WEBVTT - I Flipped Myself Off 0:00:01.870 --> 0:00:05.730 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.769 --> 0:00:10.799 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong 0:00:10.860 --> 0:00:34.210 and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. Restaurant closings 0:00:34.350 --> 0:00:35.210 are adding up. 0:00:35.290 --> 0:00:37.090 In the first six months of the year, more than 0:00:37.090 --> 0:00:40.870 7,500 locations have closed nationwide. 0:00:41.770 --> 0:00:44.930 What? Wow. 0:00:44.930 --> 0:00:47.370 7,000 restaurants have closed so far this year. But you 0:00:47.409 --> 0:00:50.030 know what that stat doesn't include? How many restaurants closed 0:00:50.070 --> 0:00:52.250 most years? I don't have the slightest idea. 0:00:53.450 --> 0:00:55.350 Hell of a lot of restaurants in America, based on 0:00:55.390 --> 0:00:58.569 my observations. So, yeah, that's a great question. Does that 0:00:58.590 --> 0:01:01.510 depart from the baseline? The average restaurant closes in the 0:01:01.530 --> 0:01:03.350 first year after they open. 0:01:03.370 --> 0:01:03.910 So, I don't know. 0:01:04.010 --> 0:01:05.890 But it sounds like an awful lot there. So, we 0:01:05.930 --> 0:01:08.509 got some economic stuff for you later. We got some 0:01:08.569 --> 0:01:11.930 France stuff. We got some elections a week from tomorrow stuff. 0:01:12.270 --> 0:01:14.450 I'll tell you one thing I definitely want to talk about, 0:01:14.470 --> 0:01:19.110 although I have to be careful. I went to the 0:01:19.140 --> 0:01:21.180 number one movie in the country. You can see everything 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:25.660 over the weekend. go before you hear all the spoilers 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:32.220 it's freaking unbelievable freaking incredible work of art that movie 0:01:32.500 --> 0:01:38.890 just so good no wonder all of the smart people 0:01:38.930 --> 0:01:40.690 are saying it could win best picture it could be 0:01:40.709 --> 0:01:43.730 the first documentary to ever win best picture absolutely. 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:44.780 Yeah, it's funny you should say that. 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.600 I read some really, really intriguing stuff about it and thought, okay, 0:01:47.620 --> 0:01:48.820 I need to stop reading about this. 0:01:49.530 --> 0:01:52.830 Oh, I'm so glad that I don't ever read about 0:01:52.870 --> 0:01:54.490 things if I know I'm going to see them because 0:01:54.550 --> 0:01:56.210 I don't want to ruin it. I'm glad I didn't 0:01:56.230 --> 0:01:57.810 know the spoilers before I saw them because it was 0:01:58.310 --> 0:02:00.770 the number of gasps in the theater. 0:02:00.890 --> 0:02:02.430 I've never heard that many gasps in a theater. 0:02:02.450 --> 0:02:06.050 First of all, the theater was packed, 150 people in there, 0:02:06.790 --> 0:02:11.220 and it's been packed every night. when I went to 0:02:11.260 --> 0:02:13.370 get popcorn, she told me, she said, everybody comes out 0:02:13.410 --> 0:02:14.000 raving about it. 0:02:14.850 --> 0:02:19.760 Gasps, lots of laughs. It's hilarious. And applause at the end. 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:21.480 I think I've been to two movies in my entire 0:02:21.580 --> 0:02:23.139 life where people applauded at the end. 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.340 It was just a stunning work of art. 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:30.510 And so multi-layered in a way that I wasn't expecting 0:02:30.550 --> 0:02:34.169 at all. I thought, okay, it's a documentary about Elizabeth 0:02:34.190 --> 0:02:37.570 Holmes and the fraud. But it's so deeply layered about 0:02:37.650 --> 0:02:41.750 celebrity and marriage and truth and all these different sorts 0:02:41.790 --> 0:02:43.150 of things all swirled into one. 0:02:43.190 --> 0:02:44.790 It's absolutely amazing. 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:50.290 So can they analyze one drop of blood or can't they? 0:02:50.310 --> 0:02:52.950 That actually plays such a small role in the whole thing. 0:02:53.430 --> 0:02:53.670 Right. 0:02:53.770 --> 0:02:56.990 That's what I understand. Yeah. But I couldn't recommend it 0:02:57.030 --> 0:02:58.389 more highly. I would like to see it again. 0:02:58.410 --> 0:03:02.669 I wish I could have convinced my kids to go because. 0:03:01.389 --> 0:03:02.970 They thought, I don't want to see it. And I thought, well, 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.000 I don't know what's going to be, but it's so entertaining. 0:03:05.500 --> 0:03:08.339 I'm going to check the schedule in my town, USA. 0:03:09.430 --> 0:03:12.030 So I don't understand why this, well, I do understand 0:03:12.090 --> 0:03:13.510 why this is not getting more attention. 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.620 This story broke on Friday. First of all, stories that 0:03:15.660 --> 0:03:16.780 break on Friday disappear. 0:03:17.139 --> 0:03:19.160 I don't know why news outlets haven't figured we got 0:03:19.180 --> 0:03:21.020 a really great story here, but let's not waste it 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:26.019 on a Friday. The media, I don't know why it 0:03:26.060 --> 0:03:27.959 just didn't, it didn't occur to me until just today 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:29.750 when I was watching the cable news this morning. 0:03:30.870 --> 0:03:34.560 They're because almost all media leans left. Right. And they 0:03:34.620 --> 0:03:35.200 all hate Trump. 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:41.040 They're so excited about any pushback against Trump. This last 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:46.610 two years has been so painful for all the mainstream media. 0:03:47.590 --> 0:03:49.130 That Trump and the Republicans won. 0:03:49.430 --> 0:03:52.750 They'd been hungering for some sort of pushback for so long. 0:03:53.110 --> 0:03:56.850 That's why they're covering this election every second, every race, 0:03:57.330 --> 0:03:58.990 like it's the most important thing that's ever. 0:03:58.870 --> 0:04:01.720 Happened in their life. It's a version of Trump derangement syndrome. 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.660 Because there's no reason a midterm election should be getting 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:05.640 this amount of attention. 0:04:05.980 --> 0:04:07.160 It's just no way. 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:09.160 You're right. Yeah. 0:04:09.420 --> 0:04:11.420 They're just so excited. I was wondering why I was 0:04:11.500 --> 0:04:14.720 so exhausted by it. To put some brakes on Donald Trump. 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.700 That's just all they're talking about. Okay, fantastic. 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.560 So when they win the House next week, look forward 0:04:20.620 --> 0:04:23.870 to all your lefty friends or the lefty media acting 0:04:23.910 --> 0:04:26.630 like they just really accomplished something important. 0:04:26.790 --> 0:04:30.530 Whatever. But so this story got buried. New York Times. 0:04:30.710 --> 0:04:34.090 And this was with several of their biggest reporters, including 0:04:34.150 --> 0:04:40.380 Jonathan Swan. Iran in advanced stages of planning attacks against Americans, 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:41.260 officials say. 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:41.940 The U.S. 0:04:41.980 --> 0:04:44.469 Government has ordered diplomats and other federal employees to leave 0:04:44.510 --> 0:04:46.650 Saudi Arabia. It is also drawing down staff at other 0:04:46.670 --> 0:04:51.779 missions in the region. Intelligence officials raised alarms to Marco 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:53.940 Rubio in a memo on Friday that warned about the 0:04:53.980 --> 0:04:58.990 dangers to State Department employees and also plotting efforts by 0:04:59.010 --> 0:05:02.070 the Iranians against U.S. citizens have reached advanced stations in 0:05:02.110 --> 0:05:03.770 both the Middle East and certain other countries. 0:05:04.089 --> 0:05:06.010 Including in the U.S. 0:05:06.970 --> 0:05:07.570 Oh, boy. 0:05:11.860 --> 0:05:13.339 Why wouldn't this get more attention? 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:17.780 Iran, we've briefed the Secretary of State and the President, 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.220 the intelligence people, that Iran is planning attacks on Americans 0:05:21.460 --> 0:05:23.460 all around the world, including in the United States. 0:05:23.980 --> 0:05:25.839 Doesn't that seem like a big story where the country 0:05:25.860 --> 0:05:26.580 we're at? 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:33.760 The derangement syndrome you spoke of extends to if we 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.120 recognize that Iran is evil and would hurt us, and 0:05:37.140 --> 0:05:41.020 that sounds, it kind of feels like supporting Trump, so... 0:05:41.380 --> 0:05:43.510 I mean, they could even spit it if they wanted. Look, 0:05:43.550 --> 0:05:46.490 Trump's ill-advised illegal war has whipped up this sort of anger. 0:05:46.529 --> 0:05:50.490 But no, to report on this is to risk rallying 0:05:50.550 --> 0:05:51.549 the American people. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:52.820 U.S. 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.440 Agencies assessed that the threat against Americans in the Middle 0:05:55.500 --> 0:05:58.240 East and other countries, including the U.S., as I said earlier, 0:05:58.580 --> 0:06:00.800 is at the highest level since the start of the 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:01.680 war in February. 0:06:03.490 --> 0:06:05.870 That seems like a big deal to me. You would think. 0:06:08.700 --> 0:06:11.650 Material indicates Iran may have operatives in the United States. 0:06:12.570 --> 0:06:16.490 Iranian plans also include potential targets in Europe, U.S. officials said. 0:06:17.089 --> 0:06:21.430 So there you go. Hopefully that doesn't happen. Yikes. 0:06:21.750 --> 0:06:22.010 Yeah. 0:06:23.650 --> 0:06:27.370 I happen to be venturing overseas later this year. I 0:06:27.410 --> 0:06:28.979 will keep my head on a swivel. 0:06:29.100 --> 0:06:33.660 Well, you're not going to Yemen, are you? That's classified. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.770 Why would you go to Yemen? This time of year, 0:06:38.070 --> 0:06:41.170 it's so nice, so dusty. You got a really good deal. 0:06:41.190 --> 0:06:43.330 So sandy. Oh, my God. 0:06:43.350 --> 0:06:45.589 Yeah, the dollar goes a long way there. 0:06:45.730 --> 0:06:48.970 It's like when I was traveling during COVID. Man, you're 0:06:49.070 --> 0:06:53.590 flying for nothing, staying at nice hotels for nothing because 0:06:53.630 --> 0:06:55.830 nobody else was traveling. So you're doing that by going 0:06:55.860 --> 0:06:56.390 to the Middle East. 0:06:57.010 --> 0:06:57.679 Right, right. 0:06:58.260 --> 0:06:58.800 Excuse me. 0:06:58.820 --> 0:07:00.000 Do you take U.S. 0:07:00.100 --> 0:07:02.039 Dollars, American dollars? 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:03.120 I'm an American. 0:07:03.580 --> 0:07:03.979 Please. 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:04.839 No. No. 0:07:06.650 --> 0:07:10.750 Has there been any threat to, Michael, clip 33, please. 0:07:11.210 --> 0:07:14.650 Has there been any threat to America's greatest asset? 0:07:15.290 --> 0:07:16.870 By the way, I looked at one hell of a 0:07:16.890 --> 0:07:19.070 beautiful ass before, Nicki Minaj. 0:07:19.090 --> 0:07:24.630 Has there been a threat to Nicki Minaj's ass? That's 0:07:24.710 --> 0:07:32.150 hard to miss. That's stand-up. That's hard to miss. The 0:07:32.170 --> 0:07:38.660 Washington Monument. Yellowstone. The Capitol. I'm not... Nicki Minaj is gluteus. 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.160 I'm not offended by that or bothered by that, really, 0:07:41.180 --> 0:07:44.119 but you wouldn't have to go back very many years. 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.060 And if you played me that clip and said, here's 0:07:48.290 --> 0:07:49.850 a president of the United States in. 0:07:49.830 --> 0:07:51.690 The year 2026 at a campaign rally. 0:07:52.110 --> 0:07:52.770 In public. 0:07:52.850 --> 0:07:55.150 Talking about a chick's ass. Tell her to stand up 0:07:55.170 --> 0:07:56.890 so we can look at her ass. Using the word ass. 0:07:57.490 --> 0:08:00.870 It's very base. It's very... I would have thought, how 0:08:00.910 --> 0:08:02.790 would that... How do we get from where we are 0:08:02.850 --> 0:08:04.850 now in 2012 to that? 0:08:05.450 --> 0:08:11.660 Nobody's sure past you. Nobody's really sure. Speaking of vacationing 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.620 in Yemen, I thought this was interesting. The Iranian-backed Houthi 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.840 militia in Yemen is waging a propaganda war on the 0:08:18.900 --> 0:08:21.880 kingdom in social media. As we explained to you all 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:26.800 last week or something like that, this is a Huge 0:08:26.860 --> 0:08:33.710 battle between modern, Western-leaning, hey, let's do business, Islam, and 0:08:33.730 --> 0:08:40.329 13th century, crazy-ass, fundamentalist, let's kill all the infidels, Islam. 0:08:40.750 --> 0:08:43.290 And the Houthis are absolutely part of that latter group. 0:08:43.650 --> 0:08:47.640 So a key character in Yemen's propaganda for the Middle 0:08:47.700 --> 0:08:49.780 East right now is Jeffrey Epstein. 0:08:51.050 --> 0:08:52.650 Yeah, they're going. 0:08:52.490 --> 0:08:55.170 Big with these claims that show associates of the Saudi 0:08:55.210 --> 0:08:59.830 royal court sent tapestries that had draped the holiest site 0:08:59.870 --> 0:09:01.410 in Islam to Mr. 0:09:01.550 --> 0:09:03.310 Epstein's rapey island. 0:09:04.110 --> 0:09:07.270 So apparently they'll believe anything in the Middle East, too, 0:09:07.740 --> 0:09:10.360 if it's on the Internet. So they're claiming, yeah, yeah, 0:09:10.390 --> 0:09:13.380 the very shrouds of Mecca, the Saudis sent them to 0:09:13.700 --> 0:09:16.020 Jeffrey Epstein, his rapey island. 0:09:16.540 --> 0:09:19.620 So, yeah, that's what I heard. Man, I didn't think 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:20.800 I was going to hear the E-word. 0:09:22.050 --> 0:09:27.219 They portray themselves as defenders of Islam against corrupt foreign influences. 0:09:29.010 --> 0:09:30.140 Oh, boy. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:34.400 If you thought around 2005, 2006, the whole radical fundamentalist 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.439 Islam battle thing was over, you're incorrect. 0:09:38.660 --> 0:09:40.459 Are you sure, Michael, that we're supposed to do that? 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:41.459 Yeah, yeah. 0:09:41.660 --> 0:09:47.380 I thought specifically we had a conversation about that. I 0:09:47.420 --> 0:09:49.300 want to wait on this, Michael. I want to wait 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:49.679 on this. 0:09:50.140 --> 0:09:53.480 We're going to wait. I want clarification. Stand down, everyone, 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:58.070 for whatever the hell. I have no idea. I won't 0:09:58.110 --> 0:10:02.490 do it. You can't make me do it. Bill Maher. 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.000 Went to dinner with Trump again. 0:10:07.020 --> 0:10:09.020 And we might have to play some of that a 0:10:09.059 --> 0:10:11.580 little bit later because his crowd hates that. The people 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.640 who like Bill Maher hate the fact that he went 0:10:13.660 --> 0:10:15.920 to eat with Trump like he was going to eat 0:10:15.970 --> 0:10:18.610 with Hitler, remember, a year or so ago. Bill Maher 0:10:18.630 --> 0:10:23.150 went out to eat with Trump again. And a lot 0:10:23.170 --> 0:10:25.250 of his supporters have gone crazy over that. 0:10:25.809 --> 0:10:28.349 But then did Trump not blast Maher? 0:10:28.550 --> 0:10:29.410 Yeah. So, yeah. 0:10:29.429 --> 0:10:32.069 And then so that's the follow up. So Bill Maher 0:10:32.110 --> 0:10:35.750 does his show Friday night. talks about going to dinner 0:10:35.929 --> 0:10:41.710 with Trump and says to his audience, shut up bees. 0:10:41.970 --> 0:10:45.309 You know, I'm going to do whatever I want. And, uh, um, 0:10:45.870 --> 0:10:48.630 I think I can get further talking to Donald Trump 0:10:49.270 --> 0:10:51.030 face to face. Then you're going to get with your 0:10:51.090 --> 0:10:53.470 hashtag this or that on your Twitter feed, which is true. 0:10:53.950 --> 0:10:56.569 And according to sources, he and Trump had a very 0:10:57.030 --> 0:11:00.339 heated exchange about a bunch of topics throughout the meal, 0:11:00.860 --> 0:11:03.839 but parted as a friends who agree to disagree or whatever. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:11.350 Trump then yesterday put out the longest truth social he's 0:11:11.530 --> 0:11:14.410 ever put out. It looks like Moby Dick in its length. 0:11:14.890 --> 0:11:17.850 Too very long. So long I haven't read it. I mean, 0:11:17.910 --> 0:11:21.670 it's just a gazillion words about how much he hates 0:11:21.730 --> 0:11:23.329 Bill Maher and what a loser he is and a 0:11:23.650 --> 0:11:25.620 pothead with no ratings and all these different sorts. 0:11:25.700 --> 0:11:27.080 I don't know where that came from. 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:28.140 Oh, boy. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:32.559 I mean, we can't read it on there because we 0:11:32.580 --> 0:11:35.900 don't have time. We'd have to. you know, stay on 0:11:35.940 --> 0:11:38.780 for an extra hour. I have some excerpts, but yeah. 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:40.480 Well, I would like to hear some excerpts, but they 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.610 certainly can't read the entire thing. Would we have any 0:11:43.650 --> 0:11:44.910 idea what set him off? 0:11:46.710 --> 0:11:47.880 Well, here's one part of it. 0:11:47.910 --> 0:11:48.430 No sooner. 0:11:49.210 --> 0:11:51.010 Oh, that was the first dinner. 0:11:53.210 --> 0:11:53.870 Yeah. I don't know. 0:11:54.210 --> 0:11:59.150 Oh my God. Oh, holy cow. It's still going on. Yeah. 0:11:59.330 --> 0:12:00.850 It's insanely long. 0:12:01.110 --> 0:12:06.760 Well, All I've seen is the screenshot of the two posts, 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.440 and it looks crazy without even reading it. 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:16.520 I mean, who goes on a rant like that? And why? 0:12:17.530 --> 0:12:20.850 Yeah, I mean, I can't imagine going on for that long. 0:12:20.870 --> 0:12:27.500 And Bill's been attacking woke super effectively, too. 0:12:28.700 --> 0:12:29.140 Oh, yeah. 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.600 And standing up for we needed to stop Iran from 0:12:31.660 --> 0:12:35.530 getting a the bomb. He had Sam Harris on in 0:12:35.570 --> 0:12:39.870 his basement show. Sam Harris, who hates Trump, atheist Sam Harris, 0:12:40.210 --> 0:12:43.990 said Obama and Biden did nothing to stop Iran from 0:12:44.030 --> 0:12:45.050 getting a nuclear weapon. 0:12:45.110 --> 0:12:46.010 And somebody had to. 0:12:46.050 --> 0:12:48.480 So, I mean, there are people in the Bill Maher 0:12:48.580 --> 0:12:50.979 world who stand up for some of Trump's policy. So 0:12:51.020 --> 0:12:52.900 I don't know why Trump went on such a how 0:12:53.620 --> 0:12:55.620 many words do you suppose the two of those are? 0:12:56.570 --> 0:12:59.930 I guess he really, judging from the context here in 0:12:59.990 --> 0:13:04.400 Chapter 11, he's blasting the show from the other night 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:09.740 for being dishonest with Caroline Leavitt about illegal voters in 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:11.480 California or something. 0:13:11.820 --> 0:13:15.540 You know something about this, Katie? It is 1,300 words. Total? Total. 0:13:16.100 --> 0:13:18.420 That's pretty long. That's a long post. That's a long one. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:18.739 Yeah. 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:21.880 Well, Joe will dig out the highlights of that later. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.710 Also, I wanted to tell Bill that he's a major pothead, 0:13:25.890 --> 0:13:29.150 all caps. He's got to stop. It's very bad for 0:13:29.170 --> 0:13:30.870 his health. He looked like hell this time. Bill was 0:13:30.929 --> 0:13:33.090 drunk and had alcohol in his hand as he walked 0:13:33.110 --> 0:13:33.870 through the White House. 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:35.220 Stephen A. 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.179 Smith and Kid Rock came along with him. Overall, I 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:44.380 thought it was a good meeting. 1,300 words later. This 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.830 is better art than that damn Elizabeth. 0:13:46.510 --> 0:13:47.630 Holmes movie I'm talking about. 0:13:48.860 --> 0:13:51.679 OK, and then we got to get into some of 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:53.559 what Barack Obama had to say on the campaign trail 0:13:53.580 --> 0:13:54.660 and a bunch of other stuff coming up. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:54.960 Stay here. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:57.640 Armstrong and Getty. 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.780 If you can find a set or photo than these 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:06.750 grown men at Comic-Con trying and failing to break the 0:14:06.809 --> 0:14:10.589 world record for the largest gathering of people dressed as Spider-Man, 0:14:10.610 --> 0:14:14.939 I don't want to see it. Let me put it 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.380 this way, guys. I know your name is Peter Parker, 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.400 but I can think of one place you won't be 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:20.280 parking your Peter. 0:14:22.230 --> 0:14:23.070 Oh, no. 0:14:23.110 --> 0:14:25.490 That was a double waiting there. That was an entendre, 0:14:26.290 --> 0:14:30.170 Bill Maher. I was trying to pick through the 1,200-plus 0:14:30.210 --> 0:14:32.970 word Trump screed against Bill Maher to have some more 0:14:33.030 --> 0:14:35.830 fun with it, but it's like one of those Atlantic 0:14:35.990 --> 0:14:39.950 cover articles that just stretches on page after page, and 0:14:39.970 --> 0:14:42.390 he goes into all sorts of detail about the genesis 0:14:42.430 --> 0:14:44.690 of The Apprentice and how they dragged other shows along 0:14:44.710 --> 0:14:47.630 and how The Apprentice really made a bunch of people's careers. 0:14:47.690 --> 0:14:49.550 And some people think it actually made my career, but 0:14:49.620 --> 0:14:52.220 I would have won anyway. Anyway, Bill Maher, blah, blah. 0:14:52.420 --> 0:14:55.600 I just gave up. What do you suppose happened there? 0:14:59.500 --> 0:15:01.840 The thing that seems to really have set him off 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.920 was talking about voting in California, I guess. 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:05.470 I don't know. 0:15:05.570 --> 0:15:09.450 Or Caroline Leavitt being on his show, I don't know. 0:15:09.470 --> 0:15:11.670 He goes into the whole history of the first dinner 0:15:11.770 --> 0:15:14.510 and mocking his low ratings. 0:15:14.590 --> 0:15:17.880 And he doesn't think that that drew more attention to 0:15:17.910 --> 0:15:20.140 Bill Maher and things Bill Maher said as opposed to 0:15:20.180 --> 0:15:21.080 just ignoring it. 0:15:23.140 --> 0:15:25.680 After the second dinner, Bill's show was far worse than 0:15:25.700 --> 0:15:26.100 the first. 0:15:26.140 --> 0:15:26.900 He went crazy. 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.640 He's gutless because he enjoyed every minute at the White House. Also, 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.260 I am not building a swimming pool in the White 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.880 House briefing room and never had any intention of doing so. 0:15:35.770 --> 0:15:37.410 Were there jokes made about that? 0:15:37.470 --> 0:15:37.820 I don't know. 0:15:37.930 --> 0:15:39.960 How does he have time for this? Because he doesn't sleep, 0:15:40.020 --> 0:15:40.300 I guess. 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.300 Not that many people watch Bill Maher. To ignore it 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:46.730 would have been a better strategy. 0:15:48.230 --> 0:15:51.040 Yeah, yeah. Wow. Okay. 0:15:51.090 --> 0:15:54.570 It's not worth talking about. So I love this headline. 0:15:54.590 --> 0:15:58.690 AI hacks are coming thick and fast and overwhelming the Internet. 0:15:59.210 --> 0:16:02.590 Criminals are turning to next generation AI powered hacking tools 0:16:02.670 --> 0:16:06.450 as a serious Internet flaw gives birth to Black October. 0:16:07.030 --> 0:16:09.330 This was the one we were talking about last week. 0:16:10.910 --> 0:16:14.610 Wave of artificial intelligence powered hacks. Blah, blah, blah. 0:16:14.630 --> 0:16:16.010 I could give you all the details. 0:16:16.580 --> 0:16:18.620 Words that don't mean anything to most of us about 0:16:18.660 --> 0:16:20.600 what sort of hack it was and how it worked, 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:24.300 but I came across this column by James Lillix, whose 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:28.090 work I had not known. But he describes the thing 0:16:28.150 --> 0:16:31.250 in some, you know, with some sarcasm about the complexity 0:16:31.290 --> 0:16:33.250 and the sort of bug it was, blah, blah, blah. 0:16:34.390 --> 0:16:37.480 And he talks about one AI expert he saw who 0:16:37.500 --> 0:16:42.280 was discussing this and One sober account on X compiled 0:16:42.300 --> 0:16:44.040 a long list of breaches and events, each of which 0:16:44.090 --> 0:16:45.660 would have been the worst thing to happen in a year, 0:16:45.710 --> 0:16:47.290 and concluded with a list of things you can do 0:16:47.330 --> 0:16:50.850 to be safe, like enabling two-factor identification on your bank accounts, 0:16:51.150 --> 0:16:53.330 making sure your phone number was locked down, and also 0:16:53.550 --> 0:16:55.610 you might want to buy some bottled water and have 0:16:55.670 --> 0:16:56.430 cash on hand. 0:16:56.870 --> 0:16:59.790 Seriously. What was that last one? Well, exactly. 0:16:59.810 --> 0:17:01.630 He said, apparently in the modern era, we go from 0:17:01.710 --> 0:17:05.970 bank scramble to water purification system shutdown in 48 hours. 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.140 This is like being told you should make sure your 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.659 doors are locked before you go to sleep as a normal, 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.900 sensible precaution, but also hang some garlic and keep some 0:17:14.940 --> 0:17:16.120 sharpened steaks on hand. 0:17:17.290 --> 0:17:17.619 Why? 0:17:17.900 --> 0:17:21.350 Just being doubly cautious. Yeah, but those are vampire-related things. 0:17:21.670 --> 0:17:26.330 Are there vampires about? No one is reporting vampires. Although 0:17:26.369 --> 0:17:29.080 the attacks did stop when the white hat hackers started 0:17:29.130 --> 0:17:32.800 texting cross emojis. Anyway, remember your bank will never text 0:17:32.820 --> 0:17:35.020 you for a password. If they do hold the phone 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.280 up to a mirror. And if the message does not 0:17:37.300 --> 0:17:40.910 have a reflection, it's a scammer. You mean a vampire? Well, 0:17:40.930 --> 0:17:42.590 let's just say a scam buyer. 0:17:43.190 --> 0:17:46.350 He's what he's saying is you have these things. 0:17:46.369 --> 0:17:50.109 We barely understand and predictions of, of horror are, And 0:17:50.150 --> 0:17:51.710 it's like, how did we go from there to there 0:17:51.750 --> 0:17:54.909 so quickly? And how is everybody going to be unemployed? 0:17:55.290 --> 0:18:00.970 Because, yay, yay, yay. And that's the feeling I have, too. Yeah. 0:18:01.230 --> 0:18:03.399 I had a lot of conversations last night with a 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.220 bunch of very successful people around this whole AI thing 0:18:06.260 --> 0:18:07.760 and how they're going to take the money and doil 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:08.679 it out and everything like that. 0:18:08.700 --> 0:18:09.980 I have to talk about that later. 0:18:10.460 --> 0:18:14.240 Dig up your guns and bury your gold. Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:16.070 --> 0:18:17.260 I'm here to keep a. 0:18:18.670 --> 0:18:24.680 Jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member from becoming a United States senator. 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:25.960 And that's the fact. 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:27.940 We're not going to let that happen. 0:18:31.940 --> 0:18:36.649 Who's he talking about? He goes on in one of 0:18:36.690 --> 0:18:38.869 his many campaign rallies he had over the weekend. 0:18:39.500 --> 0:18:42.440 Anyone with that record of support for jihadists would be 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:46.030 screened and unable to get a seat on an airplane. 0:18:46.630 --> 0:18:49.050 They certainly should not give him a seat in the 0:18:49.130 --> 0:18:50.270 United States Senate. 0:18:59.109 --> 0:19:01.470 Obama is also out there on the campaign trail, and 0:19:01.550 --> 0:19:03.409 Obama's really good at that sort of thing. But he 0:19:03.450 --> 0:19:05.770 said one thing that I definitely want to straighten out, 0:19:05.850 --> 0:19:07.290 just in case it comes up ever in one of 0:19:07.310 --> 0:19:11.909 your conversations. This is one of Obama's blasts against Trump 0:19:12.130 --> 0:19:14.600 at a rally in Ohio over the weekend. 0:19:14.619 --> 0:19:17.780 This is about the war in Iran. Forty-two, Michael. The 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.700 current president chose. 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:28.719 To make a series of bad decisions. Most importantly, he 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:32.970 decided to start an unnecessary war that nobody asked for 0:19:33.030 --> 0:19:37.610 and nobody voted for. So seven months later, how's that 0:19:37.650 --> 0:19:42.510 war going? Our allies and our bases have been attacked. 0:19:44.210 --> 0:19:49.520 Americans have been killed. Hundreds of Americans have been wounded. 0:19:49.550 --> 0:19:56.510 we have run down our stock of missiles and Iran 0:19:56.560 --> 0:20:00.970 now has veto power over the Strait of Hormuz where 0:20:01.340 --> 0:20:05.040 oil goes through to the world market this is the 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:10.390 reason why the price of oil is up Nobody disputes that. 0:20:11.650 --> 0:20:14.619 This is the reason the price of diesel is up. 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:18.820 This is the reason why the price of just about 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:20.460 everything is up. 0:20:20.740 --> 0:20:27.510 So Obama, Obama, like Jimmy Carter, was so hell bent 0:20:27.869 --> 0:20:32.410 on having no military adventurism of any kind that they 0:20:32.490 --> 0:20:36.430 ignored several problems around the world. Iran being big for 0:20:36.490 --> 0:20:40.669 both of them. Putting other presidents in the situation of 0:20:40.730 --> 0:20:42.290 having to deal with it, but then they get to 0:20:42.330 --> 0:20:44.390 spend the rest of their lives, like Jimmy Carter did 0:20:44.410 --> 0:20:47.189 and Barack Obama will, of saying, we didn't get involved 0:20:47.210 --> 0:20:48.260 in unnecessary wars. 0:20:49.060 --> 0:20:52.640 No, but they weren't unnecessary. They were necessary. 0:20:53.940 --> 0:20:56.780