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00:01:49.000I also sent out a tweet a little while ago, and it's getting a lot of reaction.
00:03:00.000So one of the questions that came up there was about the scholarships for parents.
00:03:08.000And I'm just wondering if you would, I understand you want to meet the families where they are, and I totally agree with that.
00:03:15.000But I wonder too, if we could have some kind of creative goal setting to undo some of the leftist policies and four of them that started in 1913 were the 16th Amendment, 17th Amendment, the Federal Reserve Act, and the Tariff Act.
00:03:30.000And all of those really defeated Americans and our own income and made us pay the federal government.
00:03:39.000Can we undo some of that instead of taking money from the government for our education of our children?
00:03:46.000Yeah, I think what you're saying is the school voucher equivalent.
00:04:25.000So Brenda is voicing a very good faith concern, which is like, hey, all this school choice momentum, does it come with strings if you want to homeschool your kids and then if you want to send them to charter schools or to private schools?
00:04:38.000What Brenda is voicing is a concern that if we embrace school choice and the money follows the child and that money is through a scholarship or through an ESA, an educational savings account, all of a sudden are we going to have now public school and government influences in homeschooling environments and then in private schools?
00:05:22.000I think you can now go to even homeschools.
00:05:24.000So, Brenda, my opinion is that we need more of that, especially in states like California and Illinois and New York to allow the money follow the child.
00:05:32.000Because the current system right now is if you go to downtown Chicago, downtown Baltimore, you go to downtown Cleveland, you go to downtown Philadelphia, you have these kids that are just stuck in failing schools with no capacity, no ability to be able to choose a better school.
00:05:46.000And so in some ways, you could joke that we are pro-choice when it comes to schools.
00:05:50.000Now, at the same time, Brenda, I think we need to be vigilant because your concern is very legitimate.
00:05:56.000Anytime that we allow the government into anything precious or sacred, they're going to abuse it.
00:06:00.000They're going to try to standardize it.
00:06:02.000They're going to try to make it overly bureaucratic.
00:06:05.000And so I don't know much about the Florida example.
00:06:07.000However, I can tell you that Florida school choice has generally been a big victory.
00:06:28.000You have a moral obligation To be able to send your money to the school of your choosing and of your liking.
00:06:34.000So if you're in an area that has a woke transgender men and female sports, men and female locker rooms, like we see in Deerfield, Illinois, that parent should be able to take the $10,000, $15,000, $20,000 a year that they're paying in property taxes or the equivalent and be able to go to a private school, a voucher school, a Christian school.
00:06:55.000They should be able to go up the street to Christian Heritage Academy where I got educated and I gave my life to Jesus right there on Waukegan Road, intersecting with Willow.
00:07:03.000You know, the area, if you're in Chicago and listening to this right now.
00:07:06.000The point being is I think we should want to have more choice, more capacity to send the money with a kid.
00:07:13.000However, Brenda, I think your concern is that, hey, this is a way to get the government in homeschooling environments.
00:07:20.000And so the solution is very simple then, Brenda.
00:07:24.000If you are a homeschool family, you don't have to take the money.
00:07:28.000Now, if you take the money, then you might be inviting government strings.
00:07:32.000But if you absolutely do not want the government to come into the education of your kid, I'm going to tell you what we're going to do in our family.
00:07:38.000We're going to be educating our kids at home, and we'll probably end up sending them to maybe a public school or a private school once they get into eighth or ninth grade.
00:07:47.000But at least for the first many years, we're going to be homeschooling.
00:07:49.000We're not going to take any government money.
00:07:50.000We're not going to take any scholarship money.
00:07:52.000First of all, you know, we've been very blessed.
00:07:54.000Secondly, we don't want any government strings potentially with it.
00:07:56.000So Brenda, I don't know if that answers your question or not, but I definitely know that it would explain it to the audience.
00:08:00.000And I covered it during the Turning Point Academy Educator Summit.
00:08:05.000Yeah, I totally agree that that helps a lot of families that are in desperate need right now.
00:08:10.000I just want going forward to set goals so that we're not taxed directly with the income tax.
00:08:17.000I want to repeal the 16th Amendment because then parents would have their own money to spend the way they want.
00:08:23.000It's not going to the government and coming back with strings.
00:08:28.000And so that's those four things that are passing 19 begin to rob us.
00:08:34.000So that's if we have that vision to set those kind of goals and policy based on the original intent of the Constitution, then I think the rest will take care of itself.
00:08:45.000At some point, we won't need the scholarships from the government.
00:09:01.000Given the facts in front of us, I can tell you in Arizona, Arizona and Florida schools are far freer and far better than Illinois and New Jersey schools.
00:09:24.000Or like in the suburbs of Chicago, you go to St. Viter and you have to pay a lot of money.
00:09:30.000You got to go pay $20,000 or $30,000 a year to go to St. Viter now, which was the upper middle class, kind of ruling class Catholic school in Arlington Heights, Illinois, where I grew up.
00:09:40.000And probably those schools have become increasingly woke.
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00:11:04.000My question is, do you have any personal experience or know anyone who has had personal experience with their own deep dive into AI on a personal and professional level?
00:11:18.000So by deep dive, do you mean like really working with it for hours to see how powerful and how sometimes manipulative it can be?
00:12:22.000So, I mean, I wouldn't say I've taken a deep dive negatively.
00:12:26.000I've spent hours on AI, and it could be very helpful as a research tool, as a synthesizer, and it could be very, very helpful to go through large documents.
00:12:33.000So sometimes people will send me like a 600-page document, and I can be like, hey, can you just give me 20 bullet points?
00:14:11.000The doctor said, oh, just sleep it off, take a Tylenol, maybe come see me the next couple of days.
00:14:15.000He took a picture of it and put it into ChatGPT.
00:14:19.000ChatGPT within a half of a second responded with three red alert emojis saying, you need to get to the emergency room immediately.
00:14:26.000You have sepsis and you are going to die.
00:14:29.000Well, it turns out he had an ingrown nail because he was doing some work around his mom's house that hadn't been cleaned in a while.
00:14:35.000He had an undiagnosed and an unknown bacterial staph infection that grew into sepsis, got to the hospital and barely saved his life.
00:14:43.000He credits ChatGPT and AI for saving his life, for diagnosing him within half of a second, where his primary care doctor was like, oh, just sleep it off.
00:14:52.000Now, that's only a secondhand story, but seems pretty legit.
00:14:59.000AI is incredibly powerful at pattern recognition.
00:15:02.000It's going to replace jobs where that is a key talent.
00:15:05.000Another one, for example, is anytime my son who does his best job to try to hurt himself or to try to hurt others at any period of time, being a young boy, just walking around with a golf club, anytime that he hits his head, Erica's like, hey, how serious is this?
00:15:21.000So we text the pediatrician, but interestingly, we'll take a picture of his bruise, of his rash, put it into chat GPT, and within seconds, AI will be able to tell you, ah, not that serious.
00:15:33.000And so again, we don't want to trust it blindly.
00:15:35.000We double check that with the pediatrician.
00:15:38.000And the best way that I can say, there's so much other stuff I could talk about with artificial intelligence, right?
00:15:47.000If you have an idea for a movie right now, in the next two years, you'll be able to make that movie literally in front of a computer screen.
00:15:55.000The glass half empty view is obviously will rob us, our humanity, fuel psychotic delusions, and our ability to socialize, marry, reproduce, including all the job losses.
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00:17:31.000Went with my son Truman to the SAS a few weeks ago.
00:17:36.000If he's 15 years old, thinking of starting a chapter in Pennsylvania.
00:17:40.000Hey, you correctly point out that many college degrees are a scam.
00:17:44.000However, you immediately set yourself up for the need to then clarify that STEM-like degrees and some others are a good value.
00:17:51.000I strongly encourage you to use this momentum that you have now to introduce a new term that could bifurcate these two categories of college, quote, education, unquote, and remove the confusion about the benefits of going to college.
00:18:07.000Yeah, I think you have a great opportunity to kind of just clarify that there's the difference here with some new terminology.
00:18:15.000Yeah, so what term would you recommend?
00:18:18.000By the way, thank you for coming to Tampa.
00:18:56.000And, you know, as a father in front of my children, I've had countless discussions with the waitress, the waiter about, hey, what are you doing in your life?
00:19:03.000And, you know, people just don't have the kind of direction you're giving.
00:19:08.000You could save so many lives the way they waste their time in their future.
00:19:14.000But I think something market related, and I'd be happy to work with you or offer some things.
00:19:20.000But I don't think I put enough time into it.
00:19:22.000But I think the general concept is you have to relate to the value of what you're getting.
00:22:10.000The number one networking thing you should find is a future spouse or future husband.
00:22:15.000And so, again, a man who wants to win, a woman will care a lot more about having a real career.
00:22:21.000And so we should not have shame in that at all.
00:22:23.000In fact, we're seeing marriage rates collapse, fertility rates collapse, dating rates collapse.
00:22:28.000Maybe we should celebrate the people that go to college for the purpose of building a life, finding a spouse, and having kids.
00:22:36.000And Daisy says, GCU is amazing for, I didn't even mention the college, for my faith, finding a husband and making more lifelong Christian friends.
00:24:03.000No, I wanted to ask, as a Catholic, I always get asked by a lot of people who claim to be religious how I don't support Democrats prominently like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi because they claim to be Catholic because I don't morally stand with them.
00:24:21.000Their morals are completely opposed to what I believe in.
00:24:24.000But they always ask me, how can I stand firmly with Donald Trump, who's a quote-unquote rapist, womanizer, sexist, horrible individual?
00:24:32.000How can I argue theologically against that?
00:24:36.000So I will give you a more Protestant view, but the Catholic view shouldn't be honestly that far off.
00:24:43.000Number one, in Catholic social teaching, there is a direct conflict of the sanctity of life between the platform of the Democrat Party and the platform of the Republican Party.
00:24:54.000Your response should first be, I am voting for platforms and policies, not personalities.
00:25:00.000I am voting for worldviews, not for one-liners that people say.
00:25:06.000And so in Catholic social teaching, there is a belief in the sanctity of life.
00:25:12.000The Catholic view is that by loving legal abortion, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are in flagrant defiance of Catholic moral teaching, and they should not be receiving communion unless they go to confession and repent of that sin.
00:25:26.000Not to mention, in the Democrat policy platform is the erosion of the family and natural law.
00:25:32.000We talk about the parents' party all the time.
00:25:34.000So what I'm getting at, I'll keep building this out, Nicholas, but the way I would respond is, guys, we're not voting for people.
00:25:57.000And it's very similar on the kind of the evangelical Protestant Side.
00:26:00.000Not to mention, under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, religious liberty was under threat.
00:26:05.000Catholic institutions, schools, hospitals, adoption agencies increasingly came under attack for refusing to comply with mandates that violate Catholic teaching on contraception, gender ideology, and same-sex adoption.
00:26:18.000And the other part of this, though, is that, which I think is very important, it's not about the individual.
00:26:34.000Are they being used for a bigger and a greater purpose?
00:26:38.000And I would argue, though, that President Donald Trump has been better for the Catholic cause than Joe Biden, who pretends to be a Catholic.
00:26:46.000Joe Biden pretends to go and get communion every Sunday and calls himself a serious Catholic.
00:26:53.000I think Donald Trump, who is not Catholic, has actually been better for the cause of Catholics than Joe Biden himself.
00:26:59.000So that's how I would respond at times.
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00:29:24.000So that is the question, is that if it applies to presidential immunity, I imagine it would be while Obama was president, almost certainly.
00:30:42.000And the reason I sit on the fence now is if you put a salary cap in, it actually favors MLB and owners to not invest in the team and keep more in their back pocket for themselves.
00:31:20.000And the reason being is I'll be okay with it.
00:31:21.000And the reason being, real quick, he is the one with the rule changes and they need someone young and he has all the ties to the owners and the owners like him.
00:31:49.000I came away with some brilliant friendships as well.
00:31:52.000Here in the UK, I regularly speak out about my Conservative beliefs through social media and to friends and different debates, even in the face of relentless backlash that I get, including death threats from the so-called tolerant left, especially when I voice my opinions on issues such as the trans agenda and stuff here in the UK.
00:32:13.000Sadly, many of my friends who are Conservative are afraid to speak up.
00:32:17.000They're worried that they'll be targeted the same way I have.
00:32:19.000They've seen the abuse that I've received.
00:32:23.000What advice would you give to them to stand their ground and speak the truth?
00:32:27.000Look, the UK is a very difficult situation Right now, the best advice I can have is: you need to hold your ground and try to create an overwhelming grassroots majority of a free speech culture.
00:32:40.000As you know, police can knock on your door if you have bad posting.
00:33:05.000And that is why courage, I think, is the ultimate virtue.
00:33:08.000Without it, you don't have any other virtues.
00:33:09.000You can't be free if you are not brave.
00:33:11.000And so what is needed is a group of young people, especially young men, need to be willing to say the unpopular thing, even when there is a great social cost attached.
00:33:22.000I don't want to kind of crap too much on your country, but your country's in trouble.