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Iheartradio. Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio
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studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. Straight up. Four moves.
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Iran's long term plan for that waterway includes a corridor to be opened up in which you would need to transit
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with the blessing of the Iranian military
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and also potentially paying fees to Iran
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itself, which sounds an awful lot like
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tolling, which is against freedom of navigation and international law. Yeah. So Iran is working with Oman. This is a story that broke yesterday in talks about tolls for ships going through. They're going to set up a process where you pay a toll to get through the Strait of Hormuz. And the other country that's right there on the Strait of Hormuz with Iran is going to, is going to help make this system work. And you'll pay in crypto. So you pay Iran, slash Oman in crypto and your boat gets to go through. And either we're going to allow that to happen or not, but that's their plan going forward. So.
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So it sounds like Iran has at least at the moment, a regional ally. Right? Interesting.
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Yeah, yeah. Who they bombed earlier in the war. So Oman.
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Oman. What are you thinking?
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So Wall Street Journal with an exclusive story today that Joe's gonna lay out all the details of in a little bit. I don't know
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if I had heard
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the word Binance, which is finance with a B, as in boy, binance.
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Clever.
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If I had heard the word Binance, it went in one ear and out the other. I didn't register with me. It's going to be, as Joe said last hour, it's going to be a word everybody knows soon. But Bayman's this line from the Wall Street Journal piece got my attention about what Binance is. So billions of dollars, according to the Wall Street Journal, are flowing into the Iranian military through Binance, this big crypto company. Billions. So our entire war plan, it would seem, right now from Donald Trump is they're going to feel the pain to the point that they cave before we feel the pain and cave because we have got them blockaded. They're losing half a billion dollars a day. They got no gas, they got no fuel, they got no weapons, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Got no revenue.
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They got no revenue at all. So, okay, but now we find out they're getting billions of dollars through this Binance thing. Well, so this changes the entire war strategy situation and we are really in a pickle. How big a deal is Binance? The illegal flows can be camouflaged easy. Going into Iran through Binance because of their size, they have trillions of dollars flowing through monthly. Yes, monthly. Binance has trillions of dollars flowing through. So a couple of billion over several months going to Iran would be a tiny amount. Nobody would even notice.
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Right. In spite of Binance's adamant expressions of why we tolerate no shenanigans on this platform, sir. It's a well known way to move, to move dark money all over the world.
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You know what?
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In the trillions.
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You know what that sentence said to me? It said to me, jack, you have no idea how the world works. That's what that sentence said to me. That there are trillions of dollars monthly in crypto going through Binance for all kinds of different things around the world means I have no idea how the world works.
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And Binance is not the only Binance out there. Right, yeah. Yeah. So the. It's half a book. I told Jack earlier. Yeah, I read the whole article. No, I had just gotten down to like a break for an ad. I thought that was it. Oh, no, there's like another 5,000 words. Good Lord, it's long. They bring the receipts, they get into detail, they cite the accounts and the names and that sort of stuff. That has been Iran's main financing pipeline for a very long time and Binance has done nothing about it. In fact, some internal investigators who were raising red flags about it were fired not terribly long ago. Now Binance is saying, and I'll probably be dead by noon for saying these things. Although, you know, the Journal, they'll get the go after the Journal first. Binance is saying, no, those guys, they, they didn't like working here.
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Yeah, yeah, the one guy stole a
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couple of reams of copy paper.
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Yeah, we didn't fire him over that. No way, man.
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Just ridiculous denial. It was like, you know those IRS whistleblowers? Oh, no, they weren't fired because they insisted on investigating Hunter Biden. They didn't like they weren't happier. Anyway, here's the part that gets hairy, politically speaking. You may recall that Binance's founder, Changpeng Zhao, was inexplicably pardoned by Trump in October. He'd pleaded guilty in 2023 and served just four months in prison, but a prison term for anti money laundering violations. Cuz Binance is a gigantic. According to some money laundering operation, among other things. I mean, volumes of money I can't even comprehend.
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No, trillions a month is. You really can't wrap your head around it.
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No, no, indeed. Nor the sophistication of the people involved in it. Their mastery of the technical, you know, money moving mechanisms. You know, when Trump pardons Yao guy, everybody's like, what the hell's going on here? Well, Binance has been a crucial backer of the Trump family's crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, which has earned the trumps at least $1.2 billion just since 2024. And world liberty declined to comment. So the Trump family is in bed with to the tune of billions of dollars, perhaps. Certainly by the end of this year it'll be billions with an S. A company that is the pipeline for finance to the irgc and that Trump pardoned their founder. That looks horrible.
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Yeah. Why did. What was Trump's. I hate to use the word claim because that's what the media always uses on Trump with anything he says. What did Trump say was the reason he pardoned this guy?
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As I recall, I would have to dig back into it. My recollection. Please folks, correct me if I'm wrong via email if you like. Mailbagarmstrongandgetti.com My, my recollection is that he said they were jobbed by the irs. The Biden irs. They were targeted and persecuted by the Biden administration. It was law fair because they're friendly toward Trump.
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Gotcha.
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Yeah, it'll. I think the chances are roughly 10 and 10 that this will be part of an impeachment proceeding at some point.
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And it's not a minor story. If it would be a big thing that brings down a presidency, obviously that wouldn't be a minor story, but man, to me the headline is the entire plan they've got for the war in Iran is not going to work. Not might not work is not going to work.
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My only question is, is this pipeline enough to sustain them or is it. It's. It's not a, it's not a gush. It's a trickle financially. I don't know. The Answer to that question.
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Well, if they have. If they've given. If they've gotten billions to the Iranian military so far over years,
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that's a
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lot of money we didn't think they had.
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Including after the Wall Street Journal in, I think it was February, reported on this stuff, had a big piece about it, and Binance said, oh, good Lord. Well, we'll stop that immediately. Well, it just. It was about. I was gonna make the point this. And like, sanctions, I think these days are about as effective as if the ATM at my favorite grocery store is out of order. So I've gotta drive, you know, over there to the drugstore where they have an atm. I mean, are sanctions about that effective at this point? Because I got the idea from the Binance, the initial Binance investigation, disclosures, blah, blah, blah, that they just, you know, just changed the account numbers and said, sorry about the inconvenience, and they're up and running, like, two days later.
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If the worst is true about the Trump family and the money, capital I, capital F, because maybe it's not. I'll never understand, I guess, because I've just, you know, most of us never are in this situation. If you're. If you've got billions of dollars or even tens of millions, why do you do illegal things to get more money? I mean, I think the average person just, why would I risk anything going to jail, anything, ruining this? My life is set. I get to do whatever I want for the rest of my life, and so does the rest of my family for generations. Why. Why would you risk that one?
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The thrill of the chase. I think
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I like the thrill of the spending.
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Yeah, well, you're. That's right. That's why you're not a titan of
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all, which could very well be true. It has. But the other thing, you like the game so much, that's why you ended up that rich.
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But I don't think the risk is as high as you might think it is because they consult, like, the best lawyers on earth and say, hey, if we do X, Y and Z, can we be tied definitively to this? Or is there enough plausible deniability? And, you know, we've talked to attorneys as a team, and I've talked to them certainly on my own, or they say, no, you should be fine.
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Well, and then you got.
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So Trump says to Zhao, because Zhao was begging for pardon. Trump says, yeah, I'll pardon you if you'll help my family launch this cryptocurrency thing, this meme coin, essentially. And Zhao says, yeah, I'D be delighted to. We do that all the time.
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Simple as that. And you got the Biden crime family doing this for decades and nobody even looked at it. And, yeah, you know, that, that would. And I think the whole Clinton Fund foundation thingy they did was a similar sort of thing. So, honey pot, I suppose you look around and see this is what people do.
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Yeah, yeah. I remember we talked to a guy in the car business once about dishonesty in the car business and how the car business has changed a lot. And he told me that he. He does run into some kind of old school, you know, con people occasionally. And he said, but I finally learned anybody willing to lie for me eventually will lie to me.
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Oh, that's a good saying.
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Yeah, it's a really good one. And I just think Binance, it's fast and loose and winks at the rules and. Yeah, I don't think Trump and company have anything to do with this other story about financing the irgc. In fact, I'll bet they're shocked and horrified by it. But any company that's willing to launch your half a joke meme coin is willing to do all sorts of things. Oh, boy.
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I'm gonna call my broker on my Trump phone and say, how do I get.
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It ought to be here any day.
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How do I get into this Binance world?
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Yeah, yeah, I. You know, it doesn't look good.
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I'm old. I'm in the winter of my life. I'm a spent force. So there's. So there's. It's funny, I used to read. That was a common. That was a common, I think Tolstoy phrase. Anyway, there was some, Some. Some author that I read years ago who would regularly use that term about people who were older and. And I never knew what it meant.
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Which. The winter of your life or a spent force? A spent force. Oh, my. I'm not a spent force. Not. Not even nearly.
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I don't know. As I get older, I. I can start mean though, you think, yeah, I could do that. But I don't know. Seems like a lot of work.
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I do occasionally get the feeling that. All right, time to hand off the baton. Good luck, y'. All. As I often say, I'll be in the woods if you need me.
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But on the, on the. You know, it's too late for me to figure all this out. I clearly have no idea how big time finance works in the world. Like, zero. I'm. I'm just. I'm like you're sitting on the couch watching a baseball game and somebody says how many points have they scored? You know, I'm like that person when it comes to big time global finance. Trillions of dollars a month running through this company, Binance, which I heard of for the first time an hour ago. So there you go. Don't look to me for advice on that topic. Wow, we got a lot more on the way. Stay here.
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I'm not super worried about the Ebola, but if I'm on a flight and they. Hey, that guy up there in row three is from the Congo, lives in the Congo.
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He's up there, and he's sick as hell.
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And he's sick as hell. Listen to this next part. This is what I like.
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Deborah Mr. And her partner were on the flight and frustrated by the lack
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of information, the captain announced that we diverted suddenly.
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All the flight attendants had face masks on.
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So that was also very concerning.
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Yeah, you gonna be, you know, passing
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those out now or what? Find out there's a. A person from the Congo up in the front row not looking so good, and all the stewardesses put on face masks. Yeah, niche.
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As I tell you, folks. Yeah, we're just gonna. We got a little delay here. We've got a sick passenger from the Congo who's blee.
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Nipples.
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So we're gonna just delay our beverage service for just a couple of minutes. Everybody settle in, enjoy the flight and try not to breathe deeply, if you know what I mean, so. Or if you got like a shirt you can pull over your mouth. I would do that, like right now, but there's nothing to worry about. And enjoy the flight.
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We've got a passenger bleeding from his nipples, so we're delaying beverage service is what happened there. If you could try not to exchange any bodily fluids that probably good ideas. You can see. Look out the left there you. The yanked Ste. River. Yeah, that's quite the thing. And then. So Kyle Busch didn't win the Congo 300, like two weeks ago, did he?
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Oh, my God. Oh, that was funny and terribly inappropriate. No, but the great NASCAR driver, one of the top 10 of all time, wins a race over the weekend. Do we even want to play that audio?
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I don't know. It seems a little macabre. He's got young. He's married, got young kids. But the reason this story's capturing one of the biggest NASCAR stars just died all of a sudden. And I think it's getting so much
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41, and he's obviously fit.
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You have to be really fit to be a NASCAR driver. And he won last weekend. As Joe said, he's still, he's still at the peak of his. I think this is getting so much attention from, like, non NASCAR fans of, like, okay, so what are the symptoms of your perfectly healthy 41 year old and a week later you're dead. What are the signs of that? I'd like to know.
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Yeah, what we're referring to is audio of him as he's winning the race, telling his pit crew, hey, is the doc still around? Because I feel terrible. Yeah, essentially, yeah.
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Goes into the hospital and dies.
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Good God.
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I know.
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Yeah. They have not released a cause of death, just a serious illness, which I think is self evident, but I get it. God bless the family. Good Lord. Anyway, moving along, we're gonna divert the flight.
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I gotta admit, I am not paranoid about all this sort of stuff. I think the media blows it completely out of proportion. But if I'm on the flight and I hear somebody's from the Congo and then all of a sudden the air waitresses put masks on, I'm thinking, I'm not digging this.
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If I'm in the row behind the guy, I stand up, I walk all the way to the back of the plane, or the front of the plane, as the case may be. I say, $25,000 to SW with me. I will give you 25,000 United States dollars if you will switch seats.
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We're going to delay beverage.
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Why? Don't worry about it. Sorry for the inconvenience, folks.
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Yeah, we got some damn interesting AI stuff for you, as we always do. God, AI is so bad with days and times. I had a couple of run ins with chatbots yesterday where they just so weird. They get other stuff so they're so right and other stuff so wrong. That's one of the scary parts of the whole dealio.
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And the AI sloppification of the Internet is continuing faster and faster. You probably run into some of it, whether you know it or not. So we'll, we'll deal with that and. Oh, man. Change face of warfare. Armstrong and Getty.
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So I say to one of my chat bots yesterday, I say, so here in the United States, we're celebrating the 250th anniversary of our independence. What other countries have? Blah, blah, blah. I had some question I asked. And its response was, we are not actually celebrating the 250th anniversary. That does not happen until July 4th of 2026. And I thought, okay, so how do you sometimes talk so much like a human and then sometimes so like wrong. I just.
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Yeah. All right. Struggles with time certainly.
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Yeah. It does not understand days, weeks. It makes sense. It's not a living being.
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Right? Yeah. Speaking of AI, interesting headline. Mind blowing Growth is about to propel Anthropic into its first profitable quarter, which is really interesting because these companies are plowing such unimaginable amounts of money into their processing centers and the rest of it that they've had 130% revenue surge. How?
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Making money off of what? Because I use Claude every single day and I don't see ads.
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$4.8 billion in sales in the first quarter. Chatbots, as we've said many times, are the public facing shiny object of AI. The real AI is what they're selling. Yeah.
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As I've heard, Mario. Is that his name? Dario. Dario himself who runs Anthropic, say the chatbot is like a web page on the Internet compared to the Internet. That's how minor a part of AI that is. So once again, like I said, I don't know anything about global finance. I don't really know anything about AI either, other than the Chatbots.
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Yeah, let's see. In the first quarter, Anthropic spent $0.71 on computing power for every dollar it made in the current quarter. Okay, that's getting into the weeds. But anyway, so they had a profitable quarter which got a lot of people's attention. Five charts. You can't see the charts. I will describe them showing how ChatGPT is flooding our. Huge increases in several different things, including more books, especially ebooks, have been cranked out. By the end of last year, more than half of all new books have AI generated text, according to a giant study by the National Bureau of Economic Research. English language books offered for sale at Amazon, they're.
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They're actually for sale at Amazon. And do they let you know that some of this was cranked out by AI?
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Some do, some do not.
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But they are not. It's not mandatory that they do, I suppose.
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Yeah, yeah. It's just. It's not just making it easier for people to create something that might be great, Said one expert. It is in some sense machine produced more self represented lawsuits. People in the US generally have the right to represent themselves in legal proceedings. But many legal experts and judges say this is a bad idea. But since Chat GPT got released, more people are doing it anyway.
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I should retell my story, which I've told many times of when I the one time I represented Myself in court and how poorly it went and how, how embarrassing the whole thing is. Boy, was I an idiot. But AI would have helped a lot. What's the best way to approach this? I could have asked AI.
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Oh, yeah, yeah. Do I have a chance? Self represented litigants last year made up about 17% of federal non prisoner filings, up from the historical average of 11%. So kind of sort of doubles.
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Do you have moments from your life that you look back on, you think, God, I was an idiot.
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Moments, Years.
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That's definitely one of mine. I was very young, 21 or something like that. I still should have been smarter than that. I won't tell the whole story, but basically my defense was what was? This isn't fair.
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Oh, boy.
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I'm sure the judge looked at me like, you're an idiot young person. Okay.
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It wasn't the there were other people speeding too argument, was it?
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No, I, you know, as an older person, I would have gotten into whole letter of the law, spirit of the law, that sort of stuff, which I think I was actually right on. But no, I was. My girlfriend and I went to the lake and we were in the water. It was a foot and a half deep.
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Oh, right.
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We're standing out in the water. Oh, we're floating around on rat. On air mattresses. We're floating around on air mattresses drinking beer. The water's a foot and a half deep. I mean, you can stick your hand in the water and like push yourself around where you want to be.
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Glorified puddle. Yeah.
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And the Barney Fife State park director there at Scott State park in western Kansas, but nothing better to do, gave me a $150 fine, which, adjusted for inflation, what would that be? A thousand dollars now?
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And adjusted for your current income at the time.
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And at that time, I was making a thousand dollars a month before taxes. So yeah, it was a major. And like you're giving me a fine because there was a sign somewhere in the park that said, you must wear
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life jacket.
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Life jacket. You must have a life jacket on. Are you kidding me? Anyway, so I went and fought it and basically said, I don't think this is fair. As opposed to, I understand the spirit of the law, but. I understand the letter of law, but I think the spirit of the law is trying to protect people. And I was in no danger. Neither was she.
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A grown man in 18 inches of water. Your honor, are we serious here?
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So what he hit me was whatever the fine was. $150 plus the court cost for wasting the time of the court was like another 300 bucks. It was like. It was like my entire take home for a month and a half was what it ended up being. I am such a. I need to remember that when my kids do moronic stuff. You were a moron too.
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Moron. Well, yeah. I'll bet you had friends in your ear though, saying, you should fight this. You could totally.
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Exactly. That's exactly what happened at the bar later that day. I was already drunk at the bar later that day. Oh, man, you're. No way you're paying that. You gotta fight this.
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Don't put up with it.
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Yeah, I'm not gonna put up with it. With no better plan than I came up with.
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Oh, boy. And back to the AI filings of cases. There have been a slight increase in the number of cases filed, period. More music. You know this.
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I'll bet, though. If I had wanted. If I'd asked Claude, here's what happened and how do I get out of it? It could have cited some. Various cases or come up with some arguments on various things. It would have been fantastic.
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Oh, yeah, I think so. Yeah. And it might have ultimately said, this is a coin flip, whether this works or not. But here's the strategy I'd go with. And you might have thought, oh, man, that's. If that's a coin flip, never mind.
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Right.
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Yeah, it would have been unquestionably. Yeah, great. Great thing. We. Most of us are aware of this. It's not chat GPT, but similar systems are cranking out music. Hanson crafts these things practically every day for the end of the Armstrong and Getty show. If you've never heard it, some of them are disturb. Disturbingly good and clever and, and just. It's. It's. It's disturbing.
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That's what. Like he's doing it during the show. So it's like 10, 15 minutes worth of effort.
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Yeah.
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Imagine if you spent the whole weekend on one.
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And here's the website suno, which is one I think we've used. But yeah, make a jazz song about watering my plants, complete with lyrics simply by typing in some text. And it cranks it out for you in whatever style you want. Data from the music streaming service Deezer shows how much AI generated music has RIS. More than 40% of tracks uploaded are fully AI generated, quadrupling since January of last year. The company estimated what that works out to 75,000 AI generated songs uploaded every day.
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Man. To a certain extent, the music industry brought this on themselves. The most popular music in America is pop country and those songs are all exactly the same when human beings were making them. I mean, you're really opening yourself up for if I, if I'm a record company, like why am I paying anybody anything to crank out the 50th of this this month when I can have AI do it.
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Well, especially when you're using, you know, sequencers that played, you know, a musical pattern, you're using drum machines, you're using pitch correct and auto tune and all sorts of stuff. I mean, the only reason you half robotic anyway, the only reason you'd use
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humans is because you need a hot chick or a hot dude to send to whatever music festival that week and be the person.
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There are plenty of those. Yeah, people are cranking out more scientific papers. The number of papers submitted to the big site for this sort of thing is steadily increased through the years, but has now jumped. And in January they had to tighten the rules, citing a rise in low quality non scientific submissions that have strained its moderation staff. More AI text online, et cetera. So yeah, the AI slop is coming fast and furious. Oh, and I thought this was amusing to the free press was on this. There's a. Something in the. The former British Commonwealth. The British Empire still holds a Commonwealth short story prize. It has I think, five sections, five or six sections and it's, it's a big deal in literature for, you know, India and Britain and the Caribbean where there used to be colonies and stuff, wherever people speak English, in short. And one the winners was hailed as just brilliant. It's the Serpent in the Grove, submitted by Trinidadian Pon author Jamir Nazir follows a weary farmer in rural Trinidad consumed by longing for a woman who is not his wife. The story, thick with metaphor, Jack moves between prose, poetry and dialogue. Written in Caribbean vernacular, lauded by one judge, is a beautifully told and assured piece of storytelling, bolstered by precise yet richly evocative language and writing that pulses with a voice of restraint and quiet authority.
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First of all, I hate it when my grove has serpents in it. Secondly, I would like to read that myself and see if I agree that this is, this is actually good.
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Not long after, it was branded with a different label, AI slop. This guy who's an expert in detecting AI, he was a former Palantir employee turned startup founder. He identified what he called obvious markers of AI writing. He ran it through a bunch of AI detectors. Several said 100% AI. Some said, yeah, about a 75% it's AI. And then another one said no, that's not AI but even this guy's headshot on the website looks like AI generated airbrushed fakery. Yeah. So the fact that some people are certain it's AI slop, and some people are like, no, it's not. I mean, that's just. That's the story to me.
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I asked AI we've had the same system of government since 1789. Are there any countries in the world that have had a system of government longer than us? The answer, to my mind, is no, which is really pretty interesting and should be talked about more. But the AI told me, yes, actually, England has had the same system much longer. Theirs goes back to 1630 or whatever year where they had the great revolution. I said, wait a second. They have had a lot of major changes since 1630. Kings were still making all the calls, you know, long after that. Good job pushing back. You make some good points. Of course it said that sort of crap. I thought, some good points. You're just wrong to act like that anyway.
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Yeah. Yeah. All I know is I'm gonna go for precise, let, yet richly evocative language in the future. That's. That's what I ought to be doing
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with Trinidadian vernacular, because that's what I always throw.
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Well, at least that pulses with a voice of restraint and quiet authority.
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I'd like to think that's what I do. So they had some flooding in the Atlanta area, and Waymos didn't know how to handle water in the streets. So Waymo has paused all their vehicles in that part of the country, on the highways and everything like that. What does that say about the future of that kind of thing, I wonder. Or maybe we'll work through all these problems.
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How did nobody think of that? I didn't think of it, but I'm not a software engineer. Kind of what I wondered.
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Anyway. Lot on the way. Stay here.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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People who have been involved in recoveries
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have said there are at least four types, four separate types. Now, I have not had direct access to that, but I believe the people who I talk to.
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Four different types of life.
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Four different types of life at least.
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And the people I've talked to, you know, through the process of making the documentary, have said that there have been
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dozens of recoveries of crashed craft in the US alone.
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All right, so there's another headline today around freaking UFOs that the federal government has released the second tranche of UFO info, which includes nothing interesting or real at all. And now you've got these two CIA scientists who say the government knows of four species of alien life. Can you play the very beginning of that? Because I thought that was an interesting part. People who have been involved in recoveries. Yeah, that's it. People who have been involved in recoveries. So that's people who have gone to the crashed alien spaceship site or, or maybe aliens fly on their own. They don't need a spaceship or whatever. But people who have been involved in the recoveries of the alien life. Okay, all right.
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Jack Quantum. Yes.
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If your head is soft and you enjoy that sort of thing, go ahead and, you know, make your Memorial Day weekend.
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That says the fool who's easily duped by the space swamp. I'm bringing the receipts. Quantum physicist Hal. Dr. Hal Puthoff, who previously conducted classified research with the CIA and NSA, has stated that insiders involved in UAP unidentified anomalous phenomenon. We all know that recovery program claims the US possesses biologics from four distinct alien life forms. These reported species include the Grays, small hairless beings with large heads and oversized eyes. The Nordics, tall human like beings. Reptilians, upright beings with scaly skin.
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Interesting. It's funny, they all happen to match up with exactly what people had been guessing they would look like all these years.
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Says the cynic whose eyes are blind. And finally, Insectoids, humanoid humanoid creatures resembling praying mantises.
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All right, Good lord again, if your head is soft, enjoy this.
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That. Wear a helmet.
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Different. Wear a helmet because your head is so soft. This is a good one. We, you got to watch the video. And this is not a visual medium that we perform on. Will be soon though. More on that later. You got to fight. These happen all the time around various places. You know, Little league game or grocery store. That's a good one. Or a Walmart or what's that? Waffle House. Those are good. Public fight.
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Actual brawls.
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Yeah, public brawl. This is a good one. Wild brawl breaks out over seating at Catholic kindergarten graduation ceremony.
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Oh, so this is five year olds
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at a Catholic school moving on to first grade. And chaos ensued at the kindergarten graduation ceremony when one family reportedly began Harding hoarding rows of seats for themselves and fought off other parents. So some family tried to take a whole row of seats. Other parents who really needed to get, you know, I need to be able to get a good video of my kid graduating from kindergarten. And you're taking the seat and you can't take all those seats. And of course it turned into fists flying. I've watched the video and it is really quite extraordinary that these are adults Way to go.
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You made your children and. Jesus Christ idiots.
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Some large marges in this crowd. I don't know if this has anything to do with anything at all, but a couple of really big dudes and really big women. Like.
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Yeah, I noticed that.
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Pushing each over. Over on folding chairs.
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Yeah. And struggling to rise to the feet to continue raining blows down upon each other. Did this always happen?
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Was this happening in the 30s and we just didn't know about it, or. No, you're thinking, no, there's no way adults got into fights over seating for kindergarten graduation. No.
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Dignity and decorum were a much bigger thing. I'd like to doubt like that.
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I think you're right. I don't know that you're right, but I think you're right.
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Yeah. It goes along with, you know. And language changes. I get that. But it goes along with, you know, know, F bombs and fights and McDonald's and teen takeovers of beach towns and stuff like that. That didn't happen. Gotta enforce the law. Buy an Armstrong and get a T shirt. Enforce the law. I've been seeing strong andgetti.com.
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i've been seeing the teen takeover videos. They make the news, like, every single night now. Someplace in the country where a whole bunch of teens end up on a corner and they all end up fighting
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for some reason, man, they're just running wild through the town.
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And what do they usually get up in a fight about? Is it one crowd's turf and the other crowd wants it, or.
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No, I just think you have many young men who are willing to use physical violence to settle tiny disagreements.
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Okay.
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At a drop of a hat.
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Well, I hope you don't run into that this Memorial Day weekend. I just saw up on the TV that a lot of swimming pools are opening this weekend. I guess it depends on where you live, but it's pretty common. That's when the. The pool opens this Memorial Day weekend. So that's fun. I remember when my kids were that age, when there was nothing better than taking the kids to the. The public pool. We had so many good times.
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Oh, my gosh. Yeah. As a kid myself, riding my bike all the way across down to the pool practically daily in the summertime.
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Loved it. Got a couple bucks in your pocket, you go up to the concession stand and get yourself an Otter Pop or something like that.
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No running. You learn to shuffle very quickly.
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Exactly. On the hot cement. Get up on the high dive and chicken out. You know, that's a different story, Michael.
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Yeah. How about we air your dirty laundry huh? You're brave there in the studio, huh? You're not on the high dive, are you? No, you're not coming up. You think you know how drones have changed the face of Modern warfare? Holy cow, have they ever. Want to get into that a little bit next hour?
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And we might be talking to Katie Green, the Baby Machine a little bit later in the show, too. See how things are going one week into motherhood and all that sort of stuff. If you missed a segment, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on Demand.
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Armstrong and Gettysburg.