WEBVTT - If I Go Two Days Without Seeing A Ballet I Feel Empty Inside 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:12.520 I'm Strong and Jettie, and he. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:26.680 Armstrong and Getty, but also that my show had value, 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:35.560 and that I'm sorry that then what I was doing 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.080 head value, he value and in the end, I'm sorry, 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:41.800 I'm not I try not to cry on TV, and 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:43.159 I say, this is kind of like me on TV, 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:44.360 so I apologize. 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.120 We need the disclaimer that I realized most of you 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.040 don't watch cable news, and those of you who do 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.880 watch cable news don't watch MSNBC. And even if you 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.720 watched him as a MESSNBC as I do, you don't 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.680 watch joy Reid, which I never have. I've only ever 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.000 seen the clips coming out of there because they're so crazy, 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:04.120 because she's a not like an absolute crazy person, and 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.320 she's been canceled by her own network. 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.840 Far left, race baiting, racist and lunatic Joy Reads show 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:15.400 has been canceled out of sheer misogyny and racism by MSNBC. 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:20.560 According to MSNBC hosts, I think national tragedy. 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.200 I think, as a guy who's taken in quite a 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.959 bit of cable news over the years, and it's definitely 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.199 a dying thing. I mean, the ratings are so low, 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.200 you know, you could question whether it's even worth commenting 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.520 on the ratings or so well, we're talking hundreds of 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.120 thousands of viewers across the entire nation for some of 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.400 these low rated shows. I mean, it's really I mean, 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:47.440 they're way smaller than you know, medium sized radio shows 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:49.840 or YouTube channels or whatever. 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:54.160 Way smaller. But she for. 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.440 Having, you know, of the three big cable networks, big 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:02.400 Bigan quotes MSNBCC in Fox, Fox actually is pretty decent size, 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.960 but CNN in MSNBC, I think of all those, she's 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:12.240 the most extreme everyday hoax that has ever existed, wouldn't 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:12.840 you agree? 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:14.880 I don't know who hate her? I mean, because she's 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:19.600 way out there. Oh yeah, she's she's an absolute race baiting, 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:25.400 wacked do socialist. Yeah, oh yeah, she is a racist. 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.920 I mean to her core. I'm trying to find the 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:33.000 quote from Andrew Styles in The Free Beacon who said 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.200 two thirds of her audience whereas it is memory care 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.120 patients who fallen asleep in front of the TV or 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.160 something like that. That's dismissive and unfair. And I don't 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:50.480 appreciate it. Let's see, he writes, never mind. 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.840 Well, she clips from I don't know have they announced 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:55.000 who they're replacing her with. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:59.760 Oh, there it is, Uh, I think is Jen Saki. 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.080 Oh that's right, that's right, that's right. They did say 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:04.040 a white woman. 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.840 I was just going to point out that, Uh, when 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.320 when she got fired, there was I saw on social media. 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.560 There was some you know, MSNBC is gonna try a 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.000 different thing or turn a different direction or realize blah 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:19.160 blah blah ah. 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.760 There's no, there's no. That doesn't necessarily have to be 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:23.200 the case. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.840 We're we're in the business, and uh, you just have 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:31.680 to get ratings and generate revenue through advertisers. The people 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:36.800 who own your station or channel or whatever generally don't 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.400 care what you're saying. That you that you just need 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.600 to bring in enough people that it makes money. So 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.920 you know, she just not bringing in enough people doesn't 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:47.280 mean they're changing direction. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:51.280 Found one clip from Styles that I Loved or quote 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.840 viewed they. He mentions that MSNBC was poised to announce 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:58.200 major programming changes that would reflect the network's eagerness to 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.960 quote maintain its progressive stance, rather than trying to tack 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.000 towards middle ground. That's an actual quote from MSBC, So 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:08.640 they're making it clear they're absolutely not going to viewed 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.560 in this context. Canceling Reid's show was a logical step, 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:15.680 given the host's reputation for sober analysis and pragmatic centrism, 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:19.480 not to mention her preternatural ability to connect with normal, 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:23.400 working class Americans as some finally toned sarcasm during the 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.960 twenty two election. For example, Reid was one of the 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:30.040 first media personalities to acknowledge that the word inflation quote 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:33.280 is not part of the normal lexicon for most Americans 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:38.080 until nefarious Republicans quote taught people the word in order 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:39.479 to attack Joe Biden. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.800 You've got to be kidding, No, she told me said, 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.760 and she's closer to our age than not. I mean, 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.919 she's got to remember back in the day. Inflation was 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.320 the word in the seventies and earlier. 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.440 Oh yeah, yeah, Well, she's a professional liar and maist 0:04:56.520 --> 0:05:00.440 Marxist lie all the time. Read channel the exactnxiety as 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.440 of working Americans who could not believe that Kamala Harris 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.960 had lost despite waging what Reid called and I quote 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:12.440 a flawlessly run campaign, and that she was endorsed by 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:17.360 Queen Latifa, who never endorses anyone. And she expressed shock 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.640 in twenty twenty when a Latino congressman suggested that latinex 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:24.240 was not the preferred term among actual Latinos. And she's 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.159 I just looked up joy Read's fifty six. 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:30.159 So she's in our age group where you remember the 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:34.960 seventies and inflation. Gerald Ford ran for president of nineteen 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.440 seventy six on win whip inflation. Now, so her acting 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:41.880 like that it's a newly made up term to Joe Biden, Wow, 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:43.000 does she believe that stuff? 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.120 Did she believe that stuff? Let's let this sage speak 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:50.200 for herself. Clip seventeen, please, Michael, from March of twenty twenty. 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.400 And so here we are again with conservatism, at least 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.839 among a certain cohort of white guys, now rooting itself 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:00.799 in the idea that even during a pandemic, then screaming 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.159 men and women have the God given right to get 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.720 their roots done and order a stake at the restaurant 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.000 and hit the golf course and the bar, and that 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.880 those rights which they claim were conferred upon them by 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:17.479 God require a disproportionately black and brown labor force to 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.960 return to work, get back on the wheel, and risk 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.279 death in order to serve them and return them to 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:24.320 their comfortable lives. 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:29.039 Boy, what do you prefer, the mockery of the idea 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:35.000 of liberty or the somehow deciding it was racial that 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:39.640 white people wanted to exercise their liberty and they're served 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.160 disproportionately by black and brown people, As if even if 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.680 that were true, that would negate the first part of it. 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:48.600 That's some perverse thinking. 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.080 Ye, But wait, the main reason you wanted to end 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.400 shut downs with businesses or schools or anything like this 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.360 because brown and black people, I don't care if they 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:55.839 get COVID. 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.080 I need to be served as a white man. That's right, 0:06:59.360 --> 0:06:59.960 next clip my. 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.000 We've seen a growing movement to reframe how American history 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.880 is taught in public schools. Well, some parents are opposed 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.679 to critical race theory as new curriculum art to please. 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:15.720 Just because I do not want critical race theory taught 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.960 to my children in school does not mean that I'm 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:24.160 a racist damist, it actually does. 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.680 This just another example of Republicans turning kids into a 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.880 wedge issue, just like their politically motivated attacks on transgender 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:33.560 youth who just want to play sports. 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:39.280 Now, notice, because this is a masterclass, if you will, 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:47.679 in the method of twisting well motivated actions policy thoughts 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.280 like wanting to protect your little girl from having the 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.280 hell beat out of her on a sports field that 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:57.880 is actually hate of It's a great example of the 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.160 anti racism thing. You say. I don't think critical rat 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:05.160 theory should be taught in school, absolutely proves you are 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.680 a racist. She has an evil presence, but that's not 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:12.360 the way Rachel Madeau sees it. With nineteen Michael. 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:17.680 Even bigger programming change is at seven pm seven pm Eastern, 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:22.560 where Joy Reads show the readout ended tonight and Joy 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.400 is not taking a different job in the network, she 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.400 is leaving the network altogether. And that is very, very, 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.600 very hard to take. I am fifty one years old. 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:37.640 I have been gainfully employed since I was twelve, and 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:39.480 I have had so many different kinds of jobs. You 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.440 wouldn't believe me if I told you. But in all 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.240 of the jobs I have had, in all of the 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.520 years I have been alive, there is no colleague for 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:51.200 whom I have had more affection and more respect than 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:55.080 Joy Read. I love everything about her. I have learned 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.240 so much from her. I have so much more to 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.120 learn from her. I do not want to lose her 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.160 as a colleague here at MSNBC, And personally, I think 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.400 it is a bad mistake to let her walk out 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:07.160 the door. It is not my call and I understand that, 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:09.080 but that's what I think. 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.720 Well, that is really interesting. Her show is garbage that 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.480 nobody watches. And there's more from Rachel, but go ahead. 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.640 But she's a she's a racist socialist, and Rachel Maddow 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.360 says she's never, you know, learned, not learned more from 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.000 any other person she's ever worked with in any of 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:24.640 the many jobs. 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:28.160 She said. It's just it's why Trump won. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.800 The left, the left that gets all the attention is 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:37.640 so far from the mainstream, and they don't know it. 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:43.280 Yes, they think amish, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.319 They think they're center left when they're so far away 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.920 from the mainstream. I don't know, I don't know why 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:50.520 they haven't come to that conclusion. 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:50.640 Then. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.160 Well, Rachel was far from over when she said it 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.920 was merely unwise, in a mistake to let her walk. 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.280 What could have motivated such evil. 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:03.080 Will tell you it is also unnerving to see that 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.080 on a network where we've got two count of two 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:10.360 non white hosts in primetime. Both of our non white 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.560 hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:17.320 Fang on the weekend. And that feels worse than bad 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.880 no matter who replaces now, that feels indefensible, and I 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.600 do not defend it indefensible. 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:29.600 The best thing that could conceivably happen to conservatism the country, 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.800 the health of the culture, is for these people not 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.880 to wake up to continue being so loopy. 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.920 Well, and Rachel, I think you know from being in 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:43.200 the business. If you get listeners, viewers, readers, you stay employed. 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:48.840 If you don't, you don't the end because of racism, misogyny. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.120 Well, do you tell me if you think this is 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.439 right or not. I think Fox is I always look 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.400 at it like a football field for some reason our politics, 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.319 with the fifty yard line being the very middle, and 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.880 I feel like MSNBC is it like the. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.600 Three to five yard line. 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.400 Way over on the left side of the field, whereas 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:14.959 Fox is probably more like the thirty yard line. 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:20.280 I think the field, yeah, yeah, it's it's a center 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:24.880 right channel. Now, some of the hosts are more overtly 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:29.160 right wingy than others, but the primetime lineup is no, 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.520 it's pretty center right. Oh worth mentioning this, I have 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:37.200 dismissively mocked Miss Reid's show, as I think a piece 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:42.160 of crap nobody watches. Last Thursday's episode of The read 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:46.240 Out drew just fifty nine thousand viewers in the twenty 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:50.319 five to fifty four age demographic. Fifty nine thousand, fifty 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.079 nine thousand in a country of three hundred and forty 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:58.240 million people. It's amazing that anybody knows her name at all, 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.960 as you've pointed out, and it speaks to the fact 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.480 that cable news used to be of significance. It has 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:09.400 an outsized influence in Washington, d C. Which is the 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:13.880 only reason to even our pay attention up until recently. 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.920 Partially because our so many of our electric elected officials 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:17.280 are so. 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:21.440 Old they think cable news is a bigger deal. I 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.280 would argue that as of now, there's no point in 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.680 paying attention to cable news or like sixty minutes. Sixty 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:29.760 minutes is a dead husk of what it once was. 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.920 It's watched by old people, and only a few of them. Anyway, 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.720 I want to finish this. The readout drew fifty nine 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:40.760 thousand viewers in their target demographic. Laura Ingram's show on 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.679 Fox News same slot three hundred and eighty nine thousand, 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:50.200 three hundred and eighty nine to fifty nine. It's like 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:51.800 Chief Seagels Super Bowl. 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.200 Well, getting to my speaking of football football field analogy 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:59.280 and where Fox's versus where those MSNBC shows are for 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:01.720 Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid. 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.400 Unless you're on a college campus. 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:09.960 Or the bluest of blue towns in America, practically nobody 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:14.440 is into that. Whereas for your big Fox shows, that's 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.680 giant swaths of red America. 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.840 Yeah, I'd agree with that stuff. It's not even the 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:24.160 media is a weird little subculture that should only be 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:28.760 a head scratching curiosity. They have twenty seven times the 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.400 influence that they should have. 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.720 Yeah, any comment on that text line four one five 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:34.920 two nine KFTC. 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:42.120 Today, Hacker has played an AI video of President Trump 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:46.720 rubbing and kissing Elon Musk's feet on television screens at 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:50.240 the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The White House 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.719 believes the video was created by a disgruntled employee, so 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.440 that narrows it down to the entire federal workforce. 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.199 There's some truths to yes. 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.920 Speaking of AI we all see I think if you 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.960 bounce around social media AI videos every day now, where 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:12.839 you're just like, wow, where is this going? 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:17.400 I mean, it's just they're stunning. Yeah they are. 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.680 They're already stunning, and they're only going to get exponentially 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:24.280 better over a short amount of time. But Sophabes is 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:28.200 having its first ever AI art auction, which has got 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.800 some in the art community up in arms. This is 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.360 the first time Sophabies is the highest level of selling 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.200 art for the you know, the most viable, expensive stuff, 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.800 and now they're they're doing it with AI art and 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.480 uh and a lot of real artists don't want that 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:47.360 to be counted as art, and other thinkers are arguing, well, 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:48.640 how is it not art? 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:50.480 I mean art's art? 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.240 And uh, And I don't know where we land on this. 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:56.720 It's kind of confusing. 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.920 I just came off a deep dive on Impressionism for 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:04.400 this long book that I read. Those fascinating about the 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:06.120 Impressionist art movement and how it fit in with their 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.360 politics and everything like that. But that's the way art 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.720 has been throughout the history of mankind. It reflected what's 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.680 going on culturally in the world at the time, and 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:21.840 it developed very slowly. You know, changes from art that 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:26.360 only could be religious or or reflect the wealthy, to 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:31.200 art that reflected commonplace themes, to Cubism to you know, 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.960 Jackson Pollock splash and paint to Andy Warhol. Just changes 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.640 in all these changes in art. But what is that 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:41.480 going to mean when it's ai or if something new 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.160 comes on the scene, like Impressionism and I think, oh, 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.640 I like the look of that. Makes something that's similar 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.600 to that, But make it instead of a sunset, make 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.840 it a you know, a pond with a frog in it. 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:55.440 And I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen. 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.720 No neither do I. And what meaning will it have 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.320 to people in their heart? If you see an image 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.600 you like, that's great. I almost Judy, and I almost 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:07.920 bought an image created partly through a I I guess 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:12.160 by this artist who Her picture's difficult to describe, but 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:17.560 her pictures are always like they have a surprise and 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:22.880 their whimsical once you catch on to what's happening visually, 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:28.240 it's really clever. But we couldn't decide whether we wanted 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.440 it or not. Well't this makes us god harder to 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:32.680 make a living as an artist. 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.160 Not that it's easy now, but this is the same 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:39.400 way that you know, streaming services destroyed music. Even you're 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:40.920 not going to sell an album. I don't care how 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.200 popular are. You can tour and make money down me, 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.040 you're not going to sell the album. I wonder if 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:46.280 art's going to go the same direction. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.000 And one of the big objections to this show is 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:54.280 that the AI models are trained on copyrighted work that 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.880 they have no right to use, but they use that 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.360 work to develop their AIAR. There's no way you're never 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.400 going to stop that. I don't think you can. I 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.200 can't even imagine what the enforcement mechanism was. You looked 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:05.800 at van Go's sunflowers. 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:11.120 No, I didn't, right, right, I didn't even get into 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.200 some other important stuff. Wait, we got a half hour 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:14.760 left in the show, so that's good. If you missed 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:16.680 a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on. 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:21.879 Demand Armstrong and Getty. I've got a mole in the 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:22.800 federal government. 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.159 That is, someone I know who works for one of 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:29.600 those agencies who passed along an email they got about 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:35.040 various crap they don't have to do anymore, m thanks 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.000 to Trump administration and Doge. 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.439 We'll get to that next segment. I would like to 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.600 hear that very much. I will stay tuned. A couple 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.720 of notes from the world of science. Thought you might 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:50.280 under might enjoy that's right, thank you, Michael. Even people 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:55.120 who don't enjoy music, those who have musical and hendonia, 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.359 which if I had ever come across that term before, 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:04.040 I don't recall it. But they have no response to music. Yeah, 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:09.920 they still feel the urge to move to rhythmic sounds, 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.399 suggesting our body's response to rhythm may be more fundamental 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:14.560 than previously thought. 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:20.119 So okay, that's that's its own interesting thing. But so people, 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.680 because I remember hearing Andy Rooney, who used to be 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:24.720 on sixty Minutes. You're old enough to remember him say 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.040 one time, it doesn't understand why anybody cares about music, 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.760 doesn't like doesn't like any music, had no interest in 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:31.359 any music. 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.280 And I always thought that so nuts. 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:35.679 He must be one of these people, like it just 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:40.160 doesn't do something in the brain the same way, right, 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:44.160 But when the beat starts, you just gotta move. In essence, 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:45.879 I wonder if this has anything to do with the 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:49.239 ventral striatum. Let me read on the brain process is 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:50.800 the pleasure of music. 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.320 And the urge to move it through different pathways. Pleasure 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.840 through the ventral striatum, yes, there it is, and movement 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:03.000 through the dorsal striatum, but anyway. Research suggests that the 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.520 response of tapping your foot or moving a little bit 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:08.800 to the groove might be more hardwired into our bodies 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:12.760 than previously thought. In fact, a new Canadian study, soon 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.800 to be an American study, shows that even people who 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:19.000 don't particularly enjoy music still feel this instinctive urge to 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:20.040 move when they hear it. 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:24.320 Wow, if you have one of those brains that doesn't 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:26.840 enjoy music, I feel as sorry for you as like 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:33.280 someone who has more outwardly, you know, defects that seem 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:35.399 like they'd be doing. Because what a joy in life? 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:40.200 Music is like your entire life. Can't imagine hing that? 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.640 Yeah, I've always said that there are very few things 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:49.280 that give me the feeling of transcendence or chrissholme as 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:51.919 the French say, in music is on that list of 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:55.640 very very few things. It's incredibly important to me emotionally, 0:19:55.680 --> 0:20:00.480 but music, and don't you, oh my god, if I 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.159 go two days without seeing a ballet. I feel empty 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:08.960 inside or participating musical Anhedonia isn't about being toned, deaf, 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:12.119 or having trouble understanding music. This is so interesting. People 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:15.679 with this condition can tell perfectly well whether a melody 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.640 is happy or sad, you know, major minor key, or 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:21.160 they can recognize their national anthem. They can even spot 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.920 a wrong note in a familiar tune. What makes them 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:27.520 different is that music simply does not give them any 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:29.960 emotional buzz that most people experience. 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:32.600 I feel like I'm that way with food. I don't 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:35.520 care about food the way other people do. Yeah, like 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:36.919 I can taste it and everything like that. 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:40.399 I just don't care. Yeah, well your heart of tasting 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:42.600 and should never comment on that top. I don't think 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:43.680 I am as it said there. 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:47.520 The people can hear the music, they can write, they 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:49.000 just don't care for whatever reason. 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:53.360 Maybe it's something we don't get. I don't know, right, yeah, yeah. 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.359 And the condition affects a subset of otherwise healthy individuals 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:59.760 who enjoy other pleasurable experiences. Normally, they might appreciate art, 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:03.600 good food, form strong emotional connections. It's just that music 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:07.920 leaves them cold and they're trying to get to the 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:10.440 bottom of this. And but one of the most interesting 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:12.880 offshoots of the study was that, hey, even people who 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:16.040 have no desire to listen to music get nothing out 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:18.600 of it. They can't help but tap their foot. There's 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:21.359 something deep and primal in us which is really interesting. 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:29.000 And most everything can be explained evolutionary wise. Would what 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:34.200 would groove into a rhythm help men, human beings Homo 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:39.040 sapiens survive? I can't even come up with anything. Oh, 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:46.040 it's an incredibly common part of all ritual, tribal rituals 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:48.879 and prehistoric rituals and modern ritually. 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:50.679 It's got to be something to do with bringing us together, 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:53.040 we bond around it. It's got to be something like that. 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:59.120 And so you know, and Hondonia obviously musical, and Hordonia 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:03.840 it's not adaptive. It's a it's a you know, a quirk. 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:07.359 What do they call that in genetics? A mutation that's 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:09.879 not adaptive, But it probably doesn't matter in the modern 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:13.440 world anyway. So I mean, if back in the caveman days, 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:18.320 if Ogg wasn't down with the drum beaten in Boota's assuh, 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:20.960 he's always saying we don't want you around here anymore. 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:24.479 You know, war, drums, beating the drums, war, whatever you 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:28.760 could get beaten on a drum really loud get men 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:32.359 young men worked up to go into battle, and so 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:36.800 people that responded better to that survived and people that 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:37.720 didn't didn't survive. 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:40.399 Is it that over a million years? I know, every 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:42.439 time I hear a fife or a drum, I just 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:46.040 want to shoot a brit put them together, and there's 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:50.040 no holding me back. You know. That was intended to 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:51.680 be a little shorter than it was. It's just such 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:55.399