Latest / The M&M Experience / Thursday September 17, 2026 | Midterm Pessimism, AI Doomers
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Welcome to a meeting of the minds crafted from decades
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- 0:17Speaker 1: Mark Davis and Mike Gallagher. This is M & M Extra.
- 0:22Speaker 2: I have a hilarious way to start today's M &
- 0:25Speaker 2: M Extra. Mark and Mike being in two different states,
- 0:30Speaker 2: we have to communicate via text. And one of our routines,
- 0:35Speaker 2: our rituals, is to say to each other, who starts?
- 0:38Speaker 2: Who starts the intro? It's the one thing we planned.
- 0:41Speaker 2: So I started to text, and I could see the
- 0:44Speaker 2: three little dots from Mark. And I just was going
- 0:47Speaker 2: to simply ask two words, a two-word question. Who starts?
- 0:52Speaker 2: As I started to hit send and I'm sending the
- 0:54Speaker 2: words who starts, Mark sends me the text who starts.
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- 1:29Speaker 2: that happens, Mark, that you send a text and then
- 1:31Speaker 2: the other person is sending the exact same message back
- 1:33Speaker 2: and you didn't know it.
- 1:34Speaker 3: It is tremendous. And I have another mind reading feet.
- 1:38Speaker 3: I'm going to try to employ right now. I have
- 1:41Speaker 3: a feeling you might want to lead.
- 1:43Speaker 2: And if you don't, I.
- 1:44Speaker 3: Do because you presented, but you, you, you foresaw this,
- 1:47Speaker 3: that you might give me a little bit of radio
- 1:49Speaker 3: as you did yourself. The notion of optimism and pessimism is,
- 1:53Speaker 3: For the midterms, because as we just spent our special
- 1:56Speaker 3: time together on radio, what gave birth to this entire
- 1:58Speaker 3: podcast enterprise, Eminem on Radio, which you can see at
- 2:02Speaker 3: 7.30 Central Time on 660AMTheAnswer. com while I'm doing the radio
- 2:06Speaker 3: show as you're preparing for your radio show.
- 2:08Speaker 1: Yep.
- 2:08Speaker 3: And you said, Mark, help me out. I'm just feeling
- 2:11Speaker 3: kind of slump-shouldered about the midterms. The House of Representatives
- 2:14Speaker 3: is taking time off. We can't get out of this war. Okay.
- 2:18Speaker 3: And I opened it up to listeners and I got
- 2:20Speaker 3: some really, really nice feedback. And I did a little
- 2:23Speaker 3: deep dive into it. And here's the bottom line and
- 2:26Speaker 3: see what you think and where you want to take it. Yes,
- 2:29Speaker 3: there are a lot of things you can nitpick at
- 2:31Speaker 3: and take a look at and, you know, gas prices
- 2:34Speaker 3: and affordability and we can't get out of the war.
- 2:36Speaker 3: And I know and we're impatient. But ultimately, when push
- 2:40Speaker 3: comes to shove, the best thing we can do is say, OK,
- 2:43Speaker 3: there are a number of things that you're not thrilled by.
- 2:46Speaker 3: Tell me one way in any universe that Democrats will
- 2:49Speaker 3: make any of them better, will make any of them better.
- 2:51Speaker 3: War stuff, affordability stuff, gas prices. anything, and then start
- 2:56Speaker 3: to make the list of the things where we have
- 2:58Speaker 3: managed a return to sanity, environmental extremism, gone, gender cults
- 3:03Speaker 3: on the way out, borders and crime, two of the
- 3:07Speaker 3: worst problems. Ten years ago, you and I are doing
- 3:10Speaker 3: talk shows. What are the two hardest things to solve?
- 3:13Speaker 3: Borders and crime. They're both so much better. Surely that's
- 3:18Speaker 3: got to be worth something.
- 3:20Speaker 2: Well, let me share Savannah Hernandez as a young influencer.
- 3:26Speaker 2: And I think we've interviewed her. She's a turning point contributor.
- 3:31Speaker 2: And here's what she wrote on X yesterday. I'll never
- 3:34Speaker 2: forgive Republicans for paving the way for socialists to have
- 3:38Speaker 2: the most powerful messaging possible ahead of the midterm election.
- 3:43Speaker 2: Gas is high. Overseas wars have continued. And now democratic
- 3:47Speaker 2: socialists can easily campaign on fixing all of it. So
- 3:52Speaker 2: the point is, to your point, she's trying to make
- 3:55Speaker 2: the argument. She's a conservative. Smart young lady. I'm generally
- 3:59Speaker 2: a fan. I am too. But what she's saying is
- 4:03Speaker 2: they have– they do. And she's not wrong. They've got
- 4:06Speaker 2: talking points. Look at the what what's your affordability like, America?
- 4:12Speaker 2: Don't we can make it better. Now, they don't know.
- 4:14Speaker 2: They have no way of making it better.
- 4:16Speaker 4: Correct.
- 4:16Speaker 2: It'll only get infinitely worse. But, Mark, we're saying this
- 4:20Speaker 2: is a couple of talk show hosts who are engaged
- 4:23Speaker 2: and plugged in. Most Joe and Mary Beer Can in Omaha, Nebraska.
- 4:29Speaker 2: They ain't glued to the TV or the radio or podcasts.
- 4:33Speaker 2: They're just trying to get through the day. And they're saying,
- 4:35Speaker 2: you know what, Myrtle? Gas is $ 4. 27 a gallon. Maybe
- 4:40Speaker 2: I got a better chance in electing Democrats because the
- 4:43Speaker 2: Republicans have failed us. Mark, she's not wrong in that argument.
- 4:47Speaker 3: But here's the answer to that. You're right. That's an
- 4:49Speaker 3: observation being made across all of America's time zones. And
- 4:52Speaker 3: here's the best answer. If you want to talk about affordability, affordability, affordability,
- 4:56Speaker 3: and which party does the better job of affordability, if
- 4:59Speaker 3: Joe and Mary Beer can are in Nebraska, how are
- 5:02Speaker 3: things in Nebraska, a red state? are things in Texas
- 5:05Speaker 3: and Florida, the states where we live, red states, versus, oh,
- 5:09Speaker 3: I don't know, California, New York, and Illinois. How affordable
- 5:13Speaker 3: are things in those fiefdoms? So if you want to
- 5:15Speaker 3: take a look at America and see how red states
- 5:17Speaker 3: are governed and how blue states are governed, the people
- 5:20Speaker 3: who want to govern America, kind of like a big
- 5:22Speaker 3: red state, would seem to be the folks who deserve
- 5:25Speaker 3: your preference.
- 5:26Speaker 2: I mean, the Democrats do have proof of how they govern,
- 5:30Speaker 2: and California is a great example of that. But the
- 5:33Speaker 2: problem is, and the argument, and look, you're right, again,
- 5:36Speaker 2: but I... I'm mad at the world today. I am
- 5:39Speaker 2: just pissed off at the world. I am not happy
- 5:41Speaker 2: about anything. I mean, I'm just grumpy today, and I
- 5:45Speaker 2: admit it. Tracy called me last night. Well, you know
- 5:47Speaker 2: we're going to lose in November. I'm like, no, I
- 5:50Speaker 2: don't know that.
- 5:51Speaker 3: Okay. Thanks, sunshine.
- 5:53Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Talk about Norman Vincent Peale over here.
- 5:56Speaker 2: You know, win friends and influence people. And she doesn't
- 5:58Speaker 2: want to lose. Look, Tracy's watching all the shows and
- 6:02Speaker 2: she's as plugged in as Rhonda is, your producer. And
- 6:05Speaker 2: Tracy just feels like, here's the headline, the optics. You
- 6:09Speaker 2: said it this morning. Optics, optics, optics. Oh, great. The
- 6:13Speaker 2: house goes home after working seven days after the summer
- 6:18Speaker 2: recess and now they go home. Well, A couple of
- 6:21Speaker 2: people pointed out to me as I lamented that headline, yeah,
- 6:25Speaker 2: but they're not on vacation. They're home and they're campaigning
- 6:28Speaker 2: and they're working and they're in the districts.
- 6:30Speaker 3: District work is important, but being there under the Capitol
- 6:33Speaker 3: Dome is where the cameras find you and where you
- 6:35Speaker 3: give at least the impression that you're doing something. But
- 6:39Speaker 3: isn't that part of the problem? I'm glad you brought
- 6:40Speaker 3: this up because I thought about this after our radio get-together.
- 6:44Speaker 3: The notion of doing something. We're always looking for Congress
- 6:47Speaker 3: to do something. And obviously there are things they need
- 6:51Speaker 3: to do and there are things we'd like them to
- 6:52Speaker 3: do under the Trump agenda. But maybe this is part
- 6:55Speaker 3: of how we've all bought into the notion of how
- 6:57Speaker 3: nothing gets better in America against all these magical members
- 7:00Speaker 3: of Congress get into the dome, do all these voting
- 7:03Speaker 3: and all these things and pass all this legislation. I
- 7:05Speaker 3: had Bill O'Reilly on this morning with his book, Confronting America.
- 7:09Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 7:09Speaker 3: And his big point is that most of America's problems
- 7:12Speaker 3: are not things that Congress or even a president can
- 7:14Speaker 3: do a doggone thing about. They're about us, our society,
- 7:18Speaker 3: our families. And those are way harder to solve. And
- 7:21Speaker 3: they don't make headlines as much. And I think he's right.
- 7:24Speaker 2: He's right on the money. And he and incidentally, here's
- 7:27Speaker 2: a great response to Savannah Hernandez is very pessimistic outlook
- 7:31Speaker 2: on social media. TM Key writes this. Gas prices are high.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Interest rates are high. Grocery bills are high. So naturally,
- 7:41Speaker 2: I'm going to abandon my party and vote for the
- 7:43Speaker 2: party of communists, Islamic extremists, and criminal illegal aliens. Makes
- 7:48Speaker 2: perfect sense.
- 7:49Speaker 3: We have a winner.
- 7:50Speaker 2: There you go. There you go. By the way, a
- 7:53Speaker 2: quick point about tomorrow's show. We want to do health tomorrow.
- 7:57Speaker 2: We want to talk about... Why not? I don't know
- 7:59Speaker 2: that I want to do it on our daily shows,
- 8:01Speaker 2: but on the podcast, we're coming up with a theme.
- 8:04Speaker 2: We're coming up with a theme of a wonderful, wonderful
- 8:11Speaker 2: way that we can. And we've also got a Carbon
- 8:13Speaker 2: Zero podcast scheduled for tomorrow. Tracy just reminded me. So
- 8:17Speaker 2: we might have a little scheduling snafu here, but we're
- 8:20Speaker 2: going to work all that out. But we got carbon
- 8:22Speaker 2: zero in studio. We got health. And I'm also mad
- 8:27Speaker 2: at the world over this little heart thing I got
- 8:30Speaker 2: going on, this blockage. You just went through it. You
- 8:32Speaker 2: had a potential blockage. They got in there and they
- 8:35Speaker 2: did a heart catheterization. Now, why they didn't do that
- 8:38Speaker 2: to me, I'm a little bit– I'm a little concerned.
- 8:41Speaker 2: I'm going to find out from a cardiologist when I
- 8:43Speaker 2: follow up next week whether they will.
- 8:44Speaker 3: It's probably a good idea because I went from doing
- 8:47Speaker 3: the VIA scan of the lasculinus, which showed that my
- 8:49Speaker 3: calcification score was high– Then the CT angiogram, that's what
- 8:52Speaker 3: I think you did, where they shoot the dye through you,
- 8:54Speaker 3: where they can sort of see the efficiency of how
- 8:56Speaker 3: everything's flowing. And that's what gave them the thought that said, huh,
- 9:00Speaker 3: maybe in that left anterior descending, the widow maker, love
- 9:03Speaker 3: that title. that maybe there's something we want to look
- 9:06Speaker 3: at with an actual heart catheterization. And if we find
- 9:09Speaker 3: sufficient blockage, we can go ahead and put the stent
- 9:11Speaker 3: in right there. They went in. 70% is kind of
- 9:14Speaker 3: where they go with the stent. I was like 30.
- 9:16Speaker 3: They pulled that hose out and said, get out of here.
- 9:19Speaker 2: It was great.
- 9:20Speaker 3: Now, you said you had 50.
- 9:22Speaker 2: A 52. My kids keep saying 50. Everybody stop saying 50.
- 9:26Speaker 2: It's 52. Yes, it is. Harry Hypochondriac, don't short sell
- 9:31Speaker 2: my plaque in my arteries.
- 9:33Speaker 3: We're minimizing your blockage, sorry.
- 9:35Speaker 2: Right, right. And, of course, getting input from our audience
- 9:39Speaker 2: makes it worse. One guy said, yeah, I had 50,
- 9:42Speaker 2: which is less than mine, and they did a stent.
- 9:44Speaker 2: So I'm thinking, well, should I be getting a stent?
- 9:47Speaker 2: And everybody keeps telling me, no, they only do a
- 9:49Speaker 2: stent if it's 70 or more. Isn't that what you
- 9:51Speaker 2: were told?
- 9:52Speaker 3: That's exactly what I was told. So 50 would not
- 9:54Speaker 3: be stint worthy, but it's weird. You know, going in,
- 9:57Speaker 3: going in, I almost said, can I lobby for the stint?
- 10:02Speaker 3: Because I like burgers and I was only partially kidding.
- 10:06Speaker 3: It's like, you know, if you're in there and you
- 10:08Speaker 3: can do something that structurally opens me up, knock yourself out.
- 10:12Speaker 3: And I said, no, we're going to see if it's needed.
- 10:14Speaker 3: And in my case, it wasn't. And I will tell
- 10:16Speaker 3: you that there may be something in the actual heart
- 10:19Speaker 3: catheterization that is way more accurate. I've heard it referred
- 10:22Speaker 3: to 27 times as the gold standard of accuracy, that
- 10:27Speaker 3: even the contrast CT angiogram is not– I mean that
- 10:32Speaker 3: 52 might not be 52. It might be 60. It
- 10:35Speaker 3: might be 40 or something like that. So I'm a big,
- 10:37Speaker 3: big fan. Interesting. of the catheterization if the cardiologist says
- 10:42Speaker 3: do it.
- 10:43Speaker 2: Well, we will see. But here's something we can do.
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- 13:17Speaker 2: Okay. Do you remember George Will Smith?
- 13:21Speaker 3: Well, of course.
- 13:22Speaker 2: I mean, he hasn't been around very much. I mean,
- 13:25Speaker 2: I don't know. He's he's 85.
- 13:27Speaker 3: I remember when I liked him.
- 13:29Speaker 2: Well, I don't like him now.
- 13:31Speaker 3: Oh, gosh.
- 13:32Speaker 2: Are you ready?
- 13:33Speaker 3: Trump, for those who don't know, legendary Washington Post columnist.
- 13:38Speaker 3: And if there's anything that is as cool about reading
- 13:40Speaker 3: George Will about politics over the years, it's reading and
- 13:43Speaker 3: listening to George Will talk about baseball. He has a
- 13:46Speaker 3: passion for both. He's just one of those gentlemanly, patrician guys.
- 13:51Speaker 3: You'd find him on the McLaughlin Group sometimes. Go back
- 13:55Speaker 3: a few years, and there's maybe nobody that I liked
- 13:58Speaker 3: better to read and to listen to. And then Trump
- 14:01Speaker 3: broke him. Carry on.
- 14:03Speaker 2: Well, you want to know how bad he broke him?
- 14:05Speaker 5: Please.
- 14:05Speaker 2: And I think of you— I think of you because
- 14:10Speaker 2: you've got this brilliant analysis of these establishment Republicans who,
- 14:16Speaker 2: And how they're doing everything they can to undermine the
- 14:19Speaker 2: MAGA movement. You've got this great way of articulating something
- 14:22Speaker 2: that I know in my heart. But, you know, because
- 14:24Speaker 2: a lot of people will roll their eyes. Oh, come on.
- 14:27Speaker 2: You know, George Will isn't really trying to undermine the
- 14:30Speaker 2: Republican Party. George Will doesn't really loathe the millions of
- 14:35Speaker 2: Americans who voted for Donald Trump. Come on. It's not
- 14:37Speaker 2: that bad, Mark Davis. It's not that bad. Well, George
- 14:41Speaker 2: Will decided to write an op-ed in the Washington Post today,
- 14:45Speaker 2: and he endorsed a candidate. He endorsed a U.S. Senate candidate.
- 14:49Speaker 2: He endorsed a candidate from South Carolina. Spoiler alert, he
- 14:55Speaker 2: did not endorse Darlene Graham. Mark, I kid you not,
- 14:58Speaker 2: George Will in the Washington Post today has formally endorsed
- 15:04Speaker 2: pediatrician Annie Andrews.
- 15:08Speaker 1: In the U.S.
- 15:08Speaker 2: Senate race vacated by the death of Lindsey Graham. Now,
- 15:12Speaker 2: why does he say why? Oh, because Darlene seems oblivious
- 15:20Speaker 2: of the Constitution's framers because of her belief that boys
- 15:26Speaker 2: have no place in girls' sports. She seems oblivious to
- 15:33Speaker 2: the war. She was terrible in the debate. I mean,
- 15:37Speaker 2: I was laughing at this column where he's endorsing Dr.
- 15:43Speaker 2: Annie Andrews. Here's what he writes. It's all about Trump.
- 15:48Speaker 2: It's all about Trump. And I'll quote from George Will's column,
- 15:50Speaker 2: which is your point. This is why you're so brilliant
- 15:53Speaker 2: in your analysis of how the George Wills of the
- 15:55Speaker 2: world really have a deep loathing for everything related to Trump,
- 16:02Speaker 2: namely the MAGA movement. Listen to this. Here are his words.
- 16:06Speaker 2: South Carolina is as red as the cheeks of a
- 16:09Speaker 2: blushing Senate candidate should be when the candidate promises to
- 16:13Speaker 2: serve passively as an enabler of presidential whims. No Democratic
- 16:19Speaker 2: Senate candidate in South Carolina has come within eight points
- 16:22Speaker 2: of winning in this century. By taking Lindsey Graham's sister
- 16:27Speaker 2: away from her admirable work advocating for people with disabilities,
- 16:32Speaker 2: the president is proclaiming he can do whatever he wants.
- 16:37Speaker 2: And he expresses a disdain for the Senate as well
- 16:40Speaker 2: as South Carolina. Today's president... aggrandizes his power by maximizing
- 16:47Speaker 2: the abject subordination of his entire party. It is perhaps
- 16:52Speaker 2: too much to hope that today's South Carolina might spurn
- 16:56Speaker 2: a Senate candidate too servile to secede from Donald Trump's domination. Still,
- 17:03Speaker 2: come November, hope for evidence that South Carolina, which historically
- 17:08Speaker 2: has been so truculent about its independence and has actually
- 17:12Speaker 2: exercised it. Independence-minded South Carolina should vote for Annie Andrews,
- 17:18Speaker 2: says George Will, longtime Republican-funded. God help us.
- 17:23Speaker 3: But no longer. He has become a Democrat. That's just it.
- 17:27Speaker 3: So has Karl Rove in talking about how he's not
- 17:29Speaker 3: going to vote for Beau French in the Texas Railroad
- 17:32Speaker 3: Commission race, seemingly pale by comparison, but nonetheless evidence of
- 17:37Speaker 3: the same thing, that when Trump breaks you enough, when
- 17:41Speaker 3: you are sufficiently resentful that we're just no longer doing
- 17:44Speaker 3: the John McCain, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan way of being
- 17:47Speaker 3: a Republican, if that frosts you and repels you so deeply,
- 17:52Speaker 3: you're going to show your contempt for real voters by
- 17:56Speaker 3: thwarting the will of those real voters who are trying
- 17:59Speaker 3: to relegate you, George Will, Karl Rove, John Cornyn, and
- 18:03Speaker 3: others into the obscurity you so richly deserve.
- 18:07Speaker 2: I don't know how they do it. I don't know
- 18:10Speaker 2: how they think they can get away with it. I mean,
- 18:14Speaker 2: here's a guy. We're giving too much air time to this,
- 18:18Speaker 2: but I have to read it. It's like a train wreck.
- 18:20Speaker 2: You can't not look at it. I cannot avert my eyes.
- 18:24Speaker 2: George Will. George Will writes. Darlene Graham promises she will
- 18:30Speaker 2: not be senatorial, as the framers understood that adjective. She
- 18:36Speaker 2: expresses unshakable faith in Trump's Iran war, his tariffs, and
- 18:41Speaker 2: everything else. Quote, I will have President Trump's back 100%, unquote. So,
- 18:47Speaker 2: of course, she wants all illegals deported immediately. Her state
- 18:52Speaker 2: might immediately miss a significant portion of its immigrant population,
- 18:56Speaker 2: which makes up 6% of South Carolinians, accounts for 7.7%
- 19:01Speaker 2: of the state's labor force, and pays $ 3. 5 billion in
- 19:05Speaker 2: state taxes. George Will doesn't want deportation of illegals.
- 19:08Speaker 3: Of course, because he's soft on borders, just like Bill
- 19:11Speaker 3: Kristol was and is, and this is what drives all.
- 19:14Speaker 3: Darlene can't win. A lot of the Trumpers are scared
- 19:17Speaker 3: to death that she's a Trojan horse and is going
- 19:19Speaker 3: to go turn into Lisa Murkowski. And now here's George Will,
- 19:22Speaker 3: who hates her guts because she is going to be
- 19:25Speaker 3: show too much Trump fidelity. Bless her heart. She just
- 19:28Speaker 3: can't win.
- 19:29Speaker 2: Look, I didn't love her as a full-time candidate, but
- 19:33Speaker 2: you know what? I sure can't vote. I couldn't vote
- 19:36Speaker 2: for the pediatrician. You know what her mantra is in
- 19:40Speaker 2: the South Carolina campaign ads that are running ad nauseum?
- 19:44Speaker 6: What?
- 19:44Speaker 2: I'm not a socialist. I'm a pediatrician. Oh, OK. Let
- 19:49Speaker 2: me go right out and vote for you. If you're
- 19:52Speaker 2: a pediatrician, I'm all in. That's what I want, especially
- 19:56Speaker 2: when she gets into her gender affirming care stuff. I mean,
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- 24:13Speaker 2: M & M Extra podcast. Mark, Senator John Kennedy is
- 24:17Speaker 2: always good for a great soundbite. Do you mind if
- 24:19Speaker 2: I play a clip reflecting on the current AI hysteria?
- 24:25Speaker 3: Will it make me like him again after his weird
- 24:27Speaker 3: moment of establishment flirtation? It's, you know... Look, if.
- 24:32Speaker 2: If you're worried about the hoax, I don't think you
- 24:35Speaker 2: will like him because I'm worried about this hoax. It's
- 24:37Speaker 2: a hoax. The hoax is that we're about to all
- 24:40Speaker 2: get wiped out by AI. And all of a sudden,
- 24:43Speaker 2: that message just started coming a week ago. I mean,
- 24:46Speaker 2: out of nowhere, all of a sudden, we're all going
- 24:48Speaker 2: to die from AI. Well, here is the Will Rogers
- 24:51Speaker 2: of the U.S. Senate. A guy who can make us
- 24:53Speaker 2: both a little crazy at times. Check out his weighing in,
- 24:57Speaker 2: courtesy of— what' s wrong? Oh, we don't have the clip. Okay,
- 25:01Speaker 2: she doesn't have the clip now. Sorry about that.
- 25:02Speaker 3: Paraphrase it for me.
- 25:03Speaker 2: Well, I've got the transcript here. Mr. President, it's hard
- 25:08Speaker 2: to know precisely what to believe about artificial intelligence, he said.
- 25:11Speaker 2: There are some things, it seems to me, that we
- 25:14Speaker 2: do know. We know, for example, that it is a
- 25:17Speaker 2: breathtaking technology. It's just, I don't know any other word.
- 25:20Speaker 2: I should do his accent, but I don't know any
- 25:22Speaker 2: other word. It just takes your breath away in terms
- 25:25Speaker 2: of its potential. We know that it was primarily developed
- 25:28Speaker 2: by and through American ingenuity. We, despite the fact that
- 25:32Speaker 2: there's so much we don't know, we do know. that
- 25:36Speaker 2: it can make our lives infinitely better. We also, we
- 25:40Speaker 2: don't know, but it has been suggested by people smarter
- 25:43Speaker 2: than me that it can make our lives better if
- 25:47Speaker 2: it doesn't kill us first. Here we go. The doomers
- 25:52Speaker 2: on the Republican side and the Democrats. I know.
- 25:54Speaker 3: And I don't know if they're trying to resonate with
- 25:56Speaker 3: people because most of this fear mongering, most of this
- 25:59Speaker 3: doom cult comes from Democrats and big tech.
- 26:01Speaker 2: Oops.
- 26:02Speaker 3: But I repeat myself. So I think that I would
- 26:04Speaker 3: call on conservatives and Republicans to be cautious, be vigilant,
- 26:08Speaker 3: but ultimately to trust America, trust President Trump's stewardship over this. Please, God,
- 26:14Speaker 3: let's have somebody like him be the next president. so
- 26:16Speaker 3: that we can continue. Because I tell you, if you
- 26:18Speaker 3: think this presidency is important in the future of AI,
- 26:20Speaker 3: imagine what AI is going to be doing in the
- 26:22Speaker 3: years 2029, 2030, 2031, et cetera.
- 26:26Speaker 2: Well, that's just it. And Jason Chaffetz had a perfect
- 26:29Speaker 2: response to the hysteria, the doom, the gloom. There is
- 26:33Speaker 2: an agenda going on here. Look, and I think it
- 26:36Speaker 2: was Nancy Mace, of all people, who said on TV
- 26:39Speaker 2: last night, if the AI— founders and the AI overlords
- 26:44Speaker 2: wanted to pump the brakes, they could pump the brakes.
- 26:47Speaker 2: They could put up their own damn guard. They don't
- 26:48Speaker 2: need Congress. They don't need Congress for guardrails, but they're
- 26:51Speaker 2: asking for guardrails from Congress. And that is very suspicious. Well,
- 26:56Speaker 2: like I told you earlier in the week, there's a
- 26:58Speaker 2: really easy explanation for it. And former Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz,
- 27:04Speaker 2: now a Fox News contributor, put it best.
- 27:07Speaker 7: Do you think that the Democrats see this divide as
- 27:09Speaker 7: an opportunity for them to get ahead in the midterms?
- 27:12Speaker 1: They're jumping all over AI.
- 27:15Speaker 6: Yeah, they are notoriously reactionary to polls. And I think
- 27:20Speaker 6: they saw something in the polling. They know there's no
- 27:23Speaker 6: time to put a piece of legislation together. And if
- 27:26Speaker 6: you just decided the last four or five days you
- 27:28Speaker 6: want to put up some guardrails, you know, that should
- 27:30Speaker 6: be the flashing red light. And if you think Chuck
- 27:32Speaker 6: Schumer's got the mind power to actually do this and
- 27:35Speaker 6: help regulate it. Good luck with that, because the overall
- 27:39Speaker 6: problem in Congress is you've got 535 members and you
- 27:42Speaker 6: literally have less than five that could actually talk to
- 27:45Speaker 6: you at any length or any depth about what technology
- 27:50Speaker 6: even is, how it works and what it would do.
- 27:53Speaker 2: That's just it. I mean, that's just exactly the truth
- 27:56Speaker 2: of the matter. And one more clip here, and I
- 28:01Speaker 2: don't want to get out of here because I appreciated
- 28:03Speaker 2: very much the perspective of Fox News Channel's Brian Kilmeade,
- 28:10Speaker 2: Ainsley Earhart, and Lawrence Jones. They had a really, really good,
- 28:17Speaker 2: solid analysis of recognizing that Silicon Valley— And these AI
- 28:24Speaker 2: bosses desperately want woke lunatics to be the ones to
- 28:30Speaker 2: oversee AI. Check this out, Mark, yesterday from Fox and Friends.
- 28:35Speaker 5: You know, Hakeem Jeffries and saying this needs to be
- 28:37Speaker 5: the biggest issue of the Democratic Party.
- 28:39Speaker 3: And Ainsley, there's a rush.
- 28:41Speaker 8: It's like we have to act now or everybody's going
- 28:43Speaker 8: to die. I'm sorry, you can't make a logical decision.
- 28:48Speaker 8: decision with a gun to your head. I don't like
- 28:52Speaker 8: making decisions that way. And it just seems like all the.
- 28:55Speaker 4: People in power want that to take place.
- 28:57Speaker 5: Look at the front cover of this morning. Now you
- 28:59Speaker 5: realize what's going on behind the scenes.
- 29:02Speaker 9: The woke wizards of AI.
- 29:04Speaker 5: Brian, this really had you riled up.
- 29:05Speaker 3: Yeah, so this blew crazy.
- 29:06Speaker 7: So this guy, Dario Amodi, he's the guy who runs Anthropic,
- 29:11Speaker 7: who had the big clash with the Pentagon. He was
- 29:13Speaker 7: so concerned about his product being used in the wrong direction.
- 29:16Speaker 7: Now he's saying, everyone look at my product, kind of weird.
- 29:18Speaker 2: But he says, I have an idea.
- 29:20Speaker 9: Let's come up with a separate entity to look over
- 29:24Speaker 9: our shoulder and and make sure we're not causing the
- 29:26Speaker 9: next apocalypse.
- 29:28Speaker 2: But let's look at this group.
- 29:29Speaker 9: This group is a bunch of woke lunatics who believe
- 29:33Speaker 9: in generic pronouns, open borders. In fact, one of these women,
- 29:37Speaker 9: Beth Barnes, gave a TED Talk on the internet. positive
- 29:40Speaker 9: nature of open borders. So these are the woke guys.
- 29:44Speaker 9: Take a look at some of their pictures. You know,
- 29:45Speaker 9: the purple hair, the rings, you know, the the the
- 29:49Speaker 9: metrosexual approach to life. All I'm saying is these the
- 29:53Speaker 9: people are going to be the arbiter of whether the
- 29:56Speaker 9: world ends or not with AI.
- 29:58Speaker 2: No, thank you. So this is what they always do.
- 30:01Speaker 4: They create a problem, right? They say this is get
- 30:04Speaker 4: everybody freaked out. And then they say our people are
- 30:09Speaker 4: the only people, the woke crazy to navigate us through this.
- 30:13Speaker 4: It was only a matter of time before they told
- 30:15Speaker 4: us who they were. It's all about control. I just
- 30:18Speaker 4: don't understand.
- 30:19Speaker 2: I've never heard.
- 30:19Speaker 8: And I made this point.
- 30:20Speaker 3: Earlier in the week.
- 30:22Speaker 4: I've never heard a group of powerful people. With all
- 30:25Speaker 4: this money, all this power, say I need the government
- 30:28Speaker 4: to rescue us.
- 30:29Speaker 2: I've never heard it before.
- 30:31Speaker 4: So there must be something to this.
- 30:33Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, the guy from Anthropic, he says that
- 30:36Speaker 5: he hired this outside team to regulate AI. Do you
- 30:40Speaker 5: trust them?
- 30:41Speaker 1: No way.
- 30:41Speaker 5: These are all woke people. They believe in open borders.
- 30:45Speaker 5: Like you said, Brian, genderless pronouns, and they promote effective altruism.
- 30:53Speaker 2: They're right. They're not wrong, Mark. And that's exactly. So
- 30:56Speaker 2: follow the bouncing ball here and just be appreciative of
- 31:00Speaker 2: the fact that that you're being played. We were played
- 31:04Speaker 2: over global warming. We were played over, you know, two
- 31:10Speaker 2: weeks to stop the spread. We were played over and
- 31:14Speaker 2: over again. Hell, we were played over Y2K. Remember that?
- 31:17Speaker 2: We were all going to die when that happened. Of course.
- 31:19Speaker 2: Of course.
- 31:20Speaker 3: It was all so silly.
- 31:22Speaker 2: Knock it off. Knock it off.
- 31:24Speaker 3: I guess the difference that I continue to grudgingly offer
- 31:28Speaker 3: the following difference is from climate– to COVID. Everybody should
- 31:34Speaker 3: have known from the get-go that climate alarmism was stupid
- 31:37Speaker 3: and remains stupid. COVID, I'll be gracious, I'll give everybody
- 31:41Speaker 3: a few weeks of leeway because we were all scared.
- 31:44Speaker 3: Nobody knew what was going on, but it became pretty
- 31:46Speaker 3: clear afterward that there was COVID extremism and authoritarianism at play.
- 31:51Speaker 3: With AI, the concerns absolutely are valid. It's just the
- 31:54Speaker 3: way that we're reacting to those concerns is crazily disproportionate
- 31:59Speaker 3: to what the risks appear to be. The risk of
- 32:01Speaker 3: government getting its grubby hands on things, the risk of
- 32:04Speaker 3: an AI cartel that suppresses competition, those risks are real.
- 32:08Speaker 3: I'm ready to trust America, trust the Trump-style leadership to
- 32:12Speaker 3: guide us through this and into this wonderland and try
- 32:16Speaker 3: to protect us from the negatives while enjoying all the positives.
- 32:19Speaker 3: I would rather have that mindset than this doom cult
- 32:23Speaker 3: that seems to be gathering in the Democrat Party, some
- 32:26Speaker 3: in the Republican Party, and out there in the big
- 32:28Speaker 3: tech headquarters.
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- 34:19Speaker 2: and focus on a person, a guest. We don't do
- 34:23Speaker 2: a lot of guests. I do very few guests. I mean, look,
- 34:27Speaker 2: you talked just this morning to Bill O'Reilly, and you've
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- 34:32Speaker 2: end of the day, it's going to be fun to
- 34:34Speaker 2: dive into something like artificial intelligence. And tomorrow on the
- 34:38Speaker 2: M & M Extra is AI Day. with Craig W. Stanfill,
- 34:42Speaker 2: the author of Carbon Zero. Yeah, because besides this techno thriller, though,
- 34:49Speaker 2: even more importantly, he has a lot of things to
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- 34:56Speaker 2: future holds and what's real, what's doomerism, and what's fact.
- 35:01Speaker 2: So join us for that. In the meantime, thank you
- 35:04Speaker 2: very much for being a part of M & M
- 35:05Speaker 2: Extra for a Thursday, Mr. Davis.
- 35:07Speaker 3: Thanks, everybody.
- 35:07Speaker 2: It's great to see you, my friend.
- 35:08Speaker 3: We'll wrap up the week tomorrow and have a big
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- 35:13Speaker 5: Thank you.