WEBVTT - The A&G Replay Thursday Hour Three 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:14.000 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:18.119 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.360 Armstrong and Getty and He. 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:28.160 Armstrong and Getty not live from studio c Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.120 We're off for taking a break. 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:31.800 And as long as we're off, perhaps you'd like to 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.680 catch up on podcasts, subscribe to Armstrong and Getty on 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.320 demand or one more thing we think you'll enjoy it. 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:44.479 Sir, the choices we got in lay, those were your choices. Shadow, 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:46.680 somebody got shot? 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:54.240 Oh how good? Hold on the dirty dead? What do 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:55.040 I want with my. 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.040 Da do shaty? 0:00:59.040 --> 0:00:59.880 What the hell is this? 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.480 Everybody that is? 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:08.399 That is rapper too low? Who is a pairing as 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.400 a kiss? A guest on a podcast? Who the gun 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.920 went off in his pocket? Apparently somehow? 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.000 Okay? First of all, guests on a podcast. To have 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:18.920 a podcast, all you need to do is own a 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.039 phone or a computer. So is this a podcast with 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.560 any I mean anyway? So he's sitting around talking to 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.759 a guy and his gun goes off. What's the most 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.320 interesting to me is these people live such a lifestyle. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.120 The reaction is, Hey, whose gun went off? Somebody's gone went? 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:35.119 Who shots? 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:36.120 Ibody? 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:36.479 Who? 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:37.600 Somebody's gun went off? 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.920 Whereas most of the company I keep, if there were 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:41.520 a gun shot in the room, we would all be 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:43.120 quite flabbergasted. 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:44.360 Who shot? Who? 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.520 Oh my gosh, is that a gun in your pocket? 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:52.800 Or you're just happy to be on my podcast. Hello, 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:54.760 slay that again, Michael. 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:55.920 Just the beginning of it. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.880 And choices we got in life. Those were your choices. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:08.680 All right. 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.120 Getting back to our topic, motivating ourselves for the new year, 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.680 rapper too low If you need to stick to your 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.000 diet through January. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:21.120 Oh that's beautiful. 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.240 So there are a couple of things I wanted to 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.440 do yesterday as kind of a kicking off the ear thing. 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.079 But we have so much. Let's to get to it. 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:28.960 We can't get to all of it. But I love this. 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:30.320 I'm gonna hit you with part of it and then 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.480 we'll move on. We got a bunch of stuff. But 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.760 this is written by a guy named Jeff Goldstein, who 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.359 is a writer I really like, and he has this 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:43.320 redeclaration of independence and you'll know what he's driving at immediately. 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.680 Be it so understood. This is my vow for the 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:51.440 new year, too. I refuse to unpack white violence. I 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:55.519 reject the idea that my existence perpetuates white power structures. 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.639 I will not, and in fact, cannot, examine my ipplicit 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:03.799 biases an individual. I refuse to grant determined interpretive communities 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.560 authority over my being. My meaning is mine is what 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:10.119 makes me me. I'm not taking any journey to discover 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.360 the impact of my privilege on black and brown people's 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.320 I will not become anti racist or anti fascist to 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:20.360 satisfy your demands. I reject cultural Marxism. I am an individual. 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:22.799 I'm not defined by my color, my lrige, and my sex. 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.480 I'm jeff good to meet you. I will not respect 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.880 your pronouns or celebrate your queerness. I am hostile to 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.600 your sexualization of children. I reject your triggers and your 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.360 desire to control my speech. I know who and what 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.880 you are. You are my presumptive master, or else the 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.600 useful idiot who empowers him. But I will grant you 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.960 and your ideology no power over me. There's more you 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.800 want to hear a little more sure. I reject equity 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:51.080 because it is collectivism disguised as virtue. I reject inclusivity 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:56.080 because it is inorganic superficial and contrived. I reject mandated diversity. 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.400 I will not surrender to the crayon box mafia, nor 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:03.320 do the gender changelings who pretend I am construct answerable 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:04.080 to their whims. 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.880 Cultural appropriation is merely culture. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.800 It expands to include, and it makes up the very 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.960 fabric of a pluralistic society. There's no such thing as 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.520 digital blackface. My whiteness is not violent, my sex is 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.560 not oppressive. My religion doesn't concern you, and my children 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.880 are not yours. STA mold, Your beliefs will not be 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.480 imposed on me. The state will not parent my sons. 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:33.520 Theory. Yes, digital blackface, I'd forgotten that term. Oh yeah, and. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.920 Again if you've lost a thread, this is a red 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:37.599 declaration of independence. 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.520 Queer theory is critical. Race theory is critical. 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:46.120 Consciousness is the Marxist rejection of the individual as individual. 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:51.680 I have some stats on how many states queer theory 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.160 is being taught in schools to little children as truth 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.320 and is as shocking. Well, one more time. Queer theory 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:02.159 is critical. Race theory is critical. Consciousness is the Marxist 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:06.480 rejection of the individual as individual. Cultural Marxism is determined 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:10.359 to raise norms so chaos tear families asunder and reduce 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:14.240 being to collective conformity. I reject its premises as fully 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:18.359 as I reject its adherents. I will not comply. I 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.400 will not mouth your slogans. I will not denounce on command. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.279 I am not your tool, and you are not my minder. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.240 And he has a little more about my speech is 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:30.640 my own. I reject each of your excuses to silence me. 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:34.160 I don't ask for your protections. I can filter information 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:38.279 without your interference, Mark Zuckerberg, and I despise your presumption 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.719 to protect me from myself. I am your sworn enemy, 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.720 and you are mine. I will not perform for you. 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.000 I will not read from your script or dance in 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.600 your follies. Oh my brother, we will post this at 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:52.040 armstrong egedi dot com. 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.279 It is brilliant, and he goes on. But that's the main. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.440 Party, and it fits in with that Wall Street Journal 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.320 article I was reading from last hour, The progressive moment 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:06.240 in global politics is over. That moment existed mostly online 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.000 and with the you know, high level university set. It 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:13.919 was a much smaller group than we all thought or feared, 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:19.000 thank god, but it was it was misleading because it 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:25.159 was so prevalent in you know, TV, newspapers and Twitter 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.840 in places like that, but it was not near as 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.960 big as we all thought. And the best thing that 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.240 could happen to people that are on the right side 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.640 of that, and you could be a lifelong Democrat and 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.080 be to the right of all that stuff by a 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.479 law shirt like Bill Mahr and lots of people. The 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.160 best thing that could happen for us is if they 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:47.840 continue to believe that they have the numbers they think 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.120 they have as opposed to the tiny fraction that actually 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:51.880 agrees with them. 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.920 Right, I'm reminded of something great you've brought to us. 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:56.600 I think it was last year about how it only 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:00.520 takes fifteen percent of a population that's dedicated to a 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:04.160 revolution to make it successful. Because you want to give 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:05.440 us the nickel version of that. 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.279 Yeah, you have to have the fifteen percent really really 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.800 active group that wants to overthrow the current regime. But 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.160 you get a big enough chunk of people who mostly 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.360 agree with you. They're not going to really do much, 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:19.560 but they're not going to get in the way, and 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.200 then you have the crowd that's scared of you, and 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.200 you can easily get over fifty percent. 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:24.880 Right right, and that's how you win. 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.360 And imagine if you were in that hardcore fifteen percent 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.280 that wanted to, I don't know, for the sake of 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.720 the argument overthrow Western society in the name of neo Marxism. 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.760 Imagine if your first step was to capture media and education. 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.480 I mean, that would be an enormous coupe because you could, 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.440 and I'm stating the obvious here, you could project the 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:49.280 idea that you have way way more mass than you 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:53.120 do for your radical ideas, like radical gender theory, which 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.600 I will give you a clue. It's like over a 0:07:55.720 --> 0:08:01.040 third of American states are teaching radical theory. There's no 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:02.560 such thing as a man or a woman. You get 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:07.080 to choose to little kids in schools. So man, these 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:11.080 these scumbags, And I'm sorry for the for the you know, 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:12.720 I'm a wardsmith. I can do better than that. I 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:17.679 apologize these monsters. At least it's more adult. The fact 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.520 that these monsters have gotten as far as they have 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:26.440 is really really troubling. But you know, on we go 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:27.080 with the fight. 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.720 Trudeau resigning in Canada is a lot of what sparked. 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.839 For instance, the Ullstreet Journal article one on the list 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:38.559 of Western leaders or parties that have really suffered defeats 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:45.920 trying to ride the whole pronouns latinex you should be 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.760 ashamed of yourself for being a white male thang. 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:50.880 Right, Yeah, yeah, he was huge into that. 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.959 And the what's really troubling about this, and we've had 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.160 a bunch of conversations, is you got to your well, 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.160 just you keep calling it fifteen percent for the sake 0:08:58.160 --> 0:08:58.640 of the argument. 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.839 You get your hardcore fifteen percent their activists. 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:06.240 Well, the genius of Neo Marxism developed in the intellectual 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.920 salons of Europe in the forties and fifties, nineteen forties 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.040 and nineteen fifties. They wrote books, they signed their name, 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:14.640 they told us precisely what they wanted to do. The 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.280 genius of it is they have crafted, and it's an 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:23.280 evil genius, these moral sounding arguments that convince a certain 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.560 sort of person that they are doing the right thing 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.199 morally by becoming an adherent to Neo Marxism. And it's 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:34.240 particularly effective among women who want to seek agreement and 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.240 groups and acceptments of that sort of thing. And it's 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:41.160 particularly successful among your university crowd who want to be 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.360 on the cutting edge of thought. That's how they gratify 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:49.000 their egos by being the innovator, the new person, the revolutionary. 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:55.080 It's incredibly I mean, they take practically sexual glee for 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.560 being innovators in the universities, because how are you going 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.720 to justify your big sal Gary if you in any 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.520 level of education, say you know that stuff we've been doing, 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.880 it's perfect. I wouldn't change it at all. True, you've 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:12.520 wasted your PhD. So anyway, man, you have heard a 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:16.400 lot of gun shots. If your reaction to a gunshot 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.000 in a room is this. 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.239 And choices we got in lay? Those were your choices? 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.280 Been calmer than shot? Who did somebody get shot? 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:33.280 Huh? 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:34.320 What? 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:35.080 It's good. 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.200 It would be the most amazing thing that ever happened 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.400 in my life. If a gun went off in a room. 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.280 We're sitting there interviewing I don't know, Rich Lowry from 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.240 the National Review, and. 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:49.079 Rich says who shot? Who? Who? Somebody get shot? 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.319 And choices we got in lay? Those were your choices? 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:55.319 Who? 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:00.719 It actually pretty interesting conversation before or you know, the 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:05.440 gun winner. So the other thing I wanted to squeeze 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.040 in a couple more kind of wrapping up the year, 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.959 looking forward to the year things, because I'll rant and 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:11.360 rave about the previous story for. 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:11.960 The rest of my life. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:17.920 But Jan Crawford was on CBS's face the Nation Sunday. 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:22.320 I saw that, and she brought the thunder that the 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:26.280 most uncovered and underreported topic last year was clearly she said, 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:30.520 quote that to me, Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline. They 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:35.160 became undeniable in the televised debate, unquestioned that that's the 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:37.480 most underreported story of the year. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:43.000 Yeah, absolutely true. But we'll be lost to history. It's 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:47.079 amazing that there isn't more introspection over that. Well, here's 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:51.160 the really interesting part. She says, still incredibly, we read 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.240 in the Washington Post that his advisers are saying that 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:54.920 he regrets that he dropped out of the race, that 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:56.959 he thinks he could have beaten Trump, and I think 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.000 that is either delusional or the gaslighting the American people. 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:05.679 But CBS's chief Election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa jumped 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.600 up and said, well, President Biden has repeatedly said he 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.600 was sick during the debate in Atlanta, and he's always 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.320 been fine, and he leaves fine. 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:14.640 That is his position. 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.760 The position of many of his top stadents, as well 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:20.920 as even though there is that reporting that Jan was 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:26.400 talking to reduce the obvious accepted by everyone reality of 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:31.720 Joe Biden's coggen decline as there is that reporting, but 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.480 he has now Jan he has said repeatedly had a cold. 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.760 Costa's lost to me, he's he's lost his mind. I 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:39.840 don't know who that's for. 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.959 Eighty five percent of America before that debate thought he 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.280 shouldn't serve again. So I don't know who you're serving 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:51.640 with that, But enjoy your bubble Bob, the Armstrong. 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:51.880 And Getty Show. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:53.640 Yeah, your show. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.199 Podcasts and our hot. 0:12:55.040 --> 0:13:05.000 Links Armstrong and Joe Getty, The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:15.160 Thank You. In Los Angeles, jury has awarded a man 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.360 fifty million dollars after he was seriously burned by a 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.320 Starbucks drink. Now, the person got burnt pretty good, but 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.080 I had on his junk, on his junk and says 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.160 he can't have sex anymore. Although you would make that 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.240 argument if you're trying to get fifty million dollars. 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.200 So whether that's accurate or not, I do not know. 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.400 But and I'm not a lawyer, but I don't know 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:37.040 how you work this out in society. On one hand, 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.080 I'm going through the drive through at Starbucks. 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:43.160 I don't deserve to be maimed for life. No, certainly, 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:44.160 not in my privets. 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:49.200 On the other hand, it's an impossible expectation that nothing 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:53.360 ever goes wrong ever, And you know, nailing down whether 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.240 it was the employee's fault or the person in the 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.360 car's fault is difficult. I mean, if you ever go 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.240 to Starbucks get more than one drink, they give you 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.920 that cardboard holder that the drinks fit in. And this 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.679 person claimed that they didn't secure the tea in. It 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.000 was sitting at an angle and then it spilled. Oh 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:12.400 maybe it was or maybe you hit it on the 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.800 window or with urob or whatever. I don't know, but anyway, 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.240 you can't get everything perfect all the time. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:19.440 Fifty million dollars. 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.240 The problem with this, to me is what it's what 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.480 drives so many of the things that make us nuts 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.280 in life. The fact that the school won't let your 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.880 kid play if it's rained in the last two days. 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.760 You have to stay inside for reasss because they might slip, 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.960 and some jury will award one hundred million dollars. I mean, 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:41.160 it's just it's an unworkable situation for society. So I 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.520 don't and you know, you wouldn't want Starbucks to be 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:48.760 able to like, here comes my girlfriend's ex boyfriend. 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:49.520 I'm gonna throw. 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.080 Hot tea in his face at the drive through, and 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.160 there'd be no penalty for that. I mean, so there's 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.480 gotta be a Ligne somewhere obviously. 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:56.680 Yeah. 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.840 I just think we've gotten so far off tracks as 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.880 a society because it's very different than virtually any other 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:04.680 legal system on Earth. You're not going to get a 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:09.000 fifty million dollar reward like this in Argentina or or 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.920 probably Britain. I don't think, But I don't think we 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:17.480 as people understand how far off we've gotten. And a 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.960 big reason for that. What is the number one profession 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.000 among legislators. It's not even close. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:27.400 You know, it's an attorney, right, and the whole jury 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.560 thing where you this is one of the reasons that 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.920 we regularly say, you know, don't make those jokes about 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:34.840 how to get out of jury duty. Show up on 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.080 the jury so you could say, so you could be 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.560 there as a smart person, say fifty fifty million dollars 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:45.160 is insane, Yes, because you got to. I'm guessing you 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.760 got a jury. Pro peoples of Starbucks is rich, they 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.160 can afford it. I don't like them anyway, you know 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:50.840 that sort. 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.280 Of thing, right, Yeah, yeah, boy. 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.480 If there's one technology mankind has not perfected, it's the 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.560 getting the cup lid to click on the cup thing 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.880 in the world of coffee. And you know, granted, I'm 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:08.080 an older fellow now, and I've learned the hard lessons 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.000 of life, sometimes more than once, usually more than once 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.680 before I absorb them. Boy, anybody who has boiling hot 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.480 coffee and assumes that lid is on their right, you 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.600 are a bold man and a foolish one. 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:20.000 Yeah. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.760 I just when I heard that, I just thought, oh crap, 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:26.040 this is going to lead to even more Sorry, we 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:29.160 can't allow you to do this stuff. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.560 Or you get like room temperature coffee. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.520 Right, coffee can't ever be That might be the reaction 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.080 from Starbucks, No more hot coffee. I know lots of 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.720 people order stuff extra hot, because I've known Barista's order 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.000 stuff extra hot. It's already so hot you can't drink it. 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.560 But it's the idea that it'll be it's so hot 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.480 that by the time you get to work on your 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.720 fifteen minute commute, it'll still be hot. 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:54.440 Well, I'll bet that goes out the window after this settlement. Yeah. 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.080 So I shouldn't say this, but everybody's thinking about it, 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.200 so I will. So this guy got fifty million dollars 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:01.880 as he could never have sex again? 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.000 Was he any good at it? I mean, does that 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:06.840 factor into the juries? Yeah? 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.600 I mean you think they should interview previous lovers and say, so, 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:12.959 how much of a loss is this for humanity? 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.560 Well? Yeah, I mean because it's obviously lost to him, 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:19.919 no matter his skills, but to humanity, because shouldn't that 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.480 be a fifty to fifty thing on also Consortium, et cetera, 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.720 on a scale of me to wow, where was he exactly? 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.960 I'm just I'm asking these questions. I don't have the answers. 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:30.840 Yeah, God dang it. 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:40.199 Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show, The 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:41.880 arm Strong and Geeddy Show. 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.399 Joanna Stern writes about tech for The Wall Street Journal. 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:54.080 She's very clever, as you're about to hear, and sounds 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:55.960 down to earth and as I enjoy your writing. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:03.960 The opening bit of this article tells it all. 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.800 I've been wearing a wire everywhere since February. I've got 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:10.240 all the transcripts important meetings, arguments with my kids, chats 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:14.520 with disgruntled employees, late night bathroom routines. There's plenty more 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:18.320 that I can't share if I want you to keep 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:24.280 liking me. She has been willingly wearing a fifty dollars 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:30.320 be Pioneer bracelet that records everything she says and uses 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.959 AI to summarize her life and send her helpful reminders. 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.600 Getting back to the article, I also tested two similar gadgets, 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.399 the one hundred and ninety nine dollars Limitless Pendant and 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:41.639 the one hundred and fifty nine. 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:43.120 Dollars plowd Note pin. 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:47.199 These assistants can recall every dumb, private, and cringe worthy 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.240 thing that came out of my mouth. Is this the 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:54.680 dawn of the AI surveillance state? Absolutely? Is it also 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:58.160 the dream of hyper personal, all knowing AI assistance coming 0:18:58.160 --> 0:18:58.720 to life? 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.440 Also? Yes? Absolutely, Yeah, it's funny. 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.440 The first thing I thought of was, and usually i'm 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:09.879 I'm my first go to is surveillance state. But my 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.960 first thought was, wow, if I had AI reminding me, hey, 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.040 remember you're gonna work on that. Getting your real ID 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.560 the deadline's coming up. I would love that. 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.040 Yeah, And I was just gonna say, if y'all are 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:23.119 sitting there thinking. 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:24.240 What the hell good would this do me? 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:28.399 She gets to that and it's pretty cool. Let me 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:32.320 read more of her piece. Within hours of wearing the 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.080 bee again, one of the three devices she tried, I 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.720 was blown away how quickly it turned ramblings in random 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:42.399 chatter into useful, actionable information. Yet allow me to quote 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:46.000 myself from February twenty fourth at five point fifteen pm. Wow, 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:48.920 quote this bracelet is really effing creepy. 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:53.680 So here's how they work. 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.840 And she mentions that all the denials we've heard through 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.800 the years that social media apps are secretly listening to 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:05.560 us too hard, too intensive, too much datah, yeah, please, 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:09.880 but all those devices do that. They detect dialogue, especially 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.160 your voice, and they stream the audio to your phone 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:16.879 via Bluetooth, then to company servers where it's transcribed. AI 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.159 models take the transcription and generate summaries, which appear in 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:24.159 the apps within minutes. Now, one of the devices that 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:25.679 does not save the audio. 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:27.600 All it has is the transcriptions. 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:32.240 The other one, limitless keeps the audio, letting you play 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:36.600 back full recordings of everything you've said, boy. 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:37.160 Oh boy, oh boy. 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:39.159 But it's a little weird for us because I have 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:43.200 full recordings of what I say four hours a day, 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.879 five days a week the past thirty years. 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:50.720 But so it's not as foreign to me. 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.000 But why i'd be something, But you and I also 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:57.119 have a heightened awareness of the difference between when the 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:00.280 mics are on and when they're not true, And more 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:03.760 than one good career has been ended because a mic 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:07.040 was on somebody thought it was not I've had a 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:09.960 few disadonge that bullet a couple of times ourselves. 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:13.040 I've had a few disagreements in my life, like minor 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:15.679 to major, where would have been kind of handy to 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:17.440 be able to go back and say, I'm. 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:21.240 Pretty sure you didn't mention that to me. They said, yeah, 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:22.679 I did. It's like to. 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:26.720 Screet the commercials. Who is it an insurance commercial? I 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:28.560 can't remember. Let's go to the tape and they go 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:31.920 under the hood, right like NFL referees. 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:33.880 Yes, yes, Katie. 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:36.119