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Jack Armstrong
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. So this is really, it is self mutilation. America is hurting itself. We think that it is utterly crazy. And we're also really, really angry at you. No, no, no.
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Joe Getty
Horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Jack Armstrong
To quote Charles Barkley, a lot of the things a lot of people at the super bowl have, beer and guac, all of it comes from Mex, much of it comes from Mexico. And the prices of these things are likely to go up.
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Joe Getty
Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the United States and if we don't wake up, we.
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Jack Armstrong
May not have a United States.
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Joe Getty
And then New York Times. Empowered by President Trump, Elon Musk is waging a largely unchecked war against government, one that already has far reaching consequences. As mentioned earlier, I was watching some MSNBC last night and they were really horrified at the idea of any government agencies that might be shut down or reduced in size or God forbid, federal employees losing their jobs. Yet another it's not a Rorschach test. It's a, just a dividing line, I guess, I guess it's the old there are two kinds of people. You hear the government's gonna shrink you, you're either thrilled or you're horrified. I guess I can't imagine being horrified. It's just so clearly to me, hey, oh good, they're going to lay off federal employees. I just assume that's a good thing. We'll figure out a way without them if they're needed at all, as opposed to it's just awful. And so a friend of the show, sponsor of the show, sent me a link to a Reddit thread. He said, you ought to take a look at this. Lots and lots of Fed workers. And reading through it as I have been during the commercial breaks, they clearly are people. There's one guy said, I'm third generation federal worker. Oh, but they clearly feel like they're a, like they work at General Motors. They're a needed employee and they should never have to face the realities of the world ever again in any way. No matter how things change technologically or we decide your agency isn't doing any good or whatever the reason there should be nothing but good salaries, lifetime and plain employment, pension at the end of the road. It's nuts. It's not like that for the rest of us. Do you know that? It's not like that for the rest of us. Do you know that for the rest of us, we all know people that out of nowhere, out of the clear blue sky, as they say, one day the boss just fires everybody and you can't get a job in your industry and you have to learn a new skill and start all over again. That happens all the freaking time or.
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Jack Armstrong
You move to the next state or whatever. Yeah, I still remember, and this is a contrast, obviously, with the third generation federal employee. I remember a conversation that was both funny and made an impression on me with my dad many, many years ago as I was enduring the insanity of the career I chose. And I said, you know, dad, sometimes there are days I wish I'd picked a more steady career, a little more job security. And he said, which one is that exactly? Essentially, other than being a federal worker, they all have ups and downs, but there is a whole cohort of people who never has to deal with that, can't imagine dealing with that, and considers dealing with even a taste of it to be utterly immoral. Just unacceptable, man.
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Joe Getty
I was listening to a podcast the other day. Charlie Cook of the National Review is going through the history of government employees. And I need to go back to that podcast and see if he referenced a book or an article or something, because I thought it was really interesting because we didn't really have hardly any federal employees at all until the 20th century, and a lot of it grew out of prohibition and the need for a whole bunch of people to facilitate, facilitate that, you know, big change in life, in the law. But the original idea with federal employees was it's not going to pay near as well as you would make out there in the real world, but you probably won't get fired. I mean, there's a lot of job security. And then over the years it's grown into pays well and you have tons of benefits and you get to retire early and you can't get fired, and that's just nuts. And if you're like, if you're third generation or your dad did it or whatever, or you've been doing it since you got out of college, you just feel like this is the way the world is. I don't know any different, you know, I mean, why can't I count on having this job for the rest of my life and then retire with a good retirement?
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Jack Armstrong
Right, right.
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Joe Getty
It's, it's, it's ridiculous that we've crafted this expectation for so many people.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it's, it's a disease of democracies, a disease of developed economies. Europe's worse.
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Joe Getty
Right. And I Don't know how you'd ever unwind it. Well, Trump and Elon are trying.
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Jack Armstrong
Even if they do an okay job, that's better than no job at all.
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Joe Getty
We got this text, and I only know some about it. Maybe we'll endeavor to learn more about it. My lib friends are up in arms about Elon and his team having access to the treasury payment system. This is a big focus on CNN and msnbc. All day yesterday, I haven't seen or heard much about this anywhere else aside from their hysterical rantings. Can you please discuss this and help me understand what's going on? Elon got records that the left is claiming anyway that he has no right to have. And it's an example of the oligarch getting into government. An unelected bureaucrat, an unelected billionaire, the richest man in the world getting private information, et cetera, et cetera. First of all, just the idea of an unelected bureaucrat having an influence on the federal government and spending and stuff like that. Are you kidding? I mean, is that a joke?
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Jack Armstrong
Have you been paying attention? You know, as long as we're talking about this, 42, Michael Jamie Raskin, always good for outrage. He wakes up in the morning outraged, and then pokes himself with sharp sticks. Just make sure he's really on edge.
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Joe Getty
And just like the president who is elected to something, cannot impound the money of the people. We don't have a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk. And that's going to become real clear.
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Jack Armstrong
That's Democrats, as they have for hundreds of years, standing up against unelected bureaucrats and agencies who run your life for you.
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Joe Getty
What that's going to work, though? It's good populism. It's for the crowd that automatically sees a billionaire as a bad guy. I see the government as a bad guy.
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Jack Armstrong
All right, let me try one more. The gal from Somalia, Ilhan Omar. 43. We talked about Trump wanting to be a dictator on day one, and here we we are. This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like, when you gut the Constitution and you install yourself as the sole power. That is how dictators are made.
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Joe Getty
I don't know.
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Jack Armstrong
The new dictator is trying to reduce the power of the government. I don't think he understands what dictating is.
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Joe Getty
I just don't have time for that anymore.
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Jack Armstrong
I. My God. And then he sees control of the government and said, we're going to be less powerful and less intrusive in your life. The monster.
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Joe Getty
What percentage of federal workers are needed for the federal government to continue to do what it does. I know there's no way to actually get down to the bottom of that. Remember when Elon took over Twitter? He walked around, what'd he say? Like, he thought, like, three out of four people weren't needed. That's about how many he got rid of. I don't know what it is in the federal government. I would love to know.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, go department by department. It would vary wildly. Like some of the stuff Trump is doing with the FBI. I think it's too far. It's too fast. It's. I mean, if. If some dude got assigned by his boss, hey, you need to look into the January 6th thing. I want you to track down these five leads. You can't fire him for that. That's just wrong. Okay. Having said that, you move over to the Department of Education, which really doesn't need to exist at all. Or if it does, it ought to have a very, very narrow focus. Maybe do some nationwide testing to track certain statistics. But honestly, there are other departments that could do. Depends. It varies vastly.
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Joe Getty
You know, there are federal agencies out there that if they disappeared from the planet today, nobody would notice.
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Jack Armstrong
Nobody but their. Their employees. Right? Yeah.
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Joe Getty
How do you get rid of those?
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Jack Armstrong
What's even the most cursory job of.
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Joe Getty
Ha.
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Jack Armstrong
Hey, we're not going to have the, you know, anybody tracking these numbers. Can you guys do that at Commerce? Commerce and say, yeah, that's fine. All right. That would. That would be, like, all of the change that needed to take place.
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Joe Getty
Right?
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Jack Armstrong
What's the. What's the website? Okay, got it. Thanks. Yep, we'll do it.
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Joe Getty
I know somebody. I wish I could tell this story. I know somebody, and I almost admire them. They. They're on the older end, and they're teaching their adult, like, in their 50s children to do the same thing. They're really good at knowing what all the government levers and programs are out there, and there's tons of them. And, I mean, if you make that your focus, there's. There are a lot of ways to avoid taxes or. Or make money or whatever. If. If that's what you're into. I've. I don't want that stuff to exist, so I've never really wanted to participate in it, but if you can, maybe you're. Maybe you're just smarter to do that. God, I wish I could. I wish I could give the example, because it's such a great example of taking advantage of a program that probably shouldn't exist or was. Well, Intentioned, but can be manipulated so easily.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, and you have folks who emigrated from various totalitarian countries where the only way to get anything is to manipulate the system. And they're incredibly skilled at it. They're good at it. You know, and this is worth mentioning, Al Nonimous, who's a friend, just texted. Public pensions are destroying city, county and state budgets. His little town struggling to put in place the damn services we already pay for due to past and current pension liabilities hammering the budget. It's, it's happening all across blue states, Illinois, California. Terrible situation with it. The prostitute politicians. And I apologize to sex workers for comparing you to politicians. They promised the public employee unions, which again should not exist in the form they do, enormous benefits because they knew budgetarily they couldn't up their pay. At the present moment, the numbers just didn't work. And so when the union lawyers were negotiating with the former union lawyers across the table from them for what they would get, the quote unquote government, which is union lawyers in California said, we can't give you much higher pay, but we can give you much, much better benefits down the road because future politicians and future prostitutes will have to pay for it. And that'll be their problem. Polites. We'll have to pay for it. It won't be our problem. So that's what they did. And now that that bill is coming due and it's, it's wrecking the finances of all sorts of, you know, municipal and county governments in blue states. It was utterly predictable. I was shouting about it at the time, but nobody cared.
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Joe Getty
Couple of things I want to get to when we come back. This study out about microplastics and how much we got in our brain and where it likely comes from. Kind of interesting. Also, I was listening to a podcast the other day. What's the latest thinking on when AI is going to really become a part of our lives? It's moved back some, which I was kind of happy to hear. Among other things on the way. Stay with me.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
Medical breakthrough at Northwell Health's Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, where lead bioengineer Chad Boughton and his team developed a technology, they call it double neural bypass. Chips are implanted in a patient's brain and the signals for sensation and movement sent back and interpreted through artificial intelligence and then redirected to the body and spine, creating a loop that could prove life changing. Taking someone who had lost the ability to move their limbs to sense or touch things and actually feel the sensation of that to restore those abilities to the patient. Yes, that's exactly right. We have finally discovered that the signals in the brain are still there and strong even after a traumatic injury. Man, it's amazing. I wonder if that's going to happen in my lifetime. That is really, really something. I'm sure that'll be expensive as all hell, but things get cheaper over time. So you got great breakthroughs like that moving forward. Then you got, you know, all the things that set us back. First of all, human nature, that never changes. You got people all around the world killing each other over, you know, their version of God or land or whatever the hell. And also all the microplastics in our brain today that we've got about a spoon's worth of microplastics in our brain, the average person. And it's not supposed to be there, and it's probably not good, although they don't exactly know what it's doing. The most common microplastic, according to this new study, is polyethylene, widely used in packaging materials like bottles and cups. So we're getting it through the. This plastic bottle I'm holding in my hand right now that I'm drinking out of, getting a little bit of dose of plastic with it all the time. What's more, many of these particles are smaller than previously thought. Some of them are no bigger than viruses. And the problem with that is they're small enough to cross the blood brain barrier and get into our brain. Our brains are built in such a way that a lot of bad things in our body can't get into our brain, but these things are small enough to actually get in our brain. So that's. I end with a spoonful of plastic in your brain. The primary route of entry is through our food, particularly meat. The researchers thing say the way we irrigate fields with plastic contaminated water. We postulate that the plastics build up there. We feed those crops to our livestock, we take the manure, put it back in the field. So there's sort of a feed forward biomagnification loop of just constantly reinforcing the plastics until it gets wedged in your brain.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow.
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Joe Getty
For better or worse. So there's that. And it's either the biggest deal in the world or nothing or somewhere in between. Another thing, I was listening to a very long Lex Freedman podcast the other day about AI and I take his recommendations because he talks to all the smartest people in the world about AI all the time, all the very, very smartest people. And so he has an idea of where their thinking is. He and the guests he had on think we're about 2030 is when we'll get to AGI, artificial general intelligence. And that will be the big leap forward in AI that we're not close to yet. That's why a lot of these fanciful projections we've all heard haven't happened yet, because we haven't reached the AGI part where artificial intelligence starts learning on its own and that sort of thing. He does think, though, the experts do think that when that happens, it will be like when nuclear weapons landed on the planet. All of a sudden everything is different. You have to restructure society or think about different things. And. And that will happen around 2030, which is not that far off. Lex Friedman used the example of being able to send a multitude of like virus drones at power plants and shut down power all across the United States overnight.
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Jack Armstrong
And talking like virus, given the flu or computer virus.
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Joe Getty
Computer virus, okay, that with artificial general intelligence can just figure out what it's got to be to get in to do the damage it's got to do. And that that could be. That could easily happen in five years. And then overnight it would be okay. The world's completely different now. Any bad actor can shut down anything. And now what? For instance.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I was just reading how Chinese and was it Russian hackers? Somebody using American AI tools that already exist to hack into our systems and screw number one, thanks for buying American. But secondly, yeah, that's the problem. Bad guys. It's not like the difficulties of buying and delivering a nuclear warhead, which has kept, you know, a number of evil regimes from being a threat. Hello, Iran. So far this is. Anybody can access this stuff and use these weapons.
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Joe Getty
Oh, another limiting factor on AI that might be good news for if you don't like. I want to make sure I mention that when we come back before we.
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Jack Armstrong
Move on Armstrong and Gettysburg. Elon Musk becomes even more powerful as his team gains access to the system that writes America's checks, that pays salaries to American workers and makes Social Security payments and on and on. Are there any guardrails in place? Any transparency or accountability for the first body of the United States such Jake.
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Joe Getty
Tapper, part of the left's, I think fear mongering over Elon Musk's role in trying to reduce waste and maybe the size of government. As Elon's team had gained access to sensitive Treasury Department data. Yesterday a senior official at treasury attempted to deny Musk's representatives access to the department's federal payment system, which is used to disperse trillions of dollars each year that's with a T and contains the personal information of millions Americans. So the left is leaning on the personal information of millions Americans and how Elon shouldn't have access to that. And he probably shouldn't, but he probably should have access to where trillions of dollars are going. And for instance, like on the US Aid aspect of this, that's getting so much attention, money that we send around the world and whether or not that's being wasted. Elon said this about that yesterday.
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Jack Armstrong
As we dug into USA usaid, it became apparent that what we have here is, is not an apple with a worm in it, but we have actually just a bowl of worms.
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Joe Getty
Marco Rubio said yesterday that a lot of these people that Elon's going to Secretary, the Treasury Department or whatever have been stonewalling on anybody trying to look into where money goes for years and getting away with it.
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Jack Armstrong
So, yeah, budget and turf is how big your schwance is in Washington D.C. they fight for it and guard it jealously.
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Joe Getty
No, I don't want Elon to be able to do whatever he wants and do anything illegal. But I do want him to have access to where money goes and on every level, someone he needs to. It doesn't have to be Elon, but.
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Jack Armstrong
At least as a study, I mean, he has no authority to make anything happen. It's just a study at this point. Yeah, it'll, they'll, they'll shake out if there are any excesses or somebody's moving too fast. I just the forces arrayed against moving too fast and doing too much. I think they've got plenty to work with. I am not worried about, oh my gosh, we'll reduce the size of the government too fast and too much. I mean, come on, really.
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Joe Getty
Right. Also, Trump signed a couple of executive orders to try to do away with the Department of Education. Well, that'll start that conversation going and we'll see where that ends up. The other. Well, there's a couple.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, and look forward, of course, to it being portrayed 24 hours a day. Is Trump is trying to end education.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. Trump's going to go to the Super Bowl. First sitting president to ever attend a Super Bowl. Will he be cheered in Louisiana, New Orleans when he's announced? Because obviously they'll announce it. Cheer or boot.
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Jack Armstrong
The Chiefs fans will cheer him. Well, I both, I don't know corporate.
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Joe Getty
People there that aren't fans of either.
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Jack Armstrong
Exactly. They don't cheer for anything. They Sit there on their hand and then go to cocktail parties.
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Joe Getty
So I want to mention one more thing. I learned about Lex Friedman's podcast about AI with some of the top AI people in the world. One, they don't think AGI is coming till 2030. So we got at least five years before we got to worry about it.
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Jack Armstrong
They also vital juices are drained. Yes.
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Joe Getty
Even though the technology may get here. It's a reverse of the nuclear weapon thing in that like to get a nuclear weapon. If you watched Oppenheimer, they just kept putting the marbles in the jar of how much refined uranium we have or plutonium or whatever it is you use to make a bond. Do we have enough? Do we had enough? And when the jar got full, we've got enough to make a bomb. We had the rockets, we knew how to make a bomb. We know how to send it somewhere we couldn't make. We didn't have enough uranium to make the bomb. The problem is almost the reverse. With AI it seems that we're going to get to the technology, the uranium if you will, but not have the amount of energy it's going to take to make these scale to a place where it could like change the world. The way everybody keeps talking about where it's going to be as big as fire or the Internet or something like that. Nobody's figured out the how much power, where's that power going to come from and the number of computer chips and all that sort of stuff. So we got we'll have the uranium but not the way to, well, not the plane to fly the bomb somewhere. So that's pretty interesting. We could be many years away from coming up with enough electricity or energy source of some sort to run these giant plants that it would need to make AI take over the world. The way everybody's talking about. Right.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. I'd love to talk to an expert or listen to more or read more about it just because I know as much about this stuff as my dog knows about the run pass option that you'll see plenty of on Sunday during the Super Bowl.
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Joe Getty
Run all the time. He's a you throw the ball, only three things could happen him two more bad. You run the ball every play well.
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Jack Armstrong
And he's a dog, so he's a fan of running anyway. And so the energy requirements, just the requirements during the learning phase of these systems, I don't know how that differs from the when they're actually just like we've talked about, how they'll eliminate the need for junior accountants and Junior lawyers and junior real estate agents and all that. Because that's all quickly generatable by machine. If they'll need that much energy to eliminate all those jobs. It's just in the learning phase.
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Joe Getty
No, apparently it will take tons of computer space and energy we can't even fathom to make that happen, according to these experts. So we'll have the technology before we have. You know, it's like we invented the car, but nobody has gasoline yet. There's not enough gasoline to actually.
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Jack Armstrong
That was an oversight.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, exactly. So that I hadn't heard anybody say that before. And I. I'm in no hurry to get to artificial general intelligence taking over the world and we're having to figure out the. The shakeout. So maybe that's going to slow it down a lot. Just plain lack of power.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah. I wonder. It's going to usher nuclear power back into favor though, which is a hell of a twist I didn't see coming.
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Joe Getty
No kidding.
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Jack Armstrong
Almost. It's almost a certainty. It's the only way to get that much more power without, you know, burning even more horrific amounts of fossil fuels. Or how about windmill farms?
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Joe Getty
Shut up.
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Jack Armstrong
Your. Your type is out. Our type is in realists.
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Joe Getty
So I almost vomited before the show today and I've spent most of the show nearly vomiting along with many of our listeners for different reasons. Mine's a stomach things. Theirs is a content thing. If I had the norovirus, I would have already. Well, no norovirus went through my. You said the norovirus is sweeping the nation.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, yeah. It's here, there and everywhere.
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Joe Getty
Norovirus went through my house many years ago and everybody got sick except me. So I might have some sort of natural doesn't bother me thing right now, but wouldn't have already shown itself. Maybe I'm pregnant.
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Jack Armstrong
It depends. It went through my house and when we had relatives visiting and everything. And everybody expressed it, if you will, in different ways and different severities for different lengths of time. Yes, cite the medical term.
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Joe Getty
Everybody put really sick to my stomach and I threw up yesterday. Everybody put their own little spin on the norovirus.
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Jack Armstrong
Exactly. They made it their own.
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Joe Getty
Just trying to get through the last 17 minutes of the show.
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Jack Armstrong
I hear that. You want to hear something that's going to raise your spirits? Here's a little perspective for you. A little damn perspective. This guy is the former president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta. He's talking about the U.S. aid Department and somebody asked him about how horrible it is that they're talking about cutting it back or reforming it or shuttering it or whatever. It's clip number 47. Michael, dig his chili, would you?
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Uhuru Kenyatta
Crying oh, I don't know. Trump has removed money. He said he's not giving us any more money. Why are you crying? It's not your government, it's not your country. He has, he has no, he has no reason to, to give you anything. I mean, you don't pay taxes in America. Isaac appealing to his people. This is a wake up call for you to say, okay, what are we going to do to help ourselves?
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Joe Getty
Wow.
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Uhuru Kenyatta
Instead of crying, what are we going to do? What are we going to do? Yeah. To support ourselves. Because nobody is going to continue holding out a hand there to give you. It is time for us to use our resources for the right things. We are the ones who are using them for the wrong things.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow.
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Joe Getty
Wow. I'm voting for him if I live in Kenya.
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Jack Armstrong
Truth teller, I salute you, Uhuru Kenyatta.
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Joe Getty
That little super fast talking thing he threw in the middle, that was like only one car available at this price.
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Jack Armstrong
Could have literally said anything. I'm gonna hunt down Joe Getty and kill him in his league. What? What? Wait, what? Man, that went by quick, but how about that? And he said it with a chuckle. Why would he give you anything? He's looking out for his own people. Do you pay taxes in the United States?
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Joe Getty
No.
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Jack Armstrong
How about you do for yourselves? Wow. That sort of person exists on Earth as. Heartening, isn't it?
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Joe Getty
CNN with the big Elon Musk sends Washington D.C. scrambling to blah, blah, blah.
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Jack Armstrong
Good.
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Joe Getty
Mark Halpern in his newsletter today said the most underreported story of the beginning of the Trump turn is Elon Musk's role. Where it's going, his impact, etc. Might be.
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Jack Armstrong
Might be, yeah, we'll have to see it is an energy we haven't seen before pointed in the direction we haven't seen before. But I tell you what, you know, like Jefferson said, I'd rather attend to the problems of too much freedom than too little. I would rather attend to the problems of too aggressively trying to root out waste, fraud and abuse from the federal government than too little, which has been my entire freaking life up until now.
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Joe Getty
No kidding.
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Jack Armstrong
How about we try the other way for a minute?
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Joe Getty
No kidding, no kidding. We'll finish strong.
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Jack Armstrong
Next, Armstrong and Getty.
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Uhuru Kenyatta
I mean, everybody was surprised. So you can imagine how surprised I was. I was almost asleep. So when I got a call, I had to check. It was April 1st. I didn't really believe it at first. And it was a big shock. It was hard moments for me. It was home. So it was really hard moments for me, especially the first day. But as I said, you know, I get to play in the greatest club in the world and I'm excited for this new journey.
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Joe Getty
So that's Luka Doncic in the la being asked a question about being traded away from that. He's one of the biggest stars in the NBA. He's only 25 years old. He's a fan favorite. He loved Dallas. He was part of a giant charity there that he had founded. He got a big full page ad in the paper today to thank everybody for working on. He had no idea. According to him, he had no idea there were even any rumblings of him being traded. I mean, completely out of the blue. That's not usually the way it happens with the giant stars. He was asked, like, was, was there any hesitation from your team to sign the big, you know, Dallas is going to keep me deal at the end of his contract? No, he said no.
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Jack Armstrong
Nothing.
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Joe Getty
I mean, I just assumed I was going to be here. He. He got a call at night.
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Jack Armstrong
You're.
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Joe Getty
You're leaving. We don't want you anymore. What? He has no idea why either. Said he has no idea why they traded him. And that's something biggest. One of the biggest stars in the sport.
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Jack Armstrong
It's not the way I pictured those things unfolding.
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Joe Getty
I don't think they usually do. Anyway, he's going to be playing with LeBron and that'll be exciting in their first pace team and he was in the finals last year and we'll see if he's in the finals this year.
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Jack Armstrong
I'll be rooting against them. I hope they lose. I hope they lose all their games because anytime you load up a team like that with super high payroll in a giant market, I just, I root for him to lose.
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Joe Getty
I like Luca because he's white.
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Jack Armstrong
So he's sick, folks. He's sick. He's saying things he thinks will be funny, but he's wrong.
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Joe Getty
I am sick.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh. Speaking of race and saying things and all, I was trying to find it. I just saved one quote. I think it was one of the gals of the free press, probably Nelly Bowles was writing about how, how the vice president was on Meet the Press over the weekend. And JD Was just absolutely carving up Margaret Brennan because she was asking him about border policies and he was just parrying her with ease because he's very bright and he knows the policy and the rest of it. But she said this. We're in a new news era now. Reporters actually have to think of questions one must ask about actual border policies because border bad America is Statue of Liberty, otherwise racism isn't good enough anymore. I thought that was a great characterization of a Republican to come on. And they would just be hit with border bad America is Statue of Liberty, otherwise racism. And that was it. They would never be asked, like, intelligent questions about border policy. I hope it isn't fire good food bad or whatever. JD's great at that stuff.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, he's good.
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Jack Armstrong
Nobody watches those damn shows.
- [31:53]
Joe Getty
No, no, they don't. They absolutely don't.
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Jack Armstrong
They have an effect within the Beltway. Oh, speaking of which, do we have time for this? I got a quick comment. 30 seconds. All right, I'll just give you the very brief version. Good old friend of the show, Mike the lawyer, pointing out everybody who's acting like they're freaking out over Elon Musk. His. I'll bet those people said nothing about Anthony Fauci. If anybody controlled the entire country and was unelected, it was him. Didn't seem concerned about that.
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Joe Getty
Well, excellent example. There are many, many examples of unelected people having unbelievable power over the many years. This is the first time that's ever happened. Is hilarious.
- [32:33]
Jack Armstrong
Now all of a sudden you're concerned. How cute. Final thought. Yeah. Hey, that. What a Grammy the other night. Best heavy metal Armstrong and Yeti performance.
- [32:47]
Joe Getty
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew. There he is, pressing the buttons in the control room, our technical director, Michelangelo Michael. Final thought? Yeah. Katie told me she's going to a football party this weekend. I'm going to tell her she needs to check out my cheese dip recipe. I'm going to make sure that gets to the website. Katie, you will be the hit of the party.
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Joe Getty
Man, I gotta make a giant cheese dip for Sunday.
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Jack Armstrong
Delicious. Katie Greener, esteemed newswoman, has a final thought. Katie, well, it's kind of fun. I have a new feature on the website@armstronggetty.com called Katie's Corner. I put all the things that go through my head on there, as well as the video of the San Francisco broadcaster exposing ice. So you can get all of that@armstrong getty.com in Katie's Corner.
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Joe Getty
We should talk more about that tomorrow. We're getting a lot of texts about that, but is it. Is corner corner spelled with a K?
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Jack Armstrong
No. No, it's not.
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Joe Getty
I feel like it ought to be. Yeah exactly.
- [33:38]
Jack Armstrong
I assume Jack and Joe are a holes is just in like bold face print and is always up there but yeah. Anyway Jack, a final thought for us.
- [33:46]
Joe Getty
Yeah. You don't think about it when you feel fine but when you feel bad you think geez, that feeling fine, sure. A lot better.
- [33:53]
Jack Armstrong
Sure.
- [33:53]
Joe Getty
A lot more options for me on a given day when I feel good compared to way I feel today.
- [33:58]
Jack Armstrong
I think it was health guru and dead bear prank enthusiast RFK Jr. Who once said the healthy man has a thousand dreams. The sick man only one.
- [34:09]
Joe Getty
That's pretty good.
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Jack Armstrong
It is good and it's true.
- [34:13]
Joe Getty
I ain't dying. I just, I just feel like I'm gonna say some reason he said sick.
- [34:19]
Jack Armstrong
Wanna end up like that bear Keep arguing with RFK Jr. Big man doesn't doesn't brook no nonsense.
- [34:28]
Joe Getty
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
- [34:31]
Jack Armstrong
So many people. Thanks a little time. Go to armstrongandgetty.com man, we got some great hot links there for you. Pick up some AMG swag. If you see something we ought to be talking about, send the link along.
- [34:39]
Joe Getty
Mailbag@Armstrongandgetty.Com the bear said, I don't think vaccines cause autism. And you see what happened to it.
- [34:45]
Jack Armstrong
Oh no. Poor little bear.
- [34:50]
Joe Getty
We will see you tomorrow. God bless America. We don't have a fourth branch of government called Armstrong and Yeti.
- [35:02]
Jack Armstrong
It became apparent that what we have here is actually just a bowl of worms. I don't know about you, but as.
- [35:07]
Joe Getty
An American taxpayer, I don't want my.
- [35:08]
Jack Armstrong
Dollars going towards this crap.
- [35:10]
Joe Getty
And I did have a couple of.
- [35:11]
Jack Armstrong
Things, you know, to say that were extremely controversial. You made it rhyme louder than it's rhyme in a long time.
- [35:19]
Joe Getty
One final message.
- [35:21]
Jack Armstrong
I'm so sorry.
- [35:23]
Joe Getty
Bye bye.
- [35:25]
Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Gettysburg.