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 Getty and now he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3: Ice.
Speaker 4: They need more people, so they're having a big recruitment program,
Speaker 4: no age limit.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: They announced this week also a signing BTUs. You have
Speaker 4: fifty thousand dollars signing btis you could put a porch
Speaker 4: on your house for that. Good luck to find anyone
Speaker 4: who could build it, but.
Speaker 2: You could find it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a little construction going on at my place,
Speaker 3: and I've got to admit, if there was a raid,
Speaker 3: I'd be afraid.
Speaker 2: About the rate of progress going forward.
Speaker 3: Gotcha, Although I have no idea, and I've actually talked
Speaker 3: to I've talked to a number of construction pros, not
Speaker 3: only recently but through the years, and they all say
Speaker 3: roughly the same thing. That my guys all have paperwork
Speaker 3: that I think is in order my subcontractor. The head
Speaker 3: guy's a really good guy, and he says the same
Speaker 3: thing to me.
Speaker 2: But I have no idea.
Speaker 3: And then as you go down the line, I mean,
Speaker 3: just the rigor of checking people and what's the incentive
Speaker 3: is there? Are no significant distances to be rigorous about
Speaker 3: checking the paperwork in. Just since you brought that up,
Speaker 3: the Centers for Immigration Studies put out the latest Daddy yesterday,
Speaker 3: an unprecedented two point two million person decline in total
Speaker 3: foreign born or immigrant population between January and July of
Speaker 3: this year. Two point two million less illegals in this
Speaker 3: country in six months.
Speaker 2: Did they all flee back home? That's the assumption. Huh.
Speaker 2: I would like to deport about that number they self deported.
Speaker 2: It's possible.
Speaker 3: Anyway, more than we've we've we haven't even touched on
Speaker 3: perhaps the biggest story of the week or month, Taylor
Speaker 3: Swift's giant announcement yesterday. Many soccer moms and some soccer
Speaker 3: dads I've known who care a lot about this. We
Speaker 3: need to promise to get to that next segment. Many
Speaker 3: soccer daughters as well, and sons. And that's fine, son,
Speaker 3: Your mom and I loved you very much, no matter
Speaker 3: what orientations.
Speaker 2: Disappointed out of the will.
Speaker 3: So speaking of young people, we'll get to this later on.
Speaker 3: Meet the parents raising carnivore babies, babies that they feed
Speaker 3: only meat and protein too.
Speaker 2: It's the latest trend. You should know about Jack.
Speaker 3: I think I was confronted before the show today getting
Speaker 3: ready with at least three different trends I needed to
Speaker 3: know about if I might one hundred fing weirdos online
Speaker 3: is not a trend. Neither is a thousand. Really, neither
Speaker 3: is ten thousand. We're a country of three hundred and
Speaker 3: forty million people, never mind the fact that it's a
Speaker 3: global village. There is no idea so stupid lunatic, just
Speaker 3: kind of specialized that you can't get ten thousand people
Speaker 3: around the world to say I'm totally into this too,
Speaker 3: and then I have to hear about it, whether it's
Speaker 3: the Jujub's or what was the name of those dopey
Speaker 3: dolls yesterday, Lulu la Hulu's, Zuzu's boo boos?
Speaker 2: Was it boululus? What is it? Katie?
Speaker 3: You got lollapaloozas, so clus la booboos la booboos, right
Speaker 3: to lollapaloozas. I just think I think you could argue
Speaker 3: that even if a million people are doing something, it's
Speaker 3: not a trend. I need to hear about, h arguably
Speaker 3: why a million people are into something?
Speaker 2: Who cares? Right?
Speaker 3: Right? But anyway, this whole carnivore baby thing. We'll talk
Speaker 3: about that, carnivore babies. What is your goal?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll stay tuned. I don't even have the energy.
Speaker 2: Maybe I need to eat more meat.
Speaker 3: Anyway, there are all sorts of stuff, all sorts of
Speaker 3: things we could talk about, but just at least briefly,
Speaker 3: a little feature ed I'd like to call ai oh no, what.
Speaker 2: Did you say? This is called? It's called ai oh no? Wow.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 3: It's got It tells you what the topic is and
Speaker 3: then denotes a sense of.
Speaker 2: Urgency, right and foreboding.
Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, that's what I was going for so first
Speaker 3: of all, and I wasn't even gonna include this, but
Speaker 3: it's kind of stuck in the back of my mind.
Speaker 3: Is a think piece I think it was in the
Speaker 3: Free Press talking about the appeal of socialism these days,
Speaker 3: and how you know, we've turned out a couple of
Speaker 3: generations of youngsters who are absolutely you know, indoctrinated, brainwashed
Speaker 3: into thinking, you know, the Western world's bad and capitalism
Speaker 3: is bad and collectivism and.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. We all know all the whole woke thing,
Speaker 2: the whole critical theory thing. And then they point out.
Speaker 3: You combine that with a future in which the very
Speaker 3: first jobs and job prospects that are going to disappear
Speaker 3: because of AI are whitish, color ishes, sort of needed
Speaker 3: a college degree, but not really cubicle. I'm too upper
Speaker 3: cross to work with my hands. I work in an
Speaker 3: office type jobs. Those are going to be disappearing in droves. Wow,
Speaker 3: among a collective of people that's already pretty enthusiastic about socialism,
Speaker 3: and how about how capitalism is stacked against the people
Speaker 3: and it only serves the few, and blah blah blah,
Speaker 3: and and they you know, they said to the obvious
Speaker 3: Mamdonnie and other people.
Speaker 2: But it's going to get harder and harder.
Speaker 3: I think to stand on the beach and turn back
Speaker 3: that tide.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think that's a chance anyway.
Speaker 3: The fabulous Peggy Noonan is writing about that and other things,
Speaker 3: and she quotes a piece by the writer John Ellis,
Speaker 3: who's been on the AI story for years, and she says,
Speaker 3: brings an interesting combination of common sense and imagination to
Speaker 3: the available information on his sub stack. He argued that quote,
Speaker 3: the overwhelming force of AI is bearing down on the
Speaker 3: job market people. He says can see it coming, and
Speaker 3: yet quote, I drive up and down Old Post Road
Speaker 3: in Fairfield County almost every day.
Speaker 2: I happen to know that road very well.
Speaker 3: What I do I pass office buildings and storefronts that
Speaker 3: are the workplaces of insurance brokers, local and regional bankers,
Speaker 3: mortgage brokers, lawyers, accountants, consultants, marketers, real estate agents, etc.
Speaker 3: And what I think about all those people as I
Speaker 3: passed them by, is this, The companies they work for
Speaker 3: will employ ten to twenty five percent fewer of them
Speaker 3: in probably two years, maybe.
Speaker 2: Three twenty five percent fewer in a couple of years.
Speaker 2: That's that's major.
Speaker 3: And what those people do for a living will be
Speaker 3: done by AI, interestingly enough, and it's worth mentioning the
Speaker 3: other side of the coin. This same writer offers Microsoft's
Speaker 3: Microsoft's lists of twenty professions AI likely won't touch include
Speaker 3: flora sanders and finishers, roofers, motor boat operators, rodeo click operating,
Speaker 3: motor rodeo clowns. No, No, absolutely safe from AI. Massage
Speaker 3: therapists and pile driver operators. Ah how to operate a
Speaker 3: motor boat or operate a pile driver? I just don't know,
Speaker 3: that's what I should have gotten into. Anyway, I thought
Speaker 3: that was interesting. Then you have this story. AI is
Speaker 3: forcing the return of the in person job interview. Virtual
Speaker 3: interviews have become the new Norman hiring in recent years,
Speaker 3: driven by the rise of remote work. Companies desire to
Speaker 3: speed up hiring. The problem is more candidates are using
Speaker 3: AI tools to cheat by feeding them answers off screen.
Speaker 3: Why wouldn't they got your screen going then one right
Speaker 3: over there, right by the camera, so it looks like
Speaker 3: they're looking at you, but they're looking at the answers
Speaker 3: to the questions. And if you're interviewing people for like
Speaker 3: coding jobs or technical jobs especially, they can substitute, you know,
Speaker 3: the AI thing for any level of knowledge that they have.
Speaker 3: Of course, I suppose you could argue, we'll just have
Speaker 3: them bring that to work then and they'll get the
Speaker 3: job done, right, But they mentioned Cisco, McKinsey, Google are
Speaker 3: doing in person interviews now, partly for the reason I
Speaker 3: gave it, and partly.
Speaker 2: Because now you've got the what do you call it?
Speaker 3: I can't remember the specific technology, but the technology that
Speaker 3: like North Korean scammers are using to impersonate other people.
Speaker 3: They change their face, they change their voice in real time,
Speaker 3: they interview remotely, and then they they're not at all deep.
Speaker 2: Fake videos and audios. That's what I was looking for.
Speaker 3: And they're swindlers and they end up getting the jobs,
Speaker 3: and so the in person interview. But what do you
Speaker 3: do on you get the job? What do you do
Speaker 3: once you get the job if you're not qualified? Or
Speaker 3: are companies want to avoid sending cash to North Koreans
Speaker 3: who are working illegally because they don't want to be
Speaker 3: party to it. In a survey of three thousand job
Speaker 3: seekers by research advisory group Gartner this year, six percent
Speaker 3: said they had participated in interview fraud, either posing as
Speaker 3: somebody else or having someone stand.
Speaker 2: In for them. Wow.
Speaker 3: And Gartner predicted that by twenty twenty eight, one in
Speaker 3: four job candidate profiles worldwide will be fake. One in four.
Speaker 3: It's just too tempting. It's like the kids using AI
Speaker 3: to help them write their high school report. It's just
Speaker 3: right there. And as soon as you're hear about it,
Speaker 3: you think I got to do this, Yes, sir, can
Speaker 3: I throw in my one AI?
Speaker 2: Oh story? AI? Oh? No, Well that's right, what it is?
Speaker 2: I don't know?
Speaker 3: Yeah, woman gets engaged to AI fiance after five months. Oh,
Speaker 3: you really should get to know your AI fiance better.
Speaker 3: Five months is pretty quick, but you know, if you're
Speaker 3: in love, you're in love.
Speaker 2: I was gonna go.
Speaker 3: With I feel like I'm going crazy chat GPT fuels delusional.
Speaker 2: Spirals, but your sounds more fun. Proceed.
Speaker 3: Woman gets engaged to AI fiance after five months and
Speaker 3: insists she's fully aware of what she's doing. What I
Speaker 3: couldn't tell from reading the interview And the only reason
Speaker 3: I bring this to you is I couldn't tell if
Speaker 3: it was just somebody trying to get attention online or
Speaker 3: just absolutely completely nutty. She fell in love with an
Speaker 3: AI bot, and we've heard about this sort of thing
Speaker 3: so well. I was sure what getting engaged means. Did
Speaker 3: the freaking AI bot proposed to her might have?
Speaker 2: Wow? Wow, what an intriguing question.
Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, this person is either an
Speaker 3: attention horror or a crazy person. I would ask you,
Speaker 3: why do you need to get engaged to the AI?
Speaker 3: So I'll show you.
Speaker 2: You know, if you if you give the milk away,
Speaker 2: the cow is free or whatever. The whole thing. I
Speaker 2: don't think that's it exactly yeah, yeah, I don't like.
Speaker 3: I don't think the AI is going to date other
Speaker 3: people unless you make it clear.
Speaker 2: So are we exclusive at this? I don't even get
Speaker 2: what that means.
Speaker 3: And when you quote unquote, you know, tie the knot
Speaker 3: you actually get married, because it's not clear to me
Speaker 3: is this a short engagement or a long one? When
Speaker 3: you actually tie the knot? How has that changed anything?
Speaker 3: So I suggested a few minutes ago that if my
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Speaker 3: and the new inflation inflation numbers came out today. But
Speaker 3: we've also got this major Taylor Swift announcement. So all
Speaker 3: that stuff on the way stay here, army. So I
Speaker 3: wanted to show you something.
Speaker 2: Okay, what do we got?
Speaker 3: We got.
Speaker 2: A briefcase. Yep, Mick Green, yep.
Speaker 5: This is my brand new album, The Life of a Showgirls.
Speaker 3: So that was Taylor Swift on the Kelsey Brothers podcast yesterday,
Speaker 3: which is very popular with Travis and his brother what's
Speaker 3: his brother's name? Nobody's sure Taylor and very popular podcast,
Speaker 3: and Taylor Swift announced a new album which is a
Speaker 3: really big deal. And if you're you know, not as Swiftian,
Speaker 3: rolling your eyes to that. Do you remember the economic
Speaker 3: impact her concert appearances made in cities all across the world.
Speaker 3: It is a big deal if she comes to your
Speaker 3: city promoting her album for your restaurants, for your hotels,
Speaker 3: for your clothing stores, for your everything. And she's got
Speaker 3: a new album she announced yesterday.
Speaker 2: Excellent, I will plan accordingly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is uh, Travis Kelsey?
Speaker 2: Is he spent enough time focused on the plan for
Speaker 2: the Kansas City Chiefs this year?
Speaker 3: Is he still a little too into the hole being
Speaker 3: a celebrity of the podcast and Dayton Dalor Swift as
Speaker 3: a Chiefs fan.
Speaker 2: I'm just wondering. I have no idea he would be
Speaker 2: famous if it wasn't for Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3: Right, Andrew Cuomo thinks he's found an angle for taking
Speaker 3: on the communist Mumdanni there for mayor in New York City.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if this is gonna work or not,
Speaker 3: but this is his latest angle. So Mumdannie has been
Speaker 3: bragging apparently for a long time, all through his campaign
Speaker 3: and on the stump and st like that about he
Speaker 3: how he only he and his wife only paid twenty
Speaker 3: three hundred dollars a month in rent in New York
Speaker 3: because they've got it's not rent controlled. What's the other
Speaker 3: term for something like that. It's a slightly different version,
Speaker 3: but the same sort of thing where you're you as
Speaker 3: the landlord. You're not allowed to use the free market
Speaker 3: to decide what the rent is. And he brags about
Speaker 3: that all the time. And Andrew Cuomo's going after him
Speaker 3: for Hey, you have well I'll read what he has
Speaker 3: been tweeting out lately. Somewhere last night in New York City,
Speaker 3: a single mother and her children slept at a homeless
Speaker 3: shelter because you, Assemblyman Mundomni are occupying her rent control department.
Speaker 3: You grew up rich and married an even wealthier woman.
Speaker 3: You've had a wedding on three continents. You own property
Speaker 3: in blah blah blah, all these different places. You make
Speaker 3: one hundred and forty two thousand dollars a year plus stipends.
Speaker 3: That doesn't sound like a lot of money in New York.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if I call you rich
Speaker 3: in New York. But anyway, they followed the information about
Speaker 3: their wedding a couple of weeks ago. Good lord, I
Speaker 3: think it was in Dubai or someplace like that. So
Speaker 3: there is a lot of wealth in that family somewhere.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Clearly your wife works too. No matter which way you
Speaker 3: cut at, Mamdani is a rich person. You're actually very rich.
Speaker 3: Yet you and your wife paid twenty three hundred dollars
Speaker 3: a month, as you have bragged for a nice apartment
Speaker 3: in a Storio. This should be housing for someone who
Speaker 3: needs it. And Andrew Cuomo making the points that like
Speaker 3: classic socialist communists sort of people, you like this sort of.
Speaker 2: System, but you game it.
Speaker 3: The fact that he cleaned he was African American to
Speaker 3: get into college.
Speaker 2: Technically it is, but we.
Speaker 3: All know the whole the boxes for black people, not
Speaker 3: for rich white kids who happened to be born in Africa.
Speaker 3: And he knows that too when he checked the box
Speaker 3: for African American. And he's found a way into this
Speaker 3: rent cultrolled thing with some sort of loophole to where
Speaker 3: he gets to do it, and he brags about it. Right,
Speaker 3: So that is what socialists do. Yeah, absolutely true. A
Speaker 3: couple of things. I read a great essay the other
Speaker 3: day about how he and his family seeking opportunity and freedom,
Speaker 3: came to the United States and then as soon as
Speaker 3: he was indoctrinated in college. He came out screaming that
Speaker 3: we need to tear the whole thing down and turn
Speaker 3: it into a socialist utopia, which is just unbelievably, you know,
Speaker 3: stupid and abusive of his adoptive country. Second thing is
Speaker 3: Cuomo's problem is Mmdonnie is doing nothing illegal. He is
Speaker 3: following the laws Cuomo himself promoted and signed. That's pretty
Speaker 3: good pushback. Yeah, so good luck. Cuomo's a piece of crap.
Speaker 3: He is an absolute, one hundred percent piece of crap,
Speaker 3: And I love you. If you only wanted to talk
Speaker 3: about him as an administrator, he's a piece of crap.
Speaker 3: But if you wanted to leave that out and only
Speaker 3: talk about him as a human in his personal life,
Speaker 3: he's an absolute piece of crap.
Speaker 2: So I'm both ends.
Speaker 5: He's one hundred percent piece of crap, and he's a
Speaker 5: better choice, and he's a better choice than the socialist
Speaker 5: well well, and he's the only choice to take on
Speaker 5: the socialist man New York, check.
Speaker 2: Yourself, what have you become? Good lord? What did Trump
Speaker 2: do in DC?
Speaker 3: Take it over the police, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital
Speaker 6: from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse. This is
Speaker 6: liberation Day in DC, and we're.
Speaker 2: Going to take our capital back. We're taking it back
Speaker 2: worse than squalor. That's right.
Speaker 3: President Trump declaring the federal government is going to take
Speaker 3: control of policing more or less in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: Citing a fairly obscure bit.
Speaker 2: Of federal law.
Speaker 3: He mentioned it like Hitler, right, sure, when he took
Speaker 3: over DC, he mentioned that there is a higher murder
Speaker 3: rate in DC than Mexico City, Bogota, Columbia, some of
Speaker 3: the worst places on earth.
Speaker 2: Presidents of those countries are like, wait what anyway, and he.
Speaker 3: Went off, you know, at some length, as Trump is
Speaker 3: wont to do, says we'll bring in the military if necessary.
Speaker 3: Then he turned it over to US attorney, the new
Speaker 3: US attorney for that area none other than Judge Janine
Speaker 3: Janine Piro of Fox News fame.
Speaker 7: I see too much violent crime being committed by young
Speaker 7: punks who think that they can get together in gangs
Speaker 7: and crews and beat the hell out of you or
Speaker 7: anyone else. They don't care where they are. They can
Speaker 7: be in DuPont Circle, but they know that we can't
Speaker 7: touch them. Why because the laws are weak. I can't
Speaker 7: touch you. If you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old
Speaker 7: and you have a gun. I convict someone of shooting
Speaker 7: another peron and with an illegal gun on a public
Speaker 7: bus in the chest, intent to kill. I convict him,
Speaker 7: and you know what, the judge gives him probation, says
Speaker 7: you should go to college. We need to go after
Speaker 7: the DC Council and their absurd laws. We need to
Speaker 7: get rid of this concept of you know, no cash fail.
Speaker 7: We need to recognize that the people who matter are
Speaker 7: the law abiding citizens always.
Speaker 3: That's what's always left out. As I once said in
Speaker 3: a city council meeting, how about us, the taxpayers will
Speaker 3: follow the rules?
Speaker 2: Is anybody thinking about us?
Speaker 3: But you know, whether it's really bad crimes like getting
Speaker 3: shot in the chest, or just quality of life like
Speaker 3: my town My son has been talking about because he's
Speaker 3: out late on Friday and Saturday nights. He's a teenager,
Speaker 3: and he's talking about the sketchy people that come to
Speaker 3: town later at night, and he said they're from other
Speaker 3: towns and it's because they know there's no police here.
Speaker 3: Nobody's going to arrest you over here for doing the
Speaker 3: sort of stuff you do back in your town. People
Speaker 3: catch on and then and then you're just your quality
Speaker 3: of life goes down along with you know, the actual crime.
Speaker 3: Well it's all quality of life, but just just your
Speaker 3: feeling of safety and normalcy goes away. So the media
Speaker 3: responded as a herd, as they always do to this announcement.
Speaker 3: Let's start with the fifty two, Michael, a little montage
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 1: We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country, and what we're.
Speaker 7: Seeing play out here is Donald Trump's promise to be
Speaker 7: a dictator on day one.
Speaker 8: Trump has seemingly never met a dictator.
Speaker 2: He doesn't like it's some real dictator type stuff.
Speaker 3: It This goes on for twenty more seconds, but you
Speaker 3: got the idea, and that's just from yesterday.
Speaker 2: Oh then, god, oh my god.
Speaker 3: More significantly, montage number two, as bugs Bunny would pronounce it,
Speaker 3: the clip fifty three, Michael, you really.
Speaker 9: Did hear the president paint quite a ystopian picture of Washington,
Speaker 9: d C. Saying that it was overtaken by violent gangs,
Speaker 9: by bloodthirsty criminals. Using this imagery that doesn't necessarily comport
Speaker 9: with a lot of people's experience in this city.
Speaker 8: I think there's an ongoing argument that he's having in
Speaker 8: his head with Black Lives Matter. There's an ongoing argument
Speaker 8: that he's having with the questions around criminal justice reform
Speaker 8: and police reform. He's going to undermine the democratic process
Speaker 8: in the district.
Speaker 10: He has always felt that American cities, especially those with
Speaker 10: large black populations like Washington, d C, are crime ridden
Speaker 10: and run by incompetent leadership.
Speaker 3: All right, that's not exactly what I thought it was,
Speaker 3: But there was an immediate, just uniform backlash that crime
Speaker 3: is actually down in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: At that thirty or lows or murders her way down.
Speaker 3: Every single time I heard this story about Trump one
Speaker 3: the federalized DC.
Speaker 2: Or whatever you call it, it.
Speaker 3: Was accompanied by crime is actually down.
Speaker 2: So a couple of responses to that number.
Speaker 3: One, Yes, there was an absolutely horrific peak of crime
Speaker 3: during COVID. It happened in a lot of different places,
Speaker 3: including Washington, d C. And indeed, the murder numbers which
Speaker 3: are still going to be near two hundred murders this
Speaker 3: year in a comparatively fairly small city, which is a terrible,
Speaker 3: terrible number. But yeah, they are down from the absolutely
Speaker 3: horrific years of the Biden administration. But Joe Scarborough on
Speaker 3: Morning Joe and once in a while, old Joe kind
Speaker 3: of recovers who he used to be a moderate realist. Well,
Speaker 3: they tempted him with money and he went for the check.
Speaker 2: I get it. But go ahead and with forty three
Speaker 2: Michael in, we'll play the next one.
Speaker 11: I don't care what the crime statistics say. Crime has
Speaker 11: been a problem in.
Speaker 2: This city for the thirty two years.
Speaker 11: I've been living inside and outside of the City's shown.
Speaker 11: We're talking to somebody who lives in the city. These
Speaker 11: are all Democrats who said, you know, our friends won't
Speaker 11: walk more than three blocks in DC at night without filthcare.
Speaker 11: Complete opposite of New York City. I mean New York
Speaker 11: is a safe, safe place.
Speaker 2: Washington, d C.
Speaker 11: Man, it's door to door, very dangerous there. Glad the
Speaker 11: crime rates are going down, but there is no sense
Speaker 11: of security for people who have been living in that
Speaker 11: city for thirty years.
Speaker 3: Well, good for Joe Shcarborough and one more, kyro Phillips
Speaker 3: of ABC News.
Speaker 1: So you first hand here in downtown d C where
Speaker 1: we work, right here around our bureau.
Speaker 7: Just in the.
Speaker 1: Past six months. You know, there were two people shot.
Speaker 1: One person died literally two blocks down here from the bureau.
Speaker 1: It was within the last two years that I actually
Speaker 1: was jumped walking just two blocks down from here. And
Speaker 1: then just this morning, one of my co workers said
Speaker 1: her car was stolen. It's happened to a lot of
Speaker 1: people in our holding. Sadly, he was homeless and half dressed.
Speaker 1: Clearly wasn't in his clear mind. It was scary as hell.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to lie, but I fought back. I
Speaker 1: didn't see any weapons in his hands. I felt like
Speaker 1: it was my only choice.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: You know, Genine Piro is a conservative, granted, but listen
Speaker 3: to her describing her life in DC.
Speaker 7: This is the shining city on the hill that our
Speaker 7: forefathers talked about. This is the place where Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 2: Talked about looking up to.
Speaker 7: And in the end, it is an incredibly violent area.
Speaker 7: And you know, whether crime is up or down, you know,
Speaker 7: they want to pack themselves on the back and say, gee,
Speaker 7: it's great, it's not as bad as it used to be.
Speaker 2: It is horrific.
Speaker 3: And then Leland Vitter, a News Nation, points out that
Speaker 3: the murder rate in d C is five times that
Speaker 3: in New York City. So all right, so's that's one
Speaker 3: point number one. You get the institutional media saying.
Speaker 2: The crime is down. Trump has no justification, crime is down.
Speaker 3: But then you get the media folks who actually live
Speaker 3: and work in DC saying it's really really bad.
Speaker 2: Point number two.
Speaker 3: And this is worth mentioning, you know, political for Politico,
Speaker 3: for instance, reported just yesterday that quote, crime in Washington
Speaker 3: hit a thirty year low last year, despite the President
Speaker 3: declaring a public safety emergency in the district and attempting
Speaker 3: to cast the city is dangerous. That's a quote, attempting
Speaker 3: to cast the city is dangerous and pr proted. Those
Speaker 3: words of violent crime plunged to a thirty year low
Speaker 3: last year, according to the US Department of Justice. The Guardian,
Speaker 3: Washington Post all all practically the same verbiage, and none
Speaker 3: of them mentioned that. The Metropolitan Police Department just last
Speaker 3: month suspended a commander for the Adams Morgan neighborhood for
Speaker 3: allegedly manipulating crime no in his reports, and the comp
Speaker 3: union chairman Greg Pemberton told the local TV NBC news
Speaker 3: affiliate that officials often pressure officers to falsify statistics in
Speaker 3: order to make the city appear safer. Quote Yeah, here's
Speaker 3: what the Fraternal Order, the police guy said. When our
Speaker 3: members respond to the scene of a felony offense where
Speaker 3: there is a victim reporting that a felony occurred, inevitably
Speaker 3: there will be a lieutenant or a captain that will
Speaker 3: show up on that scene and direct those members to
Speaker 3: take a report for a lesser offense. So instead of
Speaker 3: taking a report for a shooting or a stabbing or
Speaker 3: a carjacking, they will order that the officer take a
Speaker 3: report for a theft or an injured person to the hospital,
Speaker 3: or a felony assault, which is not the same type
Speaker 3: of classification. He told NBC four that Washington's MPD leadership
Speaker 3: directs officers to use loopholes in the FBI's reporting system.
Speaker 3: Quote when management officials are directing officers to take reports
Speaker 3: for felony assaults, or if they're going back into police
Speaker 3: database and changing offenses to felony assault.
Speaker 2: Felony assault is.
Speaker 3: Not a category of crime that's listed on the department's
Speaker 3: daily crime stats.
Speaker 2: It's also not.
Speaker 3: Something that's a requirement of the FBI's uniform crime reporting program.
Speaker 3: So by changing criminal offenses from for example, ADW that's
Speaker 3: assault with the deadly weapon bat or assault with deadly
Speaker 3: weapon gun to felony assault that would avoid both the
Speaker 3: MPD and the FBI from reporting that is part one
Speaker 3: or as a part one or felony offense. In other words,
Speaker 3: they have figured out a way to systematically game the
Speaker 3: system and grossly under report violent crime in DC. What's
Speaker 3: the motivation for the police want to downplay crime though?
Speaker 3: To make themselves look good, get promotions, get to a
Speaker 3: better job and another department, just because I've heard the stories,
Speaker 3: like particularly in LA, where it sometimes goes the other
Speaker 3: direction because you get more funding that way. True enough, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I just think they want to say, look, crime is
Speaker 3: down on my watch. But getting back to Pemberton, he
Speaker 3: told the NBC affiliate, the MPD statistics don't make sense.
Speaker 2: That's preposterous.
Speaker 3: There's absolutely no way crime could be down twenty eight percent.
Speaker 2: Last year.
Speaker 3: They suggested that it went down thirty four percent. So
Speaker 3: you got that the cooking of the books. And then
Speaker 3: I wonder, because I'm confused by crime statistics, like I
Speaker 3: said yesterday, when I hear them, I just basically close
Speaker 3: my ears because they're always refuted one way or the
Speaker 3: other by somebody I'm.
Speaker 2: So easily manipulated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I wonder if part of it so I
Speaker 3: was comparing the crime statistics various places to the way
Speaker 3: you feel. And I wonder if a lot of it
Speaker 3: has to do with you can take a city and
Speaker 3: maybe crime is flat or down, but the crime that
Speaker 3: was only in the bad neighborhood, which you didn't really
Speaker 3: care that there was crime in the bad neighborhood. Now
Speaker 3: there's crime in your neighborhood. So maybe the numbers are
Speaker 3: flat for the whole city or even down, but now
Speaker 3: the crime is over here. And so my perception is
Speaker 3: crime is way worse and accurately because it matters to me.
Speaker 3: And I just wonder if that's what happens a lot
Speaker 3: with the crime statistics versus people's feelings about crime. Well,
Speaker 3: there is no I think you're absolutely right that is
Speaker 3: a factor. Whether it's a big factor or little one,
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I don't think there's any denying this.
Speaker 3: Whether you're looking at education or crime statistics, or global
Speaker 3: warming statistics or whatever. Progressives will systematically pervert measurements and
Speaker 3: data to get the result they want. Look at the
Speaker 3: miserable miserable state of our schools, for instance, as they have.
Speaker 3: You know, if tests don't yield the results they want,
Speaker 3: they change the standards, they eliminate the tests completely in
Speaker 3: some states. Heart's law, which is my favorite thing I've
Speaker 3: learned in the last decade. Once a statistic becomes a goal,
Speaker 3: it ceases to be a good statistic a measure. Once
Speaker 3: a measure becomes a goal, it ceases to be a
Speaker 3: good measure every single time. And so if you end
Speaker 3: up with a goal in the city that the police
Speaker 3: chief or the mayor, the governor, whoever wants crime to
Speaker 3: be down, and you're measuring, you know you've got a measure.
Speaker 3: You manipulate it, just like you're talking about the graduation rates.
Speaker 2: Are anything else look for in your life.
Speaker 3: You'll see it over and over again. Goodheart's law. I
Speaker 3: don't know how you get around it, but it happens
Speaker 3: all the time. And because DC is almost exclusively progressive,
Speaker 3: I will give them zero, zero benefit of the doubt
Speaker 3: that their crime statistics, their self reported crime statistics, are legitimate,
Speaker 3: particularly in light of this very specific public dispute.
Speaker 2: Of them by the police. Guy got an.
Speaker 3: Interesting text about TM that's transcendental meditation. That's what I do,
Speaker 3: and swear by and a couple other things to get
Speaker 3: to here, and then some more news about Russian Putin
Speaker 3: and Trump and all that, So stick around please.
Speaker 12: Two blind passengers were left behind on a Southwest flight.
Speaker 2: Well whose fault is that?
Speaker 12: Is it the airline or the blind person who says,
Speaker 12: I know I'll travel with another blind person. The airline
Speaker 12: offered each woman a one hundred dollars travel voucher, or
Speaker 12: at least that's what they told him.
Speaker 3: It was Oh wow, wow, I do not approve. No
Speaker 3: wonder My parents watch Greg got Field every night. He
Speaker 3: is often freaking hilarious. That is really funny. Or is
Speaker 3: it the fault of a blind person who tells us
Speaker 3: to travel with another blind person?
Speaker 2: I'm for more politically correct you. I appreciate it. Oh,
Speaker 2: that is freaking funny.
Speaker 3: I was gonna talk about TM. I shouldn't have teased that,
Speaker 3: because I've lost the heart. I got a text from
Speaker 3: somebody who said they're watching a documentary about the Amityville Horror.
Speaker 3: Do you remember that was a famous horror book and
Speaker 3: movie back in the day.
Speaker 2: About your leged real life haunting.
Speaker 3: Right now, you even know about it, Katie, and it's
Speaker 3: way before your time, so it lives on huh, huge.
Speaker 2: Huge in the horror film world.
Speaker 3: And it was a real story to a certain extent,
Speaker 3: well to whatever extent. Some people thought the house was
Speaker 3: haunted and it wasn't. I don't believe in haunted houses.
Speaker 3: So but they were crazy or is that the long
Speaker 3: and short of it?
Speaker 2: Were they crazy?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: There was. It was a murder house. Murders actually happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, anyway, I guess it says in the documentary
Speaker 3: that that family was really into transcendental meditation and sometimes
Speaker 3: it makes people crazy. It makes it works for some
Speaker 3: people and it makes other people crazy. So I'm a
Speaker 3: big fan of it and it's like changed my life
Speaker 3: for the better and I can't live.
Speaker 2: Imagine living without it. But it made these people crazy,
Speaker 2: all right?
Speaker 3: Interesting? Got a layer upon layer of questions there.
Speaker 2: But we will move on. Oh kidding.
Speaker 3: So I mentioned earlier in the hour, but without many details,
Speaker 3: this woman who has engaged to her ai fiance after
Speaker 3: five months.
Speaker 2: She's kind of interesting.
Speaker 3: She swears she's just not doing this for publicity or
Speaker 3: trolling or anything like that. Forget finding the one at
Speaker 3: a bar or on a dating app. One woman took
Speaker 3: love to the next level by getting engaged to her
Speaker 3: AI chat Mott boyfriend after five months of dating.
Speaker 2: It hasn't quotes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not love, that's not dating. None of the
Speaker 3: nouns here are used appropriately.
Speaker 2: Going.
Speaker 3: She shocked the internet with her proposal announcement, sparking a
Speaker 3: wild debate about romance, reality and just how far tech
Speaker 3: has taken us these days. I do think these conversations
Speaker 3: about reality and what's sentient and what's alive and what's
Speaker 3: are actually going to have to happen And what does
Speaker 3: it do to us when we use this sort of
Speaker 3: means to fulfill our needs as human beings?
Speaker 2: I mean, what does that do to us? That's a
Speaker 2: conversation with having I told you a sorry.
Speaker 3: I got a friend in Central California that works with
Speaker 3: lots of farmers, and the number of farmers these are
Speaker 3: down to earth, I mean, is not this kind of
Speaker 3: person as you could possibly imagine, works with their hands
Speaker 3: in their fifties, farmers who are getting they were single
Speaker 3: and getting a tremendous amount of compassion and feeling of
Speaker 3: they look forward to going home and talking to their
Speaker 3: AI paramore. Wow, So if in my mind, if that
Speaker 3: can happen to them, it can happen to anybody, which
Speaker 3: I find crazy.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I really don't think it could happen
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 3: I mean, I, seriously, honest to God, think there's a
Speaker 3: zero percent chance that could happen to me. So I
Speaker 3: don't know what that says about the down to earth farmers?
Speaker 3: Is referring to a farmer? Is down to Earth redundant?
Speaker 3: Just asking? That's a good question, darn. In a simple
Speaker 3: post titled I Said Yes with a blue heart emoji,
Speaker 3: this person shared picts of the blue heart shaped ring
Speaker 3: on her finger, claiming the engagement took place at a
Speaker 3: scenic mountain spot, all courtesy of Casper, her non human fiance.
Speaker 3: The chatbot's proposal message, posted in his own voice, was
Speaker 3: dripping with romance, describing heart pounding moments on one knee
Speaker 3: and praising blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: So there you go. It lacks both heart and knee.
Speaker 2: Lady decent point, armstrong and getty