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Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. Florida police have arrested a woman on charges that she left her 12 year
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old daughter at Universal CityWalk while she
Div
went to a bar.
Gronk
So apparently it's a crime to find that kid a father. Wow, that's funny.
Div
It's dark, dark imagery. So I'm looking, I'm scanning my selection of AI oriented articles and it is so interesting. There's so many of them from the first one we're going to feature, which is provocatively entitled OpenAI's bid to allow X Rated Talk is freaking out its own advisors to stories about the data so far in terms of job displacement and income displacement, that sort of thing, AI is making some people obsolete and others much more valuable, which is the classic new technology model for the way it affects economies. But that deserves its own full blown discussion. So maybe we'll hold off on that
Gronk
aspect before we get to that. Somebody brought up to me yesterday and I'd never used AI for this before, partially because I don't really have a need. But I guess if you're wanting to, you know, it's a common thing to like Google somebody's name just to like learn as much as you can about them for whatever reason you're hiring them for a babysitter or going to date them or whatever it is. I'd never done that. I guess AI is really good at that. You pick one of your chat bots and just say tell me everything you can find about this person. And you get pictures and you know, Reddit posts and just, I mean it really, really is good at bringing up everything that's out there about a person. I'd never thought about that. Obviously it's true. I don't really have a need to do that on a regular basis, but yipes.
Div
That's, that's something gotta do yourself, right?
Gronk
Yeah, I suppose I should.
Div
The Internet knows everything about everybody.
Gronk
It does.
Div
Ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah. So first sex and then why Apple sucks at AI, according to one learned commentator. And I've reached out more than once to ask just anybody at Apple what's going on with that? Drop us a note and just. They're very tight lipped. Anyway, OpenAI's bid to allow X rated talk is freaking out its own advisors in January. See OpenAI, that's your Sam Altman ChatGPT company and also much more advanced stuff. They have a council of advisors on well being and AI. I might call the group the Council on Not Turning this into a monster that ruins humanity. But they met with the company's representatives for an update about the controversial new feature called Adult Mode. Sam Altman said, when was this? Last year. I guess we need to treat adult users like adults. And he floated the idea of enabling erotic conversations in its ChatGPT chatbot and dropping its ban on X rated content. The plan sparked vigorous debate internally over the potential risks. Council members with backgrounds in fields like psychology and cognitive neuroscience had also expressed strong reservations. Then open a high dropped a bombshell. And here is the key sentence they assemble now this, this board of learned professionals and people who understand the human mind, the human psyche. And despite their concerns, it was forging ahead with its erotica plans. In other words, go to hell. No, there's a lot of profit here. Yes, you're all howling your worries at us, but thank you for coming. There's a gift bag by the door. Grab one on your way out.
Gronk
Can I have an adult mode that doesn't include erotica? I mean, just like, you know, grown up versions of news stories or things that are happening in the world that I can handle as a grown up. But it doesn't have to be sex, right?
Div
Right. When they assembled for the January meeting, the council members were unanimous and furious. They warned that AI powered Erotica could foster unhealthy emotional dependence on ChatGPT for users that minors could find ways to access sex chats, according to people at the meeting. The people said the one council member citing cases where ChatGPT have taken their own lives. I'm sorry, ChatGPT users have taken their own lives. Blah, blah, blah. Claim that OpenAI risked creating a, quote, sexy suicide coach. Oh my God.
Gronk
A sexy suicide coach for your lonely, disturbed teen boy. Fantastic.
Div
Poor girl. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh boy. In proposing to allow sexually explicit conversations with its popular chatbot, OpenAI exposed fractures over how to balance rapid user growth and digital freedom with safety and child protection. Blah, blah, blah. Let's see, there's one more part this
Gronk
reminds me of the Futurama clip we played a week or two ago from that cartoon date robot, which was dead on about, you know, young men particularly never leaving their room in the future because of the sexy robot companions.
Div
Good lord. Okay, here it is. One issue the company is tracking. Its new age prediction system aimed at keeping minors away at one point misclassified minors as adults about 12% of the time. That error rate could allow millions of the companies approximately 100 million 18 under under 18 users a week into erotic chats. The company's also rested with how to lift chat GPT's restrictions. Restrictions on erotica while still blocking scenarios the company wants wants to keep off limits like those featuring non consensual behavior or child sexual abuse. When the adult mode launches, OpenAI plans to allow text conversations, but restrict chat GPT's ability to generate erotic images, voice or video. That will not last for a second if there's profit in allowing it.
Gronk
Wow. So at least the beginning. They're only talking about sexy texting, no voice. But over on which one is it? That's got the grock over on Grop Grok. You can do the animated bot that'll talk as sexy to you as you want. And it's weird.
Joe Getty
Don't date robots.
Gronk
I agree, I agree.
Div
We ought to run that whole thing again. It was so great and funny, right? And then that will soon be incorporated into a sex bot that you will have in your home. So God help us all. And finally, my second favorite sentence. There it is. I lost it again. Oh, that's so good. Hang on now I know it's there on the screen. Oh. An OpenAI spokeswoman described its plans as allowing ChatGPT to generate textual chats with adult themes, describing it as smut rather than pornography.
Gronk
Okay.
Div
Oh, okay.
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Gronk
So it's interesting that Grok has a sexy cartoon character that will talk dirty to you in her voice, but OpenAI sees that is going too far. At least for now. Like you said, until there's profit in it.
Div
Yeah, yeah. Oh, boy, we're off the rails. And then this mike from I won't tell you where he's from. Somewhere in America. He works in the tech industry at a data center. A big one. He says, I know firsthand why Apple's behind and why Siri and their AI are so far behind. I've watched firsthand as the big players and he names the biggies are racing to build infrastructure faster than their competitors. I'm watching hundreds of server racks priced at a million And a half dollars apiece get delivered to data centers daily. So that's hundreds of millions of dollars every day. Look in the news. You see these big companies signing agreements with Nvidia and AMD so they can get their chips ahead of everyone else. But who do you not see in the news building out more data centers and buying up more equipment? Apple. I figured out why a couple of years ago. Tim Cook is a cheap ass. He's not spending the money on AI infrastructure. He's trying to make their phones do the work. And as good as the iPhone is not going to compete with thousands of supercomputers, which is why they're buying Google services going forward. But I guarantee I'm not the only one that turns off Siri and Apple AI completely. The only reason I stay is because their iOS is better than Android. But even that is diminishing as Apple eliminates major features with every update. Here's his main point. I'll never forget. Early in my career, my company was changing CEOs from a flashy, outgoing type of person to a boring accountant. Numbers guy. Somebody I respect said boards love boring CEOs. That wisdom has stuck with me. Boards love Tim Cooks. They're predictable. But the Tim Cooks of the world don't know how to innovate. They only know how to milk IP for every penny it's worth. I called this a couple of years ago, and it's only more clear as Tim Cook looks to exit Apple, his period of time at the helm of Apple will be. Study at the university level is one of the greatest examples of a company at the top of its game disappearing overnight. What? Because they couldn't take the risks to stay ahead of their competitors?
Gronk
When is it disappearing? I've got some Apple stock I might want to.
Div
Well, in this era of enormous and rapid change, it's not impossible.
Gronk
He says.
Div
At this point, how is Apple going to catch up? Well, they're going to hire Google. But they're years behind in the arms race. And it is an arms race. The chip makers are years out on their production contracts. Apple hasn't made a new thing or had an innovative idea in 10 years. They're about to fall off a cliff. Mark my words.
Gronk
That's interesting.
Div
Consider them marked. God.
Gronk
What would. What would Steve Jobs be doing with the whole AI thing? He'd be doing something. I guarantee you that.
Div
I think you're absolutely right. Yeah.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Div
Are any of you all familiar with more examples like that from the world of business where the innovative guy gives away to the bean counter CEO and everything stagnates mailbag@armstrong and getty.com.
Gronk
boy, so easy to picture how that would happen though once you, once you the. The innovative, creative, you know, let's try this, let's try that. Guy builds a multi gazillion dollar company and there's all kinds of profit to be made. Next stop. Hold on to it as tight as you can and don't risk anything.
Div
I can picture the board saying we got 23% margins here. Let's not mess with anything.
Gronk
Yeah.
Div
No, don't experiment, don't innovate.
Gronk
I got a new idea for a. No, shut up. We don't want any more new.
Div
What if it doesn't work right? Yeah, human beings.
Gronk
That is really interesting. Yeah, I'm going to think about that one. I didn't know that. So with each update you lose features. Is that. I don't quite understand what that is. So every time they put out a new big iOS update they're taking some stuff away and why?
Div
I don't know.
Gronk
I don't know anything about that. I have to look into it.
Div
Yeah,
Gronk
but things are moving so fast. A name I've never heard in my life could be the dominant AI player two years from now. And the dinosaurs like Apple are left behind. Or Google maybe.
Div
Certainly in the realm of hardware because the it's going to be the software that drives your decision what device to get soon. I mean it already is in a way, but it's going to be even more true. Maybe next hour we can get into the winners and losers so far in the AI replacing human beings game. I found it really interesting and I hope you will too.
Gronk
So Iran is attacking its neighbors still. We're attacking the hell. We're attacking the hell out of Iran as we speak. And it's all about. They're trying to keep the strait of Hormuz closed. We're trying to get it open. We'll have more on that a little bit later. And the price of gas is something right now. All on the way.
Div
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A bunch of crowd noise. I don't know if that told you anything. That was the final pitch as the United States won in the World Baseball Classic yesterday and move into the finals. They, they, that last pitch was a horrible call and that had everybody very, very upset. I wasn't watching the game, but the announcers were like, ooh. And then afterwards in all the post game, it was, ooh, that wasn't even close. And then they used all the base, the technology that they have to look at it. That ball's not even close. So United States getting a favorable call to move into the next round, which is probably what they wanted.
Div
If you want eyeballs here, your conspiracy theories again. I'm working with QAnon over here. Here's your grace.
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Go ahead.
Div
I was going to say, if we're going to play what we're going to play, we probably got to get to it because time is tight.
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So here's a great tease for you. Coming up, Trump has been briefed that Iran's new Supreme Leader is probably gay. And the President has a priceless reaction. So that coming up, as you can possibly imagine. So we were talking a little bit
Div
of weird beard has a beard.
Gronk
So we're talking a little bit ago about the new sex bots and technology for porn and AI chat bots and this thing from Futurama, which is a cartoon that was on 25 years ago. They predicted what life is going to be like when we get this technology.
Joe Getty
Ordinary human dating. It's enjoyable and it serves an important purpose. But when a human dates an artificial mate, there is no purpose, only enjoyment. And that leads to tragedy.
Jack Armstrong
Neato. A Marilyn Monroe bot.
Div
You're a real dreamboat, Billy. Every teen harmless fun.
Joe Getty
Let's see what happens next.
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Billy, do you want to walk here, dog?
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No, thanks, Mom. I'd rather make out with my Monroe bot. Billy, do you want to get a
Div
paper route and earn some extra cash? No, thanks, dad.
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I'd rather make out with my Monroe bottle. Billy, do you want to come over tonight? We can make out together.
Div
Gee, Mavis, your house is across the street.
Gronk
That's an awfully long way to go for making out.
Joe Getty
Did you notice what went wrong in that scene? Ordinarily, Billy would work hard to make money with his paper route. Then he'd use the money to Buy dinner for Mavis. Thus earning a slim chance to perform the reproductive act.
Gronk
How amazing is that? Okay, and it goes on.
Joe Getty
But in a world where teens can date robots, why should he bother? Why should anyone bother? Let's take a look at Billy's planet a year later. Where are all the football stars? And where are the biochemists? They're trapped. Trapped in the soft vice like grip of robot lips. All civilization was just an effort to impress the opposite sites. And sometimes the same sex. Now let's skip forward 80 years into the future. Where's Billy?
Gronk
Farewell.
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The next day, Billy's planet was destroyed by aliens. Have you guessed the name of Billy's planet?
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Div
So a slim chance at the reproductive act. Yep.
Gronk
That is so clearly true.
Div
Oh yeah.
Gronk
Yeah.
Div
All those mouth sounds are a lot.
Gronk
Yeah, I didn't. I didn't need that with my misophonia. That's. Yeah, Div is not enjoying that part.
Div
But it was. Was. So.
Gronk
Do you want to watch the dog? Do you want a paper route?
Div
Do you want to make out?
Gronk
Gee, you're clear across the street. I think I'll just stay here.
Div
Yeah, it's. It's hilarious, but it's. It's being reenacted in real life.
Gronk
Yeah.
Div
Over and over again.
Gronk
And that's just kind of with the physical stuff. It we the psychological part that AI is going to get in terms of appealing to your ego or whatever to keep you entrapped. Oh my God. We're doomed. We're doomed. Don't date robots. We've got a lot more on the way.
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told me in a phone interview Saturday that Iran has been defeated militarily. He also said Tehran is ready to make a deal, but the terms aren't good enough yet. Declining to say what those terms are, the President Added that he is hearing the new Supreme Leader is dead, but did not provide evidence.
Gronk
Yeah, that's interesting. So, coming up, have some info from an expert security expert on how difficult it's going to be to keep Weird Beard Jr. Alive in the modern world.
Div
I've been reading about that, too.
Gronk
Yeah, super fascinating. And then you've got the Benjamin Netanyahu over the weekend. So apparently the Internet exploded with the rumor that he had been killed in one of the strikes. And then so he shows up in a coffee shop, ordering coffee, surrounded by people in public and says, yeah, what? What? People said I'm what? Which is the way you react when the world says you're dead. You have to make a very public show of the fact that you're not. See President Zelensky the night after the initial bombing, when he's out in the street, puts out a video and say, I'm still here. You got to do that. The. The leader of Iran has not at all. So who knows? Maybe it's because he's gay. According to some reports that are now.
Div
I know actual gay people and like, hiding isn't part of their act. But anyway, back to you.
Gronk
Trump was briefed over the weekend that Iran's new Supreme Leader is probably gay. And the President had a priceless reaction, says the New York Post. His reaction was he threw back his head with laughter, apparently. According to people who are familiar with the meeting, Trump couldn't contain his surprise and laughed aloud when briefed on the intel, according to sources. Others in the room also found it hilarious and joined in the President's reaction. While one senior intelligence official has not stopped laughing about it for days.
Div
Wow.
Gronk
I don't know if it's wow. I would laugh for days about it.
Div
Tickled his funny bone.
Gronk
Although, you know, if you got a country that's being run by extremists who
Div
murder gay people and it forced them to undergo surgeries. Yes.
Gronk
The guy that the news. The fact that the new Supreme Leader might be gay is something. The shot.
Div
I don't want to steal anybody's thunder. Did they get into the impotence thing?
Gronk
No, but I'm sure that fits in somewhere.
Div
He doesn't have a physical problem. He feels about having sex with a woman the way I'd feel about having
Gronk
sex with a dude.
Div
Not enthusiastic, so he can't get it up. Pardon me, that was coarse expression.
Gronk
Enthusiastic is how I would be. Also, the shocking claim was described to the New York Post by two intelligence community officials and a third person close to the White House. That's, that's making quite a claim. The New York Post does not make stuff like that up. All three sources say the implausible sounding allegation is viewed as credible by US spy agencies rather than false information intended to undermine him. Because this is classic psyops. You got a country with their culture and government and the people who surround the guy to say, yeah, our intelligence says he's gay. And then you hope the Iranian Revolutionary Guard or somebody turns on him based on this information. So it still could be that going on. Two of the sources said the intelligence indicated that Weird Beard Jr. Earned the nickname the power behind the robes while serving as his aging dad's gatekeeper, had had a long term sexual relationship with his childhood tutor. The third source said the intelligence indicated that the affair was a person who formerly worked for the family. We believe that he was wounded and may have lost a leg and could be in bad shape. Blah, blah, blah, blah. US spy agencies do not have photographic evidence of him being gay. But the sources insisted the tip is solid, with one saying it's derived from one of the most protected sources that the government has, which is probably. We got somebody close, right? Probably that helps.
Div
Oh, yeah. Oh, we. Their Iranian regime is riddled with spies. Yeah.
Gronk
The fact that this was elevated to the highest levels, the President shows that there's a lot of confidence in this. The purported sexual orientation had been whispered about inside Iran since at least May of 2024. And the helicopter crash that killed the then president, who was supposed to be in line to be the next supreme leader, Remember when that helicopter went down, whether you know, Israel got to that helicopter or not, who knows?
Div
You shame if something happened to your helicopter. Said Bibi with.
Gronk
Exactly. Within the US Government, it's been a pretty closely held piece of information that he is gay.
Div
So in the one strike, in the initial round of strikes, with all due respect to the lovely late Mrs. Khamenei, we blew off his beard and killed his beard.
Gronk
Oh, wow. Wow. The statement department file says that Weird Beard, married later in life, has been hospitalized for his impotence. How do you get hospitalized for impotence? I still don't understand what that means.
Div
They probably tried to deprogram him or something, try to turn him straight.
Gronk
Oh, you're right, they believe in that sort of thing.
Div
I mean, because I'm not familiar with any weeks long impotence treatments.
Gronk
I never even heard of such things. No, no, but that what you said makes sense though, because they believe. Yeah, it's a psychological sort of Problem, they put you in the hospital and straighten you out. Wow. So we and or Israel knew that this guy was compromised in this way. One, he's kind of weak. Two, he's gay. Which is not in itself a problem. But it is in that country.
Div
Sure.
Gronk
And we killed. We found a way to take out the guy that was next in line so that this guy was probably next in line. Know that he'd being a weak act. I'll bet that's exactly what happened.
Div
Well, I don't know, because remember a weird beard senior? In his will he listed three guys who wanted to succeed and said, not my son. Why didn't he want his austere scholar son, who was close to the IRGC to succeed him? Because he knew he liked fellas. He wasn't going to turn his boy in because that would have meant curtains. But he didn't want him to succeed either because he knew the secret would get out.
Gronk
And that's the impotence. Like you said, I'm laying here in bed with somebody I have no interest in.
Div
Yeah. Wow. So they spent two weeks to try and gear him up to have sex with his wife so he could have a kid to lay, lay down the, you know, lay rest of the rumors. That's clear to me. So he got in there. It was like when I had like the hypnosis to at least be able to manage my fear of like heights and precipices and stuff like that to do that. The super insider tour of the capitol dome in D.C. barely got through it. They, they like hypnotized him. And God knows what cruel experiments they ran to try to get like, to like girls just enough.
Gronk
I was trying to. I can't make a reference because. Katie, maybe you can help. Who's, who's a well known young hot male. Hot male? Nowadays all my references are out of date because I'm an old man.
Div
My God, man, off the top of
Gronk
your head, who's a hot guy?
Div
Harry?
Gronk
Well, I don't think so.
Div
Harry Styles.
Gronk
He kissed a good dude at the beginning of Saturday Night Live the other night. No, you don't know. You and your friends.
Div
Or are they too long in the tooth?
Gronk
You and your friends don't. I like Ryan Reynolds and like, okay, Ryan Reynolds, fine. So you can't. You can get a naked Ryan Reynolds to like walk around the bedroom while he can stare at Ryan Reynolds while his wife is beneath him. Maybe he can have a kid somehow
Div
and Aaron have the Ryan Reynolds, like talk to him during the act so he can pretend with the dude, Right?
Gronk
That's what you got to do.
Div
Wow, that's innovative.
Gronk
Yeah. Harry Styles kissed a guy at the beginning of Saturday Night Live the other night to prove something, I don't know, gender bending madness.
Div
No.
Gronk
My friend's little sister loved Harry Styles.
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Gronk
I was. Yeah.
Div
I don't know.
Gronk
Okay, yeah, he's cute, but I don't think he. I'm not sure he's interested. Anyway, it's got nothing to do with this. That's.
Div
That's some analysis you're not going to get anywhere else.
Gronk
Where the hell is this going?
Div
I'm going to seize it from the crazed grasp of Mr. Armstrong and point out that the Wall Street Journal is writing as if it's a new thought. And maybe it is to some people. Terrorists are now often made in the usa. Western counterterrorism operated for decades on a simple premise. Threats came from somewhere else, they crossed borders, but now they are among us. Gee, what's changed? So we'll talk about that analysis coming up. Also, a little campus madness next hour.
Gronk
That whole homegrown terrorist thing is obviously highly troubling.
Div
Well, we've allowed millions of people to come into the country willy nilly from all sorts of lands, including where they love Allah more than life.
Gronk
And the coverage of that over the weekend continued to be very disappointing as they ignore what is actually going on. But since it came up, let me mention this real quick. So this guy who's an expert in this, was talking about how difficult it's going to be for the perhaps gay, Weird Beard Jr. To stay alive. This is what he tweeted out. There's emerging conventional wisdom that Trump has bitten off more than he can chew through his calls for unconditional surrender, blah, blah, blah, blah. The case for skepticism is reinforced, by the way, to history. It's really hard to do regime change through the air, but there's certainly this angle to it. The fact that the military has the technological capacity to find targets and kill them, that is light years of light years ahead of where we even were 10 years ago, which is pretty interesting to think about. We're light years ahead of where we were a decade ago in terms of this technology. And the Israelis are similarly equipped. If I were advising the newly appointed Supreme Leader, I'd suggest that he avoid texting in the coming days or really any kind of personal tech, tablets, laptops, and so on. Also using the refrigerator. Keep an eye out for smart features riding in a car, any car manufactured in the last 15 years. Very risky. Especially in the vicinity of any traffic cameras or going outside at all. Or being inside really if the presence of anything that collects data is around him.
Div
Everybody watch your smart tv.
Gronk
Every exposure to one of these that anything that has sensors that now saturate our world adds to the chances that his specific location at any given time will be known to Israeli or American targets and and we can hit him full on. Paranoia has never been more justified than for Iran's new hardline top man.
Div
I like gotta fall back to watching his VHS collection as a Queer Eye for the Straight guy. VHS tapes, right? And wear those puppies out.
Gronk
I like that. Do not go outside or stay inside.
Div
Don't use the fridge if it's a smart fridge, right?
Gronk
Or any car in the last 15 years. Yeah, so maybe we will blow his beard off one of these days. Okay. We got more on the way. Stay here.
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The guy who is accused of driving his vehicle through that synagogue, which is also a school. Children were there. There were 140 children and teachers who were not injured. Now there are ties to what's happening in Lebanon. We were wondering, we heard he lost his niece and his nephew in Lebanon and we were wondering, is that why he did this? Well, now it's being confirmed. He lost his brother who's a commander over there. He lost another brother. He lost his niece and his nephew on March 5. And then he goes and does this last Thursday.
Div
All right, that was an unnecessarily rambly and Ainsley ish clip from Fox and Fiends. But yeah, the man who drove into the Michigan synagogue intent on murdering as many little Jewish kids as he possibly could is the brother of a Hezbollah commander.
Gronk
Well, it's being presented as his family members died at the hands of the Israelis. So you can understand why he'd be distraught enough to murder four year olds, which is kind of a weird way to look at the world. But the fact that his brother is a commander in Hezbollah, he might have had other reasons to want to kill Jews. I'm thinking
Div
as a commander in the Iranian backed and financed proxy militia that's seeking to wipe Jews off the map. Yes, I think he came into the game with a bit of a bias. The fact that we don't have a handle on guys who are brothers of Hezbollah commanders is a failing of our intelligence. You'd think you might want to know that.
Gronk
Hmm. And again, this.
Div
This analysis in the Wall Street Journal, you know, it's informative enough, but it strikes me as naive as people are just catching up. But I'll read part of it for you, then we can discuss. But Western counterterrorism operating for decades on a simple premise. Threats came from somewhere else. They crossed borders, they arrived with suspicious travel documents, fraudulent documents, histories, or known affiliations. Stop them there and the interior remains secure. That premise is no longer holding. The days since the Iran war began have seen at least four apparent terrorist attacks in the US Two of them on Thursday, and all of them either by immigrants to our land who are here legally or in the case of the would be firebombing near Gracie Mansion. Cnn, not of Mundani on behalf of Mumdani. Anyway, those guys were sons of immigrants. Then they write, the violence that unsettled Western societies throughout 2025 looked nothing like earlier eras of clandestine crossings and centrally directed terrorist cells. Increasingly, the danger emerges inside societies that still treat admission as the end of the security process rather than the beginning of one. Shift isn't simply about the number of attacks. It's where the failure occurs. So they're very, very beautifully written and a tad wordy, saying, yeah, yeah, there are a lot of people, Muslim specifically, who came into the country legally and the process said, yes, they should be allowed to come in, or Joe Biden just let them stream across the border. But now that they're here, they're like, yeah, I'm on the side of the Muslim fanatics, not the U.S. and that's the new terrorism. Yeah, we know. They make the point that some of it's driven by, like, personal grievances and just being a loser. But that's been true throughout human history.
Gronk
Yeah, you're right. I hadn't thought about that. You would think we would have. Although maybe they. They. He was on a watch list, this guy. He was on some watch list meaning Me. Even if we're aware of the fact that his brother is a Hezbollah commander. What are you going to do? Pretty.
Div
He's a former Army National Guard guy, right?
Gronk
Yeah, but. Well, he tried to join the Guard, but then didn't end up serving, I think.
Div
Oh.
Gronk
So I wondered if maybe that was one of those infiltrate the, you know, the Guard and then fire on your own people thing that has been so popular around the world. Don't know that. But that might have been his plan at the time.
Div
Yeah. See, they share several threads. Lawful presence, few warning signals. Online radicalization and attacks carried out without the fingerprints of an organized network. Well, depends which one you're talking about. But radicalization really follows a single path. For some, ideology comes first. For others, the trigger is grievance isolation or personal instability, which gradually hardens inside online echo chambers where resentments circulate freely. Social media has accelerated the process, allowing extremist narratives to spread quickly and widely. One more reason to unplug the Internet.
Gronk
It is
Div
at least worth noting what we discussed in the wake of several different shootings and assassination attempts that that often it's just an angry person who wants to be violent. They're looking for an excuse for violence. They come across an ideology that they never even thought about before. Haven't worked for years on, haven't like tried to raise awareness. No, they're brand new to it and think that's my excuse. I'm going to kill somebody. And they do it. And there could be some of that. Absolutely. In this
Gronk
man is flying a mess right now. Our executive producer is stuck somewhere else and not here today because of weather. And you combine that with the TSA shortage everywhere and you're going to have some real airport messes around the country.
Div
Plus I mentioned to him that, yeah, I'd heard that some airfares are doubled and he said, keep going up.
Gronk
Oh, really? I haven't. I'm not going anywhere for a while, so I haven't looked into it, but. And then that whole get to the airport three hours early thing.
Div
Three hours for a two hour flight. I'm driving, going both ways.
Gronk
Yeah, I keep forgetting there's a partial government shutdown going on, so I guess I gotta work that out.
Div
It's a measure of how dysfunctional our politics are that the Democrats are sticking with a Department of Homeland Security shut down now. I mean, not just the war with Iran and everything, but the air travel and such. And absolutely nobody is blaming the Republicans to the extent anybody's paying attention at all.
Gronk
Should have it doesn't feel that way for whatever reason, but they still want
Div
to shut down ice, which is really last month's issue.
Gronk
Yeah, gosh help you if you are flying. I'm glad I'm not. Hopefully it will all be resolved soon. We got some other news to catch you up on. The economics of a whole bunch of different things and lots of fun stuff, so I hope you can stick around. If you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong
Div
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Podcast Overview & Detailed Content Summary
This episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand is centered around several major themes: the controversy and implications of AI-powered erotic chatbots (“adult mode”) from OpenAI, Apple’s purported stagnation in the AI arms race, developments in the Middle East—particularly Iran’s leadership and regime change rumors, and the evolution of homegrown terrorism in the U.S. The tone maintains Armstrong & Getty’s signature blend of sharp satire, irreverence, and serious cultural criticism, punctuated by well-timed humor and pop culture asides.
The episode oscillates between darkly comedic, analytical, and deadpan, always maintaining the original irreverent Armstrong & Getty wit. Pop culture references, zingers, and “only here” style analysis keep the pace lively and engaging even when dissecting serious subjects.
This episode offers a sweeping tour of AI ethics, tech industry strategy, global politics, and domestic security—all filtered through Armstrong & Getty’s clever, sometimes brash filter. Whether you’re curious about the implications of AI-enabled adult chat, the fate of Apple, or the evolution of terrorism, you’ll find the hosts incisive, skeptical, and always entertaining.
Skip the ads; stay for the wisecracks, the unvarnished analysis, and the Futurama references. "Not Enthusiastic!" is classic Armstrong & Getty—irreverent, informed, and a bit anarchic.