WEBVTT - Magic Beans Would Have Been A Better Choice 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.080 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Joke, Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.240 Armstrong and Getty and no he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:27.360 A growing number of gen Z men are moving back 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:31.320 in with their parents, taking over household shores and calling 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:35.960 themselves trad sons, replacing the old name Failures. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.000 Yeah, I've come across that trad sun thing quite a 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:51.199 few places. But that's a good joke. Oh boy, failure 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:51.720 to launch. 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.319 Yeah, yeah, I can't go into detail. We're dealing with 0:00:56.360 --> 0:01:01.360 some family dynamics right now involving young English person who's 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:08.400 money management borders on the surreal. The kid who bought 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.800 the magic beans on the way home that turned into 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.320 the beanstock magic beans would have been a better idea 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:19.600 than this. There are times I think financial acumen is 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:25.440 at least half genetic. M some people, it's way harder 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.880 to teach them. You know, I've got one kid who 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:33.920 scrimps and saves same household as another kid who well, 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.080 it's difficulty even get the concept to stick. 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:37.920 But anyway back to you. 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:39.840 Yeah, I was talking to a parent the other day 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:46.480 who had bought their twenty year old or something like 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.040 that a car to have to drive to be able 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:49.880 to get to work, blah blah blah. With an agreement, 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:51.400 you're going to make the payment and change you on 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:53.440 stuff like that. The kid did not make the payment 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.640 or change ou or anything like that. So the parent, 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.840 after delaying longer than they feel like they should have, 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.320 finally just sold the car from underneath them and now 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.560 they're like taking the bus everywhere. But anyway, my experience 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:08.639 is the hard edge of reality is the only thing 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:12.520 that made me improve my financial acumen. Yeah, that's been 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:17.919 my own personal experience that often works. Just came across 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.919 this headline the IAEA says there's going to be a 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:27.320 worldwide oil glut in twenty six Sorry, climate change activists. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.680 Gas prices are going to go down. People are going 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:35.480 to keep driving cars driven by the greatest energy source 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.080 that's ever been developed on planet Earth, you know. 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:38.920 On that topic. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.520 I saw a headline maybe I can find it real quickly. 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:49.120 It was essentially everyone is doubling down on renewable energy 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:53.440 except the US, and it clicked in my head with 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:58.400 the clarity it hasn't before. You could rewrite that headline 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:03.919 the world or they mostly just meant Europe, but is doubling. 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:12.080 Down on the current generation of renewable power technology. I 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.520 was looking at a product not long ago, a consumer product, 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.200 and I thought brand new buggy. 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.240 Wait a year, and the United States, I think, to 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.040 a large extent, has said, yeah, the current stuff just 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.240 isn't dependable enough. It doesn't make enough power, it doesn't 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:32.760 store enough power. And look at Europe's moribund economy. I mean, 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.880 they've sacrificed themselves on the altar of renewable energy, the 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.160 current technology, and it's not good enough. 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:41.840 Man Burn, baby burn. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.320 Things are getting serious up in here. Joe dropped in 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:45.400 a moribund on us. 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:46.320 That's right. 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.760 Apparently this is not when this isn't hijinks around here. 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:54.040 This is we're getting tares that suck as one of 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.200 the biggest headlines while we are off for a couple 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.760 of days honoring Columbus's discovery. 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:03.080 And this covered America. Can you imagine the first human 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:04.520 to ever see these shows? 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.160 What's your joke that you say every single year. 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:15.760 Oh, the Indians are standing around saying you discovered it. 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:17.440 We're here. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.200 Oh you always say, oh, you want to walk into 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:25.000 a Walmart and say I have discovered this Walmart right 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.279 and claim it on behalf of Queen Isabella. 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:29.560 You know, it would be funny if we have like 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.359 new listeners, especially you know, to the left of center, 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.599 to go on and on winking at the audience. 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:37.039 Obviously, you know the. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.120 Folks would know we're kidding, but just to go on 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:43.960 and on about how Columbus came to a completely untamed 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:49.080 wilderness there were no people can imagine from coast to coast, 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:50.320 and then he settled it. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.760 So anyway, the biggest story that happened, will we're off 0:04:55.000 --> 0:05:02.240 maybe is Trump hitting China with one hundred percent tariffs 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:07.560 on all products from China, all one hundred percent tariffs. 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:09.800 That's what he announced just a couple of days ago. 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.320 He was quoting in his truth social post China's unheard 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:19.240 of controls on rare earth minerals, which are sinister and 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.039 hostile and a moral disgrace. 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:23.320 It is sinister in hostile. 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.800 I don't know where morality plays into it, but it 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.040 is sinister and hostile, and it is a very big deal. 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.599 But it got Trump so worked up that he avowed 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.680 to hit back with one hundred percent tariffs on all 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.760 products from China. And then he said the rest is history. 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:40.039 I'm not exactly sure what that means. Then, forty eight 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:45.919 hours hours later, calming down a little bit, maybe Trump 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.760 posted President Jijiping of China was only having a bad moment. 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.080 Mister Trump said on a social media Sunday, don't worry 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:52.600 about China. 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:53.359 It will be fine. 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.040 He reassured his followers with he wants to help China. 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:58.920 Not heard it. Don't worry about China, it will be fine. 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.000 Uh So, I don't know where we are, but China 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.000 has declared they're not going to allow us to have 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.279 any of these rare earth minerals that we need for 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.200 AI and making fighter jets and all these different things. 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.359 The fact that China controls like ninety four percent of 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.400 rare earth minerals on planet Earth and we somehow allowed 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.160 that to happen, yipes, is a. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.520 Discrible working to change that, but it's going to take 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.440 zillions of dollars and years and years of effort. 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:24.520 To do it. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.200 It's it's a nearly impossible conundrum we're in. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:29.600 And we're going to talk more about this at the 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:31.880 bottom of the hour. How China is trying to hack 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:35.880 into all of our systems. Big towns in small counties 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.719 and died hospitals and governments and water plant treatments and 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.640 power grids and everything, everything, everything, everything They want to 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:46.360 have a kill switch. They're engaged in overt psychological warfare 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:51.640 against the American people. They're militarizing the entire region or 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:52.880 where they're kicking around. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:58.800 We are at war with them, oh absolutely, and utterly 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.560 dependent on each other. For Tree, we are going to 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:05.000 feature sixty minutes. Their first story about all that coming 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:06.640 up in about twenty minutes, So I got more to 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:07.839 say about it then. 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:12.320 Yeah, Well, speaking of the rare earth thing, just a 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.560 quick note. These so called they're called rare earths. They're 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.640 not actually rare, they're but they're difficult to extract because 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.440 they're scattered and mixed among other rocks and minerals. 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.280 I thought this would be fun, Michael. Which one of 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.640 these is an actual rare earth. 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:31.680 Substance? And which did I just made makeup? Okay, I 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:32.640 wouldn't have any eye, Jack. 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:34.160 You don't get to way in because I know you 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.560 took a lot of chemistry. Is it? Which one did 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:38.080 I make up? 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:43.679 Dysprosium or a lacrium. 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.240 And China has it and we need it. I'm gonna 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.440 say a lacrium. You made that up. I just made 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:49.800 that up. 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.360 Dysprosium is atomic number sixty six on the periodic table. 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.040 If tech industry were the tech industry where a bakery, 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.760 dysprosium would be like baking powder. It's used in small quantities, 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:05.600 but essential for enabling electric car motors, wind turbines, military systems, 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:08.840 and computer chip machinery. 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:13.720 So was China just the first to recognize whether the 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.120 future of everything is these rare earth minerals? So we 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:21.280 need to either make deals or capture the land of 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.920 or mine ourselves enough of this to be Did they 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:25.680 just figured. 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.600 That out before us or what? Yeah? 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.560 One of the great advantages of being a dictatorship number 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:34.760 one decisiveness and number two they couldn't give half a 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.680 crap about the environment right, or a climate change, or 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.520 worker's rights or the number of people who die in 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:41.960 the mind. 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.400 The point if China decide, if somebody tells Jijiping, you know, 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.800 there's a whole bunch of dysprosium under that mountain over there, 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:53.400 he doesn't have to do a five year long environmental 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.319 impact study to decide if they can do any mining. 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:57.280 I'm sorry, sir. 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:01.120 The miners' unions are suing us on viron mental grounds 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:02.640 and right. 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.200 Which might be I was thinking about with this with 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.600 a different story, might be an indication of maybe that 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.960 system long term does work better. As horrifying as. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:17.079 That is, well, I wouldn't say long term. I would 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:23.120 say at times, dictatorships veer between being incredibly efficient and 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.760 almost hilariously inefficient. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.000 To see the Soviet Union. 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:32.840 Although the Chinese took communism and they showed you know, 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.920 Stalin how to do it, they are amazingly effective. 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:41.640 Right now, that's a very frustrating story. Well, we're in 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:45.719 an impossible position. One hundred percent tariffs is not sustainable, though, 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.360 is it for even like a week on everything from China? 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.560 Oh no, no, it's it's a you're gonna do that 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.680 because China declared just not to get too far into 0:09:55.679 --> 0:10:00.360 the weeds. But if a product derives more than a 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:04.480 tenth of a percent of their value from rare earth stuff, 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.200 you've got to get specific permission from the Chinese commerce 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.439 ministry to get your rare earth stuff. 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.319 So different story, quick follow up. You remember the story 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:21.160 from last week the guy that got caught hoping to 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.720 break into Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh's home and abduct and 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:28.640 or kill the justice in his family right, who then 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.320 declared that he is a woman, and that is believed 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:36.280 that he got the light sentence because he is trans. 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:39.319 I hadn't come across this. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.080 This is from the This is a quote from the judge, 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:46.560 Judge Robinson, try to wrap your head around these sentences, 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:50.800 this passage. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:52.439 Clark, that's the. 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:56.719 Dude who decided he is a woman who wanted to 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:00.440 kill a Supreme Court justice. Clark attempted to catch straight 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:05.360 herself by tying a shoelace around her penis and scrotum 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.160 and cutting off her scrotum with a pair of nail clippers. 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.360 Number one nail clippers not the right tool for that job. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.920 I mean, the right tool makes the job much yer. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.200 How every carpenter knows that. How do you have a 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:25.240 phrase that includes the two words back to back her penis? 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.400 I know Clark attempted to castrate herself by tying a 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:34.680 shoelace around her penis and cutting off her scrotum with 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:35.880 a pair of nail clippers. 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:40.920 A judge wrote that that is astonishingly idiotic. 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:45.160 Yes, Katie, I just don't know many females with those parts. 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.199 Well, exactly, yes, exactly that is you know, I've run 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:55.199 into vanishingly few distinguished career of coupling. Is that incredible 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.959 that that's where we are, that's where they are? 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.800 Well, some people are very few people, and a lot 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.880 of people were afraid to not be there, like a 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:04.520 year ago. 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.680 You can't say her penis. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:12.719 No, no, herpess is that? 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:18.280 Uh alk Balowin's wife's name. Trying to remember planet just 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:26.400 past Jupiter? Oh yes, uh anyway, her scrotum, yes, exactly. 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:32.600 Attempted to cut off her scrotum with nail clippers. Nail clippers. Okay, 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.240 now you're getting back to the plan, which is not good. No, 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.800 it's not speaking of bad plans. Country stars Zach Bryan 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:42.640 decides to go all bud light that controversy coming up. 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.040 Yeah, he's a big deal here. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:46.760 I know, I know it's and I know nothing about 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:51.560 country music and AI companies doubling and tripling down on 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:52.640 sex spots. 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.360 Oh boy, where the prophet is? I want to talk 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:56.679 about that. We got a lot on the way to 0:12:56.679 --> 0:13:03.520 stay here. Why did China hack into the water treatment 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.720 plant in a tiny, little Northeastern town that's what sixty 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:11.080 minutes was talking about Sunday night, crazy scary story about 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.640 what China has been doing, probably for quite a few years, 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.600 and we better wake up that story coming up. 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:24.160 Elon Musk is gambling big on sexy AI companions for himself, 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.080 for the world, for the world. 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:27.480 Not for himself. 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.520 He can have all the companions he wants, and generally 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:32.840 has a kid or two with them. A blond woman 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.840 wearing pigtails, a gothic off the shoulder dress and fishnet 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.800 stockings stared into the screen awaiting instructions. And this is 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.800 a robe, babe, you're keeping it spicy, and he said 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:42.960 in a low voice as. 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.920 She spun and jumped on command. 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.040 If a sex robot, can it not have a low voice? 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.079 Sorry? Well, what do you want me to know? 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:55.359 I'm not doing a porn girl voice for you sick fantasies. 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.880 And then it goes on and gets rather more explicit, 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.080 and he is one of two sexually explicit chet Pot 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:05.920 companions unveiled by Elon Musk's AI company Xai in July. 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.560 The cartoonish personas resemble anime characters and offer a game 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.760 like function as users progress through levels of conversation. They 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.920 unlock more raunchy content, the ability to strip Annie down 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:19.360 to lace lingerie. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:23.120 They made a video game out of it. Oh, things 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.320 are getting weird, and they getting weird fast. Yes they are. 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.800 Elon, Yeah, so they're spending a bunch of money on that. 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.800 They mentioned that Meta and OpenAI have shied away from 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.800 this sexually explicit stuff even though you know, anybody with 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.920 a little skill can jail break it, because they don't 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.160 want to, you know, run into reputational and regulatory risks. 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.240 So elon big on that. Then I thought this was 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:50.840 really interesting. Here's how this opens. Eleanor twenty four is 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:54.200 a Polish historian and lecture at a university in Warsaw. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:58.840 Isabelle twenty five is a detective serving with the NYPD. 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:00.800 No way You'd make deep A twenty five. 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.040 By the way, Brook thirty nine is an American housewife 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.920 who enjoys an opulent Miami lifestyle financed by her frequently 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:11.440 absent husband. All three women will flirt and chat and 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:15.480 send nude photographs and explicit videos via one of a 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.200 soaring number of new adult dating websites that offer increasingly 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.920 realistic AI girlfriends for subscribers. 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:28.200 Willing to pay a monthly fee, but you know their AI. Yes, okay. 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.080 This was the talk of this big conference in Prague 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:36.360 last month. Evidently, developers of the new businesses claim they 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:41.360 represent an improvement on webcam businesses, where real women undress 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.440 on camera and talk to men. That's more than that, 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:50.760 because these services remove the potential for the exploitation seen 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:56.280 in parts of the industry. Do you prefer your porn 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.760 with lots of abuse in human trafficking or would you 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.480 rather talk to an AI, asks Steve Jones, who runs 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.240 an AI porn site. We hear about human trafficking girls 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.120 being forced to be on camera ten hours a day. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.320 You'll never have a human trafficked AI girl. You'll never 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.240 have a girl who is forced or coerced into a 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.880 sex scene that she's so humiliated by that she ends 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.920 up killing herself. AI doesn't get humiliated and it's not 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:18.840 going to kill itself. 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.360 So they're trying to convince you you're a good person, 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:26.960 then a better person if you have a not real girlfriend, 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.560 that's AI because nobody's being abused here as opposed to 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.520 your not real girlfriend who is pretending to like. 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:34.200 You for money. 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.440 Oh my right, Oh my god, what a trailoff. 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.040 And this is it's a hell of an argument to make, 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.080 but yeah, there is human trafficking and exploitation. Not everybody 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.600 is a former stortis making one hundred thousand a month 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.080 on you know, OnlyFans or whatever. 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:49.520 A lot of it really is sick. 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:52.560 What I found interesting and troubling is this guy's presumption 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.680 that sex acts that are so humiliating they make women 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:56.600 commit suicide? 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.040 Are you know that's what we sell here? But it's 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:00.200 an Ai girl, So it's line. 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.720 Wow, I can't even wrap my head around the present 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.800 and the future we're about to head into. China is 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:09.399 going to take over the world. Stay tuned for that. 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:11.640 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:13.760 What did they target? 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:20.920 They targeted water, they targeted electrical power, infrastructure, transportation are 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.960 examples of the types of things that were targeted. So 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:25.680 what In many cases they're vulnerable. 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:27.439 So what are you talking about there? 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.160 We're talking about the Chinese targeting us in all kinds 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.840 of different ways. That was the voice of a four 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:38.680 star general who was in Air Forced Air Force intelligence 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:43.040 his whole career and rose to the level of running 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:47.960 the NSA in Trump's presidency. First time around, and he 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.240 was on sixty Minutes on Sunday night talking to Scott 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:52.720 Pelly and a couple other people on there about the 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:56.919 ways China has been hacking into our country. This is 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:57.640 how they started. 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:02.920 The surprise, Tim Hawked, is that China is targeting not 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:08.320 just the US military and industry, but also Americans in 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:09.200 their homes. 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:15.880 I think initially we were surprised that China would target 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:21.280 every American with these capabilities. That goes against every norm 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.680 of international law. That certainly goes against how the United 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.600 States military would approach targeting in a crisis or a conflict. 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:30.520 That the fact that they would go. 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:34.200 After basic services as part of their effort that they 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:38.000 have identified as unrestricted warfare is unconscionable. 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.679 I think it's, well, it's unconscionable. Hey, yeah, okay, that 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.480 we can all yell at as we go under the 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:47.600 boot of the Chinese. 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:48.600 That's not fair. 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:53.320 That's not unconsionable for the Chinese, right is the problem. 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.960 But I thought, I was thinking, this is as watching 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.640 the story and we'll play more of it. They they 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:03.240 hacked to a water plant in tiny town in Massachusetts 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:05.000 or New Hampshire wherever it was, and they've done it 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:06.760 all across the country, and. 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:12.200 What a clever way to get around the whole kind 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:16.639 of nuclear weapon conundrum that has existed since the forties. 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:23.080 So China knows, and we known, all the big powers know, 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:29.400 nobody's really wanting to cross that barrier. But what if 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:33.160 they attack all of our cell phone towers, water plants, 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.920 electric grid, everything all at once and bring us tourneys 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:40.680 that way without the cataclysm of a nuclear holocaust? 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:46.359 Right, Yeah, well you'd bring entire cities or regions or 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:48.160 the entire country to a stop. 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.760 So back to sixty minutes. They've been at this for 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.080 a while, as they China has been at this for 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:55.560 a while, as is explained here. 0:19:56.000 --> 0:20:00.240 Multiple intrusions at utilities were discovered in twenty twenty three, 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:04.200 and China had been on some of their computer networks 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:09.160 at least five years. You're saying that the Chinese today 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:15.000 are in American power plants, water treatment plants, other parts 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:20.680 of the electrical grid, maybe even hospitals, telecommunications. 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:19.959 All of that. 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.640 So there is a daily contest that is going on 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:25.800 to be able to deny China those accesses. But they 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:29.119 are certainly attempting every single day to be able to 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:33.120 target telecommunications, to be able to target critical infrastructure, both 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:36.080 in the United States and in other countries. And they 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:38.080 are doing that to try to ensure that they have 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:40.080 an advantage in a crisis or a conflict. 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:44.600 Yes, and why are they doing this? Is China preparing 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:48.880 for war? There was no other reason to target those systems. 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:52.040 There's no advantage to be gan economically, there was no 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:56.040 foreign intelligence collection value. The only value would be for 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:57.639 use in a crisis or a conflict. 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:01.000 So clear what's going on. Have to be a genius 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:04.440 to figure it out. When they move on Taiwan, they're 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:08.560 gonna flip off an electric grid in a couple of 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:11.840 places around the country, and you know, all kinds of 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:14.480 different things that they've been preparing, and we're going to 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:15.080 back off. 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.400 Yeah, the Taiwan thing is a likely scenario. But they 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:23.960 have weapons, and just think about them like any other weapons, 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:26.880 and they have readied those weapons for when they need them. 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:29.199 When might they need them? It's hard to say, but 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:32.040 they have those weapons. So maybe they never move on Taiwan, 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:35.480 but it becomes you know, the Philippines, or something happens 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:38.920 in South China Sea, or they announce you know, some giant, 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:41.760 you know, toll you have to pay in shipping to 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:43.720 go through the South China Sea or something. It could 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:46.040 be one hundred different things, you know. I'm sorry that 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:47.919 thought just occur to me. It's kind of tangential. But 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:52.320 if we'd been listening to any of this in nineteen ninety, 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:54.720 which was not that long ago, we had cars and 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:55.600 electricity and. 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:57.240 Everything and everything. 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:01.399 Everybody hearing that this reported say, wait a minute, how 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:06.000 do they have that control? What's hacking the internet? The 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:11.440 connectivity revolution has made us enormously vulnerable to a foe 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:14.760 in a way that's never existed before in history. So 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:18.040 this is a guy run in this little town that 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:22.520 they discovered China had hacked into their water treatment plant. 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:23.879 China had been in there, as you heard in the 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:26.360 last clip, maybe five years, who knows how long. 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:32.600 Nick Lawler is general manager of the Littleton, Massachusetts Electric 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:34.040 and Water Utility. 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:37.320 His town has ten thousand residents. 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:42.160 Can you think of any reason that China would target 0:22:42.280 --> 0:22:43.480 your little community? 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:46.199 That's the exact question I had for the FBI when 0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:47.520