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Jack Armstrong
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. According to the White House staffers, while.
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Joe Getty
Visiting Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
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Jack Armstrong
Elon Musk's four year old needed a diaper change.
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Joe Getty
Change. Luckily there was plenty left over from the previous tenant. That was that 10. I asked for 10. Was that joke 10 that was on joke 10, huh? Okay, my joke 10.
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Jack Armstrong
That joke was a 10 out of 10. My joke Biden was incontinent is the point.
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Joe Getty
My joke 10 is Bill Maher. Kanye west is getting a divorce. Is that joke 10?
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Jack Armstrong
Okay, well here I have that joke if you want to.
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Joe Getty
That's it. The marriage is over. Bianca Censori and Kanye west have called it quits.
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Jack Armstrong
I.
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Joe Getty
I just hope this doesn't make Kanye do something stupid. Yeah, apparently it was, it was a while in coming try Ken.
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Jack Armstrong
I tried to be sensitive. He said to her, it's not you.
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Joe Getty
It'S not me, it's the Jews. Wow, that's pret funny. It's not you, it's not me, it's the Jews.
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Jack Armstrong
Kanye is so crazy.
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Joe Getty
I hadn't heard that. They're getting a divorce. So a week after she's naked looking like a hostage at the Grammys, they're getting a divorce. I wonder if they had played a role in any way.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, plus she, I heard something. She is not down with the anti Semitism at all. And I hadn't understood exactly how that quote unquote super bowl add of his got on where he ran and says, go to my website. Then the only product at his website is a swastika T shirt. He had an ad agency buy a local super bowl spot in every market he could around America. So Big Fox didn't air it. It was just on. I can't remember many dozens of local markets around America that crazy ass commercial of his and he's man, is he headed for a big crack up?
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Joe Getty
Well, with what goal? Or do you just think he's actually nuts?
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, he's got to just be nuts. I mean it could be he's an obsessive anti Semite in the vein of a certain Chancellor of Germany. But. Well, I don't think that's clearly nuts.
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Joe Getty
I mean I could be wrong, but I don't think that's it. I don't. He, he wants, he wants people to be mad at him. He's got some sort of childish upset doing things to make people not like him so he can say people don't like him thing going. I mean like his tweet. About his tweet, I turned down three Make a Wish kids in wheelchairs this week. I mean he just, he just wants people to be upset with him for some sad reason. And that he hasn't killed himself already is shocking to me. I think, I think that's going to be a headline in my lifetime.
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Jack Armstrong
But as usual when you're talking about something like this, trying to come up with a rational explanation for crazy, you just, you can't.
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Joe Getty
He might be the richest mentally ill person in the world and then can, you know, kind of get away with it.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing. I mean if he were not independently wealthy, he would be living in a box somewhere.
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Joe Getty
Absolutely.
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Jack Armstrong
Just. Yeah, yeah, too bad folks. Be grateful for your mental health to the extent that you have any. So a handful of AI related stories that I found very interesting as we move further and further into this world. I've actually been using it a bit more in last week partly because Apple updated their software and I've had a couple of searches that they needed to use use Chat GPT to help with and it's been quite impressive really. So I'm feeling more and more like at least I understand how some of it works. But anyway, story number one is they did, a couple of universities got together, did a series of experiments where they were, they had the volunteers pose as drone pilots making kill or no kill, shoot or no shoot decisions. And they would, you know, up the ante by showing them pictures of civilians hurt and killed by drone strikes and buildings damage and stuff like that. They made it as impactful as they could in a research setting. And you know, it's too bad this, this article is written with way too much editorial. So I'll just summarize it for you. People seemed very willing to overcome their own thinking or overturn their own thinking if the AI system said disagree. Even if it had been made infinitely clear to them that the AI system is unsophisticated and it makes mistakes. But they seemed in large numbers to defer to the computer and amusingly they tried it with like a primitive robot saying I would go ahead and shoot at them and then turning very robotically then they used did a more sophisticated humanoid like robot and then they just did a simple computer interface to see if that changed it. And it did a little bit.
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Joe Getty
So the human psychology of this AI side is interesting. So that's, it's like the famous trolley car Problem, you will say go ahead and run over the person if, if something tells you to. If a supposed expert tells you to.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Even if somebody makes clear to you hey, this expert is wrong a fair amount. And, and the, the way they did this experiment was they would show them pictures very quickly of their target and that often included the symbol of either your side or the other side, either the Ukrainian flag or the Russian Z for instance, and say shoot or don't shoot. And even though they programmed the AI to be random in its decisions, so it was wrong as much as it was right, the people would defer to it in large numbers. So anyway, I just thought that was kind of interesting. We tend, well, certain people tend to be very easily led, whether it's a human being or a technical beast like AI.
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Joe Getty
Well, I guess that that explains the whole. Not, not on purpose to get back to Germans and Nazis things, but the whole, the whole I was just following orders thing. I guess that fits in with that. You're, you're willing to do lots of things if somebody tells you to.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
An alleged expert tells you to.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. To refer to a very famous parable, I guess it is about how among human beings there are sheep, there are wolves, there are sheep dogs and the masses of folks are a little sheepy and you know, you could be insulting about that and call them sheeple and stuff like that. And I have in the past. But if that is the way most people are, at some point you have to realize that and be a realist about it. Founding fathers were. That's why they designed so many checks and balances against somebody seizing dictatorial powers because a lot of sheeple want a dictator because it's simple and they know what they're supposed to do in a dictatorship anyway. Another quick artificial intelligence story. New study shows that over reliance on artificial intelligence to perform certain tasks reduces critical thinking. Study conducted by Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft who is working as hard as they can to get AI going found that people who use AI regularly for basic routine tasks will lose their ability for complex critical thinking. From social workers to people who write code for a living, the professional surveyed were all asked to share real life examples and the blah blah, blah. The methodology is not that interesting and it's long, but of course if, if, you know, if I have a machine to shovel snow for me, my snow shoveling muscles are going to get less strong. And it's true intellectually too.
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Joe Getty
Well, I don't know if this fits in with my example of it. I'm still the only person I've heard say this, I want to get it. I want to say it again because I want credit for it when it becomes a big thing. Because I do think it's going to be a big thing. I'm a worst driver now because of the automatic driving in my Tesla. When I'm in my car without it, I'm not as. I just don't pay as good attention because I got in the habit of something paying attention for me.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
And I think that's why I had my motorcycle wreck, because I'm just. I'm. It happened so quickly that my brain got retrained when I'm driving that I don't need to pay attention. There's a computer paying attention for me.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. I think that's undeniable.
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Joe Getty
And that's going to become a real problem nationwide. There aren't enough people driving cars that have that technology yet, I guess. But. But similar sort of thing. When something else can do it for you, you atrophy amazingly quickly.
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Jack Armstrong
Apparently all of us have had the experience of like, spacing off behind the wheel and you'd like, startle and you think, oh, God, no, I got to pay attention. I got to pay attention. If you systematically get trained. No, it's okay to space off. Yeah, yeah. That's going to change your mental approach.
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Joe Getty
Of course.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. So a couple of quick words from the summary of this article and then we will get to the funny AI story, or at least ironic. Researchers wrote in the paper that AI can result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved. Quote, a key irony of automation is that by mechanizing routine tasks and leaving exception handling to the human user, you deprive the user of the routine opportunities to practice their judgment and strengthen their cognitive musculature, leaving the matrophyd and unprepared when the exceptions do arise.
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Joe Getty
I think that's exactly what happened with the driving. It just happens with everything, apparently, that we use AI for.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow. This reminds me of that internal study that Facebook did that said, hey, this stuff's addictive and it'll wreck your minds. Don't let your kids do this. Anyway, let's keep marketing to the suckers anyway. That's striking, especially because Microsoft was involved. So a quick word again from our friends at Prize Picks. Right, Michael? Isn't that right? Yeah. And then we'll get back to a rather funny, ironic, bitterly amusing story about AI Prize Picks. You can now win up to a thousand times your money on Prize Picks. It's the best way to get sports action in more than 30 states, including Cal, Unicornia, Texas, Georgia and Florida.
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
Wow.
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Jack Armstrong
The insurer said that during the often frustrating back and forth between customers and claim reps after a claim is filed, nearly all of the Allstate emails are now generated by AI and that as a result, they are less accusatory and jargony and more empathetic than the humans.
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Joe Getty
That's interesting.
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Jack Armstrong
All states using open eyes GPT model for, for what it's worth, quote, when these emails used to go out, even though we had standards and so on, they would include a lot of insurance jargon. They weren't very empathetic. Claims would claims agents would get frustrated and so it wasn't necessarily great communication, said their chief information officer.
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Joe Getty
That's interesting. So have you found yourself doing this now that Google has the little AI summary at the top whenever you sear anything? I've been using that a lot and.
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Jack Armstrong
I Don't almost exclusively.
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Joe Getty
And I don't scroll down to check other things. I go with the little AI summary and assume it's right.
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Jack Armstrong
I guess far superior. Yeah, but it, you know, I, I'm not sure I'd say I assume it's right, but it's, it's helpful. It's what I was looking for way, way, way more often than the useless just Google search.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, it's succinct. And it, yeah, that's something. And it'll get a lot better, I assume with all the dangers of it choosing what it wants you to see inherent to the problem. We got a lot more on the way.
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Jack Armstrong
Steer Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
When you're trying to make that decision, do I feel safe flying? And I do, very much so. There's no trend, there's nothing that ties these accidents together. So using critical thinking, you can say for yourself, do all of these things indicate some kind of trend in aircraft accidents? And to me, as an experienced investigator and being involved in aviation as a mechanic and as a safety inspector for the faa, I'm perfect. I feel perfectly safe doing this. I don't see anything tying these together that says, oh, the FAA is bad, or the system is a problem. So you got that plane landed in Canada on its top upside down, which is not supposed to do. Somebody should have told the pilot. And I had a number of people in my real life because this is three in a couple of weeks say what's going on with flying? And that guy's saying nothing's going on with flying. So there you go.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. It's a real test of our ability to be rational as human beings. Since it just keeps popping up, you start to think maybe something's going on.
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Joe Getty
Right. We mentioned this last week, a little follow up on the asteroid that might hit the Earth in 2032. So they have spotted an asteroid way out there in outer space that is headed toward Earth, but it's so far away that it's difficult to nail down exactly where it's going to pass by. I mean, just imagine the tiniest bit of being off and measuring it from that far away would over that many gazillion miles turn into a pretty wide space. But it has.
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Jack Armstrong
Watch, don't look up. I know how the process works.
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Joe Getty
It has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 20. And as you said the other day, a 1 in 50 chance ain't nothing. 1 in 50 of it hitting Earth. So this particular asteroid is 40 to 90 meters wide. They do know that. Which Is what, the length of a football field?
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, roughly.
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Joe Getty
The, the thing that hit in the Yucatan Peninsula that wiped out the dinosaurs was several kilometers. So it was much bigger than that. So this isn't a wipes out Earth wipes out human beings sort of asteroid, but it would do. It would be a heck of a big deal wherever it hit. Really big deal. And I don't know, do we currently have the technology to intercept that? If that. As it gets closer? Because that's seven years from now. As it gets closer. We, we. I'm sure the 1 in 50 will get narrowed down as it gets closer. Just the math will get easier. And if, if they can determine, look, we got like an 80 chance this is going to hit Earth. Earth. We got to intercept it, right? With our modern technology, I would think.
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Jack Armstrong
We'D be able to nudge it successfully enough that it would move the Earth. But I've read scientists talking about this, how if it was, say, aimed right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and you came along as NASA and said, no, we think we can nudge it so it doesn't hurt, hit the Earth completely. We'll be nudging it eastward a long way. And all the countries eastward. Not a long way, like, you know, whatever. Actually, that would be the United States.
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Joe Getty
Nudge it, nudge it into China.
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Jack Armstrong
Let's go with westward for the sake of the argument. So we say, no, we're going to nudge it so far west it doesn't even hit the Earth. And all the countries of the west, China, India, you know, Russia, Europe, are like, no, you're not nudging it west. How about you nudge it east?
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Joe Getty
So China sends up their spaceship, we send up our spaceship, and we're on both sides of the asteroid trying to push a different direction. Oh, no wrestling in space.
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Jack Armstrong
Death. Come do your work.
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Joe Getty
And what, what? How much time I got, Michael? I've got my biggest complaint of the weekend.
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Jack Armstrong
45 seconds.
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Joe Getty
Starbucks has changed their lids and I'm outraged. They got rid of their plastic lids to be good for the Earth. And they've got these paper lids now that you can't put a stopper in. You used to be able to put a little plastic stopper in so you could ride in your car and it doesn't spill. You can't do that anymore with their dumb paper lid. So that's the. I emailed several people in Ukraine and told them how upset I was.
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Jack Armstrong
Have Trump step in. He got rid of the paper straws. Maybe you can get rid of this garbage.
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Joe Getty
Starbucks. I hate your paper lids. You suck.
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Jack Armstrong
Make coffee great again.
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Joe Getty
Exactly. Some really disturbing news about the budget so far this fiscal year that everybody should be paying attention to, but nobody is. Among other things we can talk about. I hope you can stay here.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Gettysburg. People are really scared. I think that, you know, 12 days ago, people knew where their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how they were going to pay for their kids daycare, their medical bills, and then all gone overnight.
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Joe Getty
I'm trying to make it clear that I'm not happy that this person is wondering where they're going to get their next paycheck or how they're going to survive. Because, you know, we've, most of us have been there at some point in our lives, but the fact that these government workers are unaware that the private sector lives this way all the time is amazing to me.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, they're in a different kind of bubble than the one we usually talk about. I would call it an employment reality bubble. They don't understand that the vast majority of the world strikes that bargain. Yeah, our production, our production, our skill, our value to the company will be high enough that they keep us until it's not. And then we gotta find another gig.
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Joe Getty
So let's play the, the intro from 60 Minutes on this story last night. This was their first story about Doge cutting US Aid and all that sort of stuff yesterday.
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Jack Armstrong
And enjoy the foreboding language used by Scott Pelley.
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Joe Getty
It's too soon to tell how serious President Trump is in defiance of the Constitution. In his first 28 days, he signed an order to nullify birthright citizenship for some, a right guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. And he has closed agencies and frozen spending that Congress mandated by law. Lower courts are holding up many of the President's priorities. But nothing has risen to the Supreme Court. Where these battles over presidential power could rewrite history. Presidents often push limits. FDR's New Deal, for example. And voters in this last election wanted change. But the scope and speed of Trump's reach for power may be unprecedented. One example is a 63 year old agency created by Congress, codified in law and eviscerated by Trump in a matter of days. Oh, it's an interesting reach for power that you're trying to shrink the government.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, yeah, yeah. And the idea that the 14th Amendment thing is clearly unconstitutional and he knows it and everybody knows it, and how shutting down USA temporarily while you reassess how it projects American power abroad is somehow just an unforgivable and horrific sin against humanity. That is just so intellectually dishonest. But again, I've given up on network news and cbs. It's a joke.
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Joe Getty
Like I always say. I almost never miss an episode of 60 Minutes, but I must have missed the one in which Scott Pelly said no one's exactly sure how much Joe Biden's willing to challenge the Constitution, but the Supreme Court ruled he can't do away with student loans. However, he seems hell bent on doing it despite blah, blah, blah. I must have missed that episode.
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Jack Armstrong
In fact, he said the Supreme Court was illegitimate for enforcing the Constitution and vowed that he would do it anyway.
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Joe Getty
No less than an unprecedented reach for power, no less an authority than Nancy Pelosi has said multiple times the president doesn't have the authority to cancel student loans, but he's doing it anyway. Yeah, I must have missed that episode.
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Jack Armstrong
They're partisan hacks anyway. Forget about their past as serious journalists. It's gone.
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Joe Getty
I wanted to hear more from this poor Christina girl who got fired at her government job the other day and.
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Jack Armstrong
They had to leave the building. And these are folks who had decades and decades of public service serving USAID across administrations from, you know, George Bush to Obama to the first Trump administration, and they were never able to walk back in the building again.
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Joe Getty
No way. You'd been there for decades doing a good job, you got fired and you weren't let back in the building. I've never heard of that happening before.
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Jack Armstrong
Thank you for describing precisely how it's going to be as wasteful, out of control, ridiculous government programs get reigned in. That is what it's going to look like. Yeah. And it's unfortunate, but it must be done. Have you seen the deficit lately, sweetheart?
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Joe Getty
Speaking of that alarming report shows us drowning in red ink. The New York Post threw in as Democrats block spending cuts, which is perfectly fine. So this is the first four months of the fiscal year. The federal government has a what they call mind numbing and it is $838 billion shortfall four months into the fiscal year.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow.
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Joe Getty
Per the nonpartisan Congressional budget office, that $838 billion hole is 15% higher than last year's first three month gap, which was horrifying and talked about then, but it's 15% more now. Last month the CBO projected a nearly $2 trillion in overspending this year. I remember the first time we spent more than a trillion. Was that the beginning of COVID or was that 08 when we had the big financial meltdown? But anyway, first time we spent, we had a yearly budget deficit of a trillion. It was just, oh my God, we can't blah, blah. Now it's 2 trillion regularly. That's just what we do now. That's just, that's just the way we.
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Jack Armstrong
Time with a strong economy. That's correct. Yeah.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. That would be about 6.2% of gross domestic product. It was 3.8% on average over the past 50 years. Now it's 6.2%. That would be added, of course, to our current $36 trillion debt. And in just a couple of years, the nation's debt. This has been threatened for a long time. The math is simple. It's out there on the horizon, coming our direction. I mean, it's as inevitable as the sunrise, but we all pretend it's not or something. In just a few years, the Nation's debt to GDP ratio will exceed its World War II peak, which is amazing in peacetime. What are we going to do if there is a similar catastrophe like World War II? Which could easily happen with China. Could easily happen, sure. Combination of China and Russia and we in Europe are fighting them. Absolutely could happen. But we're already spending like we did during World War II. What happens then? Well, maybe you lose is what happens.
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Jack Armstrong
I just like how any cut is identified as a horror, particularly by the left these days in the media, because it will take away the, the, the excuse used for spending. It will be hurt. This is money budgeted for starving pregnant women. So you're going to let pregnant women starve? Well, here's the deal with government spending.
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Joe Getty
In case pregnant women, a group of people that people could really have some compassion for. I think he chose that on purpose.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, right, exactly. So they spend zillions of dollars on God knows what, but they call it spending for starving pregnant women. Therefore, when you try to cut it, having identified it as wasteful and ridiculous and one penny of every dollar goes to a hungry pregnant gal, they screech about it. The scam being every dollar that's spent by government is given a noble sounding name. Sure, there's no, there's no Department of Flushing money down the toilet, even though you know it's it. Actually, more appropriately, it would be the Department of handing out enormous gobs of cash to our cronies. Nobody actually calls itself that, but that's what it is.
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Joe Getty
Well, as I've heard a number of people point out, there should be more asking Democrats, what would you cut? I assume you believe we've got to cut spending since we're $32 trillion in debt. What would you cut? Of course the answer is always going to be raise taxes. The billionaires aren't paying their fair share. And that's where you go with that.
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Jack Armstrong
The rich need to pay their fair share. Yeah. Interestingly enough, I thought this is a great perspective written by a fellow by the name of Eugene. Control Vich. Control of itch. How many O's are enough, Eugene? Anyway, he's talking about the billions and billions of dollars that that the US spends through the the UN for what he refers to as the global deep state in the Wall Street Journal. This is not some sort of fevered website or whatever he mentions. In fiscal 22, the US government provided more than $21 billion to 179 international organizations and multilateral entities. It's 450 pages of a State Department report just listing them. And that's on top. Top of the direct foreign aid that went to radical progressive causes via the USAID that everybody's been talking about. So this is $21 billion on top of all that. Even the most. And his headline for which is worth mentioning is now let's defund the un. But he says even the most innocuous sounding international organizations have institutionalized woke ideology. Nearly every UN affiliated organization seeks to make climate change, of course and or gender issues, including transgenderism, an integral grow part of their work. Not if they get around to it. It should be all about that. DEI offices abound. The International Organization for Migration lists among its central active areas of activity gender equality, environmental sustainability and reducing global inequalities. The UN Commission on Human Rights promotes a variety of transgender propaganda programs such as helping Nepalese LGBTQ IQ + minus over the power of three writers tell their own story. Then you know, you could get into abortion and all sorts of stuff like that. But yeah, virtually everything the UN does is, as he said, sound like a taxpayer. Funded 1619 project. Defund the UN that's the next step. I'll. Well I wonder. I wonder because Trump and company have made threatening noises about that. I would love to see him send shockwaves like the ridiculous Gaza Largo plan. Gaza Lago. We'll take over Gaza and kick all the people out and turn it into a resort. Has mobilized the Arab world to say yeah, wait a minute, maybe we can find a real solution to this. I would love to say no, we're not going to fund the UN anymore at all beginning next week and see what reforms suddenly shake out.
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Joe Getty
Well, one of Elon's tweets over the weekend about things he's cutting. This is one of the. This is an interesting thing that has happened. Of course, one of the great things about Elon running Twitter and being in charge of this is how he can get the news out in a way that some retired senator you don't. You've never heard of, part of some blue ribbon commission. Nobody'd be paying any attention to him whatsoever. But Elon tweeted out funding for racist baby training has been canceled. And it's got the list of how they. How you can train your kid to not be racist. Starting at three months old, babies are born racist and you have to train it out of them starting at three months. And it's. It actually has the information here what you do for your baby at three months, at nine months, at two years, at three years and at five years to make sure your kid is not racist.
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Jack Armstrong
So babies have a natural predilection to respond more favorably to faces that look like their own.
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Joe Getty
Right? What?
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Jack Armstrong
They were made by God or nature and you've got to train them out.
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Joe Getty
Of it according to your way of presenting it, or babies are born racist.
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Jack Armstrong
You people are effing nuts.
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Joe Getty
I hope not a lot of you are spending your time trying to train your baby out of racism at three months. There's a lot of other things you should do for your baby.
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Jack Armstrong
But you know how every single couple in advertising is multiracial?
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Joe Getty
Sure.
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Jack Armstrong
Every single family.
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Joe Getty
Even though, you know, practically none in your real life.
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Jack Armstrong
Right, exactly. The actual statistics on that are really interesting.
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Joe Getty
Oh really? I'd like to hear that.
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Jack Armstrong
And highly politically incorrect. It'll probably end our career to even observe the truth. You can't observe the truth. Like we were talking about in Germany before. If you insult anybody or hurt their feelings, you're a criminal.
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Joe Getty
I am? Test drove the Tesla Cyber truck the other day. I wanted to talk about that because it's a controversial vehicle. Also, my kids say I have a new dent in my head that I should be aware of. I'm a shaven headed man. If you've never seen me before and you can see my entire spherical. Spherical head. My kids say I have a new dent. I should go to a phrenologist.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't know who you see about that, friend. I don't think that's a thing.
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Joe Getty
I thought people read the book.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, yes, but I'm not sure it's a legitimate science.
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Joe Getty
Will insurance cover it? Anyway, we got a lot more on the way. Stay here.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Gettys, right?
- [31:32]
Joe Getty
Yes, right.
- [31:33]
Jack Armstrong
From the seventies.
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Joe Getty
No, I misplaced four cheeseburgers. Well, drunk uncle, I'm sorry, but I think you might be too drunk.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I tried to tackle Paul Simon, but I missed. And now Sabrina Carpenter's dead.
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Joe Getty
Drunk uncle and girl at a party, everyone. So I'm. We're big fans of drunk uncle at my household, so I like to see him get a spot on the 50 year anniversary. There's so many Drunk Hulk. My favorite part though is he looks down to his drink. He says, not my Captain America.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow, very funny. I'm not so obsessively political. I can't enjoy that. But how about let's do a little drunk kid home from college, suddenly knows everything character. Wouldn't that be charming?
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Joe Getty
I think they've had that over the years a few times.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, good, good.
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Joe Getty
One international update that's not exactly funny. So tough transition. Two quick things. So they got the big meeting in Saudi Arabia right now. Marco Rubio, our Secretary of State. State meeting with Lavrov. Basically the Secretary of State of Russia trying to work out a deal or start the talks or whatever. Zelensky isn't there. Anyway, this breaking news, all you need to know about this is the United States asked Russia for a moratorium on strikes against Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Lavra rejected that, he said because Russia has never targeted Ukrainian energy infrastructure in the first place.
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Jack Armstrong
So that's a good one, Sergey.
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Joe Getty
That's not a good start to the talks if you're just going to deny have all reality. And then this horrific news that came out. Hamas says the youngest hostages, ages 2 and 5, and their mom are dead and their bodies will be sent back to Israel this week. So that one of the reasons Israel has been holding out this whole time and putting up with a lot of crap from Hamas is hoping to get back those two little kids and their mom, but they're all dead. Probably have been for a while. How did those little kids die? Hamas. What happened there?
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, no kidding. Monsters. So a complete change of topic here. I said we would do this, so let's squeeze it in. I found this very interesting. It's statistics on spouses, races for newlyweds. It goes through. It's not up to date. So I suspect some of these numbers have changed a little bit because interracial marriage is. Is become more common in last four or five years, which are not covered. And I will tell you this just for the sake of the argument, I don't care who you marry. I hope you care for each other and are good for each other. And if you have kids, you raise them the best you can and you have a happy life together, I don't give a crap.
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Joe Getty
I don't care either. I just think it's interesting, human nature, that it tends not to happen.
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Jack Armstrong
Right? Indeed. And to deny that that's okay or natural or birds of a feather flock together is just, it's, it's a depth of how unrealistic the DEI crowd is. Of course they're, they're Marxist. And also, and it's not just us who are annoyed by, have noticed that every couple just portrayed on tv, especially in ads, has to be multiracial. Now I get they, they think, you know, we gotta show a black person. So a black person will want to buy this brand of wheelbarrow or car or cereal too, which I think is probably not necessary. But anyway, I thought, this is interesting. The most recent statistics, they have white males marry white females. It's 0.898% of the time. So 90% of the time it's slightly, slightly more. It's 90 and a half percent that white females marry white males. Then there are a mix of other ethnicities they might marry. And this chart is quite interesting. It's a little challenging to read, but it has black, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hispanic, Hmong, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, other, Pakistani, Vietnamese, all sorts of different things, blah, blah, blah. One interesting departure from the tendency and this, well, I don't know what to make of it, is Japanese females marry white guys 41% of the time.
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Joe Getty
But how often do black Filipinos.
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Jack Armstrong
It's about 44%. Of course, you know, the whole, what's white, what's not.
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Joe Getty
How often do you have a black white marriage, as is portrayed in ads, like, it's half the time.
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Jack Armstrong
Among black females, it appears to be about six and a half percent black males marry white women, about 14%.
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Joe Getty
But in time, in detergent commercials, it's more like 95%.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that's correct.
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Joe Getty
For some reason we do four hours. If you miss an hour, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Gettysburg.