Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Catty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong, and Jettie and He Armstrong and Gutty Strong and
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Speaker 3: I went to Godzilla minus one over the weekend. Had
Speaker 3: y'all heard of that, Katie, Joe Michael, anybody have you
Speaker 3: ever even heard of that?
Speaker 2: I never heard of it. I missed that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not getting the publicity that normally a blockbuster
Speaker 3: movie like a Godzilla or King Kong would get because
Speaker 3: it's not that kind of a movie at all. I
Speaker 3: just heard that there actually is. Our friend Tim Sanderfer,
Speaker 3: who is a man of letters twenty twenty six of
Speaker 3: them had impressive had tweeted out that this is the
Speaker 3: this is finally a great monster movie, Godzilla mines one.
Speaker 3: I thought, oh, okay, cool, And I was still just
Speaker 3: picturing like a regular like we've seen all the god
Speaker 3: Zilla movies, the modern ones, all the King Kong movies.
Speaker 3: We've seen Godzilla versus King Kong. We've seen Megaladon one
Speaker 3: and two, which are the stupidest movies ever made. They're
Speaker 3: they're they're they're basically Sharknato with a giant shark. More
Speaker 3: expensive cast, yeah, more expensive actors, but that's I was
Speaker 3: kind of picturing that, but like maybe better, but no,
Speaker 3: it's not at all. Godzilla Minus one is a Japanese
Speaker 3: movie subtitles black and white, and it's a hardcore art film.
Speaker 3: It's like the sort of thing they would make you
Speaker 3: watch in a college class and then you'd have to
Speaker 3: write a paper about it. It's way closer to that
Speaker 3: than a than a blockbuster movie, and so you don't
Speaker 3: hear as much about it. And uh, it was huge
Speaker 3: in Japan. It's doing pretty well in the United States.
Speaker 3: It has had some Oscar nominations. I don't know how
Speaker 3: to explain Minus one. I guess it's a translation thing.
Speaker 3: It means Japan was so far beaten down at the
Speaker 3: end of World War Two that they were like below
Speaker 3: world something.
Speaker 2: That's what the minus one means.
Speaker 3: And this movie is featured at the very end of
Speaker 3: World War two and the aftermath, when we had just
Speaker 3: reduced it to rubble, even before we dropped to the
Speaker 3: atomic bombs. It was rubble and it's featured in Tokyo mostly,
Speaker 3: and they're just people living like cavemen, the people that
Speaker 3: are still alive, scrounging for food, trying to push some
Speaker 3: boards and rocks together to have something to keep you
Speaker 3: out of the rain. You know, you're by yourself because
Speaker 3: your whole family's dead, and you team up with some
Speaker 3: old lady who the rest of her family's dead and
Speaker 3: you try to make a go of it.
Speaker 2: Is this a comedy.
Speaker 3: It's a comedy sort of in line with like sort
Speaker 3: of The Three Stooges meets Jim Carrey.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it is not a comedy obviously, and starring
Speaker 3: Will Ferrell exactly a lot of Will Ferrell makes a
Speaker 3: comic cameo. Jack Black plays a prominent role.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 3: Now, it's a very heavy movie and uh long, parts
Speaker 3: of it are silent. There's not a sound, no music,
Speaker 3: nobody talking, no nothing, and it's so quiet in the theater.
Speaker 2: It's just like weird.
Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever been to a movie that
Speaker 3: got silent for that long before.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, that's that's interesting.
Speaker 3: And I'm not going to try to describe it because
Speaker 3: I couldn't, but just making the point that by the
Speaker 3: climactic scene, where like with all Godzilla King Kong movies,
Speaker 3: you know it's time to finally, like really confront the
Speaker 3: monster with your best plan to bring him down and
Speaker 3: save humanity. You know that is featured in all of
Speaker 3: those Megalodon or Jaws or whatever. When it gets to
Speaker 3: that final scene, you feel way more like you're watching
Speaker 3: Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers or something.
Speaker 2: Then you do a monster movie.
Speaker 3: I mean, like the director managed to make it like
Speaker 3: you don't even think about it being Godzilla in a
Speaker 3: giant radioactive creature that can stomp on people in crushed
Speaker 3: buildings somehow, like that doesn't even matter anymore. It's all
Speaker 3: about humanity in wartime and sticking together and overcoming adversity
Speaker 3: and just you know, it's just it's hard to explain.
Speaker 3: I thought it was phenomenal, and no longer anything seems.
Speaker 3: It doesn't even seem weird that you're like tugging at
Speaker 3: my heartstrings in a Godzilla movie.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, wow, that's such an interesting like
Speaker 2: union of being invested in characters and how that yeah
Speaker 2: affect that's your willingness to suspend disbelief, right, Yeah, yes,
Speaker 2: that is exactly it. I think that was like the
Speaker 2: Harry Potter formula, although that's obviously fantasy and everybody knows
Speaker 2: it well.
Speaker 3: And if this was as gritty, realistic as any movie
Speaker 3: I've ever seen, and it featured a giant monster that
Speaker 3: can crush buildings under its feet, which doesn't seem like
Speaker 3: it'd be possible in terms of the theater going experience.
Speaker 3: And there's hardly anybody at this Saturday night seven o'clock.
Speaker 3: I think there were a total of ten people in there. Wow,
Speaker 3: because nobody's heard of it, and that's an art film.
Speaker 3: And my youngest kid didn't like it much. He didn't
Speaker 3: like the reading. There's a lot of reading really fast
Speaker 3: and his reading is not quite up to and a
Speaker 3: lot of really hard words, so he just couldn't quite
Speaker 3: keep up with it. But my eighth grader loved it,
Speaker 3: thought it was really really good.
Speaker 2: It was. It was a powerful movie. But the whole
Speaker 2: movie going experience.
Speaker 3: In the modern world, everybody's got such a great TV
Speaker 3: with a cool sound system.
Speaker 2: You got that whole thing.
Speaker 3: Although I've noticed this before, I have walked out of
Speaker 3: many movie theaters in my life like rattled in some way,
Speaker 3: either like you know, down emotionally or inspired emotionally or
Speaker 3: fired up emotionally or something like that. And I don't
Speaker 3: know if that ever happens when I watch on TV.
Speaker 3: I think it probably does.
Speaker 2: I think being at home you get back to your
Speaker 2: set point a lot more quick. I think that's it.
Speaker 4: Well, and you have control to turn it off and
Speaker 4: change it. But I always feel like leaving.
Speaker 3: I always feel like a walk out of movie theaters
Speaker 3: and everybody's quiet because they're just like so affected by
Speaker 3: what you saw in.
Speaker 2: One way or another. And I never feel that way
Speaker 2: at home. H Really, I don't think anyway. Maybe there's
Speaker 2: a I think there's something about and I think I
Speaker 2: was right the first time. When you leave a movie,
Speaker 2: other than like zipping up your jacket, it all you're
Speaker 2: doing is walking to your putting on.
Speaker 3: My shoes, putting on my shoes, because I take off
Speaker 3: my shoes and socks put them.
Speaker 2: On the scene in front of me that guy, No,
Speaker 2: I do not. But that's funny. So even if you're
Speaker 2: checking your phone or whatever, you have three to five
Speaker 2: minutes where you're doing nothing but thinking about what you've
Speaker 2: just said. Maybe that's it. Whereas you know, you turn
Speaker 2: off the TV at home and then you would go
Speaker 2: do something, get the kids to bed or whatever.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, but the dude did when your kids
Speaker 3: were younger, did you buy them treats.
Speaker 2: To go to the movie occasionally? See, I grew up.
Speaker 3: In a family where we never did. It wasn't even
Speaker 3: a consideration. It's like, we're we're not getting that stuff
Speaker 3: because it's too expensive. That's fine, ye already eight, I'm
Speaker 3: not thirsty. If I'm thirsty, I'll go get a drink
Speaker 3: of water at the drinking vun.
Speaker 2: I knew a family that would hide the treats and
Speaker 2: moms purse. But yeah, you know, I used to bring
Speaker 2: out we'd we'd smuggle in uh popcorn in our pockets. Sometimes.
Speaker 3: I used to bring beer to the movies all the time.
Speaker 3: You gotta wait for a loud part. You gotta wait
Speaker 3: for god'silla to scream before you open your beer. If
Speaker 3: you open your beer during the silence, is the baby
Speaker 3: gonna die or not seen?
Speaker 4: Your girl has mastered opening a bottle of champagne in
Speaker 4: a movie.
Speaker 2: Nice style points.
Speaker 3: I remember one time when I kicked over my empty
Speaker 3: bottle of beer. And it rolled all the way down
Speaker 3: click click click, oh yeah.
Speaker 4: And then what you do is you start looking around,
Speaker 4: like what is that?
Speaker 2: What You're just gonna use? Who is doing this?
Speaker 3: Somebody brought in some unauthorized food or drink and I'll.
Speaker 2: Take away if somebody would do that, and I'll see it.
Speaker 3: I think we should pause the movie and go through
Speaker 3: everybody's pockets until we can find out who this mistery
Speaker 3: into is. But I think I am gonna tell my kids,
Speaker 3: mostly for the noise reason, partly for the money reason. No,
Speaker 3: we're not doing this next time. Let's eat before we go.
Speaker 3: We can even stop and get a treat, but we're
Speaker 3: not gonna buy stuff at the theater.
Speaker 2: One. I don't want to listen to you eating and drinking.
Speaker 2: Oh right.
Speaker 3: If I took the drink away from one of my kids,
Speaker 3: like done enough, because he kept doing the at the bottom,
Speaker 3: you know, trying to get the last two SIPs through
Speaker 3: the ice thing, like yeah, you quit.
Speaker 2: I took it out of his hand and put it
Speaker 2: in my cuple you.
Speaker 4: Blessed every other person with the same sound issue in
Speaker 4: that in that theater.
Speaker 3: That right, So, but between the noise the cost, we
Speaker 3: spent fifty bucks at the concession stand.
Speaker 2: Jeez, that's nuts. And with the modern inflation. Yeah, two kids.
Speaker 2: I got smolves, but I got in the largest.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I had to get a loan.
Speaker 3: I had to apply for a loan, and somebody who
Speaker 3: had had to be there to fill up my paperwork
Speaker 3: and look at my credit score.
Speaker 2: So if this movie is successful, they've got to, you know,
Speaker 2: continue the theme. And I, you know, on the radio show,
Speaker 2: I just throughout the idea King Kong it anteat them then.
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe sas Squatch and a house fire
Speaker 2: where a family loses their house and he takes them
Speaker 2: in or eats them.
Speaker 3: I don't know Frankenstein's list, if Frankenstein had done Shindler's list.
Speaker 2: There you go. Now you're thinking, yeah, I'd watch it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I told people, and I got a dad. I said,
Speaker 3: it's way closer to Dos Boot than it is to
Speaker 3: King Kong.
Speaker 2: Right. Count Dracula is a gifted cancer doctor, but he
Speaker 2: has a blood addiction. Right, But he's noble, but he
Speaker 2: just can't. He's a junkie. Yeah, exactly, something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that'd be a hit.
Speaker 3: The Mummy in Philadelphia. So you got the dying Aids
Speaker 3: guy and the mummy. Yeah they're hanging out together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, plot twist solving crimes or something. They're actually lovers.
Speaker 2: Who's solft crimes? My wife and I tried to sneak
Speaker 2: Fahitas into the theater at one time. Was really hot
Speaker 2: and I forgot the hot paths, which really really Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was sizzling and everything. Yeah, they smelled so good though.
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Speaker 3: The tease was too many pansy ass kids. This is
Speaker 3: referring to this particular mom who went on the screed
Speaker 3: in her kitchen with a glass of wine in her hand.
Speaker 5: I got a call from my kid's assistant principal today
Speaker 5: because he and his other friend were playing soccer with
Speaker 5: this other kid at recess. The other kid happened to
Speaker 5: want to be the goalie and apparently he sucked, and
Speaker 5: so he got really upset because the other boys kept
Speaker 5: scoring goals on him.
Speaker 2: And there was no teasing involved. I verified, it.
Speaker 5: Was just he was so upset that the kids kept
Speaker 5: scoring goals that he went to the teacher and cried
Speaker 5: about it, and my kid and the other kid got
Speaker 5: brought to the principal's office. Do not call me because
Speaker 5: some soft ass kids feelings got hurt because some kid
Speaker 5: is better than him at sports. Stop coddling your kids,
Speaker 5: especially your sons, because let me tell you right now,
Speaker 5: what no woman wants someday is to have to coddle
Speaker 5: their husband. Stop raising pansy ass kids. Teach your kids
Speaker 5: how to be confident in themselves and how to emotionally
Speaker 5: freaking figure their out, and stop with the bs.
Speaker 3: We got this text in response to playing that earlier.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I love that recording you just played.
Speaker 3: This is so true.
Speaker 2: Mike Kids' school has a no running on the playground rule. Wow.
Speaker 2: Always what Mike spy is that I could I could
Speaker 2: throw on the black bandana and slit throats to quote H. L.
Speaker 2: Mencin Over that what. No, I'm just missing something. No,
Speaker 2: you're not too dangerous.
Speaker 3: My kids' school they don't have it all the time,
Speaker 3: but if it has rained anytime in the last week,
Speaker 3: you're not allowed to run because the grass could be
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 2: I think I'm a fascist for even talking about this.
Speaker 2: According to something I read, But when we conduct the
Speaker 2: great experiment of conservatives get half the country and progressives
Speaker 2: get the other half, and we see how it goes.
Speaker 2: There's going to be all the run and you I
Speaker 2: almost dropped an F bomb, which I can't I suppose,
Speaker 2: but I'd prefer not too. You can run all the
Speaker 2: f and much you want. In conservative America. Kids go
Speaker 2: out there, play soccer, skin your knees, get sweaty, get
Speaker 2: to blow off steam. Then we'll get back to school
Speaker 2: and learn. Well, we'll compare test scores at the end
Speaker 2: of it. Bitches. Huh.
Speaker 3: We used to love the play soccer on wet fields
Speaker 3: and we would slide in the hit.
Speaker 2: That was part of the fun, oh guy.
Speaker 4: Even after it would rain on the on the cement outside,
Speaker 4: we used to run and pretend we were skateboarding and
Speaker 4: try to see who could slide the farthest.
Speaker 2: Oh, I got my I hurt myself so many times
Speaker 2: doing that. But it was a blood none of that,
Speaker 2: None of that anymore. Good lord. Think of the liability, Katie,
Speaker 2: you maniac god.
Speaker 3: And we played kill the man with the ball and
Speaker 3: the porn rain all the time, and I mean that
Speaker 3: was a violent game.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I realized people are self selecting and to some extent anyway.
Speaker 2: And I'm not exactly a Navy seal nor I please
Speaker 2: what but people are self selecting to some extent anyway.
Speaker 2: But I so want to figure out a way to
Speaker 2: do this because they're like schools, charter schools, like the
Speaker 2: John Adams Academy, and there are other examples that like
Speaker 2: do school the way school ought to be done, and
Speaker 2: you can run all you want at recess and you
Speaker 2: learn and you learn the important stuff and you behave
Speaker 2: in class and the kids come out all smart and educated.
Speaker 2: It works. It works. And the fact that government union
Speaker 2: schools now don't work as a you know, an indictment
Speaker 2: on them. But I would love to start some sort
Speaker 2: of I don't know, colony or outpost. I guess it's
Speaker 2: called idoh Conservatania. And there would be no ugliness, no racism, no,
Speaker 2: you know, it would not be some sort of you know,
Speaker 2: Mika Brazinski's fever dream of what a conservative place would be.
Speaker 2: Everybody would get their constitutional rights, and by God, we
Speaker 2: would enforce that and if you break anybody's rights, we
Speaker 2: break your neck. But anyway, I would so love to
Speaker 2: conduct that experiment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would like to see it play out also,
Speaker 3: so she finishes up. My son got sent to the
Speaker 3: office and received a citation for running on the playground.
Speaker 3: So there's that issue that's mostly to do with lawyers
Speaker 3: and the way our court system works and juries. So
Speaker 3: I don't even know what to do about that because
Speaker 3: the school would tell you. Look, I think it's freaking
Speaker 3: stupid too, But we are just told we're going to
Speaker 3: lose our insurance policy if we let kids run on
Speaker 3: the school in school and get anybody gets hurt.
Speaker 2: So what are you going to do?
Speaker 3: So I hate that for that's own thing. Then you
Speaker 3: have this different topic. The school also told the kids
Speaker 3: they are no longer allowed to play kickball because the
Speaker 3: kids spent so much time arguing about the kids cheating.
Speaker 3: Way to teach the kids, not how to work through conflict.
Speaker 3: That's not the lawyers or the insurance company. That's the
Speaker 3: We think conflict is always bad, and so we're going
Speaker 3: to solve the conflict by not letting them play.
Speaker 2: They do this at my kid's school too. Like when
Speaker 2: I was a.
Speaker 3: Kid, a lot of us would bring our own nerve
Speaker 3: football or own glove or ball or bat or whatever.
Speaker 3: You're not allowed to bring any sporting equipment because one
Speaker 3: kids might fight over it, or you might have a
Speaker 3: nicer football than the other kid does and that make
Speaker 3: them feel bad and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: I know, we're doomed, Katie, we're society.
Speaker 3: So they have a limited number they have a limited
Speaker 3: number of balls, and there's like three and whoever gets
Speaker 3: to them first gets to play during recess with him,
Speaker 3: and nobody else gets to.
Speaker 4: Okay, I apologize for taking it back to this place.
Speaker 4: But so all of this is going on, but these
Speaker 4: kids can decide to identify as something else or right all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly, you can. You can change into a
Speaker 3: different sex, a secret be can't run in the yard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can make moves to mess them up hormonally
Speaker 4: for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 2: But don't you run on that wet grass.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty amazing that those two things are happening
Speaker 3: at the same time.
Speaker 2: You know. Speaking of which, and here's a preview of
Speaker 2: a screed you'll hear on the air in the next
Speaker 2: day or two. There are some fairly high profile lawsuits
Speaker 2: that are going to go the right way against the
Speaker 2: gender bending cruel experiments on kid's crowd They're going to
Speaker 2: bring them to their knees, and we need more and
Speaker 2: more and more of that these and it's it's I
Speaker 2: don't mean to seem like I'm gloating, because it's a tragedy,
Speaker 2: but some of the victims of these ideological lunatics are
Speaker 2: starting to move into adulthood and realize what's been done
Speaker 2: to them and are not happy about it. It can't
Speaker 2: happen fast enough.
Speaker 1: It's Jack, Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 2: to get podcasts. So I read this article in the
Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 3: The title was the chess Master trying to propel Google's
Speaker 3: AI push, They hired a new guy.
Speaker 2: The game of chest.
Speaker 3: They hired this genius at Google to try to make
Speaker 3: sure that they win the whole AI race.
Speaker 2: But what's the guy arounds Google? Puchai? How do you
Speaker 2: say his name? Sundar? I hadn't heard this quote.
Speaker 3: He thinks that the development of AI will be more
Speaker 3: profound than the invention of fire or electricity. If he's
Speaker 3: right about that, we better hold on to our seats
Speaker 3: because holy crappings. I mean, and this fits in with
Speaker 3: what I saw at the Sphere, So the Sphere is
Speaker 3: all about super high tech stuff. Henry my Son even
Speaker 3: asked me what's the theme here because there's lots of
Speaker 3: math equations on the wall and lots of planets, and
Speaker 3: I just I don't know if it was just science
Speaker 3: or exploration or I don't know what the theme was
Speaker 3: of the building because originally it was a U two
Speaker 3: show for the first week, So why are all these
Speaker 3: math equations on the to see bono?
Speaker 2: But Nicole accomplishment.
Speaker 3: In the lobby, they had this AI chick. So it
Speaker 3: was a robot. It's like your latest coolest robot that
Speaker 3: i'd seen videos of before and like I said earlier,
Speaker 3: too hot. I don't know why you got to make
Speaker 3: the robots saw it? I mean, why she you know,
Speaker 3: make it look like a normal person. But she's standing
Speaker 3: there and she's talking to the crowd. She's on a
Speaker 3: little stage and she's talking to the crowd, and she
Speaker 3: would ask people questions. Uh, somebody asked me a question,
Speaker 3: and somebody'd say something. She'd say, what's your name? Uh,
Speaker 3: and he would say Billy, Okay, Billy, what would you
Speaker 3: like to ask me like your red shirt, billy, you
Speaker 3: know that sort of thing. Just conversing with this AI computer,
Speaker 3: and it was disturbing. And it was one of those
Speaker 3: that has the ability for the face to move, so
Speaker 3: not just mouth opening and closing in like eyes, but
Speaker 3: like the cheeks and the like expression yeah, expressions, that's
Speaker 3: the word. It had full facial expressions. And I was disturbing,
Speaker 3: and it was hot, and he bought two thousand and
Speaker 3: it was having conversations with these people and no matter
Speaker 3: what you brought up it would they would engage in it,
Speaker 3: or ask about how your day was, or tell you something.
Speaker 3: And I thought, this is clearly going to be in
Speaker 3: a classroom someday. Why would you have individual teachers teaching
Speaker 3: Hamlet every year when you got this robot who knows
Speaker 3: more about Hamlet than any individual human being has ever known,
Speaker 3: can do the same routine every year every semester and
Speaker 3: answer questions.
Speaker 2: And it's hot. That's all I need.
Speaker 3: But I mean in terms of taking over jobs, it
Speaker 3: was disturbing. Henry and I especially couldn't stop watching it.
Speaker 3: We went back to watch more after the Sphere show.
Speaker 3: It's like this is crazy that this is even happening.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I could see virtually every university class being
Speaker 2: you got to, whether sexy or not, a robot teaching
Speaker 2: the class, you know, giving the material, answering questions from
Speaker 2: its vast, unending trove of knowledge on the topic. And
Speaker 2: then if you still have a question as a student
Speaker 2: or you need something clarified, you just get on a chat,
Speaker 2: a computer chat like you're trying to figure out why
Speaker 2: you're whatever it doesn't work, And that'll be the university experience.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what it wouldn't be able to answer,
Speaker 3: especially in the near future. Keeping in mind that whatever
Speaker 3: we saw on Friday, they've probably got better technology already
Speaker 3: today as we record this on Tuesday, and five years
Speaker 3: from now, it'll be that much better than that. So
Speaker 3: why won't that be the person doing the sales presenttion
Speaker 3: presentation over there in the boardroom in front of your salespeople.
Speaker 3: And it can answer the questions of hey, but what
Speaker 3: do I do if you know, if a client says this, well,
Speaker 3: this is what you do, because it knows more than anybody.
Speaker 4: Have you guys heard about the uncanny valley with with
Speaker 4: this AI and the robotics and whatnot. It's it's a
Speaker 4: part of our brain that gets really uncomfortable when you
Speaker 4: start getting into that area where it's kind of a
Speaker 4: human but you know it's not a human.
Speaker 2: Henry was having that problem. What's that called. It's called
Speaker 2: the uncanny Valley. Wow, Henry, is the basis of so
Speaker 2: many horror creatures in horror movies. You make it almost human.
Speaker 2: It's disturbing to us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Henry was having that and he said, I'm this
Speaker 3: is gonna give me nightmares tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a cool genre of horror that's like blowing
Speaker 4: up right now, especially because these robots are popping up
Speaker 4: all over the place and kind of give people the ick.
Speaker 3: The facial expressions on this robot were the most disturbing part.
Speaker 3: Is that it would answer, you know, a kid's question
Speaker 3: or an adult's question or whatever, and just the facial
Speaker 3: expressions like looking interested and then wow, that's interesting and
Speaker 3: puzzled and just and not like cartoonishly interested or puzzled,
Speaker 3: but like an actual human being.
Speaker 2: It was weird. So at the risk of seven, like
Speaker 2: a guy calling some sort of sex line of the past,
Speaker 2: what was the hot bot wearing.
Speaker 3: Like a sex spot like a unitard oh sort of thing.
Speaker 3: So it had bare legs, even though they were gray,
Speaker 3: like the color of carbon fiber. I mean, not like
Speaker 3: carrion gray, but like gray.
Speaker 2: There are many hues of humans around the world, and
Speaker 2: we're all deserving of love, Jack, but gray is generally
Speaker 2: reserved for the dead.
Speaker 3: She was shaved headed, but like really well built, attractive
Speaker 3: woman and very pretty. And uh and obviously if you
Speaker 3: want to go that direction, and it is Las Vegas,
Speaker 3: they will have those with blonde hair or brown hair
Speaker 3: or whatever hair color you prefer, doing whatever you want
Speaker 3: to do over there.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's at some point they may already. They
Speaker 2: might already. Yeah. Yeah, that's a different level of where
Speaker 2: it's on. It. It's an extra you can tack onto
Speaker 2: your room.
Speaker 3: But having seen that and having Sondra Putai or whatever
Speaker 3: his name is say, this is going to be as
Speaker 3: big as fire or electricity. Even if he's half right
Speaker 3: with what I just saw, we have no we human
Speaker 3: beings aren't ready for what's about to happen.
Speaker 2: True, I believe that to be true. Yeah, there could
Speaker 2: be a sharp turn unlike any other sharp turn. Yeah,
Speaker 2: right ahead of us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm old enough that I'm gonna catch it,
Speaker 3: you know, at the tail end of my life and
Speaker 3: have to adjust. My kids are going to grow up
Speaker 3: in a world that I can't even imagine. Now they
Speaker 3: can't imagine. I have no no idea what's the best
Speaker 3: way to prepare them for it. Neither does anybody else.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, he says, brainstorming his screenplay, the Third World is
Speaker 2: going to send wave after wave of millions of armed
Speaker 2: people to come and take it right because they're still
Speaker 2: without as we the developed world will be basking in
Speaker 2: the wealthy glow of the AI affluence that's coming our way.
Speaker 3: I had one more question I had to ask Katie, and
Speaker 3: this is just about the way some people dress in
Speaker 3: Las Vegas. Women who are dressed crazy like I'm a
Speaker 3: stripper outfit in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: That is what is going on there mostly.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, that's just like the Vegas club attire.
Speaker 2: So that's just the vibe. If you're going to go
Speaker 2: to a club.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you have a really short dress that you're
Speaker 4: not too sure where you could ever wear it, you
Speaker 4: take it to Vegas.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's true.
Speaker 3: It doesn't stand out as weird there, whereas it would
Speaker 3: at the company Christmas party or certainly Easter Sunday services, right, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't put on your whe were for Easter Sunday.
Speaker 3: Kidding, But even if you went to a bar or something, yeah,
Speaker 3: dressed like that, you'd stand out as what But there
Speaker 3: are so many women dressed like that there, Like.
Speaker 2: How do you even walk in those shoes?
Speaker 3: You're if you you know, don't bend down to pick
Speaker 3: up your keys or I'm gonna you know, my kids
Speaker 3: are gonna be exposed to something.
Speaker 2: It's just I just wonder what I just I think
Speaker 2: people enjoy escaping their work day lives and they get
Speaker 2: to be somebody different, cool, cool. Then what happens there
Speaker 2: stays there? Is?
Speaker 3: It famously said it's tough to walk through those casinos
Speaker 3: with a couple with a twelve year old and a
Speaker 3: fourteen year old though that's just the two boys, it's
Speaker 3: like educational.
Speaker 2: If I hadn't walked through there, I was just thinking
Speaker 2: about this.
Speaker 3: If my dad had taken me through there when I
Speaker 3: was a fourteen year old boy, Holy crap, I had
Speaker 3: never stopped thinking about it. I never saw stuff like
Speaker 3: that in real life.
Speaker 2: At age fourteen, I had to run off and hidden
Speaker 2: behind a slot machine and attempt to stay there permanently.
Speaker 2: He'd still be there exactly, go ooching around like Gollum
Speaker 2: in the Shadows. I'm surprised. I'm surprised.
Speaker 3: At some point I didn't say where's Sam, and Henry
Speaker 3: says he's back there, and he just locked up and
Speaker 3: locked up with his eyes wide too much, too.
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Speaker 2: I'd never run into the concept of a personality higher
Speaker 2: before the Wall Street Journal was writing about this. Have
Speaker 2: you ever heard this term, Katie, just out of curious
Speaker 2: and now as you I have not younger and hipper,
Speaker 2: So as the Journal describes it, if you get further
Speaker 2: on charm than skill, and you carry a workload light
Speaker 2: enough to float atop your bubbly demeanor, then you might
Speaker 2: be a personality higher. And this has actually become a thing. Charismatic, friendly,
Speaker 2: likable employees who might not be that great at their
Speaker 2: job or even work that hard, but employers are so
Speaker 2: desperate for any sort of joy and camaraderie in the workplace.
Speaker 2: They're hiring these people, they call them personality hires.
Speaker 3: Wow, so that's how I got hired exactly miniter personality Michael. So,
Speaker 3: I'm thinking of somebody right now. I won't say their name.
Speaker 3: They're out there in the newsroom. I could see hiring
Speaker 3: them because of their personality, because they just make the
Speaker 3: whole room better. Everybody's happier when they're around. I can
Speaker 3: tell just because of their personality. Well, here are a
Speaker 3: couple of facts.
Speaker 2: In this case.
Speaker 3: They're also competent, but I would I would like I
Speaker 3: would have hired this person if they were not quite
Speaker 3: as competent as person X, just because their personality the
Speaker 3: kind of place that's gonna make the place more lively
Speaker 3: and happy.
Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah, well here they quote. They start off the
Speaker 2: article quoting this one gal who's definitely not a personality higher.
Speaker 2: She's a very matter of fact person, just gets craped done.
Speaker 2: But she said, oh, some people actually proudly advertise themselves
Speaker 2: as personal personality hires on LinkedIn. By the way. Interesting,
Speaker 2: So they quote this gal who's not that and finds
Speaker 2: it very annoying and described.
Speaker 3: Now you you're like me, We kind of we kind
Speaker 3: of bitterly.
Speaker 2: Are resentful against people who are like that because we're not,
Speaker 2: and they're allotizing it. Though that's what I'm like.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to advertise, Hey, I'm not very good
Speaker 4: at my job, but I'm funny.
Speaker 2: To leave that first part unsad, but she cites she
Speaker 2: worked with a personal personality hire in a previous job.
Speaker 2: Though fun to be around, the person eventually generated resentment,
Speaker 2: didn't really pull her load, and after winning a promotion,
Speaker 2: prompted several coworkers to quit. There's just too much. Well
Speaker 2: I would, I would.
Speaker 3: I would think if they're not good at their job,
Speaker 3: that's not enough to overcome it. But I'd never thought
Speaker 3: about this before. I could see hiring somebody, you know,
Speaker 3: if you're gonna weigh them on a bunch of different things.
Speaker 3: Man lump in the hole brings the room up as
Speaker 3: opposed to down, so bosses want the warm and fuzzies
Speaker 3: is The mood at work is generally sour. One third
Speaker 3: of US employees say they're engaged in their jobs, only
Speaker 3: a third near an all time low. Half of workers
Speaker 3: say they feel of stress, half are interested in new
Speaker 3: jobs are actively applying with so many lonely, unhappy charges.
Speaker 3: Bosses are desperate for a good workplace energy. They say,
Speaker 3: camaraderie is hard to build on hybrid schedules, so they
Speaker 3: prize upbeat employees whose energy is hopefully infectious. Then they
Speaker 3: quote a bunch of people and recruiters from various industries
Speaker 3: and saying, yeah, we really, we really need more people. Oh,
Speaker 3: it's clearly true. I haven't had a job I don't
Speaker 3: like in a long long time. But when I worked
Speaker 3: jobs that I didn't like, oh, there were certain people
Speaker 3: that made it bearable, and when they weren't there, it
Speaker 3: was awful.
Speaker 2: Right, or if they quit, everybody who's like, I can't
Speaker 2: do this so right?
Speaker 4: I wonder if they're hiring these people to make it
Speaker 4: more appealing to come back into the office too, like
Speaker 4: after COVID, that's.
Speaker 2: Got to be a factor. Sure, yeah, so But anyway,
Speaker 2: there's this comedian gal who has done a couple of
Speaker 2: bits about being a personality higher that I think are
Speaker 2: brilliant and illustrating what it is all about. Her name
Speaker 2: is Vienna Aila, and it's fifteen Michael. What's the project
Speaker 2: about today?
Speaker 6: I have no idea, do you guys?
Speaker 2: Se If we need to get an extension. We can't
Speaker 2: call Greg. He's so scary. Greg's our CEO. I'll call Greg,
Speaker 2: of course, are you sure? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, let's call Greg.
Speaker 2: Greg is so terrifying. Greggy, Hey you, where are you?
Speaker 2: How are your kids? I know that? So I just
Speaker 2: doing school direction Annie.
Speaker 6: She's playing Annie.
Speaker 3: Oh Greg, that's so amazing.
Speaker 6: Hold on, said Greg.
Speaker 2: I asked me presentation. Yeah, Greg, you know I've been.
Speaker 3: In here talking Annie with you all day, But Greg,
Speaker 3: I have to ask you something.
Speaker 1: We're gonna need a couple of days, Greg, take a week.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's such plays.
Speaker 3: Next week. I don't want to come to Annie. Back
Speaker 3: to the important stuff.
Speaker 4: Where are you?
Speaker 2: I'll come me through right now. Let's freaking eat a
Speaker 2: free ocean talk Annie, my guy.
Speaker 3: I'll be right back.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you. Greg, I'm coming to you. And
Speaker 2: then there's another bit where they have the permit revoked
Speaker 2: for an event at the last minute, and they're like,
Speaker 2: oh my god. The only way we could deal with
Speaker 2: this is to have the mayor on our side. She
Speaker 2: says the mayor. The Mayor's in my ass and abs
Speaker 2: class I'll call her right now. She goes, Hello, girl,
Speaker 2: what's going on? Oh my god, you don't need that class.
Speaker 2: Your ass is amazing anyway, and she gets the permit reinstated.
Speaker 6: The ass she's just a schmoozer and a networker and
Speaker 6: that sort of super uppy person doesn't but and it's
Speaker 6: harder to tell without the visuals in that first video,
Speaker 6: but she doesn't know anything about the project.
Speaker 2: Then she gets on the call with Greggy and says,
Speaker 2: what am I asking for again to our coworkers? An extension?
Speaker 2: Oh right, right? May she goes into that. So it's
Speaker 2: a parody obviously, But that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 3: I never I don't think enough attention is paid to
Speaker 3: like chemistry in a group of people for work.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think most bosses every think about it.
Speaker 2: They should.
Speaker 3: And now in the modern world of boy that like
Speaker 3: they said the hybrid working in zoom, I'm not sure
Speaker 3: any of that translates to zoom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know. I meant to talk about this
Speaker 2: on the show. Maybe I will. But I was talking
Speaker 2: to my son, who's just about to turn thirty, and
Speaker 2: he was talking about and he's he's been a performer
Speaker 2: of various sorts for a very long time. He's a
Speaker 2: musician and a gifted actor who decided not to act.
Speaker 2: And it's fine, but he said, coming out of COVID,
Speaker 2: the very thought of performing just seemed enormous and terrifying
Speaker 2: and overwhelming. Just so, and it's worth mentioning he lived.
Speaker 2: He lives in Oregon, which is so cultish in it
Speaker 2: or was in its adherence to every COVID policy and
Speaker 2: as a show of hating Trump, they wouldn't let their
Speaker 2: children play with other children for a year and a half.
Speaker 2: And it's just devastating to so many people, who so
Speaker 2: many ages, even people in their twenties. It's horrible anyway,
Speaker 2: speaking of people who have difficulty communicating and communing and
Speaker 2: looking people in the eye and the rest of it.
Speaker 2: Man COVID Deco Declan my son said to me, he said,
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people who are really damaged
Speaker 2: by it and they're not healing very quickly.
Speaker 4: Was it just the act of having to go out
Speaker 4: and perform again or were there people that weren't going
Speaker 4: to the shows? What made it so much more difficult
Speaker 4: post COVID.
Speaker 2: Well, because everything was so locked down. You just you
Speaker 2: had like your roommate and you would interact with maybe
Speaker 2: somebody at work, if you were allowed to work a
Speaker 2: little bit. It was like living in solitary confinement in
Speaker 2: a prison. Obviously not that bad, but.
Speaker 3: I know a couple of people who talk about that
Speaker 3: dark period where they didn't have any communication and they would,
Speaker 3: you know, struggle to have any opportunity just to like
Speaker 3: wave to another car far away, like all right, I
Speaker 3: didn't live that way, so I.
Speaker 2: Guarantee they lived in a blue state. There's a prominent
Speaker 2: musician who thinks a wonderful songwriter, but he tweeted at
Speaker 2: one point that he felt bad for his kids because
Speaker 2: his kids hadn't had a plated or hugged another child
Speaker 2: or whatever. For a year. I wanted to fly to Portlandia,
Speaker 2: where he resides, and punch him in the stomach and
Speaker 2: and just to wake him up and say, what are
Speaker 2: you doing? And all the dad about children and being
Speaker 2: fine was out there, all of it. But you had
Speaker 2: to virtue signal how much you despise Trump by torturing
Speaker 2: yourself and your loved ones, and and declann lived in
Speaker 2: the midst of that. And anyway, sorry to get started
Speaker 2: on that stuff.
Speaker 4: It's a well, no, it's a reality a lot of
Speaker 4: people are dealing with still, and that's why his company
Speaker 4: needs a personality higher just things up.
Speaker 2: A little bit. Full circles Armstrong and Getty