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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00:00:30.000California wildfire, compassionate message that needs to be heard if we're going to change things in California.
00:00:37.180A look back to what happened to the San Francisco earthquake, the fire of 1906,
00:00:40.900and how will it compare to what is happening in California, not only during the fire, but the response and the rebuilding of California.
00:00:51.960And the death of the Internet. What will 2025 have in store for us on the Internet?
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00:02:18.580So let's talk about what's happening in California.
00:02:20.920And my heart is truly heavy for those people who have families in California, the people in California that have lost their homes or stay.
00:02:31.100Still fearing that they might lose their home, you know, this is a rate.
00:02:40.440If you've never seen a forest fire, you can't really describe it.
00:04:19.000My 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.
00:04:30.660We are doing what our government is asking us to do.
00:04:35.440We don't want to get into the way of forest or of firefighters.
00:04:57.740But 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.
00:05:11.220And 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.
00:05:25.020And I was about to say yes, but in my faith, it's the largest welfare program, I think, in the world.
00:05:37.360And 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.
00:05:56.980You 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.
00:08:14.260You know, natural disasters most times are out of our control.
00:08:19.060The 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.
00:08:33.520California has been playing with fire, literally, for a long time.
00:08:37.680Their forests are full of underbrush, dead trees, dried vegetation, which is kindling for those flames.
00:08:46.940The material builds up on the forest floor.
00:09:04.040You know, you go to places like Sweden or Finland or Austria, countries that have large, vulnerable forests.
00:09:10.760They understand the importance of forest management and they prioritize the clearing out of the underbrush and the dead trees.
00:09:18.860And they, because they're a little socialist in nature, they do it in a sustainable way.
00:09:25.060They partner with local industries that will take that material from the forest floor and they use it as biomass energy for other products.
00:09:35.360So it doesn't just reduce the fire risk.
00:09:38.040It creates jobs and a healthier ecosystem.
00:09:42.440Here in America, some states do it right.
00:09:45.100I mean, Florida has fires, but not like California.
00:09:58.800Before 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.
00:10:09.480Well, we don't want to do that because our houses are now surrounded by trees and forest and everything else.
00:10:14.660So 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.
00:10:51.120The 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.
00:19:21.980But then they began laying the foundations for a new San Francisco.
00:19:28.240Engineers, architects all came together to create plans for a stronger, safer city, and one that they hoped could withstand future earthquakes.
00:19:45.660How 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?
00:19:58.340How long before that's a new and just magical thriving area again?
00:20:06.220That place is different because of all of the money that is there.
00:20:29.740So within nine years in San Francisco in 1906, by 1915, San Francisco had completely rebuilt.
00:20:41.700They stood ready to show the world what determination and hard work could accomplish.
00:20:46.580They had already been signed up for the Panama Pacific International Exposition.
00:20:52.420This 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.
00:21:02.240And so San Francisco raised their hand.
00:22:13.040And I said, yeah, because I don't have to just give people bad news all day.
00:22:17.840I 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.
00:22:28.080We're actually talking about building a new future that is exciting.
00:22:37.820California, once again, is facing challenges, and it's going to feel overwhelming.
00:22:50.820But the question is, does California have the leadership to have vision?
00:22:58.720Do 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?
00:23:12.820Does the city and its citizens have it in themselves to create something better?
00:23:19.600I 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.
00:23:41.320California, the human spirit is stronger than any disaster.
00:23:47.700When you come together, we can rebuild the cities.
00:23:52.580We can rebuild the lives, the communities, the future for our children.
00:23:57.520May the people in California have the courage and determination that their forebears did in San Francisco and rise as a phoenix from the ashes.
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00:24:16.420Stu, 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?
00:24:33.260Yeah, 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.
00:24:53.480While that might sound appealing, I'll give you the whole prediction here in a minute.
00:25:10.880And 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.
00:25:22.360I find this all the time when I'm reading stories.
00:25:28.780And 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.
00:25:39.720And it started going down a sort of a rabbit hole in that.
00:25:42.540And there are now people who are basically mastering the skills of almost taking the internet into a time machine to 2023.
00:25:51.660And figuring out ways to search on Google to exclude everything from 2024 on.
00:25:58.980Because the second AI started, the internet results get worse and worse and worse and worse.
00:26:04.900You can't tell if the pictures are real pictures or not.
00:26:08.140And 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.
00:26:23.400And, like, it's this completely ridiculous, over-the-top-looking, buxom AI figure.
00:26:32.760Then 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.
00:26:45.560Like, the type of picture that, like, an actual woman would look like, you know what I mean?
00:26:50.780And they're doing this now and just funneling this to people.
00:26:55.840And they're taking in a world that doesn't, you know, even exist.
00:26:59.200So 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.
00:27:08.720Because that way I'll know it's actually at least somewhat real.
00:27:13.500So that kind of touches on some of the things that I was predicting last night.
00:27:21.060And ChatGPT, Jason ran all my predictions through ChatGPT and said, what are the odds of this happening?
00:27:31.480Listen to what I was talking about last night.
00:27:34.300The internet will be, whoops, the internet will be destroyed and reborn in 2025.
00:27:40.060I know that sounds absolutely nuts, but it's actually not.
00:27:46.880It's something that we have talked about and people like Elon Musk have talked about it.
00:27:52.800It's just, it's not as bad as you think it is.
00:27:56.220It's actually something that has to be done.
00:27:58.380It's a little understood reality that you don't really have access to the internet.
00:28:07.940What you get is access to a little sliver of the internet that it kind of brokers.
00:28:15.840It's an index and it brokers what the internet will give to all of us.
00:28:20.680The internet has been dying a slow death for a while now, and everybody's been aware of it.
00:28:27.280And 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.
00:28:38.000And then you click there and you get a 404.
00:28:50.760A recent study found a thousand peer reviewed research papers published as recently as 2015, more than 35% of those are now dead links.
00:29:01.640So 35% of what you're clicking on from those things that have been published since 2015 now dead because somebody moved them.
00:29:10.180Somebody took them down, they've, uh, they weren't valid, whatever it is, uh, it's no longer linked there.
00:29:18.100So what happens if we don't, well, let me put it this way.
00:29:24.320Do you want the internet to appear like California appears today?
00:29:29.660The 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.
00:29:45.820What this would do if we don't start cleaning it out is, uh, it will, uh, make it impossible.
00:29:53.020You'll spend so much time just going to dead links.
00:30:08.560But 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.
00:30:19.100So 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.
00:30:41.500I don't trust Google, nor do I trust AI to do this.
00:30:48.340It'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?
00:31:13.100Uh, 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.
00:31:28.140Not necessarily good with our research.
00:31:31.780I 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.
00:31:42.240I 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.
00:33:04.880So that's, you know, that kind of plays into what you're talking about, um, of letting AI, uh, come in and generate things.
00:33:13.460Because, you know, what was the story we were talking about the other day, Stu?
00:33:18.320And I said, get that, get that from ChatGPT.
00:33:21.200See if you can verify that through ChatGPT.
00:33:23.100And 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.
00:34:22.320Um, no, but I think that's, I think that's, it's true.
00:34:25.100And, uh, you know, I don't remember that particular story, but like, that's going to be a massive problem.
00:34:28.760We talked about an example of that with CNN, right?
00:34:31.960The 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.
00:34:41.440And by the end, it was like, how did Donald Trump get power when his people invaded the Capitol?
00:34:46.180And it was the same story with just a different headline every few hours.
00:34:49.800None of those were archived, by the way.
00:34:51.980You know, there's no archive of what those were.
00:34:54.540They're only archived because we took screenshots of them as the day went on.
00:34:58.740Um, and you know, this is a, a, a massive story.
00:35:03.160I mean, a lot of people would say like, well, I'm not just, I don't want to use AI.
00:35:08.980Well, you know, all this stuff is built into these systems.
00:35:12.480I 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.
00:35:22.360It's just AI is the first thing you see and they put it right at the top for you to take in.
00:35:27.940And 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.
00:35:37.780Well, 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.
00:35:48.080Imagine 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.
00:36:04.520That same company is now writing the summaries of everything you search for.
00:36:10.320I 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.
00:36:19.160And that will be, this is the year that historians will look back and say, that was the beginning of the end of free will.
00:36:26.580Um, but we are approaching that because of things like that.
00:36:31.380You 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.
00:36:41.420And 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.
00:36:57.020You, you'll still have a choice, but they've nudged you exactly where you need to be for them.
00:37:05.040Uh, and so you'll still feel like it, but you won't have it.
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