In this episode of the podcast, we talk about digital ID, immigration, and why we don t want to have a digital ID in the United States. We also talk about why we should be worried about the rise of digital ID and why it s a bad idea.
00:00:24.000Just go with me for just a second on this.
00:00:27.000For a long time we've been wondering why would these countries allow themselves to be overrun by immigrants who don't share their values at all.
00:00:40.000It's not about brown, black, Asian, white.
00:00:50.000The problem in these countries is that they're being overrun with populations of people that absolutely have nothing in common with their society.
00:01:01.000You you start putting in these very godless societies, and I understand the qualms with Europe, but at least it has a very Catholic backbone to it, a very Christian backbone.
00:01:26.000They don't really map onto our form of civilization very well with these shared ideals and morals.
00:01:32.000Some better than others, but these groups in particular, the ones from countries that are highly Islamic and the ones that come from countries like India and Pakistan, they don't really map on very well.
00:01:42.000Why would they open their doors for decades?
00:01:46.000Like you could look around and see decimating these places.
00:01:50.000And then have a system set up where if they can just get to one point of entry across all of these different countries, they can go anywhere within the European Union.
00:02:02.000And we just we're scratching our heads going, what are we doing?
00:02:04.000And then, after books have been written on this, after arguments have been had, after data has been analyzed and people have said we are fed up with this, and these movements start happening all across Europe, the United States starts doing the exact same thing with its southern border.
00:02:22.000Now listen, I'm not saying this is, but I'm saying an answer that I just heard that reporter give towards the very end was they're so fed up with illegal immigration, their attitude towards the digital ID has softened.
00:03:01.000I didn't realize that several countries in Europe already have this.
00:03:04.000I believe Germany put this in place and it didn't do anything to help their immigration problem.
00:03:08.000I think Nigel Farage was talking about that.
00:03:09.000By the way, he's up on Starmer right now, pretty big.
00:03:12.000I think he's got like a six-point lead in the latest polls because he's much tougher on immigration, even though Nigel wasn't as tough as he needed to be.
00:03:18.000He took a harder line stance and now is doing very well.
00:03:21.000And it matters because I don't want this stuff coming to us.
00:03:29.000I know that's a much more difficult situation to kind of parse out, but if you want to travel, if you want to have a bank account, you want to avoid public shaming, you want to avoid having all of your data in one place for the government, AI to be able to use, and then COVID happens.
00:03:48.000You don't get to travel, you don't get to access your bank account, you don't get to rent.
00:03:52.000You don't get any public services at all.
00:03:55.000It's it's a it really is a dystopian type of future if we let this go that direction.
00:04:01.000So everybody in Britain needs to come out.
00:04:03.000I mean, I I thought he had picked every bad policy you could pick to get people to protest and put up the the flag everywhere around the country, but I guess he found a new one that he thought was going to get people behind him, and hopefully it results in the end of his administration and Britain finally going back towards its roots a little bit more.
00:04:22.000But Josh, you actually had a question you wanted to ask before we go.
00:04:24.000Yeah, before we move on to the next one.
00:04:29.000How is thank you for answering my question?
00:04:33.000How is this digital ID requirement to work?
00:04:36.000How is that different from a social security number here in the States?
00:04:39.000Aaron Powell So the the reason it's different and having an ID to prove you're a citizen, I don't really have much of a problem with that.
00:04:46.000Now I know there's some people that will still have a problem with that.
00:04:48.000I understand that you have to be able to identify citizens like with a driver's license or some kind of government issued ID to be able to do that.
00:04:55.000Yeah, but apparently that's not a good thing.
00:04:56.000But if you want to vote, you gotta have one.
00:05:10.000Because that'd be something I would that would definitely, you know, fight against the Trevor Burrus.
00:05:14.000Right now the TSA stuff that they're doing is taking biometric information from people in the United States when they did the news report, they were looking back to Yeah, you can.
00:05:23.000They you could they hearken back to a report from like I think 2005 or 2010.
00:05:28.000There was another time that they tried to start implementing this, and it was all biometric data as well.
00:05:32.000Uh basically had to look into like the the cameras at that time, they're a little bit bigger uh technology is advanced, but it's putting all of this stuff in one digital space that the government now has access and control over.
00:06:39.000You have to do what we say, otherwise you can't do XYZ, right?
00:06:42.000But there's also covert control where they manipulate you and feed you information and stories and and based on all of your data to make you believe something is true and to kind of force you into doing this.
00:06:54.000It's like the inception issue where you basically think it's your own idea, essentially, to behave this way or to react this way to something.
00:07:01.000And that is just as nefarious in my mind.
00:07:03.000I don't want the government having all of our data.
00:07:05.000Elon Musk didn't buy Twitter to say free speech.
00:07:12.000So that's why I can say that with some clarity.
00:07:14.000Maybe he liked the idea of political discourse, but he really doesn't understand free speech, and he's learned more and more over time what that really does look like, but not when he bought it.
00:07:22.000X is definitely more free speech than it used to be, but it's not completely define as a free speech.
00:07:31.000This was not a play of like I can turn Twitter around and make it something better.
00:07:35.000This was I need data for my training, my AIC training.
00:07:39.000Like I need to have as much data as possible to train these AI models.
00:07:42.000But it was a good selling point, just like how Kirst Armers using the selling point of uh even going to this press conference and doing one thing which I kind of respect, but at the same time is like I it's kind of a uh a tricky tactic where he said uh we we've been a bit squeamish.
00:08:03.000Did you bring all these people, let these people come in all you know, laissez faire all you know just so you can convince the people who didn't want the mandatory ID that we now need the mandatory ID?
00:08:14.000Because they're like, oh well, if you're finally gonna attack this immigration problem, then I guess sure.
00:08:18.000Yeah, you can take all my biometrics and take my identification and take my information.
00:09:41.000Like we know motivated people can get access to information in systems they're not supposed to have access to, so why would we put everything in one place?
00:09:49.000If you get hacked over here, at least you're not hacked over here and here and here and here, like your passwords for your different accounts.
00:09:55.000Like if you got one to kind of rule them all, then it's like, well, that that makes it a little harder to make sure that you're secure.
00:10:00.000So I have a lot of I have a lot of issues with that.
00:10:02.000I would like to see what you guys have to say in the chat in just a minute.
00:10:05.000Uh but I I felt like we would be remiss if we didn't cover this.
00:10:08.000Um I I know that you know a number of people saw this happen yesterday, that the attack on a Mormon church uh in Grand Blanc, so the LDS church uh in Grand Blanc, Michigan, uh, where this gentleman opened fire and uh ended up setting the church on fire as well.
00:10:24.000We begin without breaking news out of grand blank talentship, a mass shooting and fire at a church has left at least four people dead and eight others injured.
00:11:00.000The shooter was a 40-year-old Iraq war veteran.
00:11:02.000Um his son is battling uh congenital disease.
00:11:06.000Uh obviously I hate to hear that about his son.
00:11:09.000And the media immediately tried to paint this as a right-wing uh political act of violence.
00:11:15.000And primarily it was initially because of the American flags on the truck that was driven into the church, also a Trump sign on the house and a picture of the shooter wearing a Trump t-shirt in 2020 or at least talking about the 2020 um election.
00:11:29.000So the authorities have not yet established a motive and uh included including whether he was motivated by his son's condition, politics, or or really anything else.
00:11:38.000And so we don't have a whole lot of additional information.
00:11:42.000If it turns out that this person is a right wing extremist who shot up an LDS church because he thought it would advance his political ideas or ideology, I absolutely unequivocally condemn that.
00:11:57.000He's an evil piece of crap to do that.
00:11:59.000He's an evil piece of crap to do that, no matter what the reason is, and that includes being insane.
00:12:03.000I have no idea what this person's motives were.
00:12:07.000Two things on top of that that I would like to tell you.
00:12:09.000For those of you right now who are responding to Mike Lee's post about the LDS church and how it is another branch of Christianity.
00:12:17.000I have my issues, but that's a conversation for another day.
00:12:21.000The only thing that we should be doing right now, and I'm not I'm not saying that Mike Lee was wrong for putting that out.
00:12:27.000What I'm saying is the responses, starting a debate about that right now and disagreeing with that and saying some very mean for clicks things to Mike Lee, now is not the time for that.
00:12:38.000Now is the time to pray for, to love and to support the people in the LDS community that are obviously mourning something that happened to people that were their own.
00:12:49.000I think we can all do that, no matter what group they are a part of, no matter what we think about their faith.
00:12:55.000I think that's very easy for us to do, unless, of course, we have deeper problems that speak a lot more about us than they do about them.
00:13:03.000And for the record, every interaction I've ever had with Mormons has been spectacular.
00:13:08.000Including the guy who helped us find the church that we were trying to find for the busload of people that I was with who said, don't ever let it be said that the Mormons didn't help you.
00:13:18.000It's like I didn't know that was a thing.
00:13:19.000I didn't know that you guys walked around hearing that.
00:13:26.000They will do if if if you ever have a Mormon missionary, I guess what they call it.
00:13:30.000If they come to your house to try to teach you about their new book, their new hit book, the whatever it's called, the Mormon Bible Book of Mormon.
00:14:40.000I gotta move some stuff to the A. I started this off because I wanted to be nice to this, and you've just turned it into something completely stupid.
00:14:48.000I'm not I'm giving them what they want, dude.
00:16:04.000For those of you pieces of crap on the left who are immediately running out and saying, see, this is right wing extreme isn't and violence.
00:16:13.000It's okay to make an assumption with some information when it makes sense.
00:16:19.000When you start to go, hey, these things are starting to add up for that.
00:16:22.000How in the world does it advance right wing ideology to attack Mormons?
00:16:28.000That doesn't make yeah, that's not gonna help a whole lot of sense anyway.
00:16:31.000If you don't like Mormons, typically the the biggest thing against Mormons is the annoying thing, maybe.
00:16:48.000We lampooned it, I think everybody else did about the bees.
00:16:51.000Um, and I think it was this Mormon kind of connection to this, the whole deal.
00:16:56.000And I I don't know if that had anything to do with it at all, but if that's kind of where people are pulling from, they didn't even say that.
00:17:12.000At the very least, it's weird that leftists think if you have an American flag, you must be somebody on the right.
00:17:19.000What sucks even more is that they're they're they're really highlighting that part of the story that he had two American flags, as if to say, if you have American flags, you're probably a bad person.
00:17:30.000Yeah, you're certainly not a leftist if you have American flags and respect this country.
00:17:35.000Not that that person did, but just the fact that they say that all the time now.
00:17:41.000But as more information comes out, we will cover it.
00:17:43.000And like I said, if this turns out to be somebody who was trying, not just somebody who happened to vote R. That's not what we're talking about on the left.
00:17:51.000We're talking about violence as a prescription to change or intimidate or put your ideas forcibly onto someone else.
00:18:03.000Yeah, it's not like that's a different thing.
00:18:04.000It's not like people in the right wing media are coming out and and saying, Oh, you know what the big problem is with our country, Mormons.
00:18:10.000It's not like the president came out and said, you know, these Mormons are uh really the biggest threat to our democracy.
00:18:16.000These Mormons are a threat to your rights and your freedoms.
00:18:26.000And if it is for some reason in this psychopath's head, some form of politically motivated attack, then I would condemn it a thousand percent.
00:19:16.000If you're if you've got a concealed carry permit or you're allowed in this state to carry, you can carry to protect your family, to protect those around you.
00:19:28.000We've talked about this with schools all the time.
00:19:30.000Why make a soft target and depend on a resource officer happening to be in the right place at the right time, we've seen over and over and over and over and over where that does not work for a number of different reasons.
00:19:42.000We want teachers carrying that are supposed to be allowed to carry.
00:19:58.000I don't want to have to go to church and worry.
00:20:02.000But if somebody comes in and starts trying to hurt people that there's nobody really there that can take care of the problem and don't say, well, the church has security.
00:20:09.000Yeah, I understand that, but there's a reason we can carry.
00:21:39.000I mean, I I I when we covered the story in China, and I was talking with Lane the Brain about this earlier today, and he said it's a little, it's a more nuanced, but all of the bad parts are still there.
00:21:48.000It's just you have to be careful that you say it the right way, because there's multiple systems that are kind of in place here.
00:21:53.000But ultimately, the end result is you basically have a social credit score that gets public shaming.
00:22:00.000I don't know, I don't know if we had video on that.
00:22:03.000But you guys can go and search this where like I think somebody's facial recognition either was set off by something or um it was just in their neighborhood where it was talking about them, like having a low score or something like that.
00:22:14.000So there's like public shaming of individuals.
00:22:17.000Like these individuals have low score, like in your area, or somebody was walking by and it triggered like a facial recognition that showed that.
00:22:24.000I can't remember what it was, but it was very, very similar to what I just said.
00:22:40.000And then people started using those social credit scores in how they did business with people.
00:22:44.000Because if you were friends with them, you started to get tagged by having multiple friends that either had wrong ideas or low scores, and that brought your score down.
00:22:53.000And so they started to get shunned in the community.
00:22:55.000So it's a great way to incentivize appropriate behavior.
00:25:04.000I'm not sure what his motives are with that, other than just dominating that space, but he wanted it to be like you do all your commerce through this app into other places and have it connect everything, does payment processing everything.
00:25:16.000And that's what he tried to set up originally before he went into PayPal was something that would end up being like that.
00:25:20.000Because he saw this happening in China, not with PayPal.
00:25:50.000Do you believe the UK is still redeemable considering that Starmer's approval rating is in the negatives, despite the high influx of Muslim elections?
00:26:56.000Maybe we wouldn't let it get that far, but don't be so quick to say, of course I'd stand up and lose everything that I've worked for and my kids would be ostracized from society so that I could preserve this.
00:27:08.000Most people, in fact, are not willing to do that.
00:27:11.000Because in the moment, it's not as clear-cut as history.
00:27:16.000It's not as clear-cut as saying, of course I would have stood up on the right side of this when that happened.
00:27:21.000Not when everything you've ever worked for your entire life is on the line, and you're not as sure because they're saying, Well, wait a minute, this isn't government overreaching.
00:27:28.000Maybe it's not as bad as we think, and maybe this is just here's what they're trying to do with it.
00:27:31.000People make up a lot of reasons in their mind why everything's okay, and I think that's why it's important for people in Britain to get out and let people know how bad it is and how bad they want to make it.
00:30:36.000That's how the good people here at the Grand Blank Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints live their lives.
00:30:43.000They worship together, they sing together, and they serve together.
00:30:49.000And that's why I was so proud to see powerful statements from interfaith leaders across Michigan denouncing this attack on a house of worship.
00:30:57.000They grieved for this congregation as though it was their own.
00:31:01.000They spoke with one voice for the basic principle that we all believe in, that you should be able to pray in peace in our state no matter who you are.
00:31:11.000I know that in the hours and days ahead, we will see the best of Michigan.
00:31:15.000We will see neighbors being neighborly, checking in with a call, bringing over some food, or offering a hobby.
00:31:23.000We need to see the best from the leadership in Michigan.
00:31:26.000...treat those in need with scars both seen and unseen.
00:31:31.000We will see this congregation unite and rally together like never before and continue worshiping together, singing together, and serving together.
00:31:41.000Because that's m who Michiganders are.
00:31:44.000We will stay in close contact and continue to work together.
00:31:48.000Now, like everyone I know, we have lots of questions.
00:32:48.000This community has been greatly impacted by yesterday's events.
00:32:53.000We are offering our deepest condolences to those affected by this tragedy.
00:32:59.000This horrific event is something that this community has never experienced.
00:33:05.000It is important at this time that we come together to support one another in this time of grief.
00:33:13.000We stand ready and willing to assist both our local and federal partners with any additional needs as this investigation.
00:33:23.000If we get any additional information, we'll bring that to you guys.
00:33:25.000I wanted to kind of just check in really quickly there.
00:33:27.000And I just, you know, I don't want to be cynical.
00:33:30.000I don't know if that's the right word, but But when Governor Whitmer said that, I'm like, of course, the people are going to do the right thing.
00:33:38.000We see that time and time again in this country, where people in communities rally around each other, they put aside differences, they come together, and they help each other out in hard times.
00:33:48.000That that happens all across this country every single time there is any kind of an event like this or a natural disaster that happens or just a tough time in any community.
00:33:58.000What we need is better from our leaders.
00:34:01.000And I don't mean just elected officials, I mean kind of thought leaders as well.
00:34:05.000People that their job is to go out and discuss these kinds of things and express some of the concerns from other people.
00:34:14.000It's not the American citizens that live next to these people that I'm worried about.
00:34:17.000It's the leadership that is going to use this for some kind of a political game to try to say tighter gun laws or Republicans are a threat to America or anything like that.
00:34:30.000Like I want to be able to call balls and strikes and say calling one side Nazis and fascists and saying there's never going to be an election again and that we should make sure you know where ICE is at every given moment and they are the bad guys and how dare they wear masks.
00:34:47.000But we have to understand that when these kinds of things happen, we need our leaders not to try to use this as cover to run their favorite play, which is guns bad, Republicans bad.
00:34:59.000Again, when there's no evidence, especially right now, that that's actually the case.
00:35:08.000That's why we're always ready for that.
00:35:10.000Okay, I I wanna I want to just mourn with you guys and say how tragic that is, but I know I'm about to be sucker punched in the face with some idea that wouldn't have had any impact on this situation at all, but has been the playbook for you guys for decades.
00:35:53.000You guys just call us Nazis and fascists and literally have the front runner for the Democratic nomination or the Democrat nomination for president in 2028, say that there's not going to be a 2028 election.
00:36:08.000It's interesting you're putting all this time and running for something that you don't think is gonna happen.
00:36:12.000We'll get to the bottom of that, I guess, another time.
00:36:27.000No, I mean end times is kind of a favorite topic for a lot of people and they've said it over and over and over though I do know that the rapture was supposed to happen last week according to somebody.
00:36:39.000No, literally it was predicted on here's the fun part about rapture prediction is that it's typically like it's one of those predictions that's made with some wiggle room so that they can go, oh well I meant that this was actually it was supposed to be like a spiritual awakening rapture kind of thing.
00:36:56.000Or it was supposed to be on this day or this day.
00:37:00.000They're well they're they're bad at the maths you're right.
00:37:03.000Isn't the rapture happen happen after the Antichrist arrives?
00:37:07.000No, so there theoretically you can have rapture pretty much at any point and I know that people be like I can't believe Gerald's talking about something that doesn't exist in the scriptures hold your arguments.
00:37:18.000I'm describing a belief system, not necessarily ascribing to every point along the way.
00:37:24.000Rapture, at some point, there is some interval potentially or immediately, but it is not required to be immediately.
00:37:31.000Then kind of the kickoff of the seven-year tribulation period by a peace treaty that's signed between Israel and surrounding people and the rise of the Antichrist first in a positive way, being viewed as this promised kind of world leader that's going to bring everybody together for the first three and a half years.
00:37:47.000a half years everything is pretty good relatively speaking and uh the world is peaceful in a way that it hasn't known at the midpoint that's when things basically flip and it is absolutely terrible the persecution goes way way up but again it's it's that same kind of common theme.
00:38:03.000You get people to buy into this idea this person I brought peace and now we have people we have to get rid of otherwise we will never have peace that kind of thing it's the othering that happens again.
00:38:11.000And then the last three and a half years is really the Great Tribulation that you hear a lot about.
00:38:16.000So that's the rough kind of eschatology of the rapture.
00:38:22.000So when you predict the rapture you're not necessarily predicting the second coming of Christ you're just predicting when the rapture is going to happen.
00:38:29.000Christ returns at the end of the seven years by the way so anyway I know there's a lot of people that argue that I'm going to have Jay Dyer on I think and he's a he's really he's one of the smartest Orthodox guys out there.
00:38:41.000Gets a lot of lot of great knowledge in his head.
00:38:44.000I like the very best arguments to be able to kind of talk through so he he has probably a different view.
00:38:49.000They I think they believe that uh everything was pretty much wrapped up in 70 AD.
00:39:45.000So you know when cities have fire and ash rained down on them from God on high, you tend to lump those together.
00:39:55.000There's not too many cities in the history of this world that have had that pleasure or not had the pleasure of having that happen.
00:40:01.000So when that happens they kind of lump them in together.
00:40:03.000I'm not exactly sure where you're going with that question but you could also do that with uh you know traditionally more conservative cities like Dallas Fort Worth.
00:40:12.000Yeah yeah yeah or like uh I'm not I'm not sure why they were curious about maybe maybe let us know why you were curious about that.
00:40:18.000Was it just a naming convention like they're always mentioned together instead of individually I think they were trying to compare Sodom and Gomorrah to St. Paul in Minneapolis and Windsor City in Detroit?
00:40:29.000I think they were just saying that these two cities are close together.
00:41:09.000I mean, is it illegal to print in your state in certain spots?
00:41:14.000I mean, if you're going into stores where you can't carry, I'd be worried about printing, maybe put it in your purse, get a different holster.
00:41:21.000Uh there's plenty of guns smaller than a Glock 43 that you could get.
00:42:12.000She might be concerned about going places that are considered a gun free zone.
00:42:14.000Yeah, I could see like maybe you know, a mall or a grocery stores with kids or going to church with the kids or picking her kids up from school, maybe, or or like school functions, little league games, stuff like that that might be considered gunfree zone.
00:42:25.000She's worried about people seeing it and then getting in trouble for that.
00:42:27.000If if that's the case, then you know, of course, follow the laws and uh, you know, whatever else we've said to do.
00:42:32.000Follow laws and have a nice big purse.
00:43:23.000I don't understand how listen, the I think that was and listen if if you want to go, hey, you know, that that's you know, that's a problem.
00:43:33.000We thought it was funny that Paul Pelosi before we knew about the extent of the injuries, because I didn't realize he got like hit that hard.
00:43:38.000I I initially when I heard it, I was like, there was a the cops showed up and there was a guy in his underwear with a hammer and Paul Pelosi there.
00:44:20.000Like those stats, listen, I'm not looking to debunk stats for the the fun of it.
00:44:25.000What I'm looking to do is find out where they got their information from because when you go into these cross tabs from these studies, it very quickly becomes apparent if there is a bias.
00:44:33.000And in this case, we found an obvious bias.
00:44:36.000Stuff that was included that shouldn't have been stuff that wasn't included, that very obviously should have been.
00:44:40.000Very, very clearly, including the founder of the feast, not even including himself in there.
00:44:45.000Which you think would be a like a badge of honor for him.
00:44:49.000And no media outlet fact check the support for it.
00:44:55.000Which is usually what you you're supposed to do, right?
00:46:16.000Listen, you should be able to go have every change my mind conversation you ever want to have in your life on any college campus, any city in America, without the fear of violence for having a conversation, right?
00:46:29.000You have to be aware of of the threat of people who disagree with you, and when they lose on the battlefield of ideas, they tend to get violent.
00:46:37.000And that the violence can express itself in a lot of different ways.
00:46:40.000That can be actually physically, you know, expressed towards you, or they could just get unruly and maybe shove you and not actually try to like shoot you or stab you or like punch you in the face.
00:47:47.000Instead of going, well, I don't like how they did this or how they did that, and ten minutes later, you're never gonna get those thoughts out completely.
00:47:53.000You're never gonna be as convincing as if you boil it down to one or two super convincing points that really illuminate what you're trying to say.
00:48:03.000And then you can back it up from there.
00:48:04.000You can back it up with additional information if they're bought into listening at that point.
00:48:08.000But that's one of the things that I think a lot of people miss.
00:48:11.000Also, you can't like you need to find this is the last one, find the strongest argument against your position.
00:48:21.000Not a straw man, not some kind of like thing you've heard somebody say.
00:48:26.000Go out and listen to the very best person on the other side, make the argument against your position so that you can understand where they're coming from, and then also be able to deal with that objection.
00:48:36.000And I think people don't do that at all.
00:48:38.000I think you typically listen to, you know, like people tell you what you want to hear, and then all of a sudden you're faced with somebody who's not going to give you that ground on that point, and you have to go to a well that doesn't exist.
00:48:49.000You don't have you don't know how to deal with it.
00:48:51.000So that's why I listen to people that I don't like like desktop.
00:48:54.000That's why we have to when they debate.
00:48:57.000Because I and and listen, CNN is not where I get that.
00:49:10.000All these other guys, I listen to them debate so that I can hear the best arguments for their positions, not a straw man and not an easy one to beat, so that if I ever get confronted with it, I'm ready.
00:49:20.000I think that's what we should do, and I don't I don't think we do a very good job of that in general.
00:49:24.000But I think we do a much better job of being informed on decisions that we're making, and that's a good start.
00:49:30.000Just understand what the best arguments are against your position if you plan on going out and having those kinds of conversations.
00:50:19.000Not for comedy, but do you use AI to find out information or uh no, not typically.
00:50:24.000I mean, because AI is just gonna pull, you know, it's a it's a congregate of of information that's put out by people.
00:50:30.000If you're gonna ask a question, um I don't use it for a comic.
00:50:33.000I mean, I use it for like telling a joke AI.
00:50:36.000Creating a music uh parody or if we're doing a commercial for somebody and I'm like, I want something to sound like this, I'll put the lyrics in and I go, you make the music because I'm not talented.
00:50:46.000And you make the voice because uh no one should hear me sing.
00:51:05.000I I use AI um maybe differently than most people, but I use it as a starting point for questions of opinion.
00:51:13.000Now, questions of fact, like for example, how do I how do I change this setting on my truck to make sure that the horn doesn't honk when I get out with my key?
00:51:22.000Stuff like that's very useful for because it just goes through that.
00:51:26.000Excel questions, like I'm actually trying to make a chart and get a figure and it walks you through the steps, and you can just basically talk to it.
00:51:47.000It'll take like if there's like four thousand reviews of a product.
00:51:50.000You can go at the top, it'll say the AI review, and it'll tell you it'll explain in you know, layman's terms what everyone's saying.
00:51:58.000While people like the size and the you know, versatility of the flesh they do say that there are some issues with cleaning it or whatever.
00:52:08.000I I used it for uh and maybe Tim tell me what you use it for in a second.
00:52:13.000But I I used it, I was in Chicago and I could not find the Lumal Notis that I had been to several years before, and I was like, man, I keep wanting to find this place because it was so good.
00:52:21.000It's the pizza place, there's tons of them, but I could not find the one.
00:52:24.000And I was actually able to like, hey, which is the most popular?
00:52:27.000And it did uh the result, and it's like this is the original, but this one's more, you know, uh right up there, and it's in a nice neighborhood, and that's what a lot of people like the the area that it's in and the build out, and I was like, that's the one that I went to.
00:52:39.000Um and so there's a lot of helpful things like that.
00:52:41.000But if I ask it a question on something relevant to the show, for example, on the Oregon thing, I was like, was Oregon set up as a whites only state?
00:52:48.000And they sent in a correction like Steven's more right than wrong, but it it I think it was actually telling me the exact same that I was saying is that it wasn't explicitly established as a whites only state, like in writing.
00:52:58.000It was just like black people laws against blacks owning businesses, doing commerce, and doing a lot of stuff were prohibitive of black people living there.
00:53:06.000But they didn't say Oregon is founded as a whites only state.
00:53:09.000So that may be a limitation where AI is telling me no, technically it's not, even though every rule that they wrote and what they had in place before joining the union, basically, yeah, they were set up as a whites only state.
00:53:21.000So that's a good example of where it can be kind of right, but give you a little bit of the wrong impression uh from the outset.
00:53:28.000So but Tim, do you do you use AI much?
00:55:54.000Feel free to you know make your case and change my mind.
00:55:56.000Even though we disagree, you can sit down, express your point of view, and some people on the left view that in and of itself as adding fuel to the fire.