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Speaker 1: and let me just say this job is way better
Speaker 1: than when I worked at the White House. I can
Speaker 1: eat candy for lunch without Michelle Obama judging me for it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we've got a great show for you tonight. My guest
Speaker 1: is Vanity Fair editor Radika Jones. But yes, she's wonderful.
Speaker 1: I'm wonderful. But there's a lot to talk about, so
Speaker 1: let's get into headlines. All right, Let's kick things off
Speaker 1: with a big update on artificial intelligence. If you're one
Speaker 1: of those people who's worried that AI is getting too
Speaker 1: smart too fast, you might want to tell Alexa to
Speaker 1: turn your TV off. Artificial intelligence. It just got more real.
Speaker 1: Artificial intelligence taking a dizzying leap forward. Open AI, the
Speaker 1: company behind chat GPT, which came on the scene just
Speaker 1: four months ago, out with its latest innovation, GPT four.
Speaker 1: It can summarize articles, craft jokes, and even decipher images.
Speaker 1: For example, it can tell us thought if the strings
Speaker 1: in this image were cut, the balloons would fly away.
Speaker 1: After scanning a picture of what's in your cupboard or fridge,
Speaker 1: it can serve up options for a recipe. The previous
Speaker 1: version of chat GPT had about a ten percent chance
Speaker 1: of passing the bar exam for lawyers. This new version
Speaker 1: that's being introduced today has about a ninety percent chance
Speaker 1: of passing the bar. Here that here that in four months,
Speaker 1: this thing went from being born to acing the bar exam.
Speaker 1: What can your dumbass four month old doing? Oh would
Speaker 1: you see that? Oh, he looked me in the eyes,
Speaker 1: enrolled over. I worked in the White House. And keep
Speaker 1: in mind the bar exam isn't just a multiple choice test. Okay,
Speaker 1: you have to write essays, you have to know case law,
Speaker 1: and you have to learn how to be smug when
Speaker 1: you say, oh, yeah, I went to a law school
Speaker 1: in New Haven. The point is this thing is learning fast.
Speaker 1: Once it figures out how to get drunk and grope someone,
Speaker 1: it'll be qualified for the Supreme Court. And the other
Speaker 1: big update with this new version is that it can
Speaker 1: analyze images like a photo of what's in your fridge.
Speaker 1: I don't want that you have too many candy bars,
Speaker 1: alerting Michelle Obama. The big picture here is that AI
Speaker 1: is gonna do so many things so well that at
Speaker 1: some point it's going to put a huge amount of
Speaker 1: people out of work. So what do we do. I
Speaker 1: have two ideas. One, implement universal basic income, there you go.
Speaker 1: Or two and hear me out here, we let the
Speaker 1: machines eat all the surplus people. No, okay, yeah, less popular,
Speaker 1: I can tell final. All right, enough about machines killing people.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to people killing people. Really dark. I
Speaker 1: know it's been a year since Russia illegally invaded Ukraine,
Speaker 1: and now there's an international effort to hold Russia accountable
Speaker 1: in court for war crimes. But you'll never guess who's
Speaker 1: standing in the way. The Pentagon is blocking the Biden
Speaker 1: administration from sharing evidence of Russian war crimes committed in
Speaker 1: Ukraine with the International Criminal Court. Military leaders say helping
Speaker 1: the court with the investigation would set a precedent that
Speaker 1: could lead to prosecuting Americans. Oh, that's right. Exhausting. The
Speaker 1: Pentagon is saying, we don't want Russians to get prosecuted
Speaker 1: for war crimes because then Americans could get prosecuted for
Speaker 1: war crimes. And I mean, look, I'm just I'm just
Speaker 1: spippling here, Okay, But one solution could be that Americans
Speaker 1: just not commit war crimes. No, no, never mind, that
Speaker 1: was stupid. That's a stupid idea. Stupid idea, that's stupid ideas.
Speaker 1: But this, this situation really illustrates how tricky it is
Speaker 1: for America to condemn other countries. Like Joe Biden's just
Speaker 1: trying to be like, it is never acceptable to invade
Speaker 1: another country, and the Pentagon is in the corner, just like, uh,
Speaker 1: let's let's add in Europe, in Europe, just to keep
Speaker 1: our options open, just in Europe. Anyway, if you, if
Speaker 1: you take a step back, it's actually it's kind of
Speaker 1: crazy that there even is a concept of war crimes.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm glad there is, but you have to
Speaker 1: admit it's weird when you think about it. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously we'll settle our differences by killing each other. But
Speaker 1: let's do it like gentleman pupin. But let's move on
Speaker 1: to some good news. For four years, the Environmental Protection
Speaker 1: Agency had a pretty tough time under Donald Trump. He
Speaker 1: just honestly wasn't a big environmentalist. The only thing he's
Speaker 1: ever planted is his ex wife on his golf course.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, golf jokes cross the line in apparently. But look,
Speaker 1: it's a new day and now like Keihuequan, the EPA
Speaker 1: is back in bigger than ever. Here today proposed the
Speaker 1: first ever limits on so called forever chemicals in drinking water.
Speaker 1: The toxic chemicals, also known as pfast, have been used
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Speaker 1: manufacturing of products that we use like nonstick pans, waterproof clothing,
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Speaker 1: experts say they can cause a host of healthy shoes.
Speaker 1: The EPA says that proposed limits would say thousands of lives.
Speaker 1: This proposed rule will now go through an approval process
Speaker 1: for several months, including soliciting expert in public input. So
Speaker 1: I look, I'm very glad they're doing this. Elections matter
Speaker 1: and all that, but do we really need months of
Speaker 1: public input on this? Like who are the local weirdos
Speaker 1: who want to keep toxic water chemicals in the water?
Speaker 1: And it's this is big government overreach, all right? If
Speaker 1: if they get every if they give everybody clean water.
Speaker 1: That means they're gonna give trans people clean water. Is
Speaker 1: this is I'm all right, I have to say, if
Speaker 1: I may, I like the way the chemicals taste, no
Speaker 1: wonder I think that we should have separate drinking fountains.
Speaker 1: Not no, not not for the toxins, just because well,
Speaker 1: you know, anyway, let's let's just be glad that they
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Speaker 1: drinking water. I mean, we could just stop using the
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Speaker 1: back to the Daily Show. Now, believe it or not.
Speaker 1: We are just around the corner from the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four presidential election, and there are so many important issues.
Speaker 1: How to deal with China, what to do about climate change,
Speaker 1: whether Miley Cyrus can really hold her own hand doesn't
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Speaker 1: candidates and right wing media, there's one issue that looms
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Speaker 1: a deadly virus, and probably not the one you're thinking of.
Speaker 1: Wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic cans down.
Speaker 1: I think it's all because of the woke mind virus.
Speaker 1: What if woke race obsession is not a fad, but
Speaker 1: instead an incurable brain virus that's infected our country's entire
Speaker 1: leadership class. It woke mind virus, the woke mind virus,
Speaker 1: the woke mind virus. It is a virus. Yeah, Republicans
Speaker 1: are terrified of the woke mind virus. I mean, to
Speaker 1: be clear, not terrified enough to support public healthcare to
Speaker 1: treat it, but terrified. Well, I am not a doctor,
Speaker 1: as my parents remind me daily, but I didn't play
Speaker 1: doctor Lawrence Cutner on the hit TV show House, and
Speaker 1: I realized, Look, if anyone could find a cure for
Speaker 1: the woke mind virus, it'd be those guys. So I
Speaker 1: actually feel fine? Am I okay to leave now? Not quite?
Speaker 1: And brain's been swollen. I don't have to see that
Speaker 1: an all to your personality. I'm so sorry. We believe
Speaker 1: that it's the woke mind virus, but we have to
Speaker 1: ask you a few questions to confirm. Are you pissed
Speaker 1: off that mister potato had doesn't have a penis? No?
Speaker 1: Who gives this shit? There's a transit swimmer at the
Speaker 1: local eighth grade meet. That's unfair to you. I don't care.
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Speaker 1: still exist? Yes? He could start saying Latin X any minute.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what is going on here? This is the
Speaker 1: greatest threat facing civilization? The great doctor Elam Musk says, so,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sick, although this nonsense has kind of
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Speaker 1: don't feel like you have this Morgenthal. It's one of
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Speaker 1: Do you agree that drag shows are a greater threat
Speaker 1: than school shootings? No, of course not. And I don't
Speaker 1: have any woke mind virus either. I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: be an empathetic person. Okay, we're losing him plas. We
Speaker 1: need to get you into a CRT scale. Do you
Speaker 1: mean to see T scan? No, you know what. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna check myself out. Okay, what what happened? Am I? Okay,
Speaker 1: let's find out. What are your pronouns? My pronouns, my pronouns.
Speaker 1: My pronouns are kiss my ass? Yeah, you're gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: Although you do have a upos, I probably should have
Speaker 1: many of that. Oh no, all right, stay tuned because
Speaker 1: when we come back, my Deca Jones, we'll be joining
Speaker 1: out on the shown. I'll go away. Hi, welcome back
Speaker 1: to the day show. My guest tonight is be added
Speaker 1: in chief of Vanity Fair. Their Hollywood issue is on
Speaker 1: newsstands now and available at vanity fair dot com. Please
Speaker 1: welcome Radica Jones. Wow. Okay, editor in chief of Vanity
Speaker 1: Fair for five years. I know you throw the biggest
Speaker 1: party of the year, which is the Vanity Fair Oscar
Speaker 1: party that just happened Sunday night. Sunday night, How to go?
Speaker 1: We can you tell me about it? Any good stories?
Speaker 1: It was great, It was great, It was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. It was a great night in Hollywood. Is
Speaker 1: that where Justin Bieber wore a blanket? He did. He
Speaker 1: was very I'm not hating on that, by the way,
Speaker 1: I would rock a blanket if I could pull it off.
Speaker 1: He was very cozy. You know, we want everyone to
Speaker 1: kick back, relax, and Justin really embodied that for the night.
Speaker 1: So the stories that usually come out of that party
Speaker 1: are I think, like a great combination of pop culture, fashion,
Speaker 1: things with gravity. I've been myself, and I'm always surprised
Speaker 1: when there's you know, elected officials, authors who've won Pulitzers
Speaker 1: next to people whose movies you just walked out of.
Speaker 1: How do you curate a list like that? Um? For
Speaker 1: the record, I watch all the movies all the way.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, kle we we Well, Vanity
Speaker 1: Fair is all about the mix because we cover all
Speaker 1: those things. We cover politics, we cover culture, we cover entertainment,
Speaker 1: m so it was such a cool I mean this year,
Speaker 1: for example, we had two Nobel Laureates in attendance. Malala
Speaker 1: was there. She produced a film that was nominated for
Speaker 1: her an Oscar Um. Nancy and Paul Pelosi were there.
Speaker 1: They they joined me for my viewing dinner that I
Speaker 1: host before the party, and that was super fun. We
Speaker 1: sat with Donald Lover and Michael Keaton. So it's it's
Speaker 1: all about the mix, and that's what makes it a
Speaker 1: lively and unique event. It's an event that a lot
Speaker 1: of people want to get into. And I'm curious, like,
Speaker 1: what's the what's the craziest bribe You've ever been offered
Speaker 1: for entry to the vanity Farrells. So I obviously don't
Speaker 1: want to give anyone any ideas, so I will not
Speaker 1: be answering that question. Well, I didn't ask you if
Speaker 1: they works. I just asked they never work? No I have.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, no, no, um, it's it's no. I
Speaker 1: will tell you that somebody once brought a fake Oscar
Speaker 1: to the party. Yeah, So if anyone's in the habit
Speaker 1: of like melting gold and you know, just make their
Speaker 1: bring to let Lego Oscar statue. That's super cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: try try it, try your luck, is what I have
Speaker 1: to say. Did they get in? Um, I don't know. Actually, Um,
Speaker 1: it's Lord stopped the story stop. Something that I find
Speaker 1: so interesting and dynamic about you is that, in the
Speaker 1: five years since you've been editor in chief, UM, Vanity
Speaker 1: Fair has increased its footprint. It's uh, it's audience, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's readership at a time where most media outlets
Speaker 1: are shrinking in dramatic fashion. How did you manage to
Speaker 1: grow the brand like that? Um? You know, Uh, it's
Speaker 1: We're very proud of it. And and thank you for
Speaker 1: saying that, because I feel like when I came to
Speaker 1: Vanity Fair, I felt like it was such an important
Speaker 1: cultural property and I got to take my role as
Speaker 1: editor in chief at a time when our culture was
Speaker 1: dramatically changing, the me too movement was just getting rolling,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, there were just a lot of
Speaker 1: important conversations being had, um among everybody really about kind
Speaker 1: of who holds power? Um, who gets to who gets
Speaker 1: to have a voice in our country and our culture
Speaker 1: and who um and and who do we put on pedestals?
Speaker 1: Who do who do we look up to? And and
Speaker 1: I felt like Vanity Fair has this really powerful legacy
Speaker 1: of you know, being able to shine a spotlight on
Speaker 1: people who really matter and people we think are important.
Speaker 1: And so to be able to modernize the brand and
Speaker 1: make it really fresh and forward looking, make it more diverse.
Speaker 1: You know, to me, that just felt like it was
Speaker 1: not only was it the right thing to do, but
Speaker 1: it was the exciting thing to do. I mean, the
Speaker 1: culture is dynamic, it's always changing. You know, you're part
Speaker 1: of that. And and I think it's really rewarding not
Speaker 1: only for us who are making the magazine, you know,
Speaker 1: working on the site every day, curating the social feeds,
Speaker 1: making the videos, all those things. It's rewarding for us,
Speaker 1: but I think it's also rewarding for our readers because
Speaker 1: they really want to be able to discover what's new,
Speaker 1: what's fresh. I mean, that was the point of our
Speaker 1: Hollywood cover this year. Everybody, everybody on the cover is
Speaker 1: under thirty five. It's just like incredibly powerful generation of
Speaker 1: Hollywood talent. And you know, you know, Austin Butler on
Speaker 1: a Arms, both of them nominated for Oscars this year.
Speaker 1: You know, they're young there at the beginning of their careers,
Speaker 1: but they're already killing it. People like Julia Garner Jonathan Majors.
Speaker 1: You know, it's exciting, I think, to be able to
Speaker 1: look to the future through people like that and for
Speaker 1: us to be able to elevate them. So that's been
Speaker 1: our mission and to have it resonate and to see
Speaker 1: the success and see it reach audiences is just really gratifying.
Speaker 1: It's an incredible thing to witness as a fan of
Speaker 1: the brand and the franchise, especially because as somebody who
Speaker 1: works in entertainment, I often feel like I'm fighting when
Speaker 1: I'm in a leadership position. I'm fighting to prove to
Speaker 1: folks who are a little higher up than me why
Speaker 1: I want to cast somebody or hire this particular writer,
Speaker 1: especially if they come from a diverse background. And some
Speaker 1: of that is institutional, some of that is an epotism
Speaker 1: that you're fighting up against. You've really shaken up this magazine.
Speaker 1: You have new contributors. The stories that you're telling are
Speaker 1: never at the expense of somebody who's not qualified, like
Speaker 1: you're bringing in these diverse voices from incredible American and
Speaker 1: global viewpoints. Was that hard to do when you got
Speaker 1: in the editor seat or was it an easy change?
Speaker 1: I mean, I just kind of plowed ahead and did it.
Speaker 1: I figured someone would tell me to stop, you know, if, if, if,
Speaker 1: But nobody did, and in fact, I had a lot
Speaker 1: of support and um, and again when you see it
Speaker 1: resonating with readers, with viewers, you know, that's the that's
Speaker 1: the proof, I think. Um, I the reason I do
Speaker 1: this job is that I like taking risks and and
Speaker 1: I like being able to elevate new voices. And you
Speaker 1: know I've benefited from that. I want to pass that along.
Speaker 1: So UM, I mean, I'm no, I'm happy to say that.
Speaker 1: I just I when I came to the magazine, I
Speaker 1: said this is what I want to do, and they said,
Speaker 1: go for it, and here we are. UM, I want
Speaker 1: to wrap up with you. You sort of alluded to
Speaker 1: shout outs and I love whether it's your social media
Speaker 1: or things that the magazine does highlighting up and coming brands.
Speaker 1: And these are incredibly talented oftentimes, Uh you know, communities,
Speaker 1: folks from communities of color, young startups, people with really
Speaker 1: interesting stories that feed into their art or their fashion.
Speaker 1: How do you how do you find those people? Well?
Speaker 1: I think that I'm I'm lucky to work with a
Speaker 1: team that's deeply curious and just kind of like very omnivorous.
Speaker 1: And that's how I feel too. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think there's I think a lot of the divisions that
Speaker 1: we make in our culture a little artificial, you know. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't believe in the concept of a guilty pleasure.
Speaker 1: It's just a pleasure. So that's so I try to
Speaker 1: apply that to you know, the curation of the magazine.
Speaker 1: And we do really serious investigative journalism, but we also
Speaker 1: are here to have fun and we want our readers
Speaker 1: to have fun and enjoy it. And that's you know,
Speaker 1: coming back to the Oscar party, like that's kind of
Speaker 1: what it's all about. So well, this is a this
Speaker 1: is a very fun issue. It's the twenty ninth Annual
Speaker 1: Hollywood Issue on Vanity Fair. Please thanks so much to
Speaker 1: my my guest Will Up Jobs. We're gonna take very
Speaker 1: quick Bright Well, we'll be like back after this. Thank
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