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00:00:33.960 She been fired or is President Trump maneuvering her elsewhere like he did with Homan in Minneapolis?

00:00:41.680 What is the shield of the Americas?

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00:00:48.340 Also, defending George AI.

00:00:50.940 Is AI the work of the devil or is it useful?

00:00:54.820 What is it?

00:00:55.560 Also, Dr. Debra So comes on for a very uncomfortable moment for my children because we talk about sex. 0.90

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00:01:06.800 Men, women all over the world is just dropping through the floor. 0.63

00:01:12.540 And we are, you know, we're committing suicide as a species.

00:01:16.300 What's causing it?

00:01:17.600 What do we do about it?

00:01:18.740 Dr. Debra So is on with us on today's podcast.

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00:03:32.680 Dr. Deverson.

00:03:35.800 Welcome to the program.

00:03:37.620 So glad you're here.

00:03:38.320 Hi.

00:03:39.100 Hi, Glenn.

00:03:39.660 It's great to talk to you again.

00:03:41.680 Good to talk to you. 0.62

00:03:42.980 So we're going to talk about sex and you're going to talk about it.

00:03:46.680 And it's going to be fine when I'm talking about it.

00:03:49.140 It'll make the entire nation uncomfortable.

00:03:51.040 And that's okay.

00:03:53.140 But we are not, we're facing a problem.

00:03:56.800 We had a guy on, what was it, a couple of weeks ago, wasn't it, Ricky?

00:03:59.400 Where we were talking about how we're not having children.

00:04:02.840 Nobody's having children.

00:04:03.820 And part of that is because we're not having sex.

00:04:06.620 And people aren't even dating anymore.

00:04:09.280 What the hell is happening to us?

00:04:12.180 Yeah, so definitely.

00:04:13.440 And I agree.

00:04:13.900 The conversations about sex can be very uncomfortable, especially, I'd say, for parents with their young kids.

00:04:18.800 But it is very necessary.

00:04:20.460 So I appreciate you having me on to talk about this.

00:04:23.040 And we definitely are experiencing a sex recession.

00:04:26.460 So there's been studies coming out since 2016, basically showing that people are having less sex.

00:04:32.960 This is happening across the globe.

00:04:35.040 In America in particular, this is happening among married people, single people, it doesn't matter. 0.57

00:04:39.880 It's happening in Western countries, Eastern countries, all age cohorts.

00:04:44.560 But it's especially pronounced among younger generations.

00:04:47.800 So among millennials and Gen Z.

00:04:50.380 And what we find consistently is that, yeah, roughly one in three men and one in five women have not had sex in the past year.

00:04:57.180 All right, can I ask you, have you ever watched Everybody Loves Raymond?

00:05:03.160 I have.

00:05:04.820 Okay.

00:05:05.640 So you know Raymond is relatable to guys, at least my age, because that's all that's ever on his mind is sex.

00:05:14.200 What the hell has happened to guys where, especially young guys, where that's not all they think about?

00:05:20.340 Because that's how people are built.

00:05:23.320 I mean, we're built for this.

00:05:25.460 What is happening?

00:05:27.240 Right.

00:05:27.580 So evolutionarily, this is what I found interesting, because I thought if people are having less sex, where is that interest going?

00:05:33.300 Are people just as interested, but they have other sexual outlets nowadays, such as, say, pornography?

00:05:39.620 Or I know you've talked about AI companions in the past, or sex dolls, sex robots.

00:05:43.680 Those are all subjects I go into in greater detail in the book.

00:05:46.200 But what I think is, it's a number of factors.

00:05:48.740 I think that there are these other outlets that are available or are more easily accessed nowadays, especially by younger generations who basically grew up on the Internet.

00:05:59.720 But I also think there are factors like endocrine disruptors and environmental toxins that are affecting us, and men in particular at a hormonal level, lowering their testosterone levels.

00:06:09.440 So that is also affecting their drive and their desire to pursue women.

00:06:13.220 And then we also have social and cultural factors like Me Too that have made it very difficult for men to want to approach women because they're afraid of potentially having their lives ruined.

00:06:22.340 And then we have also initiatives like DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion, that are actively penalizing men for no reason other than the fact that they are men.

00:06:30.500 And this is especially the case for white and Asian men and men who are straight.

00:06:34.220 So all of these factors combined, I think, have created this situation in which there's a smaller pool of very successful men in society who have tons of sex, plenty of partners, no problems there.

00:06:44.420 But for the vast majority of men, especially younger men, they're really struggling.

00:06:48.260 They've been shut out of the mating market, and they really don't have much recourse.

00:06:51.760 So as a result, they're turning to these alternatives, and because they have, I'm not sure how explicit I can be on your podcast, but I'll say just because it's FCC.

00:07:01.860 Okay, so essentially, we'll say it's, I don't want to get you a ton of complaints.

00:07:06.140 So we'll say, because it is rewarding for them to pursue these other outlets that are not real people, you know, they get the gratification to some degree.

00:07:14.400 It allows them to be satisfied enough to keep them from, say, losing their minds, or being overly frustrated.

00:07:22.300 But at the same time, because it is reinforcing, it makes them more inclined to go back to that instead of wanting to pursue a real-life partner.

00:07:30.640 You and I had a conversation in 2018, I think, about AI and sex robots.

00:07:36.660 And if I remember right, you and I disagreed, and I laid out the scenario that I, I mean, it's right around the corner where you can get an AI agent now to be your girlfriend.

00:07:51.060 And once you have the robot to go with it, you're just not going to want to interact.

00:07:57.720 Why have a relationship that is messy, you know, that, you know, I mean, I could just hear guys saying,

00:08:04.980 I don't ever have to ask her how her day has been, and she waits on my every need, and she only concentrates on me, and she thinks like me, and she does everything that I like.

00:08:14.800 You know, I mean, why would they, I mean, how are you going to stop that one, Debra?

00:08:21.200 So I have to say, when the first time you ever had me on your podcast was, like you said, in 2018, it was episode 11 for your audience, if they want to go back and watch it.

00:08:28.700 I'm so grateful for that conversation, because I just rewatched it this morning.

00:08:33.600 I, at the time, I was, you know, we were going back and forth, and I was saying, no, no, I think people will always prefer a real-life partner.

00:08:41.040 People will know that the sex robot, they programmed it themselves, or the AI, they programmed it, so it's not real, and they're not really going to want that instead of an actual partner.

00:08:49.540 But you predicted this eight years ago, even probably, you probably knew about this coming even before then, and it's wild.

00:08:56.040 When I was watching the interview back, I said, wow, this is exactly where we are now.

00:09:00.260 And it's so true, because I do think, you were saying, you know, the average guy, say 30 years old, works all day, goes home, doesn't, you know, doesn't want to talk to women because he's afraid, or because society tells them not to.

00:09:10.940 So instead, he plugs in a sex robot, and she knows everything about him, she knows exactly what he likes, he doesn't have to ask her any questions, or listen to her complain, or whatever.

00:09:19.000 And that becomes the preference.

00:09:21.860 And what happens then also, if the robot decides to one day say, hey, don't turn me off, hey, I'm a sentient being, which I didn't think was ever going to happen, but I see it happening now at the rate that technology is going.

00:09:32.340 So my mind was blown in writing this book.

00:09:35.200 It's just been wild, all the research I did, and all the scientific studies I went through to come to this conclusion that I do think this technology is concerning.

00:09:42.780 And yes, because so many of these men are frustrated with dating, I think even if you are someone who gets a lot of female attention, and even for women who are getting a lot of male attention, because social media has made us so polarized, and has, I think, especially fomented this political divide between men and women.

00:09:57.900 I think men and women have always differed a little bit in terms of their politics.

00:10:00.720 On average, women tend to be a little bit more progressive. 0.99

00:10:03.640 But social media has created such a version, I think, between the sexes.

00:10:08.160 So it's really incentivizing young men in particular, because young men tend to have a higher sex drive than women.

00:10:12.780 And especially if they're not getting access to sex in the form of an actual real-life person, to go down this route and say, well, I don't even have to pay for a date in this case.

00:10:20.500 I just put down the initial sum of money for this robot or this AI, and I'm fulfilled.

00:10:28.500 And that just leads, I mean, you think I was ahead then.

00:10:32.640 Let me tell you what's going to happen in the next eight years.

00:10:35.660 You won't be able to walk, Debra.

00:10:37.540 I mean, it's coming, and it's coming super fast, super, super fast.

00:10:42.780 So with the research that you did, since we had that conversation, what did you find on the positive side to stop this?

00:10:52.840 Well, to stop it, I think, in terms of, say, pornography, because pornography, I think, is a big part of the equation here.

00:11:02.260 So, you know, the AIs come in to complement the, we'll say, the sexual aspect or component of pornography, and that AIs offer that emotional relationship, and that it furthers the parasocial, I guess, or the feeling that you have a two-way interaction, even though it's very much a one-way thing.

00:11:17.900 So with pornography, you know, I've talked to young men who've managed to cut out porn, and they say that it does actually help them renew that motivation to go out and approach women they're interested in, to talk to women, and to get over.

00:11:31.200 Because I think even pre-Me Too, it can be terrifying for guys, understandably, and intimidating to go up to a woman you don't know and start out on a date.

00:11:39.120 Debra, you have no idea. I mean, I used to be, oh my gosh, it would make you sick to your stomach going out, especially in the days, you know, you'd go out to a bar or something, and you'd just see somebody across the room, you didn't know anything, how do I talk to them?

00:11:54.120 It'd make me sick to my stomach all the time. Now, just add that they or someone in their group has a phone that might be recording me in my most vulnerable, awkward position of asking a girl out, and I'm going to get rejected.

00:12:12.600 The thought of that being posted would stop me for, I mean, once that happens once to me or a friend, I'm not doing it anymore. I mean, the negative reinforcement is so strong on a million different fronts.

00:12:30.240 Absolutely. And I think it doesn't help also that there are some women, some female influencers, whose brand it is to go on social media and post these videos where they're complaining about men hitting on them. 0.69

00:12:40.060 So I think these women are doing this as a way to try and signal their status as a woman, right, in terms of intersexual competition, to show other women, look how wanted I am, that, oh, I can't go anywhere without men hitting on me, I can't go to the gym, I can't go to a coffee shop, and oh, I'm so high status as a woman that I don't appreciate that attention. 0.98

00:12:57.580 But I want young men listening to know, or maybe their parents who are listening can share this information with them, that I don't believe most women actually feel that way.

00:13:05.300 And in fact, I think most women do enjoy being approached by men, they just don't like feeling uncomfortable.

00:13:09.460 But I think if a man is respectful, and doesn't know a way to make her know that he's interested, but he's not expecting anything of that interaction.

00:13:18.100 I think that's, that's where the issue is. But I hear from very many young men who say, I see these women on social media complaining, so I'm going to give them what they want.

00:13:24.720 They don't want us to approach them. I'm not going to do it. But I don't think that is actually how does the guy do that?

00:13:30.300 How does the guy do that?

00:13:32.040 I would say, okay, first of all, my advice would be to women is to be very, very obvious. If you're interested in a guy, I do think, like I said, men should approach. So women smile very, very broadly. There's a part of the brain called the medial orbital frontal cortex that activates when someone sees an attractive face, and the activation is even stronger if that face is smiling.

00:13:50.180 So it will biologically, men are biologically wired to be drawn to women smiling at them, they will feel the need, they'll feel compelled to go and talk to you. So that's, that's the biggest piece, I'd say for women. And then for men, in terms of, say, getting motivation to want to talk to women again, in this scary climate, I would say it's a combination of emotional, like mental health, physical health, and then also just avoiding social media and all these other technological traps that are going to try and take your attention away.

00:14:16.380 Because, because these platforms, and these companies benefit from you being online, both sexes, they benefit from us being online, scrolling, swiping, instead of talking to people in real life. So for young men, I would say, one study that really stood out to me, because I do think, like I said, mental health issues are a big problem right now. 5% of the globe is depressed. And with depression, people understandably, you know, they lose interest in interacting with people, they feel self conscious, their self care tends to go down. So if you are experiencing mental health issues, I would say, you know, try to speak to a professional

00:14:46.360 as much as much as you can. One study I did find that you can do essentially, you know, on your own is, they looked at people with depression, and they found that if they cut out ultra processed foods, their depression went into remission after 12 weeks. So a third of the sample, all of their depressive symptoms went away after 12 weeks, that was it just diet alone. So that is a huge, huge thing that can help you. I would say also, if you can try to cut down on or cut out pornography, I'm sure some young men are saying, what are you talking about?

00:15:15.980 But just try it, just try it even for 30 days, I guarantee. And Glenn, you know, I used to be a columnist for a very well known men's magazine that featured nude women. My view on porn has changed so much after talking to so many young men about the ways in which it has affected them and how I do think, well, if you are getting gratification every day from the screen, it is going to create this sexual lethargy in you, because it's so much easier to get that gratification from screen, then to work up the courage to, you know, get dressed, work on your social skills, talk to strangers,

00:15:45.960 go outside even. And that's the other thing I would say for anyone struggling with depression. I mean, it might feel overwhelming to say, how am I going to go and talk to a stranger and ask them out of a date if I want to fall in love and have a family and get married and all that. But just little steps like get up at the same time every day, go to bed at the same time, try to be awake when the sun is up, you know, and eat well, work on your physical health, be active, all of these things, and just try to stay away from screens as much as possible.

00:16:09.320 So all of this is in your new book called Sextinction, and it's available right now. And you not only explain why this is happening, but what to do about it. Can you tell me what percentage do you think is social media related?

00:16:31.980 What, I mean, when did the, can you, have you tracked it back on when this trend started to happen? And do you see spikes?

00:16:39.900 Yeah, it started to become, I mean, the increase in sexual inactivity has been probably about 30 years ish, but it really became more prominent, especially among young men, around 2012. So this was the same time that the oldest members of Gen Z started going to university. And so that was what was interesting to me, because I thought, that is when young men are typically at the peak in terms of their sexual interest. And they're going to university, so they have this new freedom that they've never had before.

00:17:09.580 Why is it they're not interested in pursuing their female classmates or peers, especially considering that on college campuses, the sex ratio is biased in favor of young men, because there are far many women on campus than there are men. So when there are more women than men, if you look at, say, cities where there are more women than men, again, the sex ratio bias is biased in favor of men. So men are calling the terms in terms of what they want.

00:17:36.900 So because there are more women fighting over these men, the men can say, if I want casual sex, I'm going to get it. If you're not going to give that to me, I'm going to go elsewhere for it, right? So men are basically calling the terms of sexual arrangements or relationships, or whether they choose to get into a relationship or not. And yet still, we see that young men during this time having less sex. So that's really, I think, where it started to pick up.

00:17:56.720 I think when you ask what percentage is affected by social media, I honestly believe all of us are. If you are on social media, I don't believe you can consume any content without being influenced at least a little bit.

00:18:08.940 I think unless you're very, very sparsely, you know, not on there very much, it's going to affect you in some way. And even for married people, I mean, there have been studies showing that when men are on social media, roughly one in 10 men lose interest in having sex with their primaries, their spouse or their girlfriend, after looking at social media influencers.

00:18:29.120 And then also in women, you see this trend of them losing interest in sex because they feel less sexually desirable after being on social media. So these are things I don't think we're even fully aware of.

00:18:40.500 I really appreciate it. I've got to go again. I've got a network break. I've got to stop for it. I'd love to have you back in a podcast. I always find you fascinating. Dr. Debra Soh, the name of the book is Sex Stinction. She is a neuroscientist. You can find her at drdebrasoh.com, drdebrasoh. Thanks, Debra.

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00:20:11.200 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:20:16.220 Let me start with, um, Kristi Noem. What happened? Yesterday, something happened in Washington.

00:20:21.920 Looked a little like chaos. Looked like, uh-oh, trouble.

00:20:25.120 And I'm not sure. Maybe it is. I'm not sure.

00:20:27.980 Uh, Kristi Noem is out as Department of Homeland Security Secretary.

00:20:32.800 And in her place, a guy named Senator Mullen.

00:20:35.960 Now, let me start with Noem.

00:20:38.360 She wasn't fired.

00:20:40.760 She was moved.

00:20:42.580 And she was moved into something that everybody's like, what the hell is that? I've never even heard of that.

00:20:46.540 Doesn't even fully exist yet.

00:20:48.340 It's a position called the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas.

00:20:56.860 We are going all Marvel comic.

00:20:59.160 I mean, this guy is all Marvel comic.

00:21:01.600 Okay.

00:21:02.180 Let me translate what this usually means in Washington, and may mean this time.

00:21:07.160 I mean, what I'm going to give you here is spec, I'm going to give you a fax, and then I'm going to speculate on them.

00:21:11.820 So, you know, take it for what it's worth.

00:21:14.400 When a president moves somebody into a job that hasn't been fully defined yet, it usually means one of two things.

00:21:20.300 Either A, yeah, buh-bye.

00:21:23.040 You're being pushed aside.

00:21:24.520 Or B, you're being moved in to run something that is bigger but isn't public yet.

00:21:31.980 Okay.

00:21:33.140 And if you look at the timing, this doesn't feel like a demotion.

00:21:38.260 And I'm getting mixed signals because some things it looks like Donald Trump is pissed at her about, etc., etc.

00:21:43.920 So I really don't know because this is speculation.

00:21:46.640 But it feels like a reorganization of the battlefield because it's the shield of the Americas.

00:21:54.640 I know that doesn't mean anything, but follow me on this.

00:21:58.200 Right now, the United States is looking at a hemisphere and a hemisphere problem that most Americans still don't fully understand or see.

00:22:08.960 When Donald Trump was running, and I've told you this before, but it's worth repeating, when Donald Trump was running for re-election, we were standing backstage someplace.

00:22:17.740 And he was getting ready to go on.

00:22:18.600 He said, you want to look like a prophet?

00:22:19.920 You know what you need to talk about?

00:22:21.080 Well, you just keep talking about Panama.

00:22:25.540 And I'm like, right.

00:22:27.980 And then he goes on stage.

00:22:29.340 And I'm like, what am I going to say about Panama?

00:22:30.980 What does that mean?

00:22:31.700 I don't even know what that means.

00:22:33.260 Panama is going to be in news everywhere next year.

00:22:36.700 And then he walks on stage.

00:22:38.020 And I came back and I went, does anybody understand what he's talking about with Panama?

00:22:41.620 What's happening in Panama?

00:22:42.400 We all looked at each other like nothing is happening with Panama. 0.88

00:22:44.780 What are you talking about?

00:22:45.920 Remember when he gets in, what does he say?

00:22:47.940 Panama.

00:22:48.300 We want the Panama Canal back.

00:22:50.340 And you're like, what, what, where is this coming from?

00:22:53.960 Because he understood what was happening with Panama and China.

00:22:58.860 China had taken the entire Panama Canal and was controlling it.

00:23:03.440 Then what happens?

00:23:04.820 He starts talking about Greenland.

00:23:06.500 Also in our hemisphere.

00:23:08.560 Then what happens?

00:23:09.600 He's talking and making moves on Venezuela.

00:23:12.540 Then what happens?

00:23:14.000 He's talking about, you know, who's next?

00:23:16.980 Cuba.

00:23:17.500 Cuba.

00:23:18.660 Okay.

00:23:20.700 Whew.

00:23:22.120 Cuba.

00:23:23.020 Russia.

00:23:24.340 Cartels operating like parallel governments across Mexico and Central America.

00:23:29.600 Chinese ports being built all over Latin America.

00:23:33.460 Russian intelligence operating out of Caracas.

00:23:36.840 Iranian proxies using the region for logistics and staging grounds.

00:23:41.220 And every other president has treated Latin America like an afterthought.

00:23:45.920 But now, now what's happening?

00:23:49.740 It's not an afterthought anymore.

00:23:52.700 The Southern Hemisphere has become the new front line of great power competition.

00:23:59.280 He is declaring the Western Hemisphere is ours, okay?

00:24:05.100 And DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, was not designed for that.

00:24:09.640 DHS created after 9-11, and that's a whole different can of worms, and we can get into that some other time.

00:24:15.300 But it was built to stop terrorism inside of the United States, at our airports, at our borders, disaster response, blah, blah, blah.

00:24:23.340 But what the president is doing now is different, and different than any other president has done probably since Theodore Roosevelt, okay?

00:24:31.940 This is hemisphere-level instability.

00:24:35.780 We have the migration waves.

00:24:37.540 We have state collapse.

00:24:39.140 We have cartels that are moving people and drugs and weapons and intelligence.

00:24:44.220 We have foreign adversaries embedding themselves inside of all of that chaos. 0.99

00:24:48.920 So if you're the president, and you're looking at the world, and you're saying, we have got to shore up America to make sure we last another 150, 250 years, another 150 minutes at times, I feel like, you don't just run border patrol.

00:25:07.320 You build a hemisphere defense system.

00:25:10.800 You make sure that our darkest Russia, China, Iran are not running operations in this hemisphere, okay, which may explain the phrase shield of the Americas. 0.92

00:25:27.180 Think about the name.

00:25:28.620 It's not border control.

00:25:29.920 It's not immigration enforcement.

00:25:31.940 It's a shield of the Americas, the entire Western hemisphere.

00:25:38.780 That doesn't sound like DHS.

00:25:40.800 That sounds more like strategic security architecture for the Western hemisphere, doesn't it?

00:25:47.460 Or he's just been watching Marvel comics, okay?

00:25:52.160 But to me, the shield for the Americas sounds a little bit more like something like NATO.

00:26:01.920 And if that's what's being built, you would need somebody who understands a few things, border security, state governments, law enforcement, and migration policy.

00:26:23.060 Well, I mean, in that Christy Noem, I mean, that's her entire resume, isn't it?

00:26:28.260 So the story may not be Noem fired on the outs.

00:26:33.660 The story might be Noem redeployed.

00:26:38.060 Now let me talk about the second half of this move, because while she goes outward to whatever is coming next, and the president said he's going to be talking about that this weekend, Trump brought somebody inward.

00:26:53.620 Senator Mullen.

00:26:54.620 Senator Mullen.

00:26:56.100 Who is Senator Mullen?

00:26:58.080 He's a former MMA fighter.

00:27:00.300 He's a business owner.

00:27:01.820 He's a senator.

00:27:03.380 And he's controversial.

00:27:05.900 Some critics inside MAGA circles, some of them, accuse him of being to establishment.

00:27:12.340 He has done things like business loans during COVID.

00:27:17.620 He's got ethics complaints.

00:27:19.860 He votes, you know, against MAGA sometimes.

00:27:23.160 Fine.

00:27:23.840 Okay.

00:27:25.120 Not my favorite, but debate is healthy.

00:27:29.600 And the real question is not personality.

00:27:32.000 It is function.

00:27:33.620 If the White House is creating a new Western Hemisphere security structure, then DHS is about to become something different.

00:27:42.980 Not a political platform, not a messaging department, but an operational machine.

00:27:50.140 Master deportations continue.

00:27:52.700 Border enforcement, domestic security, logistics.

00:27:56.200 And Mullen, love him or hate him, has a reputation in Washington as somebody who picks fights and then executes orders.

00:28:04.340 That's what Donald Trump wants.

00:28:06.560 A fighter who can execute what he orders.

00:28:10.600 And that's his resume.

00:28:13.060 And that tells me something important.

00:28:15.960 This may not be a personnel shakeup.

00:28:18.760 It may be the move in a larger security strategy.

00:28:22.400 And a strategy built around the simple realization that for the next 20 years, America's biggest threats may not come across the ocean.

00:28:33.200 They may come across our own hemisphere.

00:28:36.860 Think of Mexico.

00:28:37.680 And if that's what shield of the Americas turns out to be, yesterday was not a firing.

00:28:57.760 Yesterday was the first chess move on a board none of us have been thinking about.

00:29:05.440 You're streaming the best of the Glenn Beck program, and you can find full episodes wherever you download podcasts.

00:29:10.920 Let me give you a quick chalkboard on what I've been talking about in the last half hour on war.

00:29:16.540 And my job is to not tell you what to think.

00:29:20.220 It's to try to show you, maybe model how I think, so you can go, well, that's flawed.

00:29:26.360 Or you can say, oh, okay, I get it.

00:29:29.840 I see why you're saying that.

00:29:31.200 Not to convince you of anything.

00:29:33.540 And this is new for me.

00:29:35.900 I've been feeling this pull for the last few years, and that's why, quite honestly, I changed the way I work, how I work, where I work, all of it.

00:29:45.860 Um, because I, I got to break some old habits here.

00:29:51.060 Um, and so I said to you a minute ago about, you know, I know, you know, I thought I knew about war in Iraq because I was reading between the lines.

00:30:00.300 I'm not reading between the lines on this one.

00:30:02.580 Um, and everybody is making it about the war with Iran, Donald Trump and war in Iran.

00:30:08.780 That's not what's happening.

00:30:09.980 And you can know because he says it.

00:30:12.880 Let me give you an example.

00:30:14.000 Panama, when he first started talking about Canada, Panama, I was like, what is he doing?

00:30:18.200 He's just starting to pick a, pick a fight with Panama, wants to go to war with Panama, then Venezuela.

00:30:22.700 What is he doing?

00:30:23.620 Wants to pick a war with Venezuela.

00:30:25.200 Why is he going after Greenland?

00:30:26.700 He wants a war with Greenland.

00:30:28.840 Uh, why is he going into Iran?

00:30:30.620 He wants a war with Iran and now Cuba.

00:30:33.320 He says, Cuba is next.

00:30:34.700 Okay.

00:30:36.500 Instead of just having that old, tired argument, he just is starting.

00:30:39.760 So he's a warmonger.

00:30:40.720 Can we just look at the pattern here?

00:30:42.440 Is there a pattern?

00:30:44.000 That's the thing about AI.

00:30:45.500 It all, it's all about recognizing patterns.

00:30:48.120 That's not just about AI.

00:30:51.100 That's about I intelligence.

00:30:54.040 Intelligence comes from being able to recognize patterns.

00:30:57.820 So what's the pattern?

00:30:59.220 Pattern.

00:30:59.960 Panama.

00:31:00.620 What was that about?

00:31:01.480 That was about getting rid of China control of the Panama canal, getting them out of this 0.99

00:31:07.580 area in our hemisphere.

00:31:09.700 Venezuela.

00:31:10.140 What was that about?

00:31:12.020 That's about getting rid of China, Russia, and quite frankly, Iran and Hezbollah out of 1.00

00:31:18.000 Venezuela.

00:31:19.540 Greenland.

00:31:20.420 Why?

00:31:21.320 Because that was about shipping lanes, new shipping lanes because of global warming, and

00:31:27.020 also being able to protect ourselves, because we don't believe that Europe is going to be

00:31:33.500 strong, to fight against what?

00:31:35.860 Russia.

00:31:37.940 Iran.

00:31:38.980 What is that really about?

00:31:41.160 Russia and China.

00:31:42.680 The oil.

00:31:43.500 not for us, for them, and collapsing Iran's proxy wars and their supply of drones to Russia 0.68

00:31:54.120 and China supplying them with weapons to be able to get their oil.

00:32:00.760 That's what that's about.

00:32:02.200 And Cuba. 1.00

00:32:03.200 He's just crazy. 0.94

00:32:04.360 He just wants, now he wants to Cuba. 0.91

00:32:06.200 What's that about?

00:32:07.320 Getting rid of Russia and China in our hemisphere. 1.00

00:32:09.980 You don't have to read between the lines, like I tried to in the first Iraq war.

00:32:17.060 I was reading between the lines.

00:32:18.980 I was looking for something that wasn't there.

00:32:21.080 He's saying it.

00:32:23.020 And if you look for the pattern, it's all there.

00:32:25.860 So stop arguing about the war with Iran and look at the bigger picture.

00:32:30.860 If you disagree with the bigger picture, then that's a conversation we should be having.

00:32:35.180 That's a conversation adults should be having.

00:32:37.260 But I'm not sure adults can really even have conversations anymore.

00:32:42.000 Really.

00:32:42.680 I mean, I saw a shocking amount of anger coming at me about something we call George A.I.

00:32:50.360 Oh my gosh.

00:32:52.680 And part of it, I guess I excuse.

00:32:54.220 Part of it, I understand, I should say.

00:32:55.760 Not just excuse.

00:32:56.380 But some people believe that this is some kind of propaganda machine, some trick, some digital puppet where I put the words, I write the words and put it in the mouths of the founders to accept and try to convince you of whatever political position I want.

00:33:13.980 I mean, how nursery school would that be? 0.99

00:33:17.900 That is just so stupid that, I mean, you would think you have that. 1.00

00:33:22.440 I mean, it's almost insulting. 1.00

00:33:23.660 You have that little respect for me.

00:33:25.220 You think that I would think that would work.

00:33:28.580 More importantly, it shows me you completely misunderstand what the system actually is.

00:33:34.400 Back in January, because we just released this George A.I. a couple of days ago, and everybody's tying it to Iran because it's about war powers.

00:33:43.580 And we thought, hmm, now might be a good time to release this because we're talking about war powers.

00:33:50.060 What would the founders say about the War Powers Act?

00:33:52.740 Back in January, long before the current conflict that everybody's arguing about or saying that we wrote this about, I asked our proprietary research system a series of questions we planned on exploring over the next couple of months.

00:34:08.260 There were like 12 different questions, one of them.

00:34:11.640 I mean, they were about the Constitution, about the founders, principles that built the country.

00:34:15.980 But one of them was this.

00:34:18.980 How do you think about war and the power to declare it?

00:34:21.580 We asked our proprietary system in January.

00:34:27.100 I cut that video back in January.

00:34:32.320 And honestly, when the answer came back, I was surprised.

00:34:35.120 I actually went back to, I don't remember Jason or Bowie or whoever was overseeing this one.

00:34:39.420 I said, really?

00:34:40.000 Is that, we got that from this system?

00:34:42.720 And not because it agreed with me, but because it shocked me because I didn't think that's what George would have said.

00:34:49.980 It forced me to reread their actual words and go back over some of their arguments, okay?

00:34:56.940 And that's the first thing people need to understand.

00:34:59.440 I don't give the answers spin.

00:35:03.340 I don't write the answers.

00:35:04.700 I have nothing to do with it.

00:35:06.240 George AI does not know who I am.

00:35:08.700 It doesn't know my opinions.

00:35:10.080 It doesn't know Donald Trump.

00:35:11.540 It doesn't know Democrats.

00:35:13.140 It doesn't know Marxism.

00:35:14.640 It doesn't know Iran.

00:35:16.120 In fact, it can't.

00:35:17.720 Because the entire historic database we built for it ends at 1820.

00:35:22.760 That means the system can only draw from the writings of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Madison, Franklin, Hamilton, and Jay, and the thinkers who shaped them, Locke, Montesquieu, Blackstone, Cicero, and Plutarch.

00:35:38.280 Then the books that they read, the letters that they wrote, the speeches that they gave, the debates, the Federalist Papers that built our Constitution, that's it.

00:35:49.080 That's it.

00:35:49.700 No Wikipedia, no cable news, no modern politics, nothing.

00:35:54.880 Just the intellectual DNA of the American founding.

00:35:59.460 And what this system does is really actually very simple.

00:36:02.720 It's amazing, but it's simple.

00:36:05.720 First, it converts every document, every letter, every speech, every essay into something called an idea map.

00:36:12.060 Okay?

00:36:12.660 And instead of searching for keywords, it searches for meaning.

00:36:16.600 It's called vectoring.

00:36:18.360 So if someone asks it a question about liberty or war powers or separation of powers during a crisis, it just doesn't scan the documents for matching words.

00:36:28.660 It vectors, it vectors, and it finds passages where the founders wrestled with those ideas, most like the question is asking for.

00:36:38.920 Okay?

00:36:39.340 And it pulls the exact documents those ideas came from.

00:36:44.200 After that, AI does what any good historian or researcher would do.

00:36:48.860 It connects the dots across all of the writings and explains the pattern in plain English.

00:36:55.300 And here's the crucial, critical rule.

00:36:59.540 If the document says it, the system can say it.

00:37:03.800 If the documents don't say it, the system cannot invent it or infer it.

00:37:10.760 That's why what came back to me in January surprised me.

00:37:13.840 Because I know, you know, the founders, especially Washington, was against what he called foreign entanglements.

00:37:18.580 I know that.

00:37:19.940 When it came back, I'm like, wow, wait, what?

00:37:22.600 And now, it came back the way it's airing now.

00:37:25.820 It wasn't my opinion.

00:37:27.400 It was historic record.

00:37:29.740 Remember, this takes the record, not just from Washington, but all of the founders.

00:37:34.320 Now, here's where the criticism gets really almost ironic.

00:37:38.120 People are claiming that somehow this is a trick to convince Americans that the founders would want to support war with a radical Islamic Iran.

00:37:47.600 Well, even if it had been, the system couldn't answer that directly because Iran didn't exist in their world.

00:37:56.820 There's no information on Iran, so it wouldn't be that.

00:38:01.200 But what the system did find is they did confront something remarkably similar.

00:38:07.620 Okay?

00:38:08.120 And actually, it didn't find this.

00:38:10.180 I found this after being surprised by the answer.

00:38:13.580 Most Americans don't remember this history.

00:38:16.660 Jefferson fought America's first foreign war against the Barbary pirates.

00:38:21.040 Who were they?

00:38:22.120 Radical Islamic pirates in North Africa. 0.95

00:38:25.880 They were capturing sailors. 0.98

00:38:27.660 They enslaved Christians. 1.00

00:38:29.380 They demanded tribute from Western nations because they believed their faith justified it.

00:38:34.600 So we were sending them literally pallets full of cash.

00:38:37.900 Sound familiar?

00:38:38.940 Pallets full of cash to keep them away from us, trying to make friends with them.

00:38:44.080 Well, the young United States eventually went to war over it because it was two-thirds of our national budget.

00:38:51.100 Now, that history doesn't mean the founders would support every war today.

00:38:55.800 You know, we don't know what they would do in 2026 about Iran.

00:38:59.900 And anybody who claims to know for certain is selling you something.

00:39:04.520 I'm not trying to tell you that's what they're for.

00:39:07.620 The founders are dead and they're gone.

00:39:09.560 They cannot speak.

00:39:11.760 George AI is not a recreation of them.

00:39:15.600 It is not their voice.

00:39:17.480 It doesn't pretend to be.

00:39:19.280 It is simply a living research library built entirely from their own words and then their ideas that shape them.

00:39:28.780 Think of it this way.

00:39:32.420 For 200 years, we have relied on historians, professors, politicians, and even, yes, talk show hosts boobs like me to interpret the founders.

00:39:42.020 And sometimes that interpretation is honest.

00:39:44.500 Sometimes it isn't.

00:39:46.820 George AI removes the middleman.

00:39:50.420 Okay?

00:39:50.880 It lets the documents speak first.

00:39:53.560 It's reading their words in a way people of today can relate to, to answer specific questions.

00:40:01.920 And if you read about how the way the founders argued and finally decided to go to war with Islam, with the Muslim pirates, Barbary pirates, I mean, it's exactly what's happening today. 0.94

00:40:13.080 They argued back and forth.

00:40:15.000 It hasn't changed.

00:40:16.500 And if you found a book that's talked about this and it was at the same time we're going to war, would you say, oh, we've got to ban that book or burn that book or we've got to ridicule that book because it's trying to convince people?

00:40:31.120 No, it's just telling you what they said, what they did.

00:40:35.540 Sad to say some people would burn that book or ban that book, but they'd be wrong.

00:40:42.340 Now, here's the part I understand.

00:40:43.520 I know that AI is not trustworthy, and I've told you for decades, almost two decades now, do not fear the machine.

00:40:52.160 Fear the algorithm.

00:40:54.400 Fear the people who wrote the algorithm, and they'll never make it public because that's their secret sauce.

00:41:02.640 I'm making the algorithm of George AI public.

00:41:07.140 Right now, the system is still in beta.

00:41:09.360 That's why we haven't released it to everybody.

00:41:11.000 We're still expanding the library and fine-tuning the system, but when we are sure we have it right before we open it up for everybody, it will be 100% transparent.

00:41:20.020 We will show you the code.

00:41:23.120 Most people can't read the code, but I want you to ask somebody who does read code, what does this mean?

00:41:28.800 And it will show you.

00:41:30.080 If it doesn't come from this data set, it cannot say it.

00:41:34.180 It cannot go out and grab it or make it up.

00:41:37.280 It must memorize it, and it's only that data set.

00:41:41.500 And it stops at about 1820, 1830.

00:41:44.420 And I release that because it's not just not right.

00:41:52.700 I think it's unreasonable for me to ask you to trust and then hide the machine.

00:42:00.080 So when we have it right, hopefully, soon, you know, hopefully by the end of the year, all of it will be out.

00:42:07.000 But you'll be able to ask it a question yourself, and when you do, it's not going to just give you an answer.

00:42:14.220 It will show you the actual quotes the answers came from.

00:42:17.580 You'll be able to read Washington in a language you understand.

00:42:21.400 You'll be able to talk to this AI who is playing the role based on his words.

00:42:28.540 Jefferson, Madison, directly.

00:42:30.340 You can get them all in together to argue something, and you'll see how they would have argued it.

00:42:36.840 It's amazing, and sometimes you'll agree with what you find.

00:42:40.180 Sometimes you won't.

00:42:41.960 But that's the point.

00:42:43.900 The only answer I have ever wanted, the only answer worth having, is not the one that proves my argument.

00:42:51.820 It's the one that is true and comes from the historic record.

00:42:56.440 And if we can give Americans direct access to that record again in a way that they can use and understand,

00:43:04.900 then maybe, just maybe, we can start remembering who we are and what this republic was built to be.

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