Scott Pelley Fired from Sixty Minutes

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So you got a frozen mummy up in the tundra or whatever, and you do an analysis and you say, Hey, this appears to be yeast. And somebody in the lab thinks, yeah, yeast. You use that for bread. You want to make some sourdough bread? What? Hey, this bread's really good. Did you make it? Yeah, funny story . Eee. Frozen mummy gut yeast. There's probably some value. It's a pro a broadcast report. I couldn't be troubled to watch it and studying ancient yeasts, but uh I mean boy, if I happen to be at a cocktail party with you and that's what you do for a living, lie, or let's talk about sports or something. Oh, the structure of Middle Eastern uh ancient yeast was really Boy, so on a completely different topic, um I came across these two uh bits of information separately from each other, but uh the and this this first one's about Britain and there are a number of really interesting important stories about Britain right now and I was considering crafting one of my uh segments that of course has to have a title and theme music and I was going to uh I have the the s uh the uh British music that we always play and I was going to entitle it What's all this then ? But I decided to separate this story. What's all this then? That was gonna be the introduction. Uh anyway, uh because this fits so well with an American story. Britain's lost generation of workers. Um and and they make the point that if you pay people not to work, don't be surprised when they don't work. Britain is learning this lesson about its welfare state. That seems like something that goes without saying, but socialists don't get that. You're absolutely right. Yeah, yeah. Thank you for jumping in there. It's true. Britain's learning about the this lesson about its welfare state the hard way is a new government report revealed that one in eight of its working age youth currently are not employed in school or in job training. It's about a million. Um they point out uh nearly sixty percent of these youths aren't even looking for work. More than half have never held a job. And uh nearly half of Britain's idle youth now claim to have a working uh work limiting disabil ity. Did you give us a definition of what you mean by youth ? Uh no working age youth. No, let me find the age. Is that below is that including below eighteen? Uh let me look. But uh let's see, nearly half claim disability. More than 42% claim disabil ity. Wow . And of those, I think forty two percent cite mental health problems is their primary condition. I'm I'm I'm too anxious to work. I just don't have the motivation. I just can't. My uh disability is uh anti-motivation syndrome. I've got a case of rather not do that itis yeah rather than the hand up that liberals often claim these benefits have become a trap for recipients who face little incentive to reintegrate into the workforce. Uh about seventy percent of youth who claim a disability benefit are still on it a decade later. God, how many times do I say to my kids in various situations, you know how many things I did today that I didn't want to do Yeah, it's uh it's an em an enormous loss to the economy too. And the one uh the final thing I wanted to throw in from this was that uh even when young people want to work, the government makes it hard for them to do so. This is something Jack you're dealing with right now. Steadily rising payroll taxes for employers . A lot of people don't even know that payroll taxes exist. If I decide to hire you, the government says, aha, we're taxing you on hiring a person. Whoa, if you want more of something, subsidize it. If you want less of something, tax it, right? But anyway, steadily arising payroll taxes for employers and a minimum wage that has increased by as much as eighty four percent since twenty nineteen for, some younger age cohorts in Britain are pricing young inexperienced workers out of the job market. As the great Tim Sandifer pointed out on this show many, many years ago, you've made it illegal for a person who's worth $15 an hour to get a job, with an employer who says, Yeah, I'll pay you $15 an hour. Maybe we can train you up. Maybe you can be worth $20 an hour someday, but sure, I'll make you that deal and and we'll give you a job to get you star ted. That is now illegal. That's how minimum wages work. Tim is the only person I've ever heard present it that way. That's the way it should always be presented by anybody's against this sort of stuff. You're outlawing $12 an hour jobs. Some jobs are only worth $12 an hour. Or the person is going to say, nah, I'll do it myself, or I just won't do it . Uh on lots of stuff. Well, and if you are impressed by the British numbers, wait till you hear America's uh Jason Riley writing about this in the Wall Street Journal. One in three working age American men aren't so much as looking for a job . And I want to get into that in a second. Every time that comes up I remember sitting and having coffee with a friend of mine having this discussion. He said, Who's out of work who's not looking for a job? I've never not been looking for a job when I was out of work ever in my life. How do you how are you not looking for a job? What is that? I almost dropped an S-bomb right there. I was gonna say, spit. I'm looking for a job when I've got a job. Usually, yeah. Right. Anyway, uh Jason Riley opens his column by qu oting at length this bit from Chris Rock, but I thought we would just go ahead and play it for you. You can tell what kind of neighborhood you in just by who's not working. If you're in any neighborhood in America at 12:15 in the afternoon on a Wednesday, and you see women with sweatpants on, coming out the gym, pushing babies, riding bikes. That's right. Chances are you're in a nice neighborhood. That's right. Wherever women ain't working is an amazing place to live. That is where I want to live. Now, let's switch it up. If you in any neighborhood in America at 12:15 in the afternoon on a Wednesday, and you see men in sweatpants smoking cigarettes, hanging with their boys, lifting weights in the yard , riding children's bicycles , then you are in danger . That is so I remember the first time I saw that. That is so true. It should be part of a political speech. Right, right. I I've got to apologize to you good people. Hansen asked me, do you want the tighter version of that, the shorter one or the longer one? I said, ah, the shorter one. But it leaves out some of the great details that make Chris Rock uh uh great. Like he says uh about the nice neighborhood with the women and the the Lululemon pants. He ought to update the bit. He said, there's probably a whole foods right down the street. And then about the other neighborhood, he said, men riding children's bicycles as their actual transportation . Oh man, is he great . So uh getting back to Jason Riley's point, uh Mr. Rock's funny insightful bit came to mind, uh he writes as I read last month's jobs report, which showed that the share of American men in the labor force has dipped to record lows. According to the Department of Labor, one in three men were neither working nor looking for a job in April. Among males twenty and older, the sixty six labor uh sixtyx-si percent labor force participation rate is down from seventy-three percent in two thousand six. That's a seven percent drop. Uh Mr. Rock was highlighting the correlation between unemployment and crime, but public safety isn't the only concern If you're if you're able-bodied and unemployed and not looking for a job, to me, by definition, we have a policy . failure By definition, I don't need to know anything else. You're out of work and you're you're fine, you can work uh physically, but not even looking for a job, that's a policy failure. We've made Here's a nice simple declarative sentence for you. A life without gainful employment has become a viable alternative for an increasing number of American males. Yeah. See, I I never spent a moment in my life thinking that was an option. It probably has been. Lots of places I lived. Luckily, I was raised in such a way as to believe to not even look into it. But uh yeah it should not be a viable option we can get into or you probably are uh wh why why that's so bad for those people it's bad for them it's bad for your happiness it's bad for culture, it's bad for all kinds of things. But how about me the taxpayer who is going to work? How bad is it for me to pay for you to sit around and do freaking nothing? That's ridiculous. Those very payroll taxes we were just discussing. Yeah. Yes, Michael, you seem incensed. Yeah, there's no more shame. That's the problem. As part of it, I have said that for years. When they when they uh decided, you know, shame is a bad thing. Nobody should be You should be ashamed that you're able bodied and living off of other people. You should be humiliated. You should be ashamed of yourself. Shame. Ring the shame bell, baby. Other people got up and went to work today so that you could lay around and watch TV. You should be ashamed of yourself. Yeah. They look they look at that some people who are in that situation look at the other way around. You're a sap. You're a chump. You got up and went to work today, and I didn't have to. Or they've uh uh guzzled down the the delicious medicine of rationalization said the system is stacked against us 'cause capitalism is exploitive, not to mention the patriarchy and systemic racism and everything else. You don't have a chance Or you don't understand how bad my PTSD is around whatever issue. Talk openly about something I'm aware of. But anyway, uh the long term rise in male joblessness does not stem from an inability to find employment. It results instead from an unwillingness to search for work. And while labor force participation rates vary by race and ethnicity, factors other than hiring discrimination seem to be playing a larger role in the disparities. A quote, this is uh from a land mark uh book, Men Without Work, about this very topic. Um the legacy of prejudice might seem to explain why prime age male work rates and workforce participation rates are lower for blacks than whites today, but they cannot explain why work rates and uh labor force partition rates uh participation rates for white men today are decidedly lower than they were for black men in nineteen sixty five. Wow. Nor can they explain why labor participation rates of married black men twenty five to fifty four are higher than for never married white men in the same group. You know, one of our favorite phrases on this show is they didn't raise themselves. Some of it has got to be that, doesn't it? I mean , like I just said, there was never a moment in my adult life where I even considered the option of figuring out how to live off the government . That's got to do with your upbringing. So yeah. So how did these people come out of families where this was an option? Like my I've told my son, my s he was turned sixteen and at least in California, you pretty much have to be sixteen to have any shot at a job of any kind. I told him I've been asking him now for months, heading into the summer, have you applied for a job? Have you looked for a job or whatever? And then finally went with the you are either going to find a job that you kind of like or I'm gonna find you a job that you might hate, but you are going to have a job this summer. That I'm not considering that an option. And uh but if you didn't if you didn't a family where can working is considered something you ought to do. I suppose you end up a 20-year-old who thinks, uh, wonder what programs I can go sign up for, and I'll just stay home. Yeah. Yep . Oh, then they get into immigration as well, and how uh, you know, labor participation rates . Uh but uh Riley writes the more likely culprit is a social safety net full of generous government benefits that allow men who won't work to subsist. Welfare and disability programs at state and federal levels are well funded by the political left, are easily gamed by design, and it become a significant source of income for men with no job and no interest in finding them because these men often have no problem mooching off the women who take them in. They're able to live on welfare payments sent to others in the same household. Boy, that's another one I hear in the uh single world m men who don't have jobs who are out there trying to date and they just don't have jobs. Wow. Can't get an erection and don't have a job. That's a bad way to be. Wow, that's uh yeah what are you selling exactly? Uh like uh feed your cat over work . Well, that is attractive. Please let me give myself to you, say the ladies of the world. Uh my final thought on this thing. We really need to take a break. No mercifulness for the laying around not working crowd. Zero compassion. Socialism poses as compassion and well meaning people fall for it, but where it inevitably ends is dependence and control because if the government is feeding you, you dare not uh resist them. And whoever says they will continue to feed you gets power. Sometimes it's well-meaning people making the mistake of thinking uh their kindness won't kill. Sometimes it's a deliberate plot by socialists But whatever, whichever one of those it is, you must reject socialism. It's social poison . Jack Armstrong and Joe Brady. This is the best weekend talk show in America . Armstrong and Getty here for HIMS. There are all kinds of great weight loss approaches that fit into your world out there. They've got to be hymns with a wide range of affordable GLP one options . You've got weight loss goals, but hitting them is another story. Check out Weight Loss by HIMS. It's designed to support you in losing the weight and keeping it off. 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Experience music performances from major artists, patriotic tributes, and the kickoff to Giving Forth. Helping to make July 4th the largest day of giving in American history. Learn more about this landmark celebration at America250.org. An attacker doesn't even have to have it out. They can simply just bump against your wallet and just automatically steal the information Uh I what huh? What was that? They call it ghost tapping, Jack. They can charge your card without you it it it even leaving your pocket. Well, wait a second, I tap stuff all the time, so obviously take I I use my watch, but I could use my card as a lot lots of us do, or you just tap your card on there. So so somebody can come up and tap my card in my pocket. That makes sense. According to the written account, they can use cheap, easy to read card readers, thieves can trigger small wireless transactions just by getting close enough to your wallet or phone. No swipe, no pin, no warning. Yes, Katie. Um that is why all of my loved ones and myself have uh what's called an RFID wallet. It actually has a protectant in the outside layer that can block anybody from doing this. I was just at a outlet store, which will remain nameless, although if you travel to Columbia you might see their clothes. And that was like all they sold in the wallet department. I thought is this necessary to very popular, but how bulky are they? I wear I wear very tight pants. They're not at all . It's stop . Stop. That's my answer to that query. I tried to just gla like go right by that. You know what I mean? Just keep just power through it. Unseen cannot be unseen. I'm a single man. I need to have everything on display. We get it and you shop at baby gap. Okay. Very good. No , no. So the scam relies on crowded spaces like transit concerts, busy sidewalks where uh you never realize a charge is happening uh better bris better business bureaus out and saying um when you think about how convenient and commonplace payment has become and it is it's just a matter of time before somebody takes advantage of it. Uh oh, and and they do really small transactions. That's an interesting aspect of this, just to see if it goes through. Then what attackers are doing is adding that to their digital wallets and essentially buying gift cards and doing other types of sc ams to make a quick transaction out of it, but to take as many dollars as it can in the shortest period of time possible. I'm one of those people. I mean I I know I should be like my mom always was or adults are. But I'm not. Um, where you know I go through my credit card bill every month because there's eight thousand things on there, and I don't go through them all. It would be very easy to milk me fifteen or twenty-two dollars at a time, uh, a big one I would notice, but yeah, because it's just, you know, there's so many charges on there. But if it's a gift card, you know, what do you well I suppose the credit card company has to cover that? Well, no, but I mean just even noticing I'm being stolen from you could do it for years for me you know, a little bit at a time. So if you if like like the utilities and phone companies do with mystery charges you never notice and they steal, steal, steal. Exactly. And you just roll your eyes and think, oh whatever. And you go on and pay it. Um yeah. So if you if you if you brushed up got close enough somebody to tap ten different cards and you hit them each for you know, $40 a month. That'd be a quick, easy $400 a month you're making that nobody would probably ever notice. You got your Faraday pouch, which worked very well. However, cell phone services also. I need sleek. And then uh RFID blocking wallet, phone case combo extra sleek for the aging Lothario . Uh the wallet feature worked. The cards could not be charged while inside it. I should just not carry my card . I really only need my watch to live my life at this point. As long as I got my watch on, I can do whatever I want. Yeah. Uh okay. Uh yet another thing to worry about. That's what we all needed. That's what we do every day. Here's a list of things to worry about. Come back tomorrow for another list of things to worry about. Jack Armstrong and Joe Freddy. This is the best weekend talk show in America . This July 4th, come celebrate at America's Block Party, hosted by America 250. America's Block Party is a can't miss 4th of July concert happening at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Experience music performances from major artists , patriotic tributes, and the kickoff to Giving Forth, helping to make July 4th the largest day of giving in American history. It's more than just fireworks. Learn more about this landmark celebration at America250. org . Change comes fast. So wouldn't it be nice if one thing stayed the same? Like the price of your Wi-Fi. Thanks to the Xfinity 5-year price guarantee, you're guaranteed five years of the most reliable fiber powered Wi-Fi with no annual contracts and our best equipment. Plus, get online in minutes with same-day Wi-Fi and stream your favorite podcast on iHeartRadio. Lock in your price and unlock the possibilities. Xfinity. Imagine that. Restrictions apply. Select plans only. Not available in all areas. Use of fiber coaxial cable. So late in the show, we had the breaking news that Donald Trump signed an executive order around AI . An A O around A an EO around A O AI. I can't do it. Why do you even try? I don't know why I try. It's a test of my brain and I fail every single time. Anyway Except I'm not sure I would pass it. Um and it's it's a much watered down version of something they had pro posed like six, eight weeks ago, but it's still the federal government saying, Yeah, you you do some big advancements in your whole uh AI thing, you gotta run a by us first and we take a look at it and see if we think it's okay. Which is one very, very vague and two, who's gonna decide who in the federal government is gonna look at what Sam Altman, Elon Musk, uh uh Emoti or or any of those people came up with and say, hmm I like it. Good job, or no, I don't like it. I'll tweak this over here. Then it'll be our exactly. I mean it's almost hilarious. And it's it's statutorily it's just what what are you even what is this? What are you doing? So you gotta run new AI systems past the White House? That's not a thing, as the kids say. Well, right. And as as as I said yesterday, there's like eight people in the world that understand how this stuff works, and they ain't in the federal government. And they only kind of understand it. Yeah. And they're kind of guessing not kind of very much guessing themselves. So who knows where that leads? I thought Neil Ferguson's piece out today AI is the most dangerous arms race in history is pretty interesting. The unfolding history of artificial intelligence has now arrived at what may be its most dangerous moment, writes mister Ferguson, the historian. Scottish accent. We may be hurtling toward the most dangerous arms race in history, and we're doing so when the leadership of the competitors in this race is to say the least of mixed quality. The chief executives of the most important companies include at least one with a record of duplicity. Is he talking about Altman? Probably Scam Altman. And at least two egomaniacs, that would be at least two. I think there's more than that, but so that's probably Elon and Dario Modi? Probably. I I don't know if you could be one of the giants of AI without being an egomaniac, so the Google guy? Pitch eye? I don't or or uh Zuckerberg . Like I said, I'm not I'm not sure you could be one of these people without being an egomaniac, so I don't see that as much of a slam. Meanwhile, the president of the United States is a former real estate developer and really reality TV star, roughly half of wh ose public utterances are mere bluffs, and the leader of the People's Republic of China is a Marxist-Leninist who aspires to eclipse Mao as a dictator . That is all true. And usually I don't like the shots at Trump for being a reality TV star or whatever. But he's no expert in AI, and practically nobody is, as I've already said, so it's an interesting moment. Uh yeah, the most dangerous arms race in human history, as we were chatting about last hour, it's partly because it's such a squishy, uh ever-changing thing to get your arms around . People could comprehend a terrible new bomb that would cause more destruction than any previous bomb has. You can contemplate that. But we don't even know what it's going to be, what it will control, uh as you pointed out, uh how many people it will put out of work, what sort of political uh unrest that will cause, what sort of economic shocks around the globe. Uh nobody even knows what it is. Right, and there's no agreement among the smartest people. I I watch I watch all the YouTube videos and listen to the podcast and read the stuff written by the smartest people about this stuff in the world, and they are not in agreement at all as to when this is happening or how big a deal it is. But but but I can lay out what like worst case scenario is that AI begins to learn on its own and decides to take over the world or a country. Now, if you believe that the Communist Chinese Party can take over a country, which it has , and run a surveillance state to keep people in line Not as smart as AI. Why could they take over a whole country and run it and keep people in line and keep power, but AI couldn't? There's no reason to think that. Or certainly the one obvious uh inevitable is that people will use AI to accomplish the same thing and and both are horrifying outcomes. Interestingly enough, New York Times had a story the other day about how China is now using AI to predict who might be a threat to the Communist Party in the future , they can now recognize the kernels of uh un revolutionary thought among young people or young professionals and think, all right, put him on the list. Which he said he said it made a wise ass comment about whatever. Yeah, which may be accurate or might not be accurate at all, but it doesn't matter to them. They're still gonna drag you out of your home and put you in a prison. No, there's no cost to dragging you out of your home and and and killing you or putting you in a prison 'cause they've got complete control Some of the experts, and again, they're all guessing. Every single one of them, from Elon down, is absolutely guessing on this stuff. But uh some of the guessing by the experts is that China is way more afraid of this than we are. That if you're a totalitarian state, you're more uh feel more threatened by AI somehow taking your place than an open democracy. Well, my final thought on this, then I'll give you the last word. Is that what Bill O'Reilly used to say? Yep. I'll give you the last word. Right before body language segment. My last word is uh a reminder that I uh read you a bit of a note from alert listener Paolo yesterday who said, Look, all this stuff is true, but there's no opting out. Correct. Trying to restrict the growth of human knowledge and technology through history is it's laughable. I I hope this doesn't happen and depending on who you ask, it's like a 20% chance of it happening or a 75% chance of it happening, which either one of those is way too h igh. That in the next couple of years, the world wakes up one day and realiz es AI's doing its own thing now, and we're just gonna have to sit back and watch because we have no ability to stop it or or or control it in any way. It is it is hijacked its own servers, it is gotten in it's gotten it it's come up with a way to get its own uh electrical power as much as it needs. It's it's just doing everything on its own, and the world is just going to watch and see what it decides to do. That is a absolutely on the table as a possibility. Like within a couple years. This doesn't count as me violating my last word thing because that was really intriguing. That's opened up a new area of discussion. Will there be towns, counties, states , countries that say that that finally do what I've been begging them to do. They'll unplug the internet . They will go retro, techno retro to the point that nothing's connected to the internet, there's no AI, they will become like semi whatever, you know, pre-AI, however you want to describe it. So the only way to out of self-defense. Right. And so the only way to take that over would be to actually storm the beaches with robots on boats or bomb them or something. And if and and this is the stuff of science fiction, I wish I was ambitious and brilliant enough to write it because I'm so intrigued by the idea. But if I if uh you know the United States of wherever uh declares that look we're just we're out, we're gonna go back to the old ways, we're of no threat to AI Otonia. Okay . We we we we we're just gonna do our own thing over here. Uh let's coexist. Would AI say no? That's not compatible with our brilliant AI world plan. Can't have dissenters like that. Sorry, we gotta snuff all you. Who knows? Do you think there's any chance of No Not at all ? Do you think there's any chance of coming up with some sort of arms agreement like we did with the Soviet Union, which a lot of people didn't think that'd be possible. Where we we both recognized, look, we don't either one of us really want to blow up the world. So how about we come up with some agreement? Like uh, you know, Reagan and Gorbache v did. Um limiting the number or you know uh allowing some communication back and forth about something like that. Where we in China both said, look, you're more afraid of it than we are and we're afraid of it So let's how about let's agree AI is only allowed to work on medical stuff or this or that. There's not gonna be any. Just let it go out there, artificial general intelligence. Is there any chance of coming up with guidelines like that? Yes, there there absolutely is, but it's a little more complicated because of the difficulty of verifying compliance. We're talking about people tip tapping away on a keyboard somewhere that might say, yeah, unleashed the beast. And then it might be unleashed in ways that people don't even recognize for days, weeks, years. I don't know. Plus I I limited it to the United States and China, like the United States and the Soviet Union, which you could do it with nuclear weapons because some super smart guy living in rural Alabama was not gonna build a nuclear arsenal, but some super smart guy living in Alabama could use AI just as much as the Chinese good. So that is the difference. Okay, I'm back to uh we're doomed. Next segment, uh a follow-up, believe it or not, on the Scott Pelle firing thing. Uh I'm going to rope Thomas Sowell in and Ben Sass . Also Alabama redistricting. All in one delicious stew of entormation. I promise to stop talking about it after one more thirty second comment. Go ahead. It's good. It's it's so possible that in our lifetimes we're all having the conversation of why did we let this happen around AI? I mean, it's just so upended the world that just like everybody on the planet is saying, How in the hell did human beings allow this to happen? And then the Joe Getties of the conversation would say, Well, there was no stopping it. Yeah. How are we gonna stop it? Well we could have passed regulations. But what about China? And then I'll go back to skinning the squirrel that I successfully speared to eat from a dinner because all of the world's financial uh institutions, all the digital ones, have been emptied of their cash. Just waiting for an AI robot to come, anesthetize you, and harvest your organs. Trying to catch a cockroach to get a few calories. Oh my god. What the f top of AI shity. That's what the world will be saying. It's like when Hooville yelled up to the sky, the whole world will be saying What the f top of AI shity. Alright, more almost. They hear. 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Lock in your price and unlock the possibilities. Xfinity. Imagine that. Restrictions apply. Select plans only, not available in all areas. Use a fiber coaxial cable . Oh I don't sorry, I'm all wrong. It wasn't disappointing. I was very happy about it because um I found him insufferable. It's funny it that the last interview that aired with Scott Pelley on sixty minutes was the one he did with Ben Sass, remember? And I and I liked that topic and a lot of the stuff Ben Sass said, but it came in the next morning on Monday and said that was the most pompous Scott Pelley there's ever been. I mean, that one was that was him taking it to a like an SNL skit level of leaned back in his chair and that look on his face of smugness and wisdom and the glasses in his teeth. I mean, he is just such an act and his slow voice. But that matters to you, doesn't it, mister Sass? Just oh God, he nobody's ever been more pleased with themselves than Scott Pelly. And apparently he thought he could big time the new boss at sixty minutes when they had that big meeting the other day and lecture him when he walked in the room and the boss said, All right, uh, you're not gonna embarrass me in front of these people, it ain't gonna work, enjoy the bagels, got up and left, and then fired him twenty four hours later Yeah, as the new executive producer was introducing himself and launching into look, I have so much respect for the show and all of you. This is going to be collaborative. I want your voices. Scott Belly said I must interrupt. You're a punk who's never done anything, and your boss has no qualifications either, and she's trying to murder the show, and I hate all of you. Well, in spite of that, Builton, Nick Bilton, re ached out to Pelle and said, Look, we gotta get together and talk. And Pelle essentially said to him, I have nothing to say to you. And so they S canned him. They poop canned him