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Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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And now here's Armstrong and gy.
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I had no idea the psychological harm.
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That a AI chatbot could do until I saw it in my son. And I saw his light turn dark. When Adam worried that we, his parents, would blame ourselves if he ended his life, chatgpt told them, that doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that. Then immediately after offered to write the.
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Suicide note in a reckless race for profit and market share, they treated my.
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Son'S life as collateral damage. Holy crap. I had not heard that. We've talked a couple of different times about stories over the last. God, it's only weeks, really. ChatGPT hasn't been around that long. But this whole AI chat bot phenomenon of various people being talked into harming themselves, maybe killing themselves, having a conversation with an AI bot chat GPT said, you don't owe your parents anything and I'll help you write the suicide note. Holy crap. Anyway, to talk about a few different tech things, we'd like to welcome to the Armstrong and Getty Show. Ian Share of CBS News, a tech contributor. How are you today, Ian?
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I'm doing all right. How are you?
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Yeah, so I know one of the things you're on is trying to come up with some sort of parental controls for some of these tech entities. How do you like our chances?
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Well, part of the struggle with all of this is that we are dealing with this larger question of how technology impacts young minds. Right. And that is something that we've been struggling with with social media now for quite a while. And we've questioned for a long time with many different types of technology. And then on top of that, we are now learning that chatbots, these AI things that are supposedly changing the world, do not respond well to people in mental health distress. And that's particularly scary for children because we understand that teenagers often are struggling with that as a result of going through the natural motions of being a teenager, and also because their parents may not be aware of how they're using these tools. So OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT, has been asked by the Federal Trade Commission to kind of reveal some of the data around children and chatgpt, and they are doing that. But in the meantime, the company has also said that it's building these parental controls where Parent will be able to set some sort of rules and disable either certain features of the chatbot or even have blackout hours. Right. So they can't, the team supposedly can't use it during certain times of the day. But as you and I know and as many of us have experienced, you know, I wasn't really supposed to watch Beavis and Butthead when it was on TV and somehow I got away with that. And so there is a larger question of what are the larger issues that we tackle beyond having some of these parental controls that may or may not work.
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Yeah, it's so tough. As a parent, it's funny, I've been encouraging. I've got two teenagers, a 13 year old and a 15 year old and I was actually encouraging them to. Because I use Chat GPT all the time and I was encouraging my kids, oh, you got to get this. It's so handy for asking questions about this or that. I hadn't even thought about the, you know, the scary stuff. If, you know, one of them has a breakup with their girlfriend and they start asking for advice and it's, they start getting crazy advice from this, you know, non human. It's troubling.
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Well, and part of it is the way these things are designed. They are really meant to kind of be agreeable with us. And that works great when you're asking it to help you write an email to your boss. Right. But when you're in a deep conversation, this is another thing they've learned is that the deeper the conversation goes and the longer it goes, the more likely that the chatbot is going to start saying what we would consider crazy things.
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That's interesting. I don't know if you have, I don't know if you've done this or not, but we all have here on the radio show. Asked for like some advice with like a difficult question with parenting a kid and been blown away by how good some of the advice was from Chat GPT. Like, wow, that's as good as any therapist I've ever talked to. But.
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Well, and there's a lot of research out there that shows that in anecdotal and small bits, ChatGPT can be helpful with some of these things. Right. And there's actually research, again, it's not scientific, it doesn't really fully go into it, but it's shown that, you know, some people who are having like a tough day at work and you and I do this when we're texting our friends, we're like, ah, I'm having such a Tough day at work, right? But they send it to ChatGPT instead and it gives back a pretty good response. But the problem again is when you get into these really deep, long conversations where most humans would kind of be like, you know, I think you need to talk to a professional. That's when ChatGPT doesn't stop. And instead it seems as though it actually starts to get worse and worse and giving you responses that honestly, most of us would never accept.
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Wow, that is really interesting. You know, and on a slightly different topic, but also relating to kids and tech, several of us here, and you've probably heard this, had the experience of on was it last Thursday or Wednesday that Charlie Kirk was murdered, had the experience of picking up our kids from school thinking we were going to tell them about this tragic event and them saying, oh, I've seen all the videos. I've seen the close up video of the blood squirting out of his neck. My high school kid had seen it. The video that I haven't watched yet because I didn't think I wanted to see it. My kid had watched over and over again because it was on YouTube or Twitter or wherever he watched.
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Yeah, well. And this is part of the struggle that we've been having with moderation of social media, especially since the 2016 election. There have been all these kind of back and forth conversations about how much moderation should there be, concerns about free speech and all sorts of other things. And so a number of these social media companies, particularly X, Right, which is owned by Elon Musk, formerly Twitter, have taken the position that if it's not illegal, then it should be allowed to post. Well, as unfortunate as it is, a picture of someone being shot is not illegal to have out there. And that's part of why these things have proliferated so much more, is that a lot of the social media companies and tech companies who have been under pressure, frankly, from Washington, D.C. not to moderate their platforms, have given in and have said, okay, we're going to allow anything that's allowed under free speech practically. And that is, that's where we are now. You know, it's not surprising.
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I can make the argument, lots of people could make the argument why that's a good thing. As long as it's adults, as long as it's adults who decide whether they want to see it or not. But if kids are looking at it, that's a problem.
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We're back to the rock and roll debate, right? Yeah, right. Who should be, who should be playing what on. On the radio. And honestly, this is a, I mean, this is a thing that we constantly deal with as a society. And the thing, you know, I covered the video game industry for a long time for the Wall Street Journal, and the conversation constantly was, look, the parents need to be in the loop regardless. We can create all the laws and rules we want, but if the parents aren't having a conversation with their kids about what they're seeing, it's not going to mean anything. And I think that's what this is going to turn into ultimately. Because the free speech advocates typically win. Right. Because the law is the law.
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Sure.
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And we, we want to, we want the free exchange of ideas, regardless of the, of the pain it might cause sometimes.
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So I could talk to you about this all day long because I think it's so damned interesting, but I wanted to get you find out some of the details on TikTok. I was just reading. So CNBC says the TikTok deal that Trump's working out with President Xi, who he's going to talk to on Friday, the algorithm is going to stay more or less the same. But then the Wall Street Journal said, no, it's going to be a different algorithm. And my question is, if TikTok has a different algorithm, it's not TikTok. You can call it TikTok, but it's not TikTok. Isn't that right?
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Yeah, we don't know the specifics, unfortunately. And part of that is because of the way that this deal is being structured and also because of the kind of way that the White House has decided to roll this out. Right. There was one of another, one of those deadlines that President Trump set was actually expiring today. And, you know, on top of that, technically, by law, TikTok's been banned in this country since January of last year. We just haven't enforced that law. And so it's really hard to tell what it's going to be. But you raise a very important point, which is that, you know, a lot of this, the reason that Washington, D.C. has taken a 180 on it. Right. And originally Trump was trying to ban TikTok, and that was five years ago, was because it was supposedly a national security threat. And it is now realizing that a lot of young voters would be upset. They're saying, okay, we're going to try and make it not be banned.
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Do you have TikTok on your phone?
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So I do have TikTok on my phone, but I very rarely open it. I watch, you know, part of what's funny about TikTok is that most of the videos now get shared on Instagram and YouTube and all that other stuff. So I. I feel like I'm on top of Tick tock, even though I'm. I'm not opening it very often.
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Yeah. So I do think TikTok is a national security threat. And I'm horrified that the Communist Chinese party gets to have so much influence over what our young people see. Then it gets complicated after that with free speech and blah, blah, blah, all the different things. But I too have. I don't have it on my phone, but I've almost wanted to just so I can. Because it's such a huge news story, I felt like I ought to be able to talk about it.
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Yeah. And I mean, honestly, this is. This is part of the struggle of the world we live in. Right. It's. So when it comes to the Internet, everything is everywhere. And the reality is that we've really benefited from the last couple of decades where the United States companies, broadly have been the dominant force on the Internet. And that's starting to change.
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Right.
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Is an example of that.
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Right. That's a good point.
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This is. Yeah, this is really much more of an existential conversation. And yes, there is a national security part. It's worth noting. In five years, the government has failed to show us anything publicly, including when they've been demanded by courts. They've never shown anything to us that proves that there's a national security threat. So we're just having to take them at their word. But it is notable that the President. Right.
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Both administrations believe it was a national security threat though, right?
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Yes, oh, yes, absolutely. But it's notable that the person who started it is now trying to back.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll tell you what, I don't know if this was on your radar or not. Maybe it was, but it was a moment for a lot of parents this past week when they picked up their kids at school. I've talked to multiple people, had exactly the same experience. You pick up your kid from school and you find out that they watched that horrifying video that you thought you were going to delicately tell your kids about. That's that. That's something.
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It is something. And the reality is that most of what we've learned over the last couple of decades now is that a lot of those parental controls that we thought might work on computers just don't. And we're at this situation where really we have an entire generation, couple of generations now that have very open access to information on the Internet. And again. Right. We believe in free speech and everything. What you're seeing is that the response to this has been a much heavier hand in some cases. A number of states have passed laws now, for example, requiring actual age verification in order to access pornography websites. Right. And there's talk about trying to do that with social media. And in fact in Australia that is already being done with AI chatbots. The in Australia they're starting to set rules saying you have to verify your your 18 or older in order to use a chat bot. And so that might be where things end up. If this, if this issue does not somehow resolve itself.
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That's interesting stuff and it's going to be a topic around for a long time. I hope we can talk to you again in the future. Ian, that was really good.
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Oh, absolutely.
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CBS News tech contributor Ian Shared. S H E R R Share.
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Sure.
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Anyway, he was good. I liked him. I like talking to him. I'm almost nihilistic on this topic. I just don't think there's any way we're gonna the age verification. What? You click a box that says I promise I'm 18. I mean, how are you gonna do anything beyond that, really? Anywho, I got a lot more on the way. Stay here.
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Check us out@tivo.com America is changing and.
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But what's happening in America isn't just the cause of global upheaval. It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
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I'm Asma Khalid in Washington D.C. i'm.
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Tristan Redman in London and this is the global story.
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Buster's sales have declined again and the.
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Company is really struggling. It's not good without Dave and Buster's.
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I mean where are you going to.
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Disappoint a woman on a first date, you know? So you think that's a, got a greater social significance there, Michael? In what way?
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Everybody plays stuff online. I just know that when I was younger I'd meet my friends at the arcades and that's what you did, you know, you played the big stand up Pac Man's and stuff like that. Now it's, everything is online and you don't invite people over to play video games anymore. It's just you're in two separate houses and that's it.
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Interesting. Yeah, that's funny. When I was, I'm old but. So when I was younger video games did pretty much always mean people playing together because there was no technology to do it any other way. It was very common like when I was in college and after 20 somethings now, yeah, you got a headset on and you're playing with other people who may be murderers in the case of that scumbag in Utah. Not to bring everything back to that story, but they, they say it was more than 20 people on that discord when he admitted that he shot. That's something. But that's one of the things I worry about with my kids, obviously speaking, attacking teenage barriers and all that sort of stuff. You don't know who the heck your kid is talking to. On video games, I tell my kids, if it ever strays from anything other than specifically about the game, you know, don't, don't, don't take the bait. Weather's nice here. What's it like where you live? Where do you live again, Henry? You know, that sort of thing. No, no, no, no, no.
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Well, there's this. There's this trend going on right now on TikTok where kids are showing off their college dorms, but they're showing the entrance to the school, they're showing the hallway, they are showing what the front door of their dorm looks like, they are showing the layout of their dorm. And it's just like, why don't you just put your address on the Internet?
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Right. I just saw something on the T on upon the tv. I'm gonna have to do a little research on here. A woman just set a new record for the 50 meter LEGO barefoot Lego run. Oh. So they, they looked like a high school track and they laid out Legos, thick layer of Legos all along the track. And then she ran barefoot and sprinted down the thing and set a new.
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Record for the 100 meter sprint.
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It was a hundred meters. Mm, that's a long way. Any parent that's done it one Lego, one time is plenty. Running 100 meters barefoot on Legos seems, well, kind of stupid.
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How do you wake up and go, you know what I'm gonna do today? Yeah, I'm gonna run across 100 meters, 100 meters of Legos.
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Well, I'm gonna see how fast I can do it. Compare myself to other people who've done the same thing, which nobody's ever thought of. So there was quite a hearing yesterday in Congress with the FBI director getting yelled at by Democrats. And it's conflict, and people like conflict. So we'll play a little conflict when we come back and talk about some other stuff too, that will fit in. If you missed a segment an hour, there'd been some great guests on today. And if you haven't heard it all, you should look for the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand. Cory Booker, who loves to get into it with various people, Democratic Senator and Cash Patel yelling at each other. That's what's on the way. Armstrong and Getty.
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Check us out@tivo.com America is changing and.
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So is the world.
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But what's happening in America isn't just the cause of global upheaval. It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
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I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, DC.
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I'm Tristan Redman in London and this is the Global story.
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Every weekday we'll bring you a story from this intersection where the world and America meet.
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Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts. A new NFL season means a fresh start and fresh styles. @nflshop.com you'll find the latest jerseys, hats and sideline gear to rep your team all season long. From rookies making their debut to legends, NFLShop.com has it all. Score exclusive styles you won't find anywhere else and show up ready for every kickoff and big play fan like a pro and shop now@nflshop.com we're actually talking about is something known as chagas. A lot of people may not have heard of this. No surprise, because it's mostly been relegated to the tropics for a long time. But as the weather has gotten warmer, it's moved from rural Mexico and Central America and South America into the United states. There's about 280,000 people, they estimate in the United States that have chagas. But only about 1% of people actually know it. It's called the kissing disease because these bugs, which are about a half inch to an inch long, typically bite people on the face and then they leave a parasite and then that itches. So people scratch and they sort of embed that parasite into their skin and that causes the infection. How are there a quarter of a million people who've had a 1 inch bug on their face ever that bites them and gives them this parasite and they, and they don't. Most of them don't know it.
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And it makes your face itch, so you scratch it and it spreads.
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I don't. I would think I would know that.
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Yeah.
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It's all, it's along all of the southern. The states with our southern border too, because it's coming up from there.
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You. I rarely have 1 inch bugs on my face to start with.
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I can't, I can't think of the last time I welcomed a 1 inch bug onto my face.
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And then if I start to itch and scratch and I see it spreading all around my head, I, I would go ahead and ask a doctor something.
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Maybe, maybe twice a year. Michael, be careful. I wonder how long it takes for it to put that little parasite in there. Does it have to like hang out there for a minute? I don't, I don't understand.
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I don't know.
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I don't like these new diseases that are crossing our border anyway, so that's that story. And you can't call it the kissing disease. There is a kissing disease. It's mononucleosis. Mononucleosis is the kissing disease. Or at least they used to call it that in the old days. I had mono twice in my life. It's horrible.
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You're.
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You're supposed to only be able to get it once. But I had it twice.
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Um.
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Cause I'm special. Um. So this was yesterday. A hearing they had in Congress. The FBI director who Democrats hate, Cash Patel, was up there being grilled and in this case by senator Cory Booker, who's one of the all time grandstander. I'm gonna get on cable News of all the senators asking questions. I gotta make sure my clip makes the news. And it did and it does again on our show. Here we go. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Do you want to say yes, sir.
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Let me, let me start this again real quick. Or you can stop it there. Cory Booker had just done a really, really long rant about not digging cash Patel in his act and all the different sorts of things, stuff like that. And then the 145 year old Chuck Grassley, the chair, gave the FBI director chance to respond. Rant of false information does not bring this country together. If you want to work on bringing.
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This country, it's my time, not yours.
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My God. My God. You want to talk about fighting this country?
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It is.
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I follow you on your social media posts that tear my country apart.
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You better try.
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All you in this country. Can we stop for a second? Okay, so that's, that's, that's. That's good stuff. That's good stuff right there. That's, that's what. It's hard to imagine that Congress is ever going to pass legislation to change the structure of hearings because they must feel that they benefit from it somehow. But the televised hearings are worthless. I don't know if they ever accomplish anything. But anyway, let's, let's get back to it over committee. Sir, you don't tell me my time is over. The people in Jersey tell me what my time is. You can't lecture me.
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My time is over.
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You may be the charge.
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I am not afraid of you, Mr. Chairman.
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Not afraid of you, Mr. Chairman.
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Point of order, Senator Booker. I announced at the beginning of this meeting that this back and forth talking over each other doesn't work. And I said if that happened. I asked Patel not to respond and I was going to give him some time after the senator's time was up to respond.
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And that's.
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He has the privilege to do that uninterrupted.
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Mr. Chairman, one point.
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Go ahead, Mr.
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I've watched him talk over us and you've never once criticized him for us. Not even be able to get our questions out. He has been rude and disrespectful to senator after senator. And when the senators were not giving him a chance to answer, I didn't stop the Senator either.
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Go ahead, Senator.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If the FBI under my seven month.
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Leadership were failing this administration in this.
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Country, why do we have 23,000 violent.
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Felons arrested this year alone?
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A 2200, excuse me, a double increase from that time last year. Why is it that we have seized 6000 weapons. Why have we found 1500 child predators and arrest them? Why have we have 300 human traffickers in jail? Why have we found and identified 4700 children? Why have we seen 1600 kilograms of fentanyl in. Enough to kill a third of the American public?
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A 25% increase alone from last year. 88,000 kilograms of cocaine seized, 7,000 kilograms of meth seized.
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And that's just on our criminal operations in Summer heat. How is it possible that we are taking 8kg off the streets of the.
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Cities in New Jersey?
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So that was that. And that's what usually happens. And Chuck Grassley, the chair. I happen to be on his side, of course. He was there when Charles Sumner got caned. Google it. And he remembers how divisive things can get. Speaking of fentanyl, wanted to bring this up. Wall Street Journal with a story out today. Actually, it was about this guy. You should probably get to know his name. El Senor Mencho. Senor Mencho is now the number one drug cartel leader in all the world. Cocaine. Not fentanyl, not meth, not whatever else, cocaine. America loves cocaine, again, says the Wall Street Journal. And Mexico's new drug king cashes in. So the Trump administration's war on fentanyl has worked. And part of it is just getting the news out in the United States that fentanyl is really, really dangerous. So people don't do fentanyl, and cocaine is back, and in particular this cocaine from this guy, because it says here, cocaine sold in the United States is now cheaper and as pure as ever for retail buyers. So it's super cheap, and it's from a source that you can count on until you can't. For it to be pure and not have any fentanyl in it, that's gonna kill you. Listen to this stat. Consumption in the Western United states has increased 154% since 2019. That's also insane. It is. That's a. That's an explosion. And I'll tell you what that mostly is. I think. I don't know this, but I would guess what says here for new users, cocaine doesn't carry the stigma of fental addiction. Yeah, the stigma of fentol addiction is on display in the west coast the way it's not in the rest of the country. If you live in San Francisco, Louisiana. San Diego, Portland, Seattle, you see these drug casualties on the street every single day. Kind of turns you off, the whole fentanyl thing. Most of those people aren't doing pure cocaine is what you're thinking to yourself. And I gotta believe that's got a lot to do with people switching from whatever drugs lands you in a cardboard box, screaming at a fire hydrant that you see on the streets of LA or all those other cities and you turn away from those drugs. I'll bet that's it. Yeah, we've got the display of not that cocaine can't ruin your life. I personally know of a number of people who've ruined their lives with that particular drug, but man, that's quite the explosion in it. So now, hey yay. Now I get to talk to my kids about this. Another thing to talk to my kids about and worry about.
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Add it to the list.
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Add it to the list. Yes, we will finish strong next. Stay here.
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Check us out@tivo.com America is changing and.
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So is the world.
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But what's happening in America isn't just a cause of global upheaval. It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
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I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C. i'm.
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Tristan Redman in London, and this is the Global story.
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Every weekday we'll bring you a story from this intersection where the world and America meet.
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Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts. A new NFL season means a fresh start and fresh styles. @nflshop.com you'll find the latest jerseys, hats and sideline gear to rep your team all season long. From rookies making their debut to legends, NFLShop.com has it all. Score exclusive styles you won't find anywhere else and show up ready for every kickoff. And big play fan like a pro. And shop now@nflshop.com before we get to a mom explaining to her daughter that no, she is not a boy. This first front page of USA TODAY today Raising recruits to meet standards. It's all about how the U.S. army, as we reported a lot several years ago, was falling horrifyingly short of the recruitment goals to have people join the Army. And that ain't good for all kinds of obvious reasons. And now they are doing great. The army clinched its recruiting goal of 55,000 in the last fiscal year.
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And.
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This year four months early, that it had met its annual goal of 61,000 way before the end of the year. So it barely made it last year. And then this year it already hit the goal in the middle of the year and is going to surpass that. Now. Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump say that's because young men are way more likely to join the army under Trump as president under Joe Biden. I think that's obviously true. I mean, you look at the way young men voted in this country as a whole, look at the way young men are responding to Charlie Kirk being assassinated. That crowd is huge on the maga. Right. And they're way more likely to join the army in the military when Trump's president than under a Democrat, specifically Biden. I don't think there's any question of that whatsoever. USA TODAY said that could be a factor. Okay. I think it's probably a pretty big factor. Also want to mention this not surprising, Ram or Ford. It's Stellantis or Ram? Ram is Dodge. Stellantis is the company that owns Dodge. They're pulling the plug on the all electric Ram 1500. They were going to build it in 2024, then it got delayed to 25, then it got pushed off to 26, then it was moved to 27 and now they've announced we ain't gonna make it at all. So they're just in. Is it stated there is not a demand for a full size battery electric truck? I'm surprised Ford's still making the lightning. People are not near as into electric vehicles as the lefties had hoped. And certainly when you pull the plug on the taxpayer funded discounts, you realize that's how it works, right? If you get a tax rebate of $7,500, you and I are pooling our money to help somebody else buy an electric car. Why? Why would I do that? Yeah, it's a good cause. I'm glad I gave it to charity. You getting to drive an electric car. So anyway, yet another major automaker in the United States saying electric thing ain't working out. Okay, so now what do I need to know about this clip?
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This is a captured from an in home security camera. And this little girl that you hear talking is maybe three years old and she proclaims to her mom that she is a boy. And mom sets that straight right real quick.
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I'm a boy. You're not a boy. Don't ever say that again. You're a girl. Do you understand me? Jesus made you a girl, so you are a girl. It's what you're meant to be. What you'll only ever be. Do you understand me? That is a boy. That's correct. I am a sorry. Thank you. You love the body that Jesus gave you and the body he gave you instead of a girl.
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Yeah.
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So she said, dad's a boy. And she goes. That's right. And she goes. The body that Jesus gave you is that of a girl.
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A three year old doesn't have any idea what they're talking about.
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Well, I should also note that this little girl was looking at. I couldn't tell if it was a laptop or an iPad because it was a little blurry, but she was on some form of a computer screen.
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Has this mom been doxed yet by people who think she ought to have her kids taken away from her or something like that?
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I didn't see it, but I wouldn't be surprised.
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Oh boy. That.
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You know.
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I don't.
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It's a real thing though. I mean, they are. You know, my friend just put her daughter into kindergarten and she's really worried that one of these days her daughter's gonna come home and say something along those lines because of how early this is starting in some schools.
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Yeah, it's difficult to have a conversation about anything that means anything with a three year old, five year old. You can start to definitely.
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Yeah.
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And. Yeah, well, I've seen it in my schools, my kids schools. So my son had another big Boy Scout event last night. This was what they call a court of honor. And they do it a couple times a year, I guess, and when you move up in rank, they have this big get together and the parents go and we had a potluck ahead of time. And then we meet and they do the flag ceremony and all that sort of stuff. And the parents go up with the kid and they get their next rank and they put a pin on the parent. And it's, it's really, really cool, like everything. I've said this now for however many months that my son's been in scouting, I couldn't be more impressed. I think it's really great for young men. Girls can be in boy Scouts too. I've seen lots of girls that are not lots, but I've seen girls that are in scouts, including Eagle Scouts, if you, if you want to do that as a, as a parent of a young girl. But I couldn't be happier about it for. Because they're just so few up with young men sorts of things out there anywhere.
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Right.
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In our country. Certainly not in our schools. And I loved seeing this. But for the potluck, they, they sent out this sign up genius thing for choices you could make. And I, I thought about, like going with the super easy bread rolls, you know?
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Yeah, but I know, I just thought cups, napkins.
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A
Yeah, exactly. I just thought that was kind of bailing on your responsibility. So I checked off one of the meats. I went with chicken. I've never cooked chicken in my entire life, not one time, not one tiny piece of chicken have I ever attempted to cook.
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What? Are you serious? You've never.
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100% serious? Yeah. Okay.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Why would I cook a piece of chicken? I like beef. I cook hamburgers and steak. But. Okay. I just have never cooked a piece of chicken in my whole life. First of all, I find chicken's always too dry. Every, every time I have chicken anywhere, it's always too dry. I just, I'm never that pleased with chicken.
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Okay.
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But yes, Michael, you got to Cook.
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It slow so it doesn't dry out.
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Is that the thing?
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Yes.
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So Omaha Steaks, who we endorse, they have really, really high quality stuff. And I eat their burgers and their steaks and the apple tarts and all kinds of stuff. I do not eat the chicken usually because I don't cook chicken. As I have previously stated. I usually give away the very, very delicious chicken to, like, other people.
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You take it over to your neighbor and say, hey, I bought this for you.
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Right.
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See a previous episode about that. But so I finally decided to cook all these chicken breasts, and we went on chat GPT and asked all kinds of questions. And my son watched some YouTube videos about parchment paper and made a little glaze thing to put on it and all this different sort of stuff. And we.
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Okay, so oven roasted.
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Yeah, we baked it.
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Okay.
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And we went to the store and bought stuff. I even got a meat thermometer, which I've never owned in my life. I now own a meat thermometer at age 60 and gives me a better shot at getting a big.
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Things are happening here, folks.
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Yeah, it'll help give me a better shot at. Sometimes we cut into our burgers and they're well done, which I hate. That ruins a burger. Or they're just so gooey raw that, like, you have to throw them back on the grill. I mean, you just can't possibly stomach it. And I'm just, you know, I don't know, eyeballing it. So now I got a meat thermometer. Very, very cool. And we cooked the chicken and everything. And it took a lot longer than I thought I thought it would, but it turned out pretty damn good. It turned out pretty good, and with a little barbecue sauce on, it was fine. And I. I thought we had one of the better things there, certainly homemade things there. There were people that brought pizzas from a pizza place. That's nice. That's fine. People love pizza. That's all good. It just seems like a cheating at a potluck to me.
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I'm having, like, a proud mom moment. Jack, you. You baked some chicken?
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Henry mostly did. Yes, but he did. He baked some chicken. But, hey, isn't it cheating in a potluck to bring something straight from a store? It might. What you brought might be the tastiest thing because it's straight from a store or the pizza place, but it's zero effort. It just seems like cheating to me.
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Yeah, I get that. You're supposed to make something for a potluck.
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One of the boy Scouts Who's a team made a tater tot casserole, which is such, such a teenage boy sort of thing to make.
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Awesome.
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It was pretty good though. I have some final thoughts, and some people say they are the greatest final thoughts they've ever heard. But if you look at what's happening, I would have to say Armstrong and Getty have some wonderful final thoughts.
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They are right up there with Abraham.
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Lincoln and everybody knows it. Somebody did bring a. A big giant pie from Costco, which I did not complain about because it has some good pie. Let's hand it over to our host for final thoughts. Me. I'm your host. Joe is not here. He's playing golf at some fancy, fancy golf course in Monterey. There's our technical director, Michelangelo. Do you have a final thought for us?
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Yeah, my final thought is, Jack, I've worked with you for, let's see, more than about 26 years now.
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Is that possible?
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Yeah, but the fact that you haven't cooked chicken in 26 years, I, I just, I find that troubling.
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I don't know why. In my whole life, I can't believe it. 60 years, I've never even considered it. It's never even crossed my mind. Here is our news person, Katie. Katie, the news lady, Katie Green. What do you got there, Katie?
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Well, once I can get my brain back together, I was thinking about that chick that was running on Legos and yesterday I said, stepped on a pebble, maybe the size of my pinky fingernail, and I lost my s. It hurts so bad.
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Well, yeah, that's the weird thing, like, the smaller the worse. Oh, that is something. Yeah. There is a video out there of a woman running the 100 yard dash barefoot on Legos that we can post 25 seconds at armstrongandgetty.com and my final thought is, we got a bunch of great guests today and if you missed any segment, you should check them out. The podcast is Armstrong and Getty on demand. I mean, there are some really good conversations about politics, the economy, about tech, about the law and justice with Katie's dad, the former judge. So a lot of good stuff. Check out the podcast. Armstrong and Yeti. Wrapping up another grueling four hour workday. We will see you tomorrow. God bless America.
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Armstrong and Getty. Hello, my beloved baby.
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Jack.
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I am back to you, sweetie.
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My.
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Love and my destiny.
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That's you, honey. Jack Armstrong, my precious diamond. Armstrong and Getty.
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Learn more@tibo.com America is changing and so is the world. But what's happening in America isn't just the cause of global upheaval. It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
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I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C. i'm.
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Tristan Redman in London and this is the Global story.
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Every weekday we'll bring you a story from the this intersection where the world and America meet.
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Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts. A new NFL season means a fresh start and fresh styles. @nflshop.com you'll find the latest jerseys, hats and sideline gear to rep your team all season long. From rookies making their debut to legends, NFL has it all. Score exclusive styles you won't find anywhere else and show up ready for every kickoff and big play fan like a pro and shop now@nflshop.com.
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