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Speaker 5: Sir, the choices we got in lay, those were your choices. Shadow,
Speaker 5: somebody got shot?
Speaker 2: Oh how good? Hold on the dirty dead? What do
Speaker 2: I want with my.
Speaker 5: Da do shaty?
Speaker 2: What the hell is this?
Speaker 5: Everybody that is?
Speaker 4: That is rapper too low? Who is a pairing as
Speaker 4: a kiss? A guest on a podcast? Who the gun
Speaker 4: went off in his pocket? Apparently somehow?
Speaker 3: Okay? First of all, guests on a podcast. To have
Speaker 3: a podcast, all you need to do is own a
Speaker 3: phone or a computer. So is this a podcast with
Speaker 3: any I mean anyway? So he's sitting around talking to
Speaker 3: a guy and his gun goes off. What's the most
Speaker 3: interesting to me is these people live such a lifestyle.
Speaker 3: The reaction is, Hey, whose gun went off? Somebody's gone went?
Speaker 3: Who shots?
Speaker 2: Ibody?
Speaker 1: Who?
Speaker 2: Somebody's gun went off?
Speaker 3: Whereas most of the company I keep, if there were
Speaker 3: a gun shot in the room, we would all be
Speaker 3: quite flabbergasted.
Speaker 2: Who shot? Who?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, is that a gun in your pocket?
Speaker 4: Or you're just happy to be on my podcast. Hello,
Speaker 4: slay that again, Michael.
Speaker 2: Just the beginning of it.
Speaker 5: And choices we got in life. Those were your choices.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: Getting back to our topic, motivating ourselves for the new year,
Speaker 4: rapper too low If you need to stick to your
Speaker 4: diet through January.
Speaker 2: Oh that's beautiful.
Speaker 4: So there are a couple of things I wanted to
Speaker 4: do yesterday as kind of a kicking off the ear thing.
Speaker 2: But we have so much. Let's to get to it.
Speaker 2: We can't get to all of it. But I love this.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna hit you with part of it and then
Speaker 4: we'll move on. We got a bunch of stuff. But
Speaker 4: this is written by a guy named Jeff Goldstein, who
Speaker 4: is a writer I really like, and he has this
Speaker 4: redeclaration of independence and you'll know what he's driving at immediately.
Speaker 4: Be it so understood. This is my vow for the
Speaker 4: new year, too. I refuse to unpack white violence. I
Speaker 4: reject the idea that my existence perpetuates white power structures.
Speaker 4: I will not, and in fact, cannot, examine my ipplicit
Speaker 4: biases an individual. I refuse to grant determined interpretive communities
Speaker 4: authority over my being. My meaning is mine is what
Speaker 4: makes me me. I'm not taking any journey to discover
Speaker 4: the impact of my privilege on black and brown people's
Speaker 4: I will not become anti racist or anti fascist to
Speaker 4: satisfy your demands. I reject cultural Marxism. I am an individual.
Speaker 4: I'm not defined by my color, my lrige, and my sex.
Speaker 4: I'm jeff good to meet you. I will not respect
Speaker 4: your pronouns or celebrate your queerness. I am hostile to
Speaker 4: your sexualization of children. I reject your triggers and your
Speaker 4: desire to control my speech. I know who and what
Speaker 4: you are. You are my presumptive master, or else the
Speaker 4: useful idiot who empowers him. But I will grant you
Speaker 4: and your ideology no power over me. There's more you
Speaker 4: want to hear a little more sure. I reject equity
Speaker 4: because it is collectivism disguised as virtue. I reject inclusivity
Speaker 4: because it is inorganic superficial and contrived. I reject mandated diversity.
Speaker 4: I will not surrender to the crayon box mafia, nor
Speaker 4: do the gender changelings who pretend I am construct answerable
Speaker 4: to their whims.
Speaker 2: Cultural appropriation is merely culture.
Speaker 4: It expands to include, and it makes up the very
Speaker 4: fabric of a pluralistic society. There's no such thing as
Speaker 4: digital blackface. My whiteness is not violent, my sex is
Speaker 4: not oppressive. My religion doesn't concern you, and my children
Speaker 4: are not yours. STA mold, Your beliefs will not be
Speaker 4: imposed on me. The state will not parent my sons.
Speaker 2: Theory. Yes, digital blackface, I'd forgotten that term. Oh yeah, and.
Speaker 4: Again if you've lost a thread, this is a red
Speaker 4: declaration of independence.
Speaker 2: Queer theory is critical. Race theory is critical.
Speaker 4: Consciousness is the Marxist rejection of the individual as individual.
Speaker 4: I have some stats on how many states queer theory
Speaker 4: is being taught in schools to little children as truth
Speaker 4: and is as shocking. Well, one more time. Queer theory
Speaker 4: is critical. Race theory is critical. Consciousness is the Marxist
Speaker 4: rejection of the individual as individual. Cultural Marxism is determined
Speaker 4: to raise norms so chaos tear families asunder and reduce
Speaker 4: being to collective conformity. I reject its premises as fully
Speaker 4: as I reject its adherents. I will not comply. I
Speaker 4: will not mouth your slogans. I will not denounce on command.
Speaker 4: I am not your tool, and you are not my minder.
Speaker 4: And he has a little more about my speech is
Speaker 4: my own. I reject each of your excuses to silence me.
Speaker 4: I don't ask for your protections. I can filter information
Speaker 4: without your interference, Mark Zuckerberg, and I despise your presumption
Speaker 4: to protect me from myself. I am your sworn enemy,
Speaker 4: and you are mine. I will not perform for you.
Speaker 4: I will not read from your script or dance in
Speaker 4: your follies. Oh my brother, we will post this at
Speaker 4: armstrong egedi dot com.
Speaker 2: It is brilliant, and he goes on. But that's the main.
Speaker 3: Party, and it fits in with that Wall Street Journal
Speaker 3: article I was reading from last hour, The progressive moment
Speaker 3: in global politics is over. That moment existed mostly online
Speaker 3: and with the you know, high level university set. It
Speaker 3: was a much smaller group than we all thought or feared,
Speaker 3: thank god, but it was it was misleading because it
Speaker 3: was so prevalent in you know, TV, newspapers and Twitter
Speaker 3: in places like that, but it was not near as
Speaker 3: big as we all thought. And the best thing that
Speaker 3: could happen to people that are on the right side
Speaker 3: of that, and you could be a lifelong Democrat and
Speaker 3: be to the right of all that stuff by a
Speaker 3: law shirt like Bill Mahr and lots of people. The
Speaker 3: best thing that could happen for us is if they
Speaker 3: continue to believe that they have the numbers they think
Speaker 3: they have as opposed to the tiny fraction that actually
Speaker 3: agrees with them.
Speaker 4: Right, I'm reminded of something great you've brought to us.
Speaker 4: I think it was last year about how it only
Speaker 4: takes fifteen percent of a population that's dedicated to a
Speaker 4: revolution to make it successful. Because you want to give
Speaker 4: us the nickel version of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to have the fifteen percent really really
Speaker 3: active group that wants to overthrow the current regime. But
Speaker 3: you get a big enough chunk of people who mostly
Speaker 3: agree with you. They're not going to really do much,
Speaker 3: but they're not going to get in the way, and
Speaker 3: then you have the crowd that's scared of you, and
Speaker 3: you can easily get over fifty percent.
Speaker 2: Right right, and that's how you win.
Speaker 4: And imagine if you were in that hardcore fifteen percent
Speaker 4: that wanted to, I don't know, for the sake of
Speaker 4: the argument overthrow Western society in the name of neo Marxism.
Speaker 4: Imagine if your first step was to capture media and education.
Speaker 4: I mean, that would be an enormous coupe because you could,
Speaker 4: and I'm stating the obvious here, you could project the
Speaker 4: idea that you have way way more mass than you
Speaker 4: do for your radical ideas, like radical gender theory, which
Speaker 4: I will give you a clue. It's like over a
Speaker 4: third of American states are teaching radical theory. There's no
Speaker 4: such thing as a man or a woman. You get
Speaker 4: to choose to little kids in schools. So man, these
Speaker 4: these scumbags, And I'm sorry for the for the you know,
Speaker 4: I'm a wardsmith. I can do better than that. I
Speaker 4: apologize these monsters. At least it's more adult. The fact
Speaker 4: that these monsters have gotten as far as they have
Speaker 4: is really really troubling. But you know, on we go
Speaker 4: with the fight.
Speaker 3: Trudeau resigning in Canada is a lot of what sparked.
Speaker 3: For instance, the Ullstreet Journal article one on the list
Speaker 3: of Western leaders or parties that have really suffered defeats
Speaker 3: trying to ride the whole pronouns latinex you should be
Speaker 3: ashamed of yourself for being a white male thang.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, yeah, he was huge into that.
Speaker 4: And the what's really troubling about this, and we've had
Speaker 4: a bunch of conversations, is you got to your well,
Speaker 4: just you keep calling it fifteen percent for the sake
Speaker 4: of the argument.
Speaker 2: You get your hardcore fifteen percent their activists.
Speaker 4: Well, the genius of Neo Marxism developed in the intellectual
Speaker 4: salons of Europe in the forties and fifties, nineteen forties
Speaker 4: and nineteen fifties. They wrote books, they signed their name,
Speaker 4: they told us precisely what they wanted to do. The
Speaker 4: genius of it is they have crafted, and it's an
Speaker 4: evil genius, these moral sounding arguments that convince a certain
Speaker 4: sort of person that they are doing the right thing
Speaker 4: morally by becoming an adherent to Neo Marxism. And it's
Speaker 4: particularly effective among women who want to seek agreement and
Speaker 4: groups and acceptments of that sort of thing. And it's
Speaker 4: particularly successful among your university crowd who want to be
Speaker 4: on the cutting edge of thought. That's how they gratify
Speaker 4: their egos by being the innovator, the new person, the revolutionary.
Speaker 4: It's incredibly I mean, they take practically sexual glee for
Speaker 4: being innovators in the universities, because how are you going
Speaker 4: to justify your big sal Gary if you in any
Speaker 4: level of education, say you know that stuff we've been doing,
Speaker 4: it's perfect. I wouldn't change it at all. True, you've
Speaker 4: wasted your PhD. So anyway, man, you have heard a
Speaker 4: lot of gun shots. If your reaction to a gunshot
Speaker 4: in a room is this.
Speaker 5: And choices we got in lay? Those were your choices?
Speaker 2: Been calmer than shot? Who did somebody get shot?
Speaker 6: Huh?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 3: It would be the most amazing thing that ever happened
Speaker 3: in my life. If a gun went off in a room.
Speaker 4: We're sitting there interviewing I don't know, Rich Lowry from
Speaker 4: the National Review, and.
Speaker 2: Rich says who shot? Who? Who? Somebody get shot?
Speaker 5: And choices we got in lay? Those were your choices?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 4: It actually pretty interesting conversation before or you know, the
Speaker 4: gun winner. So the other thing I wanted to squeeze
Speaker 4: in a couple more kind of wrapping up the year,
Speaker 4: looking forward to the year things, because I'll rant and
Speaker 4: rave about the previous story for.
Speaker 2: The rest of my life.
Speaker 4: But Jan Crawford was on CBS's face the Nation Sunday.
Speaker 4: I saw that, and she brought the thunder that the
Speaker 4: most uncovered and underreported topic last year was clearly she said,
Speaker 4: quote that to me, Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline. They
Speaker 4: became undeniable in the televised debate, unquestioned that that's the
Speaker 4: most underreported story of the year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely true. But we'll be lost to history. It's
Speaker 3: amazing that there isn't more introspection over that. Well, here's
Speaker 3: the really interesting part. She says, still incredibly, we read
Speaker 3: in the Washington Post that his advisers are saying that
Speaker 3: he regrets that he dropped out of the race, that
Speaker 3: he thinks he could have beaten Trump, and I think
Speaker 3: that is either delusional or the gaslighting the American people.
Speaker 3: But CBS's chief Election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa jumped
Speaker 3: up and said, well, President Biden has repeatedly said he
Speaker 3: was sick during the debate in Atlanta, and he's always
Speaker 3: been fine, and he leaves fine.
Speaker 2: That is his position.
Speaker 4: The position of many of his top stadents, as well
Speaker 4: as even though there is that reporting that Jan was
Speaker 4: talking to reduce the obvious accepted by everyone reality of
Speaker 4: Joe Biden's coggen decline as there is that reporting, but
Speaker 4: he has now Jan he has said repeatedly had a cold.
Speaker 2: Costa's lost to me, he's he's lost his mind. I
Speaker 2: don't know who that's for.
Speaker 3: Eighty five percent of America before that debate thought he
Speaker 3: shouldn't serve again. So I don't know who you're serving
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Speaker 3: Thank You. In Los Angeles, jury has awarded a man
Speaker 3: fifty million dollars after he was seriously burned by a
Speaker 3: Starbucks drink. Now, the person got burnt pretty good, but
Speaker 3: I had on his junk, on his junk and says
Speaker 3: he can't have sex anymore. Although you would make that
Speaker 3: argument if you're trying to get fifty million dollars.
Speaker 2: So whether that's accurate or not, I do not know.
Speaker 3: But and I'm not a lawyer, but I don't know
Speaker 3: how you work this out in society. On one hand,
Speaker 3: I'm going through the drive through at Starbucks.
Speaker 2: I don't deserve to be maimed for life. No, certainly,
Speaker 2: not in my privets.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, it's an impossible expectation that nothing
Speaker 3: ever goes wrong ever, And you know, nailing down whether
Speaker 3: it was the employee's fault or the person in the
Speaker 3: car's fault is difficult. I mean, if you ever go
Speaker 3: to Starbucks get more than one drink, they give you
Speaker 3: that cardboard holder that the drinks fit in. And this
Speaker 3: person claimed that they didn't secure the tea in. It
Speaker 3: was sitting at an angle and then it spilled. Oh
Speaker 3: maybe it was or maybe you hit it on the
Speaker 3: window or with urob or whatever. I don't know, but anyway,
Speaker 3: you can't get everything perfect all the time.
Speaker 2: Fifty million dollars.
Speaker 3: The problem with this, to me is what it's what
Speaker 3: drives so many of the things that make us nuts
Speaker 3: in life. The fact that the school won't let your
Speaker 3: kid play if it's rained in the last two days.
Speaker 3: You have to stay inside for reasss because they might slip,
Speaker 3: and some jury will award one hundred million dollars. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's just it's an unworkable situation for society. So I
Speaker 3: don't and you know, you wouldn't want Starbucks to be
Speaker 3: able to like, here comes my girlfriend's ex boyfriend.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw.
Speaker 3: Hot tea in his face at the drive through, and
Speaker 3: there'd be no penalty for that. I mean, so there's
Speaker 3: gotta be a Ligne somewhere obviously.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just think we've gotten so far off tracks as
Speaker 4: a society because it's very different than virtually any other
Speaker 4: legal system on Earth. You're not going to get a
Speaker 4: fifty million dollar reward like this in Argentina or or
Speaker 4: probably Britain. I don't think, But I don't think we
Speaker 4: as people understand how far off we've gotten. And a
Speaker 4: big reason for that. What is the number one profession
Speaker 4: among legislators. It's not even close.
Speaker 3: You know, it's an attorney, right, and the whole jury
Speaker 3: thing where you this is one of the reasons that
Speaker 3: we regularly say, you know, don't make those jokes about
Speaker 3: how to get out of jury duty. Show up on
Speaker 3: the jury so you could say, so you could be
Speaker 3: there as a smart person, say fifty fifty million dollars
Speaker 3: is insane, Yes, because you got to. I'm guessing you
Speaker 3: got a jury. Pro peoples of Starbucks is rich, they
Speaker 3: can afford it. I don't like them anyway, you know
Speaker 3: that sort.
Speaker 2: Of thing, right, Yeah, yeah, boy.
Speaker 4: If there's one technology mankind has not perfected, it's the
Speaker 4: getting the cup lid to click on the cup thing
Speaker 4: in the world of coffee. And you know, granted, I'm
Speaker 4: an older fellow now, and I've learned the hard lessons
Speaker 4: of life, sometimes more than once, usually more than once
Speaker 4: before I absorb them. Boy, anybody who has boiling hot
Speaker 4: coffee and assumes that lid is on their right, you
Speaker 4: are a bold man and a foolish one.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just when I heard that, I just thought, oh crap,
Speaker 3: this is going to lead to even more Sorry, we
Speaker 3: can't allow you to do this stuff.
Speaker 2: Or you get like room temperature coffee.
Speaker 3: Right, coffee can't ever be That might be the reaction
Speaker 3: from Starbucks, No more hot coffee. I know lots of
Speaker 3: people order stuff extra hot, because I've known Barista's order
Speaker 3: stuff extra hot. It's already so hot you can't drink it.
Speaker 3: But it's the idea that it'll be it's so hot
Speaker 3: that by the time you get to work on your
Speaker 3: fifteen minute commute, it'll still be hot.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll bet that goes out the window after this settlement. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I shouldn't say this, but everybody's thinking about it,
Speaker 4: so I will. So this guy got fifty million dollars
Speaker 4: as he could never have sex again?
Speaker 2: Was he any good at it? I mean, does that
Speaker 2: factor into the juries? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean you think they should interview previous lovers and say, so,
Speaker 3: how much of a loss is this for humanity?
Speaker 4: Well? Yeah, I mean because it's obviously lost to him,
Speaker 4: no matter his skills, but to humanity, because shouldn't that
Speaker 4: be a fifty to fifty thing on also Consortium, et cetera,
Speaker 4: on a scale of me to wow, where was he exactly?
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm asking these questions. I don't have the answers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, God dang it.
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show, The
Speaker 1: arm Strong and Geeddy Show.
Speaker 4: Joanna Stern writes about tech for The Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 4: She's very clever, as you're about to hear, and sounds
Speaker 4: down to earth and as I enjoy your writing.
Speaker 2: The opening bit of this article tells it all.
Speaker 4: I've been wearing a wire everywhere since February. I've got
Speaker 4: all the transcripts important meetings, arguments with my kids, chats
Speaker 4: with disgruntled employees, late night bathroom routines. There's plenty more
Speaker 4: that I can't share if I want you to keep
Speaker 4: liking me. She has been willingly wearing a fifty dollars
Speaker 4: be Pioneer bracelet that records everything she says and uses
Speaker 4: AI to summarize her life and send her helpful reminders.
Speaker 4: Getting back to the article, I also tested two similar gadgets,
Speaker 4: the one hundred and ninety nine dollars Limitless Pendant and
Speaker 4: the one hundred and fifty nine.
Speaker 2: Dollars plowd Note pin.
Speaker 4: These assistants can recall every dumb, private, and cringe worthy
Speaker 4: thing that came out of my mouth. Is this the
Speaker 4: dawn of the AI surveillance state? Absolutely? Is it also
Speaker 4: the dream of hyper personal, all knowing AI assistance coming
Speaker 4: to life?
Speaker 2: Also? Yes? Absolutely, Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 3: The first thing I thought of was, and usually i'm
Speaker 3: I'm my first go to is surveillance state. But my
Speaker 3: first thought was, wow, if I had AI reminding me, hey,
Speaker 3: remember you're gonna work on that. Getting your real ID
Speaker 3: the deadline's coming up. I would love that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I was just gonna say, if y'all are
Speaker 4: sitting there thinking.
Speaker 2: What the hell good would this do me?
Speaker 4: She gets to that and it's pretty cool. Let me
Speaker 4: read more of her piece. Within hours of wearing the
Speaker 4: bee again, one of the three devices she tried, I
Speaker 4: was blown away how quickly it turned ramblings in random
Speaker 4: chatter into useful, actionable information. Yet allow me to quote
Speaker 4: myself from February twenty fourth at five point fifteen pm. Wow,
Speaker 4: quote this bracelet is really effing creepy.
Speaker 2: So here's how they work.
Speaker 4: And she mentions that all the denials we've heard through
Speaker 4: the years that social media apps are secretly listening to
Speaker 4: us too hard, too intensive, too much datah, yeah, please,
Speaker 4: but all those devices do that. They detect dialogue, especially
Speaker 4: your voice, and they stream the audio to your phone
Speaker 4: via Bluetooth, then to company servers where it's transcribed. AI
Speaker 4: models take the transcription and generate summaries, which appear in
Speaker 4: the apps within minutes. Now, one of the devices that
Speaker 4: does not save the audio.
Speaker 2: All it has is the transcriptions.
Speaker 4: The other one, limitless keeps the audio, letting you play
Speaker 4: back full recordings of everything you've said, boy.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, oh boy.
Speaker 3: But it's a little weird for us because I have
Speaker 3: full recordings of what I say four hours a day,
Speaker 3: five days a week the past thirty years.
Speaker 2: But so it's not as foreign to me.
Speaker 4: But why i'd be something, But you and I also
Speaker 4: have a heightened awareness of the difference between when the
Speaker 4: mics are on and when they're not true, And more
Speaker 4: than one good career has been ended because a mic
Speaker 4: was on somebody thought it was not I've had a
Speaker 4: few disadonge that bullet a couple of times ourselves.
Speaker 3: I've had a few disagreements in my life, like minor
Speaker 3: to major, where would have been kind of handy to
Speaker 3: be able to go back and say, I'm.
Speaker 2: Pretty sure you didn't mention that to me. They said, yeah,
Speaker 2: I did. It's like to.
Speaker 4: Screet the commercials. Who is it an insurance commercial? I
Speaker 4: can't remember. Let's go to the tape and they go
Speaker 4: under the hood, right like NFL referees.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Katie.
Speaker 3: I'm just thinking this sounds like a wife's dream.
Speaker 2: The amount of time were like I told you we
Speaker 2: have dinner tonight at five, No you didn't. Let's go
Speaker 2: to the tape. Let's go to the tape, sir. That's fantastic.
Speaker 4: Then she gets into some of the technical ups and downs,
Speaker 4: and Katie would love to have you comment on this
Speaker 4: to your heart's content. But and she gets into how
Speaker 4: AI is nothing without data.
Speaker 2: It needs data.
Speaker 4: So when you feeded everything you've said for days, weeks,
Speaker 4: and months, it gets infinitely more useful. Also, yes, it
Speaker 4: becomes a lot more like a Black Mirror episode, but
Speaker 4: we'll get into that.
Speaker 2: She writes.
Speaker 4: With massive transcripts of your life, the AI in these
Speaker 4: apps can summarize. They recap your conversations, often reading like
Speaker 4: a bad biography. This is great. The b Device summary
Speaker 4: from April ninth, Johanna's day was a blend of familiar
Speaker 4: responsibilities and intense professional engagements. She ended the day listening
Speaker 4: to music by sting riveting stuff. Can't wait for the
Speaker 4: movie adaptation.
Speaker 3: Wow, there'd be some days, excuse me, there'd be some days.
Speaker 3: Read at disappointed in the summary. You worked, you came home,
Speaker 3: you scrolled through Twitter, you ate crap and went to bed.
Speaker 2: Oh my own business AI?
Speaker 3: Who Jack is eating his twenty seventh double quarter pounder
Speaker 3: in this week?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, thank you crack yeah, it was Kenton, I am.
Speaker 4: The transcriptions themselves aren't all that accurate, but the summaries
Speaker 4: usually off are well except for March twenty fourth conversation
Speaker 4: with Johnny Cochrane about trial evidence.
Speaker 2: Yep, just a casual chat with a deceased celebrity lawyer.
Speaker 2: And she says in parentheses, I was watching the new
Speaker 2: OJ documentary. That's funny. But Jack to your prescient point earlier.
Speaker 4: Some of the ways that they're helpful is summarizing things
Speaker 4: and reminders. Turns out I promise to do a lot
Speaker 4: of things without putting them on a to do list.
Speaker 4: B listens for action items and adds them to suggested
Speaker 4: lists because they understand the.
Speaker 2: Verbiage in an action item.
Speaker 4: It's repeatedly reminded me of important tasks like calling the
Speaker 4: plumber or following up on work stuff. But it also
Speaker 4: hilariously adds things I'd never put on a list, like quote,
Speaker 4: check in on your six son, or schedule a follow
Speaker 4: up with your hairstylist to discuss your haircut.
Speaker 2: Let's see it analyzes. God, No, how great would that be.
Speaker 2: I'll bet this happens soon.
Speaker 3: And like a lot of things in life, we can't
Speaker 3: remember what it was like before it where you know
Speaker 3: in ten years age?
Speaker 2: Remember when you like now where?
Speaker 3: I often think, you know, I go somewhere and I think,
Speaker 3: how did I used to get to places? I don't
Speaker 3: even remember how I used to get to places? Did
Speaker 3: I pull out a map? Or how did I even
Speaker 3: do it?
Speaker 2: As friendly strangers? Right?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, sometimes you'd pull into a gas station and say,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm looking for the sporting goods store, which
Speaker 3: I know is around here somewhere, but I could see
Speaker 3: here in a couple of years. Would be like, do
Speaker 3: you remember when you used to have to remember things
Speaker 3: or write them down on a post it note instead
Speaker 3: of having AI tell me, remember your son's got the
Speaker 3: volleyball game, so you got to pick them up from
Speaker 3: school early.
Speaker 2: That sort of yeah.
Speaker 4: Right, I can't be the only person assembled friends who
Speaker 4: is not great at making to do lists. And how
Speaker 4: many times have I said, I mean, Jeff, yeah no,
Speaker 4: I won't bother, I'll remember it. I'll remember to make
Speaker 4: to do lists. How many times have I said, when
Speaker 4: I think of it, I don't have time, and when
Speaker 4: I have time, I don't think of it.
Speaker 2: Correct Anyway, Here's another thing.
Speaker 4: It does both be and Limitless have chatbots so you
Speaker 4: can ask about your recorded life. I asked B for
Speaker 4: a detailed breakdown of my cursing habits. Daily average two
Speaker 4: point four curses. Please, you're not even trying, sweetheart, But
Speaker 4: it can.
Speaker 2: Be what are you a nun?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Two point four a day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's impressive. Well she has kids, good for you.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you're never in the car alone. Get on
Speaker 2: my blanking way.
Speaker 4: But then she says it can be genuinely helpful, like quote,
Speaker 4: look through my chats with Ethan from B and tell
Speaker 4: me what AI model it uses, So reminders of factual
Speaker 4: things you heard in a conversation that are a little fuzzy.
Speaker 3: Now, God, I'm starting to think I might So all
Speaker 3: of this surveillance stuff we've all opted in, we've all
Speaker 3: decided we're going to carry around a tracking device with
Speaker 3: us all the time, and we all know that we
Speaker 3: just feel like the advantages outweigh the possible disadvantages. I
Speaker 3: think this might end up being true for recording everything.
Speaker 3: I say that the advantages will outweigh the You know
Speaker 3: how it could be misused. God, if you could quickly
Speaker 3: you wouldn't even have to listen to the conversation. If
Speaker 3: AI could go back through the transcript and it would say, yeah,
Speaker 3: your wife did tell you that you had dinner to
Speaker 3: night at five oh cramp eh.
Speaker 2: Um, or no they didn't. It might be handy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I tell you.
Speaker 4: I would describe myself, and again, I have a feeling
Speaker 4: I'm not unique in this is busy, well meaning and
Speaker 4: absent minded. And if my what sits could say to me, hey,
Speaker 4: remember you agreed to play a golf with Gordy tomorrow afternoon,
Speaker 4: I'd be like, oh, shoot right, because you know that's
Speaker 4: one of my great weaknesses.
Speaker 3: So care's how and you're built that way or you're not.
Speaker 3: It's so obvious because I got two kids that are
Speaker 3: completely different. I got one kid that's very close to
Speaker 3: me on term of that stuff, kind of like you
Speaker 3: just described my other kid.
Speaker 2: It just it just all locked in his brain all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 3: He knows where everything is, he knows what's on the
Speaker 3: schedule today, he knows it's all there all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But I can't. I can't try harder and be
Speaker 2: that way. Yeah.
Speaker 4: One of the reasons my wife and I have escaped
Speaker 4: financial ruin and other bad fates is she's meticulous, and
Speaker 4: so you know when she like pays a bill late,
Speaker 4: it's alert the media.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just what anyway, how they're creepy.
Speaker 4: February twenty third, five point fifteen, in a conversation with
Speaker 4: my mom. This bracelet has nothing to do with fitness.
Speaker 4: It records everything that's being said, as her mom was
Speaker 4: asking her, Nobody I've talked to over the past few
Speaker 4: months would have known I was recording them if I
Speaker 4: hadn't told them.
Speaker 2: It's a little fun like I'm a low budget Ethan Hunt.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't get that references by some sort.
Speaker 4: Mostly though, I just felt like a creep and depending
Speaker 4: on the state, I might have been breaking the law.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the other side of this. All that conversation stuff.
Speaker 3: Both ends of it should be as into it as
Speaker 3: maybe I would be. Otherwise, you're recording all your friends conversations.
Speaker 2: That's and family's. That's pretty dicey.
Speaker 5: And then.
Speaker 4: Some of these are just hilarious because they have transcripts
Speaker 4: and summaries right of your various conversations. This one's labeled
Speaker 4: interaction with pet Dog Browser. I think it's browser, but
Speaker 4: maybe it is browser. That's a very writery thing to
Speaker 4: name your dog. Here's the transcript. Someone scolded browser for
Speaker 4: chewing something. Speaker one, Browser, what are you doing? Speaker
Speaker 4: one again? Can you not chew your whatever? Speaker one again? Browser?
Speaker 4: Some transcripts? Yeah, oh that is some useful stuff. Most
Speaker 4: of my recordings were in New Jersey and New York. Sure,
Speaker 4: one party consent states, and I'd agreed. But if I
Speaker 4: were in one of about a dozen states that require
Speaker 4: two party consent, I need permission from everyone in earshot
Speaker 4: or end up with a possible civil liability case.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's I don't know how that's gonna work in
Speaker 3: states where you got to have two party consent.
Speaker 4: And then she quotes a lawyer Jack, who surprisingly says
Speaker 4: you better not, which is what lawyers are paid to say.
Speaker 4: More specifically, he says I would make sure everyone has
Speaker 4: consented verbally, and while the risk might be low, he adds,
Speaker 4: we would never recommend people take that risk.
Speaker 3: Well, geez, I mean if somebody walks up to me
Speaker 3: and says, I wear a device that records all of our.
Speaker 2: Conversations, just want to make sure that's okay with you, I'd.
Speaker 4: Be an automatic no f all the way off yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: How far away can you get in the next ten seconds?
Speaker 4: Get there? How does this benefit me in any way?
Speaker 4: There's only down side, So any thoughts, usefulness, hazards, etcetera.
Speaker 4: Drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong and getty
Speaker 4: dot com. We'll hit them around the same time tomorrow.
Speaker 3: During the show, they kind of reminded me of stuff though,
Speaker 3: because it remembers what I said.
Speaker 2: That'd be cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if they could refine it to promises and actions.
Speaker 4: And of course, you know, in the scenario we've we've
Speaker 4: talked about a couple of times, it would have to
Speaker 4: be recording my wife saying don't don't forget we're having
Speaker 4: dinner with the Joneses next Tuesday.
Speaker 3: But it does it also record remember the other night
Speaker 3: when you said you'd blink my blank.
Speaker 2: Oh no, you don't know.
Speaker 4: Of course, it'd be good to have a transcript funny
Speaker 4: right here in black and white.
Speaker 3: All right, Yes, I see it's here. Not trying to
Speaker 3: be argumentative here, but read the transfer eight seventeen on
Speaker 3: April the third. I mean, it's just it's just a.
Speaker 6: Fact I'm strong and getting show a shadowy network called
Speaker 6: seven sixty four, whose goal is to spark violence and
Speaker 6: chaos around the world, in part by luring in unsuspecting teenagers.
Speaker 7: Seven sixty four targets kids on social media and gaming platforms,
Speaker 7: extorting them into sending violent and sexual content. The FBI
Speaker 7: is warning parents to pay attention to who their kids
Speaker 7: are talking to on social media and gaming platforms. The
Speaker 7: FBI's investigating more than two hundred and fifty suspects tied
Speaker 7: to seven sixty four, with every.
Speaker 2: Field office involved. Well, that's just dandy.
Speaker 3: I am a parent of teenagers who'd never even heard
Speaker 3: of that in my life until two seconds ago.
Speaker 2: So that's just great.
Speaker 3: Let's just put that on the long list of things
Speaker 3: you can be concerned about if your kid's got a phone.
Speaker 4: Not so fast, there's more to be concerned about if
Speaker 4: your kid has a phone. I was just reading that
Speaker 4: the hacker ring that you may remember put Vegas.
Speaker 2: Out of commission?
Speaker 3: What was that?
Speaker 4: Years?
Speaker 2: Six months ago, a year ago? I don't know.
Speaker 4: Time flies when you're but they brought down all those
Speaker 4: casinos for a time. That is a very loosely assembled
Speaker 4: group of bored, malcontent, mischievous youngsters who call themselves the
Speaker 4: con or something like that. And this specific subgroup of
Speaker 4: the subgroup calls themselves scattered Spider, I guess, and they
Speaker 4: just they hack into various corporations and companies and government
Speaker 4: institutions and stuff like that for fun and mischief, and
Speaker 4: sometimes they steal, but sometimes they.
Speaker 2: Just screw with it.
Speaker 3: That whole keep track of who your kids talk to
Speaker 3: on social media and everything like that sounded a lot
Speaker 3: easier before, well before my kids got old enough to
Speaker 3: be involved in that world. And as far as I
Speaker 3: can tell, I'm more strict than a lot of my
Speaker 3: son's friends parents are. And it's still just I mean,
Speaker 3: there's just so many opportunities for them to be involved
Speaker 3: with bad people. I mean, unless I'm gonna be over
Speaker 3: his shoulder all the time.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I I was a very big fan as a parent,
Speaker 4: partly for that reason, and I completely support the idea
Speaker 4: of trying not to trying to eliminate opportunities to do
Speaker 4: bad things one hundred percent. But I realized at one
Speaker 4: point what you're talking about, and so I just really
Speaker 4: emphasized the underlying principles right behind doing some things and
Speaker 4: not doing some things, and how extremely important they were
Speaker 4: to me as their dad and their mom certainly, but
Speaker 4: how important and fundamental they are to being a good
Speaker 4: person and a bad person. And then when they're loose
Speaker 4: on the town and they're presented with temptation, you hope
Speaker 4: and pray they make the right choice, and or if
Speaker 4: they make the wrong choice, it's not a disaster.
Speaker 3: Right, which has a lot to do with their friend
Speaker 3: group and everything else, which has always been true. And
Speaker 3: the opportunity to get in trouble is exponentially greater now
Speaker 3: than it was twenty years ago. I mean, it's just
Speaker 3: a completely different world. You couldn't order heroin and in
Speaker 3: a machine gun from any tiny town in America when
Speaker 3: I was in high school, or come across a you know,
Speaker 3: an international pedophile sex ring.
Speaker 2: It just wasn't gonna happen. Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 4: I was going to bring up a kind of vague
Speaker 4: philosophical theme about the modern world. Don't really have time
Speaker 4: to get into it now, but.
Speaker 2: Has to do.
Speaker 4: And I can't get into specifics in my little world. Really,
Speaker 4: You'll have to forgive me for that for now. But
Speaker 4: a friend of mine characterized kind of a mood as
Speaker 4: the slime from the Ghostbusters movies, the original Ghostbuster, the
Speaker 4: early eighties, classic early eighties, like eighties three, when was
Speaker 4: that out? Anyway, you may recall that when all the
Speaker 4: ghosts were running wild in New York City, one of
Speaker 4: the things they did was like spread this green slime
Speaker 4: around ghost The effect it had was not just you know,
Speaker 4: green slime is effect enough, ick, but but it caused
Speaker 4: New Yorkers to be angry and disagreeable and turn on
Speaker 4: each other. And we're discussing a very local context and
Speaker 4: also the angst and not happiness of youth, and the
Speaker 4: fact that incumbents all over the developed world are getting
Speaker 4: tossed out of office, and the parties that have been
Speaker 4: fairly stable and in power, you know, they switch places
Speaker 4: now and again, but they're just getting tossed aside, there
Speaker 4: is a near global feeling of angst and unhappiness that
Speaker 4: I don't ever recall before true.
Speaker 2: That what do we do with this information? To do
Speaker 2: about it?
Speaker 3: We get used to it, do we settle into some
Speaker 3: or it just keeps getting worse by heroin and machine
Speaker 3: guns on the internet, like we're discussing earlier, Fantastic.
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