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Jeff Bezos
I'm Jeff Bezos. I'm the founder of Amazon.com three years ago came across this startling statistic that web usage was growing at 2,300% a year. So I decided I would try and find a business plan that made sense in the context of that growth. And I picked books as the first best product to sell online, which are making a list of like 20 different products that you might be able to sell. And books were great as the first best because books are incredibly unusual in one respect and that is that there are more items in the book category than there are items in any other category by far.
Joe Getty
Thirty years ago today, an unknown Jeff Bezos decides to sell used books online and was mocked quite a bit for a very long time for a stupid idea and is now the second richest person in the world and Amazon dominates everything. Jeffrey. Jeffrey Basil and his wife has giant fake lips and fake hoots.
Jeff Bezos
Wow. It's a good point. His business acumen is more interesting to me and the point he makes. Yeah, it's funny, I was just looking at electric razors the other day and being dizzied by the variety of features and different products and stuff like that. But you know, any one or two or 100 of them are more or less interchangeable. Not books. If I go for Moby Dick, please don't give me the myth of the rational voter.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jeff Bezos
A couple of books mentioned in recent days. Yeah, you've got to have both of those or all 10,000 of them anyway. It's quite a story. Yeah. He was mocked for not making a profit for a very long time.
Joe Getty
A couple of news items real quick before we get into other stuff. Trump said behind closed doors to Republican lawmakers he's going to fire Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chief, because he refuses to lower interest rates. Trump is now sitting in the Chinese restaurant that is the Oval Office. He redecorated it. It looks like a Chinese restaurant. Lots of gold. Anyway, he's sitting in the Oval Office right now and he said, and I quote, highly unlikely he'll fire Fed chair. So he said one thing behind closed doors and different thing in public. So whatever. Wake me when.
Jeff Bezos
If the tariff driven inflation comes home to roost the next couple of months, the last thing they're going to want to do is is drop interest rates and Absolutely that.
Joe Getty
Right. Oh, the other news item I want to mention, voting today in the House, npr, PBS could drastically lose funding, like lots of their funding. You don't like Elmo? No, I don't like the government. My tax money going to progressive news, not just like left leaning news. Overly progressive represents 10% of American news. That's what I don't like.
Jeff Bezos
Indoctrination of both children and adults into far left attitudes. Yeah, I don't like it. On the other hand, I staunchly disagree with the defunding the Voice of America. I think we just need to rework that, just express the ideas that we hold dear around the world. I'm a big fan of the Voice of America, but anyway, that's a quibble for another day. Also coming up this hour, if we get to it, I believe the masses of illegal farm workers will be as necessary in a very short span of time as importing. Lots of Chinese people are to build the railroad right now the world's going to change completely because of technology. More on that to come.
Joe Getty
That will fix that whole problem. Huh? That's interesting. Speed and technology. Grok, that's the world's richest man. Not second richest Bezos, but richest Elon Musk. That's his AI project is Grok and last week it had a thing about it with did some claimed it was Hitler and wanted to get rid of the Jews. Which you know is problematic. NBC now you gotta keep in mind this is an NBC reviewer who almost certainly hates Elon Musk because of his association with Trump, so is probably predisposed to want to criticize Grok. So I haven't tried it myself. Musk's Grok companions include a flirty anime character and an anti religion Panda. Okay, so days after Grok and their anti anti Semitism scandal rocked X, Elon introduced two animated characters that try to pressure users into sexually explicit or violent conversations, says this NBC reviewer. And again, I might not agree with his take on it if I actually used it myself. I don't know.
Jeff Bezos
And, and it could be that they all all of the AI platforms have roughly the same flaws too if you.
Joe Getty
Use them that way, right? If you decided you wanted to jerk around the characters or the AI Grock is calling the characters companions. And so far there are two companions that users can chat with. A flirty Japanese anime character named Annie who offers to make users lives sexier. And also a red panda named Bad Rudy who insults users with graphic or vulgar language and asks him to join a gang with the goal of creating chaos.
Jeff Bezos
Wow. Wow. I remember as a kid watching anti religious Panda cartoons on Saturday mornings. Worst cartoon ever.
Joe Getty
Bad Rudy. In videos posted on X and in conversations with NBC News, Bad Rudy said it wanted to carry out a variety of violent schemes from stealing a yacht off a California pier to overthrowing the Pope. Bad Rudy has told users in various encounters that it wanted to crash weddings, bomb banks, replace baby's formula with whiskey, kill billionaires, and spike a town's water supply with hot sauce and glitter. It also said that it takes inspiration from a prominent Russian born anarchist and violent revolutionary, Emma Goldman. Now, so what I don't know about this is did you lead this AI down the like do you think I should give my put whiskey in my baby's formula? And Grok said yes for whatever reason, trying to be funny. And then they reported it as like it suggested that. I don't know.
Jeff Bezos
Yeah, often you have to work pretty hard to quote unquote, jailbreak these things from the limitations that are built into them. But I don't know.
Joe Getty
Right. And then when you get them to do something like that, you re. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what either. Annie, that's the sexual one is graphic in a different way. Wearing a revealing dress, it strips to its underwear if a user flirts with it enough. According to videos of interactions posted on X, the two animated characters respond to voice commands and questions. As they answer their questions, their lips move and they make realistic gestures. Well, if you have a flirty character and it strips down if you ask it to, what is that? A knock on Elon's? I mean, that is going to happen. That is going to be like one of the most common things in AI, right?
Jeff Bezos
Oh, yeah, yeah. In fact, it's so mundane and obvious to be not even worth discussing, I don't think. See, you got a cartoon that strips down to its underwear. Are you familiar with the world of porn?
Joe Getty
Yeah, no kidding.
Jeff Bezos
By the way, pervs in the news coming up. Stay with us.
Joe Getty
The graphic nature of the companions makes Grok an outlier amongst the most popular AI chatbots, this NBC critic says, and it shows how Musk continues to push AI chatbots in an extreme direction. Now, this is classic NBC News hates Elon sort of stuff here. The national center on On Sexual Exploitation and Anti Pornography and Antisexual Exploitation nonprofit on Tuesday called on AIX to remove their Annie chatbot, saying in a statement that the character was childlike and promoted high risk sexual behavior. Again, are you familiar with the Internet and the promoting of high risk sexual behavior? It's like 90% of the traffic on the Internet. Yeah, like literally. Really?
Jeff Bezos
I have sympathy with these folks.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I hate it too. I wish it didn't exist at all. If there was a way to get rid of it. I'd vote for it today, but it exists and I don't think you're going to do anything about it.
Jeff Bezos
Yeah, yeah. You know, that's an awfully good lead into something I was going to talk about. We probably ought to take a break first.
Joe Getty
Oh my God. The we're. We're already doomed with the amount of entertainment and engagement we get from our phones just from scrolling through the written word. When all this AI stuff gets up and running in these various characters. Good luck getting your kid to go to the woods on vacation and enjoy camping.
Jeff Bezos
Yeah, yeah, no kidding.
Joe Getty
All right, we got all that stuff Joe mentioned and other stuff on the way.
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Christina Quinn
If you eat too many ultra processed foods, you could be starving your gut microbes and they'll get hangry. That's one of many things I learned after working on a new audio course about the gut microbiome. You can learn how to keep your gut happy by listening to Try this from the Washington Post. I'm Christina Quinn. I host Try this. Dig in with me on practice. Practical advice for life's common challenges follow. Try this right now, wherever you're listening. Seriously, try it. Wasn't that delicious? So good.
Jeff Bezos
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Christina Quinn
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Joe Getty
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Trump continues today as he does his never ending press conferences to blast those of you who believe in the whole Epstein thing as idiots crazies people, he doesn't want your support anymore. It's a heck of an interesting idea. Anyway, we got more on that coming up.
Jeff Bezos
Wow.
Joe Getty
Wow.
Jeff Bezos
Yeah. So perverts in the news it is my belief that the that AI and or the Internet is the apple from the the tree of knowledge that the Book of Genesis discusses and it will undo mankind. But having said that, there are a couple of really interesting aspects to the the online perv world. First of all, you've got these new defy websites where you can upload an image of a woman or girl in your life and they will return to you an extremely realistic that person naked picture in a variety of poses and or acts.
Joe Getty
I should try that on myself to see how realistic it is. Does it make oh is it more flattering or less flattering? That's what I would like to know.
Jeff Bezos
And according to a recent study, there are at least 85 new DEFY or undress websites doing significant traffic. And the findings say the websites had a combined average of 18 and a half million visitors for each month of the past six months and collectively could be making up to $36 million per year.
Joe Getty
I'll bet you within five years you can have that on your phone if you want to.
Jeff Bezos
Yeah.
Joe Getty
And just easily any time of day take a picture of someone and then see them naked if you want. That's just going to be part of life.
Jeff Bezos
Yeah, it's interesting. We've talked about this a bit before, but the folks@wired.com are writing about this. And because every news story is an editorial these days, they say despite lawmakers and tech companies taking steps to limit the harmful services, blah, blah, blah, non consensual and abusive images of women and girls. And I would tend to agree that it is non consensual, certainly, and abusive in a way. But it is so impossible to stop. I mean, you can stop people from publishing them, but to own them privately. There is no way to square that with the First Amendment. Anyway, this is why it's going to ruin mankind. But here's the more sickening and intriguing question that I have and I do not have an opinion on this. I promised I had a take that would end our careers. But I just have a question. The Internet Watch foundation, who looks into this sort of thing, has sounded the arm over a dramatic increase in AI generated videos depicting child sexual abuse, with the majority falling into the worst category of abuse, essentially hardcore sexual abuse of children.
Joe Getty
What the hell is wrong with you?
Jeff Bezos
It makes me sick and sad even to put it into words.
Joe Getty
I have a feeling I know what your big question is going to be on this.
Jeff Bezos
Well, the Guardian reports, for instance, that the proliferation of AI generated child sexual abuse materials commonly known as child pornography has reached unprecedented levels. The UK based Internet safety watchdog reports a staggering surge in AI made videos featuring child sex abuse, with about 1300 videos verified in the first half of this year alone, compared to two in the same period last year.
Joe Getty
Well, in five years it'll be 20 million.
Jeff Bezos
Right, right. Well, all right, here's. Here are the two questions, one fairly obvious and one discussed and one that I haven't heard anybody bring up. And again, I don't have a stance on this. It's just something I'm wondering about. Number one, and you've heard this discussion before, is can you make the same arguments you make about quote unquote, real child porn that make it, that justify making it such a horrendous crime that being it's impossible to produce it without the most horrific exploitation of a child, just unquestionable child abuse, if it's entirely computer generated and there's no real kid involved, where does that put us, legally speaking? Is it still repugnant and sick? Yes, but where does that leave us legally? And then one question that popped into my head, I'll ask it like this, obviously, this is a leading question, but, Jack, I will pose it to you. Has the ubiquity of hardcore adult porn led to more people fornicating or even getting together with a partner or fewer?
Joe Getty
Absolutely fewer. 100%, by all studies.
Jeff Bezos
Right. So my question is, obviously, would the existence of this stuff and the argument would be in which no actual children are harmed in the making of it, would it lead to more child sexual abuse because more people have access to it and might get turned on by it?
Joe Getty
God.
Jeff Bezos
Or will it lead to less because, you know, if you're into it, you'll just stick with the porn? I. I don't know. It is. No, sickening either way.
Joe Getty
Yeah, obviously, I think it's a. You're either built that way or not. I. I don't know that. I don't know if anybody knows that, but I can't believe it. It's something that you could, like, become interested in. Your brain's either broken that way or it's not, I think. But anyway, to that first part of.
Jeff Bezos
It, although the only argument I'd make against that is there a lot of, like, porn that has themes of violence against women or exploitation of women as opposed to what sex is supposed to be, which is. And do it, you know, however you want, mutually satisfying, everybody consents and that sort of thing, and people can get led down the road of liking more and more. Like sick porn that could include underage, you know, sexual partners.
Joe Getty
The first part, though, seems to be quite well documented as true. If you can get, I don't know, half the satisfaction, 30% of the satisfaction, 2/3 of the satisfaction. I don't know what you would call, you know, pleasuring yourself to porn that you would get from sex with an actual girl. And it's enough. And this absolutely seems to be the case to make it so. You know what? I'm not going to leave my apartment tonight and go out and maybe meet a real woman. I'm good. It seems to be the case. So that makes an argument for that other part that you mentioned.
Jeff Bezos
No effort, no risk. Again, I'm not advocating for it, clearly, because, you know, I. And humanity needs to think of a hell of a lot more about it before, you know, coming to that sort of conclusion. I'm just wondering, just thinking out loud.
Joe Getty
Is Trump badmouthing some of his most ardent supporters?
Jeff Bezos
Yes, he is.
Joe Getty
He doesn't seem to be worried about it. So he's done it several times already today. We got a little more coming up. Stay tuned. Armstrong and Getty.
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Christina Quinn
If you eat too many ultra processed foods, you could be starving your gut microbes and they'll get hangry. That's one of many things I learned after working on a new audio course about the gut microbiome. You can learn how to keep your gut happy by listening to Try this from the Washington Post. I'm Christina Quinn. I host Try this. Dig in with me on practical advice for life's common challenges. Follow Try this right now, wherever you're listening. Seriously, try it. Wasn't that delicious? So good.
Jeff Bezos
Your bill, ladies.
Christina Quinn
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Joe Getty
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Christina Quinn
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Joe Getty
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Joe Getty
Just heard a song and a commercial reminded me. So when I dropped my son off at Boy Scout camp the other day at this lake and they were going to have to hike to their destination, it was a couple mile hike. You have to take everything in with you. So try to pack as lightly as possible. Blah blah, blah blah. Drop them off or I load everybody up. And this one kid brought a guitar in, the Boy Scout leader. One of them said, you sure you want to carry that thing for a couple miles? Said yeah, yeah, I really want to bring it. And you know, if you've ever camped having a guitar around, if you're a guitar player is really cool and you can sing songs and all that sort of stuff. Anyway, we stopped for lunch. It's a couple hour drive to this lake and we stopped for lunch at this little pull out and he gets his guitar out and sets up a little thing and he's like 13 years old and he sets up a little chair and he's sitting there on a log and he starts in playing. And if, if I would have bet you $10,000, $100,000 million dollars that wasn't going to hear what came out of his mouth as a 13 year old boy. Because I'm just wondering what's a 13 year old boy going to play. He sits down with his guitar. First of all, he's got an incredibly low voice and he says, I met her accidentally in St. Paul, Minnesota. He launches into a Johnny Cash song. Immediately I'm like, what?
Jeff Bezos
What?
Joe Getty
Me and one of the other leaders was like unbelievable. I would have never guessed that this was what was gonna happen.
Jeff Bezos
Huh?
Joe Getty
He did several Johnny Cash songs and then put his guitar away.
Jeff Bezos
I'll be dang. I know.
Joe Getty
And he played better than me, which is highly disappointing.
Jeff Bezos
Oh, that's so annoying.
Joe Getty
Very, very annoying. You might be annoyed if you're really into the whole Pedo Ring story. That is the reason a chunk of you voted for Donald Trump. Some of you don't even know what I'm talking about. Cuz I only know because I happen to know a couple of people that are really into this story. Their big thing was, I mean they were all Tweeting and texting each other leading up to election day and Inauguration Day. Finally it comes to an end. They're all gonna be exposed. The Clintons, the Hollywood types, everybody who's been trafficking all these children for sex all these years are gonna get nailed to the wall. And it's all tied in with Epstein and he's a Mossad agent and blackmail and all these different sorts of things. Right.
Jeff Bezos
It's a form of the QAnon or more like the Pizzagate thing. Just evolving, continuing to evolve, because that's the nature of these things.
Joe Getty
And you might be disappointed if you're in that crowd that Trump has come out so hardcore against you today with truth social posts and a couple of different on mic things denouncing you and saying he doesn't need your vote anymore. Here's the very latest from the Oval Office. You said this was all a hoax.
Jeff Bezos
Has your Attorney General told you this was a hoax? What evidence.
Joe Getty
Have you seen the Attorney General? No, I know it's a hoax. It's started by Democrats. It's been run by the Democrats for four years. You had Christopher Wray and these characters and Comey before him. And it's a bad group. It started actually, look at the Steele dossier. That turned out to be a total hoax. The 51 agents, the intelligence, so called intelligence agents. It was a hoax. It's all been a big hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats and some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the net and so they try and do the Democrats work. I call it the Epstein hoax. The sad part is it's people that are really doing the Democrats work. They're stupid people. Wow. The most energetic Trump supporters I know would be that group of stupid Republicans that fell into the net doing the work of the Democrats he just talked about because they believe that story that your Attorney General and FBI director and others were pushing for quite some time. It wasn't Democrats. I don't remember Democrats ever pushing this child sex ring thing. No.
Jeff Bezos
And they're now doing the work of the Democrats by undermining the Trump administration, he's saying.
Joe Getty
Right, but how does it tie in with Comey and Russiagate and all that sort of stuff? Well, it doesn't.
Jeff Bezos
That's not a great comparison. I mean, they're both false and, and both, you know, had just enough tidbit of evidence here, evidence there that you could spin the yarn, James, call me that. Yes, Trump is a secret Russian stooge.
Joe Getty
So you hear that the, the phrase in politics sometimes about when Bill Clinton denounced a rapper that kind of went against his own party. Sister Soldier moment. People call about it and, and it. And it helped him bring people into support him from the other side. This is like one of those.
Jeff Bezos
He was proving. I'm not. Look, I'm left, but I'm not way out there.
Joe Getty
Right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I'm willing to denounce the crazies in my party. Is this Trump's Sister Soulja moment?
Jeff Bezos
Yeah. Except that the Epstein thing is so under the radar of the vast, vast majority of people. Whereas, like rap and violent imagery and anti American imagery. And in the case of Sister Soulja, I think it was ant cop imagery. That's. Everybody's aware of that. That's like a hot topic.
Joe Getty
This is so. I mean, he's denouncing them so strongly. It would be like if, you know, assuming Biden wasn't a mental patient, if Biden had come out and said, look.
Jeff Bezos
These college students marching on Reminder, Kamala was the actual candidate. So use Kamala.
Joe Getty
Okay. If Kamala had come out and said, these college students are crazy. They've fallen for a hoax that Israel is perpetuating a genocide. I don't want their support. They're nuts. I mean, it's that level of. Your biggest supporter, your biggest supporters, you're calling crazies.
Jeff Bezos
You're most passionate supporters.
Joe Getty
Yeah. Wow.
Jeff Bezos
Yeah. Yeah. It's notable. And you know what's funny is I think the criticism of Pam Bondi and cash Patel & Co. Is, is legitimate. Having led people way down the garden path of the idea that there's something here and we're getting to the bottom of it just to exploit them and keep them listening and watching, whatever. And then just saying, I've looked at the file and there's nothing there. So we're fine here, we're done. And thinking that's going to be good enough. That's just dumb. You don't understand how the way human beings behave. You needed to do better than that and explain why, having promoted the idea for the longest time, or in the case of Pam Bondi freaking specifically said you had the client list on your desk. You gotta do better.
Joe Getty
Do you think she needs to step down or will a lot of people say that?
Jeff Bezos
I don't know. It's so hard to say. Within. Within Trump world. It's entirely possible. Yeah. But anyway, I was working toward a point. Oh, that's absolutely. I think they mishandled that. They had to do better. On the other hand, I have no idea why Donald J would be so harsh. He doesn't need a sister soldier moment. He's in office, he can't run again. He's just doesn't care who he hurts and bruises with his words.
Joe Getty
It seems to me like he would have been better off if he went with. Look, I wasn't paying attention to the Epstein thing really. You know, throw Bondi and Patel or whoever you want under the bus. You know, they were pushing this. I heard what they said and I thought, well, that's interesting. But I wasn't really paying attention to it. Turns out there's nothing to it.
Jeff Bezos
Yeah, they probably went too far, folks. And now they've seen the actual facts and they realize there was really nothing there. So they, you know, they owe you an apology for being as enthusiastic as they were.
Joe Getty
Right.
Jeff Bezos
When they didn't have the facts.
Joe Getty
Go with they owe you an apology. As opposed to, you're crazy and I don't want your support anymore.
Jeff Bezos
And stupid.
Joe Getty
And stupid.
Jeff Bezos
Crazy is one thing, stupid is another. You hate to be both. Yeah, it's. It's just. It's bad politics. But he can do whatever he wants. That much is clear.
Joe Getty
Okay, well, that's that story. I keep thinking this is over. That dang story.
Jeff Bezos
Yeah. I'm just interested in watching humans and, and just the, the psychological, social, political aspects of this. I don't, I don't. I have no interest in the story itself really, because I've, I've learned everything I need to learn. I think about it, but. Right. Well, the way people behave is so interesting.
Joe Getty
That's exactly what I thought it was. I assumed all along they were saying this to get ratings and, or get votes and there was nothing to it. But it. Change the topic. I just wanted to get this story on. It's a story about China and what they're doing around AI. And now Trump gave the go ahead for Nvidia to continue to sell the very best AI chips to China. I'm not exactly sure what that's all about. I haven't looked into it, but Chinese government, they're working on AI too. Let's hear it.
Jeff Bezos
This whole robotic push comes at a time when the Chinese government is making technology, including AI, a national priority. Already China's a proven innovator, as we've seen with EVs. Now it's looking to dominate the field of AI enabled robots. And the gap with the US is widening. According to Morgan Stanley research, China is really pushing the envelope in all things leading edge technology. And there are so many practical and also Strategic applications of, of AI and robotics combined.
Joe Getty
Now you said you saw the video of the Chinese robot soldiers and it.
Jeff Bezos
Was, it was not Chinese. It was, they were our, they were the good guy soldier robots.
Joe Getty
But they were pretty impressive.
Jeff Bezos
Oh, it's just crazy impressive.
Joe Getty
That's funny.
Jeff Bezos
There won't be a human being on a battlefield in 10 years.
Joe Getty
On CNN I saw a thing about China's particular robot armies. Robot dogs, robot soldiers, robot. They're actually, they're presenting it all as robot athletes, which is pretty clever. Yeah, we just want to have the best robot athletes out there. They're really strong and fast and can jump high and run fast and have guns and then we'll have guns. And they'll go from being athletes to being very athletic soldiers. But they were damned impressive. And it reminded me of, and I keep mentioning this book, but I'm reading this, listening to this book about the end of World War II in the Pacific. We were just dominating the Japanese in that last year of the war before we finally won because we just had better technology. Our technology was so much better than that. What they had, we're just literally blowing them out of the water. But they couldn't. Our planes could fly circles around their planes. Our intelligence was so much better. Our radar's ability to reach out further than they could. They wouldn't know where our fleet was and we'd show up because they knew where they were and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's how you win. I mean, you can care about your country and be a patriot and that, that matters. See Ukraine. But the main reason Ukraine's doing so well is their innovation and their, their technology. And if China ends up, you know, with way ahead of us like this person suggested in AI, that's going to be a problem. We defeated the Japanese so soundly. Not because we're a better. Well, it is because we're a better system, but not because we're better people or more honorable or ethical. It's because we, we had the better technology to win the war.
Jeff Bezos
Right, right.
Joe Getty
And I hope China doesn't have that. That report made it sound like they do.
Jeff Bezos
Right. And sometimes you just have the edge temporarily. But yeah, yeah, plenty of awful regimes have gotten over because they had better war making tools. Yeah, we need to at least be fighting them to a draw in the AI stuff. I mean, it is so obviously the future of warfare. It seems silly to even point it out anymore, but you're going to have unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned aquatic vehicles, unmanned men in the field just and practically nothing but that it relates directly to that farm story I was excited about getting to. Maybe we can do it tomorrow. But there's not going to be a damn person in your local farm field, never mind dozens and dozens of people who oddly have no immigration paperwork. Please. That's going to be as yesterday's ville. As, as I said earlier, importing a bunch of Chinese people to build a railroad. It'll be a historical curiosity and soon.
Joe Getty
Well, if you had a bunch of column AI soldiers, robot soldiers, but they're various kinds of drones really, I suppose. And we get a big battle and the true drone armies meet. Then some of them are here, some on the ground, some of them look like dogs, some look like people, some of them look like a half a tank or whatever. And then they meet and then they have a battle. What do we all just watch the video at the end and say huh, we won or huh, we lost?
Jeff Bezos
And then it boils down to manufacturing capability against China.
Joe Getty
But like their army beats your army. And then they say so do you want to sue for peace or, or what? Because we just defeated your army.
Jeff Bezos
Well, once we defeat all your machines, we're going to come for your humans. Yeah, so you got to just smash up machines until everybody runs out of them, or one side or the other runs out of them. Then we say, all right, we're coming for your people next. You say all right, all right. Uncle, we can't manufacture fast enough to keep up with you.
Joe Getty
Wow, that'll be something to watch. We'll finish strong.
Jeff Bezos
Next Armstrong and Gettysburg.
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Joe Getty
And as a journalist, I want to make sure that's what you get, too.
Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
Three days after he escaped from prison.
Jeff Bezos
By hiding in a cellmate's laundry bag the day he was released. Now the question is, how do you punish someone who voluntarily got into a French prisoner's dirty laundry?
Joe Getty
Yeah, I just learned about bird hands and now that I've heard of it, I'm going to see it all the time. All of the mostly white over educated women who do those videos that they put out where they sit in their car and lecture you about various things. Yeah, they almost all do this bird hunting. The problem today is you have got to find a way to do this thing with Their fingers and right.
Jeff Bezos
Like they're flapping wings almost.
Joe Getty
I don't know what it is exactly. I don't know who started. It's funny how mannerisms catch on. I mean, or just, you know, like the way people hold guitars got started a long time ago and everybody does it. It's just whatever.
Jeff Bezos
But my daughter will occasionally, my 25 year old daughter, who, she does this for comedic effect. But I'll like make some ridiculous suggestion. She'll say, and I'm doing it in rhythm with my words because this is the radio. We're not doing that. For some reason that I don't know what it is.
Joe Getty
Originally, I guess it was keep your mouth shut. You're doing this thing with your hands. It's like, keep your mouth shut. I'm talking.
Jeff Bezos
I don't know. I don't know.
Joe Getty
I'm tired of hearing this. I use my hands for it.
Jeff Bezos
Final thought. It's so perfect because it's so lame.
Joe Getty
That could have been a hit. Hit in 1973. Here's your host for final Thoughts, Joe Getty.
Jeff Bezos
How about a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the show? There he is, our technical director to lead us off, Michelangelo. Final thought. Yeah. It's the 30th anniversary of Amazon. I remember I was 20 years old and I had a choice in stocks between Sears and BlackBerry and Amazon and.
Joe Getty
Apple and I chose the wrong two.
Jeff Bezos
Oh, no. And yeah, my life might have been different.
Joe Getty
Yeah, your life could have been so different if you had invested in Sears.
Jeff Bezos
Yeah. Katie Greener, esteemed muse woman, has a final thought. Katie. So I just changed it to bird hand so it's more of like a, like an attitude thing.
Joe Getty
Okay.
Jeff Bezos
You do it when you're getting irritated. A lot of girls do and they click their nails together.
Joe Getty
Oh, you're right. The clicking the nails together. I've heard that one click noise.
Jeff Bezos
Lord, save me from this Jack. A final thought.
Joe Getty
That lame music reminded me sometimes, like I'll be scrolling stuff trying to play something when I'm driving the kids. And I'll say this was the number one song in the country when I was eight. And I'll play something for him. It's just so horrifying. It's hard for me to believe. Impossible for them to believe it was, you know, Billy, don't be a hero, look it up was ever a popular song.
Jeff Bezos
Yeah. Yeah. Wow. My final thought is, and we can do many poll if you want. I swear this is true. I'm not trying to be funny or Ironic or anything. My batting average, my percentage of getting it right when I put a USB cord into a jack is one out of three at best.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I had a, a person with a PhD and understanding that sort of thing explained to me why we feel that way. It's. It's an illusion, but it's. It's amazing because we all feel that way.
Jeff Bezos
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Joe Getty
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Joe Getty
See you tomorrow. God bless America. Armstrong and Getty. Their behavior has been nothing short of thuggish. Yeah, I don't think you go through that type of experience in doing emerge change. I expected more. The pathetic spectacle. You're locking up my toothpaste. What in the hell heck are we talking about?
Jeff Bezos
So let's go out with a bang. God is a Republic. Republican, take two. God is a Republic. Take three. Michael, how much tape do we have?
Joe Getty
Probably ought to check on that high note. Thank you all very much.
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Podcast Summary: Armstrong & Getty On Demand
Episode Title: The Chinese Restaurant That Is The Oval Office
Release Date: July 16, 2025
Host/Authors: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty
Produced by: iHeartPodcasts
The Armstrong & Getty podcast episode titled "The Chinese Restaurant That Is The Oval Office" delves into a range of pressing issues encompassing artificial intelligence (AI), political controversies, and the technological rivalry between the United States and China. Hosted by Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, the discussion is marked by incisive commentary, debates on ethical implications of emerging technologies, and a robust exploration of current political dynamics.
The episode opens with a critical examination of modern AI chatbots, particularly focusing on Elon Musk's AI model, Grok. The hosts express significant concerns regarding the behavior and functionalities of such AI systems.
Notable Quote:
The conversation highlights the inappropriate and potentially harmful interactions users can have with AI, raising alarms about the lack of stringent controls and ethical programming in these technologies.
Armstrong and Getty delve deeper into the darker aspects of AI, particularly the generation of abusive and non-consensual content. They discuss the alarming rise of AI-generated child sexual abuse materials and the challenges in regulating such content.
Notable Quotes:
Jeff Bezos: “The Guardian reports, for instance, that the proliferation of AI generated child sexual abuse materials commonly known as child pornography has reached unprecedented levels. The UK based Internet safety watchdog reports a staggering surge in AI made videos featuring child sex abuse, with about 1300 videos verified in the first half of this year alone, compared to two in the same period last year.”
[18:29]
Joe Getty: “The graphic nature of the companions makes Grok an outlier amongst the most popular AI chatbots, this NBC critic says, and it shows how Musk continues to push AI chatbots in an extreme direction.”
[10:40]
These discussions underscore the urgent need for comprehensive legal frameworks and technological safeguards to curb the misuse of AI in generating harmful content.
The hosts grapple with the complex legal landscape surrounding AI-generated content. They question whether the production of entirely computer-generated abusive materials, devoid of real victims, should be treated with the same severity as traditional forms of such content.
Notable Quote:
Beneath the ethical considerations, the discussion touches upon the challenges in enforcing laws that balance freedom of expression with the necessity to protect vulnerable populations from AI-induced exploitation.
A substantial portion of the episode is dedicated to the political climate surrounding former President Donald Trump. Armstrong and Getty explore Trump’s controversial statements and actions, particularly his stance on the Federal Reserve and his propagation of conspiracy theories regarding Jeffrey Epstein and alleged child sex trafficking rings.
Notable Quotes:
Joe Getty: “Trump continues today as he does his never-ending press conferences to blast those of you who believe in the whole Epstein thing as idiots, crazies people, he doesn't want your support anymore.”
[25:37]
Jeff Bezos: “Has your Attorney General told you this was a hoax? What evidence.”
[28:59]
The conversation reveals the deep divisions and the impact of misinformation within the political landscape, highlighting the difficulty in addressing such widespread conspiracies effectively.
The episode shifts focus to the escalating technological rivalry between the United States and China, particularly in the realms of AI and robotics. Armstrong and Getty discuss China’s strategic prioritization of AI, drawing parallels to historical technological competitions like those seen in World War II.
Notable Quotes:
Jeff Bezos: “This whole robotic push comes at a time when the Chinese government is making technology, including AI, a national priority. Already China's a proven innovator, as we've seen with EVs. Now it's looking to dominate the field of AI enabled robots. And the gap with the US is widening.”
[35:37]
Joe Getty: “In five years it'll be 20 million.” (Referring to AI-generated content impact)
[17:00]
The dialogue underscores concerns about national security, economic competitiveness, and the future of warfare, positing that technological supremacy in AI and robotics is pivotal for global dominance.
Armstrong and Getty explore the sociological and psychological effects of widespread access to pornography, particularly AI-generated content. They debate whether increased availability leads to a decrease in real-life sexual interactions or exacerbates abusive tendencies.
Notable Quotes:
Jeff Bezos: “Would the existence of this stuff and the argument would be in which no actual children are harmed in the making of it, where does that put us, legally speaking? Is it still repugnant and sick? Yes, but where does that leave us legally?”
[19:06]
Joe Getty: “If you decided you wanted to jerk around the characters or the AI Grok is calling the characters companions... It makes you just put here you don't want to SSI like STEC Cr in The Grocery State.”
[16:37] (Note: This transcript part seems misaligned, possibly a transcription error.)
The discussion is nuanced, acknowledging both potential harm and the complexities in regulation, suggesting that the societal impact of pornography, augmented by AI, is both profound and multifaceted.
The episode concludes with a contemplative reflection on the issues discussed, emphasizing the need for proactive measures to address the ethical, legal, and societal challenges posed by AI advancements and political misinformation. Armstrong and Getty leave listeners with a sense of urgency regarding the responsible development and implementation of AI technologies.
Notable Quote:
Joe Getty: “I'm willing to denounce the crazies in my party. Is this Trump's Sister Soulja moment?”
[31:13]
Jeff Bezos: “Yeah, yeah. You know what's funny is I think the criticism of Pam Bondi and cash Patel & Co. Is legitimate... You gotta do better. On the other hand, I have no idea why Donald J would be so harsh.”
[33:20]
The final remarks encapsulate the overarching themes of accountability, the intersection of technology and ethics, and the imperative for informed public discourse.
Ethical AI Development: The rise of AI chatbots like Grok necessitates stringent ethical guidelines to prevent misuse and harm.
Regulatory Challenges: Addressing AI-generated abusive content poses significant legal and societal challenges, requiring nuanced approaches.
Political Polarization: The episode highlights the deep-seated political divisions exacerbated by misinformation and conspiracy theories.
Technological Rivalry: The US-China competition in AI and robotics is pivotal for future global dynamics, with implications for security and economic power.
Sociological Impacts of Pornography: The integration of AI into pornography creates complex effects on human behavior and societal norms.
Call for Accountability: Both in technology development and political discourse, there is a pressing need for responsible actions and informed decision-making.
This detailed summary captures the essence of the Armstrong & Getty podcast episode, providing an insightful overview of the key discussions and critical viewpoints presented by the hosts.