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How about this?
This is something that surprised the heck out of me.
And this is something the Democrats should be saying, doing.
Oh, occupying their time in Congress.
What is it?
Oh, well, the Megas are coming out swinging against big tech AI.
The revolution, they feel regulation should be coming in that direction.
Now, you might think this is something Democrats would have picked up on, but nope, no, no, no, get this.
Marjorie Taylor Greene fired off a tirade on X, complaining that AI could create mass poverty by replacing human jobs.
and giant AI data centers could have potentially devastating effects on the environment and water supply.
I
We're all on acid now.
Wow, I don't even know where to go with that hardly, except the story continues.
And thanks to Trump's big tech billionaire backers, they're about to own us and replace us, get this on stage at the National Conservatism Conference, Josh Hawley, Republican, criticized AI revolution as a leap towards transhumanism.
a human machine future that he said is currently why they you know they always do this I Bush did this W said this same kind of thing you know
and the
That's coming from two Republicans.
Wow.
Yeah.
And more on a medieval level.
Let's get to that part of the right way.
Steve Bannon chimed in comparing the pursuit of AI super intelligence to summoning the demon and since then think tankers and populist conservative outlets have continued to stoke worries about federal policies that turbo charge
AI developments.
Of course, we've talked about this with Tim Slecker from busted pencils where, you know, maybe we should put some guardrails in when
it comes
And of course, I don't know if the big bill did include AI being unregulated.
I can't remember how that turned out.
Yeah, I don't know.
But in relation to what Marjorie Taylor Greene said that AI could create mass poverty by replacing human jobs, this came out and this was on LinkedIn.
The job cuts, the share of 21 to 25 year olds employed at large public tech firms has been halved since 2023.
It dropped from 15% to 6.7%.
Meanwhile, the average employee age in public tech has creeped up five years.
So they're older people in tech now from 34.
point three years to thirty nine point four years with millennials dominating the sector.
College graduates stand out look listen to this for twenty to twenty four year olds with a bachelor's degree the unemployment percentile has hovered around sixty percent for the past year or two meaning their jobless rate is higher than in most months of the past quarter century.
the jobs involving repetition processes are beginning to show up now.
In other words, factory jobs, boring, laborious jobs, factories, or service work.
And this, this is a tip from this particular article, master the AI tools.
You may see these as your biggest enemy, but flip the perspective and you will see that this is your
only way to survive master AI.
Wow.
The only way is to
Okay.
So a white man shoots another white man and then a bunch of white men get together and chant how white men need to fight more.
I don't know.
I think the problem might be white men.
So that's a short little bit.
Um, and also remember we got a call yesterday from CJ, right?
Yeah.
And, uh, and, and CJ, we had a little thing about empathy and sympathy.
And I remember seeing something about.
Charlie not liking empathy, but liking sympathy more I found the cut.
Oh, and I just thought I play that that's cut 106.
So let's play a cut 106 here Charlie Kirk listen the new communication strategy
is not to do what Bill Clinton used to do where he would say I feel your pain Instead it is to say you're actually not in pain.
So let's just a little very short clip
Bill Clinton in the 1990s, it was all about empathy and sympathy.
I can't stand the word empathy.
Actually, I think empathy is a made up new age term that does a lot of damage, but it is very effective when it comes to politics.
Sympathy, I prefer more than empathy.
That's a separate topic for a different time.
Just proving my point.
It wasn't a big issue.
It was just something I remember.
And I thought, well, right.
Did I remember that correctly?
And I had to check on what I was saying here on the air.
There certainly isn't any sympathy or empathy in this particular idea.
And this would be cut 107.
All right, let's listen to cut 107.
In fact, I even think that we should bring back, you know, public executions on certain people.
No, but think about it.
I think that and you guys should laugh.
It should be public.
It should be quick.
It should be televised.
By the way, you could
You could have, like, brought to you by Coca-Cola.
And no, I'm not kidding.
Hey, good morning.
Good morning guys great show like always so thank you the whole thing with AI my stepson He works in IT he builds websites for companies and he was selling his mom a couple weeks ago Where it normally takes him maybe two to three weeks to create a website He saw AI do it in like in like less than five minutes Wow Wow,
Yeah, his mom told him you may want to start, you know, looking into something different.
And then if I could just quote the real quick on an empathy thing, you can empathize with someone.
My dad had long problems.
And my dad went through this thing where he started having issues with breathing.
He wanted everybody around him not to say anything, not to touch him.
Years later my dad passed I have I develop lung problems.
So before I had my lung transplant I was at Rochester Mayo They did a bronch on me in it.
I had bad results from it and during that time when I had issues breathing where I didn't think I was gonna make it I felt the thing my dad said when when when my breathing issues got that bad where it felt like my complete air was cut off I didn't want
I don't want my clothes on.
I don't want anybody to touch me or anything.
So you can empathize with somebody.
You can empathize with somebody that has cancer and you've gone through that battle.
So you can empathize with people.
Interesting.
And you guys stop taking Charlie Kirk out of tech.
You guys didn't listen to the whole clip.
You guys didn't get the whole clip right.
Because that's what CJ and everybody else will say.
took it out of
I
Yeah, I actually had to look it up because I enjoy actually finding the facts, finding things.
Empathy is not a new fangled, new age world.
It was actually coined in 1908 by a German.
And empathy is actually based off a German word.
I can't pronounce the German word that
it
is, but I mean, it's just ridiculous.
I mean, actually, philosophers, Adam Smith and David Hume talked about it.
the fellow feeling, understanding your fellow.
I mean, the concept has been wrong for ages.
You feel another's pain, you understand their pain because you're a human being as well.
And what's remarkable to me is that Charlie Kirk has some level of empathy, has so many of these others that he was able to understand what is getting these people angry there.
They're afraid because the jobs aren't there anymore.
They're afraid because they don't feel they're reaching the heights that they should reach in their lives.
They're afraid that are they ever going to buy a house?
Are they going to find a spouse?
And they're able to channel that rage against the people underneath them.
or at the same level, you know, economic level, and they're, rather than being angry at the people that are really responsible for those guys at the very top.
Millionaires and trillionaires and billionaires that are manipulating the whole situation to their benefit, where the rest of us are fighting over the crumbs.
Okay.
But, you know,
just dicing the words here you know we're always you know we're trying to get to the bottom of the logic the reasoning and we're trying to understand what magas are thinking what their strategy is why they think what they think and it's
It's still pretty much a mystery to both
Coming up next, we'll talk to
Brittany Merlot.
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All right.
We've got Steven Miller coming up in just a few moments, maybe even Elon.
Yes.
Stay with us.
It's a lovely day today.
So what if...
you've got to do you've got a lovely day to do it in that's true
and i hope whatever you've got to do okay something that can be done by you or i'd really like to stay well that's great here's the big finish oh it's a lovely day to day
morning, guys.
You crack me up.
I love you.
How have you been enjoying the warmth?
Have you been outside?
Oh, we have.
Love it.
Second summer.
I have been enjoying it as well.
I went and had a beach bonfire on Lake Superior.
What?
I attended a mountain bike race.
I saw like thousands of bikers just biking through the American Berkey trails.
pretty cool.
wow.
Working on the suntan, I guess.
But last little soaking up the vitamin D.
gorgeous.
Yep.
Yep.
It was up in Cable, Wisconsin.
It was called the Shawamigan 40.
That's too many miles for me.
It was nice to watch.
We've got a couple of days we've got today hitting 85 degrees nice warm sunny We put that on repeat for Wednesday same thing on Thursday, and then we're still hitting 80 degrees on Friday a few more clouds out there Wow, we've got chances for showers and storms so a wet weekend Unfortunately, and then that does drag our temperatures down a little bit so for the weekend probably mid to upper 70s
Yeah gorgeous.
A five-day span of dry.
in love.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Friday.
Gordy Scott, one two.
Yes.
Very good.
I'm not wearing it today, but I'm glad.
We don't want to be the Bob C. Twins.
We kind of hate it when that happens.
That'd be cute.
Well, thank you.
Brittany, thank you.
You have a good day.
We'll talk to you again tomorrow.
It's WMDX meteorologist Brittany Merlo.
are.
So a white conservative was shot by another white conservative in a predominantly white Mormon state at a conservative predominantly white college and black universities are being threatened now?
Got
Oh
it.
A lot of it though is this woke stuff that would like take your breath away.
I mean, research into transgender mice.
I mean, it was just
U.S.
taxpayer dollars funding that I called that out on my show that was It wasn't transgender see that worries me about you Charlie.
You seem to have swallowed that one whole Like a snake does a mouse without looking into it.
It was transgenic.
I'm sorry.
It was not but it's hugely different Transgender that's just going along with what the mob thinks it wasn't
He got it wrong, and no one was around to tell him that he got it wrong.
He just went with it.
Transgender.
It wasn't transgender.
It was transgenic.
They were studying mice for health reasons, serious cancer-solving reasons.
Nothing to do with transgender.
So... I stand corrected
This summer, I'll be completing seven.
I have three in right now, so I've got a few more to go.
And
Well, actually, I've been doing some running for the past 10 years.
I got back to it 10 years ago.
And so in the spring, I started looking for runs.
And this one appealed to me because of the cancer benefit.
And so I decided to register for that.
And it just interests me.
And I thought it was something that I could do a small piece for the cancer community.
here.
past.
That's right.
I had cancer back in 2008, and actually came through that quite well.
I've had some other kinds of things along with that.
And that motivated me as well to kind of start getting back in shape.
It took me kind of a while to get on that track, but that's been a real motivator for
to stay in shape.
Yes, three times.
Wow,
I had prostate cancer back in, like I said, 2008.
It was diagnosed fairly early.
And diagnosis, it kind of...
took time over six months to a year and so then I had it treated and moved on from there.
It's my first time in this run so I'm really learning a lot about it this year.
It's on Sunday.
There are some other events along with it like a marathon and a biking event.
I believe there's events for walkers as well and the 5k and it's out in the area of Sun Prairie.
where the UW Clinic is out there.
I'm not quite sure how many runners or people are participating, but you can go online and donate to individuals.
None of that money goes to us, but it goes directly to UW Madison.
It's badgerchallenge.org.
And it's got the weekend.
It's got a lot of really good information here about how to register, how to donate.
There's an event schedule here, a number of community events coming up.
So why did you decide, or how did you decide to be this kind of...
A constant runner.
A
I was a cross-country runner in high school.
And then after high school, I ran some, not very much.
And then like I said, back in 1989, I trained for a marathon.
It took me a year to train for that.
And I was
Duluth.
It was an interesting run because when we started out, it was 45 degrees.
And when the run ended, it was like in the 70s,
in June.
So it was a great run.
But then I did some five or five and 10 Ks at that time.
And then after an illness in 1990, I didn't run again until 2016.
was, you know, you take those steps
it's like, what happened?
in your mind, it's kind of like you can still do this.
still get trapped in that when I get out,
with pace and stuff.
It's like, I feel like I can go faster, but not quite there.
Yeah, I don't run every day because I just think that's not, that wouldn't be good for joints and stuff like that.
So I run now, usually about two or three times a week.
I think
long I didn't read about that one, but I think it's a series run that takes place over time.
Yeah, I've done this just on my own.
Yeah, we live out near the zoo.
great area out there.
know.
A
Well, I'd have to say my son helped get me hooked on this back in 2016 by doing the Disney run because he's kind of a Disney freak.
And so we do and we do that.
We've done that one every year and we're going down there again on the 20.
Something of October to do the 5k that goes through Epcot
and it's really a
rush because the first mile is a service road and then you come in the side of Epcot and The the torches are on and they're playing Star Wars music
stop then it's just great.
It's just a great event.
those are my favorites
Again, badgerchallenge.org.
We don't like bicyclists here, so.
We don't talk about that.
I'm sorry.
I have to remind John that Madison is a bike friendly.
Yeah, sure is.
We have bike paths all over the place.
I'm going against the grain again and I'm a rebel.
I'm a rebel, Dottie.
So once again, talking with Gary Albrecht here.
So the run, so people can still be involved.
We want to
let
here?
No, not really.
Just that it's one of those things that's,
know, the way I feel it's bigger than me, it's a lot, this whole event.
And it's something I think many people can do and help a little bit in some way.
I was going to run down here,
I got a letter today from you.
And before we toast, I want to read it next time.
I thought it was fitting the last time that we celebrated.
You was with us.
Howdy boys.
Never a doubt you would get this invitation.
You did it by believing.
Really miss you guys and I wish I was there.
Things are good.
The God Almighty picked me to be on his team up here.
I'll be it.
I'm the third catcher.
It's a great league.
No day games after night games.
No shadows.
But you got all the sticky you need to have up here.
Told the big guy about you guys.
You play hard every night.
You're not afraid to play for each other.
He's obviously very interested in the group with this uncommon goodness The fact that you have the best record in baseball the best road record in baseball is caught his attention You don't really need me I know you guys really don't need me, but I've got to tell you I'll be on the headset every night watching and don't forget To take it all in enjoy it keep it light and believe in each other
Bob Euker So let's toast to him and to our team what we've achieved so far.
Such
Well, he
I mean they hung out for a long time together and You know, we were talking to our author
Pat McBride, about Pat Murphy just kind of stepping up since the death of Bob Uker, because he had the same kind of humor, same kind of sensibility and kind of funny, you know.
So he came up with that.
That would
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Kentucky nurse.
Let's get some music going.
Yeah, let's do some music.
Kentucky nurse revives drunk raccoon found in dumpster by using CPR.
See, that's happy because the raccoon could have died in that dumpster.
That can't be good.
He was drunk.
How did the raccoon get drunk?
Probably drinking some, you know, from half-drunk bottles of beer in the dumpster.
Yeah, that's not the part I'm concerned about.
But a Kentucky nurse.
CPR is what I'm concerned about.
I don't know about how do you do CPR on a raccoon.
How do you do that?
Very carefully.
Yeah, that's how.
All right.
Yeah, her name is Misty Combs.
Oh, that's good.
That's nice.
Of the Lecture County Health Department in Whitesburg, Kentucky.
So that's happy.
Yeah, right?
I think so.
Okay.
Yeah, well, let's hear it.
Today.
Yeah.
I am going line dancing.
Are you kidding me?
I'm not kidding you.
Again, you're going, didn't you sprain your ankle last time?
I did hurt myself last time.
I did, I did one song and I hurt myself on that one song.
So, but I want to go again.
It is out of my own.
He's like, that's happy.
It's never fun listening to Stephen Miller.
Come on.
Stephen Miller.
a lost painting looted by the Nazis found hanging on a wall in a real estate listing.
See, that's happy.
That is happy stuff, isn't it?
Okay.
We want to end on a happy note.
We don't want to be positive.
I got a happy note story.
Okay,
and I
seeing all the way
Okay, hey, that's gonna wrap it up for today tomorrow Mike McCabe Substack author and blogger will join us also wolf repass.
He's a folds tight chief financial officer We're gonna talk finances or something right tomorrow.
Okay, okay?
Stephanie Miller's next we hope you have a great day.
Yeah, so long.
See you later
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