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00:02:04.000If we had to break it down like this, this is a question Blaker and I are always interested in.
00:02:08.000You know, Gen Z students and our chapter leaders.
00:02:12.000On campus, among your chapter, conservatives that probably voted for Trump if they were old enough to or supported him, what are the biggest concerns or issues?
00:02:22.000What's the number one topic that you guys are currently worried about or talking about on campus?
00:02:27.000We'll start with University of Alabama.
00:02:29.000I would say we talk a lot about foreign policy right now.
00:02:32.000A lot of people are really invested in that.
00:03:00.000They're like, I don't know if I can trust Turning Point about all the like rumors and lies that are going around.
00:03:04.000And they're wondering, What is the truth?
00:03:05.000Like, are we hearing the truth or are we still looking about like with the admin, with the administration, with the war and everything, with um, Turning Point and All the stuff that's going on with the trial and stuff.
00:03:18.000I would say at UC Berkeley, there's a lot of things that we discuss.
00:03:21.000And I think it's kind of hard to pinpoint the number one thing.
00:03:24.000So I'll probably put in a number one tie, which is economics and abortion.
00:03:30.000Similarly to what you guys said, we talk a lot about Trump's war in Iran and specifically the fact that he did say he wasn't going to start any wars when he was campaigning.
00:03:41.000And a lot of my chapter members are split.
00:03:56.000There was, I feel like there's a lot of promises that were told by Trump, like releasing Epstein, no new wars, lower gas prices.
00:04:02.000And a lot of people are saying that we have, we're technically not at war officially.
00:04:07.000The Epstein files still haven't fully been released and gas prices are high.
00:04:10.000And I've seen a lot of people like, ooh, can I fully trust Trump since he ran on these promises and they're not fully coming through right now?
00:05:43.000But somehow the lore became that he was going to, this was like a top issue for him.
00:05:48.000And I think it's, to be fair, it's keeping in the spirit of what we heard on the campaign trail because he was asked about JFK, MLK, all these files.
00:05:57.000And he was like, ah, full transparency.
00:05:58.000And it's what a lot of swing voters who swung towards him were interested in.
00:06:07.000Right when anything came out about Trump saying anything about the Epstein files or releasing them, people want to know who did all those horrible things.
00:06:13.000And once something came out or some of his team started talking about the media, it's like, let's run this, let's blow it up.
00:06:18.000I feel like that's why it's such a big talking point, is because even though he only said like once or twice, he said it is something that I feel like if you ask everyday person on the streets, like, oh, that was one of Trump's main running points.
00:06:40.000But I understand it was really important to the base.
00:06:43.000It was really important to our students, for example.
00:06:45.000And who it wasn't important to was the Democrats in Congress or in Washington, because they didn't really mention it at all during Biden's years, only until they realized, oh, MAGA really cares about this.
00:06:58.000And then they used it as a political weapon against President Trump.
00:07:31.000So, and then you said, so we've got economy, AI, abortion, which is, Great that you can't imagine that's a live issue in California right now.
00:09:46.000And I just think we need to do something.
00:09:48.000They want to believe it's more complex.
00:09:49.000But do you think what I struggle with is why they seem to want it so badly to be people basically on the right when it seems all the evidence points towards a.
00:10:01.000Person with a left wing motivation, which it's been pointed out that it seems like you could, if you wanted to politically exploit it, you could point out a left wing radical killed someone for left wing reasons and the left celebrated it.
00:10:18.000Yeah, and the left really did nothing to undercut that narrative, it is entirely people on the right who have undercut that to attack themselves.
00:10:27.000To Blake's point, she's even offered to help Tyler Robinson's defense.
00:10:32.000I think it's because Candace is one of the only people speaking up about it.
00:10:35.000I feel like people on the left or even people on the right are like trying to not pinpoint it on the left, except for the people that are believing what actually happened.
00:10:43.000So I think that's why it's people are turning to people that are on the left.
00:10:59.000So when you're tabling on campus, for example, are you getting these types of questions from Conservatives, or mostly from left wing students, or both conservatives, yeah.
00:11:09.000Unfortunately, but I'm a very logical person, and so I try to look at it as if this was to be such a planned and perfectly executed setup, why would they make it so easy to disprove?
00:11:24.000For instance, I've seen people saying that the gun used to kill Charlie, impossible that it you know wouldn't have made that small of an impact, or impossible to dismantle.
00:12:33.000But like, truly, truly remarkable and evil, vile.
00:12:38.000Like, I know I'm being sort of calm here, but like, deeply angering what has been done because Charlie was assassinated, and then Candace and her ilk have taken it upon themselves to character assassinate Erica.
00:12:55.000And, you know, there was a post by Data Republican where Candace got, you know, very badly ratioed, which was great to see, candidly, because it shows a sea change.
00:13:05.000But she mentioned that, actually, it was a post before that, but it was also from Data Republican, where she mentioned that Candace had been saying, if Erica says to stop, I'll stop.
00:13:15.000She's the only one who can get me to stop, I guess, and her husband.
00:14:26.000But there was none because they were devoted to each other.
00:14:29.000Everybody on the team, Could see it every time we landed a plane anywhere, and he got off and we got in the car, it was like instantly called Erica, had her on FaceTime or whatever app he was using, and was like showing her and the kids to everyone.
00:14:44.000We're in the car, yeah, it was laughing, yeah.
00:14:47.000And I mean, like, there's just nothing but love and respect and mutual admiration.
00:14:53.000And uh, anyway, so to see it get so bastardized publicly is like for our lived experience versus the online.
00:15:01.000These people, and it's not everybody, just to be clear, I believe the vast, vast majority of people love Erica.
00:15:06.000It's like, it's these accounts that get off and get views by like attacking her.
00:15:26.000In October, even in October, when this is just starting, she says, she's saying, I think this was a regicide to install a ruler Charlie would not approve of.
00:15:35.000Well, There's only one person she can be referring to.
00:16:35.000We can definitely expect to see them tracking his cell phone data and where did it ping?
00:16:40.000I mean, they've already said that they pulled all that cell phone evidence off the phone, right?
00:16:46.000And they wouldn't have presented this very elaborate tracking of him on campus, these compilation videos, if they didn't also.
00:16:56.000Corroborate that with cell phone data and ping data.
00:16:58.000So, just things you can look forward to.
00:17:00.000And there's the fact of absence, too, which is if there was obvious phone data providing an alibi, the defense could have gotten up and said, okay, this is all stupid.
00:17:48.000Which is something she always demands to see.
00:17:51.000So there's just piece after piece after piece where it's the dog that didn't bark.
00:17:56.000If the state or if the defense felt that these things would be helpful to them in precluding this going to trial, Why wouldn't they bring it up?
00:18:06.000Well, one of the hardest things is that someone who supports Candace, they excuse all of her comments and accusations and conspiracies by saying she's just asking questions.
00:18:28.000Would you say the people who get enraptured by this, what's their overall political engagement?
00:18:35.000Do they tend to engage a lot with conspiracy theories?
00:18:38.000Are they people who seemed more even keeled and then they got fixated on this?
00:18:43.000Just kind of describe them a bit more.
00:18:44.000Yeah, a lot of the people that follow Candace's ideologies tend to also follow other conspiracy lines, which we'll have conspiracy debates.
00:18:57.000I think it's important to talk about everybody's opinions.
00:19:13.000Even with Erica and with what Charlie, it really is about Israel, right?
00:19:17.000So, you know, there are these allegations that Turning Point is controlled by Jewish money.
00:19:23.000And then, actually, one of the things that kind of forced me to get into the mud with the pigs on this one was this allegation that Turning Point had been offered $150 million or whatever the amount was.
00:19:53.000Our board has bylaws that we cannot take foreign money, even if it's laundered through AIPAC or something like that.
00:20:00.000If it's American Jewish donors, if you know the provenance of the money, you can't take it.
00:20:06.000Secondly, Charlie would tell donors to go pound sand all the time if the vision wasn't aligned or the mission wasn't aligned.
00:20:13.000And thirdly, Charlie just wouldn't have taken it.
00:20:16.000None of those things even happened, though.
00:20:18.000If he would have asked me, this was the other allegation that I was really upset because I was going to make all this money if he took it and he turned it down, I would have told him no.
00:20:29.000We have so many good things going that why would you get bogged down with some very awful foreign money that would tie your hands or make you do certain things?
00:20:40.000My accountant would love to have a word with her because I would have no way to absorb that money, anyways.
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00:22:10.000But getting back to that, it is, yeah, it's like Israel is the driving force of this.
00:22:16.000Is this just the way a lot of kids on campus are?
00:22:18.000It's sort of a multi path tree, and everything just ends up at Israel again.
00:22:53.000They're very seductive to think that the whole world is 5D chess and there's like some evil like back.
00:22:57.000Room smoke filled parlor where they're plotting, you know, the chess pieces on the global stage, and the Jews are behind it all.
00:23:05.000Like, it's very seductive to Illuminati, yeah.
00:23:07.000It's very, it's very, you need a lot of stuff to present forward to like uh refute a very small amount of like sentencing.
00:23:15.000So, and praising, so where do you see this going?
00:23:18.000I suppose, is what I wonder because it's it struck me that it's been rising in this trend has been rising for at least since COVID, really for the past decade, pretty consistent.
00:23:29.000Yeah, since Q, and then you had COVID, and then to be fair.
00:23:32.000The COVID was, there was a lot of lies told during COVID.
00:23:36.000There was a lot of lies told about Hunter Biden.
00:23:38.000I still have a lot of questions about 2020.
00:23:40.000So, it's not that institutions, powerful institutions, government institutions don't lie to the people.
00:24:15.000So it's very interesting because there's, in one way, where there are certain conspiracies or ideas and theories that can be valid in a sense if it aligns up with actual evidence that there is, if there's actual reason to have suspicion.
00:24:31.000But in this case, the conspiracy theorists are literally just ignoring all of the evidence and they have to run on a foundational view that all the evidence is just false.
00:24:41.000And that's why it goes back to the Jews.
00:24:51.000But the reason is because since all the evidence and all the facts point against them, they need to say that there is a way that a sort of global elite power or force is in control of all the evidence and they're not to be trusted, which is why there's no evidence because it's all being covered up by this powerful cabal of Jewish pedophiles.
00:25:17.000Jews, I think the founder of, was it OnlyFans or whatever, is a, is a, was it a guy?
00:25:23.000There's, you know, like, so, so they, they use all of these disparate facts and then it turns into the, the, uh, always sunny in Philadelphia and me where he's got the, like, you know, um, and, and so, but eventually it becomes low IQ, like conspiracy slop, right?
00:25:41.000Um, I'm curious, we asked another panel this too, but not specifically about the, the trial stuff.
00:25:46.000Does, like, at some point, does it, have you, Been feeling like the tide is turning, it's starting to get kind of like cringy, kind of like falling out of fashion.
00:26:13.000And sadly, we live in a generation where we have all these video games and movies and stuff.
00:26:16.000And anytime there's like a big crime in like a movie or something, it's a huge, like, Way to do it.
00:26:22.000Like there's always someone behind the bigger crime.
00:26:24.000And so when a movie brand, when something that happens in real life and it seems so simple, people are like, that's not possible.
00:26:29.000Well, and that's a great point because ultimately what happened to Charlie, and then I'll elaborate on this, but let's just say that Tyler Robbins had acted alone.
00:26:55.000And to think that some 22 year old, like, you know, I don't know what you want a psychotic sociopath that had a gay lover and wanted to, like, you know, kill Charlie to, you know, exact revenge for his lover or something.
00:28:30.000As a matter of fact, and Danny's told this story, before the debates, before the tour started, he would put together a prep binder and he would study it and he would go through it.
00:28:42.000And he actually said, you know, let's take a few pages out of the trans stuff.
00:29:15.000Was he radicalized by somebody in this space?
00:29:18.000Were there people that knew about it beforehand?
00:29:20.000And if they should, they should absolutely be held accountable.
00:29:22.000And I would, if something comes out that Lance Twiggs was more involved or knew more and failed to warn authorities, then he should be held accountable too.
00:29:30.000If he was a co conspirator, he should definitely be held accountable.
00:29:54.000I don't know what I would tell someone you should push your kid toward this career to be successful.
00:29:59.000Whereas I think 20 years ago, you could give a pretty easy script for this is a good thing to study if you want to have a secure career.
00:30:07.000So, what's the conversation about that with people in college?
00:30:10.000How do they feel about career prospects with rapid technological change?
00:30:15.000At Berkeley, I can say that a lot of us are very pro AI and we think that's going to be great.
00:30:19.000We're a very free market and there's a lot of reasons to avoid.
00:30:24.000Being sort of scared about artificial intelligence.
00:30:27.000And of course, there's the big fear mongering about it that it's going to take over all of our jobs because what happens when you have something that can do everything a human can, but better?
00:30:35.000And I notice when you start thinking about it, that's not usually the case that they're just going to take everything.
00:30:42.000If I were to give you an example, would you rather send your son to a school where it's just AI teachers, or would you rather send your son to a school where there's human teachers and human classmates with robot assistants?
00:30:55.000And I think the vast majority of people would rather do the latter, where there's the human teacher and the robot assistants.
00:31:04.000And the same thing for doctors and for help and all that, because you can actually be better by having the human connection and the human reasoning and alongside with the AI.
00:31:17.000And we've seen multiple, multiple times throughout the history of the United States, people will say, oh, this new innovation is going to.
00:31:25.000Take away a whole bunch of jobs and people are going to lose their jobs.
00:31:29.000But humans always find something else to do.
00:31:52.000I work in creative media doing like graphic design and stuff like that, and a lot of people are losing positions in that.
00:31:58.000I think AI has a lot of benefits, like if you want to get a general idea, but why would a company want to hire someone to do graphic design, video editing, when AI can do it in 10 seconds and for free?
00:32:10.000That's something that I've been having to struggle with a lot.
00:32:13.000And I don't think AI does a better job at making some sort of promotional material than a human can.
00:32:19.000But I have seen like firsthand jobs being taken from that.
00:32:24.000So it's not really affecting my career personally.
00:32:26.000But a lot of people are worried about it because graphic design is in my college and they're having to deal with a lot of that right now with securing jobs.
00:32:34.000I want to be clear the position is not that like, so the jobs that people have, they will still have.
00:32:40.000I think many of the jobs they will still have, and most of them, a lot of them will just be transformed.
00:32:43.000But it's that we will always find something else to do.
00:33:03.000And we see, I think, in the software industry, it's kind of interesting.
00:33:06.000There's an upward trajectory of jobs being made there, whereas that's one of the elements that AI affects.
00:33:13.000We've seen in the blue collar industry that AI has been.
00:33:17.000Um, you know, leading to prospects of it increasing.
00:33:20.000There are, there's a lot of one reason I want to ask is it does seem there's a lot of I'm certainly hearing the stories that hiring at the entry level has gotten very difficult.
00:33:30.000So I'm sure you guys have friends who are graduating and running into that.
00:33:34.000I was going to say, on her point with like the graphic designs, I know people that ask, like, even when we're tabling at Turning Point, they're like, Do you know if Turning Point used AI for graphics?
00:35:32.000I think you can see that a lot with curriculum, with the way that they do testing.
00:35:37.000And I think there's a way that it can kind of combine because it does help a lot of people study better, take tests better.
00:35:44.000But then on the other end of it, you have cheating, you have things like that.
00:35:47.000And I feel like within my first year, I didn't really learn anything because I could so easily turn to getting AI to give me the information.
00:35:55.000I think what schools are lacking on, they're not making anything harder.
00:35:58.000We have so much more technology, and it's like we still have to go to the library back in the 80s, grab a book and read a whole book to learn about something instead of knowing an AI the question, and they're not making it harder.
00:36:07.000They're falling behind AI when in reality they should be teaching kids how can we use AI to actually push us forward?
00:36:13.000Because at this point in time, if you're not using AI for the good, it's going to be evil.
00:36:17.000Or if you're not using AI, you will fall behind.
00:36:19.000No, it's not just academics, it's also creativity.
00:36:22.000People are, like you said, using it for art and people are using it for writing.
00:36:27.000And I'm sure if you ask ChatGPT to make you a music sheet with like a song on it, it could cook something up for you.
00:36:37.000Like, yes, you put in the prompt, but You're draining yourself of your God given talents and abilities to gain new capabilities.
00:36:45.000And anything done by AI, I have never interpreted it as better than something that the human mind could create.
00:36:52.000All the art that I've seen, I've seen way better art by people, any poems, any songs, like everything that AI has created, I don't see any originality because they don't have the complexity that our minds have.
00:37:17.000The reason why I say that, not when you're, yes, younger, I think paper pen, like teaching people, like, what's one plus one, two plus two?
00:37:28.000But what I was meaning is when you get older, when you're in high school and college, if you say, oh, you have to write everything paper pen, people will cheat.
00:37:35.000So why not just make the courses way harder and let them use AI?
00:37:45.000Certain contexts where you can use it.
00:37:47.000But in general, the deep, deep focus of reading a book, of something physical in your hands, of actually having to put your thoughts to paper without the help of AI, it activates the brain in a far more comprehensive way than just, you know, looking up the answers.
00:38:03.000Beyond the economic, do you guys see AI having a social effect?
00:38:08.000Like, do your friends talk about using AI as a therapist?
00:38:13.000I actually had a slideshow sent to me about sexual wellness and how, like, Sex bots and all this stuff can be helped to help people with sexual wellness.
00:38:20.000Like guys that can't get a girlfriend or have relationships, they can now just have AI robots to fill that like thing.
00:38:26.000And then when sex bots came in, there was something really disturbing on the slide where it even said, at a point, and this is a teacher teaching this, that well, so this was from Colorado State University.
00:38:35.000This is from a professor of sexual wellness class.
00:38:36.000I have the slideshow still on my phone.
00:38:38.000There was one line that said, Can we use sexual robots to help with pedophilia by making child resembling robots?
00:38:44.000Dear Lord, that's what they're teaching kids in the class.
00:38:46.000And so when you're having these teachers teach kids, like, hey, you can just now have AI for your partner.
00:38:51.000Now we have the full lust of an AI robot that you can do anything you want with, really.
00:38:55.000So it's like, are you a minor attracted person?
00:40:20.000Why would I want to ask an AI robot what it thinks about it?
00:40:23.000And half the time, with me being conservative leaning, it's like, Won't engage in it, wouldn't engage in conversation with you.
00:40:30.000But if I ask it like a democratic stance, it will talk about it.
00:40:32.000But if I talk about like something within conservative politics, it's like, I'm sorry, I can't give you a response that caters to one side of the yeah, what what chat.
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00:43:15.000So, it's like using AI as a thinking partner can be valid.
00:43:19.000Because there's a lot of information that is there, and there's a lot of ways it'll prompt your positions and oppress you, and it'll be good to think with.
00:43:29.000But the issue a lot of people run into is they start indexing all of their thinking to AI.
00:43:35.000I often say, with all the things that are going on in the political world right now, the left is often trying to take everything away from us, it seems.
00:43:43.000And the one thing they can't take away from us is our mind.
00:43:46.000And that's the one thing you can always focus on.
00:43:47.000You can always focus on being virtuous, on being more intelligent.
00:43:52.000And it is incredibly wrong for people to do that to themselves when they depend on an AI.
00:44:00.000Robot to tell them how to think, and they start living out their days not thinking critically, but instead being like, I wonder what this source of authority says, as if there's some button on the phone that gives you the truth.
00:44:10.000I mean, you and I have a direct experience with that, which is the Grok, is this true?
00:44:14.000that I love with the video with Charlie talking about.
00:44:18.000They just were saying, Grok, is this true?
00:44:21.000And because there was a window where they basically fooled Grok into saying, Yeah, this is an AI video.
00:44:27.000You can game Grok with community notes if you bombard the community notes, like, you know, and they have these like.
00:44:34.000Discord chats and these telegram chats were like, Oh, get that community noted.
00:44:38.000And so, uh, and that's the problem with the cult following is that they're really devoted and they'll go bomb the community notes.
00:44:44.000And then all of a sudden, the world thinks that the video that was shown at Women's Leadership Summit is AI, and it's when it wasn't.
00:44:49.000So, um, it does become a problem, but I agree with what you said that uh, you can use it.
00:44:54.000I use AI as sort of a research assistant, right?
00:44:57.000Uh, pulling together facts, disparate facts, uh, histories of different stories if I want to tie them together and things.
00:45:04.000And I think that's A totally valid way to use it.
00:45:08.000Oh, no, I was just going to say with his thing, critical thinking, when we ask AI a question, it gives us just the answer, but we don't know how it got the answer.
00:45:14.000And so much of learning for humans is how did you get to your answer?
00:45:18.000It's not about the destination of the answer, it's about the journey.
00:45:22.000I think that to an extent with that, I think AI has catered to what social media has given us with short term attention spans, like immediate gratification.
00:45:31.000A lot of people are losing that want for deeper understanding.
00:45:35.000And I'm not saying that they like, Have better lives that way.
00:45:38.000But I think that's why AI, I think AI is toning to the next addictive thing of like, you need the answer right away.
00:45:44.000You don't want to actually critically get to that point.
00:45:48.000I have a real cool question on this, and then I want to talk more hard politics.
00:45:53.000But data centers, do you guys hear, are people concerned about it?
00:46:04.000Yeah, they're worried about like, especially in Maine, they're trying to put a data center there.
00:46:09.000And a lot of people were concerned about the environmental impacts and water usage, and you know, kind of a crunchy granola state.
00:46:19.000So it's actually interesting because people haven't often been using it comparatively when they analyze like how much water, like AI or data centers actually use.
00:46:42.000And there's like all these things, you know, you hear something like a one prompt is like it's equivalent to a flush of a toilet or something like that.
00:46:48.000But you don't actually see how that is in comparison to all the other things that we use water on.
00:46:53.000So if we're going to, you know, start caring about that, then why not these other things?
00:46:57.000You know, golf courses are score, it's for, you do it for fun.
00:47:03.000But artificial intelligence has the ability to potentially save lives and do great things in the health industry.
00:47:11.000Be better for doctors and physicians are even analyzing it now, and they're seeing that there's a lot less problems with the way that I think GPT 5.6 is handling and diagnosing things.
00:47:24.000Do you worry when you guys encounter the anti data center stuff?
00:47:29.000What I worry about is is this just a manifestation that we're becoming, I guess I would say, like Europe in that there's just automatic skepticism towards something that's building anything or growing anything?
00:47:43.000So they're wary of data centers, but they'd also be wary of power plants or a factory or a highway or a train.
00:47:51.000So I'm going to start by saying it's probably a good thing to be skeptical.
00:47:56.000Usually, I've just, but that has to be everything.
00:47:58.000Like a lot of people are selectively skeptical and they just want to, you know, oppose something and be skeptical of it for some bias or some ideological reasons.
00:48:09.000I think I want to ask a kind of a broad question and see where it leads.
00:48:14.000Do you feel we kind of started here, but it's full circle.
00:48:19.000You know, has MAGA and has President Trump lived up to his promises or do you guys feel like he? didn't or hasn't or has yet to live up to those promises.
00:48:33.000And that's a broader question of what is the support for the president for this administration like now as opposed to after he won the election?
00:49:14.000I'm like, you know, I mean, I drive a truck, gas is that's expensive for me, and so it's like, yeah, I want gas prices to go down, but I also, I mean, I did vote for Trump.
00:49:24.000I need to kind of trust the process, and we have two more years, so it's like we will see.
00:49:28.000And after the we will see period of two more years, where will I go from that?
00:49:41.000If you look at the and you compare the policies and you see where we could have been versus where we're at now, I voted personally for Donald Trump and I'm very happy with my vote.
00:49:51.000And we've had that's something that people are just not talking about enough because the illegal border entries are just gone down drastically since the Biden administration, which is incredible.
00:50:45.000So I like a lot of what the Trump administration has done for Maine specifically.
00:50:51.000Like JD Vance just came to Maine to talk about the fraud issue that we are having, which means a lot because I feel like Maine gets pushed under the radar in the political.
00:51:16.000I was going to say about your other students.
00:51:18.000I'm really interested in yours specifically because Maine, Northern Maine especially, is one of those regions that swung from very blue to voting for Trump.
00:51:26.000It's kind of one of the best regions to get at.
00:52:01.000And so I think that personally, there are other bigger issues to be fighting in Maine right now than worrying about every caveat regarding the Trump administration.
00:53:03.000They forget the alternative, like what you said.
00:53:05.000I mean, I think it's way better than where it could have been.
00:53:08.000And I think they get so lost in what they're seeing online Trump did this bad thing, this bad thing, that they forget it could be a whole lot worse.
00:53:16.000And we can take a look at the economy, which the administration has been handling actually quite well.
00:53:21.000There's, you know, the unemployment rate is back to the rate of natural unemployment, which is, you know, where economists say that it should be under the Biden administration.
00:53:31.000And inflation, you know, of course, has been struggling a little bit more recently because of the Iran war, which I think was inevitable.
00:53:37.000But I could get into that if we talk about it.
00:53:41.000And, you know, personal income for median households has increased by about 5%.
00:53:47.000And we just don't see signs of a struggling economy.
00:53:49.000Everything has been stable and it's been going well.
00:53:52.000Whereas Kamala Harris, She wanted a 25% tax on unrealized gains.
00:53:56.000You're taxing money that hasn't existed yet and ever.
00:54:00.000And we saw the disasters of the Biden administration, how they handled inflation when they said, you know, there's a supply shock going on with COVID 19.
00:54:25.000Maybe a domestic policy that the Trump administration could announce, make a big deal out of that would fire up the people that you guys know in your chapters and on campus who are in that sort of dissatisfied, frustrated group of Trump voters.
00:54:44.000Well, I wish Trump was a little more pro life than he is.
00:54:48.000I think that protecting the unborn is very important.
00:55:08.000I was like, I didn't realize that up north it's a lot higher than that.
00:55:12.000And so, for college students that are only able really to be taking on a part time job, they're getting that degree, don't have anything specialized yet to be going into a higher workforce.
00:55:46.000I think it's also kind of our problem with being like, we basically have a mole on our phone.
00:55:50.000We can do anything we want at any time.
00:55:52.000So, of course, we're going to be bad with budgeting, especially when you grow up in that society and no one's telling you, hey, budget, budget, budget.
00:55:59.000Well, never forget Charlie with the buy now, pay later culture.
00:56:02.000I mean, there's a lot of, you know, I would say barriers or impediments to budgeting that have been injected into your guys' lives that previous generations didn't have to contend with.
00:56:14.000They would have been just as bad had they existed, but.
00:56:17.000You have to be much more disciplined now.
00:56:18.000Well, they don't teach in schools on a budget.
00:57:09.000I think more people need to study up on the supply and demand curve because it's really simple.
00:57:13.000And what a minimum wage is, it's effectively a price floor, is that this is the lowest amount that you can pay an employee.
00:57:22.000And that doesn't really protect the employees at all, I don't think, because not every job is supposed to be a minimum wage job or a living wage job.
00:57:30.000You could be doing something on the side, or you can have multiple jobs, or you have all these options available.
00:57:36.000And at California, you can get a job at McDonald's for $20 an hour, because that's what the fast food minimum rate is at.
00:57:43.000And what we see is the prices increase, of course, because when you increase the cost of the operations, the output is going to increase.
00:57:52.000But similarly, especially in local neighborhoods where There's a lower population, the amount of time that these base places are open reduces because it becomes no longer profitable to stay open until 11 p.m.
00:58:06.000So now you have a McDonald's closing at 8 p.m. or something random, and it's not actually producing enough output.
00:58:12.000So you reduce the amount that is occurring.
00:58:15.000But one last point on the whole thing, the price floor is reasonable or should be significant in this discussion, is what you're really doing with a price floor.
00:58:26.000Is you are eliminating the amount of transactions of people who are willing and able to work for that job for less money from actually occurring.
00:58:33.000Like, if reasonably, if I wanted to work at McDonald's for $10 an hour, I can't do that.
00:58:40.000And an employer might not want to hire me at the McDonald's for over that amount.
00:58:44.000But even though we're both willing and able to do the job for $10 an hour, that's just not going to happen.
00:58:50.000Yeah, I completely agree with you, by the way.
00:59:15.000I was going to say with minimum wage, ask small businesses if they're able to pay their employees more without going to business.
00:59:20.000If you're for raising minimum wage a ton, ask small businesses, talk to them, and be like, could you afford way higher pay for your employees?
01:01:08.000Uh, I think one reason Charlie was so valued by the president is he could give him raw honesty on what young people are saying and thinking about.
01:01:15.000So, yeah, and I know we have to wrap, but one thing you want to see that you think could help really quick.
01:01:23.000One thing from this administration is there anything that stands out that you really wish for like college kids specifically?