WEBVTT - The A&G Replay Friday Hour One 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:13.840 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:18.000 Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.239 Armstrong and Jettie and he. 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:25.400 Armrong and Strong. 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.479 Welcome to a replay of the Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:33.960 We are on vacation, but boy, do we have some 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:35.960 good stuff for you. Yes, indeed we do. 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:37.800 And if you want to catch up on your ang 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:40.720 listening during your travels, remember grabbing the podcast Armstrong and 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:42.680 Getty on demand. You ought to subscribe wherever you like 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.200 to get podcasts. Now on with the infotainment. 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:55.520 This is a cop uh attacked by a turkey, quacks 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:57.560 at it like a duck and calls it a chicken. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:02.960 Here we go, the chicken chicken? 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:04.800 What is. 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:15.800 Oh? Come on quick quack hack hack, hack up? Somebody 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:20.119 beck come get it? What yep? Back off? Yeah, here's 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.560 your stuff back. I'll be right back man. I'm giving 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.080 a second step for I'm getting a client. I feel 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.440 like it. I feel like this is happening for all 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.720 the places you can come. I feel like it lived 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.720 up to its explanation. That was a cop attacked by turkey, 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.440 quacking at it and calling it a chicken. Bro, put 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:43.080 the turkey back. You need to spend a little more 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:44.679 time in a navy are here or something. 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.560 Well, he's taunting the bird. That can't help, you know what. 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:55.160 A good cop tries to de escalate. My beloved newsmen 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.160 of the past, Marshall Phillips would occasionally be confronted by 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:02.680 aggressive turkeys during hot, hot turkey loven season, which we 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:03.080 are in. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.960 We have more turkeys in my neighborhood. I gotta believe 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.720 I got more turkeys around me than anybody listening in America. 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.040 It's shocking how many turkeys are in my neighborhood. The 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:16.119 big giant wild turkeys. They're huge for one thing, absolutely 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:20.480 gigantic and mean as hell. During hot, hot, sexy turkey time. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.400 When I drive home today, there will be six of 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:27.359 them sitting on my roof. Guaranteed eight more in the backyard. 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.920 They're all over the place. They don't cause any problems. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:37.280 Sometimes they're a little loud, they get into it. Okay, 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.600 so I got to handle this very delicately. Okay, I 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.440 want to handle it delicately for this very nice mom 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:45.480 who sent us a text. 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:50.040 I will switch into delicate mode on your advice, combined 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:55.720 with harsh mode I think is necessary. So this this, well, 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:57.200 this is why we can't have nice things. 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:02.440 As the cliche goes, this is why demagoguing issues in 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:06.600 politics works. I guess so an hour three, if you 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:08.960 didn't hear it, get the podcast Armstrong and getting on demand. 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:15.760 Joe got into the whole big beautiful bill medicaid thing. 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.160 We're getting ripped off like crazy with Medicaid. We're gonna 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.440 get into more of it tomorrow with Craig gottwaltsho was 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.360 an expert in this. But we're getting ripped off like crazy, 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:30.480 all kinds of healthy people. You're paying for their health 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:35.200 care and other stuff for no good reason whatsoever other 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:36.960 than then nobody keeps track of this sort of thing. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:41.280 And because it buys votes, that's like the entire reason 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:42.200 you're paying for it. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.240 And Phil Graham, former senator from from Texas from back 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.000 in the day, tried to run for president once, but 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.160 he's way too smart to be president. As a PhD 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:54.720 in economics, wrote a piece about how, no, this is 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:58.200 where the money is. You talk about so security, you know, 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:00.640 and cutbacks and everything like, No, the money where we 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:06.040 need to do something is in medicaid. So we get 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:10.920 this text. Hey, I have a daughter who's disabled and 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:15.360 un Medicaid and Social Security, and I get that you 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.760 guys are trying to get people riled up and listening 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.560 to show and I'm a strong Republican. But what you're 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.920 missing is and then she lays out the story of 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.080 how her disabled daughter can't take care of herself at all, 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.480 never will be able to in her life. Unbelievable, what 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:33.200 you're dealing with. I can't even imagine, and how she 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.520 needs that money and we don't have the courage to 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.200 call her back and talk to her and get the 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.720 facts on this story about her disabled daughter and how 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:43.039 much she needs Medicaid. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:48.279 There will not be a single disabled person affected in 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.000 any way by the proposed cuts, not one. 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.960 And there isn't a single person us or anybody else 0:04:55.279 --> 0:05:01.440 arguing for someone like your daughter having their money cut. No, 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.080 are you strenuously one hundred and eighty degrees in the 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:09.480 other direction. This is why you demogogue these issues though, 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.440 because he is its sir that yes, her poor daughter 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.320 and she will be left high and dry by the 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:19.280 mean Republicans. That is one hundred and eighty degrees opposite 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.560 of the truth you said they've convinced her. We convinced 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:27.599 her even with you only talking about the scammers. Right. 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.920 Her takeaway was like you and I are in favor 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.919 of cutting her daughter's money. I mean, if that's the 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.919 way it lands, no wonder politicians don't come with on 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.839 one hundred miles of even trying to stop the sky 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:48.560 scumbag liars. Right. Yeah, it's unfortunate, isn't it. It is 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:53.840 highly unfortunate, you could say, and we've seen this, We've 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:55.600 been doing this for a long time. You can, as 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.359 a politician stand up in front of a crowd and say, look, 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.080 nobody here getting Social Security that's over the age of 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.760 sixty five. We'll see any a dime of that cut 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.760 in their lifetime. But and then everything after the butt 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.920 gets portrayed as you, as an old person, are gonna starve, right, 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:18.080 And it's just there's just no getting around it, apparently, right, Right, man, 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.640 I feel for you, ma'am, what the rough situation you're 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.320 in doing God's work trying to deal with that. But 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:31.200 nobody us or anybody is suggesting cutting the program for 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:35.839 people like your daughter. Nobody, right, we would have more 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.760 money for people like your daughter if the freaking healthy, 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.560 twenty eight year old dude playing video games and laughing 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:46.159 at us. Wasn't getting all his stuff paid for? Right? 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.599 I don't know what you do with the reality of this. 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:57.279 I think if you were to sit down with Carl 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:57.960 Rove and. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.280 James Marvelle, I'm trying to be by partner, maybe Donald Trump, 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:10.120 Donald Trump, Charles Crouthammer, Jesus and John Wayne. That's quite 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:15.080 a crowd, they would say, Jackie boy, Joseph, here's the story. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.520 That's what politics is. Grow up. 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.280 You always talk about trying to frighten or entice the 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.440 herd in one direction or another, as if you're too 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.800 good and too smart for that. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.520 That's politics. I understand what you're saying, that the politicians 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.080 go out there and try to frighten you on this stuff. 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:39.000 What I'm concerned about is we made it clear we 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:43.400 weren't trying. We weren't claiming they're coming for your to 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.760 take your disabled daughter's better care. Politicians will say that 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.920 sort of stuff medicaip. Yeah, we weren't. We were saying 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:53.680 the opposite, and it's still landed as if we were. 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:55.200 That's what troubles me. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.440 Yeah, I think that's squarely in the department of things 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:03.560 I can't do anything about. It's uh, it's striking. I 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:07.200 totally get your uh being troubled by that. 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:10.800 Like I said, if you're a politician, you get up 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.840 on stage and make it clear that I'm not interested 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:14.800 in cutting your social security. But people walk out of 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:18.920 the room thinking they're going to take my social security. Yeah, well, 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.880 that we're done here, then I guess yes, as a 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.320 as a country, you mean yes, or as a system 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:29.320 of government people, well, self governance doesn't work, that's my point. 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.280 Uh yeah, Well, the great Scottish philosopher what's his face, uh, 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.360 with the you know, the republic will last only until 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.480 the populace realizes they can vote themselves money from the treasury. 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.480 And and what he didn't suspect is that, or maybe 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:49.960 he did, was that there that politicians would be able 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:55.240 to convince virtually all of the population that any effort 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.000 to rein that in was indeed an attack on them 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:02.280 and their well being. So, yeah, it doesn't work. 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:04.400 The great. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.320 You know, overarching Joe Getty principle, there are actually several 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.720 of them, many of them contradict each other, is that 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:19.560 all systems can last only until those who had gained 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:24.480 the system when over those who would protect the system, 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.920 and it's like, you know, the constant battle between hackers 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:33.160 and cybersecurity experts. There comes a point in a like 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:39.160 a governmental system where accommodation of manipulating the voters and 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:43.319 then manipulating the systems behind the scenes becomes so sophisticated 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:48.560 that the immune system of a democracy is insufficient. It's 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:53.160 like a septic infection in the bloodstream. So monarchy now, 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.880 I don't know, I'm old. You all figured out. Good luck. 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:03.120 If you're old already. Nobody is gonna touch your social 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:09.160 security period. No, if you are actually disabled, nobody's gonna 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.920 take your money period. Nobody wants to. 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:18.200 Nobody's even suggested it, right, and yet it is the 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:22.079 easiest cell in the world. If any Republicans say we're 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.160 gonna rain in medicaid waste fraud abuse, they're gonna come 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.760 take the money out of the mouths of your disabled children, 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:28.719 and people believe them. 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.280 So what are you gonna do. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:38.000 I'm in an accepting mood today. I have accepted it, 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.760 probably because I'm excited about my new political part party. 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:46.880 The f y'all it cans. You gotta have AI design 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.240 a logo, because that's a good I like the. 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:59.720 Capital F capital y apostrophe all dash, I dash cans 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:04.680 f y'all it cans. We need an animal, though maybe 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:09.760 the turkey is the donkey and the elephant, or taken clearly, 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.960 maybe we have the turkey, has heard in a previous clip. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.200 Which Ben Franklin wanted to be our national bird. So 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:18.040 enough politics. 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.360 I've got a couple of stories about business, about you know, 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.240 personal wealth, that sort of thing. Number one, so you're 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:28.040 a crypto zillionaire, I'd start carrying a gun, hiding a 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:34.520 guard and keeping your fingers hidden. Secondly, pipes, who's making 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.240 the real money? What's the way to wealth? 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:43.400 Become one of the stealthy wealthy the stealthy wealthy. It's 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:48.800 doable and better yet it rhymes. Also, I watched the 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.040 Minecraft movie with Henry over the weekend. I want to talk, Yeah, 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.040 I want to talk about a couple of notable things 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.360 that I think might be the future of motion pictures. 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:03.280 Jack Black is so fat and greasy and doesn't care. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:07.120 That's what's interesting about him. He's got to be one 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.120 of the biggest movie stars in the world, very very 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.400 big in terms of making money. Seems to be unbathed. 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:17.200 He does not care at all. I think he just 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.960 shows up to He doesn't care how he looks at all, 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.960 doesn't comb his hair, he doesn't find a shirt that fits, 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:28.439 he doesn't wash his face. Yeah, it's weird. Anyway, more 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.360 on that later's there. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:39.800 Jack Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong and Getty Show. Jack 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:44.040 arms Strong and Joe Getty The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:54.800 Multiple cameras rolling as a ship strikes the Brooklyn Bridge. 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.400 I don't know. Why is the Mexican navy at attacking 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.080 our bridges? And why have we not fired back? Well, 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:03.520 they're not. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:08.480 Very good at it, Great Scott. Anybody who's seen the video? Man, 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:13.079 I just saw one from a different angle. Ooh, grizzly. 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.760 There are a bunch of guys Mexican sailors up in 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.240 the riggings. They got knocked down when they hit the 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:20.000 Brooklyn Bridge. 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.600 Oh they so it was a really tall ship. So 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.760 as they were heading toward it, weren't there people weren't there? 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.200 Weren't the people up there saying, well, that looks like 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.520 that's about eye level. I'm getting held down. How don't 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.160 we care if I got ordered to or not? Have 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.400 we thought this through because that looks like we're not 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.720 going to fit under there. Yeah, I think they lost 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.600 power or something like that. Sketchy reports. 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.160 It's a lot like going that cargo ship bashed into 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:46.559 the bridge in Baltimore. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.720 Speaking of boats, are you familiar with the premise of 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:54.880 the television show Gilligan's Island from the sixties, Because some 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:55.520 of you might not be. 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.959 There's a bunch of helpfully laid out in the theme 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.840 song every week if you need did a reminder. 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:02.600 Back in the old days, they would tell you, I. 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:07.520 Don't remember why these people were on there, what circumstances 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.360 caused them to be so stranded. 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.240 Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale. Back 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.040 in the old days, they would lay out the premise 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:14.840 of the show every week in the song for you. 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.559 That was very, very handy. You take the take, you good, 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.200 you take the bad, the facts of life, whatever the 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.400 show was, they would tell you. But anyway, here's the 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.920 story of a man named Brady exactly. But so you 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.000 got you got this boat that ran into an island 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.240 and they got stuck there, and the whole show is 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.800 about they're stuck on this island and dealing with each other, 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.960 and and you got cannibals, and. 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.760 They're disconcertingly ineffective efforts to leave. 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.120 Anyway, I thought this was really good from James Lindsay, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.200 who were big intellectual fans of On Twitter, he said, 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:49.720 I think we often overestimate how much worse some things 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.280 are now than they were in the past, And he 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:57.240 linked this story about Gilligan's Island, which says at the 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.920 height of Gilligan's Island popularity, which was nineteen sixty six, 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.680 the US Coast Guard received twenty five hundred letters a 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.080 week asking why the castaways hadn't been rescued yet. 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:14.440 Oh wow, with James'sa's point being, see, we've always been 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:19.000 a bunch of morons, or I had a lot of morons. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.480 I've got to take a moment to absorb that. 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:29.080 And I assume they mean sincere letters, not like trolling 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:29.880 by mail. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.800 I don't think trolling was a thing back then. Certainly 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.200 you wouldn't take the time by mail twenty five hundred 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.520 a week a week asking the Coastguard why they hadn't 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:44.000 rescued Gilligan the Skipper and oh, in particular, if I'm 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.200 a Coastguard mail, a young twenty two year old in Coastguard, 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.320 I'm rescuing Marianne and Ginger right off the bat. Sure 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.479 women and children first, Florius, that guy from that seventies 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.840 what's that that Twitter feed? Everybody likes the seventies? Something wrong? 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:01.640 Oh oh super seventy sports. He said, as you get older, 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:03.960 you look at missus Howe and realize there's a third 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:05.240 viable option on that alle. 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:10.400 She was an attractive woman. Yeah, absolutely, ages, yeah, exactly. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:12.080 Well, so many. 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:16.480 Questions, how was the skipper still a peese after being 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.440 stranded at an island for years? 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.480 Going on? There metabolism problem, but so he did some 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.960 wagovi the ultimate point being, and I think James Linzy 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:32.280 makes a good point. We do overestimate the the percentage 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.960 of people that are dumb or don't pay attention or whatever. 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:40.080 It's not like everybody in the sixties or the eighteen 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:44.200 fifties or whatever. We're learning Latin and studying the constitution, 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.840 like Thomas Jefferson. Yeah right right, yeah, yeah, so true, 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:50.960 Deer Coast Guard, why haven't you rescued? 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:56.680 Gilligan signed for people are desperate and desperately incompetent they 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:57.920 can't even build a raft. 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.400 What is my tax money going? So you thought every 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.840 TV show you were watching was a reality show in 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:04.119 the sixties. 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.800 And they didn't like ask why don't the camera people 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:09.160 rescue them? 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:13.320 That didn't even occur to them. No, boy, that is 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.399 really dumb. Or the orchestra playing the music when you 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.440 come back from commercials. They could have helped. 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:24.160 Good Jack, Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong and Getty Show, 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.040 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:35.159 Joanna Stern writes about tech for The Wall Street Journal. 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:39.800 She's very clever, as you're about to hear, and sounds 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:41.679 down to earth and as I enjoy your writing. 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:49.679 The opening a bit of this article tells it all. 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.520 I've been wearing a wire everywhere since February. I've got 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.960 all the transcripts important meetings, arguments with my kids, chats 0:17:55.960 --> 0:18:00.280 with disgruntled employees, late night bathroom routines. There's plenty more 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.040 that I can't share if I want you to keep 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:10.200 liking me. She has been willingly wearing a fifty dollars 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:16.040 be Pioneer bracelet that records everything she says and uses 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.679 AI to summarize her life and send her helpful reminders. 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.360 Getting back to the article, I also tested two similar gadgets, 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:26.119 the one hundred and ninety nine dollars Limitless Pendant and 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:27.399 the one hundred and fifty nine. 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:28.840 Dollars plowd Note pin. 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:32.959 These assistants can recall every dumb, private, and cringe worthy 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.960 thing that came out of my mouth. Is this the 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:40.399 dawn of the AI surveillance state? Absolutely? Is it also 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.880 the dream of hyper personal, all knowing AI assistance coming 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:44.439 to life? 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.879 Also? Yes? Absolutely? Yeah, it's funny. The first thing I 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:52.280 thought of was, and usually I'm I'm my first go 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:56.879 to is surveillance state. But my first thought was, Wow, 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.399 if I had AI reminding me, hey, remember you're going 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:01.800 to work on that to get in your real ID 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.600 the deadline's coming up, I would love that. Yeah. 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.119 And I was just gonna say, if y'all are sitting 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:09.960 there thinking what the hell good would this do me? 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:14.159 She gets to that and it's pretty cool. Let me 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:18.040 read more of her piece. Within hours of wearing the 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.800 bee again, one of the three devices she tried, I 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.480 was blown away how quickly it turned ramblings and random 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:28.119 chatter into useful, actionable information yet allow me to quote 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:32.240 myself from February twenty fourth at five point fifteen pm. Wow. Quote, 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:39.440 this bracelet is really effing creepy. So here's how they work. 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.560 And she mentions that all the denials we've heard through 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.639 the years that social media apps are secretly listening to 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:51.280 us too hard, too intense, too much data. Buhah, yeah, please, 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.560 But all those devices do that. They detect dialogue, especially 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:57.920 your voice, and they stream the audio to your phone 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:03.120 via Bluetooth, then to companies where it's transcribed. AI models 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:06.000 take the transcription and generate summaries, which appear in the 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:10.360 apps within minutes. Now, one of the devices that does 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:11.440 not save the audio. 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:13.359 All it has is the transcriptions. 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:18.000 The other one, limitless keeps the audio, letting you play 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.600 back full recordings of everything you've said. 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:23.920 Boy, oh boy, oh boy. But it's a little weird 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.639 for us because I have full recordings of what I 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:31.560 say four hours a day, five days a week the 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:36.439 past thirty years. But so it's not as foreign to me. 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:38.040 But but that'd be something. 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:41.639 But you and I also have a heightened awareness of 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:43.760 the difference between when the mics are on and when 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:47.480 they're not. True and more than one good career has 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:51.639 been ended because a mic was on somebody thought it 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.800 was not. I've had a few disagree that bullet a 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:55.639 couple of times ourselves. 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:58.800 I've had a few disagreements in my life, like minor 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:01.399 to major. Where would have been kind of handy to 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:03.600 be able to go back and say, I'm pretty sure 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:07.320 you didn't mention that to me. They said, yeah, I did. 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:10.440 It's like to screen the commercials. Who is it an 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:13.679 insurance commercial? Guy, I can't remember. Let's go to the 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:17.679 tape and they go under the hood, right like NFL referees. 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:21.119 Yes, yes, Katie, I'm just thinking this sounds like a 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:25.000 wife's dream. The amount of time, like I told you 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:27.720 we have dinner tonight at five, No you didn't. All 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:33.080 let's go to the tape. Let's go to the tape, sir. 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:34.400 That's fantastic. 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:37.000 Then she gets into some of the technical ups and downs, 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:38.600 and Katie would love to have you comment on this 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:43.160 to your heart's content. But and she gets into how 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:46.080 AI is nothing without data. It needs data. So when 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:48.400 you feed it everything you've said for days, weeks, and months, 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:51.879 it gets infinitely more useful. Also, yes, it becomes a 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:54.600 lot more like a black Mirror episode. But we'll get 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:57.680 into that. She writes with massive transcripts of your life. 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:02.360 The AI in these apps? Can they recap your conversations? 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:06.439 Often reading like a bad biography? This is great. The 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:09.720 b device summary from April ninths Joanna's day was a 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:14.240 blend of familiar responsibilities and intense professional engagements. She ended 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:17.720 the day listening to music by sting riveting stuff. Can't 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:19.080 wait for the movie adaptation. 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:23.080 Wow, there'd be some days. Excuse me, there'd be some days. 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:26.960 Read me disappointed in the summary. You worked, you came home, 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:29.960 you scrolled through Twitter, you ate crap and went to bed. 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:32.679 Oh my your own business? 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:32.960 AI. 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:36.280 Who Jack has eating his twenty seventh double quarter pounder 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:38.040 in this week? Yeah? Yeah, thanks? 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:42.920 Wow track, Yeah it's Kenton, I am. The transcriptions themselves 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:46.720 aren't all that accurate, but the summaries usually are well, 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:50.200 except for March twenty fourth conversation with Johnny Cochrane about 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:50.960 trial evidence. 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:52.160 Yep, just a. 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:55.880 Casual chat with a deceased celebrity lawyer, and she says, 0:22:55.880 --> 0:22:58.920 in parentheses, I was watching the new OJ documentary. 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:02.240 That's funny. 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:06.600 But Jack, to your prescient point earlier, some of the 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:10.800 ways that they're helpful is summarizing things and reminders. Turns 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:12.879 out I promise to do a lot of things without 0:23:12.880 --> 0:23:15.600 putting them on a to do list. B listens for 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:19.479 action items and adds them to suggested lists because they 0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:24.360 understand the verbiage in an action item. It's repeatedly reminded 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:27.520 me of important tasks like calling the plumber or following 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:30.480 up on work stuff. But it also hilariously adds things 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:32.880 I'd never put on a list, like quote, check in 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:35.800 on your six son, or schedule a follow up with 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:38.280 your hairstylist to discuss your haircut. 0:23:39.920 --> 0:23:43.159 Let's see it analyzes, God, how great would that be? 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:47.040 I'll bet this happens soon. And like a lot of 0:23:47.040 --> 0:23:48.919 things in life, we can't remember what it was like 0:23:49.040 --> 0:23:51.760 before it where you know, in ten years will be 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:55.760 remember when you like now? Where I often think, you know, 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:57.560 I go somewhere and I think, how did I used 0:23:57.560 --> 0:24:00.080 to get to places? I don't even remember how I 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:02.159 used to get to places? Did I pull on a map? 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:07.800