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All of this comes as it is really unclear where diplomatic efforts to end this war now stand. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers yesterday that a deal, quote, could happen today, it could happen tomorrow, it could happen next week, but he cautioned there's no guarantee that it would be acceptable to the Senate or the American people. Donald J. was on the Miranda Divine podcast. We're gonna play a couple of uh clips of that coming up in a couple of minutes, uh including or a minute or so, uh including being asked about his alleged obscenity laced call with BB Netanyahoo. When she said you're crazy, you'd be in jail if it wasn't for me. Blah, blah, blah. And again, pointing out that uh each president, like four or five presidents have had that relationship with BB Netanyahu and had that sort of conversation with him. So it's not unique. Yeah, at at times, sure. Uh the US and Iran exchanged heavy fire overnight after the U.S. struck an empty oil tanker that it said was attempting to breach the blockade, that set off a string of attacks by both sides with Iran firing ballistic missiles at US bases and later launching drones that struck Kuwait's airport, leaving one person dead and But despite the heavy fire, U.S. Central Command said Tuesday night that the tenuous ceasefire was still ongoing. Man, the fact that these other countries have held back is really something. Iraq has been hit so seven, eight, nine different countries have been hit by Iranian rockets and missiles and have mostly held back. Yeah, yeah, mostly , although we are finding out the UAE's been much more active than was previously understood. Uh so that's what happened uh most recently. Let's let's get to Miranda Devine and Trump and see what they had to say. Yeah, Axios reported that you had a phone call with Bibi Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, in which you were angry with him, you said, Are you effing crazy? What are you effing doing? Um, uh I helped you stay out of jail. Is that true? I did. I I wouldn't say angry. I was a little bit perturbed at his uh constantly fighting with Lebanon. You know. Some point there's it be we gotta stop this. We gotta stop it. But I have a very good relationship. We've done well, done well together. He always says uh we could never have done it, but everybody knows that we could have never done it without the United States. But we've we've I've worked very well together. I like BB a lot. Yeah, I'm a little troubled by that whole uh y you're constantly fighting with Lebanon. He's fighting with Hezbollah. Which is an armed political party that Lebanon would pay whatever it took to get rid of if they possibly could. It's a long and complex story, but um yeah, that was a little troubling. I don't know if he truly misunderstood it or if he was just kind of shorthanding it. Uh next clip. And are your tactics where you say something and then change it and then do a peace deal and and then break the ceasefire or whatever, is that all about trying to keep the Iranians off balance? Are you sort of messaging to them? No. Because people at at home sometimes you I hear they feel anxious and confused. That's good. That's good. They're confused and the Iranians are confused. Right. I don't think the people at home are paying attention, is what I think. Now I'm looking up at uh T V NBC News leading the hour with it, but I don't think the average person is thinking much Scanning my memory banks to think about when anybody's brought it up to me in real life recently. I can't come up with anything. Well, and it still ends up being uh evening newscasts often like the fourth story after weather and a a video of a guy getting knocked down by a deer and you know whatever else they have. I do enjoy a good deer knocking down and uh so let's move on to other fair uh since uh perhaps this is not fair that people care about anyway. I did want to mention this. I watched a little of Marco Rubio testifying before Congress yesterday, and they lean a lot on that hole. We've destroyed the Iranian Navy. You're overlooking that. Their navy is at the bottom of the sea. Iran no longer has a Navy. And I didn't even think of it until some other pundit I like pointed it out. Whoever talked about the Iranian Navy or was worried about the Iranian Navy? How big a role in world politics was the Iranian Navy? Uh so it's a little bit of uh head fake to me to to keep bragging about. We've sunk their navy. Right. They've got those those fast boats, those harassing boats, but Yeah, yeah. The issue, you didn't launch this saying we've got to do something about the Iranian Navy and nobody's willing to do it. Yeah, right, right. Uh so I this what you're about to hear is restra int . There's a lot of talk that Marco clearly now has the edge for 2028. I hope so. That uh uh Trump and company have had to reign JD Vance in uh easy with the social media . Stop doing that. They're getting a little annoyed with them. That's all I'm going to say. I'm going to move on . I find this so interesting. Uh ultra processed food is the new sitting, which was the new smoking, apparently, or sitting around and eating ultra processed food is certainly the new like smoking two cigarettes at once of health. There is a new study sitting and smoking while eating a bag of Doritos. Oh, you're as good as death. Practically committing suicide. Right. Yeah. Just throw yourself off a cliff and save the rest of us the trouble. Um so the I approach these studies with caution because in some questions of health it's difficult to tease out one variable, as if you paid attention in a high school science class, you know that's the scientific method. You can't introduce three variables and then guess at which one did what . And if you are a Coke snorton uh you know, motorcycle racer who eats ultraprocessed foods, and those people tend to die sooner, you can't tell me, yep, it's the ultraprocessed foods. Uh if you know what I mean. So I will just get to the study. Eating a diet high in ultraprocessed foods is associated with a serious increased risk of dementia, according to new research, adding to the growing list of health problems linked to such packaged foods as packaged cookies, hot dogs, and chips, and they also mention bacon. I love hot dogs. Bacon? Yes. Bacon ? Oh man. You can say bacon as many times as you like. It's on the list, buddy. I don't put bacon in the same category normally in my mind as like a bag of Doritos. Ultra processed food. The study involved more than fifty three hundred U.S. adults age fifty and older, followed them for almost nine years on average. The researchers from the Hav TV Chan School of Public Health and other institutions aimed to home in on the impact of ultra-processed foods by accounting for a range of other factors that affect health, including education, income, smoking, physical activity, and alcohol use, et cetera, et cetera, blah, blah, blah. Uh these results add to a body of scientific evidence linking diets high in ultraprocessed foods to health problems including obesity, cardiovascular disease, type two diabetes, and more. How about the bacon like the that they have at the the butcher counter? You know, they don't really drill down into bacon. I I know it's like smoked and cured and and salted and whatever else. I I I've got to admit, I think of that very differently as you were saying that say a bag of chips or horrendous uh pizza puff thingy that you heat . Yeah. But it's on the list. I'm not gonna eat any I'm not gonna eat one stick less of bacon the rest of my life because of this. So why even d discuss it? But you'll forget you made that vow, so you might stop eating bacon. So who knows? Who knows because of my dementia from eating processed food. Exactly. Yeah, it's kind of self-correcting in a bizarre and tragic way . So okay, they think uh one likely explanation for the link between ultra processed foods and and dementia uh is that uh diets high in them are associated with obesity, type two diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and those illnesses raise the risk of dementia. So it's one step away. But you know, you could argue that I mean, 'cause look, don't we all have our principles in general, but we have cheats. Sure. Um, and and your cheat is bacon, fine. You're not gonna uh guzzle down pizza puffs. But by God, when you have an egg, you're gonna have a little bacon. I can respect that. Rough greens. We're talking about what you eat. How about what your dog eats? Put a little rough greens on top of their food. It's made in the United States. 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So anything bad happening in his life makes me somewhat happier because I'm that sort of person. So wow, okay. I'm fine. I'll say it out loud. Tom Petty right here I'm working with. Blaze. This is terrible. What's that? What's that re Petty? Petty. That's terrible. Yes. You're so petty you're Tom Petty. Okay, I get it. You're the petiest petty that's petty. Since Tom Petty. It's the same world. Terrible. Yeah. Same word. I'm fired ? Yes, you're fired, Scotty. Get out! I'm begging you. Go! Nobody likes you. You want me to go ? Uh more on that and other stuff on the way. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty here for hymns, there are all kinds of great weight loss approaches that fit into your world out there. They've got to put HIMS with a wide range of affordable GLP1 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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Because today I have to assemble and deliver thank you packages to every firehouse in the city for my boss, find a yoga instructor who makes house calls, and I need one of those ice sculpture guys. Just take a deep breath, post your tasks on airtasker.com or download the app and connect with local taskers for any Can I take more than one deep breath? As many as you need. Air tasker. Get anything done. Minutes has been fired . 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 in 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 Belly. 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 Bell said, uh 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, reached out to Pelle and said, Look, we gotta get back And Pelle essentially said to him, I have nothing to say to you. And so they S canned him. They poop canned him immediately. And what was the line he had uh in the meeting to the guy? I'm curious as to why you would come somewhere nobody wants you. Yes. F you I would think is the new boss. Pelly was making five million dollars a year just for the 60 Minutes program. Back when he used to be the anchor, he was $10 to $15 million a year, it was rumored. So he's made a lot of money in his life. So it could be just a um uh in his defense, I guess, and I find him an annoying an annoying human being, even though I'm a big sixty minutes fan. Uh it could have been a just you know, I don't I'm not changing the way I do things, and if you think I am you're wrong and I got plenty of money and I and he probably thinks other networks are just looking to grab him as quick as they can because the he thinks the Scott Pilly brand is rating's gold. I think he's about to find out different on that. Right, right. In his subsequent note to Pelle, Bilton called Pelle's behavior at Monday's meeting a performative display of hostility, uh which I think is a good line. And uh one of the I think it was Sharon Alfonso you also got canned, uh said something absolutely hilarious, although it really does demonstrate. And you know, I try to take uh you know uh not an attack attack attack posture all the time because I've come to realize that bubbled people don't know that they're bubbled and they have a completely different reality. And uh you can't attack them out of it. You've got to help them understand how bubbled they are. But Sharon Alphonse said something about how Barry Weiss is now interjecting political point of view into their reporting. Oh wow. And I thought, Good lord. Wow. You are in the middle of the forest and can't see the trees or something. It is it has been in my lifetime diminishing because all the media entire media landscape is been changing rapidly as we all know. But it has been in my lifetime probably the most important news outlet in the world. I mean, it it has broken so many stories or been the conversation piece of so many big stories the next Monday morning for all of our politics, like my whole ad ult life. And uh and you know, they went out of their way to try to ruin it, unfortunately. Um I still thought it was really good often Mark Halpern writing and Mark Halpern has really been in the news business ' hiscause dad was big in government and he's been in the news business his whole life. He wrote, It's impossible to overstate the arrogance of those who have worked for sixty minutes over the years, even as the program's bias and reduced quality have been on vivid display . He also said there are a lot more beats to play out on this story, including how the rest of the program staff decides to play things. Yeah, everybody I suppose could revolt. Right, right. Sure. Uh final note on this uh Nick Bilton's uh f dismissal letter to Scott Pelly was remarkably gentlemanly and emphasized again that uh he says I've devoted my career to while I'm new to sixty minutes, I've devoted my career to investigative journalism Dinner he got the middle finger every single time they hold the meeting. Yesterday you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt. I welcome a diversity of viewpoints and respectful debate among the team, but this was nothing of the sort. Yesterday's performative display of hostility enacted in front of the staff instead of in a civil private conversation, demonstrating that you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, etcetera, et cet.era Uh and then he says, I therefore uh write on behalf of CBS News Inc. to inform you that your employment with CBS is terminated for cause effective immediately. Enclosed is your formal termination letter. Why wouldn't ha uh Scott Pelley as the biggest deal at the biggest news program left in television news? Why wouldn't he let it play out? Like get to a point of um uh tension on some story where he thinks , no, I think this should be left in, and Barry Weiss or whoever's you know under her says I think it should be taken out. And and then maybe make a stand over that that you could support perhaps publicly. Say they didn't want me to tell you this. Why why wouldn't you do that as opposed to do the whole big time him at the meaning thing? Well he considers any perspective to the right of Bernie Sanders to be injecting politics? I still think it'd be to his benefit to give specifics. Armstrong and Getty . 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 . With AirTasker, you can check off anything on your to-do list. Okay, today's list. Pick up the cat, get my nails done, drop off the brownies for the fundraiser , and add fix wedindshield to the list. A palm tree just fell on my car. Air tasker it is. From errands to emergencies, host your task, set your budget, and let local taskers help you out. 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Well and I I would I I've I've said this many times over the years. I would love to know how that whole thing works. I don't know if they if that's the way that works anyway. Or if the Knicks organization or the or the network or there's all kinds of people that benefit from those celebrities being there rather than anonymous businessmen who might be as rich as Timothy Chalamet, but you've never heard of No, no, some guy in shipping. Yeah. That doesn't make you more money or or make it more exciting. Anyway, I was watching some New York media this morning, but you know, media. I was watching this morning 'cause it's all practically all New York. Uh and them talking about how it's the most sports excitement in that city in many decades, partially because he got Yankees Mets, you got Giants, Jets, be there's only one really uh NBA basketball team that anybody pays attention to, and that the city's just on fire uh for this whole thing, so um it's gonna be highly annoying and I just can't wait for Wemby to go in there and drag them around the court in Madison Square Garden. That's what I'm hoping happens. Wow. Very vengeful again. Uh petty again, Michael. You notice that? A theme is emerging. Other people's uh pain is Jack's Joy. Schadenfreude. New York media's pain, yes. Absolutely, my joy. A million dollars for a seat. We'll see. I'm an NHL guy. I've been watching the uh Stanley Club uh cup playoffs, including the finals, in which my beloved Carolina uh hurricanes, I've been like the biggest fan in the world for maybe a year. Uh lost to the Los Vegas Golden Knights. Vegas? What? Hockey? Golden Knights? Their logo's an embarrassment? It's terrible. I didn't know either one of those teams existed. I've heard of I've heard of the Canadian teams. I haven't heard of all these American teams. Have you heard of the Chicago Blackhawks? I have heard of the league for some time. Yes. Speaking of which, uh I d heard on the telecast last night that the uh the Carolina Hurricanes the last won the Stanley Cup in two thousand six and I'm like, wait a minute, there's been a Carolina hockey team for twenty years I couldn't have told you that and they won the Stanley Cup. Wow. It's insane getting old. Anyway. Yeah. Um 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 AO. 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, executive order about artificial intelligence. Train. School bus train. Right. I passed it. Highest score they'd ever said. Except I'm not sure I would pass it. Um and it's it's a much watered down version of something they had pr proposed like six, eight weeks ago , but it's still the federal government saying, Yeah, you you do some big advancement in your whole uh AI thing, you gotta run it 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 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 kinda understand it. Yeah. And they're kinda 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. We may get a charming 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 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 Are you a moding? Probably. I I don't know if you could be one of the giants of AI without being an ego maniac. So the Google guy? I don't know 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 whose 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 . And it's 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, 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? Nobody even knows what it is. Right, and there's no agreement among the smartest people. I watch all the YouTube videos and listen to the podcasts and read this 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 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, it's not a leap to think that an AI could do that. Why why why could the Chinese Communist Party run by, you know, a fairly small number of people, 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 un revolutionary thought among young people or young professionals and think, all right, put him on the list. Which he said he said 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 because 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's way more afraid of this than we are. That if you're a totalitarian state, y you're more uh feel more threatened by AI somehow taken 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 Paulo 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 high. That in the next couple of years, the world wakes up one day and realizes AI is doing its own thing now, and we're just going to have to sit back and watch because we have no ability to stop it or control it in any way. It is hijacked its own ser vers, 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 gonna 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 the 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 'cause I'm so intrigued by the idea. But if 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 Outonia. Okay . We we we we're just gonna do our own thing over here. Uh let's coexist. Would AI say, no, that's not comp atible 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