The Glenn Beck Program - January 09, 2025


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Glenn Beck speaks on the devastating fires in California and calls on Americans to have compassion and help the victims of the fires in the midst of the worst wildfire disaster in the state in recent memory. Glenn also talks about why we should not get caught up in the politics of politics.

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00:00:30.000 California wildfire, compassionate message that needs to be heard if we're going to change things in California.
00:00:37.180 A look back to what happened to the San Francisco earthquake, the fire of 1906,
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00:02:12.680 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:18.580 So let's talk about what's happening in California.
00:02:20.920 And my heart is truly heavy for those people who have families in California, the people in California that have lost their homes or stay.
00:02:31.100 Still fearing that they might lose their home, you know, this is a rate.
00:02:40.440 If you've never seen a forest fire, you can't really describe it.
00:02:44.600 It's almost like a tornado.
00:02:46.040 Unless you've been in a tornado or seen the the damage afterwards, you really don't know what you're talking about with a tornado.
00:02:54.240 It is unlike anything I've ever seen.
00:02:56.520 Same thing with a forest fire.
00:02:58.280 We had a small forest fire here up in the up in the mountains of Idaho.
00:03:06.100 Last summer, it was just about, I don't know, two miles down the street from me.
00:03:10.700 Luckily, the winds weren't there.
00:03:12.240 But if the winds had kicked up, it probably would have burned my house down.
00:03:16.540 I mean, it is you cannot describe a forest fire.
00:03:22.340 It is when it's out of control.
00:03:25.640 You have no chance.
00:03:27.640 Just get out of there. 0.77
00:03:29.620 And my heart breaks for people who are going through this right now and breaks for the people of California.
00:03:36.620 I let me address that person right now.
00:03:39.460 If you happen to be in California, know that you're not alone.
00:03:42.900 You may feel like the flames have stolen everything from you.
00:03:46.680 And I was thinking about this, well, this summer when I came back from that forest fire and thought all of this could be gone.
00:03:54.780 The things that you have in your house, they are just things.
00:03:57.860 But there are certain things, memories, pictures, things that you have collected over the years with your family that can't be replaced.
00:04:07.040 And I know what that must feel like.
00:04:11.280 But two things.
00:04:13.720 One, you're alive.
00:04:15.260 You have your family.
00:04:17.060 And help is on the way.
00:04:19.000 My charity, Mercury One, along with the Red Cross and everybody else, is working tirelessly to bring relief and comfort and assistance to those who are affected right now.
00:04:30.660 We are doing what our government is asking us to do.
00:04:35.440 We don't want to get into the way of forest or of firefighters.
00:04:39.220 They have enough trouble.
00:04:41.320 But I want to talk to you first with compassion about why this keeps happening and what California needs to do about it.
00:04:54.440 This is not my state.
00:04:55.680 This is their state.
00:04:57.740 But if you're asking for our help, you know, one of the hardest things I've ever had to do is I had a friend I went to church with.
00:05:11.220 And he called me one time and he said, Glenn, I really need, I don't remember what it was, let's just say $1,000, because I got to get home, some family stuff.
00:05:25.020 And I was about to say yes, but in my faith, it's the largest welfare program, I think, in the world.
00:05:37.360 And we take care of, you know, not just our own, but anybody who lives in the district of that particular church, the bishop is responsible for them and we have to take care of our neighbors.
00:05:51.220 And so with that, it's very orderly.
00:05:56.980 You know, when you have a problem or if there is a problem with a neighbor or something, you go to the church and say, hey, my neighbor who's not a member of the church is really in trouble.
00:06:06.140 Can you help?
00:06:07.780 And they usually will.
00:06:09.900 But with that, there are certain things that you have to do.
00:06:13.500 You, like, you just don't get free money, you know.
00:06:17.140 You have to change your life.
00:06:19.400 You'll take classes on how to, you know, manage money or whatever the thing is.
00:06:25.000 And so I said to this person, I was just about to say yes, and I said, hey, have you talked to the bishop yet?
00:06:31.920 And he said, no, no, I haven't.
00:06:34.200 Now, that's unusual in my faith if you have a big problem, especially with money, you normally would go to the bishop.
00:06:43.500 And I said, okay, let me call you back.
00:06:47.380 And I called the bishop, and I said, hey, so-and-so just called me, and I can do this.
00:06:52.800 You know, is there anything I'm missing here?
00:06:54.900 And he said, Clint, I'm so glad you called me.
00:06:57.160 He said, yes.
00:06:58.580 He said, this particular individual is struggling, and we've been helping him for a while,
00:07:06.100 but he won't connect with the problem and correct the problems.
00:07:12.520 And he said, he's doing this from time to time.
00:07:14.820 He'll call people, and they'll just give him money, and then that hurts it.
00:07:18.120 He said, so I'm going to ask you to do the thing that is probably going to be the hardest thing you've ever done.
00:07:22.340 I know you have the money to help.
00:07:24.120 Please don't, because it will set him back and not let him feel the full ramifications.
00:07:31.640 And I said, okay, so I had to call my friend back and say, I can't right now.
00:07:37.200 And I felt awful.
00:07:39.480 I felt absolutely awful about it.
00:07:42.000 But if we don't talk and face the problem, you're never going to solve it.
00:07:52.880 Now, this, again, is not my problem.
00:07:57.360 California, you're not my problem, okay?
00:08:01.600 I mean, I want to help, and as a citizen of America, you're another citizen.
00:08:06.640 You are my neighbor.
00:08:07.820 I want to help.
00:08:08.340 I want to help people all around the world.
00:08:09.900 But first, you have to help yourself.
00:08:14.260 You know, natural disasters most times are out of our control.
00:08:19.060 The extent of the destruction in California, you know, could be mitigated if we made smarter choices about how, you know, Californians manage their land and their resources and their votes.
00:08:33.520 California has been playing with fire, literally, for a long time.
00:08:37.680 Their forests are full of underbrush, dead trees, dried vegetation, which is kindling for those flames.
00:08:46.940 The material builds up on the forest floor.
00:08:50.100 It's a perfect condition for fire.
00:08:52.320 If you're going to start a fire, go to California because that's a perfect condition.
00:08:57.700 I'm not saying that literally, by the way.
00:09:01.740 But it doesn't have to be this way.
00:09:04.040 You know, you go to places like Sweden or Finland or Austria, countries that have large, vulnerable forests.
00:09:10.760 They understand the importance of forest management and they prioritize the clearing out of the underbrush and the dead trees.
00:09:18.860 And they, because they're a little socialist in nature, they do it in a sustainable way.
00:09:25.060 They partner with local industries that will take that material from the forest floor and they use it as biomass energy for other products.
00:09:35.360 So it doesn't just reduce the fire risk.
00:09:38.040 It creates jobs and a healthier ecosystem.
00:09:42.440 Here in America, some states do it right.
00:09:45.100 I mean, Florida has fires, but not like California.
00:09:47.940 Why?
00:09:49.360 Because they do controlled burns, forest thinning, routine practices.
00:09:54.960 You know what?
00:09:55.340 Honestly, God does this.
00:09:57.520 Lightning.
00:09:58.800 Before we would put forest fires out or could, lightning would strike and that would burn the forest down and it replenishes the soil and everything else.
00:10:09.480 Well, we don't want to do that because our houses are now surrounded by trees and forest and everything else.
00:10:14.660 So we have to either do a control burn or we have to go in and take all of that stuff that lightning would have taken out to replenish everything.
00:10:26.360 But Californians won't do that. 1.00
00:10:28.940 Why?
00:10:32.040 The answer lies in bureaucracy and priorities and really honestly, eggheads.
00:10:42.040 You know, these people from the cities that want to manage our forest have no idea.
00:10:47.900 It's common sense.
00:10:51.120 The environmental regulations, the lawsuits that block or delay any kind of forest management, ideology has gotten in the way of the practical, the life-saving solutions.
00:11:05.120 And this has to change, California.
00:11:07.740 It has to.
00:11:09.400 You see devastation every year.
00:11:11.440 And, you know, honestly, I really don't like insurance companies.
00:11:16.940 But insurance companies, what they do, it's, honestly, it's legal gambling.
00:11:25.120 They are gambling that you are going to pay them more money than they have to pay out as a collective.
00:11:33.080 Somebody's house might burn down.
00:11:34.860 You might have something catastrophic, cancer or something that costs a buttload of money.
00:11:39.420 But they're betting that all of the people in their community, they're sharing the risk.
00:11:45.800 And not everybody's going to get cancer at the same time.
00:11:48.160 That way they can make money.
00:11:49.260 It's legalized gambling.
00:11:50.660 Honestly, it is.
00:11:53.040 Well, that's the way insurance works.
00:11:55.100 And I don't like insurance companies because many times they're, you know, scamming people or hurting people.
00:12:02.340 However, let's not blame the insurance companies for getting out.
00:12:06.260 If I'm a company and I have to make a bet, I'm pulling out of California.
00:12:12.340 It's landslides.
00:12:13.680 It's fires.
00:12:15.080 It's floods.
00:12:16.480 It's every year.
00:12:18.340 Whole swaths of the state are burning down to the ground.
00:12:25.500 What kind of bet is that?
00:12:27.980 How do you keep a country?
00:12:29.020 Now, what they'll say is they'll do what they did when you couldn't get flood insurance on the coastlines.
00:12:36.540 We used to say, well, then don't live there.
00:12:39.060 Or if you live there, accept the risk yourself.
00:12:43.180 Okay.
00:12:44.580 Instead, we didn't think that was fair.
00:12:46.400 So we came up with government funding.
00:12:49.980 If you couldn't get flood insurance, no longer was it don't live in a flood zone.
00:12:55.460 Build your house somewhere.
00:12:56.220 I don't know if you've seen the country, but there's lots of open space.
00:13:00.160 Don't build in a flood zone.
00:13:01.680 Instead, we wanted to help everybody live their dreams.
00:13:06.760 So now we pay, as a federal government, for insurance for the coastlines.
00:13:13.200 Why?
00:13:15.100 The other issue is water.
00:13:18.500 And let me tell you what the problem is in California.
00:13:22.120 Now, we know what the immediate problem is.
00:13:23.940 They don't have, firefighters don't have water coming through the fire hydrants.
00:13:29.620 Why is that?
00:13:32.020 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:13:37.700 Ever utter the phrase, will they ever learn?
00:13:41.480 Will they ever learn?
00:13:42.840 You might say that about your kids from time to time.
00:13:45.080 Are you ever going to learn this lesson?
00:13:46.120 We learn from disaster, usually.
00:13:49.840 Our own usually created disaster or something terrible happens to you.
00:13:54.900 Somebody dies tragically.
00:13:56.640 Something happens.
00:13:57.800 Your life turns on one moment.
00:14:01.580 And you can either take that and learn from it, or you can wallow in what's happened to you.
00:14:08.680 And that leads to your own destruction.
00:14:10.540 And that's where I think God says, will they ever learn?
00:14:13.880 Will they ever learn?
00:14:14.620 This isn't bad.
00:14:15.860 This, yes, changed their course.
00:14:17.660 But it's not bad.
00:14:18.980 It doesn't have to be.
00:14:20.440 Take the bad and now find out what you want to do with that.
00:14:24.880 How do you grow from that?
00:14:27.140 Let me tell you a great story about this.
00:14:29.600 It relates to the fires in California.
00:14:31.820 It was early, early in the morning.
00:14:37.200 It was April 18th.
00:14:40.320 And people were jolted out of bed.
00:14:43.820 They were on their feet.
00:14:45.900 They could feel the earth beneath them trembling.
00:14:52.100 Not a shudder.
00:14:53.000 It was a violent, relentless earthquake.
00:14:55.880 Tore through buildings, streets, lives.
00:14:59.320 Merciless power.
00:15:00.740 But it only lasted 42 seconds.
00:15:04.220 But in 42 seconds, everything changed.
00:15:08.600 The ground rippled like waves.
00:15:10.800 It split open streets.
00:15:12.340 It swallowed homes entirely.
00:15:15.260 Buildings crumbled as if they were made of paper.
00:15:18.740 The Great Palace Hotel, which was a symbol of the city's wealth and prestige, collapsed, smoldering ruin.
00:15:25.980 People were screaming in terror for those 42 seconds.
00:15:32.040 But they scream and ran in terror in the minutes and hours that followed.
00:15:38.800 The earthquake was only the beginning in 1906 in San Francisco.
00:15:44.040 What followed there was an inferno unlike anybody had ever really seen.
00:15:50.780 It reduced the entire city to ash.
00:15:54.860 Firefighters back then with the steam-powered pumps, they were brave.
00:16:01.780 They were desperate.
00:16:02.740 They tried to battle the flames.
00:16:04.200 But just like today, no water.
00:16:07.680 The water lines back then were severed because of the quake.
00:16:12.860 No way to stop the blaze.
00:16:15.560 Last-ditch effort, they decided to dynamite the buildings.
00:16:20.800 Can you imagine this?
00:16:21.720 They decided that they had to take dynamite and blow up all of the buildings, everything, to create some sort of a fire break.
00:16:33.620 And so they did.
00:16:37.060 It didn't work.
00:16:39.260 By the time the fires burnt out, 80% of San Francisco was gone.
00:16:43.880 80% of the city, nearly 500 city blocks, 28,000 buildings were destroyed.
00:16:52.500 3,000 people were dead.
00:16:55.920 Half of the population of the city, 250,000 men, women, and children homeless.
00:17:02.860 Now, what we're looking at is bad, but it's not this.
00:17:06.540 They were living for weeks and weeks and weeks in makeshift tents.
00:17:13.500 They were living in parks, on the beaches, in the streets.
00:17:17.400 And for a long time, the air that they were breathing was filled with smoke and ash.
00:17:25.360 And it wasn't just the city that burned.
00:17:27.820 It was the livelihoods, the futures, the dreams.
00:17:31.200 People came to San Francisco at that time because it was a new, fresh start.
00:17:36.540 Well, when you're faced with those times, you have a decision.
00:17:43.320 I'm not living here.
00:17:45.480 I mean, I don't know if you saw the TV show 1882.
00:17:48.900 Is it 82, 83?
00:17:51.220 And it's about the beginning of Yellowstone and what it took for the pioneers just to cross over to get to a place like Montana.
00:17:59.280 It was insane.
00:18:01.380 Insane.
00:18:02.660 Anybody who tried to do that?
00:18:04.300 I mean, we don't give our pioneers enough respect.
00:18:08.420 What they faced to get across the mountains and the West was nuts.
00:18:16.860 Well, that's the kind of people that were out in California at the time, in San Francisco.
00:18:20.840 They didn't just rebuild.
00:18:24.580 First of all, they didn't wait for the government, the federal government to come in.
00:18:29.540 They didn't wait for everybody to tell them what to do.
00:18:33.420 They weren't.
00:18:34.860 I mean, it was bad.
00:18:36.960 It was really bad.
00:18:38.840 And they did have people that came in and help.
00:18:41.860 But they had to do it themselves.
00:18:44.300 Now, think about this.
00:18:47.360 They decided that they were going to rebuild.
00:18:52.700 They refused to give up.
00:18:55.520 There was such devastation that it would have broken the spirit of most people.
00:19:00.640 But the city did something extraordinary.
00:19:03.840 All of the citizens refused to give up.
00:19:05.980 Almost immediately, they began to rebuild, not just their homes and their businesses, but their entire way of life.
00:19:12.260 There was nothing.
00:19:13.420 So the first thing that had to happen was all the citizens of San Francisco needed to clear the rubble.
00:19:18.280 Brick by brick.
00:19:20.660 They had to get all of it out.
00:19:21.980 But then they began laying the foundations for a new San Francisco.
00:19:28.240 Engineers, architects all came together to create plans for a stronger, safer city, and one that they hoped could withstand future earthquakes.
00:19:36.980 But it didn't.
00:19:38.380 But they tried.
00:19:39.680 And they didn't just rebuild.
00:19:41.580 They reimagined.
00:19:43.440 Now, this happened in 1906.
00:19:45.660 How long do you think it's going to take before you're going to be able to go in the Pacific Palisades, you're going to be able to go into California, and you won't see anything from the fire?
00:19:58.340 How long before that's a new and just magical thriving area again?
00:20:06.220 That place is different because of all of the money that is there.
00:20:11.340 Think about Appalachia.
00:20:13.440 Think about what's happening in the Carolinas.
00:20:15.740 Think about what's happening in Hawaii right now, where they're still trying to rebuild.
00:20:22.260 How long?
00:20:23.580 They're not building houses there yet.
00:20:25.720 How long is that going to take?
00:20:29.740 So within nine years in San Francisco in 1906, by 1915, San Francisco had completely rebuilt.
00:20:41.700 They stood ready to show the world what determination and hard work could accomplish.
00:20:46.580 They had already been signed up for the Panama Pacific International Exposition.
00:20:52.420 This is like a World's Fair, but it was in honor of the completion of the Panama Canal, and it was to show what the American spirit could do.
00:21:02.240 And so San Francisco raised their hand.
00:21:04.680 Remember, there's nothing left.
00:21:05.940 They raised their hand that we want to host that.
00:21:08.280 We want to host that.
00:21:09.120 Now, think of this.
00:21:11.760 Where ashes nine years before covered the ground, there was new, breathtaking architecture.
00:21:19.420 The Palace of Fine Arts, it's still standing in San Francisco.
00:21:24.080 It is a landmark.
00:21:25.920 It is stunning to see in person.
00:21:28.940 It was the symbol.
00:21:30.120 They built it as the symbol of the triumph of the soul.
00:21:37.080 They said, we're going to create beauty out of these ashes.
00:21:42.780 And it wasn't a fair.
00:21:44.180 The Panama exhibition of 1915 was not just a fair.
00:21:48.620 It was a declaration.
00:21:50.220 It was saying to the world, we're not only still here, we're strong, and we're going to lead into the future.
00:21:57.660 This is the thing that really is exciting me about what Donald Trump has been doing lately.
00:22:02.460 We're not talking about just survival anymore.
00:22:05.580 Have you noticed that?
00:22:06.960 I said to my wife last night, I'm beginning to love my job again.
00:22:11.560 She said, really?
00:22:13.040 And I said, yeah, because I don't have to just give people bad news all day.
00:22:17.840 I don't have to just say, here, put your finger in this hole, because that's going to help hold the dyke together just a little longer, knowing that we're all going to be wiped out. 1.00
00:22:28.080 We're actually talking about building a new future that is exciting.
00:22:35.920 That's what happened in 1906.
00:22:37.820 California, once again, is facing challenges, and it's going to feel overwhelming.
00:22:50.820 But the question is, does California have the leadership to have vision?
00:22:58.720 Do the people have it in them anymore, like the people in San Francisco did, that they're not going to be wiped out, they're not going to sit down, they're not going to wait for somebody else?
00:23:12.820 Does the city and its citizens have it in themselves to create something better?
00:23:19.600 I come at times like this, and I look at tragedies, and I know how dark things can seem, but I always pull out of this, and I'm watching California for this, and I think you're beginning to see it to some degree, but I know I saw it in North Carolina.
00:23:41.320 California, the human spirit is stronger than any disaster.
00:23:47.700 When you come together, we can rebuild the cities.
00:23:52.580 We can rebuild the lives, the communities, the future for our children.
00:23:57.520 May the people in California have the courage and determination that their forebears did in San Francisco and rise as a phoenix from the ashes.
00:24:12.160 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program, and don't forget, rate us on iTunes.
00:24:16.420 Stu, you said a minute ago that there is a story about the death of the internet, because that's, I mean, it's cleverly worded here, but that's what I predicted on last night's show, and you said two stories came up about that last night?
00:24:33.260 Yeah, I saw, I kind of went into a little bit of a rabbit hole on this last night, because I think it's fascinating, but I hadn't really heard that much conversation about it until hearing your prediction from the show last night, and it's basically, you were talking about the death of the internet, that basically we're going to lose whatever we had in the internet.
00:24:53.480 While that might sound appealing, I'll give you the whole prediction here in a minute.
00:24:56.500 Let's hear what they were saying.
00:24:59.060 Oh, okay.
00:24:59.920 No, let's hear what you were saying.
00:25:01.180 Got it, got it.
00:25:01.640 So, the new story is from the Guardian.
00:25:05.380 AI-generated slop is slowly killing the internet.
00:25:08.840 Why is no one trying to stop it?
00:25:10.880 And it goes into the fact that, like, you start, you know, you start going through social media, you start going through searching and Google, and you wind up finding basically nonsense.
00:25:22.360 I find this all the time when I'm reading stories.
00:25:23.800 Like, I'm reading stories.
00:25:24.460 I'm like, there's no way a human wrote this.
00:25:25.860 It's just terrible.
00:25:27.120 It's like, you can tell it's bad.
00:25:28.780 And it's, like, written in a format that is really familiar with, from AI stories, like these short paragraphs with new headlines a lot that are kind of, it doesn't really give you any information.
00:25:39.720 And it started going down a sort of a rabbit hole in that.
00:25:42.540 And there are now people who are basically mastering the skills of almost taking the internet into a time machine to 2023.
00:25:51.660 And figuring out ways to search on Google to exclude everything from 2024 on.
00:25:58.980 Because the second AI started, the internet results get worse and worse and worse and worse.
00:26:03.460 You look for pictures of things.
00:26:04.900 You can't tell if the pictures are real pictures or not.
00:26:08.140 And AI is now improving to a level that, like, for example, like, if you, they have these stories that kind of pop up every once in a while of, like, you know, AI model is making millions of dollars on OnlyFans or something.
00:26:23.400 And, like, it's this completely ridiculous, over-the-top-looking, buxom AI figure.
00:26:32.760 Then the new generation of these, apparently, are AI people made that look kind of, I don't want to say frumpy in comparison, but, like, real.
00:26:45.560 Like, the type of picture that, like, an actual woman would look like, you know what I mean? 0.94
00:26:50.480 Right.
00:26:50.780 And they're doing this now and just funneling this to people.
00:26:55.840 And they're taking in a world that doesn't, you know, even exist.
00:26:59.200 So you have to now kind of retroactively go into a time capsule and say, hey, I want to search Google, but only give me your results from 2023 and previous.
00:27:08.720 Because that way I'll know it's actually at least somewhat real.
00:27:13.500 So that kind of touches on some of the things that I was predicting last night.
00:27:21.060 And ChatGPT, Jason ran all my predictions through ChatGPT and said, what are the odds of this happening?
00:27:27.820 This one came back with 90%.
00:27:30.340 Okay.
00:27:31.480 Listen to what I was talking about last night.
00:27:34.300 The internet will be, whoops, the internet will be destroyed and reborn in 2025.
00:27:40.060 I know that sounds absolutely nuts, but it's actually not.
00:27:46.880 It's something that we have talked about and people like Elon Musk have talked about it.
00:27:52.800 It's just, it's not as bad as you think it is.
00:27:56.220 It's actually something that has to be done.
00:27:58.380 It's a little understood reality that you don't really have access to the internet.
00:28:07.940 What you get is access to a little sliver of the internet that it kind of brokers.
00:28:15.840 It's an index and it brokers what the internet will give to all of us.
00:28:20.680 The internet has been dying a slow death for a while now, and everybody's been aware of it.
00:28:27.280 And what the problem is, is that have you ever done, have you ever gone on the internet and you're reading some great article and then you're like, oh, it says click here and watch the video or click here and see this study.
00:28:38.000 And then you click there and you get a 404.
00:28:40.060 You get, you know, there's nothing.
00:28:41.840 It's just been removed.
00:28:43.040 Um, and you're like, oh crap.
00:28:45.980 Well, that's because, uh, about, let me look in here.
00:28:49.700 What is it?
00:28:50.760 A recent study found a thousand peer reviewed research papers published as recently as 2015, more than 35% of those are now dead links.
00:29:01.640 So 35% of what you're clicking on from those things that have been published since 2015 now dead because somebody moved them.
00:29:10.180 Somebody took them down, they've, uh, they weren't valid, whatever it is, uh, it's no longer linked there.
00:29:18.100 So what happens if we don't, well, let me put it this way.
00:29:24.320 Do you want the internet to appear like California appears today?
00:29:29.660 The reason why California keeps catching on fire is because they refuse to clear the underbrush, all of the dead stuff and that dead stuff catches on fire and then burns down all the good stuff.
00:29:45.820 What this would do if we don't start cleaning it out is, uh, it will, uh, make it impossible.
00:29:53.020 You'll spend so much time just going to dead links.
00:29:55.140 So we have to do this.
00:29:57.740 The problem is, is that the reason why we haven't done it before is because it requires individuals to do it.
00:30:05.580 And that just is time consuming.
00:30:08.560 But now AI can go and find all of those things, um, and remove all of the dead stuff or the stuff that's not relevant.
00:30:19.100 So as we give the internet kind of a digital enema, if you will, um, you're going to the good people at Google to clear it out, scour the active web to, uh, let AI find and store what it determines to be relevant con, uh, content and live links.
00:30:41.500 I don't trust Google, nor do I trust AI to do this.
00:30:48.340 It's a little frightening to think that the record of history, you know, this is like going into a library and having, you know, one person who has been trained by a group of people that you don't know, or you don't necessarily trust going and go, you know what?
00:31:06.280 Let's go into the library.
00:31:07.460 There's some few pages in a few books that we just got to rip out.
00:31:11.100 I'm not comfortable with that.
00:31:13.100 Uh, so you're kind of in this situation where it's necessary, but also a little terrifying because of the power we are now giving to AI to be our memory.
00:31:28.140 Not necessarily good with our research.
00:31:31.780 I always, uh, tell the guy who, um, prints all of our stories every day that puts it together for our morning newsletter that you could get in your email box.
00:31:42.240 I tell him, I want you to take and get those stories and download them and burn them on a disc because I know they're going to disappear at some point.
00:31:50.460 They'll become irrelevant.
00:31:51.740 And we want the original stories, not just the story of us quoting the story, but the actual story.
00:31:59.180 Um, that's going to become harder and harder now.
00:32:02.160 Um, but we can just trust AI, right?
00:32:07.380 So what does ChatGPT say about this?
00:32:09.920 From ChatGPT, the probability of this happening, Glenn's prediction, 90% probability.
00:32:16.020 They say specifically, AI-driven tools will continue to restructure the internet.
00:32:21.060 Dead links, outdated content, and paywalls will give way to AI-curated summaries and dynamic updates.
00:32:26.660 The internet, as we know it, will form more.
00:32:28.060 Ooh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:32:30.100 Wait, AI-curated summaries?
00:32:34.120 Yes.
00:32:34.580 That doesn't sound good.
00:32:35.940 No.
00:32:37.120 They go on.
00:32:38.060 Yeah, okay.
00:32:38.600 The internet, as we know it, will form more like a centralized, streamlined knowledge platform controlled by a few gatekeepers.
00:32:45.140 Google Microsoft OpenAI.
00:32:47.820 This will change, this change will be seamless to users, but will raise concerns about censorship and bias.
00:32:53.560 You think, Glenn?
00:32:54.640 Wow.
00:32:55.680 Wow.
00:32:56.500 That is, that's terrifying.
00:32:58.220 I'm, I'm not freaked out by mine.
00:33:00.340 I'm freaked out by ChatGPT.
00:33:04.880 So that's, you know, that kind of plays into what you're talking about, um, of letting AI, uh, come in and generate things.
00:33:13.460 Because, you know, what was the story we were talking about the other day, Stu?
00:33:18.320 And I said, get that, get that from ChatGPT.
00:33:21.200 See if you can verify that through ChatGPT.
00:33:23.100 And remember, the story came back, and part of it, it was very, very accurate, except parts of it were, like, starting to say, you know, like, well, but that's really kind of Donald Trump.
00:33:37.200 Do you remember this?
00:33:37.860 It was so skewed to the left, uh, and it, but it was subtle enough to where the average person may not catch it.
00:33:46.420 All they have to do is delete all of the things that are no longer relevant, uh, and you can't find it anymore.
00:33:54.660 I don't know.
00:33:55.220 I, I want to find, I want to find the work of the people who said, no, it's a flat earth.
00:34:01.360 I think those are important things to have.
00:34:04.340 It's not relevant, flat earthers, but you know what?
00:34:07.400 If you don't know it, you're going to come around to it, and we're going back around to flat earthers again.
00:34:12.780 Well, first of all, I'm looking out the window right now, it looks pretty flat to me, so I don't know what you're talking about.
00:34:17.220 Okay, I know.
00:34:17.920 Well, you can't, you can't see the curve when you're up in an airplane.
00:34:20.680 That's right.
00:34:21.400 Thank you.
00:34:22.320 Um, no, but I think that's, I think that's, it's true.
00:34:25.100 And, uh, you know, I don't remember that particular story, but like, that's going to be a massive problem.
00:34:28.760 We talked about an example of that with CNN, right?
00:34:31.960 The other day where CNN, uh, started a story with, uh, you know, one of the most amazing political comeback ever has started with Donald Trump.
00:34:41.440 And by the end, it was like, how did Donald Trump get power when his people invaded the Capitol?
00:34:46.180 And it was the same story with just a different headline every few hours.
00:34:49.800 None of those were archived, by the way.
00:34:51.980 You know, there's no archive of what those were.
00:34:54.540 They're only archived because we took screenshots of them as the day went on.
00:34:58.740 Um, and you know, this is a, a, a massive story.
00:35:03.160 I mean, a lot of people would say like, well, I'm not just, I don't want to use AI.
00:35:06.320 I don't want to use chat GPT.
00:35:07.720 I'm not going to do it.
00:35:08.980 Well, you know, all this stuff is built into these systems.
00:35:12.480 I mean, Google, for example, and you search Google and now the first thing that pops up every time is an AI summary of what you're looking for, right or wrong.
00:35:22.360 It's just AI is the first thing you see and they put it right at the top for you to take in.
00:35:27.940 And then under that, there are some, you know, the, the little question section and then the actual links that we're all kind of used to when it comes to using Google.
00:35:35.340 They, what does that mean?
00:35:37.780 Well, they're now, instead of, it's not like, and we've always talked about like how Google can deprioritize links, put them on page three instead of page one.
00:35:46.220 And that affects people.
00:35:48.080 Imagine when they're writing with their own AI, the same company that was, you know, when you tried to make a knight from the medieval times would have black and an Asian and LGBTQ character pop up in their photo generating software.
00:36:04.520 That same company is now writing the summaries of everything you search for.
00:36:10.320 I will tell you, I will tell you, I considered putting on the list this year, but it's far too early, but it will be coming, you know, probably in the next five years.
00:36:19.160 And that will be, this is the year that historians will look back and say, that was the beginning of the end of free will.
00:36:26.180 Hmm.
00:36:26.580 Um, but we are approaching that because of things like that.
00:36:31.380 You won't be able to access the information and the acts and the information that is being given to you is all curated to shape you one way or another.
00:36:41.420 And if you add advertising budgets into that, you're not going to know what you know and what you don't know, what you chose, if it was your idea or somebody else's idea or AI's idea, and you will eventually end up with the death of free will.
00:36:57.020 You, you'll still have a choice, but they've nudged you exactly where you need to be for them.
00:37:05.040 Uh, and so you'll still feel like it, but you won't have it.
00:37:08.760 It's coming soon to a theater near you.