Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Katty Armstrong and Jettie
Speaker 1: and He.
Speaker 2: Arm them from studio SNS, A dim light lit room
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Speaker 1: I tell you and say, today we're toiling. Under the
Speaker 1: title of the show.
Speaker 3: The shadow of Iran looms over, China talks or wait
Speaker 3: to say, the shadow of.
Speaker 1: China talks looms over.
Speaker 3: I can't remember it, there are shadows or if you
Speaker 3: prefer Is anybody outside the media thinking about the Hana virus?
Speaker 1: No kidding, Holy craps. Is that like driven by the
Speaker 1: viewer slash listeners? Or is it entirely just can't talking
Speaker 1: head driven? I do not know. I've never been more
Speaker 1: confused about a news story, with these sorts of legs
Speaker 1: day ten or whatever it is of it leading every
Speaker 1: newscast I see, and you're always saying, experts emphasize there
Speaker 1: is nothing to worry about. Yeah, that's what you've said
Speaker 1: for ten days. So what are we doing? Right? I mean,
Speaker 1: like if I gathered the kids in the living room
Speaker 1: every night and said, okay, God that everybody around to
Speaker 1: say it, there's nothing to worry about. Okay, then we'll
Speaker 1: just go back to what are you wit then late?
Speaker 1: You don't need to be afraid every night? Yeah, well, weird,
Speaker 1: a little weird, and we ought to jump on the
Speaker 1: headline that came just before we got on the air
Speaker 1: with inflation up. Look at these headlines from at least
Speaker 1: for the publications I got in front of me talking
Speaker 1: about inflation highest in three years, Washington Post, New York
Speaker 1: Times inflation shot up, Wall Street Journal, inflation sword, Financial
Speaker 1: Times inflation jumps. Those are all bad headlines about inflation. Whoops.
Speaker 1: You don't want it to be jumping, soaring, shooting up
Speaker 1: or reaching highest rate.
Speaker 3: I'm anti surging as well. Yes, that's bad too, as
Speaker 3: not a good wow boy.
Speaker 1: Three point eight percent nothing compared to the heights of
Speaker 1: COVID obviously, but and it's forty percent of it was
Speaker 1: the fact that energy prices are up because of the war,
Speaker 1: which is not surprising. But that will trickle out into
Speaker 1: the rest of the economy, they say in coming months.
Speaker 1: Since every thing gets transported on something that uses usually diesel,
Speaker 1: which I paid last night in my diesel truck. Seven
Speaker 1: sixty eight for a gallon per gallon of diesel. It's
Speaker 1: gonna hit eight dollars soon anyway, it says the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal, products from lipstick to golf balls will be
Speaker 1: more expensive. Oh man, it's an odd.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna start stealing them out of other guys bags
Speaker 3: or some lipstick lipstick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, from lipstick to golf balls. Wow. But yeah,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't everything go up because every every truck filling
Speaker 1: up hauling stuff around is having to put in that,
Speaker 1: especially in California, really expensive diesel. And anyway, little inflation
Speaker 1: added on to the stew of everything going on. That's fun.
Speaker 3: Well, back to the who's casting a shadow over what thing?
Speaker 3: Let's let's finish this up with their on. They're not
Speaker 3: negotiating any good faith.
Speaker 1: Whatever. The next thing is, do the next thing? Why
Speaker 1: is there a next thing? Let's do it? So Trump
Speaker 1: comes out yesterday you know what I mean, or I
Speaker 1: guess it was the night before, and I just I
Speaker 1: got their proposal. I rejected, you know, wholeheartedly. That too bad.
Speaker 1: It's not stupid, but it's stupid. It's not even worth
Speaker 1: talking about. Yesterday called it a piece plan. It's a
Speaker 1: piece of garbage. Well then the details come out. Good God,
Speaker 1: I mean that is some serious putting a thumb on
Speaker 1: somebody's eye. Yeah, here's our proposal. You pay for everything
Speaker 1: you broke, we get to continue to hang on to
Speaker 1: the straight up horror moves, and we're gonna keep trying
Speaker 1: to get a nuclear weapon, and we get Florida, the
Speaker 1: nice half. What do you think of that? I mean,
Speaker 1: that is like our joking proposal of selling a car,
Speaker 1: where one side comes in says, I'll give you a
Speaker 1: zero dollars. No, no, no, you're gonna take my car
Speaker 1: and give me money and I get your Entamesolete but
Speaker 1: your wife? Right? Wait, wait, are we seem to be
Speaker 1: really far apart on this deal? Negotiations are ongoing, so
Speaker 1: I don't know. Trump has done a lot of deals
Speaker 1: in his life. I would think he would realize when
Speaker 1: he's negotiating with somebody who's not the least bit serious.
Speaker 3: Right, right, is he assembling firepower consolidating support among the
Speaker 3: Gulf States?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I've given up guessing it's just dragging
Speaker 1: on and on and on.
Speaker 3: The fake ceasefire, although we've ceased firing has gone on
Speaker 3: now longer than the war part of it with nothing settled.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: I was watching Mark Kelly, who the Demorats have decided,
Speaker 3: bald headed former astronaut from Arizona. Don't you know they've
Speaker 3: decided he's the go to guy. He radiates masculinity and
Speaker 3: American thiss or something or other.
Speaker 1: He can't criticize him because his wife got shot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can a sorry about your wife. That was horrible.
Speaker 3: But he was on Morning Joe Today, which I uncharacteristically
Speaker 3: watched a couple of minutes of, and he came off
Speaker 3: as blatantly anti American success. It was just another reminder
Speaker 3: that if they tie Trump to America's success on any front,
Speaker 3: any front economically, militarily, just culturally, anything, then they hate
Speaker 3: that and want it to fail, even if it's the
Speaker 3: United States military, even if it's opening the strait. Just
Speaker 3: a partisanship has now killed patriotism, at least on the left,
Speaker 3: and let's not do that on the right.
Speaker 1: By the way, I would not that. So what do
Speaker 1: you think Iran is up to? If you respond to
Speaker 1: a proposal with yeah, how about you pay for everything
Speaker 1: that you broke reparations and we keep the straight which
Speaker 1: we didn't have before the war, so we come out
Speaker 1: of it better than we went into it. What do
Speaker 1: you think they're up to?
Speaker 3: You know, Iranians are notoriously brutal negotiators.
Speaker 1: They love it, they revel in it. They want to
Speaker 1: haggle about everything.
Speaker 3: Either they're just trying to peg the deal making way
Speaker 3: over here so that if they come over a little
Speaker 3: bit it seems like a lot. Or it's simply the hardliners,
Speaker 3: and this is probably a more likely explanation. It's the
Speaker 3: hardliners who think we can take this pain way longer
Speaker 3: than the electorate in the United States will, and they
Speaker 3: will turn on Trump, and Trump will head for the
Speaker 3: exit and we will be in fine shape and.
Speaker 1: Hold onto our power. Yeah, gonna wait it out. I'm
Speaker 1: with the analysts who believe that Iran things were in
Speaker 1: a worse situation than they are. Okay, you got up
Speaker 1: the pressure up, the ante, turn the screws. Well, if
Speaker 1: you leave things as they are, they may be right.
Speaker 1: We get closer to the midterm election, it's summer and gases.
Speaker 1: I don't know what y'all are paying for out there.
Speaker 1: I know my parents are horrified that it might hit
Speaker 1: four dollars where they live. In Kansas. But whatever you're
Speaker 1: paying for gas. I mean, Trump's approval ratings are in
Speaker 1: the twenties. You know, that sort of thing could easily
Speaker 1: happen if we just keep continue this stalemate, and Iran
Speaker 1: might be right that he decides this is not worth it,
Speaker 1: This is not doing any good. I think it was
Speaker 1: foolhardy back in the day. We will stop too soon.
Speaker 1: The only thing you can do to change that equation,
Speaker 1: like you said, is change the facts on the ground,
Speaker 1: start bombing the but Jesus out of them now it
Speaker 1: looks like things are worse for you than I Yeah,
Speaker 1: how do you like that? Weird beards? Yeah, bastards. Also,
Speaker 1: the news story that broke today that the UAE has
Speaker 1: been bombing Iran secretly, not bragging about it. Things have
Speaker 1: been getting bombed, nobody knew what it was. Turns out
Speaker 1: at the it's the UAE. But goad, dang it. What
Speaker 1: a what a terrible situation. Any who, with inflation where
Speaker 1: it is this inflation news that's gonna get a lot
Speaker 1: of people's attention. And then for the media, you're talking
Speaker 1: about that roots against America, They're gonna love the inflation story.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, they're gonna be all over it.
Speaker 3: You know, if you want to meet with Shijin Pang
Speaker 3: Donald Jay and then settle whatever you can settle. Great,
Speaker 3: But the minute Air Force one's tires leave the tarmac
Speaker 3: leave the runway, you deferitely don't take off from the tarmac.
Speaker 3: I guess as soon as they leave the runway, you
Speaker 3: gotta give the order. We've got to change the math
Speaker 3: here because it's it is a stalemate as it stands.
Speaker 3: It could be a non stalemate in about six hours
Speaker 3: if again we turn the screws.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is some. That's some response, though, I mean
Speaker 1: that is that is the most that's the least good
Speaker 1: faith bargaining I've ever heard of ever. Yeah, where did
Speaker 1: I read?
Speaker 3: I can't remember the precise wording of it, but it's
Speaker 3: stuck with me that the greatest sin, or the greatest mistake,
Speaker 3: is to hit softly. If you're going to hit somebody,
Speaker 3: hit them, don't hit softly. All you've done is invite aggressions.
Speaker 1: Here's what I'm offering you to buy your house, and
Speaker 1: then they come back with now you're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: give me this much for this house and the house
Speaker 1: I'm buying. Yes, you're buying both my houses. Right, and
Speaker 1: I get to sleep with your wife and it's always
Speaker 1: right and all these deals, just like with the car. Yes,
Speaker 1: I get to sleep with your wife. If I don't
Speaker 1: want to sleep with your wife, she's not really my type.
Speaker 1: You're sleeping with my wife? What if she doesn't want to?
Speaker 1: In my faith? We can't make our women do what
Speaker 1: we want in your faith. That's funny. Okay, we should
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Speaker 3: been San Diego. It doesn't matter because San Diego is
Speaker 3: falling apart too, which is tragic. But who said there's
Speaker 3: one junkie gal. I've seen naked more than I've seen
Speaker 3: my wife naked.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, nudity and public sex. Not to mention the
Speaker 3: pit bulls running wild and shooting up in the streets
Speaker 3: and utter disregard for the law.
Speaker 1: It's you know, you told the story yesterday. They wouldn't
Speaker 1: give you the syringe, just the syringe part at the pharmacy,
Speaker 1: to give your son medicine down the street to hand
Speaker 1: out needles to junkies. Somebody blanking explain that to me.
Speaker 1: That's Cali Unicorneo logic, right. I noticed pulling into the
Speaker 1: radio station today driving by the drug addicts. Let them
Speaker 1: get up early. You got to admire there, you know,
Speaker 1: willing to take on the day sums up by them up. Huh, yolo.
Speaker 1: You only live once since get up and get after it.
Speaker 3: I got to the radio ranch for time was at
Speaker 3: five o'clock in the morning, and uh, a young bicyclist
Speaker 3: pedaled right by me. It was an early early bike ride.
Speaker 3: I admire his commitment to exercises. He's oddly dressed for
Speaker 3: a you know, a road bicyclist, but teach their own
Speaker 3: I admire of effect that they Why do they get
Speaker 3: up so early?
Speaker 1: They're still up, They're still up there. They're meeting up early. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: they're they're going home to bed home, quote unquote tent. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we got more of the headlines that are going on here,
Speaker 1: and then we'll get into some of the story. Love
Speaker 1: the way John Stewart on The Daily Show last night
Speaker 1: handled the whole freaking haunted thing. He, like us, can't
Speaker 1: understand the coverage of this story, the never ending there's
Speaker 1: nothing there, nothing is happening. Well, then why are we
Speaker 1: talking about it?
Speaker 3: Very weird health the healthy people who are not at
Speaker 3: risk had been brought to Nebraska, whether they.
Speaker 1: Are in isolation because we keep reporting on it. Right. Uh,
Speaker 1: So we got a lot more of the way stay here.
Speaker 1: I just saw this inside the business headline CBS Snooze
Speaker 1: boss Barry Weiss blindsided sixty Minutes icon Leslie Stall giving
Speaker 1: that Net and Yahoo interviewed to Major Garrett, which was
Speaker 1: kind of surprising. I'd ever seen Major Garrett. I didn't
Speaker 1: even know he was part of sixty Minutes. He had
Speaker 1: the big lead story Sunday Night. I thought that was
Speaker 1: a good interview. Yeah, it was good. I thought he
Speaker 1: was fair, asked the right questions. I was surprised by
Speaker 1: the tone of it. And he's not one hundred and fifty. No,
Speaker 1: he might be sixty, but that's young by sixty minute standards.
Speaker 3: We have some clips of that we got to play
Speaker 3: later on the show. It was pretty interesting, pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: Here's my favorite headline and I'll let you run with it.
Speaker 1: California mayor charged with working for Chinese government. We gotta
Speaker 1: do that story. It's amazing We got a mayor in
Speaker 1: a California city. It was actually an employee of the
Speaker 1: Communist Party of China. Wow. Nice.
Speaker 3: So we touched on the fact that the President said
Speaker 3: the Hran ceasefire agreement is on life support with about
Speaker 3: a one percent chance to live. We'll play you that
Speaker 3: audio too.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: They're still covering the haunt of virus at the Free Press.
Speaker 3: We actually got a really good email from somebody saying,
Speaker 3: you know this strain, She said, I'm not worried about it.
Speaker 1: We'll read some of it later. This strain is not
Speaker 1: good because a lot of people were exposed to it.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: Clearly it's not COVID like, but it's a story worth covering,
Speaker 3: not for like a day.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, oh, let's.
Speaker 3: See a weeks ago, the shooter at the correspondence dinner
Speaker 3: just pleaded not guilty in federal court.
Speaker 1: Good luck with that, chum. Let's see you got Oh.
Speaker 3: President Trump endorsed the temporary suspension of the federal gas
Speaker 3: tax in an interview Monday.
Speaker 1: That'd be you're probably wondering, like I did, how much
Speaker 1: that is? So I chet GPT did. It's about eighteen
Speaker 1: cents a gallon for your regular gas and something like
Speaker 1: twenty two to twenty three cents a gallon for your diesel.
Speaker 1: How much you had noticed that? I don't know, because
Speaker 1: by next week, whatever you're buying is probably going to
Speaker 1: be eighteen to twenty three sense more expensive. Did you
Speaker 1: know that that brings in two billion dollars a month
Speaker 1: to the federal government. That tax? That's away money. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so what that would be, uh dollars sixty sould be
Speaker 1: sixteen dollars for a twenty dollars tank, Is that right?
Speaker 3: No, it's eighteen cents per gallon. Right, So you do
Speaker 3: the math. You're good at math.
Speaker 1: Well, it save you a little money anyway, okay, forty
Speaker 1: I bought a cup of coffee.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, a nice cup of coffee, would like simocha
Speaker 3: in it.
Speaker 1: Virginia Democrats filed an emergency appeal with the US Supreme
Speaker 1: Court asking it to halt the Virginia Supreme Court ruling.
Speaker 3: This struck down their redistricting measure. It's amazing the rhetoric
Speaker 3: that's flying around over this. And god, you know, Trump
Speaker 3: does play fast and loose with some of the institutions
Speaker 3: of the country in the way I don't like.
Speaker 1: But the Democrats are systematically tearing down respect for all
Speaker 1: of the important institutions in the country, including the Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: over and over again. What they're saying about the Virginia
Speaker 1: Supreme Court ruling is utterly, utterly dishonest, saying the out
Speaker 1: of control court go ahead, sorry, enjoying my delicious coffee,
Speaker 1: You're not gonna have money for it soon. Unless they
Speaker 1: cut the gas tacks. But they're saying the Supreme Court's
Speaker 1: out of control and it's a Republican court and they
Speaker 1: didn't want us to be able to they fixed the election.
Speaker 1: Supreme Court just said no, if there's a procedure for
Speaker 1: mending the constitution, you guys didn't follow it. You got
Speaker 1: to do it right, that's it. Yeah, they have their
Speaker 1: own constitution with their own rules, just like every other state. Uh.
Speaker 1: I like that. The coverage has now switched to the
Speaker 1: national coverages now switched to jerrymanderings, out of control. We
Speaker 1: need to put an end to it. You were fine
Speaker 1: with it up until last week when the Democrats it
Speaker 1: looked like they were going to get the upper hand
Speaker 1: and all the jerry mandering. Then when it switch to
Speaker 1: the Republicans are going to come out like ten seats ahead.
Speaker 1: It looks like currently and the whole jerrymandering wars. Now
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, jerry mandering is bad again. And
Speaker 1: everybody he's so transparent. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Speaking of which, here's one of those headlines you love.
Speaker 3: Supreme Court overturns dismissal of Alabama redistricting map.
Speaker 1: So which one don't know? I don't know either negates
Speaker 1: the rejection of the stay which was overturned. Yes, we
Speaker 1: got more on the way and we'll try to explain
Speaker 1: it to you to stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5: The war with Iran, of course, looms large over this meeting,
Speaker 5: but trade is arguably the top issue on the agenda.
Speaker 5: A lot has changed since the last time Presidents Trump
Speaker 5: and She met face to face in October in South Korea,
Speaker 5: but the big issues are largely the same, Trade and technology,
Speaker 5: Taiwan and the fentanyl crisis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and everybody says that Iran is going to play
Speaker 1: a big role, which is unfortunate because I was looking
Speaker 1: forward to what Trump and She would come up with
Speaker 1: about ai with the discussion. Be like, but I think
Speaker 1: Iran is going to be front and center.
Speaker 3: Where do you think the pressure is going to come
Speaker 3: from the Iran conflict? Is China going to be Does
Speaker 3: China see it as an advantage? We can really press
Speaker 3: Trump because he's on the ropes with Iran. I don't
Speaker 3: know that's Trump thinking they're desperate for the oil. Pundits
Speaker 3: on both sides of that, that she is liking US
Speaker 3: wearing down our military stockpile and being distracted. On the
Speaker 3: other hand, they get like all their energy is imported
Speaker 3: and eighty percent of it or something like that comes
Speaker 3: from the straight Oh horror moves.
Speaker 1: So right right? Yeah, interesting, huh go on.
Speaker 5: Michael White House official says more than a dozen business leaders,
Speaker 5: including several tech executives, will join President Trump in Beijing
Speaker 5: Thursday and Friday when he meets with President she The
Speaker 5: list includes Tesla's CEO Elon Musk, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg,
Speaker 5: and outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook. Black Rock CEO Larry
Speaker 5: Fink is also set to attend well, along with the
Speaker 5: chief ex executives of Goldman, Sacks, MasterCard, Visa, and several others,
Speaker 5: putting a major emphasis on landing a new trade deal
Speaker 5: with China.
Speaker 3: It's really quite the gallery of CEOs that are going
Speaker 3: over with Trump. I kind of like it as a flex.
Speaker 3: I wonder what those meetings are like.
Speaker 1: Do they actually, like, get anything accomplished in those meetings
Speaker 1: or is everything accomplished behind the scenes. Because he got
Speaker 1: two old men who don't speak each other's language, listening
Speaker 1: to interpreters all day long, I just can't imagine much happening.
Speaker 3: Well, she's the decision maker, and Trump is to a
Speaker 3: large extent. Although the problem with she is how many
Speaker 3: times is he committed to buy a zillion American soybeans
Speaker 3: or whatnot?
Speaker 1: He just doesn't. Yeah, I don't know. We'll have to
Speaker 1: see stop sending his ventanyl, stop stealing all our technology,
Speaker 1: stop hacking into our businesses, stop sending spies.
Speaker 3: Of course, that you know, we are at such a
Speaker 3: disadvantage as an open society versus not only a closed
Speaker 3: dish society, but an omnipresent, all powerful surveillance state.
Speaker 1: It's a tough tough fight for us to mention the
Speaker 1: now former mayor of Arcadia, which is a suburb of
Speaker 1: la who turned out to be working for the Chinese
Speaker 1: Communist Party. She resigned yesterday, but she's been on the
Speaker 1: city council and involved in everything in a suburb of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles for years. Yeah, reporting directly back to President
Speaker 1: She and spreading propaganda best she could about how there's
Speaker 1: not actually slaves and the Wigers aren't being abused in
Speaker 1: all this different sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, trying to whip up Chinese Americans to hate
Speaker 3: America and remember the motherland. Yeah, And the point was made,
Speaker 3: and it was a great one. I was reminded of
Speaker 3: this last night that there have been stories about like
Speaker 3: small town or smallish town governors who seem to be
Speaker 3: up in comers.
Speaker 1: Like they're being talked about for maybe Congress. Someday. The
Speaker 1: Chinese will target you at that point in your career,
Speaker 1: like Eric Swallwell when Feng Feng was doing the bing
Speaker 1: bong with him.
Speaker 3: He was not a powerful man at all, but he
Speaker 3: was an up and comer. So that there America is
Speaker 3: lousy with Chinese spies.
Speaker 1: I bet they get the word fast too. If it's
Speaker 1: a guy that has a reputation for you can send
Speaker 1: it an attractive woman at him and right throw him
Speaker 1: off his game pretty easily, right.
Speaker 3: I told this story the other day to somebody about
Speaker 3: my first job out of college. It was in the
Speaker 3: convention and visitors industry, and the first trip I made
Speaker 3: with my boss. He said, Look, they may like send
Speaker 3: food or booze or whatever, or even like a girl
Speaker 3: up to your room. He said, don't start down that road,
Speaker 3: because it will happen. Really yeah, because they they even
Speaker 3: at your level. Oh, I know, it was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It didn't. It didn't happen. By the way, honey, you
Speaker 1: absolutely did not get you on the hook for later
Speaker 1: in case she became more important, because yeah, I think so, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and ah, not for black mail either. But he warned
Speaker 1: that once you start down that road, you find yourself
Speaker 1: in some interesting positions ethically speaking, that are pretty behind
Speaker 1: your head. You mean, like that kind of interesting potion.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, indeed impossible and unpalatable, but that you know,
Speaker 3: they would have you in a position he didn't want
Speaker 3: to be in the whole point being if they could
Speaker 3: get you know, the plumbers union or the you know,
Speaker 3: association of what's it's to come to Birmingham, Alabama instead
Speaker 3: of Milwaukee or whatever, that made them tons and tons
Speaker 3: of money. So yeah, they would they would be very
Speaker 3: generous with their gifts. Anyway, what was that was speaking of?
Speaker 3: You mentioned Milwaukee? You see that guy I think he
Speaker 3: owns the Milwaukee Bucks, that billionaire.
Speaker 1: That Chinese woman. There's no mention of her being tied
Speaker 1: to China, but she was all right. She contacted him
Speaker 1: through social media just like direct message him, hey how
Speaker 1: would you like to go out? And had sex with
Speaker 1: them right away, then hits him with a yi, videotaped
Speaker 1: all that and I'm going to tell all your coworkers
Speaker 1: and your wife, and I want half of your fortune.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, thanks for reminding me why I brought that up.
Speaker 3: The whole swallow el Fang fang Chinese spice thing. And
Speaker 3: what they do, whether you're a Chinese national or an American,
Speaker 3: is they get you in a slightly compromised position. Then
Speaker 3: they inch you over the line of illegality or you know,
Speaker 3: something seriously unethical or immoral or something like that, by
Speaker 3: using the leverage of the last thing you did. So
Speaker 3: it's like nudging blackmail to the point where they sink
Speaker 3: the hook in you.
Speaker 1: Now you can't come clean. When I was in Russia,
Speaker 1: a woman approached me that was clearly a woman of
Speaker 1: the night in my fancy hotel, like in the hotel.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if that was a you know,
Speaker 1: it might just an American businessman, you know, by himself
Speaker 1: in a hotel. Seems like a good place for your hooker, right,
Speaker 1: but lonely guy with hard currency, yeah heck yeah, But
Speaker 1: certainly could have been some sort of we don't know
Speaker 1: who he is, but might as well get him compromised.
Speaker 1: That's the last thing I would do. It a millionaires.
Speaker 1: Good Lord, who knows what's gonna happen with some random
Speaker 1: Russian woman in your room? Jesus, Oh yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to picture yourself dismembered and see if your arousal
Speaker 3: doesn't subside. Oh, my shallow grave out in the woods
Speaker 3: of kirkutzkirt whatever I'm not speaking of, which, my God,
Speaker 3: remind me to tell you about the Russian soldier who
Speaker 3: was just captured by the Ukrainians. Talking about how just
Speaker 3: horrible their situation is. Oh, man, Putin is on the
Speaker 3: ropes to come.
Speaker 1: I saw some story today about some one armed guy
Speaker 1: that they had sent in a battle with two plates
Speaker 1: in his head.
Speaker 3: He got blowed up completely, and the minute he could
Speaker 3: get back on his feet, they sent him to lead
Speaker 3: a try to you know, gain another fifteen yards aground.
Speaker 1: Wow, that would suck the oh please, Yeah, some more
Speaker 1: on that war a little bit later. Anyway. So is
Speaker 1: Trump in China right now?
Speaker 3: He lifted off I believe Tuesday morning as we speak. Yes, Yeah,
Speaker 3: go see Winnie the Pooh trying to get a pot
Speaker 3: of trade. Honey, Eh, it wasn't worth it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But that metaphor, I am I don't know what
Speaker 1: sort of well, like you, Like you said, I don't
Speaker 1: understand what these deals with China are because they similar
Speaker 1: to dealing with a ram. They lie all the time.
Speaker 1: So you understand what having a bit handshake, we agree
Speaker 1: to only use AI for good like okay, So that
Speaker 1: one's extra stupid for sure. The trade stuff, you can
Speaker 1: make it a little better for a while. You can
Speaker 1: get them to agree to something. They'll follow through. See
Speaker 1: you follow through for a while.
Speaker 3: It's you know, it's a situation that can't be saved
Speaker 3: or you know fixed, it can just be managed.
Speaker 1: Did you see any of the most sanctimonious thing on
Speaker 1: all of television last night? Well, where all five of
Speaker 1: the late night hosts joined Stephen Colbert for his final
Speaker 1: week of broadcasting. Alma There, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Seth Myers,
Speaker 1: and a missing one. Anyway, the mainstream media is really
Speaker 1: loving that gathering and everything like that and positioning at all.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of commentary on this last night
Speaker 1: among them just positioning at all is like them versus Trump.
Speaker 1: And NPR had the coverage about the Colbert Show going
Speaker 1: away and it being Trump the federal government cracking down him,
Speaker 1: and I didn't like that. I don't like the government
Speaker 1: going after talk show hosts for what they say as
Speaker 1: a talk shows, Jews shows or anything else now, but
Speaker 1: no mention of the fact that those shows no longer
Speaker 1: are viable. They don't make any sense financially. No, there's
Speaker 1: no reason they should. No, there's no reason if you
Speaker 1: started today, you wouldn't say, let's have a show with
Speaker 1: like five hundred employees that cost US gazillions of dollars
Speaker 1: to make every night that hardly anybody watches. Those people
Speaker 1: need to watch something late at night and there's nothing
Speaker 1: else on right, Yeah, so you wouldn't create it from
Speaker 1: scratch today if you're starting over, and no mention of
Speaker 1: that on it. And I remember when all this blew
Speaker 1: up originally, I went back and looked up the numbers.
Speaker 1: Johnny Carson way back in the day, he was like
Speaker 1: a quarter of NBC's revenue or something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like just a huge, huge deal, whereas Colbert is a
Speaker 1: lose his money for the network. Why would they continue?
Speaker 1: But anyway, all the hosts got together to solidarity to
Speaker 1: stand up resistance against you know, the government's cracking down
Speaker 1: on late night talk shows. No time is cracking down
Speaker 1: on late night talk shows. That's that's what really is
Speaker 1: as sure technology and you know, other options, other things
Speaker 1: to watch. Yeah, they made the argument that across all
Speaker 1: five shows, if you include online videos, they're more impactful
Speaker 1: than Johnny Carson was at the time. But I don't
Speaker 1: even know if I believe that it's impossible to measure
Speaker 1: the impact of people clicking on YouTube videos right right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know much that means raved again, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: So we will get into speaking of late night talk shows,
Speaker 1: The Daily Show making fun of the news coverage around
Speaker 1: the hauntavirus, which I couldn't agree with, John Stewart more
Speaker 1: on that, and a bunch of other news of the
Speaker 1: day stick around Armstrong didn't realize this. Trump had fifty
Speaker 1: five posts and three hours last night, holy a wide
Speaker 1: range of topics. Fifty five really all over. I mean
Speaker 1: like he was all worked up about things Obama did
Speaker 1: and Biden did, and Hillary did, and some tiktoks he'd seen,
Speaker 1: and wow, how does he have time for that? He
Speaker 1: gets all geeked up, like like an athlete before a game.
Speaker 1: I think in coke head. He's definitely not that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he doesn't even drink coffee, but you know he's going
Speaker 1: to meet with she, and he's probably ramping himself up
Speaker 1: for this whole thing, and he's just ah, so he
Speaker 1: boasts all these different things.
Speaker 3: Speaking of which, I was tubing last night, as they
Speaker 3: used to say back in the eighties, and I came
Speaker 3: across a fantastic documentary about Bobby Keys, perhaps the greatest
Speaker 3: rock and roll sax player of all time.
Speaker 1: In fact, i'd say he is. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I've ever heard that name. Who do you play with?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: My god, everybody, everybody, the Rolling Stones, every great uh
Speaker 3: you know, Brown Sugar, Gosh, He's played on a million
Speaker 3: hit records.
Speaker 1: He's the greatest rock and roll sax player of all time.
Speaker 3: He's also a legendary partier, lifelong great friend of Keith Richards.
Speaker 3: Don't watch I'm normally very responsible about my weekday inbibing.
Speaker 3: Don't watch a documentary about one of the great part
Speaker 3: of yours in rock and roll history while you're trying
Speaker 3: to have one drink.
Speaker 1: It just it doesn't work. That's funny.
Speaker 3: It does not work. Oh man, I'll come up with
Speaker 3: list of songs for it. Anyway, here, what were you enjoying? Oh,
Speaker 3: Scotch on a Monday night. Scotch on a Monday night.
Speaker 3: There you go, Yeah, Glenn moooring g fourteen year in particular,
Speaker 3: freedom loving quote of the day, Michael. Here it is
Speaker 3: passed along by Greg in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Never had the
Speaker 3: pleasure of being in Brookhaven, dreg Maybe someday. This is
Speaker 3: a quote Jack from Zeno of Citium.
Speaker 1: You don't hear Zeno of Citium quoted enough? I don't
Speaker 1: know him or than saxophone player.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I don't know if Bobby Keyes has
Speaker 3: ever been out bet he has been a Brookave in Mississippi.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 3: Nothing is more hostile to a firm grasp of knowledge
Speaker 3: than self deception.
Speaker 1: And that whole orwell quote about the hardest thing to
Speaker 1: do is see you know, your hand right in front
Speaker 1: of your face.
Speaker 3: When a person starts being things about themselves of the
Speaker 3: world without checking whether they are true, they've slowly moved
Speaker 3: away from real knowledge. This is what he means by
Speaker 3: self deception does not always come from lying in a
Speaker 3: direct way. Often it happens quietly when someone convinces themselves
Speaker 3: that their version of events is correct, even when evidence
Speaker 3: suggests otherwise.
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's a tough one. That is a tough one.
Speaker 1: Oh mail bag all day?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah drops note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 3: dot com. Funny note here from Anna Louisa Luddite in
Speaker 3: Sunny Lamesa My favorite recent chatbot answer. Recently I asked
Speaker 3: my free chatbot for the distance from San Diego to London.
Speaker 3: The first two times it gave me the standard miles
Speaker 3: estimated flight time with this note driving is not recommended?
Speaker 3: Is it requires crossing the Atlantic Ocean? What not recommended?
Speaker 3: About ten minutes later, I asked, did the third time
Speaker 3: it changed its mind? Now the note read driving is impossible?
Speaker 3: And she says, why did it change its mind? Right,
Speaker 3: that's an interest I don't know.
Speaker 1: And then this from a Paolo who frequently writes about
Speaker 1: AI matters and how the bots actually work, to illustrate
Speaker 1: how little chatbots actually quote unquote know and why we
Speaker 1: shouldn't be surprised when they say something stupid. Imagine you
Speaker 1: train the neural network, the technology behind modern AI systems,
Speaker 1: on the world's easiest task. You give it one number,
Speaker 1: and you want it to give you back the exact
Speaker 1: same number.
Speaker 3: If you feed at five, it should answer five. Feed
Speaker 3: at twenty seven, it should answer twenty seven. A human
Speaker 3: understands the rule almost instantly, Yeah, just repeat the number.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 3: A neural network does not discover that rule in the
Speaker 3: human sense. It does not suddenly realize, oh, I'm supposed
Speaker 3: to leave the number unchanged. Instead, it slowly adjusts millions
Speaker 3: or billions of tiny internal settings until its answers start
Speaker 3: looking close to the example it is seen. So if
Speaker 3: you give it, say, two fifty seven, it may respond
Speaker 3: two fifty seven point one, despite the fact you've shown
Speaker 3: it millions of examples where the correct answer was exactly
Speaker 3: the same as the input. That kind of network can
Speaker 3: get extremely close to copying the number of correctly, but
Speaker 3: no amount of training will make it perfect for every
Speaker 3: possible number.
Speaker 1: That's mind blowing. So our One More Thing podcast we
Speaker 1: did yesterday we got into all the rules that exist
Speaker 1: with the different chatbots. Yeah, and some of the interesting
Speaker 1: Some of the chatbots have just a few rules, and
Speaker 1: some of them have lots of rules about what they
Speaker 1: will say or how they're supposed to approach it, including
Speaker 1: which one was it that had no do not bring
Speaker 1: up raccoons. Was I think that's chat GPT or gremlins
Speaker 1: or gnomes unless you're specifically asked, don't talk about raccoons.
Speaker 1: What very very odd, very funny.
Speaker 3: The Armstrong You Getting One More Thing podcast from Monday,
Speaker 3: May the eleventh. Oh, speaking of which, I've got a
Speaker 3: big AI story coming out coming up. Groc is in trouble.
Speaker 3: The story posits that Chat, GPT is Coke, Claude is PEPSI,
Speaker 3: and Groc is our c cola. Really, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 3: hurting anyway.
Speaker 1: Apollo goes on to understand that these systems do not
Speaker 1: understand saneness. It does not possess the abstract concept leave
Speaker 1: the number unchanged. It simply behaves as though it understands
Speaker 1: those things so convincingly that its behavior is indistinguishable from
Speaker 1: behavior that demonstrates real understanding. Uh interesting, Okay, moving along.
Speaker 1: Your rating of the of those companies is that they're
Speaker 1: a I. I only know about the chatbots. I don't
Speaker 1: use AI for anything but the chatbots, right, So, I
Speaker 1: don't know how good anybody any of those companies are
Speaker 1: at the really complicated stuff that is what actually AI is, right, right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: The agents and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got this note from Julie, who says, let
Speaker 3: me be clear, I'm not in any kind of panic
Speaker 3: over the hauntavirus. This hooper, this super hard to spread
Speaker 3: virus infected at least eleven of the one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty people aboard the ship, the three you die, the
Speaker 3: ship's doctor's ship's guide, a Spanish passenger, patient, and critical care,
Speaker 3: and ANSWER's condition is rapidly deteriorating someone in Nebraska, et cetera, etc.
Speaker 3: And she says, the fact that this and the strain
Speaker 3: can be spread person to person, which is very very
Speaker 3: rare and seem to be just from people in the
Speaker 3: same room, not intimate contact, and the fact that it
Speaker 3: has a long incubation period. Reports seem to have settled
Speaker 3: on forty two days. She says, Yeah, it's worth a
Speaker 3: little concern at least.
Speaker 1: All right, if you say so, Enjoy the endless coverage
Speaker 1: every single day for weeks and weeks and weeks. Your
Speaker 1: lack of care is going to get you the rat virus.
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