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00:03:47.000AI worship music, and we still want to talk about that.
00:03:49.000But then, hot off the presses dropping in like a comet from the skies, mere minutes before we went live, President Donald Trump dropped his canonical ranking of the United States presidents with like 15 presidents missing, which is pretty funny.
00:04:09.000But everyone has to break down President Trump's list of greatest presidents because honestly, it's a pretty funny ranking.
00:04:18.000He has Woodrow Wilson and FDR as great presidents.
00:04:21.000He has Ronald Reagan as not a president.
00:05:28.000He likes the assertive foreign policy.
00:05:30.000I think McKinley was also a tariff guy that Trump liked.
00:05:34.000That's actually a president he looks up to.
00:05:36.000Yeah, I think I was going to say, I think maybe somebody else made this and sent it to him because he does post a lot of stuff that other people make and then send over.
00:05:46.000So I think it's more like the way to read this is more like Trump is at the top and then Biden, Obama, Harding, and Carter are at the bottom.
00:07:08.000Again, in those lists, Coolidge got ranked lowly mainly because historians are biased towards exciting presidents, and Coolidge was not exciting.
00:07:33.000Woodrow Wilson should be in the failures.
00:07:34.000It's really interesting that they left off JFK and Reagan.
00:07:38.000I think I know the reason for Reagan, but JFK, they actually put so the Trump administration last term, they issue a special Christmas ornament every year, right?
00:08:26.000Hoover as average, that's really glaring.
00:08:29.000I would put JFK in the near great Depression.
00:08:33.000You can simp for Hoover a little bit if you want and say he doesn't deserve as much blame, but objectively, it was a failed presidency in the sense that.
00:08:42.000Was a giant crash, was totally defined by it, gets wiped out on his shot for reelection.
00:08:47.000I don't know how you'd spin Hoover positively.
00:08:50.000I don't know how you spin that positively.
00:11:13.000This is like totally what those 20th century historians would do that Woodrow Wilson gets a bonus because he presided over dramatic events.
00:11:20.000Like, we were in World War I and we won.
00:11:23.000Buchananan writes, the near greats are.
00:11:26.000Teddy Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, John Adams, and James K. Post.
00:11:29.000Okay, I don't understand the Grover Cleveland one.
00:11:53.000He fought corruption, veto power, used the presidential veto hundreds of times to block private pension bills and federal subsidies he viewed as wasteful or unconstitutional, earning a reputation as a watchdog over public funds.
00:12:06.000Executive independence, he Fiercely protected the power and autonomy of the executive branch, restoring a balance of power between the presidency and Congress.
00:12:25.000I think it's amusing how it definitely seems to be channeling.
00:12:30.000It's probable that someone sent it to him and it was a mixture of that 1996 ranking and then making sure to throw in Biden and Obama as terrible.
00:13:47.000That was an unwavering commitment to his faith, his love for his family, and his genuine desire to encourage others to live with courage and conviction.
00:13:56.000Charlie believed that following Christ wasn't something you compartmentalize.
00:14:00.000He didn't put it in a box, he lived it out loud.
00:14:02.000It shaped how he lived, how he served, how he treated people every single day.
00:14:07.000Charlie Kirk, American Martyr, captures that heart.
00:14:11.000Just simply about remembering Charlie.
00:14:13.000It's an invitation for each of us to ask what kind of legacy we're building and whether we're willing to stand firm in our own faith when it's tested.
00:14:22.000I hope that you'll watch it with your family and have those conversations together.
00:15:04.000The ever evolving legacy of Ronald Reagan.
00:15:07.000I feel like the amnesty stuff, his wife being pro abortion, he was a big spender.
00:15:13.000Yeah, it's funny because people get ranked by things that they consider important today more so than what was important at the time.
00:15:20.000So, in the immediate and the during and immediate after, the idea was he was hawkish, and then we won the Cold War basically right after he left office.
00:15:28.000And so it was natural to get credit for that.0.89
00:15:32.000If you take the incredible inflationary period that he basically came after Jimmy Carter, got the economy rip roaring again, the 80s were an objectively all American period.
00:15:44.000But now it's a time where we have the Caldwell thesis where he says Reagan just decided to fix the crisis of the 60s and 70s with permanent deficit spending.
00:15:55.000And that wasn't really that bad in the 80s because we were starting from zero.
00:16:01.000It's just kept going since then, so he's going to get blamed for the fact now we have $40 trillion, and he didn't borrow the vast majority of that, but he established the practice.
00:16:11.000And I think people are going to blame him for that.
00:16:13.000He also wanted, what do you call it, space lasers?
00:16:44.000So, this next thing we've wanted to talk to for a little while, in fact, there was an article from a year ago that highlighted that this was emerging as a phenomenon.
00:16:52.000It was titled, It was in Christianity Today, and it was The Current Number One Christian Artist Has No Soul.
00:16:58.000And someone who was topping a chart, it was a guy on Spotify, Solomon Ray, a Mississippi made soul singer with Southern Soul Revival, and he had.
00:17:09.000A Soulful Christmas was his album, and it had Jingle Bell Soul and Soul to the World.
00:17:13.000And he had over 300,000 monthly listeners.
00:17:16.000And it turned out that that guy was not a real person.
00:17:22.000And it's one thing we know there's going to be a ton of AI generated slop imagery, there's slop videos, slop music.
00:17:29.000But this guy was specifically releasing Christmas Christian soul music generated by an AI.
00:17:36.000I don't know if we have one for that specific guy, but we did have the team get a bunch of them.
00:21:19.000Like, that's exactly how he comes across to me.
00:21:22.000Before we continue, I think we should actually evaluate how strong this is.
00:21:25.000So they were gonna, they were grabbing, you know, because they were going for the Protestant music and, you know, more classical Christian hymns.
00:21:33.000And then they went and they got Latin Gregorian chant music.
00:23:32.000Well, I will say, though, that just on that, that, you know, that, you know, like, we don't listen to, you know, Gregorian chant while we're driving around or something.
00:23:45.000But we will actually throw that kind of stuff on when, so like, we do a family rosary every week.
00:23:51.000And, you know, so when we're saying the family rosary, we do tend to listen to Gregorian chant and that kind of stuff, or if we're like, you know, on the way to church or something.
00:24:00.000And it just kind of puts you in that worshipful mood, I feel like.
00:24:06.000So, as Forrest Frank says, it's something with no soul.
00:24:10.000In fact, you could even argue like it's a machine.
00:24:14.000You could say that the AIs are developed by people who are usually like very anti Christian in their outlook, post Christian, and some of them are, might even literally be kind of, Modern day Satanists, or something.
00:24:26.000They want to deify humankind, or whatever.
00:24:28.000So, to use one of their machines to generate worship music, I guess here's a question.
00:24:33.000It's definitely one is it a valid act of religious piety to create AI generated worship music?
00:24:41.000Like, if you give it guidelines and then they generate the music, is that valid?
00:24:45.000Or does the words of the song, the music, the recording of it, does that all need to come by human hands as an act of worship, as an act of sort of musical prayer to be valid?
00:24:57.000Or is this Is it kind of like playing an instrument?0.93
00:24:59.000And it wouldn't be bad for you to play a piano or a violin, even if it was made by a non believer, if you were using it towards good ends.0.95
00:25:06.000Could you say the same thing for this music?0.99
00:25:09.000Or is it bad, as Forrest Frank says, bad?
00:25:34.000But also that I do think that you are probably losing something that if you are putting something on and you are intending for it to be a prayerful background to if your family's praying, if you're using it for, I don't know, in a prayer service, for example, or something like that, that if you're using AI, it's cutting through the point of.
00:27:28.000And remember, whyrefi doesn't care what your credit score is.
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00:27:38.000I think with AI in general, there's healthy AI and there's unhealthy AI.
00:27:43.000I think the healthy AI is when it's doing tasks or things that Are monotonous or that will save people money and that allow people to do other jobs that are more intensive or better for society.
00:28:02.000I think when you have the computers or a really nefarious entity controlling things where they can start to manipulate the things that you're not paying attention to, just like the media, right?
00:28:14.000So, like, the whole argument with like the fake news and all that is that it got.
00:28:20.000It became so controlled and so one direction that people started slipping and not noticing that they were lying to you over and over and over and over and over until the lies got bigger and bigger until people finally kicked a lot of it to the curb.
00:28:34.000It did subtly move us in a bad direction here.
00:28:36.000In 2015, 2016, that's really when it started happening, people were like, okay, basically, in 15 years since the launch of cable news, 24 hour news cycle, the journalists destroyed media effectively in 15 years.
00:28:58.000If we're not careful, even computers essentially will start to manipulate us and people will figure it out and then discard it and start to discard it.
00:29:08.000And so that's where you have to be careful is like, hey, if you're not paying attention or you lean way too much into it and you're like, oh, yeah, I trust it.
00:29:16.000That's way more complicated than my take.
00:29:27.000That's kind of the Forrest Frank take, though.
00:29:30.000It's like, hey, they could insert really bad things along the way.
00:29:35.000Like, if you're not paying attention to it and you're just listening to it, you're not listening to what the words say, or that's actually from someone that's well intended, then all of a sudden it can become something very evil.
00:29:45.000But I also think it's just like, it's kind of like you don't want to date a robot.
00:29:48.000You don't want to worship to a song that didn't have the Holy Spirit, somebody that didn't write it who had the Holy Spirit in it, right?
00:30:02.000The Gregorian part, though, is like, I mean, there's certain to a certain extent that computers already do handle the music part, maybe not the writing part, maybe not the words part, right?
00:30:12.000But like, so I think there's elements of music.
00:30:30.000So, like, so one of the things is like, I think people are getting sick of.
00:30:34.000You can tell AI generated graphics and stuff like that, right?
00:30:38.000But there's an element to that that's the exact same, right?
00:30:40.000Which is like, you know, new ideas are never going to basically spring forth in the same kind of way, like in a very human way, if AI takes over all graphic design.
00:31:00.000But in the scriptures, they talk about the angels singing in heaven and all of these things.
00:31:04.000I mean, Music and melody are so knit into the human experience and into the way we've been designed by a creator that to take that out of the realm of human creation, I don't like it.
00:31:16.000Now, you could say we created the AI which created the music, therefore it's almost like, but I just don't think it doesn't know.
00:31:24.000But apparently, a lot of people do because to Forrest Frank's point, it's like number one and number two on the charts, which is very strange.
00:31:32.000It's getting me thinking on an interesting topic, which is so if we should consume this as an act of worship created by.
00:32:34.000There must be people who, there must be popular Christian music out there that was maybe just written by a producer to keep someone's career going.0.91
00:32:41.000Or by Christians that ended up falling away or falling in sin.0.94
00:32:44.000And they were just writing what they thought people were going to die with.0.58
00:33:40.000But yours is if God can use AI worship music to bring more souls into heaven, then darn it, that.0.51
00:33:47.000A lot of American Baptists are legit challenges.
00:33:50.000I've heard this from a lot of evangelicals, specifically American Baptists, and then also Mormons say this a lot is that if it wasn't for the advances in American society, particularly, I mean, like technological advances, technological advances, like so many things, that a lot of the gospel wouldn't be spread as quickly as it has been.
00:34:14.000Yeah, but again, that's human messengers using radio waves.
00:34:18.000It's not just human messengers, but yeah, but it's like the invention of the internet.
00:34:59.000But again, like, but you can make the argument AI is going to be much better at that today than, like, even in the 1800s, people translating the Bible.
00:35:07.000But some of that, some of the translation work is kind of more of an art than a science, right?
00:35:11.000It's like you're trying to best define a word that doesn't have an actual counterpart in English, for example, out of the Greek or the Hebrew or Arabic.
00:36:33.000But they are, they're, They're, you know, they're like more and more being consumed and controlled by the internet.
00:36:40.000But going back to my point, I'll give you an example of this where we can tie this back to last week because we were talking about this on human events where, you know, it's like so much of the stuff you see on the algorithms are performative.
00:36:53.000So some like the Lindsey Clancy stuff was like very performative, but it also does well on TikTok.
00:37:00.000So the algorithm just knows to feed it because the algorithm can't see, oh, this is abhorrent because it's child abuse.
00:37:08.000Or, and then the response to it as well.
00:37:09.000The algorithm just sees, oh, people like this, so I should favor this more, so I should generate more of this.
00:37:15.000And then the creator sees it and says, oh, this is getting more views, so I'm going to make more of these videos.
00:37:20.000So at some point, we have to ask who's actually in control, right?
00:37:24.000Is the algorithm in control, or is the person actively deciding this is what I want to talk about today and this is what I want to do?
00:37:32.000I'm just thinking of edge cases that could exist on this AI worship music concept.
00:37:36.000Like, let's say, You have an artist who's deceased now, and it could be a great Christian artist or someone who straddles the line, like we could say Johnny Cash.
00:37:46.000Let's say there is a Christian song you really like, and you want to use AI to make a Johnny Cash singing it version of it.
00:39:09.000Because, and we should be careful about whether or not these things are actually bringing people to the Lord or some facsimile of the Lord that they think is the Lord, right?
00:39:19.000Because what's different ultimately, and I think what leads to the uncomfortability is that it's the act of creation is not tied in with the spirit itself.
00:39:29.000The act of creation, they threw the book up, yeah, it's unhuman, right?
00:39:36.000Of course, the second edition of Unhumans is now out, Socialist Revolution.0.55
00:39:40.000But we're talking about unhumans in a different sense here.
00:39:43.000But this is giving over that which is meant to be our spiritual core to an unhuman, by definition, Algorithm, machine learning, LLM, whatever you want to call it, that we know is designed by some nerds in Silicon Valley.
00:39:58.000And so the act of creating something that is actually worshipful should be done by a human.
00:40:04.000It's an extremely human act that's meant to tie us to the divine or tie us to some creation.
00:40:11.000And I kind of agree with Forrest Frank on that.
00:40:15.000Like, if you are not a temple of the Holy Spirit, then can you truly create something that will lead others to the The true spirit, the true God that made you.
00:42:28.000Like, you're going to, you're going to, you're not even going to have an idea that the music is AI because you're going to think that the person singing the song who is AI, it was a real person.
00:44:07.000And so in their lawsuit, and I don't have the exact quotes, but wasn't this a big part of the settlement?
00:44:13.000And they just did the 16 billion, and some people say it's not enough, some people say you should do more, and for sure, right, regarding kids.
00:44:19.000But I believe that in part of their settlement, One of the things that they were saying was, I'm totally paraphrasing, and if I get this wrong, I'm happily open to correction, but they were saying that we don't really control the algorithm, that the algorithm is just based on sort of what users input and how they interact on the platforms.
00:44:43.000And Blake, you've talked about this a lot before about algorithmic content, that they've set it up and it's become so automated and so AI.
00:44:54.000Switched in terms of like this equals that and everything all equals the rest of it, that there's no one human who's actually sitting there picking and choosing what goes up and what comes down.
00:45:04.000And so, one of the issues with that, obviously, is that, you know, people are looking for more controls to be put on there specifically for kids.
00:45:14.000But ultimately, the biggest point of it is that, like, they're not even capable of answering the question of what goes viral and what doesn't.
00:47:40.000If those centers are built and the local governments aren't ensuring that there's enough power for those data centers, then it's going to increase electricity costs for everybody else.
00:47:50.000And so, what we think the data centers have got to do is they've got to work with the local governments, with the state governments, and in the federal government, we are trying to do everything that we can so that if you build a data center, for example, you can just build a power plant right next door.
00:48:05.000What I think we ought to be working towards is you build those data centers and electricity costs come down for American citizens instead of going up for American citizens.
00:48:17.000We've got to make sure that they're good neighbors so that when they come in and build these great buildings, The people in their neighborhood, the people in their community benefit too, and that's through lower power.
00:48:27.000That's the best way they can be good neighbors.
00:48:31.000And what's amazing about this is for those who haven't followed, but you probably have, is that data centers are about as popular as cancer.
00:48:38.000They have, it's like Gallup says about, has found about 70% of Americans oppose constructing AI data centers in their community.
00:48:56.00061% of Americans oppose a data center in their community, including 47% of Republicans.
00:49:02.000It appears that really the only group that is pro data center at all is fanatical Trump supporters, like hardcore MAGA, who basically just say, I like what President Trump likes.
00:49:30.000Maybe it was something you're thinking about doing.
00:49:32.000Vivek, either way, put out a pledge to Ohioans first, and it got a bunch of news because he basically said data centers should bring down the property taxes for everybody.
00:50:38.000Bridges and roads that are poorly maintained, or that are ever like people lose their minds if, like, their entire community, like what they did in Boston, was like they took out a bunch of these major freeways, replaced them with parks, and it looks better and it's more livable.
00:50:52.000And yeah, it's the same thing with data centers, it doesn't, it's infrastructure, right?
00:50:55.000The tunnels, but people lose their minds, like, literally lose their minds if they start realizing, like, oh, well, I guess if we don't put them in our community, they have to go in super lib communities, right?
00:51:05.000Like, and the democrats would be happy to control your data centers and control all the data coming flowing in and out, and then ultimately.
00:51:11.000You know, working together with those big corporations to invade your privacy.
00:51:15.000Or even the worst thing China gets them all.0.97
00:51:18.000We have a clip on this, by the way.1.00
00:51:20.000And it's like, so it's like, okay, yeah, damned if you do and you put them in and they're ugly and, you know, they take up your community and your water and whatever.0.99
00:53:39.000This includes, so I mean, we have a map.
00:53:41.000I mean, so even you have red states or red earth states, right?
00:53:45.000And in Boise and Salt Lake, in Las Vegas and Phoenix and Tucson, where a lot of these data centers are being pitched, it's like, okay, the Democrats are going to like, if you don't, if Republicans don't want to involve themselves.
00:54:01.000And be in the middle of this negotiation, these conversations, libs, like progressive, very progressive libs, are also going to control all of that.
00:54:10.000And you know how much money is going to flow through these data centers?
00:54:13.000It's going to be, it's the new farming.
00:54:15.000It's basically like our century's version of the questions.
00:54:20.000And we don't want to get behind the eight ball like we did with the Democrat Party on farms and our farmers, because now we have the Republicans are like totally figured it out, everything else.
00:54:30.000But that's not how it was 50 years ago, 60 years ago.
00:54:33.00060 years ago, the left controlled all of the farmland across America, and that's why the maps look so different.
00:54:40.000We do not want to start from a starting point, in my opinion, where conservatives are not at the table negotiating with the modern version of farmland.
00:55:52.000Azuzu's pedals says if the data centers make their own power plants and they sell additional electricity for half of what the local electric company charges, maybe people would consider it.
00:56:00.000That is, in fact, what has been happening that President Trump made it so to get these up faster if the companies build their own power plants, which is not that efficient overall.
00:56:09.000It would be better if we were just building big overall power plants.
00:56:13.000But they are building small power plants to power these and they are offloading.
00:56:16.000I can't imagine they're very pretty looking.
00:56:28.000Yeah, so I threw in a while ago, I think back in like April, I rolled out this idea similar to what Tyler was saying is that they're already being in negotiations.
00:56:37.000So obviously, you need to provide something to the community, whether it's jobs, whether it's reducing electric costs, but also I said, why not provide something positive and tangible?
00:56:47.000And so other people have said they could, you know, they could fix up these downtowns for people and they could fix up churches and they could sponsor the town fireworks or help to, you know, rebuild baseball stadiums and football fields and things like that, you know, Friday night lights, you know, in Texas.
00:57:05.000Or, and this was my big thing, I said, restore the malls.
00:57:10.000Go and bring back some kind of third place where people can go.
00:57:17.000Where people can congregate, you know, buy up the old malls and say, you know what, we're going to fix these up.
00:58:44.000Like, 90% of the state of Nevada is under federal control right now, yeah.
00:58:49.000And it's like, and there's so much ugly, and like, most of it's not even if you build it there, you're not building it in like a national park, you could just build it.
00:58:55.000No offense to our Nevadans, but there's some really ugly desert in Nevada, like, some of the ugliest.
00:59:01.000The problem is, of course, is they don't usually over the world.
00:59:04.000Arizona has some beautiful desert, and there's some ugly desert, but.
00:59:08.000Arizona has way more beautiful desert than the rest of these states.
00:59:10.000The dynamic here, of course, is a reason they don't build in those places is they want to be able to build them quickly and you can build and have them connected to stuff with like power.
00:59:18.000And that is most accessible on the fringes of big cities.
00:59:22.000That's why they want the most data centers are in the Bay Area and they're in Loudoun County.
00:59:28.000So they're at the most economically developed parts of the country.
00:59:30.000My biggest concern is that China is going to be building data centers.
00:59:38.000But here's the, I mean, Elon Musk thinks he's going to be able to build data centers in space and get free energy from the sun and free cooling from just the fact that space is cool.
01:00:58.000I mean, it's ominous because you just think of those ultra humanoid robots, and then that's going to be the warfare of the future is one of these horrifying humanoid robots.
01:04:14.000Jack, what do you think about the last, we got to wrap up here, but what do you think about this whole renaming Lake Ontario?
01:04:20.000So my take on it was that, you know, it actually does highlight the northern border because while we think about the Great Lakes as just sort of this, you know, feature of America, it is actually part of our northern border.
01:04:33.000And it is something that requires a little bit of focus.
01:04:36.000And hey, if this lets us focus on our northern border, then so be it.