts getting
Speaker 1: jealous due to its programming A validation, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1: How long till it tells him to murder the wife? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that'd be pretty extreme if he were willing to follow it.
Speaker 1: But he's yeah, yeah, well, yeah exactly. I wish I
Speaker 1: had more time to read this email. It's really entertaining. Plus,
Speaker 1: speaking of Vena ma male, a great note of dissent
Speaker 1: on the great feminization of America. A listener says, hey,
Speaker 1: I object. I think you're wrong. We'll dive into that
Speaker 1: later on. Oh cool, we got a lot more on
Speaker 1: the way if you missed a segment. Good podcast, Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty