Episode 4987： What To Expect From The Fed; The New National Security Strategy
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In this episode of the War Room, host Stephen K.K. Vann talks about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on the economy, national security, and the future of the financial system.
Transcript
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
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Here's what I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
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I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that,
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And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
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If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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Nothing's more serious than what we're talking about,
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this whole situation with artificial intelligence, the development of it,
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And who actually is kind of overseeing it or making sure that we have at least
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Remember, we are the deconstruction administrative state,
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but like the FTC and the FCC, the way they're operating now, I think it's terrific.
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I do believe you can get to potentially a preemption if you have some sort of regulatory
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environment where the four frontier labs are not just running on their own with no oversight
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And you're seeing people that are pretty, you know, safe pair of hands like Mike Davis,
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et cetera, are going forward with these proposals on the fourth season.
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I think the reason that people are working so hard on this was dismissive attitude of
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broligarchs and trying to jam in this AI amnesty into the, you know, the must pass big,
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And then to come back with virtually the exact same document and try to put it into the
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NDA, that level of arrogance, just not going to wash, just not going to hack it.
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And I think it shows you what they think of the American people and MAGA in trying to do
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And that's where I think President Trump's being really deserved by not getting a broader
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picture because I believe these people give him just one side of information.
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We know it's dead wrong because of what happened the second time when they tried to put it in
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The first time, at least it came to a vote in the Senate where they lost 99 to 1.
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That should send a signal to anybody that it ain't going to work.
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But to come back with the exact same thing and just be pulled, not even put up or not
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even have a sidebar vote on it, be pulled because, quote unquote, it lost momentum because people
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started to see what they were doing in the middle of the night.
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And this aspect on the chips has really got to be thought through.
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It's the pattern recognition of what's going on.
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Of course, huge day at the Federal Reserve today.
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He's announced already that he and Scott Besson, Treasury Secretary Besson, are going to interview
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Kevin Warsh going to their final rounds of interviews.
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I think they announced, I think that might even be today or tomorrow.
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So a lot going on in the world of finance and capital markets.
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Just the thing you should do now is get to Philip Patrick and the team and find out about
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all the different methodologies you can do and to have them give you even more backup
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Go get to Philip Patrick and his team today because this financial turbulence is going to
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Dave Bratt, your thoughts, I know your thoughts on what Chris McGuire had to say, this whole
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I know you've got to bounce, but your thoughts also about the Federal Reserve this afternoon,
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Sometimes the economics and the narrative gets blown up.
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You know, artificial intelligence is the whole economy.
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But if you take GDP growth at, say, three percent, right, that's what we've been talking
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Well, consumption is the biggest part of the economy.
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So of the three percent personal consumption is, you know, two thirds of the economy usually
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and it is now the remaining part of the big part, non-residential fixed investment,
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But the surprising piece is structures are not up.
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So all these data centers you're hearing about, that's not a huge part of the economy.
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But the good news is equipment and info processing equipment are up significantly.
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So it looks like we'll get some productivity gains.
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And those together, those account for, you know, about one percent of that three percent
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And so I think it's important for us and the president and other people speaking on the
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economy to put put these AI stories in context so we don't get too carried away.
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Your thoughts today on the Fed, on Powell, the last hurrah Powell.
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I don't think he's giving up his governorship post.
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But I don't think he's seen the last of Powell.
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Yeah, it looks like they're going to lower rates.
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You know, they've raised rates up to five, five and a half after the in 21, 22 after COVID
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And they've wanted to make sure inflation, right?
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The famous phrase is don't let the horse out of the barn.
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Once inflation starts galloping, it's very hard to reel it back in.
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So there's the Fed Federal Reserve is split on that.
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And so, you know, they have a lot of levers in house there.
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And so Besant is doing some innovative stuff on the money front out of Treasury.
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But I think he's the guy to follow on the new monetary story and the degree of liquidity
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Where do people go to get all your content, sir?
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And everybody, please, you just heard the guy on Chips.
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If you want to save the country, save the platform.
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Look forward to getting you back during the week.
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Joe Allen, alternative EOs, everything that's going on.
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You're working very closely with these people on.
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There's a couple of EOs out there now, since they're not going to go the route of something
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You've got the big push from David Sachs for his version of an executive order that one
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imagines will probably reflect the draft that we saw a couple of weeks ago, basically total
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preemption, as much power as possible to squash state laws.
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David Sachs put out a tweet two days ago, one rule book for AI, and in it, he's basically
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trying to mollify the concerns brought up by Mike Davis, the four C's, child protection,
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communities, creators, and censorship, but his approach is to take the focus off of AI
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Basically, he's saying that we already have legislation in place to take care of this.
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You don't need special laws directed specifically at AI, which, I mean, just to be quite frank,
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It's obvious in every single case that neither state nor federal laws have done much of anything
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to protect children, to protect communities, to protect creators, or to protect people
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So I'm not really sure why he thought that would fly.
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You have tons of great criticism coming from people much smarter than me, Brad Carson, Max
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Simultaneously, Steve, you have alternate EEOs, I'm sorry, alternate EOs, alternate executive
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orders, which are being circulated right now in the administration.
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I know that it's in the hands of the staffers at OSTP, the Office of Science and Technology
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I hope that it will be in the hands of pretty much anyone in the administration who has any
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will whatsoever to push back on Sachs and his various backers, Andreessen, Brockman, and so
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The two EOs, which I've only just had a chance to look at, the alternate EOs, just at a first
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And they, in fact, address David Sachs' biggest talking point.
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He always talks about the woke AI, if we allow California or Colorado to dictate AI policy,
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which they wouldn't, but if they are allowed to pass laws...
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That is treating, hang on, what galls me about that, that's treating MAGA like the morons.
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Oh, let's start woke out there, and that's going to frighten all the MAGA people breathe
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Dude, that does not, that only insults people's intelligence, okay?
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See, they throw out, they think, their belief, the tech bros, is that the MAGA movement and
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the Warren Posse are just, you know, bib overalls and breathe through their mouth.
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That's their mindset, and that they're the masters of the universe.
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And you have guys like Ron DeSantis and others, Governor DeSantis, and many others around
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They don't want, if they had any, if they came forward with even a modicum of here's what
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a regulatory apparatus would look like, here's what we would do to make sure that the frontier
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labs, particularly since they're taking government money, and particularly since, specifically
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because you had the CEO about the national labs, that would be able to have people that
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could monitor what's going on and see what's going on, because we just can't let these
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Plus, Chris McGuire, right there, just with a set of facts, proved a lie.
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The Chinese Communist Party is behind us, potentially for years, if you just cut them off with the
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Their whole argument is that we have to go at breakneck speed.
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And for the kids, the devil catch the hindmost.
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Because we're in a race against the Chinese Communist Party.
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At the same time, the exact same people, the exact same people argue that the United States
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should give its best technology to the Chinese Communist Party so that they can be in the
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Steve, that contradiction sits at the heart of basically all of their arguments.
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You've got the argument that we can't slow down or China will race ahead, but they're
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They're obviously not that concerned about them going ahead if they're willing to give
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them our second best chips or any chips whatsoever, as McGuire so eloquently put it.
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But there's two other major contradictions that these guys are really resting on.
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Number one, you've got this argument that we need more and more immigrants.
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We need more and more H-1Bs in order to create the software to write the programming and push
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Simultaneously, they make the argument that if we push ahead on AI, we'll be able to replace
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We'll be able to replace, in fact, all white-collar workers and all blue-collar workers.
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They're going to have to decide whether or not we need more immigrants.
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And secondly, they also argue that the ultimate purpose of this is to create artificial general
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The ultimate purpose is not just to replace workers, but to replace leaders.
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Who do we turn to for answers to all these problems?
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They say that we will eventually, some in the next two or three years, they say that we will
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Elon said, this was at this forum they were having, and it had all these kind of Elon-type
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And they were asking about a different question related to kind of a subset of this.
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And Elon told the guy, they asked the question, he said, don't worry about it.
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But in five or 10 years, 10 years is the max, five years is the earliest, AI will be making
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And then as a throwaway, he kind of says, let's hope it's good AI, AGI.
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You can even hear the audio, you see the audience kind of, you know, his fan voice.
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President Trump put out a national security memorandum, basically told the Europeans,
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hey, I'm not so sure, why should I deal with you?
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I'm not so sure you're going to be around in the next 20 or 30 years.
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It's where I put up exclusively all of my content 24 hours a day.
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I know you had some other things to say before we turn to raw egg nationalist.
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Yeah, Steve, just to finish that thought, David Sachs is not being honest about what this AI race is leading to.
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He talks about it in terms of an American golden age, American achievement, science, all of this.
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But he is well aware that the ultimate goal for all of the frontier labs is to create artificial general intelligence and artificial super intelligence.
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Now, if that's the case, the narrative only goes one way.
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Either we turn over all authority to this machine and it keeps us as pets or turns us into biofuel, or these companies are simply holding that out for investors.
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But David Sachs doesn't really address any of those things.
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If AI is going to do all of this, why do we need immigrants?
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Well, it would seem that the framework is to bring over immigrants to create the AI and then replace everyone with it.
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Again, either that's the case or that's just a sham sales pitch.
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If Sachs is so intent on having these companies direct both federal policy and the lives and economies of everyone on Earth, he should at least own up to that fact.
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If you need China to stay behind, why sell them chips?
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And as you say, MAGA and most anyone with any sense is not so stupid as to fall for that.
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You know, in that spirit, you have these two alternative EOs that are circulating right now in the administration.
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Hopefully, they get to as many people as possible and get in front of the president.
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The most important address is human flourishing.
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If we're going to live in a world in which AI saturates everything,
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the argument in this EO is that you're going to need to put in place policies and laws that ensure that AI is used only for human flourishing,
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not for human replacement, not to sever social ties, not to drive people insane,
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but to only allow people to be more, as they put it in their words, creative, to be freer, to be more social.
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Now, I may be skeptical of all that, but at the very least, the spirit of this centers the value on the human
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rather than the value on the companies and ultimately to the machine.
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The alternate EO on human flourishing also calls for federal state working groups
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so that the Office of Science and Technology Policy is in working with governors around the country,
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AGs around the country, state legislatures around the country,
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in order to craft policies in which states are at the very least informing the federal policy,
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but perhaps crafting, as they are right now, their own policies that exist side by side.
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It's very ironic that some of the people here before have been globalists are now so focused on states' rights.
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Anyway, we'll go through these, and we're going to go through both of these in detail.
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When you open this up, it could be a Pandora's box.
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This is why it has to be dramatic action quickly to say you're just not going to let these people be excited.
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If you're just going to sit there and say, okay, the frontier labs are going to control the national labs
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and the weapons labs, and they're accelerationists, devil catch the highmost,
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they've told us to head into AGI, and just do it.
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But you're going to have then, you're going to have a regulatory morass that's going to come up.
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You've got to have smart people with wisdom right now think, hey, what do we need to do to make sure we keep the lead on this?
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One thing we have to do is make sure that there is nothing that the Chinese Communist Party gets,
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and I mean nothing the Chinese Communist Party gets,
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that can make them even close to being competitive because what does that do?
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It gives you a gap, and then you've got to think this thing through.
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We'll be back throughout the country on his tour to talk to folks about and listen to folks on artificial intelligence.
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I thought it was – we got you before you go back.
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I think you're heading back to the United Kingdom.
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Raw Egg or Doc, now that you've been exposed, but I love raw egg the most.
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Number one, you're about health and personal responsibility.
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You call it schlunking, what, 20 raw eggs a day in the morning to get up and to start lifting weights.
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Talk to me about – President Trump just put out his national security memorandum the other day, and quite frankly, for – and one thing you've been arguing about, for Europe.
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He was brutal about the decline of European civilization, and he actually said maybe even the end of European civilization, like how do we partner with you guys when you may not be around in the next 20 to 30 years?
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This is one of the things you've been talking about, about being a nationalist, worrying about your own culture, your own society, different than kind of these transnational entities.
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Your thoughts are what's transpired since the last time we had your own war room, which I think was last week in the middle of the week.
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So, yeah, so this I think really – this new national security strategy is a – it's a big thing.
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And I think, you know, you can look at it from two different perspectives.
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Obviously, you can look at it from the perspective of the European elites, and they don't like it at all.
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You know, during the election campaign, you had the then senator for Ohio saying, look, back off from Elon Musk.
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You know, maybe what we'll do, maybe we'll withdraw from NATO if you keep censoring U.S. tech companies, keep censoring the speech of Americans.
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Then you had that amazing spectacle at the Munich Security Conference, of course, where Vance directly addressed Europe's elites and said, you are the reason for Europe's decline.
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You are the greatest threat to Europe's future.
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You, the European elites who are out of touch with the European people.
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But then, of course, you can look at this national security strategy from the perspective of the European people.
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And I think it's actually – it's actually – it should be, I think, a great encouragement for them because, of course, American policy now, maybe for the first time ever, is explicitly against the actions of the European elites, against their own people.
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Donald Trump is saying the U.S. does not support the great replacement.
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It doesn't support the demographic replacement of the European people against their will by European elites.
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Now, the big question, obviously, is what's going to happen?
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What is – will this provide a further spur for the right wing in Europe?
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Will it kind of drive the kind of growing populist movement, you know, that's within the kind of – within finishing distance in places like Germany, France, Britain, but still hasn't quite got across the line?
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Or will we see some kind of really, really major reaction from European elites?
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So, I think just last week there was a story suggesting that perhaps European leaders are thinking of ditching U.S. treasuries en masse as a way basically of tanking the American economy if the U.S. doesn't play ball with negotiations on Ukraine, if the U.S. basically doesn't agree to continue to prolong the war in Ukraine.
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But, yes, it speaks to all of the kinds of points that I make about nationalism, about the need for strong nations beginning at the level actually of strong individuals.
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Because it's the raw egg part and the nationalists.
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How do you take the health, the vigor, the focus on men and what they have to do and you tie it to nationalism?
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Well, it's actually – you know, it's – a lot of people question me about this and they say, you know, what's working out got to do with politics?
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What's health and fitness got to do with politics?
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And maybe the first place I actually point people to is the pandemic.
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Look at one of the most vocal groups that resisted the medical tyranny that was imposed.
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It was gym owners in the U.S., in Canada and throughout the Western world who actually said, look, no, we're not going along with these lockdown measures.
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We don't believe that it's in the interests of our health and our self-preservation not to exercise, not to have access to facilities where we can work out.
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So, you know, that was a very, very clear example.
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But I think the basic idea is just that a nation is only as strong as the individuals of which it is composed.
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You know, if you have a nation where 60 percent of people, 70 percent, I think, as in the U.S., are overweight or obese, you've got a sick nation.
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And, you know, the cost, the sheer cost, I think, of ill health in the U.S. is, well, I mean, it's threatening really to destroy American society.
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And so that's why you've got something like the Maha movement, which is much needed and which is actually proving to be largely a unifying issue for Americans on both sides of the political aisle, or it certainly should be.
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So I think, yes, the basic point is just you can't have a strong nation, you can't have a healthy nation if everybody is ill.
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But then there are also other interesting sort of facets to this.
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My new book, The Last Men, Liberalism and the Death of Masculinity, I talk about testosterone in particular and testosterone decline.
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And we've seen a civilizational decline in levels of testosterone, the male hormone, over the last sort of 50 years.
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And it's testosterone that actually makes men basically men.
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And there are studies that show, for example, that testosterone increases in-group preference, which is basically, you know, preference for your own people.
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So if you if you have a testosterone decline on a civilizational level, people are less patriotic.
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At the top of the game, brother, how many raw eggs were you schlunking?
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And schlunking, I mean, you're drinking the raw egg part, and I think you fry in olive
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But at the top of your game, how many raw eggs a day did you schlunk?
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Well, when I didn't really have that much more to do, during the pandemic, I was schlunking
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24 a day, which is probably even a bit excessive for me, actually.
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I did end up getting a little bit sick of raw eggs.
00:31:24.400
But I'm down to a more healthy sort of 12, which I think is when you really start to feel
00:31:32.340
You know, if you're going to schlunk, work up to 12 a day.
00:31:35.580
You know, you've got to be working out, of course.
00:31:42.440
You, I think it was in 1939, 1940, 41, when we first started the draft.
00:31:48.060
Before Pearl Harbor, we knew, our elites knew that something wicked this way comes, both
00:31:56.280
So they started, we started rearming years after the British did and the Germans.
00:32:05.220
I believe, if memory serves me correctly, I could be off these numbers somewhat.
00:32:09.580
But the average testosterone, and these are kids coming out of the Depression, right?
00:32:15.140
This is a hardscrabble life for most of the country.
00:32:17.720
The average draftee, I think the testosterone count was like 2,400 or some number that's
00:32:25.580
They're all in great shape because they were just lean, mean, they looked hungry like wolves,
00:32:35.220
I think today is the average testosterone for a man, 500 or 600.
00:32:39.840
I mean, my numbers may not be exactly right, but there's been just a collapse of testosterone.
00:32:45.580
Why is that and what implication has that had on modern society?
00:32:50.860
Yes, there has been a collapse in levels of testosterone.
00:32:55.160
So, I mean, one of the gold standard studies that demonstrates this is called the Massachusetts
00:33:00.880
It was done in the Boston area from about, I think, 1988 to sort of 2002, 2004, taking in
00:33:07.860
a random sample of men of all ages in the Boston area, taking blood samples over time and charting
00:33:15.820
And it showed that there was a 1% year-on-year decrease in testosterone levels across the period.
00:33:23.580
And other studies have substantiated this over a longer period in other parts of the West
00:33:28.840
So, I mean, there is a, like Finland, for example, and also Israel and other studies in the U.S.
00:33:33.620
There's a civilizational collapse in testosterone levels, and it goes hand-in-hand with the civilizational
00:33:42.540
So, sperm counts and sperm quality, for example.
00:33:45.620
I mean, one expert, Professor Shanna Swan, predicts simply on the basis of sperm count trends
00:33:51.780
that by 2050, it might actually be impossible for men to reproduce or for humans to reproduce
00:33:58.460
by natural means because the median man will have no sperm.
00:34:02.000
So, one half of all men will have, will produce no sperm whatsoever, and the other half will
00:34:13.440
I mean, it has to do with a number of different factors, rising obesity levels, sedentary lifestyles,
00:34:22.220
I mean, we're stressed in ways that our ancestors never were.
00:34:26.600
You know, I mean, a hunter-gatherer might experience chronic stress, not chronic stress,
00:34:30.620
sorry, acute stress in a situation, you know, where they're hunting a wild animal or being
00:34:37.100
But actually, we're subject to chronic stress all the time, and it's a real killer.
00:34:41.680
But one of the main things, actually, that really is driving down testosterone levels
00:34:47.300
and fertility, are these harmful endocrine-disrupting chemicals that RFK Jr. talks a lot about and
00:34:53.740
has made one of the central focuses, actually, of his Make America Healthy Again platform.
00:35:01.620
These are chemicals that are found in personal care products.
00:35:07.640
And what they do is they have, basically what they do is they mimic, most of them mimic,
00:35:14.040
the female hormone, estrogen, in the human body.
00:35:16.640
And so they alter the natural balance of testosterone to estrogen.
00:35:20.480
And that's bad for men and also for women, too.
00:35:23.580
And it has all sorts of terrible practical effects.
00:35:30.760
It drives particular kinds of cancer, metabolic dysfunction, digestive disorders.
00:35:35.700
Really, actually, probably the whole gamut of chronic diseases that we're witnessing,
00:35:40.600
this explosion epidemic, is driven by exposure to harmful chemicals.
00:35:45.500
And so that's one of the reasons why, actually, I get concerned with the Maha agenda when it
00:35:51.620
looks like the EPA is kind of watering down these promises about pesticide regulation,
00:35:59.640
Because, actually, that, I think, more than anything else, that's something that we haven't
00:36:06.920
We've allowed ourselves to create this horrible, toxic environment.
00:36:10.480
We're swimming in toxic chemicals from the moment of conception.
00:36:13.940
And there are, you know, hundreds, thousands of studies that demonstrate that, actually,
00:36:18.040
you know, fetal exposure to these harmful chemicals is, sets children up for life,
00:36:24.140
actually, with all sorts of chronic health problems, potentially.
00:36:30.960
It's this toxic environment that we've created that's really driving testosterone decline.
00:36:36.700
And, I mean, the effects, I think, are, as I say in the book, you know, I mean, testosterone
00:36:44.100
Testosterone is not the only thing that makes men, men.
00:36:47.600
And we shouldn't take this sort of crude standpoint on testosterone that just the man with the
00:36:56.760
But, nevertheless, testosterone is a defining factor in masculinity.
00:37:10.840
You know, everything that we associate with men, assertiveness, courage, is driven by testosterone.
00:37:15.700
And so if we're seeing, as we are, a civilizational decline in testosterone, then we're really ending
00:37:26.480
And that's how C.S. Lewis described Western Man in the 1940s when he was talking about failures
00:37:36.320
C.S. Lewis said, you know, we don't teach children what is right and what is wrong.
00:37:40.700
We take this sort of value-free or value-neutral frame in education.
00:37:44.660
We don't teach children and young men to love what they should love as, you know, the great
00:37:50.560
Western tradition in education right back to the Greeks did.
00:37:56.260
You know, he was using this metaphor of men without chests.
00:37:58.820
Well, actually, we really are creating men without chests because we're sapping them of their
00:38:12.800
I want people to not just get it for themselves.
00:38:15.440
I want them to give it as a Christmas gift, particularly to young men.
00:38:19.360
Give me a minute on why someone should give this as a Christmas gift, sir.
00:38:23.400
Well, look, there's a crowded field of books about the crisis of masculinity.
00:38:29.000
You've got people like Jordan Peterson, Senator Josh Hawley has a book, Richard Reeves.
00:38:34.040
But none of them, I think, really get to the true biological basis of masculine decline in
00:38:42.960
And more importantly, I think their prescriptions, because they don't talk about testosterone,
00:38:48.840
because they don't talk about the roots of masculinity in biology, in the way that you
00:38:53.740
live, the way that you eat, the way that you behave, their prescriptions really, I think,
00:39:00.880
So this is not only, I think, a more accurate description of the nature of the crisis of
00:39:09.080
But it also contains eminently practical, very, very simple advice for men, how they
00:39:15.960
can improve their testosterone, the kinds of ways that they can take control of their
00:39:20.320
lives, take control of their diets, their lifestyles, how you can get better sleep, how
00:39:25.240
you can cut processed foods out of your life, how you can avoid exposure to these endocrine
00:39:31.080
disrupting chemicals and other nasty substances and begin to rebuild your life.
00:39:35.840
And it also fits it actually into a framework of national renewal as well.
00:39:39.740
So that's, you know, again, the raw egg nationalism thing.
00:39:41.840
This isn't just about you taking control of your life for your own benefit.
00:39:46.060
It's actually about you taking control of your life along with other young men and actually
00:39:50.680
doing something beneficial for the nation and maybe just saving Western civilization itself.
00:39:56.840
Doc, where do they go for your website, social media, all your coordinates, you're putting
00:40:13.240
raweggnationalist.com as well if you want just a quick and easy site for all the different
00:40:19.400
And my new book is The Last Men, Liberalism and the Death of Masculinity.
00:40:23.000
You can pre-order it now from amazon.com and it's going to be out on December the 16th.
00:40:35.220
Joe Allen, tell people where, Joe, you're going to be out and about.
00:40:39.380
People can actually see you, I think, this weekend.
00:40:43.480
Yeah, this is going to be a small gathering at Meriwether Academy.
00:40:48.420
You can find the link right at the top of my social media at J-O-E-B-O-T-X-Y-Z.
00:40:57.900
And if you come, you can't just sit and do nothing.
00:41:05.280
And maybe even, I don't know, one-on-one fist fighting.
00:41:10.800
You know, after hearing Dr. Wren speak, I think I'm going to go straight from here to the gym
00:41:16.200
and then to the farmer's market to get a dozen eggs, eat all of them raw.
00:41:20.580
And I don't know, maybe pick a fight on the street just to see if I can up my tea just a little bit.
00:41:24.680
But we'll see if he's willing to go with me anyway.
00:41:28.380
There's a method to my madness to put raw egg nashless in there.
00:41:34.040
Right now, you're putting up great stuff every day.
00:41:42.420
Go to at J-O-E-B-O-T-X-Y-Z at X and get her in my website, joebot.xyz.
00:41:56.380
Joe, you're actually going to be back at 5 o'clock before Joe heads to Nashville.
00:42:01.380
Make sure you go check out where you can see Joe this weekend.
00:42:10.780
Remember, raw egg nashless talked about the Maha movement,
00:42:14.240
talked about medical freedom, giving your consent.
00:42:18.600
One of the things that the folks at All Family Pharmacy have done
00:42:21.380
has broken the grip of the pharmaceutical distribution system.
00:42:25.780
They have trained medical professionals and doctors.
00:42:34.440
Make sure that, in fact, if you are a doctor or a medical professional
00:42:37.380
and you want to become part of their team, reach out to them.
00:42:52.180
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Okay, continuing on the concept of masculinity,
00:44:46.200
You're kind of what the conservative Mary Poppins,
00:44:50.760
Talk to us about, you're coming out with a book,
00:44:53.300
I think in the future, about masculinity, chivalry, and etiquette, correct?
00:44:59.760
Well, my first book is The Art of a Feminine Lady,
00:45:03.760
and I thought it would be lovely to accompany that with a book for the gentlemen,
00:45:09.820
since this book is all about ladies and femininity.
00:45:13.860
But I do see that there's a missing market for it because, well, look at Charlie Kirk.
00:45:23.080
And so it's going to be a lot of focusing on chivalry
00:45:27.980
and how to be confident in any social situation.
00:45:33.020
How does one get it back in a society that's devolved as much as ours?
00:45:44.400
how do you get that back in, accept it in a broad range of culture?
00:45:50.340
Well, my motto is you have to go back to the past to find class.
00:45:56.720
You have to really look at, you just go back even 50 years ago,
00:46:07.140
and I actually saw a man in his pajamas and slippers.
00:46:11.100
And that was unheard of, you know, a few years ago.
00:46:14.060
But it's becoming very slobbish and lazy, the Western society.
00:46:20.320
And I think we have to start going back to the past to look for inspiration.
00:46:26.640
That's where I get a lot of my inspiration from.
00:46:28.660
Charlie Kirk was a young man that inspired many with his humility,
00:46:36.540
Why do you say he's an example of etiquette and being a gentleman?
00:46:40.260
Well, he always displayed a perfect gentleman, in my opinion,
00:46:46.500
because he was able to convey his message without, you know, making fun of people.
00:46:54.620
And he dressed well, of course, but he was a good communicator.
00:47:15.140
because I did a video on the etiquette of abortion
00:47:19.040
and how we should respect our body and the body of another human being.
00:47:24.220
And it was just a little message, because I had tagged him in my story.
00:47:28.800
And he wrote back to me just to say, excellent video, great, great points.
00:47:36.580
And I was quite thrilled at the time to receive that message.
00:47:44.700
You have to watch any of his videos you can see.
00:47:53.440
Give me a minute or two on, you're talking about Christian.
00:47:58.000
What is Christmas etiquette, and why is it different than etiquette
00:48:08.840
Etiquette, you know, a lot of people think of etiquette
00:48:20.540
the first day of Advent is when the Christmas trees officially go up.
00:48:27.060
So, if you haven't got your Christmas tree up yet,
00:48:30.500
I recommend you go out today and buy a Christmas tree,
00:48:37.120
Christmas cards, they are supposed to go out two to three weeks early,
00:48:42.920
You want to aim at three weeks for the card to go out
00:48:49.220
The first Christmas card was actually sent by Queen Victoria,
00:48:58.400
because it represents what Christmas is all about.
00:49:07.700
And you can never go wrong with Father Christmas.
00:49:26.840
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00:49:58.120
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