The A&G Replay Wednesday Hour One

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: The A&G Replay Wednesday Hour One
Date: August 27, 2025
Host: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

The first hour of this Armstrong & Getty replay episode is a fast-moving, entertaining blend of language analysis, technology anxieties, personal anecdotes, and political commentary. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty banter about the power of words in everyday reviews, dive into the societal impacts of artificial intelligence (AI), reminisce about obsolete technology, and dissect the current political landscape using new polling data. Several moments of sharp wit, personal stories, and reflective observations make this a quintessential A&G hour.

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Highlights & Key Discussion Points

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1. The Power of Words in Reviews

[04:19–14:40]

• Summary: Jack dives into a YouGov study ranking English words (mainly those used in reviews) by their positivity or negativity on a 0–10 scale. Joe and Jack riff on how people interpret reviews, the context of descriptive words, and share memorable dining disasters.
• Most Negative to Most Positive:
  • Abysmal is the most negative (the "clear winner" at the bottom).
  • Perfect is the most positive, with outstanding and excellent close behind.
• Comedic Illustrations:
  • Joe on the extremity needed for "abysmal":

    "The waiter would have to punch me in the face and give me rancid meat, I think, as I was being attacked by rats." – Joe Getty ([06:41])

  • Jack and Joe riff on positive words' rankings, with Jack declaring:

    "I'm superb at using the word superb." – Jack Armstrong ([09:01])

• Key Insight:
  • "Average" sits exactly in the middle of descriptors, confirming the crowd’s linguistic intuition.
  • The more spectacularly bad or good an experience, the more likely you are to retell it.
  • Joe shares an “appalling” Denny’s story, highlighting how abysmal experiences make better anecdotes than just “average” ones.

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2. Nostalgia & Technology: Farewell to AOL Dial-Up

[15:16–17:23]

• Reminiscing about AOL:
  • Discussion of AOL discontinuing its dial-up application after 34 years.
  • Joe:

    "As of today they no longer have a dial up application… There were still a quarter of a million people doing the dial up for AOL. They probably also eat roadkill and marry their sisters. But wow." ([15:49])

  • Jack remembers failed internet downloads when a phone call would knock you offline—reflecting on how far we've come.

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3. Learning to Drive Stick & Attractiveness of Hobbies

[17:23–21:07]

• Teaching Stick Shift:
  • Joe recounts teaching his son to drive a manual transmission and how rare that skill is now.
  • Jack quips:

    "For all they know, he's captaining the starship Enterprise." ([17:41])

• Survey: Attractiveness of Hobbies:
  • Tease for their “One More Thing” podcast: Top hobby women find attractive is reading (98.2% favorability).
    • Jack jokes:

      "Cross-dressing. Maybe you can swap clothes and stuff!" ([18:41])

  • Least attractive: "Manosphere" podcasts (3.1% favorability).
    • Joe:

      "Who are your 3.1%? You know what I like in a guy? Guys who hate me because I’m a woman." ([20:50])

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4. AI, Cognitive Offloading & The Death of Mental Grunt Work

[25:25–34:53]

• AI’s Impact on Work and Thinking:
  • Analysis spurred by an Alicia Finley WSJ column.
  • AI is set to replace not only rote work but potentially hinder cognitive development—especially for young grads.
  • Jack:

    "I'm just, I'm—there's nothing I can do about it, so I try not to worry about it." ([25:33])

  • The concept of “cognitive offloading”—letting AI do the thinking for us—may short-circuit the process of developing higher-order thinking skills.
• Handwriting vs. Typing:
  • New research shows handwriting fosters learning and memory, whereas typing is less effective for those goals.
  • Joe:

    "I hate the term journaling… it sounds so wussy. My son would say gay, and so would all his high school friends, including gay ones." ([29:12])

• Value of Boredom and Daydreaming:
  • Jack disciplines himself to spend time daily just doing nothing, to let subconscious synthesis happen.

    • "I am committed to being not occupied a certain chunk of the day." ([33:14])

  • They compare boredom’s benefits to athletes practicing scales in music or doing crossword puzzles.

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5. AI in Football & The Future of Coaching

[34:53–38:40]

• AI in Sports Strategy:
  • The NFL is on the verge of an AI-driven transformation in coaching and play selection; teams are already hiring "AI coordinators."
  • Joe wonders what will happen when it’s "computer vs. computer," not coach vs. coach.

    • "That will ruin the sport for a season or two before they have to get rid of it." – Joe Getty ([38:24])

  • Jack reads:

    "I feel pretty confident saying that some team is going to win a Super Bowl in the next few years utilizing AI at a very high rate…" ([36:59])

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6. Current Political Landscape: Democratic Party in Trouble

[42:31–47:08]

• New Polling Data:
  • Democrats have just 33% favorable, 63% unfavorable—a 30-point deficit, their worst since 1990.
  • Even when people disapprove of Trump’s handling of issues (like inflation), they trust Republicans in Congress more.
  • Joe’s “crazy factor” theory:

    "You're the people that want boys playing girls’ sports. You're the people that want me to say Latinx. You're the people that think we shouldn't have police. I don't trust you on anything. I think it's the crazy factor." ([44:10])

  • Jack:

    "You put a grown man in my little girl's locker room. Yeah, exactly." ([44:21])

  • Only 8% are "very favorable" to Democrats, with GOP scoring about 2.5 times higher in strong approval.
  • Discussion on Democrats’ future, mentioning AOC as a possible future party face but also suggesting a moderate blue state governor is more likely.

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Notable Quotes

• On Extreme Experiences:

  "The great thing about appalling and abysmal experiences is they make for a good story. It's almost better than slightly below average…you wasted your money, you're not satisfied. But something like abysmal, you’re going to be telling people about it, having laughs."
  — Joe Getty ([12:28])

• On the Power and Danger of AI:

  "I'm completely convinced that mankind has invented its doom… I hope my kids are smart and savvy enough to, you know, to have happy lives in spite of the coming AI apocalypse."
  — Jack Armstrong ([25:25])

• On Journaling & Modern Masculinity:

  "I hate the term journaling… it sounds so wussy. My son would say gay, and so would all his high school friends, including gay ones."
  — Joe Getty ([29:12])

• On Political Messaging:

  "You're the people that want boys playing girls’ sports. You're the people that want me to say Latinx. You're the people that think we shouldn't have police. I don't trust you on anything. I think it's the crazy factor."
  — Joe Getty ([44:10])

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Memorable Moments & Humor

• "A turd sandwich" as a rating not present in the survey ([14:28]).
• Jack’s repeated riffs on word rankings and sarcastic, dry delivery.
• Joe’s Denny’s disaster story: A cook walks out in the middle of service, leading to a memorable family tale ([13:38]).
• Playful speculation about the attractiveness of cross-dressing as a hobby ([18:41]).
• Jack’s left-handed writing struggles and the etymology of "sinister" ([30:26]).

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Timestamps of Major Segments

| Time | Topic | |--------------|-------------------------------------------------------| | 04:19–14:40 | Word rankings in reviews; anecdote-heavy analysis | | 15:16–17:23 | AOL dial-up nostalgia; obsolescence of old tech | | 17:23–21:07 | Stick shift lessons; hobbies that attract women | | 25:25–34:53 | AI’s cognitive effects; impact on learning & memory | | 34:53–38:40 | AI in sports, implications for coaching and strategy | | 42:31–47:08 | Poll: Dem party favorability; crazy factor theory |

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Tone, Style & Language

True to the show’s signature style, the episode blends quick wit, plainspoken skepticism, and pop culture references. Jack is breezy and sarcastic; Joe is candid, animated, and willing to poke fun at himself and society’s absurdities. The pair use humor to draw out the implications of serious trends, but never let a topic get too heavy without a self-deprecating aside or a relatable personal story.

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Conclusion

This replay hour is classic Armstrong & Getty: fast, funny, full of smart skepticism and memorable language. Whether laughing over "abysmal" dining, debating the doom of AI, or firing shots at political absurdity, Jack and Joe deliver infotainment that’s both thought-provoking and unmistakably their own.

Transcript

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Now broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadc Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and get it.

[Joe Getty]

And now he welcome to a replay of the Armstrong and Getty Show. We are on vacation, but boy do we have some good stuff for you.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes, indeed we do.

[Joe Getty]

And if you want to catch up.

[Jack Armstrong]

On your ang listening during your travels, remember grab the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. You ought to subscribe wherever you like to get podcasts. Now on with the infotainment. So I love this. This is funny. I like words. I think that's obvious. But they're fun to play with. And I came across this article that's just terrific. The guy starts with Go shopping online. Just about everything you look at will have a star rating based on, you know, previous customers, right? Many of them phony. Which makes shopping online a bit difficult. But and he says it's less easy. Easy to quantify things in such a way in day to day life. For instance, if your friend was telling you about a product or a restaurant or whatever, where would their description fall on the star scale? Blah blah blah. Well, he said, you're in the dark no longer. A new YouGov study reveals exactly how positively and negatively the population perceives various words or descriptions to be. They have a few dozen words. Then ask people to score them on a scale from 0 to 10, with 0 being very negative to 10 being very positive. And as an explanation, I will tell you that of the 40 words tested, abysmal was Seen as the most negative.

[Joe Getty]

Okay, so this is like. So you ask me, how. How was that restaurant you went to? And I say, great. They figured out what great means to people.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes.

[Joe Getty]

Okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right. Where it fits on the scale. So abysmal is seen as the most negative.

[Joe Getty]

Well, if I said to you, so, what do you think of that restaurant? You said it was abysmal. Yeah. I wouldn't try it. I mean, it's not like I would. I think. Oh, that's just his opinion.

[Jack Armstrong]

Would there be any doubt as to what my opinion is, using the word abysmal? No. Slightly less bad comes the closely clustered.

[Joe Getty]

Fighting it out for second place.

[Jack Armstrong]

Awful, terrible, and very bad. Now, on the other end of the scale.

[Joe Getty]

That's interesting. So awful, terrible, and very bad. Obviously a fairly negative review. But.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I'll do the but measurably above abysmal. Yeah. Abysmal is the clear winner. Clear winner.

[Joe Getty]

I'm trying to imagine what would have to happen in a restaurant before I would say that. I mean, the waiter would have to punch me in the face and give me rancid meat, I think, as I.

[Jack Armstrong]

Was being attacked by rats. Yes, yes.

[Joe Getty]

Abysmal was my experience.

[Jack Armstrong]

At the other end of the scale, perfect is the most positively regarded word with an average score of 9.16. Only one other word managed to break the nine point barrier. Remember, we're on a 0 to 10 scale, which was outstanding. Just edging out. Excellent. For second place, perfect is similar to abysmal.

[Joe Getty]

It'd be a hard to reach. Also, they gave me Kobe steak, didn't charge me, and I had an orgasm.

[Jack Armstrong]

I hope you excused yourself before that last one. Anyway, I had one. I've had a couple experiences I probably have described as perfect or something close to it, but they also went with an enormous price tag. Right.

[Joe Getty]

Like your.

[Jack Armstrong]

Your anniversary and not like your 21st, only like your 20th and 25th. That sort of place you go to.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that's. That is a good point, too. Yeah, I. I say that to the kids a lot because I rarely complain about service. But, like, sometimes if we're at a really, really fancy place, I don't expect to sit around thirsty for very long if I'm going to drop a whole bunch of money. You know what I'm saying? And. Right, so you have different standards. I met Denny's. They don't come back to refill my water.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's what I expected. Yeah. Yeah. All right, so let's. I think it would be better, more entertaining to go from the best to the worst, the words as rated by thousands of people. All right, we'll start with perfect and work our way down.

[Joe Getty]

Perfect. Included in orgasm.

[Jack Armstrong]

As we remember, each one gets less and less appealing. Perfect. Outstanding. Excellent. Incredible. I would have incredible ahead of excellent, but this is a poll wisdom of the crowds. Yeah. Brilliant. Superb. This is getting less impressive as we go.

[Joe Getty]

I've never used. I don't think I've ever used the.

[Jack Armstrong]

Word superb, but, oh, I do, constantly. I'm superb at using the word superb. The differences between these various words. Very, very.

[Joe Getty]

I'd say, do you use it seriously or sarcastically?

[Jack Armstrong]

No, I mean, like, the point total depends on my setting. On the setting.

[Joe Getty]

He's been good at using super as a sarcastic comment for various things. It's always made me laugh.

[Commercial Host]

Super.

[Joe Getty]

Super.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, super. But this is superb with the B shows sophistication. Anyway, moving along. Fantastic. Awesome. Very good. Really good. Which is not as good as Very good. Great. Good. Oh, that's right. I forgot to tell you. It's. It's actually bang in the middle. Is average. I mean, that is exactly in the middle of these descriptors. Average.

[Joe Getty]

Wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Isn't that funny? And, you know, I mean, of course it is, but it's funny that it is.

[Joe Getty]

I will go to a place if somebody tells me it's average. If the price is low, probably, and it's convenient to me.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, it's funny. There's a restaurant Judy and Delaney and I went to the other day and a lot of our friends go to it. And once again, we're like, it's okay. But the one word people use constantly describe it as consistent. Their food is really consistent. We have a place. B minus. Every time you go, yeah, we have a place, it's like a B minus, but it's the charm that we go for. It's not really the food. Yeah, yeah, okay. Anyway, so remember, these words are getting less impressive. Great, Good. Pretty good, above average. Decent, Quite good, somewhat good. Fine. Satisfactory.

[Joe Getty]

Fine is.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, okay, all right. Fair, not bad. Average. And again, that was the average score. Weird. Mediocre, Below average. We've definitely departed. Thumbs up, folks. We're in thumbs down territory.

[Joe Getty]

We're in probably not going back territory.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. So, all right, so average, mediocre, below average, somewhat bad, pretty bad, quite bad, poor. And then just bad. Unsatisfactory. Rubbish. The original version of this poll was in Britain, then they did it in America. Slight differences, but not meaningful enough to mention. Rubbish. Really bad. Very bad. Very bad is seen as 0.9% worse than very bad, than really bad.

[Joe Getty]

There was a hair in my soup. There was more hair in my salad. And then once again, hair in my entree.

[Jack Armstrong]

The experience went from really bad to very bad. Terrible, awful, dreadful, appalling.

[Joe Getty]

Can I get a razor to shave some of my food? Everything has hair in it.

[Jack Armstrong]

And finally, abysmal. Abysmal. The worst. Although if somebody told me our experience was appalling, I mean, even clear enough. That's hilarious. Who decided to rank these words?

[Joe Getty]

Well, the great thing about appalling and abysmal experiences is they make for a good story. It's almost better than slightly below average, because then you just, you know, you don't have a story. You wasted your money, you're not satisfied. But something like abysmal, you're going to be telling people about it, having laughs.

[Jack Armstrong]

I tell that story way more than, like, a perfect dinner.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah. Like, my kids and I have a. Coincidentally, because I mentioned it, a Denny story from Arizona, ones from way, way back when they tried to get these. When they were little kids and they tried to get these pancakes. It was at Christmas time, and they made, like, a Santa out of the pancakes. Anyway, that was when I. We never got our food. And I went up to the kitchen to try to figure out what was going on, and. And the waitress was yelling at the cook, and the cook quit and left right in front of me. It was really quite the thing to see. But I still talk about that because it was an appalling experience, but it was entertaining.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, wow. So, all right, finally, final note. So if you've had an experience that was just completely average but slightly better, you'd say mediocre and just slightly worse. Not bad. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

That story, Katie, quickly, is. So we sat there. We sat there. We sat there with that there, like, what's going on? I go up to the kitchen where you can, like, you know, there's a. Like a bar there, and you can see into the kitchen at a place like.

[Jack Armstrong]

Didn't the mater D say anything?

[Joe Getty]

It's a diner. And. And the waitress is standing there, and the. The. The cook is in there completely ignoring her with a blank look on his face, like, flipping burgers and bacon and stuff, like. And she keeps saying, can you hear me?

[Jack Armstrong]

Are.

[Joe Getty]

Are you going to. Are you going to make the food? What. What are you doing? What is happening here? And he just kept looking straight ahead and kind of doing things slowly. And then pretty soon he just walked out, and I assume he left.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know what happened there but.

[Jack Armstrong]

That had been brewing for a while. I have a feeling. You know.

[Joe Getty]

She couldn't get a response out of him.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's dreadful.

[Joe Getty]

He kept awful.

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A turd sandwich.

[Jack Armstrong]

A turd sandwich. But we didn't ask about that one.

[Joe Getty]

We still laugh about that experience at Denny's though. So I got something out of it again. I'd rather have appalling.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Than below average.

[Jack Armstrong]

What would be worse? A T S. I'm not going to repeat the. The phrase. Or a fuster cluck. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Mine was really more of a fuster cluck than a. Yeah. Than the food being bad. Because we never got right. We had to go somewhere else.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right.

[Joe Getty]

That's a pretty good story.

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That is the famous sound of dialing up AOL America Online from back in the day. That was most of our entry points into email for one thing. And then any kind of social media. Back in the day you got mail. Thank you. Thank you for that. I.

[Jack Armstrong]

How exciting.

[Joe Getty]

I probably still have mail on my account from. So after 34 years I think I read as of today they no longer have a dial up application. They still did.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

As of today.

[Jack Armstrong]

Like two families in rural Tennessee.

[Joe Getty]

I don't know. But the most recent statistics I heard were from 2019 where there were still a quarter of a million people doing the dial up for aol. They probably also eat roadkill and marry their sisters. But wow.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wait a minute now. Unfortunate cliche.

[Joe Getty]

But you. But they're. Hey, sorry Clem, you and your sister wife are going to have to get WI fi or something because no longer dial up for aol. So that's the end of that.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I remember downloading stuff for the show at the dawn of the Internet. And if anybody called the house while I was doing it it completely ruined the whole process which took like 15 minutes to download, you know, a handful of pages worth of text.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. It certainly looked there for quite a few years that this was never like gonna catch on and be that big a deal. But little did we know.

[Jack Armstrong]

Totally overrated.

[Joe Getty]

So there's that. This is going to be a tease for something we will do. How much time I got, Michael? You've got about five minutes. Maybe I'll start here. Started in on teaching my son to drive over the weekend. Specifically driving a stick shift. We've done a lot of driving. Living on a farm. Like we have 20 acres. And he's driven all over in various vehicles since he was, I don't know, seven years old. So you can just put him in a field with the truck and go drive around, try not to hit something and nothing happens. So it's not that he hadn't ever driven before, but driving a stick shift that. That's brand new to him. This, a vehicle that I bought him is a five speed. So I was interesting. He did.

[Jack Armstrong]

Very hard to find, aren't they?

[Joe Getty]

He did very, very well. I was very excited for him and he seemed to really enjoy it. So that was fun. Killed it once. I said, you're gonna kill it in front of your friends. Guaranteed you're gonna kill it in front of your friends and it's gonna be embarrassing. It happens. You'll be all right. But.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, but they don't know how to drive a stick.

[Joe Getty]

Probably not.

[Jack Armstrong]

For all they know, he's captain captaining the starship Enterprise, you know.

[Joe Getty]

Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

Be mysterious and difficult in there. Right.

[Joe Getty]

This is what we're going to do in the One More Thing podcast. And if you don't listen to that every day after the four hours of radio that we do, we do another podcast only thing called One More Thing. And you can find it wherever you find Armstrong and get a podcast wherever you're finding Armstrong and Getty on demand. But we'll get to this. Today there was a survey done that I found this interesting as a single guy. The most attractive hobbies to women that a man can have. And they listed them by a lot, like a whole bunch of them. And this, this is legit. It's not a dumb survey. The most attractive hobbies to women. The least attractive hobbies to women. And we can go through them in detail, but I was happy to see that the most attractive hobby to women as a percentage, at 98.2% favorability, was reading.

[Jack Armstrong]

Cross dressing.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, reading as a reader.

[Jack Armstrong]

Maybe you can swap clothes and stuff. No, reading is, as it turns out. Okay, go on.

[Joe Getty]

Cross dressing would have an advantage, wouldn't it, if it was your size? You'd have to date a guy your size.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

So they have to be, well, depending on your size, a pretty, pretty small dude or. Well, it depends.

[Jack Armstrong]

Famously, some of the tiny little fellas in the Rolling Stones, that's how they got their fashion senses. They swapped clothes with their girlfriends. Wow. Because dudes were so skinny and weedy at that point.

[Joe Getty]

Have I ever had a girlfriend I could swap clothes with? I'm pretty sure not because I'm A D cup. So. So we'll get into the list when we do the One More Thing podcast. But just why do you think reading is the most attractive trait to women? What's your theory on that?

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, I'm not sure I could come up with anything that isn't like super obvious. I mean, it shows a certain level of mental power, curiosity, intellect.

[Joe Getty]

So is it basically just I want a smart person, his brain works. So is that a just like shorthand for I want a smart person?

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, interesting about this list and I haven't seen it yet, but there's the question of universal acceptance because you said it's 98% or so, but how much enthusiasm does it generate? Is it great or is it just acceptable to everyone? You know what I mean, right?

[Joe Getty]

Yes, Michael, I think you're trying to.

[Jack Armstrong]

Show that you're better in yourself and so that you're looking to gain more knowledge. You're looking to be a better man.

[Joe Getty]

That could be that. That's pretty good too.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's good. Astute observation.

[Joe Getty]

That was. You want the least popular? I don't exactly know what I mean, but the hobby they have as a hobby. Manosphere, which is what they call people who listen to like Joe Rogan and all those kind of podcasts and are into that sort of thing.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, more like the T brothers and some of the real misogynist stuff.

[Joe Getty]

That's the least popular. Well, why would that be popular?

[Jack Armstrong]

People that are in sending it.

[Joe Getty]

No, for women, of course it's not popular. Only 3.1%. Who are your 3.1%? You know what I like in a guy? Guys who hate me because I'm a woman. That's what I really like in a guy.

[Jack Armstrong]

You're weird. Contempt for me.

[Joe Getty]

Yes, me and all my friends.

[Jack Armstrong]

Then dog fighting.

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[Jack Armstrong]

When I can barely start, I fall down easy, but I get up slow. I really, really hope that the so speaking of technology, a different sort An AI story. I am completely convinced that mankind has invented its doom. I'm just, I'm there's nothing I can do about it, so I try not to worry about it. I hope my kids are smart and savvy enough to, you know, to have happy lives in spite of the coming AI apocalypse.

[Joe Getty]

If nothing else, the biggest change in the shortest amount of time that's probably ever happened, which would be whipsawing, even if it turns out okay.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yes. Yeah. Alicia Finley, who writes for the the Journal Opinion page, who I think is just terrific. One of my favorite writers has a piece today, I think it is, or recently, analyzing what people are saying so far, including the CEO of Amazon, about AI with that employee memo that he sent out, the key line of which was we will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today and more people doing other types of jobs. And that the people who will keep their jobs are people who learn how to use AI effectively. And he explained that AI advances mean employees will do less rote work and more thinking strategically, which sounds really super great. And all this will require a higher level of cognition than does the rote work many white collar employees now do. But as AI is getting smarter, I'll start quoting Alicia now. Younger college grads may be getting dumber. Like early versions of ChatGPT, they can regurgitate information and ideas, but struggle to come up with novel insights or analyze issues from different directions. And then she goes in an interesting direction. And this is the fruit of the tree of knowledge stuff. We don't know what we're doing to ourselves. She mentions the brain continues to develop and mature into one's mid-20s, some of us longer than that. But like a muscle, it needs to be exercised, stimulated, and challenged to grow stronger. Technology, and especially AI can stunt this development by doing the mental work that, that builds the brain's version of a computer cloud, a phenomenon called cognitive offloading.

[Joe Getty]

Cool.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Yeah, cool. But growing research shows, and I remember we talked about this a while ago, we had a debate about cursive, cursive writing, which seems silly and unnecessary in handwriting in general. But then these studies have come out that show that handwriting engages parts of your brain that play a crucial role in learning and help children with word and letter recognition. But more than that, taking, taking notes by hand also promotes memory development by forcing you to synthesize and prioritize information. When you plunk away on a keyboard, on the other hand, information can go, as it were, in one ear and out the other. And then they studied the electrical activity of university students during the activities of handwriting and typing. And the way their brains worked were very, very different. Now that's just kind of a side point to the greater point, which is. And the dopey grunt work that now the computers do can do or the AI can do is the very dopey grunt work that give. Builds the neural muscles it takes to do the more advanced stuff. You can't skip to bench pressing £250, having not bench pressed £100 ever, neurologically speaking.

[Joe Getty]

That's really interesting. I was just thinking, in my own life, I do some. I hate the term journaling. I don't know, it sounds so wussy. My son would say gay, and so would all his high school friends, including gay ones.

[Jack Armstrong]

But it's funny, isn't it?

[Joe Getty]

But anyway, writing about things that are, you know, difficult to try to, to get them out or figure them out. But I do it a lot. Typing into my notes in my phone. And you're, you're saying that doesn't count, that that doesn't work right?

[Jack Armstrong]

In the same way, I might be.

[Joe Getty]

Completely wasting my time.

[Jack Armstrong]

I hate handwriting.

[Joe Getty]

I do too.

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm left handed. I have short fingers. I just. The physical act of handwriting I hate. It's just physically, that's funny.

[Joe Getty]

My, my uncomfortable. My son, who's left handed is that way. He just, he just, he. He almost says it hurts. It's just like he hates. It's physically awful for him to do.

[Jack Armstrong]

It does get kind of crampy because you're taught that your letters ought to have a certain slant. Slant and if you're left handed, you have to like form a hook with your hand and write sideways.

[Joe Getty]

You're some sort of degenerates. We've all, we all know it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, you know, if you don't know this, you should. The, the word sinister is Latin for left handed for good reason. Right. And what's the, the, the equivalent? Right handed. It's like noble or something. Anyway, that's why I'm a Satanist. Anyway, moving along, then you get. Well, I kind of made the point already. But if you don't do the stuff to work up to the advanced stuff, you'll never be able to do the advanced stuff. And college and high school students are increasingly using large language models like ChatGPT to write papers, perform mathematical proofs and create computer code. That means they don't learn to think through, express or defend ID's ideas. And aha. Moments occur spontaneously within your brain with a sudden burst of high frequency electrical activity. When the brain connects seemingly unrelated concepts, it finds the connections and sees patterns. And then it says, oh, wow. And we're denying ourselves all of the grunt work to get there.

[Joe Getty]

Wow, that's interesting. I've had that happen with music before. With after years of doing. It's like learning scales and then something else and then somehow it all comes together at one point.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And makes sense so that it can happen with these, this other stuff. But we're skipping the first part. We're skipping the scales as a quick aside.

[Jack Armstrong]

And I realize this sounds kind of silly and makes it clear that I'm an old bastard at this point, but Judy and I are really into doing crossword puzzles. We do like the hard New York Times, like Friday through Sunday crossword puzzles. And I will. And we do them as a team, which is fun and brings us together. But I will be utterly stumped. Saturday's the hardest one. Sunday is kind of a mind blank because often there's a trick within the puzzle. But Saturday is really hard. And often I will be completely stumped and I will go away for an hour, two hours, I will come back and I will crush it. What happened there, that's worth thinking about.

[Joe Getty]

I've been utilizing that my whole life, like writing papers for school. I always knew that if about it, thought about it, thought about it, couldn't come up with it. If I slept, I'd wake up and I'd have it.

[Jack Armstrong]

I would have it. Yeah, well. And I.

[Joe Getty]

What does happen? I'm reading this book right now. It's a Graham Green. He's a fantastic author if you've never written his stuff. But he's. He's in this novel I'm reading right now. It's about an author, so he's talking about himself, basically. But how writing is something that happens while you're not thinking about it. He says you're gathering all this information, coming up with plot ideas is. And then the writing happens when you're not thinking about it, and then it comes out on the page. So it's just exactly what you're describing. It's your brain is doing something while you're asleep or occupied. Doing something else synthesizes it and then it comes out or.

[Jack Armstrong]

And this is a bit of a quibble and this is what I was about to say. I'm not going to lecture you, but I now discipline myself harshly, using a lash to be bored a certain amount of the day, to be doing nothing, reading nothing, looking at nothing but the trees in the sky and my dog peeing over there. I. I am committed to being not occupied a certain chunk of the day.

[Joe Getty]

So you're like Putty Elaine's boyfriend, sitting on the plane, just staring at the seat back?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I'm fine.

[Joe Getty]

Do you want something to read? No, I'm all right. No, anything? Crossword puzzle?

[Jack Armstrong]

I'm fine. Yeah, I sat next to a lady like that a few months ago, I think I talked about it on the air and it was freaking me out. It was weird me out. I was like going to take over the plane or kill me or explode into a rage or. This is not natural.

[Joe Getty]

Shoes are going to catch on fire.

[Jack Armstrong]

But take time to daydream seriously.

[Joe Getty]

Earlier we were talking about a. The new Tesla Robo taxis. One of them paused in an intersection in Austin or something like that and made some news. But I would say the. The automated driving on the Tesla, which kind of fits in with the AI stuff is so much better than it was three years ago when I first started riding Tesla. I mean, it's night and day and it's so good now. And I never thought I would have any interest in using automated driving. Similar to the first time I ever saw somebody texting and learned about it. I thought, why would anybody do that? And then obviously we all text constantly. Now I use automated driving all the time. When I drive my vehicle that doesn't have it, it seems like, oh, this is kind of a pain in the ass.

[Jack Armstrong]

So you're a convert.

[Joe Getty]

Don't. Well, don't pretend you know what things you like and you don't. I know in my own life, I've been proven wrong multiple times.

[Jack Armstrong]

So the NFL is about to change thanks to AI and they in the athletic, they're talking about how coaches are already using AI to analyze tendencies of opponents and that sort of thing. They use the example of there's a wide gulf between the math used to optimize fourth down decisions and a voiced AI agent telling you to look out for the weak side linebacker. While you're sitting alone in your office on a Tuesday night. This assistant coach who's the offensive coordinator for the Falcon says, I'm getting a little scared.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, I could see where this would go very quickly, can't you? I mean how. And there are, I mean, without even thinking it, reading with this or thinking about, I just. AI could crunch the last five years of all the plays, say, look, 87% of the time the other team is going to do this in this situation and you react to it and then that will be cool. Up until the point that it's just AI against AI. You know, a season from now when.

[Jack Armstrong]

All the human computer telling you what play to run and their computer telling them how to counter it, having a pretty good idea what's coming. And they're talking about coaches being replaced entirely, but teams already have. This guy was hired by the Raiders as the head coach research specialist, but the job may be better understood as AI coordinator. He uses AI every single day.

[Joe Getty]

This is clearly gonna happen. I don't know why I hadn't thought about this before. This is clearly going to happen. You got super smart people who study like, like maniacs for this stuff to make decisions in the like 45 seconds you have before between plays or whatever it is. And now AI is going to be able to do it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Let me read you some of this. I feel pretty confident saying that some team is going to win a Super bowl in the next few years utilizing AI at a very high rate, significantly higher than it's ever been used before. Said this coach. It's really an opportunity to differentiate your, differentiate yourself from a team that might have a more talented roster, better coaches or whatnot. There's going to be more and more separation with teams that are, have bought in.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, they might have to outlaw that, that. I mean, because it's similar to when computers got better at chess than humans and people thought that'd be the end of chess or whatever. No, people still like watching the best humans play each other, even though they're a computer out there could beat either one of them. Who cares? You still want to know who the best human is. I I think knowing who the best humans are at guessing the plays is more fun than two computers battling out. Right.

[Jack Armstrong]

You, you're right. It it'll be so interesting to see how the league and the rules adapt to this and how people will then cheat because they're talking about there are systems that can watch game film. Sure of multiple teams, multiple games, analyze it, come up with the probabilities. The next layer, they say, is understanding personnel as well because as they put it, 4th and 1 with Mike Vick and Algae Crumpler. It looks a lot different than fourth and one with Kirk Cousins and Kyle Bits.

[Joe Getty]

AI will figure that out because they can take it in so much information.

[Jack Armstrong]

Give it a week.

[Joe Getty]

They they AI yeah. So. Okay. Well that is very interesting. That will ruin the sport for a season or two before they have to get rid of it.

[Jack Armstrong]

Wow.

[Joe Getty]

Had never even thought of that. But that's clearly going to happen.

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Voters today view Democrats favorably, while a.

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Staggering 63% see them negatively. That's the worst rating from the same poll since 1990.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's Aisha Hosny on Special Report last night with Brett. Brett baer, FOX News REAP Slash Sow yes, analysis in a moment. I found this next segment pretty interesting, though. Go ahead, Aisha.

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We're in the doghouse yet again.

[Joe Getty]

We certainly do have a problem, and it's a messaging problem.

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If messaging is the problem the new poll signals Democrats attacking President Trump isn't.

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Working, at least yet. That's because even when more voters disapprove.

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Of Trump on issues like inflation, they still trust Congressional Republicans more than Democrats to handle that issue by a whopping 10 points. On immigration, the same thing. More voters disapprove of Trump's handling of.

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The matter, but Republicans, once again, are trusted more than Democrats to manage it.

[Jack Armstrong]

You know, I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

I've, I don't know if I believe this analysis that people have been going with. I think it's the crazy factor. It's the, I don't know, you got a friend who, who does a few things that are just so crazy you don't trust his judgment on anything else. I think that's what's driving it. It's not that. Yeah, the Democrats view of the economy is specifically blah, blah, blah.

[Jack Armstrong]

It said, you're the people that want.

[Joe Getty]

Boys playing girls, sports. You're the people that want me to say Latinx. You're the people that think we shouldn't have police. I don't trust you on anything. I think it's the crazy factor.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, you put a grown man in my little girl's locker room. Yeah, exactly. But, but to her point, though, and, and it, it's not in contrast to your point. It, it's agreeing with it.

[Joe Getty]

It.

[Jack Armstrong]

So like on inflation and rising prices, Trump is 11 points underwater. Okay. But the Republicans in general are 10 points to the positive. So what Trump's doing right now on immigration, he sees just three points underwater. But generally speaking, Republicans or Democrats, 17 point advantage for Republicans. So there are momentarily momentary quibbles with the way Trump is approaching this, that or the other. But in terms of general philosophy, that I don't care. I want the Republicans, which I, again, I don't think disagrees with your point. I think it agrees with it. Why do they have that perception or why do they lean so strongly that way? Because they think the Democrats have lost their effing minds. See, so The Democrats are 33% favorable, 63% unfavorable. Far weaker assessment than voters give to either President Trump or the Republican Party. Yeah, they're underwater, but of course, political parties ought to be underwater. Number one, you got their opponents, and number two, you got neutrals or independents and their own party members who'd like them to change what they're doing a little bit. But Anyway, Trump is 7% underwater and Republicans are 11% underwater. But again, keep in mind, the Democrats are 30 points underwater.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, as always that that number of people that are unhappy with the Democrats. It's a certain chunk who think they're crazy like I was just talking about and a certain chunk smaller chunk, but a certain chunk that thinks they haven't gone far enough. They haven't stuck to their guns on trans issues and defunding the police and climate change and all the other important things.

[Jack Armstrong]

Things which is even worse news really. But a mere 8% of voters view the Democrats very favorably. Two and a half times as many have the same level for of enthusiasm for the gop.

[Joe Getty]

I we got a long way to go on what direction, you know what the Democratic Party is going to look like next presidential election. But I keep hearing people like smart people throughout AOC is the current front runner slash face of the Democratic Party and she probably is who who else.

[Jack Armstrong]

Would have been they're doomed. They are doomed.

[Joe Getty]

Doomed. If that unless you you have that that. Go ahead, try it.

[Jack Armstrong]

I I don't know if who else would it be as a rhetorical question, but the answer is a blue state governor who's moderate.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, but it's got to be a human being. So that. Yeah, you're right, but it's got to be an actual name at some point.

[Jack Armstrong]

I mean I could throw out a list, but nobody. Nobody was talking about Bill Clinton. Hell, nobody was talking about Bill Clinton even after he Armstrong and Getty.

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I have right now.

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