WEBVTT - Then Bluey! No Gonads! 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:10.840 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:17.239 Jetty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:26.119 Authorities in Michigan told parents to be on the lookout 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:31.480 after discovering candy and snacks containing THC and hallucinogenic mushroom products. 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.920 Said parents, Oh, we've been on the lookout for those. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:42.200 So is this a serious problem? 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.040 I would assume if you're a stoner drug fiend, you 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.680 don't want to be given away your stuff, and. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.559 Especially given the fact that it's a felony and give 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:52.360 you a child. Yeah. 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:54.880 Yeah, And if something that happened, you'd go to prison. 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:59.600 I suspect Jack, that there will be and have been 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:04.640 a small handful of cases around a gigantic country where 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:11.679 somebody who's either just monumentally stupid or has monumentally terrible 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:15.400 judgment will do this, and everyone in America will hear 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:17.440 about it over and over again. So it'll be the 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:22.959 classic exceptionality bias news story. It gets attention because it's 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.360 so rare. Yeah, it will be incredibly fencing people that 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.120 is common. It will be incredibly rare. And I'm not 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:29.639 worried about it for my own kids. 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.839 But I could see I've known numb nuts that would 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.639 think it was funny to get kids high. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.360 Get kids high. I could see that, Yeah, yeah. 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:41.760 That's your really top tier of stupid. 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:42.640 Yep, it really is. 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.240 So I came across this in substack yesterday from this 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.400 guy named Timothy Lee, who I do not know. But 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.440 his article was he writes about AI for a living, 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:57.280 and his headline was AI skeptics and AI boosters are 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:58.040 both wrong. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:01:59.800 And I gave that a look. 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.520 Everybody's guessing to a certain extent here, but I just 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.000 thought this was an interesting tank a take I hadn't 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.480 heard before. Earlier this month, he writes, I attended an 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.320 AI conference called the Curve in Berkeley, California, in just 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.480 a few miles from where we are. A lot of 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:19.520 people there were AGI pilled, he calls it. For example, 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.639 I participated in a role playing exercise organized by this 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:27.360 dude who argues that AI systems will soon achieve human 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:32.160 level intelligence. Then they will rapidly improve themselves, leading to 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:37.720 superhuman AI capabilities and an extreme acceleration of scientific discovery 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:41.240 and economic growth. Then he went across the hall to 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:46.320 another conference where a different AGI pilled writer. That's someone 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.440 who believes so much of this, who believes the super 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.720 intelligent AI will kill everyone on the planet. 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:57.600 He said, to go back to the first one. 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:59.639 He said, at the opposite end of the spectrum or 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:03.600 skeptic to believe AI is not just overhyped, but practically useless. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:08.120 This perspective wasn't well represented at the conference, but it 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.280 came up a lot. We mentioned this a couple of 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:11.839 weeks ago. There was a piece in The New York 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.920 Times quoting this study. One of your big godfathers of AI. 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:17.839 You know, there's a handful of people that are really 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.120 well respected whenever they talk about AI. One of those 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.120 people wrote a column in The New York Times citing 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:25.240 this MIT study, which we have talked about before. A 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:29.840 recent study run by MIT's program that looks into this 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.680 sort of stuff found that ninety five percent of companies 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.440 that did AI pilot studies found little or no return 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:41.360 on their investment, and a financial analysis projects an estimated 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.920 shortfall of eight hundred billion dollars in revenue for AI 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.400 companies by the end of twenty thirty. That it's not 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.720 going to pan out near the way they thought so. 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:51.800 That article got a lot of attention at the time, 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:53.960 and apparently came up a lot in this conference. 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.240 I can contradict that right now, but go ahead to 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.440 that later. No, go ahead, Oh just happened to yesterday afternoon. 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.760 I have a conversation with a good friend who is 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:08.160 an attorney of great experience and success and worked for 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:13.480 a fairly important law firm. And he's actually my friend 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.960 who I've mentioned to his license to practice both in 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:17.000 the US and Britain. 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:18.200 He is no dummy. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.560 He and his company are working with a certain university 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:27.839 on AI programs for law, and he was describing to 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:31.960 me how they were designing AI personas I think was 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.480 the term he used that would approach a problem as 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:39.640 he would not just as a generic attorney or as 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:44.080 a computer, but as he has and would throughout his career. 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.200 And that's based on extensive interviews and study of how 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.240 he doesn't And he said the results. 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.280 Were scary good. Wow. 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.039 Yeah, I don't buy the it's not going to be 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.839 profitable or be a thing. I lean more toward ruining 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.520 the world than toward making it better personally, even though 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.400 I think it will make it better and it'll be 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.159 able to cure diseases and help you figure out medication 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.320 and all kinds of different things. But it at the 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:10.200 same time is going to. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.000 Ruin the world. And you know, if it ruins the world, 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:12.919 what good does it do? 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.880 If I mean, if nobody has jobs and nobody gets 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.000 together in relationships anymore, who cares if it's curing these 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:21.520 obscure answers. 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.120 Right in the few remaining human beings, right produced Yeah. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:26.359 But anyway, I wanted to get to this part and 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.000 then I will shut up about it because I won't 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:29.960 worry out. But I thought it was this interesting, this 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.240 guy writes. My view is between these two extremes. I 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:36.760 think that AI has genuinely impressive capabilities that are likely 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.400 to improve further in the coming months and years. I 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.840 think the AI industry is likely to be profitable in 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.760 the wrong run, and that open AI's basic business model 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.400 is perfectly reasonable. But I don't think we're very close 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.200 to human level intelligence at all. I don't think AI 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.279 is about to drive the kind of massive social and 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:56.400 economic changes that AGI pilled folks expect. And then it 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.400 gets into some of his reasoning after that that gets 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.320 complicated and uses rais in terms that you have to 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.520 look up. But there is a crowd out there that believes, well, 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.479 kind of what I just kind of what I just said, 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.640 but not completely. He believes, Yeah, it's a thing and 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.039 gonna it's gonna come along, and it's it's going to 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.880 be impactful, but it's not going to upend society and 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.000 our economic models in ways that we need to be 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:17.560 worried about. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:23.120 And I hope the more right. Yeah, Yeah, I don't 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:23.680 think he is. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.919 I think there is a wide swath of so called 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.159 white collar jobs that will vanish. 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.480 I'm completely convinced to that there's that. 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.159 And then I think a lot of these people, because 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:42.680 they're computer geeks, which in most cases by definition means 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.480 you're kind of like not a normal person in society, 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:51.120 I think they vastly underestimate what it's going to do 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.680 to relationships and society and coupling and all that sort 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.440 of stuff, because there's such outliers as human beings to 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.640 start with, and I'm not sure that a lot of 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:04.120 these people even can conceive of thinking about that issue 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.920 because they just don't live in that world of like going. 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.919 Out in dating and blah blah blah. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.200 Well, and a lot of opinion leaders are also self 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:16.600 motivated go getters, and so they can't conceive of because 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.760 you no longer have to work to take care of yourself, 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:24.200 you become a blob of dinner on weik because they 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.320 would find something right. But a hell of a lot 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:31.680 of human beings aren't made like that. Most, Yeah, the 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:36.640 vast majority. And I feel like we've already seen enough of. 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:43.080 The people having relationships with chatbots when it's at its 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:51.360 current level of engagement, that it's inevitable that it becomes 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.160 a huge problem. I can't I can't imagine the argument 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.080 that says, no, it's not going to be a big deal. 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.880 You aren't going to have millions of in cell dudes 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.480 who are so obsessed with their AI, chat bot and 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.080 porn that they never get with a real woman. 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.920 That won't happen. I don't understand that argument at all. 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.200 Right, Oh my gosh, I've got a great think piece 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:16.560 around here somewhere about the rise of that very sort 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:20.960 of young man and how they quickly become embittered and 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.680 hateful and for instance, kill Charlie Kirk or try to 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.640 put a bullet in Donald J. Trump's head for the 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.320 very scenario you were describing, and. 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.040 Then then for women, because women tend to be more 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:37.840 about the emotions than most dudes in general. Man, the 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.800 getting some sort of comfort from a chat dude that 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.840 talks to you about your problems and agrees that you've 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:48.079 been wrong by your mom and your sister, I just think. 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:52.280 That's gonna be a huge thing, right, just as an 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:56.160 aside as you were a speaking jack, I quickly did 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.880 a search on how old is the saying I have 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.280 had or the devil's playthings? Or are similar phrasings of 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.560 the same thought? And it definitely goes back to the 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.120 Old Testament. Sure it's in proverbs. Idle hands are the 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.959 d well? It depends which just you know the translation 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:19.600 you have. It endured throughout the early days of Christianity. 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.760 Here are a bunch of citations from the medieval period. 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.080 Here are early English usages in the fifteen hundreds through 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:31.120 the seventeen hundreds. The wording probably solidified in the eighteenth 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.000 or nineteenth century, but the idea itself is at least 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.160 fourteen hundred years old, with deep roots in early Christian 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:42.880 moral teaching. It is an idea that has never receded 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:47.760 from human consciousness, that idle hands are the devil's playthings. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:53.280 And yet we are moving as quickly as possible toward 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.280 a mechanism to idle as many hands as possible. 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:59.760 That only works, That's true. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.480 It only works because you believe that a lot of 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.800 people are not self motivated to do something. The remember 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.760 Nancy Pelosi famously saying, this will be a chance everybody 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.679 can be an artist or a poet or whatever. Yeah, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.520 a lot of people are going to kind of talk 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.680 about that, but they aren't going to like engage in 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:21.600 eight hours of effort every single day to be whatever 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.640 they're going to be and be occupied. No, they're going 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:29.439 to sit around and get you know, naval gazingly selfish 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.959 and insular in their lives, and it's going to go 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.520 off the rails and high and hi. 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.520 All right, here's a little poetry for you, Nancy, Roses 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:43.560 are red, violets are blue. AGI is here, Humanity's through 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:45.200 there you go. 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:46.160 There's a little. 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:50.400 Uh artificial generalized intelligence. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:51.400 That's the AGI. Right. 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.280 Yeah, Yeah, it's not a good poem, but you know, 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.480 I'm a beginner. 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There's no safe flights, simply save. 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.160 Trump dropped a bit of a political bomb earlier. We 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.840 can talk about suggesting the Republican Senate do away with 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:10.920 the filibuster. I don't know how much you understand that, 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.240 but that is trulliot, don't doli. It's highly troubling. Among 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.800 other things we can talk about stay here a strong. 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.800 President Trump says enough is enough. It is time to 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.480 nuke the filibuster and reopen the government. Here's what he 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.760 posted last night on truth Social It's now time for 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.840 Republicans to play their Trump card and go for what 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.720 is called the nuclear option. Get rid of the filibuster 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.520 and get rid of it now. That would allow Senate 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.560 Republicans to reopen the government on their own, even though 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.760 Senate leaders generally don't like the idea of ending the filibuster. 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.120 But pressure is mounting. Troops are getting paid today after 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.239 the Pentagon shifted some funds around, but federal snap benefits 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.079 run out this weekend, and we're already seeing major flight 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.640 disruptions in places like Orlando and here in Washington. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.320 That would be a horrible thing to do. To end 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:08.160 the filibuster, Currently, you need sixty votes in the Senate 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:12.440 see and usually need the party with the majority and 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.800 a decent handful of the other party. In other words, 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:19.480 the bulk of America needs to agree on something for it. 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.560 To pass, is the theory. 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:27.280 And if it's probably the last vestige of Yeah, we 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.040 disagree with each other, but we care about the country, 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:31.240 so let's talk about it. 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.719 Probably is as supposed to just naked partisan. Probably is 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:34.760 the last vestige of that. 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:36.320 And if you do away with the filibuster and then 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.319 it just becomes majority rule like it is in the House, 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:46.720 then whichever party holds power in the Senate has fifty votes, 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:48.319 and then if you have the vice presidency, you only 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.720 need fifty. We'll just pass everything they want. So the 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:53.280 House will pass it, the Center will pass it, and 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.520 there you go. It's a law without any say whatsoever 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.160 from the other party, which would. 0:13:57.920 --> 0:13:59.160 Be horrible, horrible, horrible. 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.679 Now, Trump's argument is that the Democrats tried to do 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:06.840 it for three years but couldn't because Senators Joe Manchin 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:10.040 of West Virginia and Kirsten Cinema of Arizona wouldn't vote 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.920 for it because they're decent Americans. I also don't think 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.360 all those Democrats that voted for it actually meant it, 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:20.360 because I think there are enough institutionalists, grown up Democrats 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.080 also in the Senate that Okay, you two are going 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:24.960 to vote against it, Okay, then I can vote for 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.440 it to look like I'm for it for my crowd. 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.040 I think, you know, a couple would have stepped up 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.480 to make sure it didn't pass. We may we're going 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.240 to cross the line at some point. I think at 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.000 least that's direction all our politics are going, where one 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:38.840 party is going to do with this, away with this, 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.080 and Trump's making the argument they're going to do away 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.080 with it when they take over the Senate. Then they'll 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.160 be able to pack the Supreme Court with whoever the 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:46.120 hell they want. 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.080 Because all you will need is fifty of votes. 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.040 And we might as well do it now to get 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:56.360 the jump on them, which is which is the classic 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.800 definition what I've been the phrase I've been using for 0:14:58.800 --> 0:14:59.320 a long time. 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.720 Race to the b I mean, that's just the perfect 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:06.320 race to the bottom. Yeah. I wish I could declare 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:07.400 that those folks are. 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:11.200 Just wrong, categorically wrong, but they might not be it 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.200 could be that we're heading toward a future where it 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:19.320 is simple majority for everything, and elections have enormous consequences 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:23.440 and policy swings wildly back and forth. Of course, with 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.600 the you know, Congress forgetting its job, forgetting the Constitution 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.600 and all of us worshiping the chief executive as something 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:34.400 like a king, we're having wild swings and policy back 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:34.840 and forth. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.960 Anyway, Well, imagine the kind of just make it worse. 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.400 Imagine the kind of judges we might get if you 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:45.920 just need the majority and you've got a strong president 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.720 with a big following like Barack Obama. Biden didn't have it, 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.040 but like Barack Obama or Donald Trump, where you could 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.800 get somebody through fairly extreme, and there'd be a tremendous 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.280 amount of pressure to put on your fifty senators to say, 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.800 put this person on the Supreme Court. Then we've completely 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:04.160 own up that institution. Also, we get a whack jobs on. 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.120 Yeah, you might have a handful of senators on the 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.400 president's party on his side thinking this person's a monster, 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.160 they shouldn't be on the bench. 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.880 Right. I hate still get through. 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.000 I hate the idea of doing away at the filibuster, 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.360 but I do think it's inevitably going to happen. It 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.440 just it's the direction everything is going. Wow, and then 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.120 we're just going to be majority rule. You might as 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.680 well just combine the House and the Senate into one thing. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.120 Five hundred and thirty five members of that. 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.920 God dang, that's what the Democratic Socialists of America party wants. 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.800 They want to elimination of Senate and just a pure 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:41.480 you know, majority rules, single House. Speaking of which I've 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:45.200 got a zoron Mumdani update coming up later on the show. 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.760 Monadanie. Yeah, I don't. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:50.720 I don't know where I am on the weather because 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.280 I think Trump might be right that it's going to happen. 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.120 It'd be better if we do it, then they do it, 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:57.960 and you get no credit through history for. 0:16:58.080 --> 0:16:59.600 We weren't the party that did it. It was the 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:00.000 other part. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.080 That ain't gonna matter when the other party does await 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.239 the fillbuster and then just starts passing whenever the hell 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:06.000 way want to pass. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.240 Yeah, I'm of two minds. I'm against. 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.000 I would if I were a Senator, I would I 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:14.520 would try to stop this from happening. 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:20.840 Yeah, I agree, complains well, especially reminded of conversations go ahead. 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:21.560 Especially around this. 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.680 Trump's argument is to end this shutdown, the freaking shutdown. 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:29.280 You're gonna blow up the damn Senate over the shutdown 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.959 of all things, which is the Democrat's fault. Come on now, no, no, no, 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.160 don't bail them out. The WAPO editorial Board today says 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:39.480 the quickest way to end the shutdown is to have 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:43.520 the Democrats enough Democrats to vote for passing this. The 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:49.720 WAPO Editorial Board, right, yeah, don't do anything much less 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.719 blow up the Senate. By the way, on Tuesday, we 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:56.040 will officially be in the longest to shut down this 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.520 country has ever had. And I think we're gonna get there. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:04.560 Over what nothing. We have a way to run a republic. 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:05.399 We got a lot more on the way. 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.119 If you missed a secment, get the podcast Armstrong and 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:08.399 Getty on demand. 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:10.840 Armstrong and Geeddy. 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.080 There's a new star of the spooky season. That is 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:21.119 kid saying trick or tato potato Yeah. Videos of homeowners 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.479 handing out potatoes on Halloween have been sprowling up on 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:29.440 social media in recent years, leaving some puzzled, but surprisingly 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:30.960 most ecstatic. 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:35.200 You have potatoes. 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:39.000 More trick or treaters are poised to strike Yukon gold. 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:44.680 Now I have been ladling out hot cream corn for 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.560 years at Halloween, you know, hold out your little basket 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:50.920 and I just give you a full scoop of cream 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:51.679 corn in there. 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:56.000 On top of all your candy. And yet potatoes might 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:57.480 as well. The last kid. 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.639 The thing any kid needs is more candy. It's ubiquitous candy. 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:06.439 It's everywhere, it's practically free, right right, yeah, yeah, that 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:11.120 is kind of funny. Oh I might do that myself tonight. Honestly, 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.040 Henry would love that. We'll get a We'll get a 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:20.560 bag of potatoes, potatoes, just full raw potatoes. Is that 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:22.320 the way you do with Katie? Just like a big 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:23.240 brown raw. 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:25.160 Potato? 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.520 And am I missing the joke here? Is it just ironic? 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:30.560 Just it's well, I don't know if it's ironic, it's 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:34.000 just odd, all right, whatever? 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:36.720 Why not a turnip, That's what I say? Or a 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:40.920 California prunes. Check out californiaprudnes dot org. Let's see where 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:41.159 was I? 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:41.359 Oh? 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:43.879 Yeah, uh, just a handful of stories that worth are 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.480 worth at least tipping our cap to I'm always torn 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:51.200 with like looking back at Joe Biden's presidency the Free 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:56.120 Press with a scathing, scathing report on the House Oversight 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.960 Committee report that just came out about how incredibly out 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:01.320 touched Joe Biden was. 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.120 I got some great details from that writer. 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.520 Yeah, yeah, grab them or we can do it now whatever, 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.679 particularly the use of the auto pen and all of 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:16.320 the pardons. It's become completely clear that his activist staff 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:21.120 just had some very broad perimeters, didn't look at individual parameters, rather, 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:24.880 didn't look at individual cases at all, and gave pardons 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.600 to some really monstrous people and people who didn't deserve 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:28.080 it at all. 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:30.680 But and Biden had no idea of any of it. 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:34.520 So, not surprisingly, the mainstream media, which was involved in 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:38.919 covering for an obviously addled president, is not reporting on 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:40.360 the report that just came out. 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:41.959 But this is a legit report. 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:45.760 This is not like Comer, you know, the Republican committee 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:47.680 member who makes all these claims and then they never 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:51.600 come true. This was the testimony of actual people who 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.480 worked in the Biden administration. And I became aware of 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:58.760 this only through Mark Alpern's podcast yesterday. He was losing 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:01.399 his mind over the fact that this was not in 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:03.720 The New York Times of the Washington Post, because this 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:06.000 came out two days ago, and he's like, how is 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:07.239 nobody talking about this? 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:10.520 Here's what Axios had. This is from Thompson. 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:12.880 He's the other guy with Jake Tapper that wrote the book, 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.879