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00:00:00.760 Okay, you want to understand what is happening with AI?

00:00:05.120 All I have to do is tell you about GM and streetcars.

00:00:08.420 Also, 9-12, the day after, and the flag that flies in my office right behind my desk.

00:00:16.860 It's actually a significant flag from 9-11, and I've never told the story on the air.

00:00:22.180 I share it with you on today's podcast.

00:00:30.000 you're listening to the best of the blend back program

00:00:35.860 all right um i want to explain the ai thing and by using history this is what i think is happening

00:00:46.680 now if you ever saw um who framed roger rabbit you know the story general motors and the oil

00:00:54.580 companies and the tire companies they all got together and they bought up america street car

00:00:58.880 system and they ripped the tracks out and forced all of us into cars that's the cartoon version

00:01:04.240 most of it is wrong um but it's it has true parts to it uh and it's better in stranger than the

00:01:12.380 legend okay here's what's true a bus company called national city lines went looking for

00:01:18.240 capital in the late 30s and got it and they got it from firestone standard oil of california

00:01:24.420 Phillips Petroleum and Mack Trucks and some from General Motors. The money came with a string.

00:01:31.360 The transit systems they bought had to buy their buses and their tires and their fuel from the

00:01:37.480 investors. So in 1947, the Justice Department indicted them. 1949, a Chicago jury convicted

00:01:44.320 them and held it up on appeal. This is where the legend comes from, you know, that the jury

00:01:51.220 convicted them but it convicted them of one thing monopolizing the sale of buses and fuel and parts

00:01:57.720 to the companies they already controlled okay a closed supply loop on the other count conspiring

00:02:05.440 to monopolize transportation itself the jury acquitted them general motors was fined five

00:02:11.600 thousand dollars its treasurer was fined a dollar okay so as usual the big guys get away with it

00:02:16.600 But 25 years later, a young government lawyer testified before a Senate subcommittee and described that conviction as a conviction for monopolizing ground transportation, which is not what the jury said.

00:02:29.080 But the press ran with it, Hollywood ran with it, and America has believed it ever since.

00:02:35.060 Not because GM was clean, but because the trolley was already dead and it was killed by something a lot closer to home.

00:02:44.040 let me now take you quickly jason give me the stats that you just ran with uh palantir and

00:02:52.300 what they were saying about open sources yeah so um palantir said that um they have been running

00:02:59.580 their their own models and their own models they're it's all it's all open source and they

00:03:07.080 just said they said quote the cost of our fine-tuned open source model was 95 percent lower

00:03:13.620 than the frontier models the big ones that the you know think think google you know uh you know

00:03:18.840 open ai anthropic 95 percent lower costs than what those frontier models are using

00:03:24.780 so what happens to claude and to uh chat gpt and grok and everything else if somebody else a

00:03:35.500 smaller company has suddenly found that they can lower the cost of compute by 95%. Puts those

00:03:44.000 companies out of business. So let me go back to the streetcars. You have to understand what a

00:03:50.560 streetcar company actually was, okay? It wasn't in business in the ordinary sense. It was a bargain

00:03:57.640 with a city. The company got a franchise, the exclusive right to run the rails down the public

00:04:04.140 street no competitors and in exchange the city wrote down what it would charge and what it could

00:04:10.340 do okay the fare was a nickel and it was locked into a nickel for decades it was a nickel and the

00:04:16.920 company agreed to pave and maintain the strip of public street between the rails and a couple of

00:04:22.120 feet on either side and plow the snow off it and everything else a monopoly that nobody could touch

00:04:27.720 at a price it could never change with a road and a road crew attached to it 20 good years

00:04:36.040 great deal for everybody then in 1914 a man in los angeles out of work puts a sign in his

00:04:44.120 windshield of his model t and he starts picking people up along the streetcar route for five

00:04:50.580 cents so five cents less than what the street car was doing okay um it was called a jitney

00:04:57.380 it went across uh the country like a fever i mean it's you know what happened when people started

00:05:05.660 doing uber this is really kind of the first uber within a year there was something like 60 000 of

00:05:11.060 these jitneys they were just model t's and they would you know put a sign in their window going

00:05:16.080 from here to here and they would drop people off okay thousands of them portland maine to san

00:05:22.080 francisco all of them they had no fixed routes driver in san antonio wouldn't even choose a

00:05:27.640 destination until his first passenger got in he said where are you going then he'd chalk it in

00:05:32.140 on the window and fill the car along the way you didn't need to get to your door he he um you know

00:05:39.680 he would take you close or he would take you to your door okay well people loved loved them

00:05:46.860 the clients loved it was half the price of the streetcar and it could take you right to your

00:05:51.340 door one man wrote in 1915 nothing is going to stop the jitney now no corporation no legislation

00:05:58.240 nothing will ever stop the two the streetcar industries their own trade journal called this

00:06:04.480 the Frankenstein of transportation. Then the streetcar companies did the thing this whole

00:06:10.920 hour is all about and what's really happening with AI. They didn't compete. They just went to

00:06:17.800 City Hall. And what did they do? What did they ask for? The most reasonable sounding request you have

00:06:25.360 ever heard. They said, we don't want you to ban these guys. That's a free market. We're just

00:06:30.820 asking you to hold them to the same standard that you hold us. They should have licenses.

00:06:37.160 Make them post a liability bond because these cars, a lot of them are uninsured and people

00:06:41.660 are going to get hurt. Make them run a fixed route so a rider can depend on them. Make them

00:06:47.500 run a full day, not just profitable hours, but a full day. Okay, well, so I guess you could say

00:06:54.460 every one of those is defensible. Two of them are good ideas. But whose advantage did that work

00:07:00.760 to salt lake city was the first city to pass this effective the first of april 1915 you had to have

00:07:08.000 a license a bond and a requirement that you would operate 16 continuous hours a day 16 hours

00:07:15.460 that one line is the whole thing yeah i mean the driver how is he gonna drive now you have to hire

00:07:21.740 other people this was just a guy with a car and a job driving a couple of hours this is this is uber

00:07:28.940 Okay. 16 continuous hours doesn't regulate that man. It deletes that man. So the ordinance took

00:07:37.780 place April 1st. By April 4th, nearly every Jitney operator in Salt Lake City had walked

00:07:46.400 into the city offices and handed his license back and said, I don't want it. 40 Jitneys

00:07:51.000 down to two in three days and it worked okay it worked every city city after city same result

00:08:01.680 within a couple of years the jitney was completely gone okay it was a national thing

00:08:07.820 street companies now just had their their streets back streetcar companies they all of a sudden now

00:08:12.860 they're the only ways to get around then the war came and it was the worst inflation the country

00:08:18.540 had ever seen and everything that people bought had doubled in price wages were rising so the

00:08:25.400 companies went back to the same city halls that had just done them a favor and said hey can you

00:08:30.440 raise the fare to seven cents answer was no we can't do that of course it was no you can't hand

00:08:39.160 a politician the monopoly of price control and then ask him to give you back the price control

00:08:45.640 okay no you're not going to raise the price on anybody that's what broke the streetcar companies

00:08:54.880 okay because anybody who would vote for it to say we're going to raise the price they would lose

00:09:00.120 his seat by 1919 streetcar companies were failing all over the united states enough of them that

00:09:06.440 president wilson convened a federal commission on it that's 15 years before general motors bought a

00:09:12.000 single share of anything. They had handed their freedom for protection. They had used the

00:09:17.800 protection to kill the only competitor who could have ever shown a city what a ride was actually

00:09:22.900 worth. And then they found that that protection was actually a cage. And by the time the buses

00:09:27.560 showed up, there was nothing left to conspire against because GM just bought a corpse.

00:09:34.100 Two things to take out of that. First, you've heard me talk about all this hour

00:09:39.800 And the streetcar men would recognize every word.

00:09:44.980 Nobody writes a law that says, eliminate my competitor.

00:09:49.120 They're not writing that law.

00:09:51.120 They're saying they just want some common sense laws.

00:09:55.140 Write laws that say, hold that guy to the same standards as me.

00:10:01.340 See the issue here?

00:10:03.820 The standard always, always, the big, who's going to go to write these laws?

00:10:09.120 You think the congressmen are going to write these laws?

00:10:11.500 They're not going to write these laws.

00:10:12.400 They don't know what the hell they're talking about.

00:10:13.880 They're going to go to all these AI companies and say, what do you think the regulation should be?

00:10:17.820 And all these AI companies will write it for them, knowing that they can handle all of the regulation because they have the money.

00:10:25.680 And so they'll have all this regulation.

00:10:28.560 But the little guy won't be able to do the regulation.

00:10:31.040 So you'll put the little guy out.

00:10:32.820 The bond, the license, the full-time hours, the compliance officer, the inspections.

00:10:40.460 It's never a ban.

00:10:41.640 It's a floor.

00:10:42.500 And the floor gets exactly the height of the incumbent's own shoe.

00:10:51.960 Our side has the story about this.

00:10:56.220 The market chose the car.

00:10:58.800 The people voted with their dollars.

00:11:00.400 The trolley lost fair and square.

00:11:02.820 But that's not what happened.

00:11:06.200 There was never a free market in city transportation, not for a single day.

00:11:11.840 The streetcar had a legal monopoly and a legal price the entire time.

00:11:16.700 The Jitney got a legal death sentence, and the bus that replaced them both arrived under a contract a jury later found illegal.

00:11:24.680 Every actor in this entire story is standing inside a rule that somebody had purchased.

00:11:30.620 so if i tell you that the market would sort all of this out i'm telling you about something we've

00:11:36.220 actually never tried we've never done that not with companies like this

00:11:40.340 for 80 years for 80 years we've blamed the wrong people there's a villain in a boardroom and

00:11:50.080 everybody's satisfied and nobody looks any further because that villain that villain he's in the

00:11:54.160 boardroom. Get them. Meanwhile, the actual mechanism, an ordinance, an ordinance happens

00:12:05.340 in a city council meeting on a Tuesday night that no reporter covered. Everybody thought was about

00:12:11.900 safety. It's still sitting out in the open, working perfectly in your own town this year,

00:12:17.140 and it happens at the government, the federal government level just as easily. It's all about

00:12:23.140 safety. The conspiracy you can name is almost never the one that is what you're actually

00:12:32.940 worried about. The Jitney ride was a nickel. Streetcar was a nickel. Same price. One of them

00:12:40.640 was a favor from the government. The other was just a man in the car who thought

00:12:45.580 I was allowed to try. Guess which one of them they outlawed. In the end, guess which one of

00:12:55.200 these companies, the small guys who are like, I can beat this. I can save 95, 95 cents on every

00:13:03.500 dollar. That guy or the big guys who have just invested billions and billions and billions of

00:13:13.760 dollars, who have all of it to lose, guess which one is going to win?

00:13:22.720 And it's all going to be in the name of safety. More in a minute.

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00:14:46.840 I want to take you back 25 years ago this weekend.

00:14:53.300 You know, for two days, the skies over America was empty.

00:14:59.200 And it was the first two days, because I think it lasted about two weeks, but the first two days, it was really freaky.

00:15:03.660 You would walk outside, you'd look out of habit, and there was nothing there.

00:15:07.180 There was no sounds.

00:15:09.360 There were no airplanes.

00:15:10.700 There was nothing in the sky.

00:15:13.960 And then you looked around at all of the houses.

00:15:17.260 And there were flags on all of the houses.

00:15:19.780 On houses that never had flown a flag before.

00:15:22.560 And not big ones.

00:15:24.360 You know, the $4 kind you get to the hardware store.

00:15:26.820 And the hardware stores were sold out by Wednesday afternoon.

00:15:31.600 All over the country.

00:15:32.480 You could not find a flag.

00:15:34.360 the day after 9-11

00:15:39.260 there were lines around the block at the blood banks

00:15:41.800 people stood there for six hours

00:15:44.940 between September 10th and October 14th

00:15:49.700 the Red Cross took in

00:15:51.220 928,233 pints

00:15:56.160 of blood

00:15:58.260 that's 300,000 more the same week

00:16:01.000 the year before

00:16:02.180 Most people don't know that fewer than 300 units were actually needed to treat the wounded in New York and Washington

00:16:12.220 Because there were no survivors, or almost very few

00:16:15.620 Almost 50,000 pints had to be destroyed because there was nothing they could do with them

00:16:20.620 A million people stood in line for six hours

00:16:27.280 To give a part of their body

00:16:31.060 and most of it went into the trash

00:16:34.800 and nobody told them to do it

00:16:37.860 if you had walked down that line

00:16:40.140 you know

00:16:41.760 and I don't care how long people

00:16:47.100 if they had just gotten there

00:16:48.280 or they had been waiting there for hours

00:16:49.600 if you told them

00:16:50.600 your blood's not going to be needed

00:16:52.120 and you gave them a choice 0.86

00:16:53.720 they would have stayed

00:16:54.380 they would have stayed

00:16:55.880 that's not charity

00:17:00.560 Charity is a decision.

00:17:02.760 What happened on 9-12 was a reflex.

00:17:05.680 It showed us who we really were.

00:17:10.680 Then came the school trusts.

00:17:12.840 Within weeks, somebody set up a fund for the children.

00:17:15.500 And it's not like it is now where you can just set these things up.

00:17:18.600 That was a big deal.

00:17:20.560 The Family of Freedom Scholarship Fund.

00:17:23.760 Bill Clinton and Bob Dole chaired it together eventually.

00:17:27.060 And nobody thought it was strange.

00:17:28.160 Because that month, nobody thought to ask.

00:17:31.180 Money came in from more than 20,000 different sources.

00:17:36.960 $108 million for the children that had lost a parent.

00:17:46.440 It's still paying out.

00:17:47.640 25 years later, $191 million to 3,865 kids.

00:17:53.560 It doesn't close until 2030.

00:17:55.520 and somewhere right now in the country

00:17:58.220 is a young woman starting this semester,

00:18:00.260 this fall, with tuition covered by a man

00:18:02.280 who wrote a check in October of 2001.

00:18:05.100 She never met him,

00:18:06.400 and he's probably gone by now.

00:18:11.080 I'm so sick of hearing for 25 years

00:18:14.220 people explain how America is never any good,

00:18:18.140 founded in sin, built on theft, 0.98

00:18:20.400 the whole catalog, shut up. 0.84

00:18:25.520 were you there on September 12th? 0.96

00:18:32.260 Because a country's character is not what it says from a podium.

00:18:37.400 It's what it does in the hour when no one is in charge.

00:18:46.440 On September 12th, the president was in the air.

00:18:51.380 FAA was grounding the entire planet.

00:18:54.920 The Pentagon had a hole in it.

00:18:58.380 There wasn't one office in Washington with a bandwidth to tell 280 million people what to do.

00:19:03.920 Nobody was telling.

00:19:04.620 And you know what?

00:19:05.220 When they finally did, what was it?

00:19:06.800 A few days later, come up with the advice on what to do.

00:19:09.780 I think it was a Sunday.

00:19:11.120 9-11 was on a Tuesday.

00:19:13.020 On Sunday, the president came out and said, the stock market's going to open.

00:19:17.940 Buy stock.

00:19:18.900 Go shopping.

00:19:20.420 That's what he told us to do.

00:19:24.280 So we did things without them.

00:19:27.520 Firemen in Ohio got into trucks and drove east without being asked.

00:19:31.740 Restaurant owners downtown cooked until the kitchen was empty

00:19:35.000 and then went and bought more food with their own money.

00:19:39.320 Men stood at the barricades for hours.

00:19:43.560 Just to applaud the trucks going by.

00:19:47.260 Eight-year-olds ran lemonade stands and mailed the cash to New York in an envelope addressed to nobody in particular.

00:19:54.280 years later I started the 9-12 project

00:20:00.780 that's what it was all about

00:20:01.880 started in March of 2009

00:20:04.260 I got on TV and said

00:20:06.660 I think we all believe a handful of things

00:20:08.860 and I think you're being made to feel like

00:20:12.140 you're the only one who does believe these things

00:20:13.960 so here are 9 principles and 12 values

00:20:16.160 agree with 7 out of the 9

00:20:18.480 and you're not crazy

00:20:19.700 and you're not alone

00:20:20.880 I still believe that 0.99

00:20:23.260 There are more of us than there are of those who say America is trash. 0.91

00:20:29.640 The principles, America is good. 0.82

00:20:33.000 I believe in God.

00:20:34.500 He's the center of my life.

00:20:35.860 The family is sacred.

00:20:37.340 If you break a law, you need to pay the price.

00:20:40.080 Justice is blind.

00:20:41.940 I've worked hard for my money.

00:20:43.500 I can decide who I want to share it with and who I don't want to share it with.

00:20:48.100 And it's not on American to disagree with one another or authority.

00:20:53.260 The government works for me.

00:20:55.400 I don't answer to them.

00:20:58.120 These are pretty universal principles.

00:21:00.080 The values?

00:21:03.320 Honesty, reverence, hope, thrift, humility, charity, sincerity, moderation, hard work, courage, personal responsibility, gratitude.

00:21:16.240 You notice when you look at this list, not one of them is policy?

00:21:20.420 You're not going to vote for thrift, although I'd like it to be on the ballot.

00:21:25.500 Nobody's ever introduced a bill on humility.

00:21:29.940 Every one of those things is done by the individual, and usually where no one can see you do it.

00:21:38.520 So it wasn't political. Of course, it didn't stay that way.

00:21:41.480 And, you know, I'm not saying I didn't have anything to do with it, but it wasn't about politics.

00:21:49.420 It never was about politics.

00:21:56.020 Nobody was in charge.

00:22:04.960 The list never changed.

00:22:07.980 Read that list again and tell me you found a party in it.

00:22:15.540 And this is our character.

00:22:16.920 Do you know, on December 6th, 1917, Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia, two ships collide.

00:22:25.060 One of them loaded with munitions for the war.

00:22:27.560 It was the largest man-made explosion in the world before the atomic bomb.

00:22:32.180 Two square kilometers of a city, gone.

00:22:35.960 2,000 dead, 9,000 hurt, a blizzard coming that night.

00:22:41.000 Boston got a telegram.

00:22:42.720 They didn't wait for anybody.

00:22:44.260 A train filled up.

00:22:46.160 That evening, a train full of doctors and nurses and supplies pushed north through the storm, got there ahead of the help from Halifax's own capital.

00:22:58.860 The next Christmas, Nova Scotia sent Boston a tree.

00:23:04.200 And then everybody who had been there got old and it stopped for 50 years.

00:23:10.340 Because they had sent us a tree.

00:23:12.820 They sent Boston a tree every year.

00:23:14.440 And then when everybody died, they stopped sending the tree until 1971.

00:23:20.440 Somebody started it up again.

00:23:23.400 Do you know they haven't missed a year since?

00:23:26.760 Every autumn, the province picks a spruce.

00:23:31.260 Families nominate their own trees off their own land, and they cut it with a blessing and schoolchildren singing,

00:23:37.860 and they truck it 700 miles to Boston.

00:23:41.960 That's the tree on Boston Commons.

00:23:44.440 Not one living person in Nova Scotia was in that harbor.

00:23:47.520 Not one person in Boston remembers the train.

00:23:50.760 It doesn't matter.

00:23:52.240 Somebody built the habit and handed it to people who weren't there.

00:23:58.980 That's the answer.

00:24:01.640 Why does this always come out of catastrophe?

00:24:03.620 It doesn't.

00:24:10.580 It lasts through a catastrophe because the fire is the thing that makes everybody

00:24:14.320 you know standing in front of you the only thing on your schedule but once you put the fire out

00:24:20.120 it goes back to being you know that's this the guy your neighbor who has the wrong side in his

00:24:24.640 yard unity is a feeling gratitude is a feeling resolve is a feeling feelings are weather they

00:24:31.320 have a shelf life of about a pint of blood but habit is a different animal a habit doesn't ask

00:24:39.620 you how you feel. You just do it on the same day every year, whether you feel it or not,

00:24:44.000 and you hand it to a kid. Nova Scotia is still cutting down trees.

00:24:54.720 You want the country to last? Pick one thing, put a date on it. Blood bank. On your birthday

00:25:01.280 every year, take somebody with you. One kid's tuition for a family you'll never meet. A

00:25:09.440 meal at the same firehouse every September. The neighbor whose car hasn't moved in a week.

00:25:16.040 Saturday morning, you go over and you knock. Name the day, write it on the calendar,

00:25:21.300 write where your children can see it, involve your children. That's the whole thing. That's

00:25:25.200 the entire mechanism. We gave until it hurt when we had a reason. The people who did that

00:25:34.860 didn't die off and they didn't move away.

00:25:38.940 They're your neighbors.

00:25:40.740 One of them is three doors down.

00:25:43.900 Maybe one of them has decided you just can't stand anymore.

00:25:48.840 But the buildings aren't burning, and I think that's a good thing.

00:25:53.040 If we choose to go anyway.

00:25:57.000 More in a minute.

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00:27:40.000 So Friday was the anniversary of 9-11.

00:27:43.480 Saturday was 9-12.

00:27:45.200 And if you've listened to me for any period of time, you might remember the 9-12 project,

00:27:49.060 which was happening around the same time as the Tea Party.

00:27:52.380 And the 9-12 project kind of got mixed in with the Tea Party,

00:27:56.900 but it wasn't, in my opinion.

00:27:58.900 It was never about politics.

00:28:02.460 It was about principles.

00:28:03.560 We have to put our principles and our values together,

00:28:07.460 state them, learn them, learn our history,

00:28:09.620 or we're just voting for people and it's all about personalities.

00:28:14.400 So learn the principles and the values.

00:28:16.240 And there were these great clubs all over the country and people had summer camps for kids and groups were getting together and reading the founding documents and everything together.

00:28:30.840 It was an amazing, amazing thing.

00:28:32.780 And it was all done by you.

00:28:34.260 I remember Rupert Murdoch called me in.

00:28:38.720 He's like, what are you doing here?

00:28:40.720 Are you going to run for president?

00:28:41.840 And I'm like, no.

00:28:43.740 And he's like, you seem to be gathering a lot of power.

00:28:48.480 And I hadn't even thought of it that way.

00:28:50.660 And I'm like, no.

00:28:53.920 And he's like, well, what are you building?

00:28:55.580 And I'm like, I'm not building anything.

00:28:56.620 I just want people to learn this stuff, and then they take it.

00:29:02.020 I'm not even a leader of this thing.

00:29:04.480 I just put it out, and they're doing it.

00:29:06.880 9-12 meant a lot to me because it was the day that we kind of really came together and I saw

00:29:18.300 who we were on 9-11 we were afraid but there were certain things that happened on 9-11

00:29:25.020 that showed the 9-12 spirit even though everybody was afraid and the flag behind me this this is

00:29:31.800 framed for my office and it hangs behind my desk in my office and it has for years and it was given

00:29:38.240 to me by a couple and in fact I cannot find their name I can't believe I didn't attach it to the

00:29:43.480 back of this framed flag so if it happens to you please write to me and tell me because I need you

00:29:49.900 to write down the story so I get it exact because it'll eventually go to the museum but it was given

00:29:57.320 to me by this great couple, um, in, uh, lower Manhattan. And this is, this was not their flag.

00:30:08.900 9-11 happens and you know, it happens in the morning. And you know, if you remember it was,

00:30:16.520 everything was just caked. It was like it had two or three inches of snow on the ground or ash on

00:30:22.240 the ground it was everywhere in lower manhattan and everything in lower manhattan was shut down

00:30:28.220 you couldn't you couldn't go anywhere and so this couple who lived down there um they were outside

00:30:35.860 and they were walking and they were just seeing you know the devastation and they saw this woman

00:30:42.980 and she was she was walking down the street and she had almost like a veil she had this flag

00:30:51.360 wrapped around her and they went over and started talking to her because she was clearly not doing

00:31:02.540 well. And at first they couldn't get any information out of her on who she was or anything

00:31:09.240 else. And they said, you know, why don't, why don't you come over to our house and, and just

00:31:16.800 catch your breath because she was so distraught so they brought her over to her house which is

00:31:23.040 a couple blocks away and they were sitting there in the kitchen and they were talking to her

00:31:28.320 and she calmed down she had a cup of tea and they spent a couple of hours with her

00:31:33.360 and she started telling her story about what she had seen

00:31:40.000 and she had gone and grabbed her flag

00:31:44.740 for protection.

00:31:53.120 She had grabbed that symbol

00:31:56.600 that now is so divisive.

00:32:01.940 But at the time, on that day,

00:32:04.860 it wasn't one party or another.

00:32:07.320 It was America.

00:32:10.020 And it stood for something.

00:32:11.820 And as everything was coming down, out of the sky, everything that was happening, she reached for her flag to put it over herself, to protect her.

00:32:33.060 She sat in that kitchen for a while and they talked and...

00:32:40.640 She was strong again.

00:32:44.720 Strangers.

00:32:46.320 And they folded up the flag.

00:32:51.720 And they were walking her back out.

00:32:54.000 And they stood on their stoop.

00:32:57.180 And she takes a couple of steps off the stairs and starts making her way.

00:33:03.780 And she turns at them and she says,

00:33:05.940 Oh, no, no, wait.

00:33:07.120 are you going to be going out

00:33:09.960 and they said yeah we'll probably be going out again

00:33:14.960 oh you need this for protection

00:33:18.680 and she handed the flag

00:33:22.720 to my two friends, my two listeners

00:33:25.460 and they gave it to me

00:33:37.120 I love that story for several reasons.

00:33:48.920 When she was lost, when she feared the most,

00:33:57.800 she reached for the symbol of goodness and decency and honor as we once understood it.

00:34:03.460 It doesn't mean that that woman, I don't know how she voted.

00:34:10.380 She might have thought we had done horrible things in Vietnam or whatever.

00:34:14.660 I don't even know.

00:34:16.140 She lived in lower Manhattan. 1.00

00:34:18.220 Odds are she wasn't voting my way.

00:34:22.740 But she still looked at the flag as safety.

00:34:28.900 and on the worst day of any of our lives

00:34:36.460 in a place where this couple didn't know her from Adam

00:34:41.280 in New York City

00:34:42.680 where somebody mumbling to themselves

00:34:44.720 somebody absolutely incoherent

00:34:48.320 somebody covered in dust and ash

00:34:53.440 so you don't know who they are at all 0.98

00:34:57.560 two women 1.00

00:35:00.360 take her into their home 1.00

00:35:03.800 and they clean her up

00:35:06.380 they calm her down

00:35:08.800 they feed her and they talk to her

00:35:11.740 I was lost and then I was found

00:35:27.560 our country is lost.

00:35:33.440 Are we going to find it again?

00:35:40.960 Tomorrow I'm going to talk to you about some things.

00:35:42.720 I'm going to talk to you about some stats that I saw

00:35:44.920 that are just terrifying to me at least.

00:35:48.240 Do you know that 30 or 37% of Americans

00:35:51.680 consider themselves influencers?

00:35:57.560 What?

00:36:00.720 37%.

00:36:02.840 Like 30% say they're podcasters.

00:36:13.920 What does an influencer do?

00:36:17.440 What are the qualifications for being an influencer?

00:36:22.160 I'll bet you the majority of that number

00:36:26.940 is on the lower end of the spectrum

00:36:29.060 it's the 20-somethings

00:36:34.740 early 30-somethings

00:36:36.140 I'm an influencer

00:36:36.980 are you?

00:36:38.240 aren't really?

00:36:39.300 what have you influenced lately?

00:36:41.340 what makes you an influencer?

00:36:44.840 we're so

00:36:45.860 shallow

00:36:50.680 We are just so unbelievably shallow.

00:36:59.060 We need to find some depth.

00:37:05.080 We need to find some things that matter.

00:37:14.180 Have you seen the friend stats lately?

00:37:16.420 How many friends Americans have?

00:37:20.680 how many we used to have, how many we have now.

00:37:25.860 Do you know it takes about 200 hours to become a friend?

00:37:32.080 200 hours, invested, one-on-one.

00:37:35.260 40 hours with somebody, and you're considered an acquaintance.

00:37:39.740 I mean, scientists actually followed this.

00:37:41.640 I don't know how they were following all this, but they did.

00:37:44.160 They followed this, and they saw how people interacted with each other,

00:37:47.340 and this is like 20 years ago.

00:37:48.820 And they found that in 40 hours of being with somebody, it's an acquaintance.

00:37:56.540 80 to 100 hours.

00:38:00.860 I can't remember what it was.

00:38:02.980 And then 200 is a friend.

00:38:06.240 How are we spending 200 hours with each other?

00:38:08.980 We don't spend any time with each other anymore.

00:38:14.940 And yet we all think we have friends.

00:38:18.820 we've hollowed everything out.

00:38:27.520 I don't think a politician is going to fix us.

00:38:32.360 I mean, it's going to take politics to fix the political.

00:38:37.640 And there's a lot of fixing there, but that's not what's going to fix us.

00:38:40.820 America's not going to be great if the people aren't great.

00:38:45.400 I tweeted something out this weekend.

00:38:48.820 This only ends two ways. You know that, right? Have you actually war-gamed this out at all? There's only two ways this story ends. We either come back together and we find a way to forgive each other and to come back to common sense, or one side kills the other side.

00:39:10.340 we become rwanda where one side says the other side is evil go kill them and they do

00:39:20.440 that it either ends in roundups or in forgiveness and coming back together i know which side i'm

00:39:27.740 rooting for i'm rooting for the hey let's get back together i don't think the roundups sound

00:39:33.460 like fun. But that's going to take effort to do it. We're going to have to have conversations

00:39:42.060 with each other like that. Hey, can you just war game this out with me? I know you hate my guts

00:39:47.160 right now. I don't hate you. I don't want to hate you. We disagree with each other. But can I just

00:39:51.560 war game this out with you? How does it end? How does this end? If I hate you and you hate me

00:39:58.520 and we have teams.

00:40:00.860 How does this end?

00:40:05.880 Because it's pretty clear.

00:40:07.920 Only two ways.

00:40:14.400 I would hope everybody listening to me,

00:40:17.520 I would hope that you're part of that team

00:40:21.620 and I don't know how to do it,

00:40:23.640 but you're part of that team that is thinking every day,

00:40:25.920 I want to be on the good side.

00:40:27.140 I want to be on the, hey, let's get back together side.

00:40:32.040 That should be our goal.

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