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Yeah, I came across a in a similar vein, think piece about the incredible damage the short video scrolling does to your brain. But like really philosophical about it.
Ooh, I would be into that.
I mean, and not, not like in a navel gazing way. It has to do with the fact that the way we as human beings perceive our reality is. Maybe I shouldn't even delve into this because it's so well written and I'll do a poor job, but when you walk into a room, you see a series of stories. You don't just see individual objects, you see people and the surroundings and the objects there. And you understand in a fairly complex way the story that's unfolding in front of you or multiple stories. And that from the time we're little children up until like last week, our whole lives were about complete stories. Even little children's stories that you read to your kids before bed has an introduction, a plot, a resolution, that sort of thing. A moral perhaps. And these videos are just blurbs of blips of action. That was funny. The guy hit his head and there's like no story. There's just a moment over and over again. And how that's terrible for your attention span in a way. That's a lot more. Well, I think you're getting the idea it's a lot more than Just, oh, my gosh, it seems hard to read books now. You're actually reforming your mind.
Are you susceptible to that sort of thing?
I. I don't do it. I. I really look at it as a danger.
Oh, I know it's a danger. But, man, I'm susceptible to it. And I. I hate it. Like, I'll go to YouTube for a specific thing, like piano lesson on a particular song, but the YouTube algorithm with its shorts opens up and starts playing automatically, and there's a highlight from an athlete it knows I like, or a musician it knows I like. And it's amazing how often it hooks me because it's just 30 seconds, 45 seconds of this great guitar solo it knows I like from previous stuff or this sports moment or political moment or whatever. It's so good at figuring. Same with Instagram. If I open Instagram, it hits me with, oh, wow, here's Steely Dan doing something. I mean, it just knows. And I think, well, it's just a second, and the next thing you know, a half hour's gone by. It is like the freaking worst drug, most drug addictive drug ever.
Right, Right. I just can't even open them. Designed by the most brilliant minds of our time. Right? Yeah. I guess it's probably because I'm so annoyingly contrary that I know what they're doing and I hate it, so I won't indulge myself.
It's an. It's an interesting thing in that it used to be a joke back in the 90s, I guess, 2000, early 2000s, you know, you got 150 channels and you just keep flipping through and can't find anything interesting. We want find something interesting. You're sitting there on the couch, you got a little time, you've decided to dedicate to watching television, and you can't find anything interesting. Now it's the opposite problem. Every single channel has got something that you have already designated as among your most favorite things to watch. And every channel is that. And it's. And. And then sometimes I have the, well, I'm gonna spend a half hour of my life amused and happy. Is that a bad thing? After having worked all day long, but it never feels satisfying in any way.
Oh, that's an interesting insight. Yeah, yeah, it's amusing. But then when it's over, you feel, well, unsatisfied.
Yeah, I feel sometimes I convince myself, what's the harm here? Good Lord, enjoy some comedy bits from comedians you like or whatever. It's feeding me. But at the end, I'm always unhappy that I did it.
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And then of course imagine if you've come to it as a 11 year old or whatever, without ever knowing any other life or having anything to compare it to. Then of course you're perfectly fine just scrolling through it eight hours a day or whatever those numbers are on TikTok that are horrifying.
Right? Okay, so a couple of different stories, topics that are maybe tangentially political, but mostly about dollars and cents and that sort of thing. I found this very, very interesting. Biz journals with an analysis of the various billionaires taxes that are being proposed or enacted in really all the blue states where they are just the state budgets have metastasized in like California and New York for instance. But the politicians say we need way, way more money, so they're trying to come up with more ways to tax. And demonizing the wealthy is just super popular in politics. Politics of envy they've called it forever. But an interesting analysis from biz journals. The long and short of it is that your big dollar philanthropic efforts, your billionaires and multimillionaires who support your local symphony, opera, libraries, aid to the poor, there are a thousand different examples. Their giving tends to skew substantially local. They've found, for instance, that generous donors to your alma mater, say your university, that giving grows and intensifies the closer you are geographically to that university. I went to Illinois, I ended up in California, blah blah blah. I'm like, yeah, I remember it. But who cares if you live in Champaign Urbana, for instance, you're much more likely to kick them a little bit of money. Why not? You're part of the whole community.
Well, you're a local little venue for art or there's all kinds of things everybody can name in every town has got somebody's name on it.
Oh yeah, community theater, everything.
Yeah, the government didn't make them do that.
Right? Just did it. Here it is. A 2025 bank of America study of private philanthropy found that 79% of affluent donors gave locally. 79%. And research consistently shows that donors at all income levels are most likely to give to local causes. So as you drive all the billionaires and multimillionaires out of California, out of New York, out of the blue states giving to charities will dry up.
I know that's true and people should be aware of it. I almost hate making this argument though because in my world if you're spending all your money on chocolate pies, you get to keep it. Right, I agree, but, but it's worth knowing that you're also, you know, building an art center and a hospital and all these different things. But you, it's your money and I don't. Just because you got really wealthy. I don't get to take a whole
bunch of it just because I want it. Right. Two little bits of analysis. Number one, the public employee unions that are sponsoring these tax drives, they don't care. They don't give a crap about anything but their coffers. They make quasi moral arguments about income inequality and the rest of it, it's just a grift. All they want is money and they don't care about anything else. Second thing is, the only reason I brought this is that I think there are a lot of people who are just kind of half paying attention that thinks yeah, these people do have a tremendous amount of money and we're short of tax dollars. So yeah, let's go ahead and stick it to them and pointing out that yeah, yeah, charitable giving is going to get decimated in your area. I don't know, maybe it'll make them think.
Plus the amounts never end up add up. The math doesn't work. You can tax all the billionaires. It doesn't even come close to closing whatever deficit you have federally or in your state.
Right, right. And the idea that a one time tax could do anything and do any good structurally is hilarious. But again the unions make that argument knowing hey, we'll get a one time G and truckload of cash dropped off at our front doors. That's all we want. That's all we care.
One time, right?
Well, yeah, that too.
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I'm not sure we really have time to get into this, maybe later. But there is a, a couple of home distiller cases, people brewing their own whiskey at home specifically, that could well end up upending a lot of absolutely terrible precedence on the commerce clause at the Supreme Court. The huge overreach that began in, when was it? 1942. Wickard v. Filburn. Infamous case in which the Supreme Court said a farmer growing wheat to feed his own livestock might have a tangential effect on the interstate market. So the government can regulate his growing of wheat to feed his own livestock. A wild abuse of the commerce clause, which grants federal government the right to regulate commerce between the states as it's put. And that kind of built that set of precedents built on that idiotic case. But home distillers might be tearing that down. And I can explain how in a little bit your personal information is invaluable according to the people at Incogi, and they're right. But unfortunately it's a lot more accessible than you realize. Every time you shop online, your data is collected, packaged and sold to data breakers. And then they scam you and spam you all day long.
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What is their, what is their topic, their main topic?
Well, like I said, the rule of law and civic responsibility.
I smell some issue that they're into.
In an open letter to the American people, the group states, quote, for decades we've seen a steady erosion of our founding values and principles that weakens our democratic systems. I would agree with them completely.
Sure.
The result has been political polarization and subversion of key Constitution and institutional norms, including bipartisan cooperation, executive constraint and judicial independence. I would agree with all of that. Without naming President Trump or other officials, the group promises, quote, unquote, to take officials to task when they ignore the rule of law or distort or disregard the facts.
Okay, well, I wish you luck, because the first time you flex your muscles on this, people are going to deem you that side, and then you're doomed.
Garrett Reisman, age 58, registered Democrat and one of the group's co founders, said he decided to start the organization last year after the conduct he saw while witnessing an immigration raid at a local car wash.
There you go.
Quote, what I saw seemed to me just fundamentally un American. It seemed to me more like I was used to seeing when I lived in Russia, where basically the security services can act with impunity.
Okay, that's fine if you do that, but then you come out really strong against what Virginia did yesterday and redistricting. Need to see you working both sides of the aisle here.
And you've just politicized astronauts. Right, right. Leading to exactly what you're decrying. Increased partisan, you know, polarization and subversion of working across the aisle and stuff.
Should have left you up there.
Everything. Oh, boy. That's fine.
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Five of the biggest alcohol makers in the world are sitting on what's described as a lake of unsold alcohol. $22 billion worth of inventory, according to the Financial Times, a result of people drinking less than they used to. And to think there's still a week to go in dry January.
A lake of unsold alcohol.
Oh, I'm buying a cabin at Booze Lake. Tell you what.
Booze Lake.
Oh, yeah, I'll be there.
Get you a canoe. And you know what? You stand up on purpose. You want it to flip or just
bring a scooper with. Although it would probably be like an unholy mix of, like, vodka and rum and scotch and, like. Did you like a Long island high stage?
Did you ever watch that series on Netflix, Last man on Earth? Everybody died but him.
I watched a couple of episodes.
It's kind of interesting. It's psychology of human nature. I mean, like, at first it was really funny. It was doing all everything you'd want to do and everything in the world. Then it got really lonely and boring and unless unfulfilling very quickly. But in the first episode, he fills a kiddie pool with tequila and he's laying it and he's got a straw on the side of his mouth. He just leans over and drinks while he's laying in the kiddie pool filled with tequila. So that's what booze like would be like. So are People really drinking that much less?
That. Yeah. Yeah, I believe so.
Why, I guess is the question. Studies keep showing that people are drinking a lot less.
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Why is it.
Oh, my gosh, I wish I knew. Yeah, that's part of.
Or they smoke. 38 states allow you to smoke dope legally.
Thank you. Yeah. I think if you were to look at the cohort of people who used to and don't anymore or would have and don't, you're going to find three or four different explanations.
Katie
Katie, I don't know how, how big of an impact this would have, but the weight loss, drugs make you not want alcohol.
Jack Armstrong
Yes. Interesting. Yeah. That's got to be one of the reasons. Yeah.
I quit drinking 20 years ago. I think I probably by myself affected the statistics. So that's something.
Yeah, I think it's generalized concerned about health. That what Katie said, people are smoking more pot. And then I came across a really persuasive essay by a brilliant writer, I wish I could remember who, suggesting that young people are so afraid of being out of control, they're just, they're so anxious and so lonely and isolated and online and everything, going out with their friends and hooting and hollering and having a couple of drinks, just not part of their lives.
Wow. But sitting at home and smoking pot would be that. That's a safer alternative.
Yeah.
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Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Interesting. Times change. Bill O'Reilly says he's stepping back from media appearances due to malady and didn't say what. He's 76 years old, got some sort of health problem. So wish the west for best for Bill O'Reilly. Always liked his. Well, mostly liked his hack. The last time he was on our show, he wouldn't let me talk. So we haven't had him on since. But, but in general, over the years, liked his act.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's an interesting character.
Body language segment.
Oh, boy. Oh, is there other than dream interpretation? Maybe the phone. Well, it's not completely phony. I guess somebody's sitting there leaning forward with their shoulders hunched in their red face with their jaw set. You can probably assume they're pissed off.
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Oh, speaking of dream interpretation, did I actually tell you about the recurring dream I keep having? So weird. And this one, this is not one
of those long, rambling dreams.
It's always the same. I'm on the road, I'm traveling for a week for business. Kind of your standard low impact, you know, in a hotel suite or whatever week. But I'm not going home after the week I'm going to China for a week and a half to two weeks. And I'm dealing with the logistics of all right, do I have enough clothes? Do I have the right clothes? Oh my gosh, my passport. I do have my passport because I'm going to be in China for two weeks and it's always the same damn thing.
You have a recurring dream about going to China and the minutia of the schlep.
The logistics of it. Yeah, and. And it's always that already traveling and then I'm going to China.
That sounds plot. That's not a fun China. It's not a fun dream at all. You don't fly. There are no orgasms.
One dream I actually was in China and was going into some store thinking, all right, I need some clean underwear and maybe a bottle of scotch to wind down with. And I'm looking around at all the Chinese, you know, words. And I'm thinking, what the hell? This is too stressful. We very odd interpret it mailbag@armstrongandgetty.com Armstrong
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We cruised around LA in the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and dove into the fascinating life of actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr.
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Want the full story?
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Take a listen, Hedy. She starts dating Howard Hughes, the aviation tycoon. Do you know a lot about him?
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I mean, I watch the Aviator, so I know everything Leonardo DiCaprio has allowed me to. But incredible innovator, right?
Georgia Hardstark
She says, he's a, quote, very strange man. But they do get along really well.
Karen Kilgariff
Give us examples.
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I know they do get along intellectually. And in fact, she helps him design a faster plane. She takes a look at what he's designed. It's got these square wings, and she's like, that doesn't make sense. And so she finds the fastest bird and the fastest fish and sketches out a drawing of, like, what the two would look like as a plane. And that becomes the plane that we know today. And he calls her a giant genius. Check out our new episode spotlighting groundbreaking innovators like Hedy and Lamar and Billie Jean King.
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The Armstrong and Getty show in Poland.
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A video captured a humanoid robot chasing a waitress, a pack of wild boes in Warsaw.
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The robot named Edward Warchocki shouts go away.
Jack Armstrong
In Polish as the animals flee into the forest.
And that was the whole story on the NBC Nightly News. You can't drop that much information in 13 seconds and expect me to be
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able to assimilate it in my head
Jack Armstrong
and wrap my mind around it.
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That is humanoid robot chases pack of
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wild boar in Poland.
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I mean there's.
Jack Armstrong
I like how they told us its name. Edward Wachocki. What?
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What? What?
Jack Armstrong
That's a stray. Straight detail.
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The detail.
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Jonathan Smith Jr. Age 27.
A humanoid robot running down the street. That alone is an amazing story on its own. You just see a freakin. Looks like a person, but it's a robot straight out of a damned movie or a Star wars film running down the street. The fact that it's chasing a pack of wild boar down what looks to be a suburban street.
Right.
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That alone without the robot is something.
Jack Armstrong
You gotta pack a wild boar running through your neighborhood.
How common is this in Poland? What do they say? What do they think?
And then the fact that it's in Poland adds of course, an international twist.
And how did they decide, you know our best option? A humanoid robot named Edward.
Right. Loose in the. In, you know, in Warsaw Heights.
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What can we do? What will we do?
Jack Armstrong
I've got the perfect thing. Send C3PO after them.
Yes, Katie, if you want to see
Katie
that video, it's up@armstronggetty.com in Katie's corner. It's.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, it's the actual robot chasing the wild boar.
Oh yeah. Seen it. It's amazing.
Katie
Oh yeah. He's just jogging down the street and
Jack Armstrong
there go the boar.
Katie
He's yelling in Polish.
Jack Armstrong
I didn't realize he was yelling because
those are vicious bastards, those wild boar. I mean, they will screw you up for. For good.
Katie
If you have skin. Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
If you have a robot, I'm saying.
Right, exactly. That's my point.
That robot, like I said, the robot alone is a heck of a story. It's really good at jogging down the street with its red eyes. Why did they make it look like a person?
Well, I gotta watch that. Armstrongandgetty.com. is it under Hot Links or what?
Katie
It's a Katie's Corner.
Jack Armstrong
Under Katie's Corner. All right.
I like the way they laid that story out. It's just. Just a quick hit. Like this little boy enjoyed his birthday because he got a bicycle. Like it's that sort of story.
Right, right. Meanwhile, a humanoid robot is chasing vicious wild boar down a suburban street in Poland in sports news. Right, right, exactly. You know, we have important and impactful analysis to give you, but now is the perfect time to run this. This is from Atlanta, Georgia. Clip number 13. The scene, an apartment parking lot in the hood. I think it kind of explains itself.
Unknown Caller
Now they got the robot doll in the hood, patrolling apartment.
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Hello.
Unknown Caller
What the type of AI it is? What the he look like? He finna bit.
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Hello.
Unknown Caller
Oh, baby, how are you? Where. Where are you at? I'm good.
Georgia Hardstark
This a person on it.
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So what.
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What y' all got the robot dog in here for?
Unknown Caller
Sorry. So we're actually like the robotic security dog here.
Jack Armstrong
What y' all got this robot dog in here for?
Well, and you've. You've kind of standard Englishized that. One of the angles to the story is that residents in Atlanta are tearing down robot dogs patrolling their apartment parking lots with live foreign operators apparently calling the shots through the machines. And they mentioned that the monitoring agents who are looking at the parking lot through the robot dog seem to have foreign accents. And somebody pointed out, yeah, they speak better English than the locals, but that's neither here nor there. Yeah, they're using it to patrol apartments.
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Wow.
Jack Armstrong
You gotta let people know you can't.
Robot dogs with flashlight eyes.
You can't find out that your apartment complex now has robot dogs patrolling. By seeing one for the first time,
and you assume that those good folks read the apartment newsletter.
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I don't know.
Jack Armstrong
You might have to go door to door, knock on the door and say, hey, just giving you a heads up. Starting this Friday, there will be robot dogs running around the apartment complex. I mean, you gotta give me a heads up on this.
Yeah, you might have to deliver it verbally. I'm not sure they read much, if anything.
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Good Lord.
Jack Armstrong
Say the beginning of that again, Michael.
Unknown Caller
Now they got the robot doll in the hood, patrolling apartment. What the type of AI it is. What the he look like? He finna bite your way.
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Hello.
Unknown Caller
Oh, Baby, how are you?
Jack Armstrong
That's an interesting dialect.
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Well, what y' all got robot dog in here for?
Jack Armstrong
That's my favorite part.
Unknown Caller
Sorry. So we're actually like the robotic security dog here.
Jack Armstrong
That's my favorite part. What y' all got the robot dog in here for?
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Which is a good question.
Jack Armstrong
She asks the robot dog.
Well, it's actually robotic security. Oh my God.
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Well, what y' all got the robot dog in here for?
Jack Armstrong
Yes.
Right. That's the question on everyone's mind.
It'll be the title of my TED Talk.
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Well, what dog got the robot dog in here for?
Jack Armstrong
So are we now at the place
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where
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the dollars work to buy yourself robot dogs to patrol your apartment complex? Apparently.
I don't see that robot dog lasting terribly long in that neighborhood
Bethenny Frankel
or, or
Jack Armstrong
many others in America.
You would think that if you can't have copper wire to run your electricity because somebody will steal it, robot dogs are really fair game.
Yeah, somebody with a gun or a bat.
Georgia Hardstark
Yes.
Katie
Katie, do we know any more about these robot dogs? Like do they have communic. Like do they communicate with law enforcement? Do they have like a weapons capability to stop?
Jack Armstrong
That's what I was wondering.
Does this thing have the ability to shoot me?
Katie
Can it bite somebody?
Jack Armstrong
Also in some of these neighborhoods, they' going to capture them in stage robot dog fights.
Wow. Wow. So these robotic dogs are equipped with 360 degree cameras, thermal imaging, headlights, sirens, speakers and sensors. Despite. Despite this, they are not. Yes.
RPGs.
They are not fully autonomous. They typically have a live human operator monitoring the feed remotely. Simpl. Safe Home Security. Simplisafe.com Armstrong I want this as a
Katie
side gig so bad.
Jack Armstrong
They are not fully autonomous for now. Oh, you want to be the person that talk through the robot nod. That would be fun. Absolutely.
Some people are troubled by the fact that it's an overseas operator. And another of these droids was recently seen giving commands to Americans in Atlanta. And even when citizens complied peacefully, the bot issued orders and summoned real police. All while the eyes and ears sit behind. I'm sorry, the eyes and ears behind the machine sit overseas.
Leading everyone to ask the question, well,
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what y' all got the robot dog in here for?
Unknown Caller
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
Meanwhile, in China, they're taking the technology in a far more aggressive direction. Beijing has already unleashed machine gun toting robot wolves equipped with a collective brain for coordinated urban combat.
And they're probably saying, what you all got that robot wolf in here for?
Right in the outskirts of Beijing.
Yeah, I don't even know how I would react if I walked out into the parking lot and realized. Realized it's being patrolled by a robot dog? I would think, well, things have changed. We are into a new era.
Oh, yeah. And the person writing this article is concerned about sensitive footage of American homes, vehicles and daily movements streaming overseas, potentially stored, analyzed, or even shared with foreign governments. I hadn't really thought of that. The push toward automation, remote monitoring is delivering a creeping surveillance state where the watchers aren't even in the country. While elites celebrate the future American everyday Americans get robot dogs in the m effing hood and foreign accents telling them to move along.
Well, are you familiar with AI Scribe, which I just heard about yesterday for the first time?
I don't think so.
So I'm in the doctor's office and she says, are you comfortable with AI scribe? And I said, what now? I said, what y' all got that robot dog in here for? And she said, AI scribe. It will. It will record all this and transcribe it for us. If you don't want that, we won't do it. And I said, I guess I'm okay with it. I said, it depends on the subject. In this particular case, I got a sore neck, but I could have other problems where I thought, you know what? I don't want you listening to every word I say to the doctor about this situation I got and transcribing it
Unknown Caller
what the type of AI Because I got.
Jack Armstrong
I have a relationship with my doctor over many years. He doesn't like write down everything I tell him him and he knows I don't want him to write down everything I tell him about everything. So the I I scribe. But first thing I thought is, okay, if you can listen to the conversation, write it all down. I'm supposed to believe you're not because we know what the history of that is.
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Sure.
Jack Armstrong
At some point they're going to decide for legal reasons, we're recording everything. So if a patient ever claims this or that, and if you can have a robot, if you got a robot dog running around the apartment complex complex, how are you not going to have microphones somewhere doing the AI scribe thing constantly? We're going to be surrounded by AI scribe everywhere, at work, in a store, everywhere you go, they're going to be recording entire conversations. I got to believe if that. That's already here lots of places and soon will be ubiquitous.
Right? Partly for liability reasons, Katie.
Katie
So I. They didn't refer to it as AI Scribe, but I dealt with this a couple of weeks ago during one of my appointments treatments and I felt that it completely allowed my doctor to tune out. She was like, she asked me a bunch of questions and I gave her answers that later on in the after office visit notes were just completely wrong.
Jack Armstrong
But that happens a lot too.
Oh boy, oh boy. It's like, you know, the rear view cameras, backup cameras, people no longer check their blind spot. Right.
But also with the why would we expect AI Scribe to be better than the voice text capability I've got on my iPhone? How often does it get it completely wrong?
It's got to be better than the iPhone, which is an embarrassment. Right. So my final question, Jack, is did that robot dog bite you in your ah.
Did she say that some way he
Unknown Caller
looked like he finna bite your way.
Jack Armstrong
I'm gonna adopt that.
That not finishing words is a student of linguistics. I'm fascinated.
My son does that. It's a thing young people do he
Unknown Caller
look like he finna bite your way.
Jack Armstrong
What are you too busy to throw the S sound in or what, sweetheart?
So you always talking about there's no right for privacy. Privacy. When are you out in public? So that's going to be taken to a degree we didn't think was possible whenever we first came out with the idea that you have no right to
privacy because a 247 surveillance state. Correct.
Every word you say is going to be be transcribed everywhere you go.
Yeah.
Imagine when that sinks in, the way you will react. That's going to make us all weird.
Failed society is a polite and obedient society.
Yeah. And that's going to make us all weird. Yeah. Very weird.
Those of you who started weird. Even weirder.
Exactly.
Well, we have some serious damn analysis. We're not going to be able to squeeze it in the next segment, but we'll certainly get to it in a few minutes. About, you know, the yin and yang of Trump. I hate his fda. I love of his recent Truth Social post. According to one of my favorite commentators, it might be one of the most powerful and effective, you know, communications in the history of social media.
I want to talk more about AI Scribe later at more. More thoughts and concerns are popping into my head. I didn't know this was a thing at the doctor's office. Might be a thing at your workplace now. And do they need to tell you. I don't even know if they need to tell you that they got AI Scribe going on.
You probably clicked something somewhere said go ahead.
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Right.
Jack Armstrong
Exactly.
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I mean, I watch the Aviator, so I know everything Leonardo DiCaprio has allowed me. But incredible innovator, right?
Georgia Hardstark
She says he's a, quote, very strange man. But they do get along really well.
Karen Kilgariff
Give us examples.
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Orgasms aren't as rare as you think, Jill.
Yeah, they are.
So you got this obviously hot young woman because that's the only sort of person that starts this sort of thing. And she has hundreds of thousands of people who follow her on Instagram. And you people are morons.
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You are absolutely paste eating.
Jack Armstrong
Don't ever talk to me morons. If you follow influencers like this, you
TNA Wrestling Announcer
only get one life. Are you aware of that?
Jack Armstrong
And you spend any of your time
TNA Wrestling Announcer
looking at pictures of somebody like this
Jack Armstrong
to see what she thinks about things.
TNA Wrestling Announcer
The hell is wrong with people?
Jack Armstrong
Well, they're, they're.
A certain percentage of the population are dimwits.
TNA Wrestling Announcer
God, I'd say.
Jack Armstrong
But, but, but why are you offended by that?
Dimwits need dimwitted entertainment because I think
TNA Wrestling Announcer
it gives us their right.
Jack Armstrong
I think it gives us the culture and politics that we have that people are so dumb and paying attention to crap like this.
I would like to have an honest discussion with. And you'd never, you could never get it going. But ask, you know, Democratic activists, really, any activist, any political consultant, do you think people who are really dumb should vote? I mean people who through no fault of their own, do not have the intellectual capacity to understand any of the issues or how governance works works, should they vote?
No, they should not. Anyway, so just the, the existence of this sort of thing makes me so sad.
Was it Barnum who said a fooling his money is. Are soon parted. Or is that like an ancient.
I think he was. He was a sucker is born every minute. Wasn't that.
Oh, right, right, right. Yeah. But anyway, a. A fool and their attention are soon parted.
TNA Wrestling Announcer
Right?
Jack Armstrong
Ought to be the modern expression.
Which might be more full in their time, which is actually more valuable. You don't get the. Your time limited. Don't spend it on influencers. How much time have I got right here, Michael?
I'd say you got about three months looking at you.
Okay, how about now? Three minutes in this segment. Okay, So I don't think I've talked about this on the air. It's turned out to be just such a pain. So when we left New Orleans, we traveled. We each had backpacks we took on the plane. And then we had one great big giant bag for our other stuff that I actually checked as we were traveling around, around over our Christmas break. And then when we left our fabulous hotel in New Orleans, for whatever reason, left the giant bag in the hotel, got it all packed up and everything and left it there. We got. We got out of the Uber at the airport. I was like, who's got the big bag? I thought you had the big bag. Because my, My sons. I'd always have my sons pull it, and neither one of them had. So anyway, it's on me. But. So none of us had grabbed it out of the. Out of the hotel. I felt like a complete idiot, was hoping that this was not something that couldn't be dealt with. I called the hotel and I said, I feel like an idiot. Said, you know, it happens. You wouldn't believe. It happens all the time. Every single day. We deal with this. We have a routine. So we, we, we. The FedEx is right downstairs. So, you know, blah, blah, blah, FedEx will contact you, you pay me, get it shipped home. Fantastic. Not a big problem. Doesn't arrive when it's supposed to arrive. The tracking is weird. It's like. Looks like it's going places it's not supposed to go. I probably should have intervened there, there. But anyway, never shows up. Call FedEx and start asking about the tracking number. And they say, we. We don't know where it is. I said, what do you mean you don't know where it is? We don't know where it is. So you're going to have to contact the shipper. Why do I have to contact the shipper? You're going to have to have the sh. Shipper look into this. Well, I'm kind of the shipper. I paid for it. But did you drop it off? No. Well, you're going to have to have the person that dropped it off call. Why do I need to do that? That. Because they're the ones that instigated the shipping. But you had it at one point. It's right here in your information. You had it and you had the tracking number and you were sending it around places. So the thing that had that tracking number, where it is, you'll have to ask the shipper.
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And they just kept saying over, by
Jack Armstrong
the way, in a thick accent from some other land, so thick that I could barely understand what was going on. And it took me like 20 minutes to finally get to the person. And I went, I've gone through this over and over and over again. And I contact the hotel number. They're like, what are you talking about? We said, what do you want us to do?
TNA Wrestling Announcer
Yeah, exactly. The hotel's like, what am I supposed
Jack Armstrong
to do about this? Yeah, we did our part.
TNA Wrestling Announcer
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Jack Armstrong
And I paid for in the shipper and I can just get. No. And so then you do a claim and I don't know if you've ever done this in before, but a claim and I could get a maximum. I've got like probably in terms of clothes, shoes, the bag, about three grand invested in this. I can get a maximum of $100 back if I have the receipts for everything in the bag. I don't know about you, but I don't have the receip from my boots that I bought four years ago or my jeans that I bought last year.
Can you imagine the stacks of receipts in the filing system? You would have to have to actually have done that. That's ridiculous.
I have to post the receipts to get anything back to even get the hundred dollars. So it's basically good luck. It's what they say to you if you ever lose something. Just a heads up if you ever do that. Quick question for you. What if you happen to miss this unbelievable radio program?
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Host: Armstrong & Getty (Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty)
Date: June 26, 2026
This episode of the Armstrong & Getty Show offers listeners a fast-paced replay hour, featuring a curated selection of the most engaging, amusing, and insightful segments from recent weeks—including content not previously aired. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty bounce between issues of technology’s impact on society, tax policy and philanthropy, the proliferation of surveillance and automation (from robot dogs to AI scribes), and cultural commentary on modern attention spans and social media. The tone is irreverent, candid, and often humorous.
[03:51–07:55]
“It is like the freaking worst drug, most drug-addictive drug ever.” —Jack Armstrong (05:51)
[08:09–11:54]
“The math doesn’t work. You can tax all the billionaires. It doesn’t come close to closing whatever deficit you have.” —Jack Armstrong (11:27)
[25:51–38:43]
“What y’all got the robot dog in here for?” —Unknown Atlanta Resident (29:03)
[16:37–19:19]
“Young people are so afraid of being out of control... going out with their friends and hooting and hollering and having a couple of drinks is just not part of their lives.” —Jack Armstrong (18:12)
[14:35–16:16]
[42:35–44:23]
[44:36–47:22]
On short-form video addiction:
“It’s designed by the most brilliant minds of our time... it’s the worst drug ever.” —Jack Armstrong (06:13)
On wealth taxes and charity:
“It’s your money. Just because you got really wealthy, I don’t get to take a whole bunch of it just because I want it.” —Jack Armstrong (10:22)
On the rise of robot security:
“What y’all got the robot dog in here for?” —Unknown Atlanta Resident (29:03, repeated often)
On AI scribe in clinics:
“You’re going to be recording entire conversations... That’s already here in lots of places and soon will be ubiquitous.” —Jack Armstrong (35:37)
On the digitally-enabled surveillance state:
“A 247 surveillance state. Every word you say is going to be transcribed everywhere you go.” —Jack Armstrong (37:42)
Reflecting on influencer culture:
“A fool and their attention are soon parted... ought to be the modern expression.” —Jack Armstrong (44:21)
Irreverent, informal, sometimes curmudgeonly, but always thoughtful and quick-witted. The conversation dances between topical seriousness (privacy, social change, policy) and comic relief (robots chasing wild boar, bad dreams, complaints about FedEx). Plenty of personal anecdotes, rhetorical questions, and deadpan asides.
This Armstrong & Getty replay hour delivers a whirlwind of topics, from the psychological rewiring wrought by TikTok-style video to anxieties about surveillance, automation, and a disengaged citizenry lost in shallow content. There’s criticism of tax policies, bemusement at new technology, and consistent skepticism about the wisdom of crowds—punctuated by humor and personal stories. For listeners, it’s a window into the social, technological, and political tangles shaping American life, served up with the duo’s signature bite.