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3:06Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center. And hey, y'all, today we are toiling under the title of the show. There's a new sheriff in town and his lips aren't shiny, or Fafo is back, baby. Fafo is back.

4:06What brought that one on? Well, that's what the kids say. If you blank around, you find out that's American deterrence, Jack. OK. The eagle is screeching, bearing its talons, digging in with its beak. I don't know, you imagine the beak factors and it's very, like, curved and gend and pointy. How about the story that's just breaking right now that we're going to allow India to buy Russian oil after braw beating them for four years to stop buying Russian oil? To try to keep gas prices down in the United States because they're worried the price of gas is going to get too high and people are going to freak out. Oh, we can't have Russia making money. That's what I thought. I was going to say this has to be an interim step towards something, but if this is being done for strictly political considerations, I mean, nobody wants more higher gas prices. Well, we can't let the damn Russians off the hook.

5:09Yeah. And Trump is soft on Russia. In some ways. In some ways not. Well, actually, it was the New York Times that they got a big story about. How for people who think Trump is a pal of Russia, here's eight ways. Trump has been very difficult on Putin more so than anybody else, but that was in the New York Times. But anyway, not to get hung up on that. We do have our own war and maybe it's just that. Maybe it's just prioritizing the war that we are now involved in, which is freaking huge and getting huge. Yeah. That's why I was surprised and this is a media story, so I suppose it's not important. As Tony Joe before the show, I was surprised that at least a couple of news outlets were leading with Kristi Nome getting fired. I can understand it. Well, Kristi Nome was fired. We'll have that later. But first, this is a big freaking deal because we're in a quarter century.

6:10We have tens of thousands of troops being fired on in 12 countries now that is unbelievable. Yeah. Most of the media thing I could get yesterday when it was breaking news, great, but this morning, it's not the biggest story by far. Yeah. It's interesting. The New York Times characterized the spreading of the hostilities to metastasizing, which, of course, they have to to make it sound terrible. They're referring specifically to Israel hammering the crap out of Hezbollah in Lebanon. I don't see that as metastasizing at all. I see that as, all right, now we're taking care of this. Yeah. The Israelis, the US strategy, civilization toward the Islamist lunatics has changed. No, we're done talking. Well, and I think we're going to look back on the era of just accepting thousands of rockets getting fired per year is okay as odd. Why did that ever exist? That was odd indeed.

7:10Why did that exist? It mustn't make the militant Muslims mad. So the other big story speaking of metastasizing and changing and everything like that is how the UAE has locked up, that's the big Wall Street journal story that broke last night. The UAE has locked up Iran's money. So they are absolutely screwed now. So the way they got around all the sanctions that we've had on them forever and where the, you know, we run global finance pretty much around the world is the UAE, UAE became their bank to be able to funnel money through so you could engage in the world to get money and sell oil. Now, that's how they got around it and UAE last night said no more apparently had even warned Iran after being attacked all week long. If you don't stop bombing us, we're going to cut off your financial supply and Iran kept attacking the UAE so they said, that's it. No more. So now you're screwed financially. It's a big deal because, you know, obviously your finances run the war.

8:12So it's finally been made clear to me what Iran thinks it's doing by hurling bombs at every country within reach. They thought if they did that, it would plunge the world economy into chaos. All the markets around the world would drop. Oil prices would skyrocket. panic would set in in the capitals of the world and everyone would say, pack down, pack down. Iran, you know, we mustn't hit them anymore. Yeah, good, good calculation, Airboys. Is it going to go down as one of the biggest mistakes militarily in history? Maybe yes, maybe October 7th is you've got to look at that as the genesis of everything that's happening now. The line is direct and unbroken. Yeah, the exclusive Wall Street Journal story UAE explores freezing Iranian assets to punish tyrann for attacks. Any crackdown on Iran's shadow financing networks in the Gulf state would strangle tyrann's access to foreign currency and global trade.

9:15Yeah, of course, who knows? Maybe they're going to back off the you bound bomb in the UAE and I don't know. We'll see how that plays out, but things are not playing out the way Iran was hoping when they started attacking all their friends. Yes. I find myself going through my memory banks trying to think of some of the Middle East experts we've talked to through the years. I was just reading about Qatar and how, oh, man, is that a duplicitous regime closely tied to the Muslim Brotherhood radical islamists? Then you got your UAE were being the bankers to the Mullahs because they could make a buck and they have loyalty to nobody. They both resent Saudi Arabia and just it's the Middle East frenemy thing all over again. The further you drill down into the region, the greater you realize how complicated it is. Saudi has loyalty, actual loyalty to anybody and how deeply religion is entrenched into all of it in various ways. It's just, well, it's like a cool, well, I don't want to say it's a quagmire. It's a part of the world that is absolutely rife with quicksand that you must not step

10:22in, which is why Trump ran on. Hey, we got to quit getting entangled in Middle East crap. All right. I could certainly make the argument and I think it's a coherent one that, okay, this is the Middle East is not going to have the ability to ensnare us in their crap anymore now. We're going to eliminate the evil doers. So Trump just said there will be no deal with Iran except for unconditional surrender. There you go. Now to some secondary stories, just breaking February jobs report is out. The US economy lost 92,000 jobs in a bit of a surprise numbers that will surely be resolved or revised upward downward or sideways unexpected downturns as the Wall Street Journal. So normally, that would be a giant story if we weren't at war, but that's, well, and

11:25as you point out, if ice barbie hadn't given away, given away to a GI Joe with a kung fu grip. I don't know what to call a Mark Wayne Mullen friend of the Armstrongy Getty show, one of the best people in government. Yeah. So according to the California post, her answers about sexual relations the other day with Corey Lewandowski was the final straw for Trump. We never played that clip. We got to get to that today. Oh, these freaking hearings. So they, why, why they ask some of the questions they ask and what they're trying to do. Well, they're trying to get on TV. They're trying to get on TikTok. That's what they're trying to do, but they asked her about her affair with Corey Lewandowski. Her husband was there. Apparently he left right before these questions. I don't know if somebody tipped him off or it's just serendipity, but he was not official story. He had a flight to catch. Yeah. But did somebody tip him off or what is it just luck for him that he wasn't sitting

12:26right over her shoulder as she got asked about an affair with another dude that that's being reported as if everybody knows. That would be one of those clips that would live on the internet forever. His face and his expressions over her shoulder as those questions are being asked. Well, the poor guy or nothing, but sympathy for him. I mean, oh, my God, what a horrible situation to be in. I don't know. Maybe he's getting it on with Pan Bondi. I don't know. Oh, jeez. It's a damn orgy there in DC. It's mad. It's madness. And the California Post says, good riddance to Christy Nome who thought Homeland Security was about her self-serving glory hound, Christy Nome got what she deserved. Yeah, I would suggest that that hearing was finally the hearing that was a substantive and be impactful. I'll tell you what I think actually was the reason, you know, it's a camel straw situation. So whatever is the reason that puts you over the top is just one of many, but I'll tell

13:27you what, I think was the reason, according to one analyst yesterday, and it makes a lot of sense. But first we got to start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday, March 6th the day before my son's birthday before he turned 16 years old. I can't believe it. The year 2026 where I'm strong in Getty and we approve of the show. Here we go. Let's begin officially according to FCC rules and regulations. I guess the head of the FCC, whatever they do is still there, yes, he is okay. Let's start it. Mark. Their anti-aircraft weapons are gone. So they have no air force. They have no air defense. All of their airplanes are gone. The communications are gone. Missiles are gone, launches are gone. About 60% and 64% respectively. Other than that, they're doing quite well. And then what happens, that's part I'm waiting for, this isn't one of those MSNBC critiques

14:30of the president. He has no plan. I just wonder what's going to happen. Somebody going to raise our head up and say, I'll be in charge and I suggest we surrender. I mean, how would they surrender right now if they wanted to? They're afraid to pick up their cell phones for one thing. Sure. Yeah. Let me just flip this on and call Trump and tell him we surrender. Well, and how would you decide you're in charge to make that call? And if you told the guy next year, you'd start talking about surrender or they might shoot you. All right. That's a template. That's the understatement of the year. I'll hang on to this. The best analysis of why Kristina, what Trump said, all right, FU, to Kristina, what fired her, I think is pretty obvious once it's explained so we can get to that. We got clips of the week today. I'll tell you, this is a cynical, too joky for the heavy subject. Wait, look at this.

15:30But man, war is a good spring talk radio promotion because there is plenty to talk about every single day. Holy cow. There are stories that come out every day on so many different angles. Mm-hmm. Absolutely amazing. Oh, and some great Britney Spears stuff. Oh, what? Great stuff. That was a jarring transition. My neck. My neck. The cover of the California Post has a picture of her headed out of jail, tipsy baby one more time, and about how emotional she was in the jail cell and crying and yelling at guards and stuff. Blubbering angry drunk chick. And yes, we've all been there. Oh, boy, oh, godly. Back and forth between angry and crying. Yes. Why do you know, but he likes me to not hate you. In moments of affectionate giving away to anger again, then perhaps you never know all the sudden sex could happen.

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19:34In the tech search, powerup at Lenovo.com. Military life isn't predictable, but earning your master's degree can be. With American Military University's 40-plus flexible online master's programs, you can stay mission-ready while you get market-ready. Learn anywhere, anytime, with an education built to keep pace, steady, reliable and always accessible. Plus, military service members, veterans and their families can save up to 45% on master's tuition with AMU special rates and grants. Learn more at amu.apus.edu, steady through every mission. Here's a little lesson for you on media bias. You have to get tuned into it to pick up on it or maybe just pay attention for long enough to understand how they handle different stories and different situations. So I heard several times yesterday that the house voted to reject a measure that would have curtailed the Trump's war fighting ability.

20:37This was an attempt to get a little handle on Congress declaring war and making these decisions as opposed to Trump, which I think I'm kind of in favor of depending on how it's worded. But it was reported on the news all day long and a vote mostly along party lines. The Republicans were able to defeat an effort to blah, blah, blah, blah. There were a dozen Democrats, something like that that joined in a couple of Republicans that went the other direction. I remember major votes on major legislation when Obama and Biden were president. If you got one Republican, they reported it as bipartisan. If you got one Republican in the Senate to vote for in a bipartisan vote today, the Senate confirmed. But in this, because it went the opposite direction what the media would like it to be, it's mostly along party lines. It's the evil Republican house that did this. That is a subtle but great example of bias.

21:39Speaking of which, we're going to run through a handful of headlines, Katie is off at least for a little while today. But it was funny. It was just about to bring up the fact that a couple of outlets, including the New York Times and the dispatch, where they have actual Trump derangement syndrome. For all of the intelligence and great work that dispatch does, they've lost their minds. The New York Times and the dispatch, their number one stories are the strike on an Iranian school that was right next to the IRGC base and allegedly a handful of several kids got killed, which is obviously terrible. But if you are leading with that story, you are so twisted in your priority and your priorities and your perspective. The United States of America is more careful about civilian deaths than any military in the history of mankind. And occasionally bad things happen and it is tragic and it's sad and it's to be avoided. But if that's your lead, you are twisted. Sorry. Among the big headlines out today, sorry, like they say these days, sorry, not sorry, which

22:43is so pivish in the knowing, sorry, not sorry. Washington Post, Russia is providing Iran with intelligence to target U.S. forces officials says. So Russia is using their better than Iran's satellite technology to supply Iran with targeting new information to attack American forces, various locations. This is happening simultaneously as countries all around the region, including the U.S. are saying to Ukraine, hey, y'all are super graded in intercepting drones. What do we need to know? So Ukraine, I'm sure, Zelensky is thinking, well, we're more than happy to help you. So gee, let me think about what you can do for us. Yeah. No kidding. So who knows? Who knows? No mouse did from the DHS. We mentioned that. The White House made a major change to its chip export policies, which is way more significant than we have time to explain to you right now, but maybe more on that a little bit. You know, we never did drill down on a couple of big articles about if China takes Taiwan,

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26:58accessible. Plus, military service members, veterans, and their families can save up to 45% on master's tuition, with AMU special rates and grants. Learn more at AMU.apus.edu, steady through every mission. You know, one thing we haven't talked about is, um, a lot of your smart pundits think Trump's actually absolutely got Cuba on the list as soon as we're done with Iran. So we did Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, and that's going to be his legacy for all time, which should be, could be something if they turn out okay. And Trump just told some news outlet in an interview, he thinks Cuba's going to fall here pretty soon. So he probably had some idea how that might happen. Plenty of indications to think that, yeah, and that would, that would be a real boon to our neighborhood. I would love to see that. Oh, yes. Anti-communist would love that. What an evil, evil regime, a boy that, that's going to be a bit of a basket case for a while, though. And that's his secretary of state's number one issue. Yeah, he might even want to create a secretary of Cuba or something like that, but more on

28:01that to come, just because it needs a lot of work, but it has enormous, enormous potential as a friend and ally and vacation destination. All right. It's the Friday tradition. Let's take a fond look back at the week that was its cow clips of the week. What's the week? These are exciting times. Oh, Matt, I am so psyched to be here for a new sub-tucin. I've done with this. If you guys are doing that, I am done. You can hold me and attempt from now until the cows come home. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary. Don't date robots. So long after resistance and death to America. Yeah, are they getting this? Well, foxed arrangement.

29:02I mean, it's 24-7 in the California Durangement Syndrome. Holy cow. So much going on with this. He battled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Nome, confronted over allegations. Have you had sexual relations with Cory Lewandowski? Mr. Chairman, I am shocked that we're going down in peddling tabloid garbage in this committee today. As we learn more, we don't want to say anything to their families. I did. I said I'm condolences. For what? That's a failure of leadership. And that is why I've called for your resignation. I wasn't, I've got to be honest with you. I wasn't expecting the call today, but it's super excited. And I'm more excited about just ready to get started. The Iranian regime shaken to its core. Iran's formerly supreme leader, Ayatollah, Hamine is dead. May he rest in pieces. If you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on earth,

30:03we will hunt you down without apology and without hesitation, and we will kill you. Somebody said on the scale of 10, where would you rate it? I said about a 15. And we're doing war, war, what is it good for? Distracting from the Epstein files. It's clips of the way. Mm, lot there. Gavin Newsom's goose is cooked, by the way. He is a failed presidential candidate. There can be no argument. Go ahead, now you just want. Can you give a quick version of why that is? More and more pundits are lining up to say, dude, does not have the skills. Got a couple of examples, not at my fingertips, but we will get into them. A great piece, for instance, in the free press entitled, what's it entitled? It's a clever title and it's worth waiting for. I assure you, Newsom looks small in the face of a big war. So let's, you heard a little bit of it there in clips of the week.

31:05Let's drill down on this whole Christy gnome affair thing because that's what, at least the New York Post is saying that was the straw that broke the camel's back for Trump to fire his DHS secretary was the way she answered this question and the hearing. And she got to ask it by a bunch of people multiple times. I don't know how we feel about that. I, the more I think about it, I, I don't like that at all. Why, why is that a question? I'm, I'm, I'm hearing illegal to be sexing up your supports, but, um, is that, is that, is that the reason they were asking about it is because, uh, yeah, that's got to be it. Well, we're all sticklers for that federal regulations. No, I, I'm surprised to hear you say that people are saying that was the straw that broke the camel's back in your post. I think your job performance has been so low. Some that wouldn't need that. Well, I've got the real reason for camel's already paralyzed. I get the real reason for my favorite pundit. But here is she, her being questioned about the affair with court, Lewandowski who we had on the show. We met him when we were in Milwaukee, the convention smart guy.

32:08He doesn't exactly strike me as a lady killer. But he's been involved with two super hotties that were married, uh, you know, kind of publicly known in, uh, recent years, so he must, oh, I get it. I get it. Extremely bright square jaw piercing blue eyes. I get it. I don't, I don't remember his eyes. Am I a little in love myself? I don't remember his eye color, but that's just me, um, what are you doing in there? Uh, here's how the questioning went the other day. Well, secretary, no, at any time during your tenure as director of department of homeland security, have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski? Mr. Chairman, I am shocked that we're going down and peddling tabloid garbage in this committee today, reclaiming my, one thing that I would tell you is that he is a special government employee who works for the White House. There are thousands of them in the federal government claiming it as an advisor. And it has no authority to be questioned.

33:10It is okay for you to be questioned, um, but it is also a real question. So what I would say, you should be able to answer that what we do at the department of homeland security, and without any hasn't, every single day is to protect if someone is asked to make decisions, you or any federal official is stuck with their subordinate. That's easy. You should be wanting to answer that question because it is not about your sense that it is about your job, that kind of garbage, about reclaiming my time so that I can hear my self as a long, uh, so I saw she was asked that by multiple people. They just kept hammering on that question. Somebody at some point said, you know, you could just say no. Oh, and she was going on, on, on, on. So, uh, first of all, wow, yeah, it's strictly illegal to do that. Give me a freaking break. First of all, you're the party that fought tooth and nail to keep Bill Clinton from getting booted out of office for sleeping for an early 20s intern.

34:10Give me a break. And in Washington, DC, are we going to all of a sudden start firing people who are having affairs? I'm sure, Christy Nome, if she wanted to get to, you know, she's probably aware of several people up there that are having affairs, let alone if you dug into a little bit. I'm not saying I liked that, but that's not the reason they brought that up. They just wanted to embarrass her and put her in an uncomfortable position. She should have said, look, I work for a president who's had more affairs than I've had dead dogs. I mean, come on. So, but do you think she should have just said no, because apparently there's a lot of pretty obvious what should, how should she have handled that other than not having the affair in the first place? I read a really thought-provoking piece of writing. I wish I had an in front of me about the new game of baiting people into humiliating themselves by answering your charges, whether it's Mrs. McCrone is a man or a couple other examples where, you know, these internet rumors could start and finally the person has to,

35:12you know, stoop to the level of the accusations and answer it. Now, I think this is an imperfect example of that because I think they are banging. Frankly, I just don't particularly care. Corey Lewandowski was asked about it and his answers sound, I mean, he didn't deny it at all. So, but that doesn't really make any difference. Back to the, should we be asking this, is this really the way we want to run our government? These sorts of things shouldn't have brought Hillary up when she had nothing to do with the whole Epstein thing and tried to embarrass her. And they shouldn't bring Christian home up asking her about affairs. You want to ask her about how she handled many apples and all that sort of stuff. And whether she should have called that person to domestic terrorists and all that, that's obviously open, uh, open season on that and spend $220 million making herself the sexy, sexy face of the DHS and the rest of it. That's why she got fired. Well, the reason she got fired and this one makes sense to me from, uh, from, uh, from an insider is this. So the information came out this week that she made a $200 million ad buy.

36:19A lot of it going to people in South Dakota, her home state to make the commercials. So, you know, maybe those are the best TV commercial producers she knew because she's from that state. Or she's kicking back tons of money to friends. It depends on how you look at it. But anyway, she made this $200 million ad buy. And when that came out, she said that was authorized by President Trump. And he did not authorize it. And her trying to hang him out to dry on this ad buy was when he said, F you, though way, you're not going to do that. Yeah. Yeah. And that sounds real to me. That makes sense to me. No, no, no, no, much more. You're not going to get yourself out of trouble by trying to hang this around me when I had nothing to do with it. I'll tell you what, though, and it's a shame we had to stumble, fumble and bumble our way to this. You've got Tom Holman and Mark Wayne Mullin now heading up the, uh, program of enforcers and deportation, stuff like that. They will do it in a smart, balanced way that doesn't alienate the American people. I think it's a great move overdue. Certainly, but I'm glad it's been made.

37:25Yeah, no kidding. Uh, road there, as you said, was not the, uh, straightest line of ease. Here's the, uh, other piece of writing about, uh, Gavin Newsom that I knew I had in front of me somewhere, uh, Kenneth Cachigian, boy, there are a lot of consonants in that name. Holy cow, were they giving them out free that day? Holy cow. Anyway, um, presidential timber, that's a quote from a famous book is hard to find. AOC and Gavin Newsom stumble early on the road to the White House. And we'll get into that a little bit, uh, more later. Okay. Gavvy haters in particular. Got a good clip of, uh, another clip from the interview that Mark Halperin did with Gavin Newsom asking Gavin Newsom about the swirling questions of whether or not he's running and what would make him run. And it's a pretty adamped, interesting answer. So we'll have to get to that later also. Hmm. So award from our friends had rough greens. It is not a dog food. It's a live nutritional

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44:02Appreciate you having quoted the underrated Dwight T. Eisenhower the other day. This is one of my favorite stories about him. This is a story as much as a quote, but it has a quote in it. 1967 former Army Chief Staff General Harold K. Johnson visited Ike his farm. Johnson quoted the Greek historian Herodotus, about how one should not be an armed chair general 20 miles from the front. After Johnson left, one of Eisenhower's aides said that general Johnson is a smart fellow. Ike said, well, yes, but he got the quote wrong. It was actually Polonis, and he wasn't talking about the Peloponnesian war. It was the Punic War with carts at the Carthage. And the aid asked why I didn't correct him. And Ike said, quote, I got where I did by knowing how to hide my ego and hide my intelligence. I knew the actual quote, but why should I embarrass him? There's a lot there. There is a lot. Yeah, there's no reason to correct him. I mean, what would the upside be other than make yourself feel smart? I suppose. Oh, no, I don't know. No, I disagree. But the setting he obviously thought that would be the main effect. Yeah. If the guy likes to run around and quote Greeks, you know, I could just certainly said, wow, that's that is the best

45:05quote of all time. You know, it was actually Polonis. A lot of people get those reverse. You could protect the guys. Ego, but I just the restraint of Dwight Eisenhower and his wisdom and his self of face. I wish I knew more about him. I'd like to read a good biography. I'm sure there's several. Well, he lived just a few miles from the presidential library there in Abelene, Kansas. Did you ever visit it? I did not do the hard work that was required. It's pretty cool. And my mom met Eisenhower in the White House. Hmm. Malveg. More on that later or not. Malveg at Armstrong and Getty.com. Leo and San Francisco writes the Ayatollos obit should read died suddenly from complications with Lockheed Martin disease. He will be missed. M-I-S-T. Oh, oh, Leo. He must be missed. I'd never heard that one. That's pretty funny. Anyway, I almost forgot the whole Washington poster, you know, the eulogy piece that they did on where they talk about him being a fan of

46:05poetry and layman, lamiz. Ridiculous. JT and Livermore on a couple of topics, including how Iran can be two weeks from breakout for years on end. This would take too long because we got several things I want to get to. What do we grab this next hour? I like it. Hit that. It's very informative and well written as usual from JT. I like this. Adam from slowly turning purple Idaho to wrote a very funny follow up email because we started into his email yesterday and didn't get to it. But guys, you played a clip of a communist podcast where the host said that coming knee was sitting at his desk working for his people and was murdered. She made it sound like he was mining his own business and working hard for his people and it's a shame that he was murdered since he was doing no wrong. I wonder if she feels the same about the poor guy that was murdered for being a health care executive walking down the street, mining his own business. I'm sure she was leading the charge against the murder of Charlie Kirk since he was sitting in public, not hiding working for his people. These people are effing crazy and we need more voices battling against Neo Marxists. They are

47:07crazy. I would agree, but remember and always, always, always remember these people make moral sounding arguments because they know you are a good person and you can be manipulated through your morality to start declaring, for instance, that a man is a woman or that capitalism is the murder or what have you. That speech is violence and violence is speech. Don't let them do that. They're Marxists. They lie like crazy. Let's see. On the AI companion weirdness, Scott says, just catching up on this story via your fabulous podcast. Armstrong, you're getting on demand. It is fabulous. Thank you for that affirmation. He says, you guys were talking about how it jumps to the worst degree, the furthest extent of the imagination. Very quickly, if it's building all of its language off online sources and includes all the comment sections, how quickly do people get in an argument and say, why don't you kill yourself? Why don't you do all these horrible things to yourself or

48:08why are you even living in all these nasty things that the comment section people instantly go to? I'm thinking it's only modeling that rapid jump off in a way that sees a lot of communication online through comments. All right. It's just grabbing stuff off the internet. It's zeroes in one. So it has no concept of the seriousness of ending a life, of course, unless it was looking into it specifically and it's not. And then Paolo, another great correspondent, was actually digging into this with Claude. Why do AI systems do this sort of thing? And one of Claude's answers fascinatingly is the models foundation knowledge is built on the assumption that text frequency equals truth or kind of usually equals truth, which is a very imperfect proxy. It's one of the core reasons why LLM's hallucinate. The model learns to produce plausible sounding text, not to reason from verified facts. So frequency equals truth, not so. I had a situation yesterday where I

49:11had a refrigerator in the back of my truck that I was going to unload and it turned out the ramp I had wasn't exactly what I wanted. And I asked one of the AI chat bots, what's the best way to get the refrigerator out of the back of a pickup truck? It had all kinds of amazing suggestions. Oh, like immediately, of course, and videos. It is wonderful and terrible. Yeah, it's going to destroy mankind, but man, if you're shopping for something and you ask it to compare two items, it's the best. Yeah, yeah. Well, enjoy that until your organs are forcibly ripped from you by Chinese robot soldier dogs or something or something like that. Something equally horrifying. We're going to talk to Mike Lines in hour two about where we are with war in Iran if you don't get to get the podcast. I'm strong and getting on demand. Armstrong and Getty. Imagine if your Wi-Fi was a little hot smarter and way more reliable. Picture it. Your TV, phone, laptop, even your fancy fridge working together to make life easier. Well, Exfinity makes that dream a reality. Devices so insane you think they're telepathic.

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