Joe Getty (2:29)

Oh no.

Jack Armstrong (2:30)

Yeah, Trump posts and deletes video with racist image of Obama's. That's the CNN headline. I haven't seen the video yet. Sometimes things that are called racist by cnn, msnbc. I think how you're stretching to call that racist I haven't seen it. Although Senator Tim Scott, usually fairly MAGA Republican black guy, ran for president, demands President Trump removes a truth social post depicting the Obamas as monkeys, calling it the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House yet. I haven't seen it yet, so I don't want to jump on it. Are you looking at it, Katie?

Joe Getty (3:05)

How can it not be incredibly just. There's some things you can't do. Comparing black people to monkeys and apes is something you don't do.

Jack Armstrong (3:16)

In the last couple of seconds of the video, the video flashes to a scene with the Obama's head superimposed on what appeared to be the body of primates. With their mouths wide open, the Obama's heads bounced along to the Lion Sleeps Tonight from the Lion King. Yeah, it shows the Obamas as monkeys and then the Clintons as Timon and Pumbaa. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Hillary as Pumbaa and Hakeem Jeffries as Timon.

Joe Getty (3:45)

You see that AOC as what appear to be donkeys.

Jack Armstrong (3:50)

The problem with. I've always had with the monkey thing is if you're not a racist and you don't think that way, it doesn't immediately occur to you. I just. I know it's a trope and why you can't do it. And if somebody explained it to me, I say, oh, yeah, you're right, because people say this is racist. And I've said it for years, but I know the focus is on the monkeys. But if you keep watching, it's got Pritzker with his head on an elephant and then Schiff is a giraffe. Okay, now, wait a second. Now, see, now you're making a. Not on purpose, but this is a case against Trump. Cause whoever. Now they're. The White House is saying a staffer put this out, not Trump didn't have any knowledge of it. Who knows? I mean, I don't think Trump is crafting videos on an iPad and. But thinnest neck I've ever seen. Neck jokes forever. You got a giraffe for schiff. You're always making fun of how fat Pritzker is. You making him an elephant and then the Obamas are just randomly monkeys without any thought to it. Okay, that's a little bit of a stretch.

Joe Getty (4:56)

This just. It's the trope. You just can't go there.

Jack Armstrong (5:00)

No, of course you can't.

Joe Getty (5:03)

Well, okay.

Jack Armstrong (5:05)

Although. What is the. What is the. It's okay to. You're emphasizing one guy's giant fat like an Elephant. Then you're emphasizing the Obamas are what?

Joe Getty (5:22)

Yes. See, what's the shift thing? I get the Pritzker thing. I get the Timon and Pumbaa thing is just freaking funny. I don't know what the point is there, but yeah, anyway, it's been deleted.

Jack Armstrong (5:33)

The White House is responding to it in real time, as people like to say. So we'll see where that goes.

Joe Getty (5:38)

As opposed to what? I don't know what's not real time? They've gone through a wormhole and are responding to it yesterday or a thousand years from now. My final note, and this is the question, and this is what makes me crazy about Trump. The inversion of the famous Bill Clinton statement about America. Can what's bad will what's bad about Trump overcome what's good about Trump ultimately? Oh, well.

Jack Armstrong (6:13)

So I think the good will lay out through history, although we got three years to go, so there's a lot of things that could happen and a.

Joe Getty (6:21)

Lot of great stuff that could be done if we can avoid the jackass stuff.

Jack Armstrong (6:25)

Although, you know, I had no intention of turning this into a conversation about Trump. But the last couple of days of like, really going big on the stolen election and all that sort of stuff and nationalizing elections, why, with all the irons you got in the fire of all kinds of different things, why, why even ever talk about this ever again in your life?

Elon Musk (quoted) (6:50)

Right.

Jack Armstrong (6:51)

He's obsessed, let alone emphasize it like it's the most important thing in your life the last couple of days. I just don't get it.

Joe Getty (6:59)

There are a dozen examples. It's just, it's too bad. Seen it in athletes, musicians, all sorts of different people. They just can't contain their worst impulses. All right, it's the Friday tradition. Let's take a fond look back at the week that was. It's cow clips of the week.

Jack Armstrong (7:18)

Before I say thanks to God, I'm gonna say eyes out.

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No one is illegal on stolen land.

Joe Getty (7:31)

This is also for those who came.

Jack Armstrong (7:32)

To this country in search of better opportunity. To be a part of a nation that promised freedom for all the unequal opportunities, opportunity to everyone willing to work for it. And I want to tell y' all right now, Jesus is for everybody. Jesus is not owned by one political party.

Joe Getty (7:47)

This review is over.

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I left my marriage.

Jack Armstrong (7:50)

I had to leave my marriage. I wanted to leave my marriage. I was foolish to spend time with him. I was one of many people who regret ever knowing him. 84 year old Nancy Guthrie was last seen at her home in the foothills of Tucson, Arizona on Saturday night. Investigators are looking into unver find ransom.

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Letters sent to several local TV stations.

Jack Armstrong (8:12)

One law enforcement source, very connected, highly.

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Regarded, says that Annie P. Guthrie's husband.

Jack Armstrong (8:18)

May be the prime suspect in this case. With the proximity to the border that she was potentially taken by a Mexican kidnapped for ransom organization, we need to.

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Know without a doubt that she's alive.

Jack Armstrong (8:33)

Mama, if you're listening, we need you to come home. Will you be the voice? Will you be the voice? Will you be the voice?

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I'm personally offended by what was presented. One thing I would like to see updated is the word homeless to unhoused.

Elon Musk (quoted) (8:52)

Acquiring Twitter, getting Trump elected, even though it makes a lot of people angry, I think those actions are good for civilization.

Jack Armstrong (9:01)

My goal, with the support of President Trump, is to achieve a complete drawdown.

Joe Getty (9:06)

The one thing you can't do as.

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President, talk like Reagan and act like Obama.

Jack Armstrong (9:12)

For best in show at the 150th Westminster Kennel Club dog show is the Doberman Pinchy.

Joe Getty (9:20)

There is a shadow here on my ground.

Jack Armstrong (9:24)

Six more weeks of winter abound. It's clips of the week. His full name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, known as Bad Bunny to the world. He was born in 1994, so he's not a kid, he's 31 years old. He is the most streamed musician on planet Earth right now. He won the Grammy for best album, which is the most prestigious music award you can win on planet Earth. So I don't know if they've ever had a halftime show that has been at the height of its powers like this before in terms of popularity and awards, all that sort of stuff. He's six feet tall, he is a hip hop artist, he is a singer, he's a songwriter, he's a record producer, he's a professional wrestler. I didn't realize that somehow I had missed that part of his resume. One time. WWE 247 Champion, wrestled at the 2022 Royal Rumble in the 2023 Backlash pay per view. So I didn't know that that was a good one. And he's starred in a bunch of movies, including the one I watched last Saturday night, and I didn't know it was him. Bullet Train with Brad Pitt. Have you ever seen that movie? Whoa, that is some movie. Bullet Train. It came out during the Pandemic, so it's one of those movies that probably would have been Giant if it hadn't landed during the Pandemic in theaters and stuff like that. Pretty, pretty cool movie. But he's Great in that. So I didn't know he was an actor. He's like, really, really compelling character. It's. It's a dark comedy. Bullet Train. Brad Pitt plays a very strange role, but. So I didn't know Bad Bunny was an actor and a wrestler.

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Joe Getty (11:01)

It's a renaissance man.

Jack Armstrong (11:04)

And will he go political during his halftime show? For some reason, I'm leaning no.

Joe Getty (11:09)

No, I don't think he will. I think he's a pro.

Jack Armstrong (11:11)

I think he's a pro, too. I think he's an. He's a. Got his. He's got a lot of different things going and a giant career and, and. And understands what I've been saying since Monday. How do these people not understand you're cutting off half your potential audience for a minor, minor gain? Well, no gain, really. All you're doing is mouthing something. The people who already like you that they cheer and briefly, there's just no upside.

Joe Getty (11:37)

Yeah, I think it's. Increasingly you are obligated to genuflect to the leftist ideology as a creative artist.

Jack Armstrong (11:46)

Well, you got to put.

Joe Getty (11:47)

I'm not sure you can get away with not doing it.

Jack Armstrong (11:50)

You think there would have been much that he would have suffered Any, any, any. Anything cost him a dollar if he had come out there and not mentioned ice at all.

Joe Getty (12:01)

I think people would have talked about it on the left.

Jack Armstrong (12:03)

I think people would have talked about it. I just don't think it would. I just don't think it would have hurt him any. But then if you do, if you're gonna get into it, you gotta make. You gotta have somebody write it for make sure it's good. Well, like happened to Shaboozi, you know, he came out and tried to say a little something about immigrants, but because he's black, he didn't mention slavery, so he got killed. And then he had detailed apology to the black community because he was talking.

Joe Getty (12:28)

About white girls who graduated from the Ivy League jumped on him for not being sensitive enough to black issues. Right.

Jack Armstrong (12:35)

And he's walking backstage thinking, what? I thought we were all about Minnesota and legal. What it was slavery, too.

Joe Getty (12:45)

Hey, I got an idea. How about you all F yourselves? That's what I would have said. You know what I want to do next segment? Michael, it's Friday. God, I can't handle the serious stuff anymore. I want to hear that trippy Jefferson airplane 1960s Levi's radio ad.

Jack Armstrong (13:04)

Yeah, it is a trip for Levi's jeans. Yeah, Levi's jeans.

Joe Getty (13:09)

Back in the day with the super.

Jack Armstrong (13:10)

Bowl being at Levi's Stadium. I'm guessing this is why this is bubbled up, correct? Yeah.

Joe Getty (13:14)

I'm gonna drop a tab of acid. It probably won't kick in until, you know, maybe a couple segments from now.

Jack Armstrong (13:20)

How long does it take usually? I don't know anything about this stuff. It's not instantaneous. No, see, that's a great thing about meth. Immediately, immediately I'm under an overpass, you know, at a bus station service and some guy for five bucks, immediately wired right now.

Elon Musk (quoted) (13:36)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (13:37)

Okay. So we'll get to that and other stuff. Coming up. Armstrong and Gettysburg.

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Jack Armstrong (15:53)

This is a headline on Friday, January, February 6th. The Dow soars by almost 1,000 points as Wall street rebounds from a meltdown over new AI products. Yesterday they were. A couple times this week Wall street went nuts over some AI stuff. You were tying that all together, the financial part of it, the banks and.

Joe Getty (16:18)

Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to find. There was one more article I wanted to squeeze in about Google. Oh, there it is. Man, this stuff is fast moving. As you were just referring to. Yeah, there's a really good piece in the Journal about how the software route of businesses, like I'm, you know, I don't use this stuff, so they're just names to me. But workforce and yeah, this is Cloudera. Click. Right.

Jack Armstrong (16:52)

That's what I was talking about a couple of weeks ago when my son and I were in San Francisco. If you drive around San Francisco, every billboard is something about AI and you've never heard of the company. I mean, there were probably 30 different companies that had billboards in San Francisco. I'd never even heard the name, let alone knew what they were. That's how like unique to a certain area and each other all this stuff is.

Joe Getty (17:15)

Yeah, this is actually something different. This is the companies that are getting decimated by AI. They're the software platforms that all the companies are using in America these days and people don't need to rely on them anymore because they can design an AI bot or agent or whatever. And so that was the bath that the stock market took 10 minutes ago. Apparently it's changed again. But a lot of those giant software companies have borrowed a hell of a lot of money. That's how they finance their growth and everything. And they pay off one loan generally financed by another one. And that it could, if they go bust, if AI does wipe them out, there are going to be big banks that get wiped out or damaged. Another bailout coming down the line. Nobody's really sure.

Jack Armstrong (18:05)

Too big to fail for software companies. Well, banks again, Banks. Yeah. Amazon is going to invest $200 billion in AI spending they just announced yesterday. So they're spending their own money or are they borrowing that from a bank? I don't know.

Joe Getty (18:25)

Here's a couple of headlines for you. The week Anthropic tanked the market and pulled ahead of its rivals. And then also in the Wall Street Journal, like the previous day, Google leans hard into its AI winner status. Google is even bigger than I'd realize So is.

Jack Armstrong (18:42)

Is Gemini number one? Because that was surprising to me. Just because people who still Google, they're reading the. Because that's Gemini that does the AI thing at the top of the Google search, right?

Joe Getty (18:54)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (18:55)

So that's probably why it's number one.

Joe Getty (18:58)

Yeah. The strong reception of Gemini, along with Google's victory over the federal government's efforts to break up the company of cheered investors. It's just, it's the easiest one for people to adopt.

Jack Armstrong (19:09)

Gotcha.

Joe Getty (19:10)

Because everybody's, you know, either on Google or their browser automatically has Google as the search engine or whatever.

Jack Armstrong (19:17)

Right.

Joe Getty (19:18)

But Google's ad sales are skyrocketing. Their AI revenue is growing. Their annual revenue is now topped $400 billion, about twice as large as metas.

Jack Armstrong (19:34)

Someone I know asked me questions about getting into AI a couple days ago. They said they were ready to cross over to the dark side. And I said, I know. I was that same way. I thought, is it going to be a huge thing to like, start? No. Pick one of them. Claude, Chat, GPT, whatever. You download the app, it's free and it's just like Googling. Yeah. And you've entered the world of AI and it's amazing. You should do all do it today to at least know what's going on, because it's a big deal.

Joe Getty (20:00)

Oh yeah, I'm a huge fan. Google then announced that it's going to spend 100 as much as 185 billion billion on AI stuff this year.

Jack Armstrong (20:11)

Well, how about Amazon's $200 billion announcement yesterday? $200 billion for Amazon.

Joe Getty (20:17)

That's Amazon. They've already got a giant, successful business, probably isn't going away, but they're going.

Jack Armstrong (20:22)

To probably figure out a way to eliminate tens and tens and tens of thousands of maybe hundreds of thousands of employees. That adds up to a lot of salaries.

Joe Getty (20:35)

Then the robots, then the robot armies, then the robots on strike, marching through the streets, pulling people's heads off. I can, I can only assume that's what's going to happen.

Jack Armstrong (20:46)

Maybe that's what Elon will tell us. Elon did a heck of an interesting interview about a bunch of different topics. And then a warning from one of my favorite AI geniuses, Max Tegmark, about what it is all about. He brings it all home, brings it all together. So stay tuned. If you miss it, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand.

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Elon Musk (quoted) (23:38)

Scale on the ground than it is to scale in space. Any given solar panels can do about five times more power in space than on the ground. So it's actually much cheaper to do in space. My prediction is that it will be by far the cheapest place to put AI will be space in 36 months or less. Maybe 36 months. Less than 36 months. You can mark my words, in 36 months. But probably closer to 30 months. The most economically compelling place to put AI will be space. And then it will get ridiculously better to be in space.

Jack Armstrong (24:13)

It is so interesting. This is the first time in the history of human civilization that one man has had the ability to make these major, major leaps forward in anything. Wasn't like a guy who thought, you know what, I'm going to industrialize England, I'm going to bring in all these factories and completely change the way people have lived for thousands of years. They're going to move from the farms to factories, completely upending everything. One guy just said, no, that's not.

Joe Getty (24:48)

The way it happened at all.

Jack Armstrong (24:50)

Right. But. But it is.

Joe Getty (24:52)

There are a handful of guys who have nearly Elon esque abilities to do that, certainly in the realm of tech.

Jack Armstrong (24:59)

But this, this whole. We're gonna have some of the biggest power plants that ever been built ever in space because Elon decided it was a good idea and can afford to do it and has the technical ability to make it happen. I mean, just a complete change in the way we power the Earth.

Joe Getty (25:21)

And I suspect, I mean, he's had a couple of complete swing and misses where he gave it a hell of a good try, realized, nope, it's not going to pan out and just abandon it.

Jack Armstrong (25:32)

Which is smart. Right.

Joe Getty (25:34)

I don't feel like this is one of those. So when I hear him say that. And it'll be in 36 months or less, I think, yeah, probably more like double that. But if I had to bet, I'd bet he's on to something.

Jack Armstrong (25:50)

That is wild.

Joe Getty (25:52)

So he's abandoning the most valuable car company on the planet as a car company, essentially to turn it into a robot factory.

Jack Armstrong (26:00)

Yeah. At various times, Tesla was worth more than every single other car company added to garbage together. And he's decided that's not the way to go. Let's make Tesla a robot company.

Joe Getty (26:11)

Yeah, I'm sorry, I say robot all the time. I was watching some sort of 60s sci fi and one of the scientists kept saying robot. It really amused me that at that point we hadn't really settled on a pronunciation.

Jack Armstrong (26:30)

So Elon was On this video cast called the Cheeky Pint Pods, where they sit there and they drink Guinness in a booth at a pub and have conversations. But I want to get this one where he really gets into Trump and why he bought Twitter and all this different sort of stuff.

Elon Musk (quoted) (26:45)

I think overall those actions, acquiring Twitter, getting Trump elected, even though it makes a lot of people angry, I think those actions are good for civilization. Yeah. How does it feed into the future you're excited about? Well, America needs to contain. America needs to be strong enough to last long enough to extend life to other planets and to get, I guess, AI and robotics to the point where we can ensure that the future is good. Like on the other hand, if we were to descend into say, communism or some situation where the state was extremely oppressive, that that would mean that we, we might not be able to become multi planetary and we might, the state might, you know, stamp out our progress in AI robotics.

Jack Armstrong (27:50)

He. I remember listening to a podcast while back where people said he's the only guy currently alive on Earth that people might be talking about 500 years from now on a regular basis like Michelangelo or whoever, and it's quite possibly true. But Elon has one goal. He believes that the only way life can succeed in the universe is to be multi planetary because at some point the planet you're on dies out or you kill it off with your own advancements. And, and he wants the human species to survive in the universe. And so that's, that's his whole goal. That's why he wants to get to Mars. That's why he wants to get all this power in space, so we can get to Mars and we can be on different planets. It's real. It's a. I mean, I don't know what your ambitions are when you get up every day. I'm just trying to, you know, make it to work on time and then get home without crashing and then get the dishes done. But he's trying to figure out a way that humankind can continue to exist for millions of years in the future in the universe.

Joe Getty (28:53)

Yeah, I'm not that worried about that.

Jack Armstrong (28:56)

Isn't that something that he's decided to take that on with all the money he's got? It's cool. I like it. I like it better than I'm going to have the biggest boat on Earth as a goal for your day, but.

Joe Getty (29:08)

I'd take top three. Is that a function of his autism?

Jack Armstrong (29:14)

Oh, that's interesting. Somebody sent me an article the other day about this CRISPR technology and everything like that, that could do away with Asperger's and autism, which for lots and lots and lots and lots of parents, they would, you know, you'd think that'd be fantastic. But this article also said, of course, it might eliminate any Elon Musk's or Einstein's, who they believe was probably on the, the spectrum somewhere. Or maybe, you know, going way back, maybe with Michelangelo or Plato or whoever.

Joe Getty (29:39)

The hell would this be done preemptively or when somebody's already diagnosed and stuff.

Jack Armstrong (29:43)

Be the, like. I guess it would be the CRISPR technology. You do it in the, in, in the womb or with the eggs or whatever.

Joe Getty (29:50)

Interesting.

Jack Armstrong (29:51)

But yeah, that is how many of the great minds in the history of the world have been on the spectrum somewhere like Elon. Anyhow, that's a, that's its own very interesting can of worms.

Joe Getty (30:01)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (30:02)

Elon went on to say on this podcast, he was being, he was talking about the politics and everything like that. Well, first of all, I really like what he said there, and it's absolutely true. And I wish you're, you're, you're the woke crowd, really realize this.

Joe Getty (30:14)

If the United States, the high school and middle school kids marching around in the streets as we speak, and I'm getting texts from friends who are marching against ICE and waving pro Palestinian placards and essentially, down with the U.S. these are our own children.

Jack Armstrong (30:32)

Anyway, if the United States fades from the scene and something like an autocracy like Elon was talking about takes over in the world. Yeah, you're not going to get the sorts of scientific breakthroughs because your communist party autocracies, they just want to get rich and live good lives. They're not trying to accomplish good things or anything really.

Joe Getty (30:55)

Well, if the United States loses its hegemony, which is a fancy political science word for being in charge, we're in charge. There is a 100% chance it will be succeeded by a brutal autocracy that.

Jack Armstrong (31:08)

Could last thousands of years before there's ever any sort of personal freedom ever again on the planet. Or maybe never. And that's a hundred percent true. That's not hyperbole on any level. That could absolutely happen where there's, there's not another human being who's free to live a life that they want to live ever again if we go away. But, you know, get out there and try to tear down America, you idiots. But Elon said this about being involved in politics for a while. Politics generally is very tribal and people lose their objectivity, usually with politics like they generally have trouble seeing the good on the other side of the bad in their own side. This is one of the things that surprised me the most, that you often simply cannot reason with people if they're in one tribe or the other. They simply believe that everything their tribe is good and everything the other political tribe does is bad. We have been saying this for a long time. He learned that lesson. It is unfortunately very true and maybe more true now than it has been in US History. I don't know.

Joe Getty (32:11)

I could talk all day about that.

Jack Armstrong (32:12)

No kidding. Well, I just saw Charles Cook of the National Review posting a tweet about the Trump video we were referencing earlier in the hour. Trump put out a. Well, his. His Truth Social put out a cartoon. They're blaming it on a staffer. I don't know if staffers are posting on Trump's feed or not. I don't know if I'd buy that. But anyway, there was a cartoon that got put out that includes the Obamas as monkeys, which has since been deleted and ain't good. But anyway, Charlie Cook for National Review is saying, if you can't, like, call this bad because you're on his side, then what is our relationship to politicians? Are we in charge of them or are they in charge of us?

Joe Getty (32:56)

Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and to me, and I'll keep this short, it's, it's, it's maladaptive. It's a terrible strategy. If I'm in charge of a football team, I'm sure as hell not saying our offense is great. We're always great. We never make any mistakes. And I hate the other defense. So we're not even going to work on our plays or try to be better or say, hey, our running attacks no good. We need to improve our offensive line or something. I don't understand hating self criticism. I think the reply to that might be, you don't do that. While you're currently in a battle for the life of your country, your army, or whatever, you're not having long talks about what's wrong with General Grant at Appomattox, you know, in Gettysburg.

Jack Armstrong (33:56)

For some reason. That reminds me, but if you're always.

Joe Getty (33:58)

Always, always on a war footing, then you get led way down bad paths.

Jack Armstrong (34:03)

The analogy used to football team ignoring how good the opponents are or whatever.

Joe Getty (34:09)

Reminded the mistakes you're making. More specifically.

Jack Armstrong (34:12)

Yeah, reminded me of couple bosses we had actually, like back when Howard Stern was the biggest thing in the world by far in radio and we had a boss who would. I was listening to Stern day. He's just not funny anymore. Like, yeah, okay, all right. Keep saying that he's the most dominant thing on planet Earth on the radio. Keep pretending he's not. I don't see how that benefits any of us.

Joe Getty (34:39)

That's wild.

Jack Armstrong (34:41)

Anyway, so moving on with the AI stuff, Max Tegmark I have mentioned on this show many times because I've read several of his books. Fascinating guy about AI, written some of the best and very accessible books about the whole AI thing, going back several years before Chatbots were even a thing. He's the one. It was in his book that he quoted the Dinner party in Napa that included all your heavyweights, including Elon and Larry Page, who ran Google. And all these different people getting into an argument about AI. AI and Elon being worried about human beings. And the guy from Google saying, you're a speciesist. You. You value humans over computers. Thought that was awful. Yeah, which blows my mind. So there are people out there, maybe with some of the most powerful, richest companies on Earth, who think replacing humans, being knocked down a rung and being replaced on the planet by some AI robots would be a good thing. Or why do we get to be the top beast on Earth? That's not fair. We need equity or something. How freaking crazy is that? To me, it's insane. You know, Anywho, Professor Max Tegmart writing all this stuff, this is a conversation that's going on in Silicon Valley.

AI Expert/Commentator (36:00)

It's ultimately about power, in particular, I think, building tools and making a lot of money off of that. Go for it. It's great for America, it's great for humanity. But it's quite clear that the people who are talking about super intelligence, what they are really interested in is power.

Elon Musk (quoted) (36:16)

And often.

AI Expert/Commentator (36:16)

And some of them are even giddy with these transhumanist vibes. That's why I mentioned that essay earlier. And when I talk, when I'm in San Francisco, I've known so many of these people for so many years, including the CEOs. Some of them, when you talk to them privately even, and many other people in this government are actually quite into transhumanism. And sometimes they'll say very disparaging things about humans, that humans suck and deserve to be replaced. I was at the world's biggest AI conference in December, and several people told me I'm not going to shame them publicly, but that they actually would love to overthrow the US government with their AI because somehow it's going to be better. You know, so talk about UN American AI. This was brought up. How much more un American can you get?

Jack Armstrong (37:03)

So him referencing that transhumanist stuff that I was talking about from the party he attended. God, early 2000s. This is a long time ago. But people that think, oh yeah, we need to get something that's better than humankind. So those people are insanely dangerous to the planet. To my mind, like they're like Adolf Hitler, Final Solution dangerous. Yeah. And then this is a story that's bouncing all over the Internet that a lot of your people in Silicon Valley, they think they can and hope to and plan to overthrow the US government with AI Just be the most power, the power center of the planet and put in place something that will be.

Joe Getty (37:45)

Better for everyone, bring about a utopia. Why would you get in their way?

Jack Armstrong (37:50)

And that's. This is a serious thing. This is not crap. There are lots of powerful rich people that. That's their goal.

Joe Getty (37:57)

And they've got some pretty awesome tools too.

Jack Armstrong (37:59)

Yeah, they do. Isn't that something? Okay, we'll finish strong. Next Armstrong and Getty.

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Everyone but Dave.

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Jack Armstrong (39:32)

He would have loved this restaurant.

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Joe Getty (40:41)

Was the Summer of Love, 1968. San Francisco Flower power hippies, Tepes Trepe. It's funny, I was just rewatching the Beatles Anthology thingy that the Beatles put together years and years ago. Really interesting. But one of the things George Harrison mentioned, one of the late episodes was, yeah, I went to San Francisco to check out the whole flower power thing and it was just a bunch of people doing drugs and living like bums. It wasn't magical. It was a bunch of kids who wanted to do drugs, doing kids, producing nothing.

Jack Armstrong (41:17)

That's funny. Yeah. And I mean, it's not like he was, you know, Richard Nixon. So I mean.

Joe Getty (41:25)

No, no indeed. But this is, believe it or not, a Levi's jeans ad from then featuring one of the great American bands, certainly of the period, the Jefferson Airplane. Now Jefferson Airplane.

Jack Armstrong (41:44)

With your white Levi white Levi come in black flashing bravo blue I love you Right now with your white le Right now with some cactus big blue and white crashing load in the sand Right now with some white Levi burnt olive whiskey clay at the end of the day. So the super bowl at Levi's Stadium. I'm surprised that.

Joe Getty (42:25)

Yes, thanks. I think I'm gonna try them on for first. And Grace Slick was amazing back in the day.

Jack Armstrong (42:32)

Yeah, I'm surprised that exists given the attitude of the hippies to sell out like that to a jeans commercial is surprising.

Joe Getty (42:40)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (42:42)

Super bowl is Sunday, did you know? You can bet on what commercial will air first. A beer, a car or a tech company. Love it.

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With Armstrong and Getty.

Jack Armstrong (42:58)

Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

Joe Getty (43:00)

Let's get a final thought to wrap up the day in the week with everybody on the crew. There he is. Michelangelo, lead us off. Michael. Michael, what's your final thought? All right, my cheese dip recipe is.

Jack Armstrong (43:07)

At the top of our webpage, but.

Joe Getty (43:09)

Somebody texted me and yeah, you got.

Jack Armstrong (43:11)

To use shredded cheese, not powdered cheese. They wanted to use powdered cheese. Ew, yuck.

Joe Getty (43:19)

Good Lord. Drop me an email. I'll send you $5. Get some grated cheese. Katie Greener, esteemed muse woman, has a final thought.

Jack Armstrong (43:27)

Katie, today's a special day. It is my third year anniversary with you guys. Oh, is it really?

Joe Getty (43:33)

Oh, my gosh. A, time flies. B is great to have you. Oh my gosh. So happy you're with us. Jackie, final thought for us.

Jack Armstrong (43:41)

Another prop bet. This is actually available. Will it snow during the game? I live 70 miles from the stadium. I can attest to the fact it is not going to snow on Sunday.

Joe Getty (43:53)

No, no, indeed. My final thought is also, weirdly, an anniversary. I just received received photographic evidence. For the first time in nine months, there is not a giant dumpster in my front yard.

Jack Armstrong (44:06)

Wonderful.

Joe Getty (44:07)

The remodel from Hades is wrapping up finally, painfully and slowly. But the dumpster is gone. The part, the Porta John remains. However.

Jack Armstrong (44:17)

What do you think we'll be talking about on Monday? Some political thing or how great the game was?

Joe Getty (44:22)

Does this approach prop bet?

Jack Armstrong (44:24)

Yeah, I hope it's how great the.

Joe Getty (44:27)

Game was or something super great happening in the Olympics.

Jack Armstrong (44:31)

Oh, could be.

Joe Getty (44:32)

Maybe, I don't know.

Jack Armstrong (44:33)

Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

Joe Getty (44:36)

That's what makes it so much fun to spin around on this big blue marble, Jack. You never know what's next. So many people. Thanks. A little time go to armstrong. Getty.com drop us a note. Something we ought to be talking about. You see over the weekend mailbag at Armstrong and getty.com Bad Bunny brings on.

Jack Armstrong (44:50)

Stage the little kid with the blue hat. That's what's gonna happen.

Joe Getty (44:54)

Such a cute little boy.

Jack Armstrong (44:55)

Get out of you audio mofo. How much fun did you have out there today? A lot of fun. I got time to jam this in. As my mother would say, who died and left them boss. Congratulations.

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Jack Armstrong (45:10)

Yes, we drank beer. Your rent something again.

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Jack Armstrong (45:18)

Have a great Friday. You okay on that high note? Thank you all very much. The Armstrong and Getty show.

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Jack Armstrong (46:29)

This is Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman from Dudes on Dudes with Gronk and Jules. Rob, I've never asked, are you a dips guy? Like the workout? You can't tell. No, I mean for your chips. Oh, I knew that. Yeah, of course. You got to try this new Daisy's French onion dip. Goes great on Sundays. I like the sound of that. Everyone knows you need a good dip for game day. Personally, I like to dip everything I can. Veggies, crackers, chips. Heck, I might even dip a buffalo wing in there. That reminds me, they also have Daisy's ranch dip. Now you're speaking my language. Yup. Seems like a no brainer on game day. So get out there and give the French onion dip a try. You won't regret it.

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Gentlemen, I propose a toast to our good friend Dave. You inspired this epic guy's weekend. I'm sorry you're missing it. Everyone knows that when you fly, you need to bring a real ID or a passport.

Joe Getty (47:32)

Everyone but Dave.

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So here's to finally figuring out how to get on an airplane. Dave, we'll see you tomorrow. And I'm glad you could rebook your flight.

Jack Armstrong (47:39)

He would have loved this restaurant.

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