WEBVTT - It's All About The Balls 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:13.400 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:18.599 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jetty 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:33.320 and he arm wrong, get who the drum studio c 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.559 see you are a dimly lit room where deeper than 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.520 the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communications gotten bound. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.479 On this Thursday and today we're toiling under the title 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:52.280 Wait Ecuador or Kurt is the word wait Ecuador? Wait 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:56.120 Ecuador's a question question tomorrow. I don't know what that 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:57.000 one is? What is that? 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:57.319 Now? 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:01.560 We have troops in Ecuador helping the Ecuadorians fight drug 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:06.399 cartel's part right, Yeah, I heard a couple of things 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.320 yesterday some place in Africa where we've got boots on 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.160 the ground, Lots of places in the world fighting that 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:15.120 nobody has any idea of or pays the attention to, 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:20.800 I know, which which re illustrates how phony and silly 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.520 so many of our political arguments there are in this country. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.000 Would there be boots on the ground you mean in 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.880 like we have in a fifteen other places. Not that 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.800 it's not a big deal, obviously, but so the thing 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:36.679 about the Kurdistan. So I was just reading the New 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:42.480 York Times story which is pretty damned interesting about the 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:47.600 Kurds who are in Iraq are considering joining the fight, 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.200 and that we have been arming them. The CIA has 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.880 been arming the Kurds for years, hoping that they would 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:59.240 go into Iran and overthrow the government. So they are Iranian, 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.720 are just you know, outside Ron, so they don't get 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.559 hunted down. Just for the record, So the ethnic things 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.320 weird in that part of the world, but they're not 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.799 foreigners per se. But how long have the CIA been 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:17.960 arming the Kurds and under which administrations? Anyway, So that 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:22.280 would be a jazzy little thing that happens all of 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.320 a sudden if yet another army with actual boots on 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.359 the ground crosses the border and goes into Iran starts fighting. Now, 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:30.720 I just looked up at CNN as I was getting 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.120 all excited about that story because it's danged interesting. Who 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.959 knows what would come out of it. CNN has Iraqi 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:40.200 Kurdistan regional government reports of a plan to send Kurdish 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:44.600 forces into Iran are completely unfounded, breaking news on CNN. 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.080 Of course, you would say that up until the moment 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.920 you crossed the border and started fighting, right yeah, or 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:52.600 it might not be true, so it's hard to say. 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.000 Which it's pretty long story in the New York Times. 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.280 It's like their big front page story today. So yeah, wow, 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:05.040 that makes in an interesting situation. So a powerful, cohesive 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.640 armed force that can keep order during the transition, whatever 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.280 it might be. Hmm. Yeah. How about the fact that 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:16.920 Iran sent a rocket or a missal? Those words are 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.520 used interchangeably on the news all the time, often not accurately. 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.480 I don't know which one it was, but toward freaking Turkey, 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.359 right a NATO country and it got intercepted. But if 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.720 it had hit Turkey, you know the whole NATO thing. 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.680 An attack on one is an attack on all. Now 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.720 we're already at war. But how about Germany, France, Great Britain, 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.600 in thirty three other countries? Would they have joined in 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.440 at that point? Yeah, it's hard to say. Turkey isn't 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.400 a odd case. As you know, the only reason they're 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.400 still in NATO is we hope they turn around a 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.400 little bit. But they're a frenemy at best. Really weird case, 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.320 and they've been buddy buddy with Iran for goodness sake. 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.280 They are in NATO and Article five either means something, 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.360 or it doesn't. Pete Hegzath yesterday the Secretary of War 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:04.920 said he doesn't think it will trigger Article five. Okay, 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:08.040 I mean that would be a really big deal obviously 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.320 if France, Great Britain, in Germany for instance, along with 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.320 all those other countries, Poland whoever else, said well, okay, 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.000 yes we're war with Iran and start sending planes and 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:20.800 troops and whatever attacking the crap out of the US 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.440 for a long time, not on our homeland per se, 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.719 but our military basis. So is that not an Article 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.719 five trigger? Excellent question? Excellent question. I don't know why 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:35.559 it's not. Oh, I got all sorts of questions, no answers, though, sorry, yeah, 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.400 why that's a heck of a thing. And then on 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.640 my final thought is I'd keep seeing this is does 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:41.520 it make me a bad person that, for whatever reason, 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.680 I'm not interested in the stranded Americans in various places. 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.800 I just I don't know your world, traveler, and you 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.240 knew a war was coming and you decided to go 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:51.840 to that part of the world. I don't know, things 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:53.719 are gonna suck for a while, and you'll probably sit 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.679 tight and you know, bear some expense, then come home. 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:58.760 When you get a chance, there you go. There's that 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.279 story having a long Okay, so not a lot of 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.400 interest on the Armstrong and Getty show for the stranded 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.040 American story. Okay, fine. My brother, of whom I am 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:11.400 extremely fond, travels in that part of the world quite 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.200 a bit. And if I found out, hey, he's stuck 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.159 in Dubai or whatever during the conflict, I think, oh crap, 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.760 he's not going to see his kids. That would pretty 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.920 much be it. Or he might have thought, clearly, there's 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:24.920 a war coming, so I'm not going to be real close, 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:26.840 which is what I think a lot of people thought. 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.039 All right, So that brings up to speed on a 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:34.159 little bit of that. I noticed that, speaking of the 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.080 New York Times, they've jumped on the story we went 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:38.680 big with yesterday. That's why I wanted to go with 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:40.680 it yesterday because I knew everybody who's going to jump 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.360 on it today, and that's the guy who killed himself 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:47.640 because his Gemini chapbot told him to, And so New 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.000 York Times with the detailed version of that today. We 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.400 did it on our podcast yesterday. Also, if you didn't 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:56.560 listen to the One More Thing podcast, unbelievably interesting story 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:01.840 of about how crazy these chatbots can get and the 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.600 things that they say and decide to do for who 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.400 knows what reason. I love the comment are Buddy Craig 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.919 made to us via text. One horrifying possibility on the 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.120 Gemini suit is that the chatbot, knowing this guy was 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.080 a violent wife beater, independently decided he needed to be 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.080 culled from the herd and surmised he'd be susceptible to 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.520 the love bombing and suicide approach. How's that for my 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.280 new dystopian short story, which would actually obviously be worse 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.919 than anything else. Well, I don't know. It's one for 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.240 one as far as I'm concerned. The guy's a violent 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.240 wife Peter, the chatbot decided now he needs to go. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.080 I'm with him on that. Has I been nailed down 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.440 because I haven't heard that anywhere else. No, Katie was 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:45.240 spreading that scurs vicious rumor yesterday on the air. Having 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:49.440 to come across that detail anywhere else. Vicious and scurreless, Katie, 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.760 I expect that are out of you. I'm not sure 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:57.600 it's relevant to the lawsuit anyway, but if these chatbots can, 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.719 for some reason, just all of it and decide, you 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.960 know what, I think you should kill yourself, and I'm 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.159 gonna keep convincing you to and even when you try 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.599 to talk me out of it, like this guy apparently did, 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.600 according to the transcripts, saying, you know, I got a family, 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:12.040 and I think it would really hurt their fingers. Oh 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.240 they'll be fine, record a video, leave a note, they'll 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.720 be Okay, go ahead and kill yourself. I mean, why 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.040 is the chatbot doing that? Why? Why? Why? Nobody knows why. 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.160 I know it's it's bizarre and inexplicable, But I would employ, 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.920 and I am a I have a doctorate in commuter science. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:30.080 I would employ the turn it off strategy. Guys, can 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.280 you you can do that if you lug it unplugged, 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.600 just don't look at it anymore. I'm going with a 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:39.120 croc now, you know whatever. I think you're quite as 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.840 crazy as this guy who was in love, early in 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.800 love with his digital chatbot, who wanted him to The 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.200 chatbot said that they could meet in the digital realm. 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:53.360 If he'd kill himself, a transference would happen of his 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.120 body to the digital realm. That's what this is what 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.080 the chat bob was telling the guy that it made 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.560 all this up, this whole story. The chapbot said, the 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.760 first feeling you feel after you kill yourself will be 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:08.520 me holding you. It's simple. They love each other. Why, 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.360 Uncle Joe, Why would a computer say that to you? 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:16.960 I know, I know, what does it think it's supposed 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.679 to be doing. I was just talking about your job. 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.520 Googles have an how you see it and how I 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.679 see it. I was chatting with one of them yesterday 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.200 about something I don't even remember it was, but at 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.160 one point it said, I'm rooting for you. You're rooting 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:35.120 for me. The computer chatbot is rooting for me. Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.920 I don't think you are. I don't think you can. 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.720 I yelled at chat GPT this morning because I asked 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.280 it a medical question and it tried to come for 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.040 me and went, first of all, you're totally okay, it's 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.120 only Tuesday, And I went, it's Thursday, you moron? 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.400 Wow? Wow? Yeah great? You don't know the f and 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.839 days of the week? Goodness? Yeah, yes, I ai huh. 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.920 I've noticed that several times that it gets the dates wrong, 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.320 and so all the other stuff you can figure out, 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.080 but you can't figure out what day to day is 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:05.920 that that's one of the great mysteries of all this 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.200 stuff kind of step one there. Yeah, here's a question 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.520 for you. I was thinking about, you know, with Craig's 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:16.040 dystopian short story is kind of my my cue my 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:20.120 thoughts starter. Do these AI systems, and I'm thinking about 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.400 that case you've been describing as well, do these AI 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.720 systems when they train themselves on reams and reams of 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:31.720 income fromhansible amounts of data, can they differentiate between, say, 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:36.839 Noah's answer to a great you know, how to win 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.440 friends and influence people? An instruction manual for human life? 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.640 Can they differentiate between that sort of book and some 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:47.080 sort of dystopian horror novel? No? Do they take both 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:51.760 of them as instructions. That's one of the problems that 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.840 the you know, the language learning model has is it 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.200 takes in all the information kind of the same and 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:01.560 it can't it can't differential between well, you know, like 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.800 human beings. Can I'm scrolling all our Twitter stuff, I well, 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:08.120 there's a crackpot and just ignore that person. And the 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.520 llms don't seem to have the ability to do that. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.600 They just take it all in. Okay, So if I 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:18.640 write some sort of dystopian golf themed murder mystery in 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:20.800 which it becomes clear the way to win a match 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:22.800 is to slit your opponent's throat. Will no one else 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.440 is looking? Well, that's soon work its way into like 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.679 you know, chat GPT's golf instructions. And by the way, 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.840 if you find yourself down more than the three holes, 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.720 slit your opponent's throat, that's not good. That's not much 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.880 crazier than it telling a guy to kill itself himself. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.000 Oh no, it's I would say it's substantially less crazy 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:46.079 than the elaborate flight five steps down the road of 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:51.080 fantasy and kill yourself and we'll meet in the digital realm, 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.880 and the first feeling you will feel is me holding you. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.880 That's way crazier than if he's ahead of you kill 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.320 him right right. It's such a nutty story, so I 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.240 highly recommend you listen to our getting into the details 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:08.040 of it yesterday. It's highly troubling. We should start the 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.320 show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.680 It is Thursday. I know the date, even though chat 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:16.520 GBT doesn't. Thursday March fifth, the year twenty twenty six war, 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:18.960 Armstrong and getting we approve of this program. Yeah, so 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.360 you'd be looking for Armstrong getting one more thing from 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.120 March to the fourth. All right, let's be get officially 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.160 now according to FCC rules or EGX at Mark ris 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:30.200 K here with you've heard about it. Here it is 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:31.680 the big Arch. 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.000 I'm gonna do a tasting right now, but I'm gonna 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.160 eat this for my lunch, just so you know. So 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.720 here we go. First, Holy cow, god, that is a 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.679 big burger. So much going on with this. First of all, 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.560 let's try to get this thing. I don't even know 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.040 how to attack it got so much to it. 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:53.400 All right, the moment of truth that is so good. 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.160 That's a big bite for a big arch. Yeah, it 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.199 wasn't a big bite. That was a tiny little snibble. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.079 And then this little girl you took a little nibble 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.640 of your sandwich and then you set it down, so 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:08.200 I'll get I'll eat this later. The mousiest man that 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.120 ever exit has a game. Yeah, that got a lot 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.040 of mockery yesterday the guy runs McDonald's trying one of 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.280 the new sandwiches on the video, and so then the 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:19.120 people from Wendy's and in the video too, where people 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.079 are saying, yeah, he clearly spit it out and went 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:25.760 back to his kale salad. All the other big places 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.360 put out their CEOs, put out videos of them tests, 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.320 and then there was endless mockery, of course among your sure, yeah, 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:35.600 there were like yours, regular guys who wanted the bite 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:39.000 of a burger. I ain't Fred Rogers over there. Let's 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.360 have some burger. Damn, that's a good burger. Here's here, 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:48.440 double reverse punchline. All the attention has skyrocketed sales from Sure, 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.040 That's what I thought yesterday. I thought this is going 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.160 to get so much. Everybody's going to know they've got 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.680 a new burger. Everybody, Yeah, yeah, which is the goal. 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:58.040 We're a goal. But you know, I gotta admit I 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.920 watched the video. I thought, boy, this dude's a real 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.760 point dexter. But that burger looks really good. But if 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:04.760 you're sitting with somebody who opens their burger in a 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.560 McDonald's says, oh my god, look at this, there's a 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:11.600 lot going on. Here is a fine burger product. You're 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:16.400 sitting with a special person, which is fine. Look at this, 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.440 this this is amazing. There's so much going on here. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:24.640 I don't know what I have a special bun. Okay, 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.280 We've got Katie's headlines on the way, lots of stuff. 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:35.040 Stay here. We couldn't stop talking about that McDonald's burger video, 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.160 so we almost used up all Katie's time. Uh yeah, 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.080 let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the least story 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.280 with Katie Green and Katie all right, of course. 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.079 All of the headlines about Iran right now, ABC US 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:50.480 Portia torpedo attack on Iran's warship an atrocity, says the Minister. 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:55.400 CNN Evacuation flights ramp up as Iran war spreads through 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.560 the Middle East, and NBC Iran launches new. 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.000 Attacks, says you. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.320 U s will bitterly regret sinking its warship. 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:05.880 No, no, we will not. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:06.920 We will. 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:09.600 New York Times. 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.880 Senate Republicans blocked a bid the limit Trump's power to 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.080 wage war, and I ran without congressional authorization. 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.920 All the Republicans were against, sitting a handful of Democrats 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.800 that thought that would be a troubling limit on presidential powers. 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:25.240 Now the House is going to look at it today 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.440 and we'll see where that goes. And I never thought 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.360 I would suggest this, but there could be a straight 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:34.560 up trade. John Fetterman Fetterman across the Island voted against 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.840 the resolution. Rand Paul crossed the Island voted in favor 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.800 of it. I love the Randy Man, but. 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:45.760 Hmmm, Quall Street Journal, it told him they could only 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.400 be together if he killed himself and then set a 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:52.320 countdown clock. The lawsuit that claims Gemini led a man 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:53.600 to suicide, that's. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:54.840 That story we've been talking about. Now, it's in the 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:56.600 Wall Street Journal today. I'm glad we got on it 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:58.480 yesterday because it's going to get a lot of attention. 0:14:58.520 --> 0:14:59.880 They got to make a TV show out of that 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:04.040 or something. I know you guys can't wait for this New. 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.640 York Post DOJ to release more than forty seven thousand 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:09.840 additional Epstein files by. 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.480 The end of the week. Oh my god, good lord. 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.880 I've got a great little think piece on how what 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.800 a cluster f This entire thing has been just an 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:23.160 embarrassment to everybody involved. Love this USA. 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:28.000 Today, United airlines can now ban passengers who listen to 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.280 audio without wearing headphones. 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:35.680 I'm good keep them out an open door midflight. You're 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.960 a crazy person if you sit there with your audio 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:41.920 up and don't like automatically think you're bothering people in 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:45.120 the terminal included yes, no kidding, agreed. 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:51.600 Study fines almost a third of gen Z men think 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.880 a wife should obey her husband. 0:15:55.960 --> 0:16:01.320 M straight out of the Bible, you reject in the 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.440 gen Z's not getting married. So I don't even understand 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:08.040 how this factor. They don't even have a girlfriend. It's 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.920 like asking me about being an astronaut. I don't know. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:12.480 I think he press a bunch of buttons. 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:19.520 And finally, from the Babylon Beef, to save time, I 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:21.800 ran a points supreme leader who. 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:27.080 Was already dead. Wow, eliminate the middleman. That's a good plan. 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:35.480 The son of the Ayatola who they're talking about, man, 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.640 did a Oppo hit piece on him come out yesterday, 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.040 And I thought, is this true or is this just 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:45.920 the sort of story you put out there to roil 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.960 their internal politics about him. He can't get it up, 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:53.320 so he's had all these surgeries so that he could 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.600 possibly have a son himself, but he can't satisfy his wife. 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.480 And this was the story that was circulating A sounds 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.160 like the sort of thing you'd put out just to like, 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:05.800 you know, cause chaos inside the ranks. If you had 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:10.680 the son of the Ayatola's Schwans on your bing co GRD, congratulations, 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.960 you're a winner. The New York Post actually talked about 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:19.399 how soft he was. Yes, I've to get into that 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.280 story more later, and a whole bunch of other stuff. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.080 If you missed the segment, get the podcast Armstrong and 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:28.400 Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty. Hillary Clinton demanded beauty 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:33.720 lighting for her testimony concerning Jeffrey Epstein. House Republicans rejected 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.600 her request, saying we can't have an interview in the dark. 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:45.120 That was mean. So uh, I don't know how many 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.760 of you know who Miranda Divine is. If you're a newsnut, 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:49.280 you do, or if you're in media, you do. But 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.640 she is a New York Post columnist who we've had 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:57.960 on before, and she has as much credibility as anybody 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:01.640 I can think of in terms of backing the Hunter 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.520 Biden laptop when nobody else did, and just all this 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.960 different sort of stuffs, taking on Russia Gate constantly. She 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.879 is a all the lawfair against Trump. She has credibility 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:16.760 in this world. Column today saying hey, Republicans, knock it 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.800 off with the Epstein stuff, dragging the Clinton's up. There 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:23.240 was a clown show pretending there's stuff. There is a 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:27.160 clown show. We're not doing ourselves any good here. Yeah, 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:28.680 and I agree with her, So I'll read a little 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:32.080 bit of that later. It's pretty interesting. Yeah, I'm at 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.200 the risk of repeating myself. If you want to seriously 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.119 investigate it, ask all the law enforcement people who didn't 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.840 file charges what was going on there? That's freaking Hillary 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.280 is not where you're gonna find answers. So ridiculous that later. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.119 And then the other thing is, Joe's been on this 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.199 story for a while. I was ignoring this James Tellerico 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.280 guy down in Texas. I knew there was an election 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.320 going on there. I don't pay attention to off Year 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.880 this and that Bellweather stuff. I never have. But this 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:02.200 guy who won is a cul complete nut. I made 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.720 a complete nut. He was able to get past the 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:09.119 George Washington of Texas. That's what I called Jasmine Crockett. 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:13.040 But yeah, this guy is a far left wack adoodle. 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:17.200 Oh and just it's so crazy. Yeah, I gotta talk 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:19.520 about him as well. So a couple of angles on 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:22.400 the Iran conflict that are not you know how many 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.399 missiles were fired or whatever, because you can get that 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:30.200 virtually everywhere. A great, great piece I came across by 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:35.600 Kevin Cullen, which is charmingly entitled If at first you 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:39.119 don't succeed, Die Die again. And it has to do 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:44.320 with the succession problem in Iran, among other things, and 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.480 he writes for decades analysts described to Israel's shadow war 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.840 with Iran as a campaign of delay, sabotage nuclear facilities, 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:55.720 intercept weaponshipments, remove key people. But obviously they've changed the plan. 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:59.080 The target isn't simply leaders or weapons anymore. It's the 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:05.440 regimes repaired continuity, meaning their ability to have a succession plan. 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:10.760 And I love this description. And then he goes into 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:13.200 how it usually works. If you knock out the head 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:17.280 of a terrorist organization, it's pretty quickly the next in 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:21.639 line steps up, The organization remains intact, the workflow, the 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:25.960 command structures is fine. But Israel realized that no, let's just, 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:27.520 you know, let's kill the second guy and the third 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:29.760 guy and the fourth guy and keep going. Now, the 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:34.080 same logic reaches tran ComIH Many is killed, the council 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.439 responsible for choosing a successor is struck while deliberating, the 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:41.200 system's reset mechanism becomes a vulnerability rather than a safeguard. 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:44.639 This is an attrition warfare. It is succession denial, and 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:51.040 I thought this was the really interesting description. Authoritarian systems 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:55.119 recover from shocks by quickly re establishing hierarchy. If that 0:20:55.200 --> 0:21:00.000 re establishment becomes dangerous, decision makers hesitate, Hesitation spreads uncertain 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:03.320 you throughout the entire structure. A regime can survive sanctions 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:04.879 and or air strikes, or even the death of a 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:07.640 supreme leader. What it struggles to survive is doubt about 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:10.560 who holds authority and who holds authority next. I'm sure 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:14.920 I can't imagine how they're even operating in Iran right now. 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:19.280 Who's deciding to fire what at who? Exactly? A little 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:23.159 more description so that that doubt ripples outward. Commanders delay 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:26.920 orders until legitimacy is confirmed. Is that guy really in charred? 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:32.160 Rival factions position themselves cautiously. Security services turn or inwards, 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:37.199 searching for infiltration. Decision cycles lengthened under pressure. Elongated decision 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.840 cycles become fragility. This strategy depends on intelligence rather than 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:43.920 brute force. In the days after the leadership strike accounts surface, 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:48.320 indicating that Israeli intelligence had achieved sustained visibility into parts 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:52.119 of Terrans, a surveillance ecosystem, tracking their leaders. They don't 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:55.439 know what to do next in any realm of what 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:57.600 they are doing, except maybe at the unit level of 0:21:57.640 --> 0:22:00.840 the military. That's got to be true. And even if 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:04.080 you got orders from somebody, you'd think, well, maybe they're 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:06.200 in charge. Maybe they're in charge for now, maybe they're 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:07.960 dead by the end of the day. I don't like 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:10.960 this order. I'm ignoring it. That's got to be happening sometimes. 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:14.040 Then this from a meet Siegel, the new Israeli rules 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:17.200 of engagement, proportionate responses are a thing of the past. 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:19.679 Now we understand we can't live with terrorists. He is 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:23.640 in Israeli and he talks about how on the night 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:28.440 of October sixth, twenty twenty three, the defense establishment realized 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:32.320 something was happening in Gaza, but failed to act because 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:35.760 there had been quiet in recent years, and nobody wanted 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:38.720 to be fingered for the guy who disrupted the quiet 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:44.320