Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jettie I know he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3: He's a threat to our prosperity and Texas economy. He said,
Speaker 3: you can't be a Christian if you support the oil
Speaker 3: and gas industries want to raise your tax He wants
Speaker 3: to raise your taxes, and he won't do a single
Speaker 3: thing the lower cost for you and your family. And finally,
Speaker 3: he's a threat to our very way of life and
Speaker 3: our values. I mean, he's a vegan who thinks Scott
Speaker 3: is non binary and that there's actually six biological sexes.
Speaker 3: It's hard to imagine someone more radical than that.
Speaker 4: That's the not too enthusiastic Ken Paxton who won last
Speaker 4: night over John Cornyn, who had been the Senator in
Speaker 4: Texas for a while lot of years and he got
Speaker 4: knocked out by somebody in his own party. And now
Speaker 4: Ken Paxton's going to run against this James Tallarico dude
Speaker 4: who said this about Ken Paxton last night.
Speaker 5: Ken Paxton embodies the broken political system that we're running against.
Speaker 5: He is the most corrupt politician in America three years
Speaker 5: ago tomorrow, he was impeached by his own party for
Speaker 5: using his public office, his position of public trusts to
Speaker 5: enrich himself and his donors at our expense. And that
Speaker 5: is exactly the problem in our politics. It's puppet politicians
Speaker 5: who serve themselves and their billionaire mega donors instead of
Speaker 5: serving us. It's why we can't afford anything. It's why
Speaker 5: we can't get ahead no matter how hard we work.
Speaker 5: The system is rigged by corrupt politicians like Ken Paxson.
Speaker 4: So some believe this is a great chance for the
Speaker 4: Democrats to flip a perennial red seat blue in the
Speaker 4: US Senate.
Speaker 2: It's at least a chance. Yeah.
Speaker 6: The race went from what is the term likely Republican
Speaker 6: to lean Republican in the Cook Political Report, for.
Speaker 2: Instance, Uh huh and uh.
Speaker 4: I was reading somewhere that there might be more opo
Speaker 4: on Paxson to come out that they've been holding on
Speaker 4: to in his very color sort a guy that.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's going to be stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, taking a totally non judgmental look at
Speaker 6: this for the moment, then I will judge so judgingly,
Speaker 6: but give me a minute. In the initial vote, Cornan
Speaker 6: narrowly edged Paxton forty two percent to forty percent, but
Speaker 6: since neither one of them cleared the required fifty fifty percent,
Speaker 6: they required a runoff, so it was barely corning over Paxton.
Speaker 6: But then when Trump, at the very end of things,
Speaker 6: weighed in with the endorsement of Packson Paxton, it went
Speaker 6: two thirds one third for Paxton. So Trump's power influence
Speaker 6: with the primary voters of red states, including Texas, is
Speaker 6: still enormous.
Speaker 4: Well, Cornyn last week, to his credit and maybe the
Speaker 4: end of his political career, was asked about Trump's two
Speaker 4: billion dollar fund to give out to people abused by
Speaker 4: Biden or whatever that fund is.
Speaker 2: Allegedly h.
Speaker 4: Wasn't real enthusiastic about it. Cornyn said, yeah, I'm not
Speaker 4: a big fan of that. I don't think that's what
Speaker 4: we need to be doing, and that Trump didn't dig that,
Speaker 4: and that's when he came out against his opponent.
Speaker 2: I mean, so.
Speaker 6: The RNC is distressed because they know it's going to
Speaker 6: be an enormously expensive race when it could have been
Speaker 6: more or less open and shot with corn running.
Speaker 2: But this the way it goes.
Speaker 6: The free press is asking is Donald Trump tired of winning.
Speaker 6: Here's where the judgment gets judgment he from his endorsement
Speaker 6: of Ken Paxton to the White House ballroom, the president
Speaker 6: is putting his own priorities ahead of his parties.
Speaker 2: Well, Trump sees himself as the party because he is.
Speaker 2: That's why he sees it that way.
Speaker 4: Interesting thing politics and whether many of us could ever
Speaker 4: actually be politicians. So John Cornyn, for instance, sitting US senator,
Speaker 4: there's hardly a better political job on planet Earth than
Speaker 4: being a US senator. I think I'd rather be that
Speaker 4: than President of the United States. In terms of being
Speaker 4: able to do a job for a long time and
Speaker 4: have an impact. That'd be a pretty cool job being
Speaker 4: a US senator.
Speaker 6: You're only up for election every six years, and you
Speaker 6: got the power of incumbency in the purse and the
Speaker 6: rest of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty good getting.
Speaker 4: He voted with Trump over ninety percent of the time
Speaker 4: through a term and a half.
Speaker 2: That's pretty loyal.
Speaker 4: But when he was asked last week about this pretty
Speaker 4: ridiculous fund that Trump came up with, said, yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: not a fan. Would you have been enthusiastically in favor
Speaker 4: of it? Justifying it to yourself by saying it's important
Speaker 4: that I'm in the US Senate as a guy who
Speaker 4: can kind of hold the line for what's right and
Speaker 4: what's wrong. As a counterbalance, Yeah, as a counterbalance. Or
Speaker 4: do I say what is clearly pretty clearly true. No,
Speaker 4: I'm not a fan of this whole unprecedented two billion
Speaker 4: dollar fund that the president gets a chance to spend
Speaker 4: out where he wants. Which do you do there? I
Speaker 4: could see justifying it. Yeah, you know what, I'm better
Speaker 4: off in the Senate than this Paxton guy. Or what
Speaker 4: if he loses and there's a Democrat, We're better off
Speaker 4: with me saying nice things about this fund and keeping
Speaker 4: my job.
Speaker 2: He didn't.
Speaker 6: You know, you gotta be quick on your feet and say, hey,
Speaker 6: I understand the idea. A lot of folks were injured
Speaker 6: by the weaponization of the Justice Department under Biden, and
Speaker 6: there ought to be some sort of compensation. Then behind
Speaker 6: the scenes, you're like, we can't do this, We cannot
Speaker 6: do this.
Speaker 2: Can you do it?
Speaker 4: Keavin news to me saying what it's about fairness? There
Speaker 4: but for the grace of God, and nobody has the
Speaker 4: idea what you actually mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, which is the more principled thing to do, because
Speaker 6: now Ken Paxton might be in the Senate and he's
Speaker 6: a much less principal guy than Cornan in my opinion.
Speaker 4: Well, a lot of Republicans last week, we're getting leaned
Speaker 4: on pretty hard to not endorse Trump's two billion dollar fund, Like,
Speaker 4: come on, this is too much, right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Are you going to pretend this is okay? And at
Speaker 4: least last week he couldn't pretend it was okay, and
Speaker 4: now he's out of a job.
Speaker 6: Early in the show, every day, Our One, the second,
Speaker 6: is it the second? No, it's the fourth segment. Last
Speaker 6: segment of Our One, we do the freedom loving quote
Speaker 6: of the day, among other things, and today's was passed
Speaker 6: along by Sergio, who was reading the forty eight Laws
Speaker 6: of Power by Machiavelli, and interestingly, quote of the freedom
Speaker 6: loving quote of the day today was a man that
Speaker 6: strives to be good, his entire life gets swallowed up
Speaker 6: by those not so naive.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so basically have very Machavelian in my opinion. But
Speaker 4: the reason I brought up that example is if you
Speaker 4: think you could be a politician and stay in office
Speaker 4: by being honest all the time.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's possible.
Speaker 4: I really do not think it's now, especially, I don't
Speaker 4: know if it ever has been. I don't know if
Speaker 4: it ever has been. Reading that book about John Adams,
Speaker 4: and I mean the very first term of Washington's presidency,
Speaker 4: I mean there was all kinds of stuff going on
Speaker 4: that that that that.
Speaker 2: Reeks of today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Washington held back announcing whether he was going to
Speaker 4: run again into the till the very end, so they
Speaker 4: wouldn't have much time to uh consolidate, you know, somebody
Speaker 4: on the other side, I mean, just.
Speaker 2: Just things like that. Yeah, Yeah, that's an interesting question.
Speaker 4: I don't think you can be And it'd be difficult
Speaker 4: for me because it'd be hard for me to stand
Speaker 4: up in front of a big crowd of people cheering
Speaker 4: and say something I don't believe. But I think you
Speaker 4: have to be able to do that to get elected.
Speaker 2: And then stay in office.
Speaker 6: Here's your moral self defense. The primary electorate, the primary
Speaker 6: voting electorate is a weird and non representative subset of
Speaker 6: the electorate as a whole. I gotta get past those
Speaker 6: lunatics to get in office and do, as Charles Crowdhammer
Speaker 6: put it, the things that matter.
Speaker 4: I don't have any choice, right. That was the point
Speaker 4: of his book, The Things that Matter. You got to
Speaker 4: play this game to get the power to do the
Speaker 4: things you care about. The Democrats have it even worse,
Speaker 4: because you're gonna have a whole bunch of people that
Speaker 4: need to raise their hand for free sex changes for
Speaker 4: illegals to try and get the nomination the legal rapists. Yeah,
Speaker 4: to then run in a general population that thinks that's
Speaker 4: a nuts position.
Speaker 6: All right, real or that reminded me of something real
Speaker 6: or parody. The state of cal Unicornia latest benefit for
Speaker 6: illegals is free solar panels.
Speaker 2: I think I read that yesterday. Yeah, yeah, it's real.
Speaker 2: It's real, of course.
Speaker 6: It's part of a giant, multi zillion dollar program to
Speaker 6: aid illegal immigrant agricultural workers, well, agricultural workers in general,
Speaker 6: half to three quarters of whom are illegal immigrants, with
Speaker 6: having refrigerators and what is it, Free solar panels, refrigerators
Speaker 6: and energy efficient windows to low income farm workers, including
Speaker 6: illegal immigrants, got to pay for year solar.
Speaker 4: Panels, fools, Many millions of dollars will be handed out
Speaker 4: in the name of equity or climate change or some
Speaker 4: other bs. Well, if you're an illegal immigrant rate who's
Speaker 4: received a taxpayer funded sex change operation, and you're recovering
Speaker 4: at home. You want to stay cool, So you got
Speaker 4: to have the AC and you gotta have the solar panels.
Speaker 6: It all fits together. We can take it in one
Speaker 6: without the other. It'd be cruel.
Speaker 4: We get update on a bowl and a number of
Speaker 4: other things. If he can stick around, stay here.
Speaker 7: Hey, Yetti.
Speaker 8: Days of protests and now clashes erupting outside an ice
Speaker 8: facility in Newark, New Jersey. At one point, Democratic Senator
Speaker 8: Andy Kim was in the middle of the chaos and
Speaker 8: said that he was pepper sprayed during a confrontation. He
Speaker 8: later posted this image showing a volunteer treating his eyes
Speaker 8: after the incident.
Speaker 4: I didn't know the ice kerfuffles were still going on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this one's in New Jersey, outside of the facility
Speaker 6: where they're demanding that everybody inside be turned loose because
Speaker 6: they've complained about the quality.
Speaker 2: Of the food. Ah.
Speaker 6: That was like my entire educational career. Nobody was picking
Speaker 6: it outside my high school saying sah, the guy's supposed
Speaker 6: to eat this crap. It's gotten violent and nutty. Luckily
Speaker 6: for that senator, he claims, we've been pepper sprayed in
Speaker 6: the eyes because that established his bona fides as a
Speaker 6: victim and a brave warrior, which is very important. Now,
Speaker 6: Tom Holman, who's been keeping a much lower profile than
Speaker 6: Ice Barbie, says, we're not done.
Speaker 9: We're not stopping deportition, not stop from the rest. I
Speaker 9: don't care about ponormous I'm not running a popularity contest.
Speaker 9: I got people saying we're not wrestling up people.
Speaker 2: You know, I agree, we're not.
Speaker 9: President Trump promised master portition, and that's what I'm going
Speaker 9: to give the American people. That's why he's sitting in
Speaker 9: the Oval office. American people want it, They're going to
Speaker 9: get it.
Speaker 4: You know, we had Sarah i Isger on the show
Speaker 4: earlier and we really I really like her commentary on
Speaker 4: lots of different issues, and I remember her talking about
Speaker 4: this particular issue once on how there'll be some hits
Speaker 4: in the polling during the ugliness of this. But at
Speaker 4: the end of the day, you get to election day
Speaker 4: and it's a year ago that all this happened. A
Speaker 4: lot of people are going to be really happy that
Speaker 4: a whole bunch of illegal got kicked out.
Speaker 2: Yes, I would agree, Yeah, absolutely true.
Speaker 6: So Alexis McAdams, who had sew cut, was reporting for
Speaker 6: Fox News from the Phrakas wearing a plain T shirt
Speaker 6: and no mic flag. That's an industry talk for the
Speaker 6: little sign on your microphone that says who you're with.
Speaker 6: So she is more or less anonymous than somebody intered
Speaker 6: or recognized her. Apparently there is some strong language in
Speaker 6: this clip. If you are easily offended, what are you
Speaker 6: listening to us for? Here's how it sounded.
Speaker 1: You are a protester who's been out here and you
Speaker 1: have a dirty mouth. But okay, so that's just what
Speaker 1: we deal with. So just for people that want to
Speaker 1: know what it's like to cover these protests, it's constant
Speaker 1: with this. This is what these people do. They want
Speaker 1: people who are in this country illegally to be released
Speaker 1: out onto the streets. D It just says that's but
Speaker 1: they're gonna do as well.
Speaker 2: Sitch, Nazi bitch, that's.
Speaker 4: What you are.
Speaker 6: And then the here says an eloquent argument there from
Speaker 6: one of the protesters, which I thought was great.
Speaker 2: You're a Nazi bitch.
Speaker 4: I have no time for the You're evil if you
Speaker 4: don't believe people should be able to come here illegally.
Speaker 4: I got no time for that.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, Well where is that story? Hang on
Speaker 6: a second, I can find it real quickly. I'd meant
Speaker 6: to get to this earlier. There we go.
Speaker 2: Let's meet the new.
Speaker 6: Leader of Massachusetts Top Teachers Union, a Democratic Socialists of
Speaker 6: America member, woman, of course, who says the US is fascist,
Speaker 6: borders are for colonizers, jack you colonizer, among other things.
Speaker 6: Let's see, here you go. Let's see new leader of
Speaker 6: the teachers' union. How interesting is there anything more traditional
Speaker 6: and fundamental to America and good public schools teaching kids
Speaker 6: to read, write, and do arithmetic, and to love their
Speaker 6: country and to become active citizens. No, she's a long
Speaker 6: time left wing activist who has denounced the United States
Speaker 6: as a fascist oligarchy, objected to national borders as a
Speaker 6: constructive colonizers, and push resolutions condemning Israel as genocidel. Let's
Speaker 6: see she, along with the what's her name, let's get
Speaker 6: her name right, deb gisol Giswaldo, along with the MTA's
Speaker 6: newly elected president, Matt Bach, is a member of the
Speaker 6: Educators for a Democratic Union, the MTA's progressive caucus, which
Speaker 6: works to quote build a social justice movement into our
Speaker 6: union and communities and dismantal structures of oppression within our
Speaker 6: union as well as other institutions.
Speaker 2: So there is actually.
Speaker 6: There are serious adults who say there should be no borders.
Speaker 6: It's a construct of colonizers. There is no notion so
Speaker 6: looney that intellectuals can't embrace it. Right, unbelievable. Our teachers' unions.
Speaker 4: Just came across a really good snarky response to where
Speaker 4: we are with the whole Iran deal. Trump's convening his
Speaker 4: cabinet as we speak, supposed to be coming up with
Speaker 4: an idea. Here's the snarky response. Iran deal nearly finalized.
Speaker 4: Last sticking points are Iran's insistence on destroying the West,
Speaker 4: killing all infidels, and imposing ism on the world. Fingers crossed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they just got to work out the details.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got to change their entire raison deetre is all.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: I was looking at I was watching a what was it?
Speaker 6: I asked for audio of it this gal who was
Speaker 6: protesting against Oh oh, it was the shot spotter microphones
Speaker 6: that they're using in cities so that if there's gun fire,
Speaker 6: a murder attempted murder. The cops can figure out where
Speaker 6: it is quickly and get there to try to catch
Speaker 6: the evildoers. And how in progressive cities they're trying to
Speaker 6: tear that stuff down because it disproportionately affects.
Speaker 2: Gunmen of color.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, Yeah, I know it's absolutely beautiful. But
Speaker 6: this purple haired, heavily tattooed chick, and I have nothing
Speaker 6: against tattoos. She was, of course, wearing a kaffia scarf. Well,
Speaker 6: she talked about shot spotter stuff, And I'm looking at
Speaker 6: some of the imagery produced by this Massachusetts Teachers Union
Speaker 6: gal and her cohort, including somebody with an automatic weapon
Speaker 6: wearing a Kaffia in a mask. What was taken by
Speaker 6: force can only be returned by force. Nice, the inevitable Kaffea,
Speaker 6: the Omni Cause, the eternal Omni Cause.
Speaker 2: It's all just Marxism.
Speaker 4: Trump just put out a new truth social post around
Speaker 4: the whole war thing. Maybe we'll get to that. We
Speaker 4: got other stuff. We'll have a big final half hour.
Speaker 4: I hope you can stay here, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 10: Ebola numbers are exploding in Central Africa, at least nine
Speaker 10: hundred reported cases and two hundred and twenty deaths, but
Speaker 10: the real numbers could be much higher. For this rare
Speaker 10: strain Bundaboujo, there is no vaccine and up to fifty
Speaker 10: percent of infections are fatal. In war torn eastern Congo
Speaker 10: and Uganda, there is little to stop the spread, shortages
Speaker 10: of protective suits, gloves, even basics like soap and water.
Speaker 10: Ebola is spread through contact with bodily fluids, and dead
Speaker 10: bodies can continue to infect the living.
Speaker 2: Funerals larger than fifty have.
Speaker 10: Been banned in parts of Congo, whilst several hospitals have
Speaker 10: come under violent at by family members seeking their loved
Speaker 10: ones bodies.
Speaker 4: Mass funerals for a bowl of victims yipes.
Speaker 2: Oh boy.
Speaker 6: And in that report they actually showed a picture of
Speaker 6: that to the mutant virus, and for some reason it
Speaker 6: was just so chilling because this is this simple, little,
Speaker 6: twisty looking microscopic thingy, but it wants to reproduce and
Speaker 6: it wants to take.
Speaker 2: Over your body to do that.
Speaker 4: So we have talked before about dynamic pricing. Is that
Speaker 4: what they call it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Is that what the term is? Yeah, dynamic pricing, that's
Speaker 4: where prices change in all kinds of different ways. There's
Speaker 4: the Wendy's near me that the same burger that costs
Speaker 4: four bucks at three in the afternoon costs five bucks
Speaker 4: at six point thirty in the evening because as they
Speaker 4: think you want it more supply and demand cetera. Sure, aw,
Speaker 4: there's a new pull out. I guess I could have
Speaker 4: jumped to that. Seventy percent of Americans are concerned.
Speaker 2: About dynamic pricing.
Speaker 4: I don't know what that means, particularly the kind where
Speaker 4: you know the ads we do for Incogniti about getting
Speaker 4: your data office service. So much of my daddy, your dad,
Speaker 4: everybody's dad is out there, and they have so much
Speaker 4: information about me, including how much money you make, or
Speaker 4: how much money you spend on various things, or your
Speaker 4: your your pain threshold for different things that you buy,
Speaker 4: and they could easily figure out that a guy like
Speaker 4: me doesn't even pay attention to what the donut costs
Speaker 4: at the donut store. Oh yeah, I just clicked my
Speaker 4: phone on it and walk out the door. I don't
Speaker 4: know what it even costs. Or you know, you're on
Speaker 4: AM and it charges me this much for this, but
Speaker 4: charges somebody else this much for that. They know on
Speaker 4: for me, I'm not gonna buy it at that price,
Speaker 4: but somebody else might. I remember when I first found
Speaker 4: out that airlines, if you sign into your app or.
Speaker 2: You're all sited here, that they're like, oh.
Speaker 6: Joe's not price sensitive, he's schedule sensitive, so don't worry
Speaker 6: about the price.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead and jack that up by seventy five.
Speaker 4: Bucks, or or he's in this income bracket so we
Speaker 4: can charge that much. I don't then add facial recognition
Speaker 4: to that stuff. You walk in the sore.
Speaker 2: And they're like, oh, yeah, here he comes.
Speaker 4: I have to assume that everything's going to be like
Speaker 4: that in the near future and there's no stopping it.
Speaker 4: And why wouldn't they do it. The only reason they
Speaker 4: didn't do it in the past was they couldn't. It's
Speaker 4: similar to walking on a car lot and the guy
Speaker 4: looks you over at your shoes and your watch and
Speaker 4: thinks he can afford this car U or as opposed
Speaker 4: to he can't afford this car, will show him this car. Well,
Speaker 4: it's basically now Amazon or Wendy's or whoever doing that
Speaker 4: for everybody and not just looking at you. They got
Speaker 4: actual data on how much money you make or how
Speaker 4: much money you spend, eat out all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 4: They probably know more about your spending habits than you do.
Speaker 6: The free market is a wonderful, smoothly functioning exchange of information,
Speaker 6: and I don't object to this.
Speaker 2: I think it's practically inevitable.
Speaker 6: The one thing that pissed me off, though, is they
Speaker 6: gave the example of dynamic pricing at a grocery store
Speaker 6: and I put a dozen eggs in my basket and
Speaker 6: then by the time I'm to the checkout there are
Speaker 6: twenty five cents more a dozen or whatever. See that
Speaker 6: strikes me is bait and switch, or not even bait
Speaker 6: and switch, just skullduggery of some sort. I don't know,
Speaker 6: mouth seasons.
Speaker 2: I won't have it. That's right.
Speaker 4: Well, how would that well, I guess that would make
Speaker 4: sense if the price of eggs goes up at six
Speaker 4: point thirty in the evening, because people are different shopping
Speaker 4: habits at that point. Put them in your basket at
Speaker 4: six twenty eight. By the time he got up there,
Speaker 4: they're more expensive. Yeah, I could happen, I suppose.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be uncool.
Speaker 6: And the other I mean, obviously there are some downsides
Speaker 6: as a consumer, but you.
Speaker 4: Know kind of the airline one makes perfect sense to me,
Speaker 4: especially if they have some sort of data about your
Speaker 4: you know, where you are in life income wise.
Speaker 2: Sure, absolutely, if we can.
Speaker 4: Charge an extra fifty bucks, he's not even going to notice.
Speaker 6: Anybody else got an airline tied credit card. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 6: thinking they may have more data on you than you're.
Speaker 4: All right, I have a Southwest card. Of course they
Speaker 4: know everything about me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, dude spends money like a lunatic. Just price it
Speaker 6: however you want. He won't, he won't blanche. But I
Speaker 6: was thinking, you know, back to the like the grocery store.
Speaker 6: I don't know, I'm picturing going to buy some running
Speaker 6: shoes or something like that. Now, it's very easy to
Speaker 6: compare prices. The Internet is really helped in that obviously,
Speaker 6: and so your chances is getting ripped off ripped off
Speaker 6: are much less. But if the dynamic pricing is going on,
Speaker 6: and I see, all right, Big five's got these shoes
Speaker 6: for one hundred and twenty bucks or they're Dick Sporting
Speaker 6: Goods or whatever, they got them for one hundred and
Speaker 6: thirty five, I'm going to Big five. Then by the
Speaker 6: time I get to Big five or one hundred and
Speaker 6: forty bucks, or they're one hundred and forty bucks for you,
Speaker 6: they wouldn't be for someone else.
Speaker 4: Well right, yeah, yeah, So anyway, seventy percent of Americans
Speaker 4: are concerned about surveillance pricing jacking up the cost of goods.
Speaker 4: That would be when they have info about you. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm concerned too.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure how much I object into what, but
Speaker 6: I'm definitely, you know, on the balls of my feet
Speaker 6: leaning forward at the waist.
Speaker 4: For ready to pounce. I don't think I think it
Speaker 4: makes perfectly good sense. You would do it too if
Speaker 4: you're in a store, and I don't think there's anything
Speaker 4: wrong with that. I don't think there's any stopping it.
Speaker 6: And you know, if I was a real populist, I
Speaker 6: could make the argument that when you know, when Joe
Speaker 6: rich leaves and poor Jim walks in, you'd think, well, yeah,
Speaker 6: we can sell it to poor Jim for a two
Speaker 6: percent margin. That's all he's got, and rich Joe just
Speaker 6: walked out, and you know, we're flush.
Speaker 4: The algorithm fueled scheme exploits customers personal data to charge
Speaker 4: different people varying prices for the same product. It's a
Speaker 4: subset of dynamic pricing. Yeah, so I suppose in the
Speaker 4: future my son gets a credit card he's out there
Speaker 4: working as he's going to this summer, I'll have him
Speaker 4: buy everything at his income level in his card and
Speaker 4: his what they know about him, get the cheaper price on. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you buy the airline tickets, the hotel room. Well venmo, Yeah,
Speaker 4: don't worry, I will eventually. So speaking of technology, I
Speaker 4: mentioned the shot Spotter thing.
Speaker 6: This is too good to pass up. And Michael, we're
Speaker 6: talking about Clip eleven. It's from Cambridge, Massachusetts. But Nelly
Speaker 6: Bowles is writing the Free Press about how in Austin
Speaker 6: and well, what she's writing about is how all the
Speaker 6: gun control people really don't want gun control because they're
Speaker 6: against anybody getting arrested, and how crazy that is. And
Speaker 6: if they arrest you, they won't prosecute you for gun
Speaker 6: enhancements that they got passed if it leads to inequity.
Speaker 6: But she points out in Austin, three people went on
Speaker 6: a twenty four hour crime spree, stealing cars and shooting
Speaker 6: at a lot of people in a lot of places.
Speaker 6: I mean horrifically dangerous. They evaded a two hundred officer
Speaker 6: manhunt that was assisted by helicopters and dogs, only to
Speaker 6: be found immediately when they entered the town of Manor, Texas.
Speaker 6: Why because manner uses flock cameras, which Austin recently banned.
Speaker 6: The flock cameras are AI assisted license plate readers.
Speaker 4: I don't like that.
Speaker 2: I know you don't. And yet the dangerous baddies were apprehended.
Speaker 2: That's no excuse.
Speaker 6: That's a perfectly good explanation of why this is useful technology.
Speaker 2: Jack is anti good law and.
Speaker 4: Order, perfectly useless excuse to live in a totalitarian surveillance state.
Speaker 6: What if there are carefully maintain standards for when you
Speaker 6: can access the data, don't make flappy lip noises at me, sir.
Speaker 4: It's gonna enforce those to make sure that's happening nobody.
Speaker 2: It'll become a police state.
Speaker 4: But it is ironic where we're screaming so far that direction,
Speaker 4: so fast as he saw in that town. Because this
Speaker 4: is an obvious one you could. I used to work
Speaker 4: at bars. I worked at this country bar for four years,
Speaker 4: and half the people leaving that bar were drunk at
Speaker 4: two o'clock in the morning every Friday and Saturday night.
Speaker 4: And I always thought why don't they just set up
Speaker 4: a dui checkpoint right there? They get they but we
Speaker 4: don't do that. You could, you could do that lots
Speaker 4: of places all the time. You could pull over everybody
Speaker 4: after midnight on a Friday night and you'd get lots
Speaker 4: of drunks that way. But we don't do that for
Speaker 4: a variety of reasons.
Speaker 6: Right liberty, unless you give the government an excuse to
Speaker 6: intrude on your liberty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but when it's well, for whatever reason we do.
Speaker 4: If there's this whole license plate reader thing or now
Speaker 4: ai license plate reader would basically pull over every single
Speaker 4: car to see if they've done anything wrong.
Speaker 2: M So you're soft on crime.
Speaker 6: So getting back to the gun thing and shot spotter,
Speaker 6: which you know, I want your opinion on this as
Speaker 6: a liberal clearly.
Speaker 2: So. Shot spotter is this system that it's so much fun.
Speaker 6: It's the system that detects gunshots and alerts cops so
Speaker 6: that presumably the gun shots will stop. As Nelly Bowles writes,
Speaker 6: the Cambridge City Council just voted five to two to
Speaker 6: end the city's use of shot Spotter. It's basically because
Speaker 6: it turns out that most of the gunshots are detected
Speaker 6: black neighborhoods, which is racist somehow.
Speaker 2: So now we're pro gun rights.
Speaker 6: Now we must allow natural gun violence to unfold and
Speaker 6: not interfere. If the neighborhood residents want to shoot each
Speaker 6: other one day, it's none of the cops business. Some
Speaker 6: shots shouldn't be spotted, she writes. But here's a bit
Speaker 6: of an edit of some of the testifiers at the
Speaker 6: Cambridge City Council meeting, all of them youngsters, couple of
Speaker 6: them sporting effing kafias.
Speaker 11: I do not consent for my vulnerable neighbors in our
Speaker 11: welcome community sanctuary city to be at risk.
Speaker 7: And to make sure we hear from neighbors more directly
Speaker 7: impacted than I am. I will also be sharing a
Speaker 7: recorded note from a Putnam Gardens resident. He's unable to
Speaker 7: be here but feels that shot spotter surveillance puts him
Speaker 7: and his family at risk.
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Speaker 5: This puts black and brown communities in Cambridge in very
Speaker 5: real danger.
Speaker 11: That BIPOC members of the Cambridge community are more likely
Speaker 11: to be recorded by shot spotter and thus are more
Speaker 11: vulnerable to potential abuses of the data and recordings collected
Speaker 11: by the company, as well as dangerous over policing. Surveillance
Speaker 11: does not equal safety. We do not need microphones on
Speaker 11: top of buildings, listening to every loud noise in the
Speaker 11: vicinity and sending in police in order to be safe.
Speaker 4: I like the idea that so the argument that people
Speaker 4: make regularly of well, I don't care if they pull
Speaker 4: over everybody. I'm not doing anything wrong. You just haven't
Speaker 4: read enough history or whatever. That's that goes a bad direction.
Speaker 4: But in the case of firing off guns, right might work.
Speaker 4: I'm not too worried about the shot spotters because when's
Speaker 4: the last time I fired off a gun in town?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 2: Never? And likely that I ever will? Uh probably not.
Speaker 6: I like the one gal who said that the investigations
Speaker 6: were disproportionately affecting.
Speaker 4: By neighborhoods where they shoot guns.
Speaker 6: In other words, the people shooting guns tend to be
Speaker 6: you know, ethnic this or that or what do you
Speaker 6: want us to do about that? But that's how perverse
Speaker 6: and twisted the whole disparate impact philosophy it is. It
Speaker 6: just doesn't make any sense. The other thing I wanted
Speaker 6: to highlight and I'm sure you noticed that, y'all. Was
Speaker 6: how there's always the appeals of it makes them unsafe,
Speaker 6: it puts them at risk, it brings danger to they
Speaker 6: are unsafe.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. Stop it with your safety worship.
Speaker 6: Don't don't squeeze off shots at each other as you
Speaker 6: want to be more safe, quit shooting each other.
Speaker 4: I guarantee you this is an example of over educated
Speaker 4: white people protecting a group that would say, uh, I
Speaker 4: love the idea of you figuring out who's squeezing off
Speaker 4: gunshots in my neighborhood and you arrest them and then
Speaker 4: I don't have to worry about it anymore.
Speaker 2: So bring it on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, especially because I'm terrified to testify against them because
Speaker 6: they might hurt me and my family. So yeah, some
Speaker 6: good shot spotting evidence and getting arrested in the act
Speaker 6: sounds great to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 6: Those were almost exclusively college educated to white people.
Speaker 4: We have the data on that when defund the police
Speaker 4: was a thing the neighborhoods where they got lots of crime,
Speaker 4: they didn't want to defund the police. You want to
Speaker 4: in your nice neighborhood. You think I don't need police,
Speaker 4: and it would make it better. I think I do
Speaker 4: need police.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 6: This is purely a thought experiment, and I know we
Speaker 6: have to take a break because I am a man
Speaker 6: of peace.
Speaker 2: I abhorror political violence, that sort of thing. But it's
Speaker 2: a thought experiment.
Speaker 6: If I were to just automatically punch everyone I see,
Speaker 6: like rocking the Kafia or the Kaffia scarf, and then
Speaker 6: assessed at the end of the day, how many of
Speaker 6: those deserved a good punching. What were the percentage back
Speaker 6: a punching coming? Yeah, exactly. That's up to you in
Speaker 6: your own heart and mind, folks. I'm just asking the questions.
Speaker 2: In your own heart. We will finish Strong next.
Speaker 6: If you didn't hear our interview with Sarah Isger, the
Speaker 6: brilliant Sarah Isger, about her new book, you ought to
Speaker 6: check it out via podcast Armstrong and getting on demand
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Speaker 6: as an extra large but super stimulating chat about her
Speaker 6: book about the Supreme Court Last Branch Standing so enjoyable.
Speaker 4: You brought us the news yesterday and I had seen
Speaker 4: this article about the new Ferrari, the new electric Ferrari
Speaker 4: that's out. It's about six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: Good looking car, it's electric, it's the first electric Ferrari.
Speaker 6: I was gonna puay one for cash, but it's six
Speaker 6: point fifty. I think I'll finance maybe two hundred thousands.
Speaker 4: Called the lucha the Ferrari Luce. Well, not everybody likes it,
Speaker 4: including the guy who used to run Ferrari, some old.
Speaker 2: Italian.
Speaker 4: He said, I cannot say what I really think it
Speaker 4: would harm Ferrari. We risked the destruction of a legend,
Speaker 4: so sorry, take the prance eating horse off it. At
Speaker 4: least I don't have to worry about the Chinese copying
Speaker 4: this one so crappy the Chinese wouldn't want to copy it,
Speaker 4: he says of the new Ferrari.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of people said it looks like a
Speaker 2: Nissan leaf, which is like, you know, a lot less that.
Speaker 4: I got a neighbor who's got a Ferrari and a
Speaker 4: super fancy Porsche and a Cadillac V with the motor
Speaker 4: and I don't know what he does for a living,
Speaker 4: but anyway.
Speaker 2: His Ferrari is badass.
Speaker 4: Most of them leave me kind of cold. But it
Speaker 4: has a good looking car. He's got a running I
Speaker 4: don't know what he does. I'm always peering in his windows.
Speaker 4: Seems to live alone. He's got a he's got a
Speaker 4: grand piano in his living room. Wow, I'm thinking childless
Speaker 4: and single. I'm thinking affectation or does he play? I
Speaker 4: don't know the piano.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: If you're super super into cars and that's like your thing,
Speaker 6: you'd still have to have a hell of a lot
Speaker 6: of money all those cars.
Speaker 2: But what he does for a living.
Speaker 6: Tell him there's no way he earned that. He stole
Speaker 6: this right, That's what AOC says.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 4: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: I love that so much. Well done, whoever did that.
Speaker 6: Let's get a final thought from the whole truncated crew
Speaker 6: to wrap up the show for the day. There he
Speaker 6: is pressing the buttons in the control room, Michael Angelo.
Speaker 2: Michael, what's your final thought?
Speaker 6: You know, when I'm craving a good pizza, I'm the
Speaker 6: perfect victim for dynamic pricing.
Speaker 4: I might be willing to miss the car payment, you know, yeah,
Speaker 4: figuring out if I can figure out how hungry you
Speaker 4: are at the moment that you ordered the pizza or drunk?
Speaker 2: Oh if they can price it like after you've already
Speaker 2: smelled it.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 2: Imagine if you're drunk. Oh, this guy's drunk.
Speaker 4: You'll pay anything for this.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's insidious. Jack.
Speaker 4: A final thought for us, You got a super super
Speaker 4: super fancy car like my neighbor with the Ferrari. Well,
Speaker 4: I don't know how you park it anywhere without worrying
Speaker 4: about it all the time. I'd be just just horrified
Speaker 4: by the idea of getting adorning or something.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I don't know, somebody getting my car and
Speaker 6: spilling a pop or something. My final thought is, must
Speaker 6: be nice to be don Junior. You get rid of
Speaker 6: your old squeeze and hey, you have with your father
Speaker 6: the president. Send her to Europe and get her out
Speaker 6: of the country. Kim Guilfoyle posting that she was at
Speaker 6: the ribbon cutting for a new McDonald's in Greece the
Speaker 6: other day. She's the new ambassador to the the grease.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Just get her on the other side of the planet
Speaker 4: so I don't have to deal with her, right Armstrong,
Speaker 4: You getting wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2: We'll see it tomorrow.
Speaker 4: God bless America. All right, I just got one final question,
Speaker 4: I got Lord or not say you said yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah you did, you absolutely did.
Speaker 4: And LGDP l g LBCHI it's a little too much.
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Speaker 4: No, thank you.
Speaker 2: In Idaho Andrew crap bouchet crap Buschettes. Can I say
Speaker 2: his name on the air? Pretty name? Are you that
Speaker 2: high note? Thank you all very much