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0:00This is an I Heart Podcast. Guaranteed Human. Broadcasting Live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center. Yeah, Armstrong and Joe Getty. I'm Strong and Getty. And now he is Armstrong and Getty. Florida Police have arrested a woman on charges that she left her 12-year-old daughter at Universal City Walk while she went to a bar. So apparently it's a crime to find that kid a father. Wow. That's funny. Hmm, stark, dark imagery. So I'm looking and I'm scanning my selection of AI-oriented articles and it is so interesting.

1:00There are so many of them from the first one we're going to feature, which is provocatively entitled, OpenAI's bid to allow x-rated talk is freaking out its own advisors. Two stories about the data so far in terms of job displacement and income displacement. That sort of thing, AI is making some people obsolete and others much more valuable, which is the classic new technology model for the way it affects economies. But that deserves its own full blown discussion so maybe we'll hold off on that aspect. Before we get to that, somebody brought up to me yesterday and I'd never used AI for this before. Partially because I don't really have a need. But I guess if you want to, you know, it's a common thing to like Google somebody's name. Just to like learn as much as you can about them. For whatever reason, you're hiring them for a babysitter or going to date them or whatever it is. I'd never done that. I guess AI is really good at that.

2:00You pick one of your chatbots and just say, tell me everything you can find about this person and you get pictures and, you know, Reddit posts and just, I mean, it really, really is good at bringing up everything that's out there about a person. I'd never thought about that. It's true. I don't really have a need to do that on a regular basis. Yipes! That's something. Got to do yourself, right? Yeah, I suppose I should. The internet knows everything about everybody. It does. Ridiculous. Yeah. So first sex and then why Apple sucks at AI according to one learned commentator. And I've reached out more than once to ask just anybody at Apple what's going on with that drop us a note. And just they're very tight lipped. Anyway, open AI's bid to allow extra head and talk is freaking out its own advisors in January. See open AI, that's your Sam Altman, a chat GPT company and also much more advanced stuff. They have a council of advisors on well-being

3:02and AI. I might call the group the council on not turning this into a monster that ruins humanity. But they met with the company's representatives for an update about the controversial new feature called adult mode. Sam Altman said, when was this last year? I guess we need to treat adult users like adults. And he floated the idea of enabling erotic conversations in its chat GPT chat bot and dropping its ban on x-rated content. The plan sparked vigorous debate internally over the potential risks council members with backgrounds and feels like psychology and cognitive neuroscience and also expressed strong reservations. Then open a high drop to bombshell. And here is the key sentence. They assemble now this board of learning the professionals and people who understand the human mind, the human psyche. And despite their concerns, it was forging ahead with its erotic plans. In other words, go to hell.

4:02Now there's a lot of profit here. Yes, you're all howling your worries at us. But thank you for coming. There's a gift bag by the door. Grab one on your way out. Can I have an adult mode that doesn't include erotica? I mean, just like, you know, grown up versions of news stories or things that are happening in the world that I can handle as a grown up. But it doesn't have to be sex. Right, right. When they assembled for the January meeting the council members were unanimous and furious. They warned that AI powered erotica could foster unhealthy emotional dependence on chat GPT for users that miners could find ways to access sex chats. According to people at the meeting, the people said the one council member citing cases where chat GPT have taken their own lives. I'm sorry, chat GPT users have taken their own lives. Blah blah blah. Claim that open AI risk creating a quote, sexy suicide coach. Oh my god. A sexy suicide coach for your lonely disturbed teen boy.

5:04Fantastic. Poor girl. Yeah. In proposing to allow sexually explicit conversations with its popular chat pod at open AI exposed fractures over how to balance rapid user growth and digital freedom with safety and child protection. Blah blah blah. Let's see, there's one more part. This reminds me as a future rama clip we played a week or two ago from that cartoon. Oh, date robots. Which was dead on about, you know, young men particularly never leaving their room in the future because of the sexy robot companions. Good lord. Okay, here it is. One issue of the company is tracking its new age prediction system aimed at keeping miners away. At one point, misclassified miners as adults about 12% of the time, that error rate could allow millions of the companies approximately 100 million 18 under under 18 users a week into erotic chats. The company's also rested with how to lift

6:04chat GPT's restrictions, restrictions on erotica while still blocking scenarios. The company wants to keep off limits like those featuring non consensual behavior or child sexual abuse. When the adult mode launches open AI plans to allow text conversations but restrict chat GPT's ability to generate erotic images, voice or video. That will not last for a second if there's profit in allowing it. Well, so at least at the beginning, they're only talking about sexy texting. No voice, but over on which one is it that's got the grok? Over on grok, grok, you can do the animated bot that will talk is sexy two years you want and it's weird. Don't date robots. I agree. We have to run that whole thing again. It was so great. Yeah. Funny. Right. And then that will soon be incorporated into a sex bot that you will have in your home. So God help us all. And finally my second favorite sentence. There it is.

7:07I lost it again. Oh, it's so good. Hang on now. I know it's there on the screen. Oh, an open AI spokeswoman described its plans as allowing chat GPT to generate textual chats with adult themes describing it as smut rather than pornography. Okay. Oh, okay. What? So it's interesting that grok has the sexy cartoon character that will talk dirty to you in her voice, but open AI sees that is going too far at least for now, like you said, until there's profit in it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh boy, we're off the rails. Then this mic from, I won't tell you where he's from. It's somewhere in America. He works in the tech industry at a data center, a big one. He says, I know firsthand why apples behind and why Siri and their AI are so far behind. I've watched firsthand as the big players, and he names the bees, are racing to build infrastructure faster than their competitors.

8:07I'm watching hundreds of server racks priced in a million and a half dollars a piece get delivered to data centers daily. So that's hundreds of millions of dollars every day. Look in the news. You see these big company signing agreements within video and AMD so they can get their chips ahead of everyone else. But who do you not see in the news building out more data centers and buying up more equipment? Apple. I figured out why a couple of years ago. Tim Cook is a cheap ass. He's not spending the money on AI infrastructure. He's trying to make their phones do the work and as good as the iPhone is not going to compete with thousands of supercomputers, which is why they're buying Google services going forward. But I guarantee I'm not the only one that turns off Siri and Apple. AI completely the only reason I stays because their iOS is better than Android. But even that is diminishing. His Apple eliminates major features with every update. Here's his main point. I'll never forget early in my career. My company was changing CEOs from a flashy outgoing type of person to a boring accountant slash numbers guy. Somebody I respect said boards love boring CEOs. That wisdom is stuck with me.

9:07Boards love Tim Cooks. They're predictable. But the Tim Cooks of the world don't know how to innovate. They only know how to milk IP for every penny. It's worth. I call this a couple of years ago. And it's only more clear as Tim Cook looks to exit Apple. His period of time at the helm of Apple. Will be studied at the university level is one of the greatest examples of a company at the top of its game. Disappearing overnight. What? Because they couldn't take the risks to stay ahead of their competitors. Is it disappearing? I've got some Apple stock. I might want to. Well, in this era of enormous and rapid change, it's not impossible. He says at this point, how is Apple going to catch up? Well, they're going to hire Google. But their years behind in the arms race. And it is an arms race. The chip makers are years out on their production contracts. Apple hasn't made a new thing or had an innovative idea in 10 years. They're about to fall off a cliff. Mark my words. Consider them marked.

10:07God, what would Steve Jobs be doing with the whole AI thing? He'd be doing something. I guarantee you that. I think you're absolutely right. Yeah. Well, any of you all familiar with more examples like that from the world of business where the innovative guy gives way to the bean counter CEO and everything stagnates at Mailbag. And I'm strong in Getty.com. Boy, so easy to picture how that would happen though. Once you, the innovative creative, you know, let's try this. Let's try that guy. Builds a multi-gazillion dollar company. And there's all kinds of profit to be made. Next stop. Hold on to it as tight as you can. And don't risk anything. I can picture the board saying, we got 23% margins here. Let's not mess with anything. No, don't experiment. Don't innovate. I have a new idea for a, no, shut up. What if it doesn't work? Right. Human beings. That is really interesting.

11:07Yeah. I got to think about that one. I didn't know that. So with each update, you lose features. I don't quite understand what that is. So every time they put out a new big iOS update, they're taking some stuff away. And why? I don't know. I don't know anything about that. But things are moving so fast. A name I've never heard in my life could be the dominant AI player two years from now. And the dinosaurs like Apple are left behind or Google maybe. Certainly in the realm of hardware. Because the, it's going to be the software that drives your decision, what device to get. Soon. I mean, it already is in a way. But it's going to be even more true. Maybe next hour we can get into the winners and losers so far in the AI replacing human beings game. I found it really interesting. And I hope you will too. So Iran is attacking its neighbors.

12:07Still we're attacking the hell out of strategy. We're attacking the hell out of Iran as we speak. And it's all about. They're trying to keep the straight or hormones closed. We're trying to get it open. We'll have more on that a little bit later. And the price of gas is something right now all on the way. Are you strong? And get it. And Spreaker distributes it everywhere people listen. Apple podcasts, Spotify. And about it doesn't apps your cousins swears are the next big thing. Even better, Spreaker helps you monetize your show with ads. Meaning your podcast might someday pay for well more microphones.

13:09Start your show today at spreaker.com. Spreaker. Because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. Here it is. That was the final pitch as the United States won in the World Baseball Classic yesterday and move into the finals. That last pitch was a horrible call. And that had everybody very, very upset. I wasn't watching the game. But the announcers were like, ooh. And then afterwards in all the post game, it was, ooh, that wasn't even close. And then they used all the base, the technology that they have. So you look at it, that ball's not even close. So United States getting a favorable call to move into the next round, which is probably what they wanted. If you want eyeballs. United States playing your year conspiracy theories again.

14:09I'm working with QAnon over here. Here's your grace. I was going to say if we're going to play what we're going to play, we'd probably get to it because I'm as tight. So here's a great tease for you coming up. Trump has been briefed that a Rand's new supreme leader is probably gay and the president has a priceless reaction. So that coming up as you can possibly imagine. So we're talking a little bit of weird beard has appeared. So we're talking a little bit of a go about the new sex bots and technology for porn and AI chat bots. And this thing from Futurama, which is a cartoon that was on 25 years ago. They predicted what life is going to be like when we get this technology. Ordinary human dating. It's enjoyable and it serves an important purpose. But when a human dates an artificial mate, there is no purpose. Only enjoyment.

15:09And that leads to tragedy. Nito, I'm Marilyn Monroebot. You're a dreamboat. Billy, everything. I'm less fun. Let's see what happens next. Billy, do you want to walk your dog? No thanks mom, I'd rather make out with my Monroebot. Billy, do you want to get a paper out and earn some extra cash? No thanks dad, I'd rather make out with my Monroebot. Billy, do you want to come over tonight? We can make out together. Gee, Mavis, your house is across the street. That's an awfully long way to go for making out. Did you notice what went wrong in that scene? Ordinarily, Billy would work hard to make money with his paper route. Then he'd use the money to buy dinner for Mavis. Thus earning a slim chance to perform the reproductive act.

16:10How amazing is that okay and it goes on. But in a world where teens can date robots, why should he bother? Why should anyone bother? Let's take a look at Billy's planet a year later. Where are all the football stars? And where are the biochemists? They're trapped, trapped in the soft, vice-like grip of robot lips. All civilization was just an effort to impress the opposite sex. And sometimes the same sex. Now let's skip forward 80 years into the future. Where's Billy? Sure well. The next day, Billy's planet was destroyed by aliens. I don't know that. Have you guessed the name of Billy's planet? It was Earth! Don't date robots!

17:10Brought to you by Space Poop. So... A slim chance at the reproductive act. Yep. That is so clearly true. Oh yeah, yeah. All those mouth sounds were a lot. Yeah, I didn't need that. Look, my misfonia, that's that, yeah. I did. Divas not join that part. It was so terrible. Do you want a paper out? Do you want to make out? Gee, you're clear across the street. I think I'll just stay here. Yeah, it's hilarious, but it's being reenacted in real life. Yeah, over and over again. And that's just kind of with the physical stuff. The psychological part that AI is going to get in terms of appealing to your... Ego or whatever to keep you entrapped. Oh my god. We're doomed. We're doomed. Don't date robots!

18:10We've got a lot more on the way, Stere. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio. If this sounds familiar, you're probably already a podcaster. The good news is Spreaker makes the whole process simple. You record your show, upload it once, and Spreaker distributes it everywhere people listen. Apple podcasts, Spotify, and about a dozen apps your cousins swears are the next big thing. Even better, Spreaker helps you monetize your show with ads, meaning your podcast might someday pay for... Well, more microphones. Start your show today at spreaker.com. Spreaker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. Trump told me in a phone interview Saturday that Iran has been defeated militarily.

19:10He also said that Iran is ready to make a deal, but the terms aren't good enough yet, declining to say what those terms are. The president added that he is hearing the new Supreme Leader is dead, but did not provide evidence. Yeah, that's interesting, so coming up, have some info from an expert, security expert on how difficult it's going to be to keep weird beard junior alive in the modern world. I've been reading about that too, yeah. Super fascinating. And then you've got the Benjamin Netanyahu over the weekend, so apparently the internet exploded with the rumor that he had been killed in one of the strikes. And then so he shows up in a coffee shop, ordering coffee, surrounded by people in public and says, yeah, what people said on what? Which is the way you react when the world says you're dead. You have to make a very public show of the fact that you're not. See president Solinsky the night after the initial bombing when he's out in the street,

20:12puts out a video and say, I'm still here. You got to do that. The leader of Iran has not at all. So who knows? Maybe it's because he's gay, according to some reports out now. I know actual gay people and like hiding isn't part of their act, but anyway, back to you. Trump was briefed over the weekend that Iran's new supreme leader is probably gay, and the president had a priceless reaction. Says the New York Post, his reaction was he threw back his head with laughter. Apparently, according to people who are familiar with the meaning, Trump couldn't contain his surprise and laughed aloud and briefed on the intel, according to sources, others in the room also found it hilarious and joined in the president's reaction while one senior intelligence official has not stopped laughing about it for days. Wow. I don't know if it's. Wow. I was laughing really about it. Tickled is funny. Oh, though, you know, you got a country that's being run by extremists to murder gay people.

21:12And of course, them dunder ghost surgeries. Yes. The guy that the news, the fact that the new supreme leader might be gay is something. I don't want to steal anybody's thunder. Did they get into the impotence thing? No, but I'm sure that fits in somewhere. He doesn't have a physical problem. He feels about having sex with a woman the way I'd feel about having sex with a dude. Not enthusiastic. So he can't get it up pardon me. That's it. Of course. It's enthusiastic is how I would be also the shocking claim was described to the New York Post by two intelligence community officials and a third person close to the White House. That's. It's making quite a claim. The New York Post does not make stuff like that up. All three sources say the implausible sounding allegation is viewed as credible by US spy agencies rather than false information intended to undermine him because this is classic siops. You got a country with their culture and government and the people who surround the guy to say, yeah, our intelligence says he's gay and then you hope the Iranian Revolutionary Guard

22:14or somebody turns on him based on this information. So it still could be that going on two of the sources said the intelligence indicated that weird bird junior earned the nickname the power behind the robes while serving as his aging dad's gatekeeper had had a long term sexual relationship with his childhood tutor. The third source of the intelligence indicated that the affair was a person who formally worked for the family. We believe that he was wounded and may have lost a leg and could be in bad shape blah, blah, blah, blah. US spy agencies do not have photographic evidence of him being gay. But the sources insisted the tip is solid with one saying it's derived from one of the most protected sources that the government has, which is probably we got somebody close, right? Probably that help. Yeah. Oh, they're Iranian regime is riddled with spies. Yeah. The fact that this was elevated to the highest levels, the president shows that there's a lot of confidence in this.

23:15The purported sexual orientation had been whispered about inside Iran since at least May of 2024. And the helicopter crash that killed the then president, who was supposed to be in line to be the next supreme leader. Remember in that helicopter went down, whether, you know, Israel got to that helicopter or not. Who knows you shame is something happened to your helicopter. Right. Exactly. Within the US government, it's been a pretty closely held piece of information that he is gay. So in the one strike in the initial round of strikes, with all due respect to the lovely late Mrs. Kamehni, we blew off his beard and killed his beard. Oh, wow. Hmm. Wow. The statement department file says that weird beard married later in life has been hospitalized for his impotence. How do you get hospitalized for impotence? I still don't understand what that means.

24:15They probably tried to deprogram him or something. Try to turn him straight. Oh, you're right. They believe in that sort of thing. I mean, because I'm not familiar with any weeks long impotence treatments. No. But what you said makes sense, though, because they believe, yeah, it's a psychological sort of problem. They put you in the hospital and they're in and straighten out. Wow. So we and or Israel knew that this guy was compromised in this way. One, he's kind of weak to his gay, which is not in itself a problem, but it is in that country. Sure. Well, we found a way to take out the guy that was next in line. So that this guy was probably next in line. No, then he being a weak act. I'll bet that's exactly what happened. Well, I don't know because remember a weird beard senior in his will. He listed three guys who wanted to succeed and said, not my son. Why didn't he want his austere scholar son who was close to the IRGC to succeed him?

25:18Because he knew he liked fellas. He wasn't going to turn his boy in because that would have meant curtains. But he didn't want him to succeed either because the new the secret would get out. And that's the impotence. Like you said, I'm laying here in bed with somebody I have no interest in. Yeah. Wow. So they spent two weeks to try and to gear him up to have sex with his wife so he could have a kid to lay it, lay it down the, you know, lay rest of the rumors. That's clear to me. So he got in there. It was like when I had to like the hypnosis to at least be able to manage my fear of like heights and press business and stuff like that to do with that. Seeker, the super insider tour of the capital dome in DC barely got through it. They like hypnotized him and God knows what cruel experiments are trying to try to get like to like girls just enough. I was trying to I can't make a reference because I just Katie. Maybe you can help. Who's who's a well known young hot male?

26:18A hot male nowadays all my references are out of date because I'm an old man. That's your head. My God, man. Off the top of your head. Who's a hot guy? Harry. Well, I don't think Harry style. He kissed a good dude at the beginning of life. No. You don't know you and your friends worth are they too long in the tooth. You don't like Ryan Reynolds in life. Okay, Ryan Reynolds fine. So you can't you get a naked Ryan Reynolds to like walk around the bedroom while you can stare at Ryan Reynolds while his wife. Is beneath him. Maybe he can have a kid somehow. And they have the right and Reynolds like talk to him during the act so he can pretend he's with the dude. Right. Right. That's what you got to do. Wow, that's innovative. Yeah, Harry styles. Kisted guy at the beginning is there alive. They're not to prove something. I don't know. Gender bending mad. No, my friends little sister loved Harry styles. I don't know. Yeah, I don't. Okay. Yeah. He's cute, but I don't think he I'm not sure he's interested. Anyway, it's got nothing to do with this.

27:18Right. I'm going to get anywhere. Where the hell is this going? I'm going to seize it from the crazed grasp of Mr. Armstrong and point out that the Wall Street Journal is writing as if it's a new thought. And maybe it is to some people terrorists are now often made in the USA. Western counterterrorism operated for decades on a simple premise. Threats came from somewhere else. They crossed borders, but now they are among us. Gee, what's changed? So we'll talk about that analysis coming up. Also a little campus madness next hour. That whole homegrown terrorist thing is obviously highly troubling. Well, we've allowed millions of people to come into the country willing nilly from all sorts of lands, including where they love a lot more than life.

28:18And the coverage of that over the weekend continued to be very disappointing as they ignore what is actually going on. But since it came up, let me mention this real quick. So this guy who's an expert in this was talking about how difficult it's going to be for the perhaps gay weird beard junior to stay alive. This is what he tweeted out. There's emerging conventional wisdom that Trump has bitten off more than he can chew through his calls for unconditional surrender. Blah, blah, blah, blah. The case for skepticism is reinforced by the way to history. It's really hard to do regime change through the air. But there's certainly this angle to it. The fact that the military has the technological capacity to find targets and kill them that is light years ahead of where we even were ten years ago. It's pretty interesting to think about where light years ahead of where we were a decade ago in terms of this technology. And the Israelis are similarly equipped. If I were advising the newly appointed supreme leader, I'd suggest that you avoid texting in the coming days or really any kind of personal tech tablets, laptops, and so on.

29:24Also using the refrigerator. Keep an eye out for smart features, writing in a car. Any car manufactured in the last 15 years, very risky, especially in the vicinity of any traffic cameras or going outside at all or being inside really. If the presence of anything that collects data is around him. Don't watch your smart TV. Every exposure to one of these that anything that has sensors that now saturate our world adds to the chances that is specific location at any given time will be known to Israeli or American targets. And we can hit him full on paranoia has never been more justified than for Iran's new hard line top man. He's got to fall back to watching his VHS collection as a queer eye for the straight. Right. VHS tapes. Right. And where those puppies out. I like that. Do not go outside or stay inside. Don't use the fridge if it's a smart fit. Right. Or any car in the last 15 years. Yeah. So maybe we will blow his beard off one of these days.

30:25Okay. We got more on the way. Stay here. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker, the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain symptoms include buying microphones. You don't need explaining our SS feeds to confused relatives and saying things like, sorry. I can't talk right now. I'm editing audio. This sounds familiar. You're probably already a podcaster. The good news is Spreaker makes the whole process simple. You record your show, upload it once, and Spreaker distributes it everywhere people listen. Apple podcasts, Spotify, and about it doesn't apps your cousins swears are the next big thing. Even better, Spreaker helps you monetize your show with ads, meaning your podcast might someday pay for, well, more microphones. Start your show today at spreaker.com. Spreaker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. The guy who is accused of driving his vehicle through that synagogue, which is also a school children were there.

31:26There were 140 children and teachers who were not injured. Now there are ties to what's happening in Lebanon. We were wondering, we heard he lost his niece and his nephew in Lebanon, and we were wondering, is that why he did this? Well, now it's being confirmed, he lost his brother, who's a commander over there. He lost another brother. He lost his niece and his nephew on March 5th. And then he goes and does this last Thursday. All right, that was an unnecessarily rambly and ainsleyish clip from Fox and Feens. But yeah, the man who drove into Michigan synagogue intent on murdering as many little Jewish kids as he possibly could is the brother of a Hezbollah command. Well, it's being presented as his family members died at the hands of the Israelis. So you can understand why he'd be strought enough to murder four year olds, which is kind of a weird way to look at the world. But the fact that his brother is a commander in Hezbollah, he might have had other reasons to want to kill Jews.

32:27I'm thinking. As a commander in the Iranian, backed and financed proxy militia that's seeking to wipe Jews off the map. Yes, I think he came into the game with a bit of a bias. The fact that we don't have a handle on guys who are brothers of Hezbollah commanders is a failing of our intelligence. You'd think you might want to know that. And again, this analysis in the Wall Street Journal, you know, it's informative enough. But it strikes me as naive as people are just catching up. But I'll read part of it for you then we can discuss. But Western counterterrorism operating for decades on a simple premise threats came from somewhere else. They crossed borders. They arrived with suspicious travel documents, fraudulent documents, histories or known affiliations. Stop them there and the interior remains secure. That premise is no longer holding. The days since the Iran War began have seen at least four apparent terrorist attacks in the U.S.

33:28Two of them on Thursday and all of them either by immigrants to our land who are here legally or in the case of the would be fire bombing near Gracie mansion CNN, not of Mamdani on behalf of Mamdani. Anyway, those guys were sons of immigrants. Then there ate the violence that unsettled Western societies throughout 2025 looked nothing like earlier eras of clandestine crossings and centrally directed terrorist cells. Increasingly, the danger emerges inside societies that still treat admission as the end of the security process rather than the beginning of one. Shift isn't simply about the number of attacks it's where the failure occurs. So they're very, very beautifully written and a tad wordy saying, yeah, yeah, there are a lot of people, Muslims specifically, who came into the country legally. And the process said, yes, they should be allowed to come in or Joe Biden just let them stream across the border.

34:29But now that they're here, they're like, yeah, I'm on the side of the Muslim fanatics, not the U.S. And that's the new terrorism. Yeah, we know. They make the point that some of it's driven by like personal grievances and just being a loser, but that's been true throughout human history. Yeah. You're right. I hadn't thought about that. You would think we would have, although maybe they, they, he was on a watch list this guy. He was on some watch list. I mean, even if we're aware of the fact that his brother's a Hezbollah commander, what are you going to do? He was a former Army National Guard guy, right? Yeah, but well, he tried to join the guard, but then didn't end up serving, I think. Oh, so I wondered if maybe that was one of those infiltrate the, you know, the guard and then fire on your own people thing that has been so popular around the world. Don't know that, but that might have been his plan at the time. Yeah, see, they share several threads lawful presents few warning signals online radicalization and attacks carried out without the fingerprints of an organized network. Well, depends which one you're talking about, but

35:38radicalization really follows a single path for some ideology comes first for others. The trigger is grievance, isolation or personal instability, which gradually hardens inside online echo chambers where resentments circulate freely. Social media has accelerated the process, allowing extremist narratives to spread quickly and widely, one more, one more reason to unplug the internet. It is at least worth noting what we discussed in the wake of several different shootings and assassination attempts that often it's just an angry person who wants to be violent. They're looking for an excuse for violence. They come across an ideology that they never even thought about before haven't worked for years on haven't like tried to raise or no, they're brand new to it and think that's my excuse. I'm going to kill somebody and they do it and there could be some of that. Absolutely in this. One is flying a mess right now. Our executive producer is stuck somewhere else and not here today because of weather and you combine that with the TSA shortage everywhere and you're going to have some real airport messes around the country.

36:51Plus I mentioned to him that yeah, I'd heard that some airfares are doubled and he said keep going up really. I haven't I'm not going anywhere for a while so I haven't looked into it, but and then that hole gets to the airport three hours early thing three hours for a two hour flight. I'm driving both ways. Yeah, I keep forgetting there's a partial government shutdown going on. So I guess I got to work that out. It's a measure of how dysfunctional politics are that the Democrats are sticking with a department of homeland security shut down now. I mean, not just the war with Iran and everything, but the air travel and such and absolutely nobody is blaming the Republicans to the extent anybody's paying attention at all. She doesn't feel that way for whatever reason, but they still want to shut down ice, which is really last month's issue. Yeah, gosh, help you if you're flying. I'm glad I'm not hopefully it will all be resolved soon.

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