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Jack Armstrong
And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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President Trump is holding a rally in Michigan on Tuesday to mark the first 100 days of his second term. But the President is urging Republican members of Congress to stay here in Washington.
Joe Getty
Calling it a crucial week to advance.
Ryan Seacrest
His agenda around immigration and tax cuts. Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is vowing that Democrats will resist the president's latest legislative push.
Joe Getty
All right, we need a big, beautiful deal.
Jack Armstrong
What about the bill? We need the budget, government shut down.
Joe Getty
I want to talk about riding Waymo for the first time. The automated self driving taxi thingy. I do want to talk at least a little bit about the nut job who drove into that crowd in Canada and killed all those people. Just horrible story. But another, this person was mentally ill. Everybody knew they were mentally ill. We got to come up with a system in Western society to not have to wait till they do this kind of damage before we can lock them up somehow.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. As I've said many times, I'd be happy to chair the committee. Let's get half a dozen reasonably intelligent, reasonably reasonable people, and we can come up with a policy that will prevent people from being targeted because, I don't know, their ex boyfriend is angry at them.
Joe Getty
Right. So five major polls came out over the weekend. We had some of the early stuff on Friday with Trump's approval rating going, going down. There's a lot of news around politics that drives me nuts because it's. Of course it did. Everybody's approval rating goes down from when they take office till a hundred days later. I mean, just look at it. President after president after president. It's the whole.
Jack Armstrong
You fully recognize there's a honeymoon period, but when the honeymoon's over, you have screaming headlines.
Joe Getty
The honeymoon's over. Right. Yeah, exactly. I don't get that. So, yeah, anyway, there's one poll out there that has him with the lowest approval rating any president's had at a hundred days in 80 years. That's an outlier, though. The rest of them are just kind of normal, ish, you know, mid-40s, kind of where lots of people have ended up, including Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama and a whole bunch of different people. Although there's plenty of room to go down if this whole tariff thing kicks in the way it might, according to some people in the next couple of weeks. But that's a different topic. On the issues, I'm looking at the New York Times Siena College poll, just to give you an example. They have Trump upside down, even on immigration, with 51 disapproved, 47 approved. That's just About. Well, it is within the margin of error. So he's 50, 50 on immigration. I always like to look. Joe brings us up all the time. It's amazing. People on the right win anything or, or don't get trounced more in the polls, given the fact that all the coverage is negative. So if you take in CBS Evening News, npr, all kinds of mainstream coverage, it's all negative on the border, all of it. This cancer victim child was kicked out of the country. No, you know, here's an upside to controlling our border, which 90% of Americans want. It's just this. So it's amazing to me that as high as 50, 50 on the border. Some of the other issues also underwater, managing the federal government. Minus eight. There's another story. It's always about how awful it is that these federal workers lost their jobs. I was listening to NPR on Friday and they're talking Marco Rubio, who's currently gutting the State Department. And I thought, okay, you can say gutting. You also could have ordered it if you wanted to be unfair. You could just say reducing the workforce if you wanted to be neutral. But you could have, if you wanted to spin it the other direction, you could have said Marco Rubio, who's trying to streamline the State Department, you could have said that that would have been perfectly fair. But you didn't. You said gutting. And that again, it's.
Jack Armstrong
So the National Review, which is far from maga, characterized it as a long overdue restructuring of Foggy Bottom. The meaning the State Department.
Joe Getty
That's what Marco. Marco said that yesterday in one of the Sunday talk shows. He said the planet is the same size as it was 20 years ago, but the State Department's twice as big. Explain that to me, which is a pretty good point. Other issues, the economy, Trump's minus 12, trade minus 11, Russia, Ukraine, war minus 21. And the Arbo Garcia case. That's the specific dude sent to the El Salvador in prison by accident.
Jack Armstrong
That's the loving Maryland father.
Joe Getty
Yes, but even the, even the Trump people say they shouldn't have sent him right to that prison is he's -21 on that. So that's your various issues. And we could do more of that later if you wanted. I don't know. If you do, I don't know.
Jack Armstrong
Listen to somebody certain, for certain. If the economy surges forward, it doesn't mean much. If the economy takes a poop, it's very, very bad.
Joe Getty
But NBC News, and they use the survey monkey. I don't know what they do, you get, you get two bananas if you get within the margin of error or something. I don't know how they.
Jack Armstrong
Well, they have an infinite number of monkeys taking an infinite number of polls which do.
Joe Getty
And I don't want to lead with the best one. But just to point out that young women are an outlier in practically everything, which is kind of interesting. They should break down more polls by age and gender because you'll realize sometimes that, wow, practically everybody feels this way. And then there's one segment that feels way different.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Joe Getty
That changes the overall number quite a bit. I'll just jump to the headline because I thought it was so darn good. Or go this one. Approve of Trump handling of DEI for all adults. Trump's at 44% which I actually think is fairly high given the way it's presented to people.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, there's been a disinformation campaign about what it is for decades now.
Joe Getty
Approve of Trump handling DEI. All adults 44%. Gen Z men right in line with all adults, 45%. So you get to Gen Z women, 22%. Oh, by half as many. A 20 point drop off for Gen Z women. They have a way different view of it than practically everybody else. And this one, which really I found bothersome. Are you proud to be American? Oh, in the category of little or not at all. Proud to be an American. Little or not at all. I was happy to see for all adults it's only 22%. That means three quarters of Americans are somewhat or very proud to be an American. That's good news. Three quarters. But all adults 22%. For not digging this country, Gen Z men in line with the all of them are all of America. 22%.
Jack Armstrong
Gen Z bump, fellas.
Joe Getty
Gen Z women, 41% of Gen Z women are only a little or not at all proud to be an American 41%.
Jack Armstrong
I have an idea that that's not our greatest demographic strength as a show either. And it's a shame. I would love, love, love to know the perception from inside that cohort. If you are a Gen Z woman or no one, can you help explain that? Or are they all so crazy they would explain it in a way that we found completely?
Joe Getty
I think it's as simple. The only hang up here is separating it from the men since the men went to the same schools as the women. I mean, if we're going to blame the schooling system, although way more women going to college than men. But that, that is, that is a shocking difference.
Jack Armstrong
Yes. Yeah, yeah. I think it is. It's a pretty easy equation to understand how it got this way. I'll answer my own question. You have the aggressive teaching of the radical neo Marxism in our schools now under our noses. And we let it happen. And it is universally, it's practically universally now taught in our education systems. Horrifying K through fruit grad school, men have rejected this ideology at numbers much, much, much larger than women. And it comes back to a bit of wisdom that we came across a number of months ago that I held onto and I wish I'd made a note of. Who said this is a woman who wrote it. She wrote, people who can't defend themselves physically, Women and low testosterone, men parse information through a consensus filter as a safety mechanism. They literally do not ask, is this true? They ask, will others be okay with me thinking this is true. This makes them very malleable to brute force manufactured consensus. If every screen they look at says the same thing, they will adopt that position because their brain interprets it as everyone in the tribe believes it. They don't ask, is this true? They ask, will others be okay with me thinking this is true. And women, for all of their incredible strengths and wonder, are much more prone to that sort of thinking than men.
Joe Getty
Driven by just being physically smaller, weaker. That's funny. My son and I had a conversation, not about this, but kind of similar. We were coming down the elevator at the hotel in San Francisco and this woman got on and then got off and she was like grown woman with bags, attractive, but like 41190 pounds. And we're just talking about what it'd be like to be that size where practically everybody you run into above fourth grade could knock you down and take your stuff. I have no idea what that would do to your worldview throughout the day.
Jack Armstrong
Or rape you. Sure. Having raised two daughters has opened my eyes to that a lot because I.
Joe Getty
Never think about it, obviously, but I don't have to. So, you know. Okay, so that fits in with the you're looking for how do I stay safe? And you think most people think this, so I'm going to think this too.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Orwell wrote about it, that it was the. It was in 1984. He was writing in the voice of a character, but it said it was usually the young woman's that became the most enthusiastic and radical, the most crazed about rooting out dissent and reporting it to the authorities.
Joe Getty
But they're wrong on this one, very wrong. So how do we turn that around?
Jack Armstrong
Oh, goodness. Root out the rot in the education system. Which is a monster task.
Joe Getty
It's interesting.
Jack Armstrong
We've got to do. It's absolutely necessary. I mean, can you imagine if those numbers we saw among young women who are essentially ashamed of being American, in spite of the utter delusion in thinking that our sins are unique in history? They're not. That's the key point. They may be sins and they should be corrected, but everybody was doing it anyway. Can you imagine if that attitude spread among the generalized population? We'd be doomed as a country.
Joe Getty
It's, it's interesting to me though, that 20 points worth of men of the same age going to the same schools see through that nonsense and roll their eyes at it or dismiss it or whatever.
Jack Armstrong
Right? That. What would you call it, accommodation bias. They don't have the consensus filter in the same way. I mean, it's not like men are completely above conformity. Lord knows it's just a little different.
Joe Getty
That is fascinating. If you have any theory on this, hit us with a text. 415295KFTC I have been unhappy with some of the results in the NBA playoffs. I didn't know the lakers would be down 3:1. I don't know how much you're paying attention to that. Anyway, you could get your involved in all of this sort of stuff, including the Major League Baseball season which has kicked off with Prize Picks. We're in the midst of the NBA playoffs. You need to download the app today. Prize Picks is the best way to get action on sports in more than 30 states, including California, Texas and Georgia.
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Introduced a way for my friends to criticize me in a new way. Every, all my, really, all the criticism that comes my way now is combined in some way with the fact that I put cream in my coffee. I want to talk about last night's 60 Minutes coming up. Stay tuned for that.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, and I, I want to go back to that cream in the coffee theme that we discussed last week because I've been thinking about it all weekend long.
Joe Getty
It's very interesting actually, oddly enough.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Move over. Quinoa. The new it food, the new it crop. Its name is terrible. Its nutrition is excellent. Sorghum.
Joe Getty
Dang it. I didn't, I never even tried the quinoa and we're already on to sorghum.
Jack Armstrong
Oh no. Quinoa is so yesterday. Please. It's, it's deader than disco.
Joe Getty
Sorghum.
Jack Armstrong
Back, like for the fourth time.
Joe Getty
Sorghum. As a guy whose family roots are in Iowa, I've heard of sorghum. I know about sorghum. But in what way are people eating sorghum?
Jack Armstrong
Well, with their mouths. It is a high protein, non gmo, which I don't give a single poop about. Gluten free grain. Now, some of the folks on the sorghum council are worried about the name. Just it's not a good name. It's not, said Clay Barris, the head chef at something or other. The sore is fine, but the gum industry implies maybe chewing gum.
Joe Getty
I don't know if that's it. But it's funny how quinoa sounds like something I should try and is healthy. Sorghum sounds like something I don't want to try and, I don't know, sketchy.
Jack Armstrong
Sorghum has twice the protein of quinoa and four times that of rice or corn. I Don't go to rice for protein. But that is kind of interesting.
Joe Getty
I remember as a kid riding in a car where my dad's younger brother said to him, do you remember how to harvest sorghum? And they got into a conversation about how you harvest sorghum, which I thought good stuff. I thought was interesting because I, I certainly didn't know how to do that.
Jack Armstrong
The sorghum checkoff. A farmer funded marketing group touts the cereal as a super grain and quote, pro planet protein source that's packed full of nutrients, etc.
Joe Getty
So keep an eye out for sorghum. Put it in my yogurt or my smoothie or you can.
Jack Armstrong
Well, for instance, their website features recipes for waffles, cheeseburger bowls, sorghum, breaded chicken tenders and more. Sorghum can be popped like popcorn and brewed in beer or tea. The plant can also be used to make sorghum syrup.
Joe Getty
Sorghum is having its moment. It'll help your gut bacteria and give you a longer lasting erection.
Jack Armstrong
Wow, that last part I didn't see coming. But okay, well said. And then this also from the world of the commerce, more or less. Tech workers are now just like the rest of us, miserable at work. Say goodbye to the free lunches, skateboards, ping pong tables and massage, you know, stations in Silicon Valley. Not so long ago, working in tech meant job security, extravagant perks and bring your whole self to the office, right? Vomit ethos rare in other industries these days, Writes Katherine Bindley in the Wall Street Journal. A position in tech looks like a regular job. And it's not just that there's no more grass fed beef jerky in the kitchens. Instead, workers are contending with the constant fear of layoffs, longer hours and an ever growing list of responsibilities for the same pay.
Joe Getty
I was just at the vending machine in the lunchroom and there was no sorghum in there.
Jack Armstrong
We'll look into that right away and get some sorghum. It's a stark reversal for a group that's known little baboon times when tech set the trend for workplace culture spreading ping pong tables, off site retreats, kale chips. And the kale chips, please. They're embarrassing compared to quinoa and the idea that hoodies are appropriate office for tire. But now apparently the bloom is off the rose and now they're just grinning and bearing it and saying a stinking job.
Joe Getty
Welcome to life.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it was fun while it lasted, huh?
Joe Getty
Yeah, I never know if I believe those stories either direction. How much it's actually happening. Whether the skateboard direction or the suit and tie direction, I don't know which.
Jack Armstrong
I saw the skateboarding, saw it on.
Joe Getty
The news, 60 Minutes with some interesting stuff last night. That 911 story I want to tell you about. If you didn't see it, what the heck.
Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
Of 1999 and turned over to the.
Ryan Seacrest
FBI after 9 11. But it was never shared with the Bureau's own field agents or top intelligence officials. A lot of people will see this video for the first time and think, how is it remotely possible that it's just coming to light now? Could it really have been sitting in a evidence locker room all of these years?
Joe Getty
Yeah. Quite a story on 60 Minutes last night. Story number two, which reminded me of what I loved about 60 Minutes most of my life because I've watched practically every episode since I was like 12 years old, was just, you know, really interesting news stories with what the hell's going on there sort of bent to it.
Jack Armstrong
It's time enough to develop them a lot more than your evening news, for instance.
Joe Getty
Right? Yeah. Bigger budget and more time to develop the stories. Let's hear a little bit of this and let's see if it fills in the gaps. If it doesn't, I will.
Ryan Seacrest
Federal investigators believe the hijackers on Flight 93, which crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, plan to hit the US Capitol as their likely target. In the video, Bayoumi references a quote plan.
Joe Getty
You said that in the plan.
Ryan Seacrest
What plan? What do you think he's talking about?
Joe Getty
I think he's talking to the Al Qaeda planners who tasked him to take the pre operational surveillance video of the intended target.
Ryan Seacrest
So this video is taken in late June and early July of 1999. What does that timing tell you?
Joe Getty
Well, that means it was taken within 90 days of the time when senior Al Qaeda planners reached the decision that the Capitol would be a target of the 911 attacks. So let me fill in some of the background here so you understand what the heck is going on. So you got this Saudi dude who was in the United States pre 9 11, 1999, and they show this video that he took in Washington D.C. where he's going around the Capitol Building and various other places but the Capitol and showing okay, this is the south side of the Capitol. Here's the garage over here where they park. Here are the entrance and exits and stuff like that. Some paperwork that showed various altitudes planes would have to be at to land. I mean all kinds of different things. And somehow this video didn't make it to the FBI and the CIA after 911 when they're doing the whole investigation of trying to figure out you know who was behind this, how was it planned, to what extent was was the Saudi government perhaps involved. That's why it's coming out now is there's a lawsuit by many of the victims of 9 11's families who are suing the Saudi Arabian, the government of Saudi Arabia for saying they had involvement. Whether or not that comes out to any thing or not, I don't know. But how did this video. And they talked to a number of people in the CIA or in the FBI at the time who were doing all these investigations. You know, if you read the 911 committee report which we read a lot of on the air back when it came out, they didn't have access to this for some reason and they can't imagine why. Play the very next one. This woman was in charge of a lot of the investigations on this very topic with the CIA.
Ryan Seacrest
In your view this video was so.
Joe Getty
Significant that it should have gone all.
Ryan Seacrest
The way to the top to the White House.
Jack Armstrong
I think it should have because it's the Capitol Building.
Ryan Seacrest
Gina Bennett was a senior counterterrorism analyst at the CIA for 20 years.
Jack Armstrong
In the aftermath of 911 we were briefing the President and the National Security Council. We didn't expect that this was a one and done. We expected Al Qaeda to continue to try.
Ryan Seacrest
So resources were going entirely to trying to undermine any additional plotting.
Jack Armstrong
See I don't, I don't think this is mysterious at all.
Joe Getty
Okay, sorry.
Jack Armstrong
It's someone high up in the White House or the CIA said any who is the Saudi taking the video? Do we have information on that?
Joe Getty
His. They don't know where he is. They don't know where he is? No, they have no idea where he is. They think he's back in Saudi Arabia. He not only because I don't think one of these clips. So not only did he take that video, then he goes to San Diego where he just happens to help out a couple of dudes from Saudi Arabia, just countrymen he was helping out who were two of the hijackers and gets them a place to live.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I remember Him. So, yeah, somebody high up in the White House or the CIA talked to the Saudi regime who said, look, we've got a radical faction. They're in our government. If this gets out, it'll ruin us. We're with you to fight back against these guys. Please don't say anything. And they got agreement. Don't show any evidence that ties our people directly into this. We'd be. We'll make it worth your while. I can practically guarantee you that's what happened.
Joe Getty
I mean, that's pretty horrifying if that's what happened. While that woman there and a bunch of other people were trying to figure out what's the next round of attacks, you're gonna hide the fact that there's some dude might still be here in the country who's organizing these cells because it'd be embarrassing to the Saudis.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I mean, I realize a lot of spy novels and suspense thrillers are a little overcooked, but the idea that the people doing the grunt work are being jobbed by some of the powers that be way upstairs on the sixth floor, it's not exactly an original idea. It happens.
Joe Getty
Here's a little bit more. The Saudi government says this is a.
Ryan Seacrest
Tourist video, that there's nothing to see here. You.
Joe Getty
You don't buy that?
Jack Armstrong
No, I don't. Who does? A tourist video that is reporting back on this is where that building is, and here's where the security guards are.
Joe Getty
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that's back to my point.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Well. Nope, Nobody brought up your angle, which certainly might be true. Really? Yeah. I'd be interested in what that CIA director woman or the CIA woman thinks, why this information was kept to her from her or any of the other investigators. Because, I mean, it seems beyond pertinent. Like she said, it probably should have gone all the way up to the President. Although you're saying it, maybe it did go all the way up to the president. And they.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Or certainly, yeah. Dick Cheney or somebody in the CIA. Yeah. I suspect to the President our relationship with the Saudis. I mean, look at Joe Biden, the mummy. So he's particularly enthusiastic about the Middle east being a mummy. But, I mean, him declaring that they're a pariah state, and then 18 months later, well, we. We can't shake hands, but we'll have a fish bump. And then, you know, six months after that, he's just fully kissing their asses again. It's just they're a frenemy. They've always been. And they have, as you know very well. There's a radical faction within Saudi society that's Islamist fundamentalist, and there's some folks in the royal family who are down with that.
Joe Getty
Well, has it been long enough that they can say out loud what you're saying or not?
Jack Armstrong
Because otherwise, not calling it a tourist video, please.
Joe Getty
Well, can we say it out loud? Saudi Arabia is obviously denying just because obviously this feeds a lot of your 911 conspiracies who believe it's an inside job or something like that.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it's not, but. Well, yeah, they could say it. Unless MBS says, hey, this whole Middle east peace thing we're working on with Israel, why would you throw a monkey wrench into that? These events happened 23 years ago, 24 years ago. Let's be cool. And the Trump administration probably says, yeah, I see your point.
Joe Getty
So this guy cases the Capitol, which I didn't know they had declared that the Capitol was the target. Man. Can you imagine if they had been successful in crashing into that building? Maybe killing, I don't know, 150 reps, or maybe all of them, who knows?
Jack Armstrong
Or just, Just if they only killed tourists, can you imagine crushing the rotunda and reducing that to rubble?
Joe Getty
Just a visual. Yeah. Holy crap.
Jack Armstrong
We might have invaded, like, every country in the Middle east if that had happened.
Joe Getty
Holy crap. But anyway, so this guy cases the Capitol, does the video, goes to San Diego, helps two of the hijackers find some place to live because they didn't have any means of support or cash or any way to rent a place. He helps them out with that so that they can have someplace to hang out before they hijack the plane and attack America and then he disappears back to Saudi Arabia and. And they just keep that hidden from the actual investigators who are trying to figure out, is there another attack coming or how did this all happen? That's troubling.
Jack Armstrong
Mm.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
The ugly, ugly trade offs that are like a daily occurrence in foreign policy. And it's. It's one of the most shocking things I learned as a young college boy. There I was, fresh faced, flat stomached. Michael, awaken. Gladys, would you?
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
There I was, learning about American foreign policy. I was a young patriot, of course, but not. Not the realist that I am now. And we went into the various pros and cons of supporting various regimes to resist communism, whether in the Southeast Asia, like Vietnam, or in south and Central America. Good Lord. Some of the regimes we were in bed with. But what are you gonna do? Let communism take over your hemisphere?
Joe Getty
No. Yeah, I. I I get that and I'm aware of all that stuff. But this is a different level. Biggest attack in US soil since Pearl harbor, blah blah blah. We all know how big a deal it was at the time to still hide this sort of information from the very investigators are trying to stop another one.
Jack Armstrong
Still need the Saudis. Wow. To quote the immortal Don Henley, I might be wrong, but I could be wrong, but I'm not.
Joe Getty
I don't think we have time to fully get into the Scott Pelly thing and I don't want to give it short shrift. The one of the the guy that drives Joe nuts because he talks so slow.
Jack Armstrong
He drives Joe nuts.
Joe Getty
He talks so slow on 60 minutes. Gave a speech at the end about their parent company and the new boss and all this sort of stuff and free speech and blah blah blah. We'll get into that later. It all makes my hind end tired.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. That was kind of my takeaway too. A tired hiney.
Joe Getty
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Joe Getty
This is insane. Waymo. There you go. So for whatever reason, a lot of people hate 1 electric cars and 2 self driving cars. There's a real pushback against that whole thing. I'm not exactly sure what that is.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I get the electric car. I just think it's opposition to those who would shove it down our throats, no matter how illogical and expensive it is.
Joe Getty
I certainly get that.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Joe Getty
But I had been in San Francisco a number of times in the last year where I saw the Waymo taxis driving around and I just never got around to downloading the app and doing all the stuff to ride one. And so this past weekend I was in the city with my son, end of his spring break to do some shopping, run around, look at motorcycles and whatnot. We were in north beach after eating dinner and I said let's, let's take a Waymo. So I took the time to download the app and fill in all the information and figure out it was quite easy, very handy and in the way that a lot of Silicon Valley high tech stuff is they're, they're good at it and ordered one up. And the first of all, they're all over the place. I mean absolutely all over the city. And there's only a handful cities in the country where they're operating currently. Phoenix, San Francisco, somebody said Austin, but.
Jack Armstrong
They'Re all over it.
Joe Getty
Seems like every other car is a Waymo. They're white Jaguars and there's no driver in them. Kind of stand out as there's obviously nobody driving the thing. And so I dialed one up. Just like if you use Uber or anything like that, you put your destination in there and it knows where you are because it's looking at your app and it tells you when the car will pick you up and what it's going to cost. And you either agree or don't agree. And it said it'll be 12 minutes, which is a really long time when you're in a big city on a Saturday evening, I mean, because there's Ubers all over the place. So I took the hit just to ride a Waymo when I know I could have gotten an Uber in two minutes. That's something they're going to have to be better at. Her Uber will win out just from a convenience standpoint, but once the novelty's.
Jack Armstrong
Worn off, you wouldn't wait 12 minutes, right?
Joe Getty
And I wondered how many people because there are lots of people getting away mo's and I thought, wow, how many people are taking it for the novelty versus they prefer it or whatever.
Jack Armstrong
Had to be a new streetcar, you know, so tourist attraction.
Joe Getty
So like a lot of high tech, like the Apple Vision Pro headset or whatever, what's the six month plan? Is it going to be in a drawer or will people still actually use it Once the. I can say I've done this before wears off, I don't know about that, but shows up, you press on the little app, unlock the doors, unlock and you climb in and it's a bit of a weird feeling that you're getting into a vehicle with no driver and you close the door and off you go. Now as I mentioned earlier, I went to San Francisco in my self driving Tesla with it driving most of the way. So it's not a crazy feeling for me to have something else driving that it might be if you've never done that before. But my son was kind of freaking out and we took some videos where we scream because I thought those would be funny to send to people. There's no driver, but it drove. It drove. Have you ridden with cab drivers in big cities in your life? I mean, it drove safer than many cab drivers I've been in, you know, San Francisco or New York with.
Jack Armstrong
I was just gonna say I've had cab rides in New York where I spent the whole ride thinking, you know what? I've had a good life, I've been blessed. It's okay if it ends right.
Joe Getty
So then you combine the fact that you got a screen in front of you where you adjust your temperature, choose your music and the volume, and you don't feel like you need to talk to anybody. Although sometimes I really like talking with cab drivers. And I got a story about that later. I talked to this guy from Pakistan, was very, very interesting.
Jack Armstrong
But do they pipe in body odor just to make you feel more comfortable?
Joe Getty
I was gonna say that the complete lack of another human being's odor too. Their breath, their fresh, their air freshener, their gum, whatever it is, there was just no other human there.
Jack Armstrong
And an aggressive scent. I gotta say, on the whole, I.
Joe Getty
I think I prefer the driverless taxi. It was, it was problem free, completely problem free. Going around, merging, stopping, letting us out, everything like that. And what's the downside? Is there a downside other than it's going to eliminate gazillions of jobs across the country, but there's nothing you can do about that. Change happens.
Jack Armstrong
Just when AI eliminates a gazillion more. Yeah, yeah, I could see the appeal. It's like when I get on a train for. Well, the driverless car is like a trackless train. When I get on a train, I don't have to put up with stink and stupid conversation or whatever. I just. It goes where it's gonna go. I kind of like that.
Joe Getty
I asked because I took quite a few Ubers as we moved around town and I asked everybody, what do you think of the Waymo? And nobody said anything negative about it. But it's going to eliminate. In the same way that Uber and Lyft eliminated taxis, this is going to eliminate Uber and Lyft. I think it's just going to wipe them out because it's just got to be so much cheaper overall to have no employees and none of the hassle that goes with having employees.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Weird that they've gone with Jaguars. I wonder why. It must be some sort of deal they struck. But in a related story, if I might, there is a company. Did you know that autonomous trucking companies have been testing their fleets on Texas highways for several years?
Joe Getty
No. I've seen one autonomous semi truck, which is a little worrisome just because they're so big and heavy. The idea that nobody's driving it.
Jack Armstrong
Well, all the companies have always had backup safety drivers in the cab as they, as they test in Texas. But now one company, Aurora Innovation, which is interestingly based out of Pittsburgh, the Silicon Valley of Pennsylvania, says it plans to go completely driverless at the end of the month.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I've been telling you. Elon says Tesla's going to go driverless in 2026. I mean, you don't have to pay attention anymore. Fully automated like the Waymo. You just ride in it. And are state laws going to allow this or how are insurance companies going to handle it? I don't know how that'll shake out.
Jack Armstrong
Given the enormous importance of shipping in the United States and how it affects the bottom lines of all of the big companies and all the small ones. I think the lobbyists will get their way because we've got a terrible short truck drivers right now. High driver turnover rate. You got guys who don't drive terribly well. And, and so, yeah, I think this will be enormous for the economy, but put a hell of a lot of people out of work.
Joe Getty
Well, and employees are expensive. Health care, HR complaints, sick days, all kinds of different things.
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Podcast Summary: Armstrong & Getty On Demand
Episode: I Steal A Lot Of Office Supplies
Release Date: April 28, 2025
Host: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Duration: Approximately 51 minutes
Overview: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty delve into the current political climate, focusing on President Trump's approval ratings within the first 100 days of his second term. They explore various polls, public opinion on immigration, tax cuts, and the broader implications for the Republican agenda.
Key Discussions:
President Trump's Approval:
Immigration and DEI Policies:
Gen Z Attitudes Towards America:
Notable Quotes:
Jack Armstrong [04:50]:
“You fully recognize there's a honeymoon period, but when the honeymoon's over, you have screaming headlines.”
Joe Getty [09:04]:
“Trump's at 44% which I actually think is fairly high given the way it's presented to people.”
Overview: The hosts critique a recent 60 Minutes episode that revealed a 1999 video of a Saudi national surveilling the US Capitol, suggesting potential links to the 9/11 attacks. Armstrong and Getty discuss the implications of this revelation and the possible cover-up by U.S. authorities.
Key Discussions:
The Video's Significance:
Joe Getty emphasizes that the video shows detailed surveillance of the Capitol, including entrances, exits, and security measures, indicating premeditation for an attack ([28:55]).
Government Cover-Up Theories:
Jack Armstrong speculates that high-ranking officials may have suppressed the video to maintain diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia, suggesting a quid pro quo arrangement ([32:30]).
Impact on Public Trust:
The hosts express concern over the lack of transparency in the investigations and how such omissions can fuel conspiracy theories and erode trust in government institutions ([35:43]).
Notable Quotes:
Joe Getty [36:21]:
“We all know how big a deal it was at the time to still hide this sort of information from the very investigators are trying to stop another one.”
Jack Armstrong [37:24]:
“Still need the Saudis. Wow. To quote the immortal Don Henley, I might be wrong, but I could be wrong, but I'm not.”
Overview: Armstrong and Getty share their personal experiences with Waymo's autonomous taxis in San Francisco. They discuss the broader implications of self-driving technology on society, the job market, and urban transportation dynamics.
Key Discussions:
Personal Experience with Waymo:
Joe Getty recounts his first ride in a Waymo taxi with his son, highlighting both the novelty and the frustrations, such as longer wait times compared to traditional ride-sharing services ([43:16]).
Public Perception and Adoption:
The hosts note that while some people embrace autonomous taxis for their efficiency and lack of human interaction, others resist due to fears about reliability and job displacement ([44:13]).
Economic and Employment Impact:
Jack Armstrong underscores the potential for massive job losses in ride-sharing and trucking industries, drawing parallels to how Uber and Lyft disrupted traditional taxi services ([46:02]).
Safety and Technological Reliability:
Both hosts discuss the safety advantages of driverless cars compared to human drivers, citing their experience of a smooth and problem-free ride ([46:39]).
Notable Quotes:
Joe Getty [44:13]:
“It's going to eliminate, in the same way that Uber and Lyft eliminated taxis, this is going to eliminate Uber and Lyft.”
Jack Armstrong [46:02]:
“Weird that they've gone with Jaguars. I wonder why. It must be some sort of deal they struck.”
Overview: In the concluding segments, Armstrong and Getty touch upon various topics including the decline of workplace perks in the tech industry, the resurgence of sorghum as a supergrain, and reflections on personal safety and societal changes.
Key Discussions:
Tech Industry Workplace Culture:
The hosts lament the loss of extravagant perks in Silicon Valley, such as free lunches and ping pong tables, attributing it to the increasing pressures of job insecurity and demanding workloads ([23:23]).
Sorghum as the New Supergrain:
Jack Armstrong introduces sorghum as the latest health food trend, comparing it to quinoa and discussing its nutritional benefits and versatility in recipes ([20:21]).
Personal Safety and Gender Dynamics:
Drawing from personal experiences, the hosts discuss how physical vulnerability shapes social interactions and perceptions, particularly among women, linking it back to broader societal issues ([13:09]).
Notable Quotes:
Jack Armstrong [23:28]:
“We'll look into that right away and get some sorghum.”
Joe Getty [13:09]:
“Having raised two daughters has opened my eyes to that a lot because I.”
In this episode titled "I Steal A Lot Of Office Supplies," Armstrong and Getty provide a blend of political analysis, investigative commentary, and personal anecdotes. They critically examine current political trends, delve into historical controversies related to 9/11, and explore the transformative impact of autonomous technology on society. Throughout the discussion, they offer insightful perspectives on how these issues intersect with broader themes of governance, societal values, and technological advancement.
Overall Notable Quote:
Note: This summary excludes advertisements, intros, outros, and non-content sections to focus solely on the substantive discussions between Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.