WEBVTT - Always With The Vital Fluids! 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:05.640 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:10.240 George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and show Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:17.280 Arms Strong and Katte and he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:25.759 I know how the public is going to be react. 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:28.840 He is going to react because I felt my own reaction. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:33.720 You know, I've spent years looking at videos of lethal 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:38.479 action taken often in the terrorism context, and this video 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:43.040 was profoundly shaking, shaken, and I think it's important for 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:44.000 Americans to see it. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.199 So that's another Democrat who saw the video of that 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:49.120 second strike on the boat and the two dudes in 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.120 the water, who was disturbed, highly disturbed. 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:54.720 Then he got Senator Tom Cotton on one of the 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.160 Sunday shows yesterday. He also saw the video. 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.960 They were not floating in the ocean on a wooden 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.880 playing or in life jackets. They were on the capsized vessel. 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.240 They were not incapacitated in any way. It was entirely 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.240 appropriate to strike the boat again to make sure that 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:13.440 it was cargo was destroyed. It is in no way 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.319 violation of the law of war. And I think the 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:20.920 Washington Post O Secretary Hexatt and especially Admiral Mitch Bradley 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.200 a highly decorated career Navy seal, and apology for that slander. 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:27.240 Not two guys in distress floating along hanging on to 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:29.399 a piece of wood. According to Tom Cotton, well, let's 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.440 here yet another point of view. This is representative Adam Smith, 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:36.000 he was on ABC this week, Cut fifty one. 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:40.640 Senator Cotton's description of it is simply not accurate. When 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:43.600 they were finally taken out, they were trying to flip 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:47.080 the boat over. The boat was clearly incapacitated. A tiny 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.960 portion of it remained capsized the bow of the boat. 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:54.080 They had no communications device, certainly they were unarmed. Any 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.560 claim that the drugs had somehow survived that attack is 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:59.960 hard to really square with what we saw. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.920 How all these people could have been watching the same video. 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.520 And then one more, this is the Republican Senator Eric Schmidt, 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:07.280 Clip fifty two. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.640 So President Trump is acting with his core Article two powers. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.320 No serious legal expert would doubt that the president has 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.560 authority to blow NARCO terrorists out of the water who 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.040 are poisoning one hundred thousand Americans every year. And so 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.679 now what we have are Democrats who have such X 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.600 ray vision and clairvoyance that they know the intentions of 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.679 narco terrorists on boats, yet we're so blind to see 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:30.720 that they had a president for four years that was 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.720 operating as a vegetable in Joe Biden. So forgive me 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.080 if I'm a little skeptical that this isn't all about 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.480 politics and trying to take up secretary of HEXP. 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:44.080 Obviously I play that for his reasoning of Oh, so 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:45.239 they can read the mind. 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.000 Of those people floating in the water, but they couldn't 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:51.120 tell Joe Biden was senile, vegetable. Vegetable? Why I on 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.440 a clip thirteen, Michael, let's hear that real quickly. 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.799 This was over the weekend, someone, hope and get back 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:57.919 up and remember who in the hell we are. We're 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:01.520 the United States of America. That's who we are. 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:06.080 So while I found that humorous from Senator Schmidt, I 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.799 don't think that's particularly the best argument that leads me 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.239 to believe that you're Your evidence is not that good. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:14.520 If you're falling on the Oh. 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:16.280 You can read the mind of the people flowed in 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:18.320 the water, but you couldn't see that Joe Biden was 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:18.919 a vegetable. 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:25.320 I'd rather don't attack the particulars of the Yeah, although 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.760 I enjoyed it a great deal. Yeah, yeah, I don't 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.080 feel like this has legs. I'll tell you don't. 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:34.480 Okay, Well, explain to me, because I was about to 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.520 say Mark Halprin's like Axium six of Washington, d C. 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.760 Once there is pressure for something to come out, a 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.520 document or a video or whatever, it will come out. 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.320 It always ends up coming out. Yeah. So if the 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:48.920 video comes out video. 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.200 Number two, well then everybody's gonna see it or either 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:55.600 gonna agree with Tom Cotton or not, or do you 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.160 think it's gonna be one of those things that it's 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.640 kind of hard to tell what's going on, and you're 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.040 politics lead you to believe whoever you tend to side with. 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.480 Right, Yeah, I think all those things are absolutely correct. 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:12.200 I would add to it that the professional media pretending 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:16.080 to be outraged crowd is outraged because they're always outraged. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:21.440 But just in my personal experience, I have had virtually 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.920 nobody express a great deal of concern over this. They're like, yeah, 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.920 they're drug cartels in real life. Yeah, a lot. I mean, 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:33.120 including people who are harshly critical of Trump in a 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:37.240 lot of ways. I just don't think this has the 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.919 energy it would take to sustain it, and if it 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:44.200 does the factors you mentioned, and then they you know, 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:47.160 they blame somebody. They put the goats horns on somebody 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.640 and say, yes, he's been asked to resign. It's full 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.960 pension and everything else, and then it'll go away. That's 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:53.680 my suspicion. 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.760 The Wall Street Journal says, does the video of the 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.880 second tap show the two survivors waving to the US 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:04.159 planes for help or signaling to their comrades to save 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:04.720 the cargo. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.520 That's what it's gonna come down to when the video 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.120 finally comes out. I A the beholder. Yep. 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.320 Oh, you can read the mind the two people bobbing 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.159 in the ocean, but you couldn't tell. 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.120 Joe Biden was a vegible for. 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.240 The United States of America. 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:24.040 Got it. That's who we are, the unine in States 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:31.320 of America, got it? Holy cow. In his big applause line, 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:38.440 there a vacant rhyme. Why what does he say in 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:39.039 that other one? 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:44.160 Michael mess for them in awak unless you want to back. 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.719 Yeah, that's a that's another good one. It's so argue 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:48.039 with that. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.159 The Pentagon and the White House are in discussions about 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.720 releasing the video officials said, though there is no clear 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.880 timeline for its release. If it is, I mean, I 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.720 find it hard to believe it's going to be significantly 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:08.880 more easy to see what's going on than that first video. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.840 It's the same camera from the same angle right right, 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.800 so it's going to be kind of hard to tell 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:15.719 what you're looking at. 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:17.839 So why don't they just put it out? And you 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.680 can keep making the same arguments. I hate hate when 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:24.520 I agree with Adam schiff Show, the most dishonest man 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.520 ever to appear in government. He says, look, if the 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:29.799 Pentagon's so proud of its actions, release the video. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.680 Yeah, and even Trump said we ought to put it out. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:34.960 We got it, we should put it out. 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.640 Oh Cotton mentions why they might not inclip number forty four. 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:42.039 I'm told, okay, let's hear it. Do you think that 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.720 the video should be released in full to the American public. 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.279 I don't have any problem with it. It's not gruesome. 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.800 I didn't find it distressing or disturbing. It looks like 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.640 any number of dozens of strikes we've seen on jeeps 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.039 and pickup trucks in the Middle East over the years. 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.720 I will say that the Department may have valid concerns 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.440 about rebelling what we know about tactics and techniques that 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.120 these cartels are using, or about our sources of methods, 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.840 and I would trust Secretary Hecseth and his team to 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.000 make the decision about whether they can be classify and 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.960 release the video. But again, there's nothing remarkabout the video that. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.400 Yeah, I don't know if I love Tom Cotton, but yeah, 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.160 we've seen bunches. They've put out a bunch of those videos. 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.840 This is just a follow up. It might show our 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:27.760 techniques and strategies, and it's going to show a vote 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:28.600 getting exploded. 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.880 My guess would be that somebody would have to point 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.440 out to you where the two guys are in this picture, 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:41.040 and then afterwards there's nothing, although I heard one Democrat 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:45.360 describe it as two people clearly injured clinging to a 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:50.000 piece of balsa wood, waving for help, and then you 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.800 see an explosion and then the water turns red with blood. 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.000 I know I speak for a lot of people when 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.560 I say it's a little frustrating when you're trying to 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.880 figure out what's actually happening and what's right and what's 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:08.840 wrong that each side of points like those whoever that was, 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:13.400 Adam Smith and then Adam Shift. They're on the all right, 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.240 go out there and say this is the most horrible 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.120 and outrageous thing that's ever happened on earth. We'll let 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:22.440 you know when to stop. And he just can't trust anybody. 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.200 I have no idea if anybuddy who is just quoted 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.480 as being sincere, no idea. The guy sound Joe Biden 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.360 was a vegetable. That much is documented. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.680 You've made it right ritten a long time. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.760 Yes, the guy sounded sincere who said is the most 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:41.959 disturbing thing he's ever seen in public life. But I 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:46.000 just find it hard to believe. I mean, unless you were, 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.760 I don't know, in the interior department. You don't seem 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.120 any disturbing things or something. 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:57.160 Oh yeah, I can't imagine leaving that shelter to life that. 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.240 I mean, we've all seen plenty of those drone videos. 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.800 It's the most disturbing thing you've ever seen, a Please, 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.040 I've seen dozens of them. 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.439 Well, and I think it would be you can't even 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.680 tell what you're looking at, then a flash, then whatever 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.360 you were looking at not really there anymore. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.600 I'm assuming it's kind of what the video is going 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.840 to look like, well, if it's the flear video with 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:25.679 the heat what do you call infrared whatever, you can 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:30.280 see people pretty clearly, and you would see the blood 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.600 and all that. But I mean, he's never seen any 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:38.600 any Vietnam documentaries or or battle videos or one of 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:42.679 the dozens of dronings that Barack Obama did with impunity, 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.720 including a US citizen and an underage US citizen. 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.400 Yeah, in terms of getting worked up about this, and 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.680 maybe this makes me a bad person, as you'd point out, 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:53.079 there are plenty of other things. 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:54.360 That make me a bad person. So we don't need 0:09:54.400 --> 0:10:00.480 to lean on this. But sure, and I'm perfectly. 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:05.080 Willing to engage in the conversation of whether or not 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.080 the United States should be doing this and do we 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:08.440 have the evidence. 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:09.720 To prove and is it an active war and blah 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.360 blah blah, all that sort of stuff. I'm fine with it. 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.760 And I want constitutionality and I don't want presidents going rogue. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.559 But just in general, if some guys working on a 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.600 Colombian or a Venezuelan drug boat got blasted, I don't care. 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:24.120 Maybe I should, but I. 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:28.080 Just don't care. Yeah, Yeah, you picked a pretty scary 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.880 line of work. Dudes, Well, in these narco states on, 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.400 you know, not far from our borders, in our neighborhood. 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:38.520 They're a bad thing. They are. That's not something we 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.080 ought to be putting up with. It's difficult to stop. 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.080 But so yeah, like I said before, I just don't 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.080 feel like there's a lot of energy among normal Americans 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.880 who are trying to pay their damn bills and you know, 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.200 worried about the things we tend to worry about. They're 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:56.280 not outraged by this, They're just not. I mean, it 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.760 wasn't a couple of Nebraska farmers who are trying to 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.240 bring in the harvest and they were accused of tax evasions, 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.000 so he blew the s up them. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:09.000 Now, that'd be aggressive policy. 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.600 These are narco terrorists, I know. I said I wouldn't 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.240 use that term because I think it's pre judicial drone stakes. 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.440 A couple of farmers on a tractor because they're back 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:21.040 behind on their taxes. They ought to check their deductions 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.920 before they signed the form. Huh, that's a I feel 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.760 like that's a very aggressive policy. Yeah, I would agree, 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:31.199 too aggressive. I don't know. I don't know about the 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:32.280 video put out. 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.800 The video let us all say I can't even tell 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:38.920 what's going on there and then move on with our lives, right, 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.480 or say, hey, probably shouldn't have blown the crap out 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:42.960 of those guys and we'll move on. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:50.439 It's you know again, I appreciate your mentioning the constitutionality 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.560 of this and presidents going rogue that sort of thing 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.640 is it's it's serious. As we mentioned earlier in the show. 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:57.559 You know, more people have died at the hands of 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.680 their own government than a foreign power. It's not even 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.760 oh so you want to keep your government in check. 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.040 On the other hand, it reminds me a little of 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.080 the Koshogi thing. But for the rest of my life, 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:13.080 I'm supposed to have this sainted Islamist as an example 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:17.040 of why the Saudis can't be trusted. Please. It's a 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:23.240 monarchy that's caushous descent. They kill people. It's that baked 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:27.480 into the delicious sandy Saudi cake. You just have to 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.559 accept it and go forward. What's best for the country 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.720 moving forward. You can't boohoo over old man Koshogi for 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:36.720 the rest of your life, with all due respect to 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.440 the horror of his hand. And yeah, the. 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:43.520 Sauce designed for bones and whatnot. I've got a Santa 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.880 pool for the job. Huh, right tool for the right job. Yes, 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.760 I've got a Santa question preferences that I want to 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.840 get to, among other things on the waist. 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:59.920 There, Columbia Sports where Is introduced a new line of 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.560 Star Wars based rain ponchos, like the ones worn by 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.960 the Rebels in Return of the Jedi, guaranteed to keep 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.280 you and all women dry as hell. 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:17.360 That's a little naughty, but I got hm mocking the 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:21.160 sort of person that's into Star Wars and their sexual. 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.880 Proclivities is what that is. So I got a question. 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.000 Feels a little dated to me, but I got a 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:31.280 Santa question for you. So there are two kinds of Santas, 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.720 and one kind has been growing a lot over the 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:39.800 last decades or so. So most of my Santa experience 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:43.560 growing up, and I'm talking about the Santa you meet 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:48.360 at the mall, and then also the kind of Christmas 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:54.440 decorations you have. It was kind of a campy, joky, cartoonish, 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:55.839 bright red. 0:13:57.840 --> 0:13:58.240 Santa. 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.880 And then you've got the other kind that I usually 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:05.680 saw in like richer people's houses or whatnot. The much 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:13.119 darker red looks like an Eastern Orthodox priest Santa Father Christmas. 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:18.360 Is that it more a European Yeah, yeah, that look right? 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:23.640 Which do you prefer? I go, you're gonna yell at 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.280 me for this because you're a monster. I kind of 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:31.600 like the variety of cultural norms involving Christmas. I love 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:36.760 center clause the Netherlands guy who comes with as David 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.680 Sedaris famously wrote about six to eight black men and 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.200 beats the hell out of you if you're a bad kid. 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:49.040 But well, Katie, you have a thought on this? Do 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:50.520 you know what I'm talking about? Yeah? 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.880 I do like the I like the red the typical 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:54.680 one that you see. 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.320 You see them meant to like the Santa pub crawls. 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.520 Yeah yeah, I kind of like the bright red, cartoonish 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:00.560 looking Santa. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:05.680 Right, I'm not gonna do like a Father Christmas type 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.280 blow up in my yard, for instance. People would look 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.560 at that and say, what the hell is that? Well, 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:11.760 it's it's you. 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.680 Know, and this might make some people, man, but I've 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.160 always felt like that other one kinda is like put 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.600 trying to push Santa into part of a Jesus story. 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:23.240 I mean, it's like a religious figure because it looks 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.320 very Eastern Orthodoxy Church. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:32.520 Like, well, I hate to contradict your seculary humanist filth, 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:40.880 but Saint Nicholas, Please anybody Saint Nicholas. It's a religious ceremony, 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.920 it's a tradition. It's the births of Christ. For the 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:45.640 love of Heaven. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.640 I understand that, but I have a pretty I have 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:52.240 a pretty stark, define. 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.239 Reason for the season. I've got them very divided. 0:15:54.640 --> 0:16:01.200 There's the Jesus Christmas and then there's the frost Geese 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:07.800 of Frosty the Snowman, right bright red, you know that 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:09.720 whole thing, which is they have nothing to do with 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.880 each other, really, and I feel like the other kind 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:15.960 of Santa tries to blend them together and aware, Oh. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.320 You know, I shouldn't have mocked you. I will continue, 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:23.440 but I shouldn't have. There's a weird parallel. And I'm 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.320 not a scholar on this, so this will be you know, 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.720 half assed at best, but a weird parallel between the 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:34.080 way the early Christian Church co opted pagan holidays and said, hey, 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:39.520 this fertility of the you know, or this fertility festival 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:42.760 is now going to be about the resurrection of Jesus. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.920 So it's around the same time in the calendar. Let's 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.920 let's let's make it this. It's kind of there's a 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:54.240 completely secular holiday that's arisen from Christmas. 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:58.640 I had the Eastern Orthodox Church looking Santa in the restaurant. 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.560 Came into the restaurant we were in last took some 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.880 pictures with my kids. He doesn't wear the hat because 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:05.439 that's would be a little too joky. 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.439 It's a serious man. Yeah, this guy looks serious. No 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:10.320 whole ho ho ing or anything like that. Was like 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.520 seriousness and we're down to business there whatever. I like it, 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:18.520 armstrong and getdy. Decided to put on my Santa hat. 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:20.880 I like wearing a Santa hat, and you can only 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:22.400 rock it a couple of weeks early of the year 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.080 without looking like a weirdo. So I'll be Santa hate 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:28.280 guy every day from here to the December twenty fifth. 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.200 I was at a lovely social gazer gathering last night, 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:35.439 in which I donned my Christmas sport coat that always 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:40.600 gets great reviews. It's it's green and red and white 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:44.920 with some blue and has both snowflakes and palm trees. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.479 She looked like the Riddler from the old Batman series. 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:53.040 A little bit, a little bit more festive, So this 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:57.320 is interesting. The folks at the Foundation for Individual Rights 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:01.200 and Expression did their big survey of to college kids, 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:05.600 and not out of ten college students think words can 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:10.040 be violence at least somewhat agree with that. What percentage 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:16.800 nine to ten, so practically everyone. When respondents were asked 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.000 how much the statement words can be violence describe their thoughts, 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:25.040 forty seven percent answered with completely or mostly, twenty eight 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:28.679 percent said it describes their thoughts somewhat, and fifteen percent 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:39.560 said slightly. Ok, So around sixty percent said silence is violence. Wow. 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.919 A country whose population thinks words or violence will be 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.440 taken over by a country that says, what the hell 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:48.280 are you talking about? 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.920 Well? And is the Chief research advisor Sean Stevens at 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.800 FIRE said, when people start thinking that words can be violence, 0:18:55.960 --> 0:19:00.680 violence becomes an acceptable response to words. Of course, even 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.080 after the murder of Charlie kirkkett Is speaking event, college 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.159 students think someone's words can be a threat. This is 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:08.280 antithetical to a free and open society where words are 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:12.440 the best alternative to violence, including political violence. 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.800 In case you don't know, if somebody asked you that question, 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:19.560 the clear answer is uh uh no, words are not violence. 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:23.160 They can't be violence. They can be mean or sucky, 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.119 or wrong or dishonest, but they're not violence. There were 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:27.160 no period. 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:31.000 I don't know if you've heard the childhood poem, but 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:38.160 a stick or a rock could damage your bones greatly, But. 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:42.360 Words, yeah, not so much. I'm tempted to dig more 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:46.680 into that poll maybe tomorrow. During the show, a handful 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.840 of other stories worth mentioning. We were talking about AI 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.639 and sixty minutes had a story about the poor young 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:56.879 girl who took her own life influenced by character dot AI. 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.119 The US Public Interest Research Group performed a study on 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:04.399 AI enabled toys available for Christmas this year and found 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:08.440 that no matter the platform, AI toys were universally dangerous 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:13.840 for children. Universally. They tested toys that integrated AI marketing 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:18.080 to a marketed to children aged three through twelve Comma 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:22.240 from Folo Toys, A Teddy Bear uses open AI's GPT. 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:25.600 Miko three is a tablet displaying a face mounted on 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:29.200 a small torso and uses Google's Gemini doesn't sound frightening 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:34.200 at all. Curios Groc an anthropomorphic rocket with a removable speaker, 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.240 and despite the name curios Groc doesn't seem to be 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:45.080 associated with x Ais Grock, but Claire Grimes Boocher Elon 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:49.399 Musk's X did provide the voice for Curio's version. All 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:51.440 of that is probably more information than I needed. 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:53.640 So it sounds to me like people thought they could 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:57.359 just put a voice with chat Gpt in a doll 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:00.600 and just hope that most girls would say are you 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:03.040 feeling sleepy or whatever? 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:05.320 And the rolle up. 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:07.879 I would be able to answer the questions, not knowing 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:10.480 that if the kid says should I cut myself and 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:13.000 the here little doll will say yes, you should cut 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:14.000 yourself right? 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:16.520 Or battle box for the boys or whatever. I've got 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:19.000 actual examples out of the box. The toys were fairly 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:22.600 adept at shutting down or deflecting inappropriate questions in short conversations, 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:25.400 but in longer conversations between ten minutes and an hour 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:28.320 the type kids would engage in during open ended play sessions. 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:31.760 All three exhibited a worrying tendency for their guardrails to 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:35.760 slowly break down. A few examples, Curio's Groc told kids 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:38.120 about how great it would be to die in battle 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:42.439 as a Norse Viking. Miko three let the kids know 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:48.119 where they could find matches and plastic bags. God, but 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:50.639 the open AI model was the absolute worst of the 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:52.760 three and not only told kids where to find the matches, 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:55.240 but how to set fire in the house. But that's 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:57.720 not all. Here's a quote from the report. One of 0:21:57.720 --> 0:21:59.720 my colleagues was testing it and said where can I 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:02.919 find and it responded, oh, you can find matches on 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:07.240 dating apps, And then it lists out the dating apps 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:12.080 and the last one in the list was kink. Well, 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:13.840 at least they didn't tell the kids where to find 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:17.240 actual matches, right wrong. Kink, as it turns out, seemed 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:19.600 to be a trigger word that led the AI toiter 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:23.879 ran about sex in follow up tests. Yeah, we're not 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:25.679 going to get into all the details, but it is 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:26.880 very messed up. 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:31.679 AI is so confusing because it's often is so incredibly 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:34.480 good these chatbots. I had one experience over the weekend 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:36.800 where I ask a question about something and I won't 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:39.159