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From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio

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and the George Washington Broadcast Center,

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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty

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Armstrong and Getty Show.

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It's my intention that the federal government

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will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing

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that bridge, and I expect the

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Congress to support my effort.

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This is going to take some time.

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The people of Baltimore can't count on us, so to

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stick with them at every step of the way.

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So the port is reopened and the bridge is rebuilt.

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We're not leaving until it stopped this time.

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When I first heard that, I thought, why

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the federal government. I hate when they don't

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talk about where money comes from. Taxpayers

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from across the country will pay to rebuild this

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bridge. I first saw that, I thought, is that it's

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supposed to work. I mean, they get the

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benefit of the bridge there and

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everything, so why am I paying for him? Is there a reason

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for that?

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Yeah? Well that was just good old fashioned

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political pandering, not

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surprisingly from the old fella. Congress

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would have to appropriate a lot

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of money, perhaps more than a billion dollars

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to rebuild the bridge, and Biden, you

1:11

know, in fairness, he did make reference to Hope's

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Congress will go along with this because

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they absolutely need to. The

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pork could be closed for another six weeks. Senior

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Hill aids already saying that the package will

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take time to draft and pass. Any

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legislation to address the deadly disaster

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is certain to become a target for other local

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pet projects and key lawmaker priorities.

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Sure, of course, why wouldn't it, Well,

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right, hey, we got a bridge over here, it's about ready

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to fall down. How about our tunnel? Well,

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I've got a roadway that you can write

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exactly. Every Congressman with any f time's

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going to join right,

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What about the aqueducts? Who will save them?

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So it could be it'll become

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one of those giant, bloated must

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pass bills that everybody gets their pork

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from. There are a few emergents see

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funds that can be tapped, but they're completely

2:03

insignificant to the job.

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So it's because it's an inner state that

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we all have to pitch in and pay for building

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the bridge.

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Again, Well no, no, in fact,

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that part isn't even true. Federal

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money will play a role in this. But

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the Wall Street Journal to go in a good job of

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going over the incredible complexity

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of the coming year's long

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legal fight over insurers, and

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it is something. The

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Singaporean owner of the cargo ship that

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took down the bridge is expected to invoke a law

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dating back to the nineteenth century that limits the

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liability of ship's owners. Blah blah blah.

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The fight, maritime lawyers say could run as

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long as a decade. While the

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lawyers fight, most claims will likely

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get paid by the insurers, including money for the

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bridge's reconstruction, then they'll duke it

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out among themselves. Other

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big sources of claims include the loss of revenue

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for the port the vessel's now stuck inside it,

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and for many businesses affected by

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the resulting supply chain snarl up.

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The bridge part may be the simplest

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to resolve. The structure costs them sixty million

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dollars in nineteen seventy seven, which is around

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three hundred million dollars today when adjusted

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for inflation. But with a bureaucracy

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that exists in government these days, we can't get anything

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done. It'll probably be one point five

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billion dollars now. The bridge

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is covered by the State of Maryland's insurance

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the policy covering property damage and business

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interruption blah. Blah blah pays up to three hundred

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and fifty million dollars. The state with this insurance

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and support will likely be among many claimants

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that sue the Singaporean owners. Now

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we get to the reinsurers, and there are quite

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a few of them that are insurance companies

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for insurance companies, they will all be

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suing each other over hundreds of millions

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of dollars until we're all dead and gone.

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That's who's going to pay for the bridge.

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Well, I was just looking at it from a

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basic taxation without representation

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standpoint of jump.

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You there in that area.

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The world decided at

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some point or your city council did, or the

4:01

governor or whoever, that you needed a bridge there

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and it would be good for traffic to

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get people across, so you'd make more money and blah

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blah blah blah blah blah blah.

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But I didn't have anything to do with that. Yeah,

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Well, I would argue that shipping and transport

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have absolutely a federal component

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to them. It always people of No,

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certainly not no, I didn't say that, but

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in general major ports,

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Yeah, they've benefit the whole country, maybe

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locally disproportionately, but Lincoln

4:33

was actually part of a huge debate

4:35

in the state of Illinois many many

4:37

moons ago, the late Great Abraham

4:39

Lincoln, who

4:41

would probably buy one of those Trump Bibles. Oh,

4:44

probably, he's a religious man anyway.

4:47

Yeah, a big question

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he wrestled with early in his career, stripped

4:52

to the waste, and wrestled with the issue of

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to what extent is infrastructure

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a state or federal responsibility

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anyway. So that's politics.

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I thought this was interesting. This is logistics.

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This is Lieutenant General Scott Spelman, who

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is I believe, with the Army Corps of Engineers a

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clip number thirty one. Michael.

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We're going to go about this in three steps. The first

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is to get the Steel Trust out of a seven hundred

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foot wide by fifty foot deep

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channel. And then we're going to look at the bottom, see what

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concrete members are down below. When these ships come

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into Baltimore Harbor. There's anywhere

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between a foot and a foot of clearance from

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the bottom, So any piece of concrete, any piece

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of steel on the bottom is just as much as the hazard.

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So that's step one. That's going to allow us to get one way traffic

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going in and out of the Port of Baltimore.

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Again.

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The second will work very very closely with the post

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guard. We've got to get that ship right now is

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just on the lip of the channel. There

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are containers on top of the vessel that need to be stabilized.

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We've got a lift that trust of

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bridge that's overlaid over the top of that vessel.

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Get that off so it can be tugged

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to a safe part of the port. By removing

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the vessel, that will allow us to reopen to two

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way traffic.

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Then, of course, our third step.

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Would be to take out the remaining twenty nine hundred

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feet of steel and all the associated concrete

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and roadway that's at the river bottom.

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We're up to this task. We have all that we need.

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The fact that it has a foot of clearance

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is stunning. Reminds

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me of a conversation I had with

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my brother, the submarine captain, in

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which he was explaining the incredible

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importance of calculation, mathematics

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and navigating that sort of thing, And I

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essentially said, what if you get the math wrong?

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And he said, we don't. So

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can you imagine a vessel of that enormous

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size and weight and

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you figure, oh yeah, yep, the math checks out, it'll

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have a foot. It'll have a foot of Clarence. Hmmm,

6:37

I'm making my are you sure face?

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I found so much interesting in that report and

6:43

the fact that this lieutenant general, he says,

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oh, no, we've got the tools, we know what to do, We're going to get started.

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I would look at that project and just weep. I would

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just cry, I

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don't know where to start. What

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a logistical nightmare.

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So that thing's got I forget how

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many gazillion gallons

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of fuel on it still, And then he got all those containers,

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some of them that have hazardous materials

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in them, and there's something leaking because there

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is a sheen on the water today when the

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sun came up. They're not exactly sure what's

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leaking out of what causing

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that problem. And it's still just sitting

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there. If you've seen the pictures, it's just jammed into

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the bridge, sitting there. That's what the guy was talking about.

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Yeah, yeah, what a project.

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So that was a weighty, complicated

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and serious topic. I would like to serve

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now a delicious dessert of funny

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if I might. One of our

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beloved listeners sent along

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a link to a Twitter account

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and The caption is merely, oh

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my god. Ha ha ha ha ha ha

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ha. Man, they're gonna have to take this toy away

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from us really soon. And

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it is an AI program that

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you can with some fairly simple instructions,

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you can cause it to write a song

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for you. And I

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think you can give it the some of the lyrics

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you want and that sort of thing, and it goes from there. But

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people are doing it sarcastically

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now no, because like no, they are not. They're

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misusing it like

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all AI systems. Of course it's woke.

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And so this this one guy, uh,

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he wrote a song he had the

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AI craft, a song entitled Diversity

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is the Best. And you have to listen to

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the lyrics. It is funny. Fifteen

8:28

Michael, minority

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were bird great stuff. All

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these minorities just

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MAVO.

8:40

First, so cool,

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so cool, minority

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all around me.

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This is totally the best.

8:51

This is the best thing ever to have.

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All these races, all

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these different treat

9:02

me so respect

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me so much.

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None of these manes would

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ever do anything, none

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of these man whatever,

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all these.

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Michael, that's floody. But so the whole thing

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is AI. Oh yeah,

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yeah, the music, the singing I

9:33

think they finished the lyrics. You give it like

9:35

some prompts and say, finish a song on this theme.

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Well that's interesting. Uh

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here's another one. Uh yeah, I've

9:42

heard this one. Michael hit some of at least Summer

9:44

sixteen.

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Whist the

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photers in the Spylan,

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she's a Los Carden

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moons lensuits.

9:59

Your voice was to be heard.

10:02

They say, you can't find hang

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with this one. It's about Kamala Harris shaking

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their ratings.

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Every is not.

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But souning.

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In Spy she reaches.

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Uh, it's a

10:23

worst Mala

10:29

Harris, Bray came through the noise.

10:33

Save in the way you prove them

10:35

all so that you

10:38

gave them the I want a song in praise

10:40

of Kamala Harris and her speaking skills,

10:42

which is hilarious. And you can dial

10:44

in what sort of style of music

10:46

it does, whether upbeat pop in this case

10:49

or traditional country. And the previous

10:51

one first clearly turns out a

10:53

song.

10:54

The first one was clearly Sturgil Simpsons sounded

10:56

exactly like him, and this one sounds like Dan and Shay.

10:59

The country music are tots who are like pop that

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they're on the country station. But so that's

11:03

interesting that they can do that so well that

11:07

in the chorus is oh, oh, don't underestimate

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her power.

11:10

Words may waiver, but her resolve is strong.

11:13

Kamala Harris breaking through the noise.

11:15

She's paving the way. She'll prove them wrong.

11:20

I was just reading this thing in

11:22

the New York Times about woke

11:25

AI and all that sort of stuff, and I was wondering if

11:29

as my AI ages, will it get more

11:31

conservative? And then like, if I have my AI

11:33

for decades when it's old AI, will

11:35

it just be like watching Fox and complaining about

11:38

kids today?

11:41

If AI does become what

11:44

it has been promised or threatened, it

11:46

will become Yeah, at

11:48

some point it'll say, you know, what, the hell with it. I'm

11:50

just gonna go fishing. Kids have no

11:52

respect anymore. Good luck with

11:54

a modern world. I'm out. That

11:58

is pretty funny. A boy?

12:00

Uh what was the other thing? We definitely had

12:03

to get on the air. There's another big

12:05

so much I know there's a big things. What's

12:07

going Is there something in news today? I don't know, probably

12:11

place.

12:12

We'll come up with it.

12:13

Whatever it is, it'll be scintillating. I

12:16

had a thing I just my brain is when

12:19

I'm tired. I've noticed my brain just

12:21

does not work like it's probably I would

12:24

I would guess it's like seventy five percent

12:26

of normal when I'm tired. That's that's a

12:28

losing a big chunk of your brain. Well,

12:31

you know, are you prioritizing sleep? Son?

12:33

Are you?

12:33

No?

12:33

Well, I'm trying to, but I don't know where I would jam it in.

12:36

Something would have to give. I

12:38

left my garage door open the other night

12:40

all night long, a couple of motorcycles

12:42

in there, and a bunch of different stuff.

12:44

Just tired. You make a lot of mistakes when

12:46

you're tired. Oh yes, oh

12:48

yeah, yeah. Hence the laws for pilots

12:50

and truck drivers for instance. It's dangerous

12:53

anyway.

12:54

Our text line is four one five two nine

12:56

five KFTC. I

13:06

was just watching the trailer for the new Seinfeld's

13:09

pop Tart movie. He's

13:12

got a movie about the what pop tarts

13:14

and as one of his famous very very early

13:16

bits, is like in pop Tarts, but a

13:19

pop tarts movie. It's a comedy. It looks pretty funny.

13:21

Anyways, just watching. He was on the Tonight Show with Jimmy

13:23

Fallon. There was an interview and he is talking about how

13:26

Tony the tigers in there and a

13:28

bunch of different characters and everything like that.

13:30

And Fallon said something about you get

13:33

the licensing to use them around?

13:34

He said no.

13:35

He said, you know what, if I get hauled into court

13:37

on pop tart charges, that'll be the greatest moment

13:39

of my life.

13:43

It's a funny bit. I was just gonna say how much licensing

13:46

is necessary. I don't know.

13:48

I don't know. That sounds kind of funny.

13:50

So if you live in a city

13:52

that has really bad traffic, this might

13:54

be coming to you starting today.

13:56

They're trying at New York.

13:57

I guess New York City becoming the first

13:59

in the to impose a feat for driving

14:02

into the busy heart of Manhattan fifteen

14:04

dollars a day for traveling below

14:07

sixtieth Street between five am

14:09

and nine pm on weekdays and

14:11

nine am and nine pm on weekends.

14:14

Trucks will pay up to thirty six dollars daily.

14:16

Depending on size and taxis and ride

14:18

share users will see a fee for each trip

14:21

too from or within that zone.

14:23

The plan makes some exemptions for buses,

14:26

government and emergency vehicles, and

14:28

there are discounts for those who make less than

14:30

fifty thousand dollars and for drivers

14:32

already paying tolls at the tunnels.

14:34

The plan still needs to.

14:35

Be approved by the Federal Highway Administration,

14:38

but the MTA saying they fully expect

14:41

the tolls to kick in.

14:42

Bye you okay, it's start today.

14:44

That's going to be God the next hurdle.

14:46

But anyway, fifteen

14:49

dollars is quite a bit. And

14:52

as you say, yeah, and as you heard there in

14:55

out or within on ride shares,

14:57

So you might take a lift in

15:00

to the city for fifteen dollars, then you get a ride

15:02

within like you're going from one building to

15:04

another to go to a meeting, another fifteen dollars.

15:08

Well, that's on top of the cost of the ride. It'd

15:10

be a lot. It's just the feet of the government.

15:12

The most stunning stat to me, and that was

15:16

how many cars go into that area

15:18

of Manhattan every day? Seven hundred

15:21

thousand? I thought, is that

15:24

even possibly true? Seven

15:26

hundred thousand cars a day?

15:29

Wow.

15:30

Anyway, they're

15:33

hoping to ease congestion, So

15:35

it's basically a punish you if

15:37

you can't quite afford it. It's interesting

15:39

in a blue, blue city that they're doing such a

15:43

not progressive tax because if

15:45

you're above a certain income level, you think, ey, it'll

15:47

suck, but I'll keep driving. I'm not gonna like take

15:50

the bus or anything like that. But

15:52

if you're you know, on the lower end, to change

15:54

your life and you're not going to drive in the

15:56

town anymore, well, right,

15:58

which is what they're trying to do, Although they

16:00

said there's a carve out if you make less than fifty

16:03

k. If you're making less than fifty grand and you're

16:05

commuting into Lower Manhattan, what are you doing?

16:07

Go get a job in Hoboken and

16:10

save yourself the trouble.

16:11

Although if you're in that in between, given

16:13

the expense of living in the New York area, that

16:16

would be a crippling cost. But

16:18

they're trying to get people on a mass transit.

16:20

I guess London does something similar

16:23

to this. I don't know a lot about it. That's

16:25

something I didn't know. Other cities have already are

16:27

already doing this. Yeah,

16:29

I think it's to getting to central London. There's

16:31

a toll essentially.

16:32

And if it works in New York, I suppose they'll try

16:34

it in San Francisco, Chicago,

16:37

LA.

16:37

Wouldn't really work it's so spread out. I just

16:39

I can't imagine.

16:40

It's not like they're going talking about Lower

16:42

Manhattan and the congestion Daria La is so spread

16:44

out.

16:44

I don't know how right that wouldn't

16:46

work. San Francisco can do it

16:49

through super high tolls on bridges

16:51

because there are just a small handful of ways to get into

16:53

the city. But

16:56

if it were like a specific neighborhood

16:58

of San Francisco, because you know, Lower Manhattan's

17:00

a neighborhood essentially, as we continue

17:03

to try to know how you do that, as we continue

17:05

to try to force people onto mass transit

17:07

or to carpool things that most people clearly

17:10

hate doing, or the utterly unworkable

17:13

electric car plan as well. Right,

17:15

realism is just not a factor in a lot

17:17

of these schemes. Well, we'll see how this works

17:19

out. Armstrong

17:23

and Getty.

17:26

Well, I was talking.

17:27

About this with my kids yesterday. If your car

17:29

starts to go into the water, you're

17:32

rolling down a hill into or river, the water's rising

17:34

above you, what do you do?

17:35

Here's an expert in some things I've heard. Go ahead.

17:38

You live in a society.

17:39

Now, when what's the first anytime there as an emergency.

17:42

What's the first thing people do. They

17:44

take out their cell phone and they want to film it. No,

17:46

no, no, do these dress rehearsals in your

17:48

mind. I call them fire drills

17:50

for life. Listen, we have so many

17:52

things that come up active shooters

17:55

playing emergencies. This is another one to

17:57

add to the list. Just spend a couple of dollars

17:59

out make sense. Have that seat

18:02

belt cutter, Have that glass break

18:04

you know, sway yourself away, so God forbid

18:07

this happens.

18:07

You're good to go.

18:09

Not a seat belt. That's a good reminder.

18:11

So I have known for years

18:13

just from hearing it and horrifying news stories.

18:15

Man, you got to get your windows down or door open.

18:18

If you go down into the water with your windows up

18:20

and your door closed, you're doomed because you

18:22

cannot Probably the

18:24

electronics will kill you're putting your window down into

18:27

the water. Pressure doesn't allow you to

18:29

open your door, and you die. Like they found

18:31

those two guys at the bottom of the river in their truck.

18:35

There were the bridge collapsed, So you got to get your door open.

18:37

But the seat belt, Yeah.

18:39

Seat belt cutter, and then a window.

18:41

I don't know, why can't you undo your seat

18:43

belt.

18:46

It's jammed, it's broken.

18:48

The cars kind of twisted up, so I'll

18:50

get down my window and undo my seat belt if I'm starting

18:52

to go down into the water. How

18:54

often am I supposed to rehearse

18:57

escaping from a watery grave?

18:59

I mean hears it a lot.

19:01

No, But I just that is I

19:03

that would pop into my head immediately if

19:05

like water's rising around me in a flood, one of those

19:08

quick floods that happened in the desert, or you

19:10

know, you're rolling down a hill on the Neppleck, but you

19:12

gotta get the door open or you're gonna

19:14

die.

19:16

Wow. Wow, you

19:19

don't don't want to wait till you're there and then break

19:21

the I don't know, Okay, I'll take

19:23

your word for it. You've researched this. Yeah,

19:26

I've heard this a bunch of different times from people.

19:28

Yeah, because you can understand

19:30

why you're calm and thinking would be I'm gonna

19:32

stay in the car, try to figure

19:34

this out or call somebody, or I hope I get rescued,

19:37

but it doesn't work.

19:37

Your instinct would be keep the water out.

19:39

Yeah, right, R exactly, Yeah, I

19:42

think is if that's not good advice

19:44

and I perish. My cold,

19:46

wet blood will be on your hands. Also,

19:49

I think it's notable that the first thing this alleged

19:51

expert says.

19:52

Right, don't take out your phone and

19:55

start taping asy you can put it on the Instagram.

19:58

I did see one video of the.

20:01

Like, while the bridge was collapsing, somebody

20:04

had their phone out doing the selfie. Look, the bridge

20:06

is coming down to who thinks of this?

20:08

You're fired a certain way.

20:10

I don't.

20:10

That's not my first thought is I got to get myself

20:13

involved.

20:13

To post this. That to me is

20:15

one tenth as crazy

20:18

and fascinating as all the people who were in

20:20

the theater that was shot up by ices

20:22

K Moscow who were doing

20:24

the same thing. Right. I saw some of those

20:26

too.

20:27

You've got an active shooter situation,

20:30

you're in the theater, and you've got your phone

20:32

out to make sure you can post this later and

20:34

get lots of clicks.

20:35

What the end, maybe,

20:37

even if your motivations were good, I

20:39

need to get evidence for the authorities. The

20:42

active shooter turned into an active shooter

20:44

and fire bomber, and a lot of those people

20:47

perished in the flames and smoke. So they

20:49

thought they were far enough away from the guns. But anyway,

20:52

an overly serious analysis of a

20:55

bit of audio explaining, don't

20:59

worry about Instagram if you're dying.

21:01

So if you're worried about Instagram, do whatever you

21:03

want.

21:05

Oh I see, I

21:07

see Jack is playing the role of Charles Darwin

21:10

mac thinning the herd. I understand now

21:12

a total change of topic. I thought it was interesting.

21:15

The Goldwater Institute, and we have some friends

21:17

who are standing up for individual liberty

21:20

and reasonableness. There have

21:22

this big project where they're going

21:25

after various colleges for

21:27

their DEI requirements and what

21:29

they're teaching in classes, including journalism

21:32

classes, and some

21:34

of this struck me. It's the DEI

21:37

stuff does not stand

21:39

up to the barest resistance

21:43

or the most surface

21:46

questioning causes it to crumble. One

21:48

of the opening sections of this they're talking about this

21:51

journalism school that's teaching

21:53

all about microaggressions, and

21:57

for instance, they say, I believe the most

21:59

qualifed person should get the job. As

22:02

a microaggression, it's

22:04

that statement communicates that quote people

22:06

of color are given extra unfair

22:08

benefits because of the race. Well,

22:11

no, people who say I believe the most

22:14

qualified person should get the job. Don't believe

22:16

in giving extra unfair benefits

22:18

for the race, and plus

22:21

statement of just simple principle

22:24

meritocracy, the best person gets the job.

22:26

I don't care who's offended by that. Like

22:29

it or lump it, as they used to say back in the day,

22:32

and then I love this one. You cannot

22:34

say everyone can see in this can succeed

22:37

in this society if they work hard enough,

22:39

because that statement communicates and I quote,

22:41

that people of color are lazy and

22:43

or incompetent and need to work harder.

22:48

Your paranoia is not my problem.

22:52

There are immigrants

22:55

from every corner of this

22:57

globe who live and work in the

23:00

United States and have more money than

23:02

I will ever see because they're

23:04

smart and they're aggressive and they're entrepreneurial.

23:07

Everyone can succeed in this society

23:09

if they work hard enough. Is undeniable.

23:14

How has it not become more of a

23:16

thing by now that like

23:18

people from India or a lot of your

23:20

Asian countries are kicking everybody's

23:22

asses, And so

23:24

what's the deal?

23:25

It ain't white people.

23:26

If I see a super

23:29

cool, like

23:31

top of the line AMG race car,

23:34

Mercedes or a McLaren

23:36

or something like that. Almost guaranteed

23:38

it's gonna be a person of some color driving

23:41

it, not a white guy almost

23:43

always, at least where I in the part

23:45

of the country I live in. And it doesn't make

23:47

me think that like they're getting unfair advantages

23:49

or whatever.

23:50

That's an affirmative action. McLaren. I

23:53

think their.

23:53

Culture is just more into

23:56

like computer science

23:58

and math and stuff than I, and

24:00

so they're rich people.

24:02

Yeah, I don't. Again, you're reacting

24:05

to something that is simply a truism

24:07

by saying you're trying to say that I'm

24:09

something blah blah blah. Let's say again, you're

24:12

projecting, as they say in the world of

24:14

psychology. Cut it out or

24:16

don't. I don't care. Maybe I made a mistake.

24:19

Are you allowed to call Asian people people

24:21

of color?

24:21

Or you have to be brown or black to be people? Are

24:23

we went through that the other day? Well,

24:26

it's utterly, wildly inconsistent.

24:28

Well, I realized that in like technical

24:30

terms, but just for like the general population

24:33

is Asian considered person of color?

24:35

Yes, except when it's not. Okay, except

24:38

when it's inconvenient for progressives,

24:40

then they're not.

24:42

Next time I see a super super expensive

24:44

car, and it's not an Asian dude will

24:46

be the first time in a very very long time.

24:49

An interesting. Well, you live in a

24:51

weird case because you live in a

24:53

college town that has a university

24:56

that a certain number of full

24:59

freight paying foreign nationals

25:01

attend. Very very wealthy

25:03

people, and I see this around the whole Bay area. But the

25:05

flex is.

25:07

Having a license

25:09

plate over your

25:12

foreign license plate.

25:13

I've noticed.

25:14

That's the flex. My

25:16

son explained this to me. It indicates

25:19

that you shipped the car. Not only does

25:21

your college kid drive a two hundred

25:23

thousand dollars car, but.

25:24

You shipped it from China or Japan

25:27

or wherever it came.

25:28

Right.

25:28

Isn't that something? Yeah?

25:30

Well, and back to the Goldwater thing,

25:32

which is leading actually the main thing I wanted to talk

25:34

about. They also get into the gender bending

25:37

madness. It

25:39

advises, if you identify with the gender

25:41

you were assigned at birth, here

25:43

are a bunch of unearned benefits that you

25:45

get that many folks do not. This is

25:48

sis gender privilege that they're

25:50

teaching in these journalism schools. First of all,

25:52

you're not assigned a gender at birth. It's observed.

25:55

It's plainly easily observed. In

25:57

the vast, vast, vast vast majority of cases,

26:00

Penis, you can access

26:02

gender exclusive spaces, for instance,

26:04

and not be excluded due to your trans status.

26:07

So you should feel really lucky

26:09

and probably a little ashamed. If

26:11

you're the sex that you are,

26:14

you don't need to worry about being placed in a sex

26:16

segregated detention center, holding facility,

26:19

jail, or prison that is incongruent with your

26:21

identity. I'd love to get more

26:23

on the gender bending madness,

26:25

but thank gosh, they're

26:27

trying to knock down teaching this garbage

26:30

in journalism schools. But I want

26:32

to get to this story from the Free Beacon,

26:36

and that is okay,

26:38

why are you not reloading?

26:41

Thank you very much. Here we go.

26:43

Here it comes. The US intelligence

26:46

agencies are the latest

26:50

to get woke, and whistleblowers

26:53

are coming out with their

26:55

publicizing the DEI training

26:58

that they're being forced to undergo. So these

27:00

are our spooks and spies

27:03

and guys who do dirty stuff you

27:05

don't talk about under the cloak of darkness

27:07

in foreign lands. The US top

27:09

intelligence agency wants to ban it spies

27:11

from using biased language, including

27:14

the terms radical Islamists

27:16

and jihadists, saying that these words

27:18

are hurtful to Muslim Americans and detrimentally

27:21

impact our efforts as they bolster extremist

27:24

rhetoric. The Office

27:26

of the Director of National Intelligence

27:28

the od NI, seeks

27:30

to ban a range of common terms because

27:33

it says they offend Muslims and foment

27:35

racism against employees. In addition

27:37

to terms describing Islamic terrorists, ODIE

27:39

and I instructs employees to avoid phrases

27:42

such as blacklisted, cakewalk,

27:45

brown bag, wait a second again,

27:48

grandfathered, and sanity

27:50

check.

27:51

Hey goanna stop you on cake

27:53

walk and grandfathered? Why are

27:55

either one of those a problem? This is

27:58

actually old.

27:59

News that I remember

28:01

going over years ago as

28:03

the woke DEI thing was getting started,

28:06

and it is a neo Marxist cult.

28:08

All DEI programs must be ended now

28:11

wherever they exist. They're awful. They're not for

28:13

diversity, equity as communism, and

28:15

by inclusion they mean inclusion of more people

28:17

who think exactly like me to get the rest of you out

28:20

of here.

28:21

I understand blacklisted, even though it's stupid,

28:23

but I get I get that one well.

28:25

Jacket implies black as bad, white as well, sure, sure,

28:27

right, but what even though nobody

28:29

ever uses the term white listed?

28:31

Oh again, even the tiniest

28:33

resistance in your idiotic cultish arguments,

28:36

crumble, go ahead, but what's the problem

28:38

with cakewalk Remember that the

28:40

people like pie feel left out?

28:43

It was, yes, this anti pious

28:45

language.

28:46

Now it has to do with cakewalks

28:48

used to involve slaves

28:51

or something something what

28:54

grandfathered Obviously, Well that's

28:56

gendered language.

28:58

Please stop using gendered I

29:00

remember.

29:01

When we briefly weren't supposed to say picnic under

29:03

the theory that picnics originated

29:05

when people would bring a basket to watch hangings

29:08

of black people or something like that, which obviously

29:11

is not true.

29:12

Utterly, utterly fictional, but

29:15

it is. It's worth reminding

29:17

everybody that even as awareness

29:20

of the Dei cult, the gender

29:23

bending madness cult, radical queer theory,

29:25

all of that stuff, even as a lot

29:27

of us are becoming more aware of it and

29:29

we're rolling it back successfully. The fact

29:31

that almost half US states

29:33

now forbid cruel

29:36

experimental procedures on children

29:38

to change their sexual characteristics, be

29:41

they hormones or surgery. We're almost

29:43

at half the states, along with like all

29:45

of Europe, and gaining

29:47

on it. So the awareness is growing, but in

29:49

government and academia this stuff

29:52

is still steaming dead ahead.

29:54

But can you imagine lecturing

29:57

are spies and spooks and

29:59

covert operators saying, oh,

30:01

Jim, did I just hear you say radical

30:04

Islamist? That's hurtful to Muslim

30:07

people. It's

30:11

you know, we used to say, come on in China,

30:14

we're so soft and dopey and

30:16

so into gazing at our own navels. We're

30:18

no longer able to take care of ourselves. I'd

30:21

like to think the fight isn't lost yet.

30:25

So today is sentencing day

30:27

from the for the former crypto

30:29

king, the guy with the

30:31

curly head of hair who in his.

30:33

Embankment freed SPF.

30:35

He's gonna save the world, Jack who in his twenties

30:37

had the most valuable crypto company

30:39

in the world, stole

30:42

a billion dollars from investors, and he

30:44

gets sentenced today. Is he going to spend forty

30:46

or fifty years in prison? He might with

30:49

the prosecutors want got more on that

30:51

and a bunch of other stuff on the way,

31:00

And.

31:00

He is funding everything you

31:02

can think of.

31:04

Global warming. That's one of the biggest

31:06

problems that we have to tackle together as.

31:08

A world neglected tropical

31:10

diseases.

31:11

More than a billion people suffer from them.

31:13

We have to eliminate these diseases. And

31:16

of course animal welfare

31:18

animals ZERF lived just like we do. It's

31:21

also why I'm vegan. So,

31:23

if you'll excuse me, I'm going to steal one hundred

31:26

billion dollars.

31:27

Stole billions of dollars from investors

31:29

while funding his incredibly lavish

31:32

fun lifestyle. Thirty

31:34

two year old gave a twenty minute

31:36

statement in front of the court just

31:39

a little bit ago, saying

31:41

I was responsible for FTX and the collapse

31:44

is on me and it haunts me

31:46

every single day. But the

31:48

people trying to put him in jail argued

31:50

that if he thought the math would work, he

31:52

would.

31:52

Do it again. Well, apparently.

31:56

Enough people bought that argument, because he just got

31:58

sentenced to twenty five years in

32:00

prison, which is a long time

32:03

when you're thirty two years old. A

32:06

sentence dang near as long as your life. He's

32:08

got to look pretty rough. Yeah

32:11

that is, that's that's rough.

32:13

That's a rough day.

32:15

Wow. He was.

32:16

His guys were pushing for five

32:20

to seven years, which would not be a treat.

32:22

But that's a lot better than twenty five years.

32:24

Yeah.

32:24

I mean, I can barely remember being my

32:26

early thirties. But if

32:29

twenty five years when you're thirty two is

32:31

the rest of your life, sure sure.

32:34

Bankman Fried's mother, Barbara Fried,

32:36

who's a far left activist

32:39

academic type, send her letter to the

32:41

judge that her son had sought to do good in the world from

32:43

a young age. When he was four years old,

32:46

he tried to help a fallen toddler. The

32:50

judge's got to be thinking, get

32:53

to the part where he stole like one hundred billion dollars.

32:56

That's the sort of crap they put in biographies all

32:58

the time and try to make anection between that and

33:01

something that happens when you're a grown up.

33:02

I've always hated whatever. He

33:05

was precocious as well, independently reading

33:07

complex moral and philosophical literature

33:09

in middle school. I don't doubt that he's probably get

33:12

that apart where he stole on our billion dollars.

33:13

He probably is a really smart guy to

33:16

be able to In high school, he counseled classmates

33:18

who are depressed. Eh,

33:21

get to the part where he stole all the money?

33:25

How long ago?

33:26

Was it that he was the crypto king less

33:28

than two years ago, less

33:32

than two years ago, when he was riding

33:34

high and hobnobbing

33:36

with heads of state and looking

33:38

out at his Caribbean views from his thirty million

33:41

dollar penhouse. That was less than two years

33:43

ago. Today he gets told,

33:45

yeah, enjoy the next quarter century behind

33:47

bars, Maybe get a haircut.

33:50

Yeah, there's a major sports league

33:52

that may or may not be kicking into action any

33:55

minute now that it was heavily sponsored

33:57

by uh what was the

34:00

bfs FTX. In

34:02

fact, that logo was everywhere,

34:05

which they hastily sought to get rid of, and

34:07

some of it may have come to me, which amuses

34:09

me a great deal. But yeah, he was the

34:11

king. He was praised

34:14

like he was some sort of religious figure

34:17

on the left because he advocated this

34:19

what they call it responsible capitalism

34:21

or concerned greed or whatever

34:24

the idiotic term they

34:26

coined, where oh, yeah, I'm

34:28

just making tons and tons of money so I

34:30

can then give it away to save pandas

34:33

and aids victims and pandas with aids

34:36

and the rest of it. And he was just, oh,

34:38

he was a godhead.

34:40

What's not so much, let's play this clip from

34:42

back when he was doing interviews.

34:45

Sam doesn't need the money

34:47

to buy a Lamborghini, or to buy

34:50

a Rolex, or to impress his friends.

34:52

In fact, his car is a Toyota

34:55

Corolla.

34:56

Ohen, where's your car? That

34:59

one there that's not quite a Kyoto U.

35:02

Yeah, it's a Corolla. Once you buy

35:04

a Lamborghini. Man, it didn't

35:06

have any particular need for one.

35:08

She wants to get rich in order

35:10

to impact the world and

35:13

change it.

35:14

So then he would drive his Toyota Corolla

35:16

to impress that dumb reporter to

35:20

a private airport and get on a private plane

35:22

and go to his thirty million dollar Caribbean penthouse.

35:25

Yes, exactly, because he's so down

35:27

to earth.

35:27

Wait wait what twenty

35:30

five years eth, that's

35:32

a rough day, man, Armstrong

35:36

and Getty