Nixon and Teenagers

The gap between political scandals and teenage drama? Join me, your host Joey Bruno, as we draw intriguing parallels between the cover-up tactics of Richard Nixon's presidency and the trials of raising teenagers. We'll dissect Nixon's notorious phone call recordings and the missing minutes that hint at deceit. If you've ever felt like raising teens feels like a conspiracy, this one's for you!

But that's not all. We dive deep into the origins of COVID-19, dispelling conspiracy theories and examining the role of AI in discerning truth. With the help of expert guests, we untangle the web of misinformation and highlight the limitations of AI. Wrapping up, we don't shy away from tough questions about the press-government relationship. We voice our concerns about the state of media today, urging you to question the information you consume. Remember to stay informed, hold tight to your loved ones, and, as always, to give zero about the noise. Join us on this unforgettable exploration!

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

You're listening to Give Zero, where everything matters but your feelings. Now here's your host who gives absolutely zero fucks Joey Bruno.

Speaker 2: 0:18

You're listening to Give Zero where everything matters but your feelings.

Speaker 2: 0:28

Big shout out to Brother Ben for the intro. Nicely done. Hey, what's Richard Milhouse, nixon and raising teenagers got to do with each other? Stay tuned. Now your host, who gets absolutely zero fucks. Joey Bruno, coffee is hot. How y'all doing? I hope y'all doing good. It's ya, buddy JB. You're a humble and precious little delicate host of America's number one third rate podcast. Give Zero Hope y'all doing good.

Speaker 2: 1:30

I'll try not to be as coughing, coughing quote EE cough and snoddy today on the mic. Y'all know I'm an allergy person and sometimes it's just too much when I go back to listen to old episodes and I'm like Jesus, dude, why don't you just sit there and just hack along while you're on there? It's just nasty. So I apple jied for that in there. So if you ever want to send in your own intro to the show and it's hard to do, I've tried doing it it's, you know, fifa-fofa nannar banner that does the actual intro. It's buttery smooth when she does it. It's sick. You're listening to Give Zero that little sing song voice there. But some folks have tried and we're always glad to play them. So if you got one, use your phone MP3, it is best quality as you can. I'll try to clean it up. I have to send it in. You know givezerocom. Go there and you can message or whatever. I think it's givezeroshow at googlecom If you want to just email it in like that, glad to have you on, glad to do it. So shout out to a bunch of our friends out there, our folks over there on the X, our folks there on True Social, our folks wherever you are. Thanks for listening, do appreciate you.

Speaker 2: 2:56

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Speaker 2: 3:55

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Speaker 2: 4:49

So I opened the show, there's out of the way. So I opened the show. With what do racing teenagers and Richard Milhouse Nixon have in common. Uh, there's similar in a way, but I will explain this to you. So if you're under the age of probably 50, you may not have the, the, the, the social, notable background knowledge of Richard Nixon that a lot of us that are over the age of 50 have. That's okay, uh, so what? The, the, the, the zeitgeist is on this, the, the, the average Joe or Jane out there he knows is that, uh, richard Nixon was a president. He was before Carter, he's after Johnson and Kennedy Um, and he was known for um being. It wasn't fired. He resigned because they were going to basically string him up. I gave them a sword. He says um for bugging the Watergate hotel, the spy on his, his presidential opponents campaign as he's running for office, or the Democrats because he was a.

Speaker 2: 6:17

Republican president. And there's that, that's that's. That's it Now the uh, and we'll come back to the teenager part, to that in a second. So in the long arc of this, here's what you need to know. So it's ironic that, given today's world, the world in which we live in these here United States, uh, that this was ever found out, and by what I mean by that is I don't remember Nixon ever broadcasting that he was involved in the spying of that and that there were recordings of his phone calls in the in the Oval Office talking about such things and then missing minutes of those recordings and what was erased or what was taken out of or what was edited from, and blah, blah, blah. Cover up, because we have little jewels like this to think about, not that? Where is my sample on this thing?

Speaker 1: 7:22

I've got to find my sample 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this he's accusing me of is a Russian plan. They have said that this is has all the care for five former heads of the CIA. Both parties say what he's saying is a bunch of garbage. This is classic Trump. We have four days left and all of a sudden there's a laptop. There's overwhelming evidence that from the intelligence community that the Russians are engaged.

Speaker 2: 7:51

Okay. So if you look at Richard Nixon through the prism of modern day media because what happened is that nothing was ever said about this and a couple of old boys from the New York Times was that right. I don't remember all of it. I really should not know their names. I'm sure they got a Pulitzer for all this heavy work that they did investigating this. But the short answer is is media did not trust government, which is why you have a First Amendment. You have a freedom of the press for that very, very reason. That says look, the press has every right in the world to go and do investigative journalism and if it's wrong or bad news, they have a duty. I say a duty. The Constitution doesn't say that shout, go find wrong things in the government doesn't say that. But it does say that the government can't squelch them for reporting News. That's news, even if it's not factual. You can always retract. Oops, we got it wrong. The Nixon's not involved in any of this. And while we dug a little further, we would like to to clear the public record and say we made a mistake. Think about that for a minute. Let that sit in your under 50 head for a second. Under 40 head under 30 head, and God love you.

Speaker 2: 9:24

Youth is wasted on the young. I would man. Did you imagine knowing what you know if you're my age and being 25 years old? I don't. I've pondered this because I think it's something that you do. Is you're older, you're like, look at him out there on the beach. All everything defies, gravity, everything tans well, nothing sags, nothing creaks, nothing hurts, nothing but but, but. But. And they're out there just living life. More power to you, happy for you, that's awesome. Bad ass. But what I want to do it knowing what I know now. Or is it good to be young and dumb? Because if I, if I did it, if I was 25 again, knowing what I know now, I would either go nuts or I would be a sociopath or psycho sociopath, one of the absolute other. There's very little in between there. That would happen. So it's probably best that that doesn't happen to me.

Speaker 2: 10:17

But if you're under 50, and you look at today's media and you realize that everything that Joe Biden just said there in the days before the election and understand that everything was covered up by the FBI, they have been following Hunter for 15 or 20 years. The FBI have a massive file on the sky. And I'm not beating up Joe or Hunter or anything. I give a shit less because I give zero.

Speaker 2: 10:45

The BS factor in that is this how in the world was Richard Nixon kicked out of office because people in his party or in their spine on bugging their, their offices in that hotel, the opponents getting some inside information about their campaign, what they're doing, and using that to show up Nixon or to plot and plan with? And a couple of journalists uncovered that. When you sit there and realize that where is the journalism that says, oh my God, this is a massive, massive cover up by the alphabet soup bunch, fbi, cia, etc. You don't.

Speaker 2: 11:31

Media doesn't do that job anymore. They parrot everything that's told of them to say because, I'm sorry, let's be honest here, whenever you were sitting there and you got two guys on a presidential debate stage and this comes up when Trump's over there going, I can't do a Trump voice, but whenever you're Trump and you're sitting there saying, oh, what about your laptop? What about your boys laptop there? Joe, that's got all this information and you're the big man, the big guy, blah, blah, blah, blah, and then instantly, oh no, when this just so happens that here's 4050 signatures by both parties. I believe the bed from former FBI heads of FBI that saying this is all reeks of Russian disinformation, on the heels of four years of everybody screaming.

Speaker 1: 12:22

Russia, russia.

Speaker 2: 12:23

Russia, russia, russia, where Trump's concerned. After that was proven to be a farce, with the FBI tight up in it, fisa courts, everything, because they were trying to shove Hillary over the finish line. Where's the media? Where's the media after that? That goes hey, we've been stung once by this Russia, russia, crap, massively. There were no retractions where we said, oops, got it wrong. No, just American public, we're just going to tell you the next day's crap. That's not good.

Speaker 2: 13:16

That is literally taking the first amendment granting that you have as a media news source and, trust me, it's a big deal, because whenever I file and if it says news on your chat, search crap, we're not chat. What am I saying? I've had to fix this on a bunch of them. We're opinion, we're not news. Why? Because there's liabilities involved in that. You get something wrong or you say something wrong about somebody and you slander them, and you're a news agency. There's libel and it's expensive, so I can have any opinion that well, I'll say that not anymore. You get an opinion wrong to put your ass in jail Proven fact. You put the wrong meme out there. They'll put you in jail Fact yeah, but I digress. Whenever you have a media that won't self correct itself and isn't curious about digging into something. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2: 14:26

Russia, russia, russia. Four years of Russia, knowing that we got it wrong. There's Biden sitting there going look, same FBI just signed this thing 40, 50 times saying this is just. It reeks of Russia. I'm sorry. That's a massive head scratcher. That's when you go say what. You just say what. We need to look into this laptop thing a little bit real quick. And nobody did. And nobody did. Now those that did got beaten up Quickly. Oh boy I talked about in the last episode that was locked up for posting a meme. I think he's out now on bail bond etc. I don't know how it worked out, but long story short, he's out. I think he's out because they did an interview with Tucker Carlson, or maybe they went ahead and maybe that interview was beforehand. Either way, this was done the days after the inauguration of Biden, because they wrapped the capital up in bar wire. They got J6 going. They're trying to build momentum that says, if you speak against this at all, trouble comes your way. That also is a juicy news story for a news agency that wants to find out truth. It's obvious. It's I mean it's obvious. Now to the teenager part of this? No, it's not. I want to do this part here, so, and then I'll finish with the teenager part, how it all ties together.

Speaker 2: 16:20

I am, despite the social mores and worries and and they're valid, by the way of AI, artificial intelligence, which is itself as an oxymoron, kind of like military intelligence or government intelligence total oxymoron. All right, it's now at like 3.5. I forget what the latest version is, but chat, chat GPT. I am fascinated with chat GPT and there's a lot of AI's out there that will do crap, draw pictures or write you songs or do stupid stuff. So I like mucking with chat GPT.

Speaker 2: 17:05

We have a sip of coffee and I'll read you my transcript from them Crap, still hot as lava. My coffee on this, on this excursion, is either tepid, and tepid goes to shit real fast, or for some reason today it's just in volcano mode. Oh, what was I writing about? So I'm asking this idiot thing and I won't read you all of it, I'll get down to the juicy part, but basically I ask it. I ask it, god, I'm so redneck.

Speaker 2: 17:43

Why was COVID-19 weaponized? And chat GPT says there is no credible evidence or scientific support for the claim that COVID-19 was weaponized intentionally, intentionally. The overwhelming consensus among the global scientific community, including public health experts and virologists, is that the virus originated naturally. The most widely accepted theory is that the virus originated in bats and were transmitted to humans, to intermediate hosts, possibly at a seafood market in Wuhan, china. The World Health Organization, who, conducted investigations into the origins of the virus and while the blah blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah, stories about the intentional weaponization of COVID-19 often circulate as misinformation or conspiracy theories.

Speaker 2: 18:36

It's crucial to rely on credible sources of information, such as health organizations, scientific institutions, reputable news outlets, when seeking accurate and evidence-based information about the origins and nature of COVID-19 pandemic. Misinformation can have serious consequences in understanding the facts as essential for public health and global cooperation in addressing the ongoing challenges posed by the pandemic. Well, that's kind of what got us in the crap we're in in the first place, ain't it? Ain't it? So I said to it there is now evidence that COVID-19 did not come from animals. Are you able to learn from such knowledge, or are your answers on these topics predetermined? One mark says JB and chat GPT responds uh, such as.

Speaker 2: 19:32

As of my last knowledge update in January 2022, the origin of COVID-19 was the subject of ongoing investigation and discussion amongst scientists. The prevailing rubber stamped answer Repeats itself. So I say that now I gauge myself on that could be buffering, it could be internet transmission speeds, it could be a lot of things, but I pride myself on how long it takes this thing to come back with an answer. I say the next thing, talking to jet GPT 3.5. I said to it you have used the word consensus twice in your description. A consensus doesn't necessarily mean quote factual. Does AI have the ability to discern the two? Or is it merely a glorified chatbot that parrot scripted dialogue Question mark. And then I said a sign of intelligence is to gather all the knowledge, weigh it impartially and discover, slash, report the truth. It goes away. And I didn't even ask it a question. I made a statement and it chews on this for a long time and it spits out this. You raise a valid point and it's important to clarify the distinction between consensus and objective truth. Consensus in the scientific community often reflects the agreement among experts based on the available evidence and research at a given point in time. However, scientific understanding can evolve as new evidence emerges. I could talk three hours on that paragraph, but I'll just make this one statement on that paragraph and then I will continue. Every scientist that was paid to find evidence of global warming has found evidence of global warming. Fact Chat GPT continues. I'm not sure if you've heard of it. Chat GPT continues.

Speaker 2: 22:01

All models, including the one you're interacting with, all models, all of AI, including the one you're interacting with, don't possess consciousness or subjective experience. Hold that thought those that are under 50, understanding Richard Nixon and the media GPT continues. They generate responses based on patterns learned from vast amounts of data and don't have the ability to independently discern truth. In the way that they are, they may not always reflect the very latest information or nuances in real time. Additionally, while they can provide information and answer questions, they lack the capacity for independent reasoning or personal experience. This is why they want you to live in a cell phone. This is why they want you to tick tock. This is why they need statues torn down. This is why they don't want you to question anything, and this is how they operate.

Speaker 2: 23:50

Ai is a model Of what is being done To the largest portion of the masses In the world Today. Play on your good feelings while they leave a border wide open. Have sanctuary cities until they're so full they can't function anymore. When the whole goal is to sit there and have a good conversation with the people that are in the world, they can sit there and have more voters. Don't believe me. New York City City Council a year ago Voted that you don't have to be a citizen to vote in in in city elections.

Speaker 2: 24:56

Now they argue at the federal level. We're not talking about federal elections. The short answer is why do you allow any non citizen to vote for anything that regards the citizenry, those that move there, those that live there, those that have families there, those that go to school there, those that work there, those that do everything there and they pay taxes why, and they have residency? Why would you sit there and allow anyone? I'm sorry, I live in the sticks of Alabama. I'm a citizen of the US. That not enough. Here's the teenager part. I don't blame the federal government for attempting to overreach at times. I really don't. I don't. I blame the citizens for not slapping their hand when they do it. And here's why the US Constitution. Even though you may not have spent, you know, a whopping 30 minutes of your life reading this thing, that's kind of important to you as a US citizen, you may not have invested that giant 30 minutes of your life to do that Is an amazingly simple document.

Speaker 2: 26:26

It does not give the government authority or power to do anything. It is a document outlined saying there's a government. Here are the limitations. It is not allowed to do X. We are a constitutional republic, so there are states and there are. There is statehood and states may decide what flavor they want to do of anything until the federal government says otherwise.

Speaker 2: 26:58

The abortion these assholes that Ruth sent me because Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. She dies and they think, no, my abortion rights is gone. Ruth sent me. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was never a fan of the federal government. She was for abortion but she was never a fan of the federal government having that authority. States have it and to it. We have yet to find the first child murderer that decided that they wanted to get it a book, get abortion, get a abortion, get a abortion and not be able to get one across the state line like self out.

Speaker 2: 27:52

But the short answer is the states get to decide. That is an overreach of the federal government. That's all they did. They ride at the ship on that. Call All you piss winers out there that want to burn your bras and hates, men, and somehow need abortions. That's me whistling past the graveyard Makes no sense. But you know your body, your choice, that want that didn't want to get abortion.

Speaker 2: 28:28

Trump had Trump got rid of abortion, there'll be a federal law that says states may not have abortions. That's what that would have been, because federal law supersedes state law. So the founding fathers made sure that that document kept the federal government out of all your crap as much as absolutely possible. But it didn't define every last thing, because states decide things. After all, it is the constitutional republic. The federal government gets to decide things and we have a justice system or court system where we can argue back and forth those points. If somebody decides they want to reach too far, ie, executive orders from the White House, ie, the White House trying to tell the Supreme Court what to do. Three branches they each can knock the other one out. Pretty simple, ingenious system.

Speaker 2: 29:30

But the short answer is there, that is. And so, knowing that, like a teenager in your home, they're trying to figure out their world or trying to figure out their life, they're trying to figure out what their limits are. They're going to reach and stretch and do and ride that gray area, sometimes bump into the red zone and get their hands slapped. I get it. I totally get that. The federal government does that on occasion, or else why would you need a constitution? Of course that's when you send it up to the Supreme Court and the state or something sues the federal government for this and nobody passes money back and forth. In suing the federal government, what you're doing is you're fighting them against that authority. You thou shalt not do that. There it is. I get that. Where does that title of Richard Millhouse Nixon? It ties in like this Knowing that, how do you have the press that chased and beat up Richard Millhouse Nixon by investigative discovery, whenever the White House at the time, with Nixon in there, did not want the press snooping in their business whatsoever, turn into a federal government?

Speaker 2: 30:49

That's a bad teenager that's always running willy-nilly trying to run the house, trying to do whatever else, even curfew, doing this, doing that, not taking care of the business. They're supposed to pissed off when you sit there and tell them uh-uh and the press not give a damn and not even care. That bothers me to no end and honestly it should really, really bother you too. That should be something that makes the inside of your head. You know it's funny. Back in the day people were pissed off at the press for peeling back that onion, but you watched the news in the evening knowing that, huh, we've got a lifeguard here that will go out and look out for we, the people, because we're trying to run the country and feed ourselves. You don't have that anymore. Now you've got a press in cahoots with a bad teenager and if you open your mouth, parent a government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Speaker 2: 32:23

If you open your bad mouth, parent, post a meme. Or a conspiracy theorist, one of those weirdo Nazis, one of those radical, fill in your favorite politician supporters. Yeah, you just need to STF. You get in line and do what CNN tells you. Bitches, think about it. I'm your buddy JB. I'm a humble and lovable host of America's number one third red podcast, give zero. I've enjoyed being with you. Go out there and rock it, say your prayers, hug your kids. I've enjoyed seeing that. The butter and milk of America.