Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and he I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 3: There's a brief look at the text line. Most of
Speaker 3: the people are against the new first down marker for
Speaker 3: the NFL that they debuted last night, where they just
Speaker 3: used the yellow line instead of having the referees run
Speaker 3: out there with the chains. I do think that pro
Speaker 3: sports has got to be careful taking the human element
Speaker 3: out of it. I understand the accuracy part makes sense,
Speaker 3: like the strike zones in baseball and everything like that,
Speaker 3: but there's something about humans doing it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's it's difficult to argue that
Speaker 1: point of view than the accuracy point of view. It's
Speaker 1: very easy to make that case. But I hate what
Speaker 1: you get at the end though, might be a product
Speaker 1: that's not nearly so compelling.
Speaker 3: Well, i'd bitch. I've been bitching out replays for years
Speaker 3: because it just slows down the game so much and
Speaker 3: take to me, it takes the fun out of it.
Speaker 3: But people always hardcore sports, for hard core sports fans
Speaker 3: always make the most important thing is getting it right.
Speaker 3: I think the most important thing is being entertained, and.
Speaker 1: Touch basketball is we're all sufferable, we're excited.
Speaker 3: Touchdown it said, Nope, not flag on the field. Okay.
Speaker 3: Then we sit down in our seats and eight minutes
Speaker 3: later they say it has been ruled a touchdown. Okay, yay.
Speaker 1: Car said all scoring plays must be reviewed in New York.
Speaker 1: So when I sit here padding and talking about what
Speaker 1: a nice catch that was until we get word on
Speaker 1: whether you should shout and wave your arms in the
Speaker 1: air or not.
Speaker 3: And I don't feel like it's changed that much anyway,
Speaker 3: I do. I don't feel like it's lessened the arguments
Speaker 3: over that's as much anyway.
Speaker 1: You know, you're right. Yeah, so you've opted for scientific
Speaker 1: accuracy and it's satisfied practically no one.
Speaker 3: But it takes longer and slows down the game.
Speaker 1: Oh, speaking of scientific accuracy, before we get into clips
Speaker 1: of the week, which we will on a second or two,
Speaker 1: I was reading the rest of the second Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal piece about the Climate change EPA report, and that
Speaker 1: was written by a couple of limp wristed, low testosterone
Speaker 1: male fellows reporters for the Wall Street Journal and it
Speaker 1: was repeating all the cliches and canards of the pro
Speaker 1: the Greta Tuneberg crowd that all sciences agreed on climate change.
Speaker 1: It's all human caused, and unless we all buy an
Speaker 1: electric car but not a Tesla, the polar bears will
Speaker 1: be boiling in the oceans by the end of the week.
Speaker 3: I love the taste of boiled polar beard falls right
Speaker 3: up the bone, you know, it keeps it tender.
Speaker 1: Anyway, what was that? Where was I? Oh? And it
Speaker 1: was interesting to read how often they appear they made
Speaker 1: the appeal to experts. They said, Experts, on the other hand,
Speaker 1: say the scientific consensus is ironclad and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And I was remembered, reminded of one of the great
Speaker 1: pieces of shorthand that I've learned in the last I
Speaker 1: don't know how many months. And that's somebody pointed out,
Speaker 1: experts are almost one hundred percent quote unquote experts almost
Speaker 1: one hundred percent academics. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it was a Wall Street journal that figured
Speaker 3: that out, And that's it changed my view of it
Speaker 3: for the rest of my life. When I hear experts.
Speaker 1: Academics are virtually one hundred percent yes.
Speaker 3: When they say an expert, that means they went to
Speaker 3: the local university and talked to an expert in that field.
Speaker 3: And what are their politics likely? You know what that
Speaker 3: is right?
Speaker 1: Overwhelmingly so, so that word now experts is loaded as
Speaker 1: I will be as soon as we get off work. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's the Friday tradition. It's time to take fun look
Speaker 1: back at the week there was. It's cow clips of
Speaker 1: the week.
Speaker 2: There's too much going on in this country.
Speaker 1: As people's do process rights and put up the speech rights,
Speaker 1: and secret police are running around this country.
Speaker 3: I should be working right now instead, I'm probably nine
Speaker 3: at the gym.
Speaker 1: What he really should have been talking about is I
Speaker 1: wonder if this will help me win back faink thing,
Speaker 1: because that's actually more believable. Recently I made the decision
Speaker 1: that I just for now, I don't want to go
Speaker 1: back in the system. I think it's broken. Quoted showing
Speaker 1: people attacking a man who has shoved to the ground
Speaker 1: and kicked several times.
Speaker 3: I terrifying you drug trying to sweeping our streets. It's
Speaker 3: called seven hydroxy, but someone calling it gas stationed heroin.
Speaker 1: A woman confronts a man at a Barnes and Noble
Speaker 1: for getting uncomfortably close, seeming to sniff her. What are
Speaker 1: you doing?
Speaker 3: And the vision that we've put forward, despite what others
Speaker 3: may say, is not to defund the police. That is,
Speaker 3: in fact, to allow those officers to respond to the
Speaker 3: serious crimes.
Speaker 4: I came out of that book of the Vietnam that
Speaker 4: in aged ten years or two hundred pages.
Speaker 1: What the oh my, oh my god.
Speaker 3: He stole people that work for me. I said, don't
Speaker 3: ever do that again.
Speaker 1: He did it again, and I threw him out of
Speaker 1: the place. I think you worked in the spot.
Speaker 3: I think so, seeing heer.
Speaker 1: Katy Perry was spotted on a date with Canada's former
Speaker 1: Prime minister, Justin Trudeau. I know who knew she was
Speaker 1: a lesbian. It's the girl for sure. James are passed
Speaker 1: on from parents to offspring, often determining traits like her color, personality,
Speaker 1: and even eye color. Sidney Sweeney has great geenes. The
Speaker 1: pun good geens activates troubling historical associations. You don't get to.
Speaker 4: Drop lines about inherited traits blue eyes and great genes
Speaker 4: while zooming in on somebody that could have walked straight
Speaker 4: off of a Nazi propaganda poster clips.
Speaker 1: Saying wow.
Speaker 3: And then a cow sound.
Speaker 1: I am gratified and relieved that the reaction in that hole,
Speaker 1: someone who walks straight off a Nazi recruiting poster is
Speaker 1: mostly being greeted with hoots of derision, which it should
Speaker 1: have been all along, who tents sort of thing?
Speaker 3: While the Dow is down over seven hundred points. Oh now,
Speaker 3: this is a fair headline as investors digest hiring slowdown
Speaker 3: and new Year's tariffs.
Speaker 1: Y have both and.
Speaker 3: Who knows what percentage of which are The market doesn't
Speaker 3: like uncertainty.
Speaker 1: Joe, No, it doesn't, hates it. I hate to.
Speaker 3: Bring this up on a Friday. This is a horrible story,
Speaker 3: but we haven't mentioned it yet today. How about the
Speaker 3: roughly at least fifty people killed in an ISIS linked
Speaker 3: attack on a Christian church in Africa yesterday? That gets
Speaker 3: some zero news coverage.
Speaker 1: There were over a thousand of those poor folks slaughtered
Speaker 1: in Syria for their religion and their tribe by Islamists
Speaker 1: and that got zero attention. You're concerned about genocides and cruelty, no,
Speaker 1: nothing selectively crick. Yeah, the Drus, I'm sorry their name
Speaker 1: escaped me. Momentarily.
Speaker 3: Every once in a while, I get depressed about reading
Speaker 3: history when I come across stuff that is true but
Speaker 3: nobody knows, and it makes me wonder, why do we
Speaker 3: even bother? Why do we even bother pretending there's such
Speaker 3: thing is history, because we kind of just choose, I mean,
Speaker 3: like we're even doing currently which things were outraged about
Speaker 3: and what things aren't. And that happens long form with history.
Speaker 3: All kinds of things get lost to history, and it
Speaker 3: makes me wonder, I'm not sure what the point is.
Speaker 3: I mean, I can study things that are written, but
Speaker 3: there are all kinds of things that I'll use an example,
Speaker 3: I had never come across this before in my life.
Speaker 3: We're coming up on the anniversary of dropping the bomb
Speaker 3: on Japan, and that's going to be a reopen that
Speaker 3: discussion again in the eighty year anniversary. The seventy five
Speaker 3: year anniversary was in obviously five years ago, summer of
Speaker 3: twenty twenty. We were deep in COVID, so we were
Speaker 3: so busy with all that going on, it didn't really
Speaker 3: get to do it should have gotten and I think
Speaker 3: it's going to be this time around. And you know,
Speaker 3: in the modern era, a lot of people try to
Speaker 3: make the argument all the time that we cruel cruelly
Speaker 3: dropped the bomb on the poor Japanese who were just
Speaker 3: on the Verger surrendering and all that's bs and we'll
Speaker 3: talk about that in a couple of weeks on the anniversary.
Speaker 3: But I'd never come across this. So Russia got involved
Speaker 3: on the eighth of August. If you know your history,
Speaker 3: we dropped the first bomb on the sixth, the second
Speaker 3: bomb on the ninth. Russia realized, uh, oh, war's about over.
Speaker 3: If we want to get in on this part of
Speaker 3: the world, we better jump in now. So they got
Speaker 3: involved on the eighth and invaded parts of Manchuria and
Speaker 3: various areas that had been held by the Japanese. The
Speaker 3: Japanese were slaughtering people by the thousands a day and
Speaker 3: other places not Japan, and that ended with the bombing also,
Speaker 3: but that never gets mentioned. The Russians took captive so
Speaker 3: many Japanese soldiers and just Japanese citizens. They killed multiples
Speaker 3: more Japanese in the weeks after the bombings. Then we
Speaker 3: killed with the bomb. I wasn't aware of that, by
Speaker 3: starving them to death or just shooting them or whatever.
Speaker 3: In the way that the Russians do. Wow, multiples more
Speaker 3: than we killed with the bombs were killed by the
Speaker 3: Russians days later.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you can't. Don't. I don't think most people
Speaker 1: fully appreciate, maybe even I don't the extent to which
Speaker 1: self hatred or hatred of your own country is completely
Speaker 1: required among progressives.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is a deal breaker.
Speaker 1: If you don't express loathing of your country and the willingness,
Speaker 1: the enthusiasm for picking out any sin, real or imagined
Speaker 1: and ignoring anybody else's, you can't be in the club
Speaker 1: at all. And so they that's why they're so selective.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. I can reckon with the sins
Speaker 1: of America and the triumphs, what a wonderful country we are,
Speaker 1: and what mistakes we've made. It doesn't bother me. We're
Speaker 1: human beings, human beings screw everything up. It's what we do.
Speaker 3: And reach the end spot where we're still the best
Speaker 3: country on earth given our power, and maybe, quite possibly
Speaker 3: Charles C. W. Cook writes about this all the time,
Speaker 3: most likely the best country that has ever existed, given
Speaker 3: the power to do what we could do that we
Speaker 3: don't do, which is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, try to take over the world. You remember that
Speaker 1: when we had that montage of wolf Blitzer saying good
Speaker 1: thinger a bad thing, good thing or a bad thing,
Speaker 1: good thing or bad thing, because that was always his
Speaker 1: go to. And unless you're talking about wanton murder or
Speaker 1: falling in love with your soulmate, most things are kind
Speaker 1: of a mix.
Speaker 3: So falling in love with your soul mate, good thing,
Speaker 3: a bad thing. Yeah it's a pretty good thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's a good I'll give you that. All the
Speaker 1: United States of America unequivocally a good thing with some
Speaker 1: bad stuff mixing. I said good tunger a bad tack.
Speaker 1: I said good thinger a bad tack. You can't elaborate.
Speaker 1: And that's the way a lot of people look at
Speaker 1: the world. I don't get it.
Speaker 3: Well, my final on this because just what you mentioned,
Speaker 3: it's weird to me that there's a I know some
Speaker 3: people like this, some people that their politics are progressive.
Speaker 3: They seem to get some pleasure out of talking about
Speaker 3: anything bad or wrong the United States has ever done.
Speaker 3: And that strikes me as so odd. Why do you
Speaker 3: get enjoyment out of that? What's that weird? Self hating?
Speaker 3: It makes me feel so good to talk about slavery
Speaker 3: or bombing Japanese or huh.
Speaker 1: It's because they know that's what they're supposed to do
Speaker 1: and they will get social approval by doing that.
Speaker 3: Okay, So it's the social approval that makes them feel good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they've become convinced that that is a show
Speaker 1: of their own excellent morality.
Speaker 3: Because that's weird to me. All Right, we got more
Speaker 3: on the way. If you have a thought on that
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Speaker 1: You might know him as the other JT, the Principop
Speaker 1: former in sync superstar Justin timber Like fans have been
Speaker 1: noticing that he has been seeming a little low energy.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's all we need out of that. Justin Tibberlake
Speaker 3: has a lime disease. But Jake Tapper saying you might
Speaker 3: know him as the other JT Justin Tibberlake. And what
Speaker 3: did you just say that with a straight face?
Speaker 4: Is that to bring this back, to bring this back
Speaker 4: from yesterday?
Speaker 1: What a douche canoe? You know what I'm saying? An
Speaker 1: odd craft really? Okay, so a couple of notes of
Speaker 1: no great significance, but are amusing the UN Climate Change
Speaker 1: Conference back to the Climate is coming up soon in Brazil,
Speaker 1: and this is the same conference that they bulldozed like
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand acres of rain forest to expand the road. Well,
Speaker 1: they also have a real hotel room crunch and so
Speaker 1: Brazil's Love Motels, that's in quotes, that's what they're known as,
Speaker 1: known for dance poles and leopard print walls, are preparing
Speaker 1: to house attendees of this year's You Tell Climate Change.
Speaker 1: What's a love Motel? I'm glad you asked, Jack. The
Speaker 1: erotic motels normally reserved for quote lunch hour trysts, clandestine affairs,
Speaker 1: and passion struck lovers seeking a few hours of privacy
Speaker 1: away from cramped family homes, are now getting ready for
Speaker 1: hosting quote diplomats and climate scientists, civil servants and environmental activists.
Speaker 1: They had November. According to The New York Times, their
Speaker 1: culture they have.
Speaker 3: I mean, we all know the crappy hourly hotels exist
Speaker 3: in the bad part of town. Most of us have
Speaker 3: only heard about them. We don't ever see them. But
Speaker 3: they have, Like that's more common. It sounds like it's
Speaker 3: more a common cultural thing to have a hotel that's
Speaker 3: set aside for.
Speaker 1: Again, Yeah. And one interesting aspect of this I just
Speaker 1: read it, but it's easy to let go by, is
Speaker 1: that they're known for seeking a few hours of privacy
Speaker 1: away from cramped family homes. And if you've ever seen
Speaker 1: some of the lower class neighborhoods in Brazil, they're they're very,
Speaker 1: very tiny homes, all jammed together in a big jumble.
Speaker 3: Plus, I understand multiculture, multicultural, multi generational living is much
Speaker 3: more common in that culture, where you know, grandma and
Speaker 3: grandpa and the grandkids or whoever in the same house.
Speaker 3: So yeah, the chance to have a little alone time
Speaker 3: might be few and far between. So having a hotel
Speaker 3: where you could go get a room seems like a
Speaker 3: good idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so they're going to convert a lot of
Speaker 1: these love hotel rooms. You know, go ahead and scrub
Speaker 1: it down twice. I'll pay extra for the climate change conference.
Speaker 3: So you find love making disgusting and dirty, that's interesting,
Speaker 3: tell us more about that.
Speaker 1: Only if you do it right. Local officials face scrutiny
Speaker 1: early this year for paving over tens of thousands of
Speaker 1: acres have protected Amazon rainforest, or for us to build
Speaker 1: a four lane highway aimed at easing traffic to the conference.
Speaker 1: Last year's conference also made headlines when a beer rude
Speaker 1: from recycled toilet water became a hit among its en des.
Speaker 3: All right, everything's recycled toilet water. Every drop of water
Speaker 3: you ever drink is recycled. It's whale P dinosaur P.
Speaker 3: I do have a beef with the hotel industry. I've
Speaker 3: come up across this several times in my life. I
Speaker 3: don't understand why the economics don't work for being able
Speaker 3: to use a hotel between like eleven o'clock and three
Speaker 3: o'clock during the day. How is it better for the
Speaker 3: hotels to have it completely empty where I can't say,
Speaker 3: you know, I'll give you a hundred bucks if I
Speaker 3: can be there from eleven to two because of my schedule,
Speaker 3: as I could sleep, you're better off having it empty,
Speaker 3: costs that much to clean it or what.
Speaker 1: I don't know. A lot of cities have laws against that. Well,
Speaker 1: they're not used as brosseels. Oh that's what does Well,
Speaker 1: we got to change his own. I just said, there's
Speaker 1: a new thing called Daho Hotel past thing that's starting
Speaker 1: to catch on hotels that are trying to get around
Speaker 1: that where you can like get it for half the
Speaker 1: day or whatever, or do reduced rate because it's just
Speaker 1: sitting there and making nobody any money. I didn't get
Speaker 1: to the best quote in this art.
Speaker 3: Oh well that's next.
Speaker 1: They ruined it. Armstrong and Getty. Listen to this.
Speaker 2: Sketchers just released a new line of kids shoes that
Speaker 2: have a hidden air tag compartment under the insol.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: They're also offering them to grandparents who wander off of them.
Speaker 1: All Grandpa's over by the Pande Express.
Speaker 3: So well, that's pretty interesting. You put an air tag
Speaker 3: in your kids the tongue of your kid's shoe and
Speaker 3: track them. I guess like a beast. Your kids get
Speaker 3: very old at all. They either have a watch or
Speaker 3: a phone you're tracking.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So we're talking about these love hotels in
Speaker 1: Brazil that are going to be converted to regular hotels
Speaker 1: for the big Giant Climate Conference. A couple of the
Speaker 1: quotes that I found delicious, we didn't have time for
Speaker 1: them because Jack interjected a real life relevant aspect to
Speaker 1: the story. Very rude, said Ricardo to Chera, who manages
Speaker 1: two such motels. Quote. People think it's like a brothel,
Speaker 1: but it's just a space like any other Right, he's
Speaker 1: not sure if he will stop offering sex toy rentals
Speaker 1: in the room.
Speaker 3: Okay, that seems more brothel adjacent. Oh a rental.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I've heard if it flies or floats,
Speaker 1: you're better off renting it. Certainly, if it you know,
Speaker 1: fill in the blank, I'd go ahead and buy it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, on your own.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just be sure of everything anyway. I don't
Speaker 1: want to go too far down that road. And then
Speaker 1: my favorite quote you're on. Costa, the owner of Motel Secretou,
Speaker 1: said he is quote taking out anything too erotic from
Speaker 1: the rooms. But I have to think about what comes
Speaker 1: after the summit. I can't just a ton of money
Speaker 1: and tear everything out. As Costa took the New York
Speaker 1: Times Reporter on the tour of the motel, the two
Speaker 1: heard quote loud moans this might be a bit awkward.
Speaker 1: Costa said, there's love making going on.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I love that so much, but
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 3: I do like when industries get disrupted with a brand
Speaker 3: new idea. And that's what I was talking about this
Speaker 3: last segment. You know, like taxis were the same thing forever,
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, because of app technology. It
Speaker 3: just completely blow up the whole industry. And then the
Speaker 3: idea of like you got a nice house and you're
Speaker 3: on vacation, why not rent it out for the whole
Speaker 3: time you're gone to somebody who might want to be
Speaker 3: in your area. I mean, that is a obvious, obvious
Speaker 3: once it happens sort of idea. And there's this thing
Speaker 3: that's starting I hope catches on with hotels where we're
Speaker 3: making no money a lot of times because there's no reason, no,
Speaker 3: somebody doesn't want to stay the whole night, and then
Speaker 3: nobody's in here between like ten and three or ten
Speaker 3: and four whatever, every single day we're getting nothing where
Speaker 3: people can just buy a chunk of the day for
Speaker 3: a napper. I suppose there's kind of twists or whatever,
Speaker 3: but for whatever your situation is. And hotels are starting
Speaker 3: to do that or their spot. So you got a
Speaker 3: nice hotel, you got your pool area, you got your gym, whatever,
Speaker 3: there's nobody in it on a Tuesday at two o'clock.
Speaker 3: You're making nothing. And now you can buy these like
Speaker 3: day passes where you can go do that for less money,
Speaker 3: but they make some money. And I'll bet that industry
Speaker 3: a year from now, two years from now looks completely different. Wow,
Speaker 3: where you can go to your local you're nearby hotel,
Speaker 3: nice decent hotel and sleep for a couple hours, workout
Speaker 3: if you want for a reasonable price, instead of it
Speaker 3: nobody making any money and nobody being able to use it.
Speaker 1: People who are devotees, they're enamored with the central control,
Speaker 1: government control. I don't get you. The free market is
Speaker 1: so exciting and so much fun and so clever. Americans
Speaker 1: are incredibly ingenious people. We come up with all sorts
Speaker 1: of crazy ideas. The ones that aren't good they go away. Oh,
Speaker 1: the need for control, I just don't get it this.
Speaker 3: Did you have something you want to get into here?
Speaker 1: I did, But god I do. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: I was going to talk about this article in Fortune magazine.
Speaker 3: The AI boom is now bigger than the nineties dot
Speaker 3: com bubble, which is legendary and discussed as you know,
Speaker 3: a major moment in time in all kinds of different ways.
Speaker 3: And it's built on the backs of bots, mostly which
Speaker 3: I don't think most of us know. Many of us
Speaker 3: have had this situation where you think maybe you're chatting
Speaker 3: with somebody real like helping you on a website or whatever.
Speaker 3: Then you finally figure out it's not real. It's not
Speaker 3: a real human being. That is happening more and more,
Speaker 3: and they're going to get better and harder to suss
Speaker 3: out than they've ever been before. But the majority of
Speaker 3: traffic out there, at least according to Hanson who actually
Speaker 3: read this thing, is that there are more bots out
Speaker 3: there there than not.
Speaker 1: When you're so the majority of its bots, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: always assume I'm talking to a bot, you do. Yeah, boy.
Speaker 3: I had a good one last night. And I don't
Speaker 3: know if this counts as that sort of thing, but
Speaker 3: I got a phone call from and it said spam
Speaker 3: risk on there. It was a local area code, but
Speaker 3: not a number I know. And I answered it and
Speaker 3: it was a very convincing real person in the beginning,
Speaker 3: Hey Jack, how's it going? And I said pretty good. Hey,
Speaker 3: I just got a question for you about your uh,
Speaker 3: your checking account. I said, okay, cool, what what are
Speaker 3: you calling about? And they said, oh, it's that thing
Speaker 3: with you, and then it just it was vague enough
Speaker 3: it became clear that and then I tried to interrupt
Speaker 3: once and it kept talking, Oh, you're not a real person,
Speaker 3: but it was really good.
Speaker 1: It took me.
Speaker 3: Several sentences in before I figured out it wasn't a
Speaker 3: real human being. And you know it's going to be
Speaker 3: way better two years from now, Yes, Katie.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 4: I think part of what this study is referring to
Speaker 4: also is like you can purchase followers, right so Instagram, Twitter.
Speaker 1: If you go to somebody who.
Speaker 4: Has like a page that might have fifty thousand followers
Speaker 4: to it, but every one of their posts gets like
Speaker 4: twelve likes, you know they bought their followers, and you
Speaker 4: can buy them, buy the hundreds of.
Speaker 3: Thousands really and oh yeah, is it pretty cheap?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, super cheap.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The problem is we all know what the spam
Speaker 3: phone calls and emails and all that sort of stuff is.
Speaker 3: It costs them nothing. It's not like the old days
Speaker 3: where it costs you something to send you a an
Speaker 3: AD in the mailbox. So the the incentive didn't work
Speaker 3: to send out a million flyers into mailboxes if you
Speaker 3: weren't going to get in responses. That's not true with
Speaker 3: these robo calls and emails everything like that. It costs
Speaker 3: them nothing to send out a billion every second, and
Speaker 3: if you get one response, it's a profit. Don't know
Speaker 3: how we're ever gonna.
Speaker 1: Get past that. Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: speaking of that sort of thing. I was just I
Speaker 1: saw the headline yesterday, big text, four hundred billion dollar
Speaker 1: AI spending spree. You just got Wall Street's blessing. It's
Speaker 1: about Microsoft and Meta and Google and Amazon and x
Speaker 1: and everybody's spending like lunatics on AI. And speaking of
Speaker 1: the dot com bubble, Okay, well, what does what does
Speaker 1: Wall Street think of the companies that they're invested in
Speaker 1: spending that wildly on AI? And the story was, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's going up. Everybody seems to think it's fine,
Speaker 1: the stock is going up, and got Wall Street's thumbs up.
Speaker 1: But then today I'm looking at stocks and you know,
Speaker 1: Apple is down, going on two and a half percent,
Speaker 1: and Tesla's down, Google's down, everything's down.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't, Well I don't respond to one day.
Speaker 1: Well, no, neither do I. That's that's kind of the point.
Speaker 1: The Nasdaq as a whole is down almost two percent,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't. It's difficult to draw that sort
Speaker 1: of conclusion, but yeah, they are spending abstounding amounts of
Speaker 1: money on developing AI technology.
Speaker 3: Somebody was making the point yesterday about the this was
Speaker 3: the whole If the tariffs are going to cause such disruption,
Speaker 3: why are we setting records in the stock market every
Speaker 3: single day? And somebody broke it down on and this
Speaker 3: has been true for a long time now, that the
Speaker 3: stock market, specifically the Dow, but the stock market is
Speaker 3: driven so much by Nvidia and Apple and a couple
Speaker 3: other companies that it kind of distorts a lot of
Speaker 3: other companies that haven't been doing that well. Right, And
Speaker 3: you just if you're just kind of like barely paying
Speaker 3: attention like me, you just hear the stock market saying
Speaker 3: a record. But if it's all tech stocks betting on AI,
Speaker 3: you don't know. And Apple said the tariff situation they
Speaker 3: think going to cost him well over a billion dollars
Speaker 3: this next quarter. How that gets passed through the bloodstream,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: One more tech story that I thought was interesting. Autonomous
Speaker 1: trucks are now driving the highways of Texas at night,
Speaker 1: hauling food and dairy between Dallas and Houston. It's big step.
Speaker 1: Waimo has been driving driver less robotaxis around like San
Speaker 1: Francisco in LA but autonomous trucks have been stuck mainly
Speaker 1: to some experiments, daytime hours and good weather. But now
Speaker 1: this company, Aurora Innovation that's the startup behind the trucks
Speaker 1: in Texas, said it's reached a new milestone with its
Speaker 1: lidar system.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what they got in the new Tesla is
Speaker 3: the lidar as opposed to be whatever the old.
Speaker 1: System was, and Aurora says its system is now able
Speaker 1: in the dark. Totech objects further than the length of
Speaker 1: three football fields, enabling the vehicle to identify pedestrians, other
Speaker 1: vehicles are debris on the road about eleven seconds, sooner
Speaker 1: than a human driver eleven seconds. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was talking to Darren over in sales. He's got
Speaker 3: one of the new Tesla Whyse and I've got the
Speaker 3: cyber truck that has the light. Are also the current
Speaker 3: automated driving thing. And I've been doing it for four
Speaker 3: years now, three years now. It's night and day better
Speaker 3: it is. It is shockingly good. He was talking about
Speaker 3: how it makes moves sometimes that are better than he
Speaker 3: would have done because you can't see where it can see.
Speaker 3: I mean it's seeing things you can't see what the
Speaker 3: light are, so makes traffic choices you wouldn't make because
Speaker 3: it knows there's there's a It seems like you should
Speaker 3: switch to the right lane to go around, but it
Speaker 3: sees that you're better off sting in the left lane
Speaker 3: because it can see things you can't see.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'd love to know more about it how that works.
Speaker 1: I believe you, Mike.
Speaker 3: Mike, my cyber truck did a merging thing yesterday that
Speaker 3: was shockingly good. I mean, a very complex maneuver. I thought, wow,
Speaker 3: that is something else.
Speaker 1: Yes, Katie, what would.
Speaker 4: Be really amazing if during the winter, if it can
Speaker 4: detect like black ice or something like that, to find
Speaker 4: that in the land, because that's a huge problem.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I don't know how they're going to handle that.
Speaker 3: Although human being's ability to drive on black ice is
Speaker 3: not very good.
Speaker 4: So all the carcan detect that the road texture is changing.
Speaker 3: Sure, that would be a good thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, knowing it's there is the key. So how
Speaker 1: long before like ninety percent of America's truck drivers are unemployed?
Speaker 3: I wonder I heard the stat on how how many
Speaker 3: jobs are driver related. It's a really big number. I
Speaker 3: think it's like ten percent of all workers have a
Speaker 3: driving aspect. To it and if that gets taken away, yeah,
Speaker 3: that'll be a huge disruption.
Speaker 1: Coming up. A sad story inside the Corporation for Public
Speaker 1: Broadcasting board meeting after the big vote to rescind their funding.
Speaker 3: I am going to really enjoyable. Do I get to
Speaker 3: drink some liberal tears here?
Speaker 1: You are going to be lapping them up like a
Speaker 1: thirsty hound dog.
Speaker 3: Jack. It's actually kind of gross when you take it
Speaker 3: that far. Okay. We got that next day briefly because
Speaker 3: I don't want to get into this can of worms.
Speaker 3: We got a ridiculous number of texts about Lydar in
Speaker 3: Tesla's and automatic driving cars that that Tesla does not
Speaker 3: use lightar and Elon musk Head fairly famously. If you're
Speaker 3: into the sort of thing, and none of you are, said,
Speaker 3: Lydar is a fool's air, And several years ago then
Speaker 3: did a U turn into start putting Ldar in his
Speaker 3: newest cars, but only as a backup to the cameras
Speaker 3: or something or other, whatever the hell, and I don't
Speaker 3: care it. Also, y'all argue with yourself about that.
Speaker 1: Lydar reminds me of the liger. That's my favorite animal.
Speaker 3: This is interesting, though, Lightar is a way to like
Speaker 3: help self driving cars. The price dropped in a couple
Speaker 3: of years from roughly one hundred thousand dollars per unit
Speaker 3: that it would cost to if you want to light art,
Speaker 3: to a thousand. That's how much how much cheaper the
Speaker 3: technology got in a fast amount of time.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, I know crazy. In a completely unrelated story,
Speaker 1: and multiple officials at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting wept
Speaker 1: during a board meeting last week, and the agency's president
Speaker 1: recited lines from a Shakespeare tragedy, all in an outpouring
Speaker 1: of emotion and drama over the Congress's vote to cancel
Speaker 1: the organization's budget fund NPR and other public media outlets
Speaker 1: because of its overwhelming insufferable liberal bias. CBPCPB president Pat
Speaker 1: Harrison and the organizations for board members took part in
Speaker 1: a board meeting. Harrison acknowledged bias at CPB, which she
Speaker 1: has overseen for twenty years. Quote is there bias? In
Speaker 1: an audio recording of the meeting. Sure, we're not perfect,
Speaker 1: but we are working on that. No give me, adding
Speaker 1: that the leftward slant of public media is quote not
Speaker 1: a legitimate reason to shut down everything. That's funny that
Speaker 1: contradicts claims from Democrats and the NPR Chief executive Catherine Mayer,
Speaker 1: who infamously told Congress in March that a sometimes the
Speaker 1: truth gets in the way of the things we need
Speaker 1: to do and said I have never seen political bias
Speaker 1: at NPR.
Speaker 3: You don't need to go into those quotes. It contradicts
Speaker 3: my earballs, It contradicts everybody's earballs. Whoever listens to NPR
Speaker 3: this morning, I speaking of my cyber truck. I threw
Speaker 3: up in my car, in my trucks when I got
Speaker 3: to clean it up. It's been sitting in the hot sun,
Speaker 3: probably grows. When I heard an ad they keep running
Speaker 3: on NPR about how great they are and they're going
Speaker 3: to tough it out during these difficult times since Trump
Speaker 3: pulled the funding on NPR, and one of them said
Speaker 3: it was some caller saying, keep speaking truth to power.
Speaker 3: We will, Jim, we will. And that's when I vomited
Speaker 3: all over the inside of my cyber truck.
Speaker 1: The rest of the board meeting was a sombra affair,
Speaker 1: with Harrison and several board members breaking into tears while
Speaker 1: discussing the funding cuts, which they cast as an existential
Speaker 1: crisis for American democracy. Never in fifty eight years and
Speaker 1: the operations as CPB in our public media system been
Speaker 1: so maligned attacked, said a bored person reappointed by Joe
Speaker 1: Biden in twenty twenty two. It's a terrible miscarriage. Harrison
Speaker 1: grew emotional during her remarks, which she ended by reading
Speaker 1: a speech from the Shakespeare tragedy Henry the Fifth, given
Speaker 1: on the eve of the King's battle against the French
Speaker 1: army at the Battle of AJung.
Speaker 3: Could the Saint Crispin Day speech.
Speaker 1: With apologies to Shakespeare and King Henry the Fifth, whose
Speaker 1: ragtag army was outnumbered by the French at the Bottle
Speaker 1: of Ajuncorps. But despite those went on to win against
Speaker 1: those odds and hold their on her cheap. There weren't
Speaker 1: just like them. Everybody will wish they were with us
Speaker 1: fighting today, aimed for that win for public media, and
Speaker 1: then they compared themselves to Russell Crowe and Master and commander.
Speaker 1: But we're out of time.
Speaker 3: Hey kids, it's that time again with Armstrong Ngetdy. Here's
Speaker 3: your host for final thought, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 1: Michael An's low in the control room, Lead us away,
Speaker 1: lead us off. Michael Well, PBS needs money, so get
Speaker 1: ready for a lot of pledge breaks. So a lot
Speaker 1: of Lawrence Welke and Bob Ross and begging for money.
Speaker 1: So hope you like the tote bags and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Hope space in your closet for tote bags.
Speaker 1: Peter, Paul and Mary from nineteen eighty six. We'll get
Speaker 1: back right after a quick word from our local celebrity,
Speaker 1: Katie Greener, a steam Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 4: Speaking of tote bags, if you guys use the reusable.
Speaker 1: Grocery bags, clean them out.
Speaker 4: Take a wipe, clean out the inside.
Speaker 1: Of the bag. It'll save your groceries and it'll save
Speaker 1: your checker.
Speaker 3: Just do it, so criss Jack of final thought, I
Speaker 3: used to have the entire Saint Chrispin's Day speech memorized
Speaker 3: from Henry the Fifth and Englishman Now a bed will
Speaker 3: hold their lives cheap. That they were not here with
Speaker 3: us to give that speech about NPR not getting taxpayer
Speaker 3: money to be a progressive outlet for their news is hilarious.
Speaker 1: My final thought. The captain of the ship, they're under
Speaker 1: heavy fire in Master and Commander there's a little boy,
Speaker 1: a little midshipman, and he tucks down, and the captain
Speaker 1: played by Russell Krowe, he reaches over the little boy
Speaker 1: and he says, stand tall on the quarterdecks, all of us.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna think about you, Pat continued Rothmann.
Speaker 3: You've stood tall at the quarterdeck under heavy and unfair fire.
Speaker 3: You people are insane, actually crazy. See him Monday. God
Speaker 3: bless America.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty. We're very proud to have entertained you.
Speaker 3: This week on the Armstrong and Getty. But right now
Speaker 3: it's time to go.
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Speaker 3: It is crap.
Speaker 1: If you have to dress it up that much, well
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Speaker 1: you very much, very much. I'm strong and gay, strong,
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