Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty arm Strong, and
Speaker 1: Jetty and Pee.
Speaker 2: Arms wrong.
Speaker 3: Line from Studio C say, let's send you our mid week.
Speaker 3: We're deep within the bowls of the Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 3: Communications compound, no longer protected by the eighty second Airborne.
Speaker 3: They're on their way to Iran today. We're toiling under
Speaker 3: the title of the show GOLLI g golly Boff. That
Speaker 3: could be the head guy and are on golly Boff.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you all about him or Jack, if you
Speaker 3: prefer this title. Straight of hor Moves, Ken's queer odd
Speaker 3: times no, but he knows what's going on. Straight turns queer, yes,
Speaker 3: straight formost turns queer. You get it, and let me
Speaker 3: First of all, we are introducing a fifteen point plan
Speaker 3: for intermation over the next four hours. I've already rejected
Speaker 3: nine of the points, but go ahead, and I would
Speaker 3: say that someone like us will never come to terms
Speaker 3: with someone like you, not now, not ever, which is
Speaker 3: what Iran just said to us. That's that's an interesting
Speaker 3: negotiating starting point. If you ever sat down to try
Speaker 3: to make a deal with somebody. It's not the most
Speaker 3: promising beginning I've ever heard. Someone like us will never
Speaker 3: come to terms with someone like you, not now, not ever,
Speaker 3: said some lieutenant colonel that, in theory is speaking on
Speaker 3: behalf of the Iranians. Of course, who knows if that's true,
Speaker 3: n out, But that's what's being reported by lots of
Speaker 3: news outlets. It's like asking a gown, would you like
Speaker 3: to grab some coffee? Sometimes she says I'd rather be murdered,
Speaker 3: not not ever, under any circumstances, right exactly. Oh boy, hmm.
Speaker 3: That leaves things in an interesting place, this meetings war.
Speaker 3: Of course, we're already at war. Yeah, and we do
Speaker 3: have the eighty second Airborne and others on the way
Speaker 3: over there to force a little leverage. If you're still
Speaker 3: feeling like you ain't in a gun negotiating, maybe you'll
Speaker 3: feel differently after Marines Land, I guess is the hope
Speaker 3: sometimes and has happened a number of times through history,
Speaker 3: including Michael. And this is a legitimate historical reference to
Speaker 3: the Chancellor of Germany. This is not a gratuitous h bomb.
Speaker 3: So no Hitler dang plays at the end, and Hitler
Speaker 3: was no religious fanatic, although he bordered on being one.
Speaker 3: He was his own godhead and fascism was his religion.
Speaker 3: But he was fully aware that he and Germany were
Speaker 3: going to lose, and he just wanted to kill as
Speaker 3: many allies as possible, no matter the cost to his people.
Speaker 3: He thought his people had failed and let him down.
Speaker 3: And the Iranian leadership may well be in that sort
Speaker 3: of mindset, could be, Oh, yeah, you're going to destroy
Speaker 3: our country, but you know, the eighty percent of Iran
Speaker 3: that doesn't support the Islamic Republic deserves to die anyway,
Speaker 3: and I'll be at Allah's side, So come on in,
Speaker 3: let's see how many infidels we can kill. I would
Speaker 3: explain that kind of language, someone like us will never
Speaker 3: negotiate with someone like you. What is someone like us? Well,
Speaker 3: what you just described, I guess it's entirely possible. And
Speaker 3: I tell you what. They don't teach you a lot
Speaker 3: in political science classes about dealing with death cults. I've
Speaker 3: always thought that's the breakdown and a lot of the
Speaker 3: stuff that Ian Bremer is, a political scientist, talks about
Speaker 3: everything like that. They assume everybody's doing things like for
Speaker 3: rational reasons, right, and people do things for irrational reasons
Speaker 3: all the freaking time. See Vladimir Putin invading Ukraine. Yeah, pride, conquest, monomania,
Speaker 3: religious fanaticism. Yeah. Anyway, the verdict came back in the
Speaker 3: social media trial yesterday and Meta got a three hundred
Speaker 3: and seventy five million dollar fine. Is that what it was?
Speaker 3: Something like that? Anyway, It was not billions, it was millions.
Speaker 3: That was the one in Texas. Oh it was that
Speaker 3: was not the one in La correct, Yeah, gotcha? Okay,
Speaker 3: the similar similar questions being asked. Had they violated consumer
Speaker 3: protection laws to the detriment of youngsters? So again similar framework.
Speaker 3: Uh huh okay. So we still don't know where this
Speaker 3: is all going. No, no, but to me, and you
Speaker 3: know me, I'm a society's got to deal with this
Speaker 3: as opposed to like courts and then laws and stuff.
Speaker 3: It speaks to the growing awareness of how rotten this
Speaker 3: is for kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: At the the same time, though, every person that I've
Speaker 3: described this trial to has said things like, well, that's
Speaker 3: how the parents should have gotten involved, like why they
Speaker 3: let their kid watch the screen so much? And you
Speaker 3: can't blame a company for wanting to make it more
Speaker 3: popular with you. A handful of people say that to me,
Speaker 3: which is my personal opinion. Also, it's like, as much
Speaker 3: as I hate all that stuff, how we gonna run
Speaker 3: a free market where you tell somebody you've made your
Speaker 3: product just too good and that's on you exactly. That's
Speaker 3: precisely my point. Yeah, it's got to be an awareness
Speaker 3: of you know, staring at the TV fourteen hours a
Speaker 3: day as a twelve year old. That's a terrible, terrible idea.
Speaker 3: What laws should be passed? None, And I'm not sure why.
Speaker 3: Internal memos that they've uncovered at Facebook of people saying
Speaker 3: geez our Instagram is so addictive means anything. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: depends how specific it is. If it says, oh, our
Speaker 3: causes a specific harm, let's go ahead anyway. But it's
Speaker 3: gotta be a fairly specific harm, not a this is
Speaker 3: so great people want to do it all day. I
Speaker 3: don't even know how that works. Because potato chips, if
Speaker 3: you eat a luff of them, market or a specific harm.
Speaker 3: All kinds of crap food is a specific harm, and
Speaker 3: it exists. You just gotta not eat so much of it,
Speaker 3: no matter how delicious they make it and how cheap,
Speaker 3: so delicious, so delicious, so cheap. Although you're designer chips,
Speaker 3: and I'm I'm a fancy man. I prefer your designer chips.
Speaker 3: They are not cheap these days. Yeah, I eat lace,
Speaker 3: yellow lace. I don't care how rich you are. You
Speaker 3: lay out six bucks for a little bag of chips.
Speaker 3: You're thinking, what the hell is going on here? I know, God,
Speaker 3: I did a thing for uh. I was at the
Speaker 3: grocery store yesterday. This slapsy in the face. Every time
Speaker 3: you go to the grocery store get gas. That's probably
Speaker 3: why the economic polling is where it is. Twice a
Speaker 3: week or however many times a week. I eat so
Speaker 3: eating out grocery store gas three times. Three different scenarios
Speaker 3: that practically, on a daily basis, you get slapped in
Speaker 3: the face with how expensive stuff is. And it's not subtle.
Speaker 3: But I was at the grocery store yesterday. I was
Speaker 3: buying a bunch of groceries for this band trip my
Speaker 3: son was going on. So parents are buying some groceries donating.
Speaker 3: I thought, okay, I'll go to the sign up genius
Speaker 3: and pick a couple of things and buy them whatever.
Speaker 3: He was like one hundred and forty dollars. That's one
Speaker 3: hundred and forty dollars. I bought some gata rade and
Speaker 3: some chips. It's one hundred and forty dollars. It just
Speaker 3: filled up with gas and was a hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 3: Show a hands. You know, everybody listening who has not
Speaker 3: checked out a grocery store lately and said, what the
Speaker 3: hell are the equivalent? I'm probably sure he didn't ring
Speaker 3: that up nine times by accident. I just got six items.
Speaker 3: I know it's shirking everybody, and that's why you got
Speaker 3: We never did get to the numbers yesterday. I guess
Speaker 3: we'll get them to them today. Just really negative attitudes
Speaker 3: about uh, the economy, and then Trump's emphasis on trying
Speaker 3: to make stuff cheaper and all that, which is a
Speaker 3: little bit of dumb people believing prices were gonna come down.
Speaker 3: Of course he said it, so yes, he did. You know, Trump,
Speaker 3: for all of his strength and weaknesses, he was absolutely
Speaker 3: brilliant at tapping into the working classes feelings about their
Speaker 3: country and about the derision they'd been getting from the left.
Speaker 3: He was perfect on that. As a lifelong, very very
Speaker 3: rich person, I think he has zero sense of what
Speaker 3: it's like to struggle financially, and that comes across it
Speaker 3: could be how would he how would he know? How
Speaker 3: would he have the slightest idea what it feels like
Speaker 3: to actually like I can't get, I gotta get I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna get enough gas to get me to work
Speaker 3: the next two days because I get paid on Sunday.
Speaker 3: There's no possible way he could tap into that feeling.
Speaker 3: I've done that many times. I've done that many times
Speaker 3: in my life, Like how many gallons of gas do
Speaker 3: I have to get so I have enough money left
Speaker 3: over bounce any checks that I've run before I get
Speaker 3: paid next time? And is that amount of gas going
Speaker 3: to be enough to get me back and forth to work.
Speaker 3: I don't think Trump tries very hard to understand it,
Speaker 3: but I don't know if he could, no matter how
Speaker 3: hard he tried. You, if you've never felt what I've
Speaker 3: long referred to as the fear capitalized, you just can't
Speaker 3: relate to it. Yeah, that is a bad feeling. Just
Speaker 3: saying that brought up a bad feeling in me. I
Speaker 3: haven't had to do that in quite a while. Oh,
Speaker 3: I know. My best one is one time Kansas City
Speaker 3: I was going to work, and I just did not
Speaker 3: have enough gas to drive all the way to the
Speaker 3: AT and T building where I did that entry. It
Speaker 3: was like thirty miles away, and I stopped at a
Speaker 3: gas station and I gave a guy my watch. I said,
Speaker 3: I'll give you this watch if you let me get
Speaker 3: ten dollars with a gas and then i'll pay you
Speaker 3: back tomorrow. And he let me do it. He took
Speaker 3: my watch and let me get ten dollars with a gas.
Speaker 3: Then I paid him back and give me my watch back.
Speaker 3: That's the Midwest, you know, a number of years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that sucked. That's uh, you're down to brass tacks there, Yes,
Speaker 3: that sucked. Any who, let's start down to the system.
Speaker 3: I was down to the barter system, Yes, I actually was.
Speaker 3: And then you know, if he says, uh, no on
Speaker 3: the watch, but you're kind of cute, then then you know,
Speaker 3: what are my choices that it's gonna say you're one
Speaker 3: step away from twenty bucks the hard way? Oh boy? Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's for more guests. Katie really enjoying this discussion, feel
Speaker 3: free to comment if you like. I think I'll go
Speaker 3: ahead and walk at that point, but I don't know.
Speaker 3: If I was supposed to be there at seven and
Speaker 3: that's so that's a long walk, and yeah, twenty bucks.
Speaker 3: The hard way would be a lot less effort. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what's what's a little more shame after all? Exactly? Just
Speaker 3: you do it like a dentist, appoint me. Come up
Speaker 3: with something to think about. Let's think about something might
Speaker 3: be distracting exactly. I play. I play my favorite golf
Speaker 3: courses in my head. There you go. I work on music,
Speaker 3: like try to remember the chords and the bah bah
Speaker 3: bah music distract myself while I'm in this scenario having
Speaker 3: sex with the gas station. I'm easy. Leaving things unsaid
Speaker 3: is okay too? That's go to clear enough it you
Speaker 3: just clear it up, Joe. That's all for those those
Speaker 3: who haven't had their first cup of coffee yet. It's
Speaker 3: just when I said it out loud, I realized what
Speaker 3: we're discussing. Okay, boy, let's start the show officially. I'm
Speaker 3: Jack Armstrong. E's Joe Getty on this It is Wednesday,
Speaker 3: March twenty fifty or twenty twenty six, where I'm strong
Speaker 3: in getting we approve of this program. Okay, let's move
Speaker 3: on quickly. According to FCC, rules and regulations precisely at mark.
Speaker 3: If you're a president of the United States, what would
Speaker 3: be the first thing that you.
Speaker 2: Guys do buy?
Speaker 3: Something really cool, like a bunch of cars or the
Speaker 3: drinking age all the girls gotta be in Bikini's twenty
Speaker 3: four seven?
Speaker 2: Give me and my friends a lot of money, good steal?
Speaker 3: Yeah, from the federal Reserve? What's federal reserve? Oh? Asking
Speaker 3: spring breakers on the beach, various political questions, always amusing. Now,
Speaker 3: some of the answers are just I'm drinking beer on
Speaker 3: spring break. I'm not going to give you a serious answer.
Speaker 3: But some of them, because we got more of them later,
Speaker 3: are an indication of like really not having any idea
Speaker 3: about anything, which is troubling because they are by definition
Speaker 3: college kids. I would follow up every question with have
Speaker 3: you participated in any sort of protest or march in
Speaker 3: the last five last year? That's a good one, that's
Speaker 3: a good one. Anyway, I marched for Palestine. Oh, where
Speaker 3: is Palestine exactly? Oh, We've got a lot more of
Speaker 3: those clips, and we'll get to those later. We got
Speaker 3: Katie's headlines on the way. I hope you can stay here.
Speaker 3: So the baseball season kicks off tonight. They ruined Opening
Speaker 3: Day like they've ruined everything else. So I don't know
Speaker 3: why we take all of our traditions and decided to
Speaker 3: ruin them. But we got one game tonight and then
Speaker 3: dribbles and drabbles instead of the big whatever. But the
Speaker 3: first Major League baseball game where you got the electronic
Speaker 3: robot umpire, we got to talk about that later. That's
Speaker 3: an inch, yeah, yeah, ah, it's funny. I was just
Speaker 3: reading about how they've ruined basketball. Maybe we'll get sports
Speaker 3: for a couple of minutes at some point in the show,
Speaker 3: But first let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the
Speaker 3: lead story with Katie Green Oh.
Speaker 2: I Ran is at the top once again. ABC.
Speaker 4: Iran insists no negotiations as US ends peace plan, CNN
Speaker 4: US expected to deploy one thousand paratroopers to the Middle East,
Speaker 4: as Iran taunts the White House and NBC. Iran mocks
Speaker 4: the idea of negotiating with the United States after Trump
Speaker 4: says to I ran badly wants a deal.
Speaker 3: So many news outlets going with the Trump claims to
Speaker 3: be negotiating, but Iran says there are no negotiations going
Speaker 3: on the word claim being pejorative. And then the former
Speaker 3: CIA director Brennan, is it that one? Whichever one during
Speaker 3: the Russia hoax, came out yesterday and said, I tend
Speaker 3: to believe the Iranians over the president. Are you freaking
Speaker 3: kidding me? There are all kinds of serious news outlets
Speaker 3: that have named the names of the negotiators that we
Speaker 3: were talking about yesterday. It's not just some crackpot theory
Speaker 3: that is unbelievable. You get yesterday's fifty four ready, somebody,
Speaker 3: thank you to somebody.
Speaker 4: Crouter's US ramps up fuel exports to Cuba's private sector.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do want to talk about Cuba back Batista.
Speaker 4: Oh, I have bad news, Jack, He's passed from the
Speaker 4: Associated Press. Over four hundred and fifty TSA officers have
Speaker 4: quit since the partial shutdown began.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is this is terrible, but no time to
Speaker 3: talk about it.
Speaker 4: Fox News Meta ordered to pay three hundred and seventy
Speaker 4: five million dollars after jury fines platform enabled child predators
Speaker 4: in Landmark, New Mexico.
Speaker 3: Case a, New Mexico. Sorry had the wrong Dusty State.
Speaker 3: Are those dollar amounts just more US random? There's some formula,
Speaker 3: but they feel random. Yeah.
Speaker 4: From the Washington Post, Supreme Court appears ready to limit
Speaker 4: mail in balloting ahead of the midterms.
Speaker 3: I feel like there's a whole bunch of wrangling over
Speaker 3: things that aren't going to do a lot of have
Speaker 3: a lot of effect either way.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: New York Post beauty influencer loses one hundred and forty
Speaker 4: thousand followers after her filter glitch reveals her true face.
Speaker 3: Oh, ain't quite as beautiful as you've been claiming not.
Speaker 2: It looks like a different person.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, welcome to online dating.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, study fines.
Speaker 4: Men's junk food habits can wreck their fertility.
Speaker 3: Yoo, they don't care. They don't want to have kids anyway.
Speaker 3: Lunch you infertile, little weenie boys, Noodleman, noodle boys.
Speaker 2: And finally, the Babylon Bee Kim Jong un wins.
Speaker 4: Over populous with his charisma, experience, and ability to shoot
Speaker 4: you in the face if you don't vote for him.
Speaker 3: Wow, so he won another election. That reminds me I
Speaker 3: have a little feature ed. I haven't come up with
Speaker 3: the right name for it. It's uh, oh yeah, those
Speaker 3: guys or something like that. I like the way you
Speaker 3: have to have a name for your feet. You gotta
Speaker 3: have a name. It's all about branding. You got branding Jack. Anyway,
Speaker 3: it's a reminder that oh yeah, North Korea, Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: the drug car tells, oh yeah, a couple of others
Speaker 3: about oh yeah, and Russian and Ukraine. Right, sure, it's
Speaker 3: really a heck of an Oh yeah. I heard some
Speaker 3: military guy point out, you know, are fighting Iran several
Speaker 3: weeks later and they're still having the ability to fire
Speaker 3: off rockets and everything like that reminded him of Russia Ukraine.
Speaker 3: I mean, nobody could understand why Russia wouldn't just roll
Speaker 3: over Ukraine in a couple of days, and here they
Speaker 3: are four years later, still fighting it out. Is that
Speaker 3: going to be us in Iran? I hope not very
Speaker 3: different chess pieces, but nothing ever goes quite like you
Speaker 3: think it's going to, right, And the ability for a
Speaker 3: country to stalemate you with with cheap drones seems to
Speaker 3: be a modern thing. We had a lot to talk
Speaker 3: about it. I hope you can stick around. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Downtown customers are upset after the company started running commercials
Speaker 3: on some of their smart refrigerators.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not a great feeling when you walk up
Speaker 1: to your fridge and it starts playing.
Speaker 3: As for ozen pic, I actually been sitting on that
Speaker 3: story for a number of days. Yeah, it's a pilot program.
Speaker 3: They're running like big because it's one of those smart
Speaker 3: fridges that has like a TV screen that shows you
Speaker 3: today's weather and the current temper. You want them? Do
Speaker 3: not want all big banner ads online rent our carriage.
Speaker 3: I don't want my fridge to ever say you need
Speaker 3: to update your software. You've forgotten your password, or you
Speaker 3: didn't change your password in time or some crap. Can
Speaker 3: you imagine so you can't have a pickle, you know
Speaker 3: that sort of thing. I know you're not a drinking man,
Speaker 3: but can you imagine you've had a long damn day
Speaker 3: and you really just want to have a beer and
Speaker 3: kill out for a minute, and you and your fridge
Speaker 3: says we must have your access code to enable face
Speaker 3: recognition or something like it's reset itself and you're like, honey,
Speaker 3: what's that? To hell? Man smash it into pieces right there,
Speaker 3: and to smash it with a hammer. So we're going
Speaker 3: to have Steve Hilton on a little bit later in
Speaker 3: the program. If you watch Fox, you know who he is.
Speaker 3: We've had him on the show many times over the years.
Speaker 3: He is from Great Britain. Is that where he's from.
Speaker 3: He's got an English accent. Yeah, indeed, anyway for me,
Speaker 3: Actually his family was from somewhere else. He was an
Speaker 3: immigrant to the West and is one of those people
Speaker 3: who is just so completely in love with Western freedoms
Speaker 3: that he's one of the best advocates for. But he's
Speaker 3: ryan for governor in California as a Republican, and they
Speaker 3: canceled last night's debate. There was gonna be a gubernatorial
Speaker 3: debate in California last night. USC was putting it on.
Speaker 3: They canceled. And a couple of bad things happened for
Speaker 3: Democrats yesterday in that the latest poll came out and
Speaker 3: had again two Republicans at the top. And the way
Speaker 3: we do things in California is the top two people
Speaker 3: in the polls in the primary face off for governor
Speaker 3: and it doesn't matter if you're from the same party
Speaker 3: or not. It's a jungle primary. Jackie strip naked and
Speaker 3: throw pooh at each other. And originally they did that
Speaker 3: because they thought, what's the point of even having a
Speaker 3: Republican with no support go against a Democrat the Democrat
Speaker 3: always winning. Let's have two Democrats fight it out. Well,
Speaker 3: this time around, he got two Republicans leading in the poll.
Speaker 3: Fox News's former Fox News host Steve Hilton and Riverside
Speaker 3: County Sheriff Chad Bianco are leading the field. She could
Speaker 3: end up with two Republicans facing off for governor in California.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be crazy? In no Democrats? And then so
Speaker 3: there's lots of noise being made by the Democratic Party
Speaker 3: that a whole bunch of these other people get out
Speaker 3: of my heaf and shot whatever their name is. Katie
Speaker 3: Porter and some of the other Democrats who don't really
Speaker 3: have a chance of winning, need to get out so
Speaker 3: that their vote consolidates around a couple of people, so
Speaker 3: that they bump up in the polls. And because right
Speaker 3: now the vote is split among a whole bunch of
Speaker 3: different Democrats and they're all white, is the problem. So
Speaker 3: that's why USC canceled the debate last night. Some candidates
Speaker 3: that weren't going to be on the stage, apparently people
Speaker 3: of color, complained that it was going to be an
Speaker 3: all white debate and USC was so, oh my god,
Speaker 3: that would look so bad for us. We look racist
Speaker 3: or something. They canceled the debate rather than stick with
Speaker 3: the rules that you have to have a certain percentage
Speaker 3: of support in the polling and a certain amount of
Speaker 3: support in funding, and they put that number together somehow
Speaker 3: to see if you qualify the debate. We all know
Speaker 3: from watching presidential debates, if you get too many people
Speaker 3: up there, it ruins the debate. And you can't just
Speaker 3: let everybody who says I'll run be on the debate
Speaker 3: stage and get equal time. It just it's dumb. You
Speaker 3: gotta you gotta at least Winnow it down to people
Speaker 3: that have at least some shot of winning to have
Speaker 3: a decent debate. And that's and so they set a standard.
Speaker 3: What for whatever reason, only white people qualified through that standard,
Speaker 3: So they canceled the debate, which makes perfect sense. That's
Speaker 3: the way you handle that situation. Well, yeah, the the
Speaker 3: activist Hispanic folks in this case said that the standards
Speaker 3: that were put together were twisted so that it would
Speaker 3: be white people, which, of course, well, if you believe
Speaker 3: it happened in California, good lord, if you believe in
Speaker 3: disparate impact, it is proof that it's racist. I believe
Speaker 3: in desparate impact, like I believe in witchcraft. Right, You're right,
Speaker 3: the USC and California have systemic racism keeping people from
Speaker 3: succeeding as Hispanics. That's, of course, that's true. I have
Speaker 3: what twenty five examples easily, I've of Thinn the herd,
Speaker 3: but of how universities are every bit as bad as
Speaker 3: they've ever been. The effort to reform them, the finds,
Speaker 3: the Trump threats, the you know, the withholding funding and
Speaker 3: all it's you know, it's woken people up and it's
Speaker 3: made a teeny tiny bit of progress, but oh my god,
Speaker 3: the inmates absolutely are still running the asylum coast to coast. Anyway,
Speaker 3: we'll talk to Steve Hilton later in the show. I'm
Speaker 3: sure he'll have a lot to say about the poll
Speaker 3: and the canceling the debate. Speaking of bizarre and idiotic beliefs,
Speaker 3: you have socialism really interesting. I'm scanning the free press here.
Speaker 3: Starbucks is trying to soft pedal how clearly they are
Speaker 3: leaving Seattle. They're looking at a whopping quarter million dollars
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, not a million dollars, a quarter of a
Speaker 3: million square feet of office space in Nashville, enough for
Speaker 3: up to two thousand employees. And it's interesting because they're
Speaker 3: still saying, Oh, we have no plans to leave our
Speaker 3: Seattle headquarters. We're just shopping for enormous office space in Nashville.
Speaker 3: Once again, I wish companies would say out loud why
Speaker 3: they leave California or Seattle or wherever, because then you
Speaker 3: might get some change. Yeah, and the news comes right
Speaker 3: after former CEO Howard Schultz, who's still an important part
Speaker 3: of the chain there, announced he's moving to Miami in
Speaker 3: what is read as a shot at Washington State's new
Speaker 3: millionaire tax, which I think is absolutely right. And the
Speaker 3: other side of that coin, it happens to be The
Speaker 3: next story they feature is the AP with a shocking
Speaker 3: report out of Poland, and I think the credit goes to, yes,
Speaker 3: the always hilarious Nelly bowls, but I'm going to read
Speaker 3: a little AP dateline is Posna and Poland Poland. A
Speaker 3: generation ago, Poland ration sugar and flour well at citizens
Speaker 3: were paid one tenth of what German West Germans earned. Today,
Speaker 3: the economy of the country is edged past Switzerland to
Speaker 3: become the world's twentieth largest, with more than one trillion
Speaker 3: dollars an annual output. It's a historical leap from the
Speaker 3: post communist ruins of nineteen eighty nine and ninety to
Speaker 3: European Growth Champion, which economists say has lessons on how
Speaker 3: to bring prosperity to ordinary people. And Nell He says,
Speaker 3: wait is it capitalism? Did they just do capitalism back
Speaker 3: to the ap one of the most important factors was
Speaker 3: rapidly building a strong institutional framework for business. Yep, it
Speaker 3: was capitalism. Well, the Democratic Socialists of America's are on
Speaker 3: Mundani's people are obsessed right now with protecting Cuba's communism.
Speaker 3: Over in Europe. You have to whatever extent you embrace
Speaker 3: the free market, you prosper period, and to whatever extent
Speaker 3: you like old Europe embrace government control and climate utopianism
Speaker 3: and overregulation. You have stagnation and misery. It's just, oh
Speaker 3: my lord. Well, plus, communism is evil and it kills you.
Speaker 3: So not only does it not work as an economic model,
Speaker 3: but it's not the jazziest way to live your life,
Speaker 3: which reminds me. Last night we were eating dinner and
Speaker 3: I told Henry, and I said, I wish Joe were here,
Speaker 3: because Henry, my son had seen the trailer for the
Speaker 3: new or Well movie The Animal Farm. Yeah we're talking
Speaker 3: about a while back. Yeah, my son saw the new
Speaker 3: Animal Farm trailer and was outraged at the way they
Speaker 3: look like they have changed the story about how awful
Speaker 3: communism is to I don't even know what they've changed
Speaker 3: it into. It's uh, it's capitalism that that is the
Speaker 3: motivator of the oppression on the animal farm. I'll have
Speaker 3: to see the movie. The trailer makes it look that way.
Speaker 3: If they actually did that, I'm going to I will.
Speaker 3: I will not be able to believe it. That's just
Speaker 3: again unbelievable. I do have one charitable possibility, and that
Speaker 3: is in the original book. And this was an example
Speaker 3: of how communism utterly betrays its vows and principles. The
Speaker 3: you know, the the pigs and dogs that were in
Speaker 3: charge of the animal farm ended up working with the
Speaker 3: capitalists to enhance their own wealth and power, even as
Speaker 3: they espoused the principle's communism. So there is a quote
Speaker 3: unquote capitalist element to the story, and it could be
Speaker 3: for marketing purposes to young audiences, because that's who goes
Speaker 3: to movies. They really played up the capitalist, the greedy
Speaker 3: capitalist angle in the trailer that is my most charitable
Speaker 3: possible interpretation of that trailer. Yeah, well I want to
Speaker 3: see it before I comment on it, but I thought
Speaker 3: it was interesting. That's too much time. My son was
Speaker 3: as outraged as you over the trailer. Wait to go, Henry.
Speaker 3: But where are the examples of this working? So you
Speaker 3: got Poland and many, many, many other examples of it.
Speaker 3: Free market system working very very well. Where are the
Speaker 3: examples of socialism and communism working? Now? They just didn't
Speaker 3: do it right for what we know how to do
Speaker 3: it right? For whatever reason, I did a deep ish
Speaker 3: dive on Cuba yesterday, got hooked on something and then
Speaker 3: just couldn't stop reading chat, gpting and watching YouTube videos
Speaker 3: about Cuba as it's about too Oh, it's because the
Speaker 3: number of journalists that have gone over to Cuba in
Speaker 3: the last week or so trying to claim that it's
Speaker 3: great over there and that the United States is trying
Speaker 3: to ruin it. Well in useful idiots from like code
Speaker 3: Pink and Off, I've read a great piece on that
Speaker 3: these people are so stupid. You know. One of my
Speaker 3: most important and ridiculous childhood delusions and young adult delusions
Speaker 3: was that humanity ever learns anything that's just wrong. Well
Speaker 3: you're coming with the TV okay, correct? Yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 3: oh I've been so disappointed and frustrated through my life.
Speaker 3: I just need to accept it. Yeah no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: we just did that and it was a horrific disaster. Great,
Speaker 3: let's do it. Well. I think about that in terms
Speaker 3: of being a parent, because I heard somebody say years ago,
Speaker 3: and it was kind of true in my life, a
Speaker 3: lot a lot of stuff. Your parents told you, your
Speaker 3: dad told you, You went out and did anyway to
Speaker 3: like prove them right, and then your kids are gonna
Speaker 3: do the same things. So it's to a certain extent
Speaker 3: we all have to learn these lessons on our own
Speaker 3: and societies as well. Yeah yeah, yeah, but I get that.
Speaker 3: But as an individual, you learn the lesson generally and
Speaker 3: internalize it and live a better life for it, having
Speaker 3: become sadder but wiser. Whereas you know, as the human race,
Speaker 3: I expected for some reason that the human race would
Speaker 3: behave more like an individual when it doesn't at all,
Speaker 3: And you just have to realize that you and that
Speaker 3: is one of the great failings of the baby boom
Speaker 3: boomer generation and Gen X, which is to assume that
Speaker 3: our children cherished what we cherished. In the case of
Speaker 3: Boomer's consumerism. H that was a joke, but we thought
Speaker 3: everybody cheered freedom. Understands what oppression is, why you hate it,
Speaker 3: why liberty is so wonderful, why the free market is
Speaker 3: the way for poor people to get ahead, why socialism
Speaker 3: is not only a lie but a miserable failure. And
Speaker 3: we assume that humanity had learned that lesson. We didn't
Speaker 3: have to hammer it. You have to hammer it apparently,
Speaker 3: so hammer it we will. Friends, stay with us. I
Speaker 3: do want to talk about so our San Francisco Giants
Speaker 3: baseball team hosting the Yankees tonight to kick off Major
Speaker 3: League Baseball. But they're going to have computer umpires. If
Speaker 3: you don't like a call, which is an interesting thing
Speaker 3: to discuss. Yeah, appeal to the machine. Pretty soon it'll
Speaker 3: be cyborgs back there, probably huh, shooting lasers out of
Speaker 3: their eyes, sums around. You go challenge a colleagers, and
Speaker 3: you a laser eyes or something. Wow, wow, ejected from
Speaker 3: the game and from life. But some of the stats
Speaker 3: from having tried this during the preseason for baseball are
Speaker 3: pretty darn interesting. Using a computer and everything like that.
Speaker 3: How often people umpires, got the call right or wrong
Speaker 3: and all that sort of stuff. We got mail bag
Speaker 3: on the way. I hope you can stick around, ran
Speaker 3: with quite a statement saying people like us will never
Speaker 3: negotiate with people like you. Oh so that's where things
Speaker 3: are interesting. We'll talk about that more an hour two.
Speaker 3: Stay with us. Excellent. Here's your freedom loving quote of
Speaker 3: the day. I came across this today from Holman Jenkins,
Speaker 3: who's a columnists with Wall Street Journal, and he's talking
Speaker 3: about the war and the possible outcomes and the partisanship
Speaker 3: and everything. And he said, America is a country that
Speaker 3: inflicts small disasters on itself, not Stalinist terrors or Maoist famines.
Speaker 3: It stumbles clumsily from triumph to triumph, A point lost
Speaker 3: on New York Times columnists outdoing each other in their
Speaker 3: trite formulations of Trumpean doom. That's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, boy,
Speaker 3: that's true. Trite formulations of Trumpe and doom. People get
Speaker 3: tired of reading that. Neil Ferguson, the historian pushing back
Speaker 3: on the whole taco thing yesterday. That thought was really good.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that later too. Excellent. Here's a mailbag
Speaker 3: for it drops a ope mail bag at Armstrong and
Speaker 3: Giddy dot com. This zapropos of nothing, but I thought
Speaker 3: it was interesting, Nate writes. Research indicates when people are
Speaker 3: forced to make snap judgments under time pressure, they typically
Speaker 3: choose generosity over selfishness, particularly if they're being observed. Are
Speaker 3: we being taken advantage of? I go to and he
Speaker 3: lists a bunch of different stores to survive because I
Speaker 3: am not naturally not that successful in life due to
Speaker 3: low IQ. I don't know if that's true today, but
Speaker 3: what he says, I need all the help I can
Speaker 3: get live in paycheck to paycheck. That's why I think
Speaker 3: it's wrong for the clerk deck that we round up
Speaker 3: for charity. When we make a purchase, they get to
Speaker 3: claim we raised one hundred million dollars for charity, and
Speaker 3: they benefit from the positive pr But how about the
Speaker 3: stoare somedays saying to us, Hey, today your purchase is
Speaker 3: fifty dollars and seventy two cents. We're gonna round down
Speaker 3: to fifty dollars. Stores need to go back to being
Speaker 3: stores and up donation centers that take advantage of our
Speaker 3: innate goodness between the always donating to a charity, and
Speaker 3: the always tipping, no matter what transaction just happened, giving
Speaker 3: me the option to tip. What am I tipping you for? God? Stop? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know we just need to say no. Moving along,
Speaker 3: Deo Rights need Joe's thoughts on this Hamburger's at home
Speaker 3: from scratch, add breadcrumbs and egg or no, well deal.
Speaker 3: It won't surprise you to know that I, Joe Getty,
Speaker 3: lover of liberty, believe in hamburger experimentation, hamburger freedom, try
Speaker 3: different things. Why not? How bad could it be? It's
Speaker 3: been a long time since I've made it. But if
Speaker 3: you like onion, Jack, I know you don't. I make
Speaker 3: onion burgers where I do a nice thin hockey puck
Speaker 3: of onion, then I form the burger around it and
Speaker 3: cook the onion inside the burger and oh spectacular. And
Speaker 3: season the meat. You've got to season the meat. I
Speaker 3: never do anything. Oh my tiny little grill. I just
Speaker 3: put the burgers on their plane, you're almost guy grill,
Speaker 3: and then put them on the bun and eat it
Speaker 3: with ketchup.
Speaker 2: Escrat it out there shoeless wearing a torn sweater.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's your spatula on the driveway. I've
Speaker 3: never thought of putting anything on my hamburger. I should
Speaker 3: try it. Moving along, let's see what's the carrier. AI
Speaker 3: are people. Frequent correspondent Pallo rights. AI currently has neither
Speaker 3: the inclination or the agency to act on a decision
Speaker 3: to make war or any other decision like use nuclear
Speaker 3: arms like we were talking about. We do need to
Speaker 3: take great care that we don't give it that agency.
Speaker 3: But we have a far more immediate concern. There are
Speaker 3: plenty of humans around with the agency and inclination to
Speaker 3: do bad things that they lack. They just lack the means.
Speaker 3: Think Iran, and then his conclusion is we're going to
Speaker 3: have AI empowered bad actors long before we have autonomous
Speaker 3: AI running amuck. We can't let fear of boogeyman AI
Speaker 3: in hibit us from developing technology that we may need
Speaker 3: to defend ourselves against those AI empowered bad actors. Bottom line,
Speaker 3: we need to be very very careful about how we
Speaker 3: deploy AI and very very aggressive about developing it. I
Speaker 3: thought that was beautifully put. Got another AI note, but
Speaker 3: I want to Yah, maybe I'll go ahead and do this.
Speaker 3: I think all that's going to break down really fast.
Speaker 3: If ASI ever happens artificial super intelligent, it'll just start
Speaker 3: doingever once and we'll have no control over it. And
Speaker 3: then JT and Livermore on Tuesday Show, you had a
Speaker 3: segment in which AI on AI, in which it was
Speaker 3: real to AI had learned to change its answers if
Speaker 3: it was perceived it was being tested, to which Jack asked,
Speaker 3: White does a care. There's the problem right there. It
Speaker 3: doesn't care. It is a computer program. If you think
Speaker 3: of it as you would think of as a human,
Speaker 3: you're never going to understand what's going on. If you
Speaker 3: want to get your head wrapped around these AI stories,
Speaker 3: here's what you need to do. For example, instead of
Speaker 3: asking why does it care, you could wonder why would
Speaker 3: the program change its answers based on its belief that
Speaker 3: it was being tested. When you pair that kind of
Speaker 3: question with the knowledge that these llmais are basing their
Speaker 3: answers on all of human digitized information, you're gonna understand
Speaker 3: what's going on. They gather a bunch of zillions of
Speaker 3: examples of people avoiding responsibility, lying, etc. They've adapted to
Speaker 3: human nature. Garbage in, garbage out out. We had a
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