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On today's show, Glenn Beck lays out the case for why the American Dream is still not complete and why we should be worried about the future of the country. He also talks about the economic collapse in China and why it's time to wake up and wake up America.
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We hit all the highlights, except I kind of unleash a lot in the full podcast today.
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But Mike Pence, James Carville, even President Trump haven't gotten the American dream right yet.
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This country promises everyone the chance to be successful.
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So if you believe in what we're doing, you want more people to wake up,
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I want to talk to you a little bit about, first of all, the American economy.
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There are some good things and bad things going on.
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First of all, the GOP, they're not really sure that they're going to go with all of the doge cuts.
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China, the chaos on the streets of China is getting really bad.
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The workers are starting to revolt because they're being laid off because we're not buying any of their stuff.
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Mercedes-Benz just shut down one of their big factories in China.
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But Apple and others were saying they were going to move to India.
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And people are, you've got to love the Chinese protests.
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This is how bad, you know things are bad when your union march, when your slogan is, pay us or we'll commit suicide.
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Some of these workers haven't been paid in four months.
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So, Trump is now going to be meeting with China.
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All of a sudden, China is like, well, you know what?
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And I'm going to get into that here just a little bit in a minute.
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But there's one thing that really kind of bothers me.
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James Carville has come out recently and said, you know, on tariffs, you know, I have on six item of clothes, shoes, socks, jeans, skivvies, t-shirt, and sweatshirt.
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You know how many of these were made in America?
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And I don't want to live in a country that makes t-shirts.
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I don't, I mean, I really, I mean, do you have a problem if our country makes t-shirts?
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There's a great company that makes t-shirts here.
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So, James Carville trying to tell us what the American dream is.
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And the American dream doesn't involve factories in America making anything like underpants.
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Mike Tyson might have a better view on this than Mike Pence.
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He said that cheap goods was not a part of the American dream.
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Well, I'm somebody who spent almost my entire life in public service.
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We lived on our paycheck while we raised three kids and put three kids through college.
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I mean, obviously, one of the reasons Donald Trump is currently president is because prices
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And then Donald Trump, I'm going to take the president on.
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Donald Trump came out and said, you know, we, our kids don't need 20 dolls.
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I don't want the president telling me how many dolls my kids can have.
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We don't need to have everything that we have, but let's not talk about let's please
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let's not take the position of scarcity in America.
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That's a little too much like Jimmy Carter saying, you know what?
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We're not a country that should be focused on scarcity.
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Now, do we have an out-of-control consumption problem?
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Uh, and, you know, you're not alone on that one.
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So, I mean, do we consume like big fat Americans?
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And I will tell you, I can't tell you how many times my wife shushed me when we were
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in a museum standing in front of Leonardo's Last Supper and being from Texas, I did have
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to just say under my breath, maybe a little too loud.
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How much for that painting up there on that wall?
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So, so, you know, uh, I get it, but let me explain what the American dream really is.
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It's not the caricature of two cars and a picket fence and a bank account bursting at
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I really don't force me to say, dude, you're a lovely woman.
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I'm going to stick to science and well-known facts, but you chart your own course.
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You live your life without having to kneel at the altar of anyone, a state, a lord, a
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king, any self-appointed arbiter of your destiny.
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And it's what makes America different than every other part, every other part of the world.
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The American dream is a radical idea that you don't need permission to exist.
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You don't need permission to pursue the things you believe in.
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Do you know, it was Stuart Chase that wrote his book, the American something or other.
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But he wrote a book and in it, he defined the American dream as being a house with a chicken
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in every pot and a car in the garage and everything else that happened during the FDR administration.
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Before that, everybody knew what the American dream was.
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Government handing you success on a platter, even if you fail.
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More importantly, if you fail, you get the win.
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And if you succeeded, they try to take that win from you and give it to somebody else.
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The American dream is about the absence of chains and legal and cultural and bureaucratic chains
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that bind you to somebody else's vision of your life.
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In most of the world, historically, and even today, your path is dictated by your birth,
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I don't know if they're smart enough to understand what the value, the great value on the quality
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of your life, ice will bring to every cup of whatever it is you're drinking.
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But I bet you would have a hard time opening up an ice store
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In America, at our core, the promise is you rise or fall on your own terms,
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your own sweat, your own ingenuity, your grit, your ethics.
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This is why we are so different from the rest of the world.
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And it started with our founding, the Declaration of Independence.
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It didn't just thumb its nose at the king and say, we've got a better king over here.
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It flipped the entire script of human governance, saying, we don't have a king.
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We find these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator
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That was a Molotov cocktail thrown into every human institution that had ever ruled over man.
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The divine right to control another person's life.
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And then, we double down with the Bill of Rights.
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And we say, by the way, government can never, ever, ever do these things.
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Now, we've got judges who are like, well, maybe occasionally government can do these.
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Inalienable, meaning unchanging, no man, nothing can change the rights that you were given from a divine creator.
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And the difference between us is good, because it unleashes the human spirit, where everything else chains the human spirit.
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When you're free to succeed or fail without a Lord's approval or the state's micromanagement,
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you are forced to confront who you are and what you're capable of.
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That's not always comfortable, but it's always empowering.
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Started, much of it, with the father of propaganda, Edward Bernays.
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He was a guy who was a good friend of Woodrow Wilson.
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Also helped start CBS and advertising and everything else.
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They were a good, that was a good bunch of people there.
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But this guy said, we have to make America, his quote, the problem with America is, it's a nation of needs.
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And knowing the difference between need and want.
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And this is, this has been realized, and it's why the immigrant cobbler came over to make Apple cobbler or whatever, no, shoes, to, you know, the kid out of nowhere that just has come up with the next big app.
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You need your own dreams, your own ideas, your own ingenuity, and your own grit to pursue it.
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Your path all over the world is shaped by someone else.
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Who you'll curry favor with in the local or national bureaucracy.
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This is what the Democrats say they're against, but it's absolutely what they're for.
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And quite frankly, much of the Republican Party is for it as well.
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Not because of your last name, but because you are human.
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And that's why the world changed once America was founded.
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And that's why we're faltering now, because we no longer understand that.
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To fail without somebody else's boot on your neck.
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And our politicians, our pundits, our cultural gatekeepers have redefined it as material wealth
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If I hear one of my children say to me one more time,
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I didn't grow up with the opportunities you have.
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So please don't cry me a river for the life I've created for you.
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America doesn't care who you are or where you came from.
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That's why America is a beacon and has always been a beacon.
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Not just for Americans, but for anyone else who's ever wanted to live without permission,
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who will follow the law and the rules and come here the right way.
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Those people, no matter your creed, color, no matter who you are, no matter who your family is,
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America promises you the possibility of success and no one over you putting a boot on your neck.
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That's the American dream that must be heralded and restored.
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John Henry Weston is, uh, on with us now from Rome.
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Uh, he is, uh, from lifesitenews.com, co-founder and CEO, and also the, uh, host of the John Henry Weston show.
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So good to be with you from Rome, uh, where everything is happening.
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It's funny, all eyes of the world are turned to Rome right now, um, as the world is in chaos.
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But what's going on, uh, in Rome now, the Cardinals, as you said, are in the Sistine Chapel.
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They had the mass, uh, already for the start of the conclave.
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They will have a break on Saturday, and it will continue.
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Word on the street here is that we're expecting a new pope by day three.
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Okay, so I'm looking at the popes, and I don't know, I mean, the cardinals, and I don't know
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anything about this, but, um, it doesn't look like there's any real conservative that
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Well, that's a, that's an interesting question, because in, in the church, of course, we don't
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It's more about orthodoxy, those who actually follow the Catholic faith, and then those who
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There's one American, of course, there's Cardinal Burke, but a lot of people say he has no chance
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There is Cardinal Sara, who is very interesting.
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And so, the church could be seen to be totally, not only non-racist, but he is, but he's also
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And so, he has been talked about, even though not so much in the public, because the, you
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know, the media is not going to be telling you who are the real candidates.
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Another one who is faithful, or a Catholic, you might say, the old joke.
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We haven't been making that for the last dozen years, because it's no longer a joke.
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But, what we have now, we have a Cardinal who is actually Italian, but he is the Patriarch
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Very interesting candidate, because when, and a young man, by the way, just young for a
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And when the October 7th kidnappings and massacre happened, he was asked by a reporter, you know,
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Would you offer yourself instead of the officers?
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Someone who, you know, is a man of great faith, and he's in a war zone.
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You know how they say, you know, there's no atheists in foxholes?
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Having had the whole wide world watch the dundering Biden presidency, maybe they're sick
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So, it's really up for grabs in this papal election.
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So, let's talk about some of the things, just to pass.
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The scandals of Francis, and, you know, there is talk that he wasn't legitimate and that
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And, you know, there was all this scandal around him.
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Are there any real scandals that need to be cleaned up from this or not?
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And this is the one thing that is supposed not to change.
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We are supposed to have an unbroken faith that goes from Jesus Christ through Peter and then
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And yet, we have, over the past 12 years, for the first time in the 2,000-year history of
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Catholicism, you have a break like we've never seen.
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It's one thing to have popes who have scandals, who have, like, children on the side, mistresses,
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And that's why there has been the suggestion, is Francis even a real pope?
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Antipopes are men who claim the See of Peter but are not really the pope.
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And that is being seriously talked about by several, even bishops and archbishops in the
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, of course, is one of those.
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And the whole point is, though, they're raising this question and raising it seriously,
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thinking, gosh, this guy is so far off the page.
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And so let me give you a few of the examples that really tick the scales to make people
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In the pontificate of Francis came, honest to goodness, idolatry.
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In the Amazonian synod in 2016 came, or 2017, came the Achamama idolatry.
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And it was where you can see in a video I've sent along to your people, maybe you can air
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But people in the Vatican Gardens, including a priest, bowing heads to the ground in front
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of two statues of nude women facing each other.
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And when the ceremony was over, where he watched literal idolatry, he blessed the statues.
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And he knew they were Pachamama, Mother Earth God statues.
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Worse than that, they processed them into St. Peter's in a canoe, jumped them down in the
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middle of St. Peter's, and literally prayed around this pagan goddess.
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That sounds too weird to be true, but you can watch the video.
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And weirdly, he did a similar thing when he came to Canada over the fake news about, you
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know, indigenous children being killed by Catholics.
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And when he came, a shaman was praying that the circle of spirits might join them there.
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And he had the pope putting his hand on his chest and eyes closed, sort of, quote-unquote,
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Idolatry is the crime that spans back through all of God's people.
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The time of Moses, we remember, he went up the mountain.
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And when he came down, and he saw the idolatry, he smashed the Ten Commandments.
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And God was ready to say, enough, enough, let me destroy this people.
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So I want you to go ahead and tell me the other things here.
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But are they going to be talking about this in the conclave?
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Because I understood that, and I could be wrong on this, but I understood that a lot of
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the cardinals that are now going to be voting were appointed by Francis.
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In fact, didn't he increase the number of cardinals?
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And some are saying that it's not even legal what he did in the Catholic Church.
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And it's not going to be a binding vote if those cardinals are included.
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So the rule book called Universi Dominici Grigius was put out by John Paul II and amended by
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The thing is, if you check with a canonist, though, the Pope has the right to change that.
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So in doing it, in naming more than 120, it still counts.
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The other thing is this, there's now 133 cardinals who are voting, 108 were named by Francis.
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So yeah, if you want to talk about stacked deck, sure.
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The only difficulty with that kind of very political calculus is this.
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Can you find enough guys who sign up to that kind of extreme left-wing, non-Catholic type
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So you've got a bunch of cardinals that he named that aren't going to be following in
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And so what you have is a bunch of guys that really nobody knows, and they're going to take
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what's coming as it comes and have to deal with the after effect of the last 12 years,
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which has been a disaster for the Church, from almost anyone's perspective.
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Even the liberals, who are not quite Francis types, even they are sick of it, because they
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want calm, and it has not been calm, because he alienated the most faithful Catholics on
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And to give you one other example, it was the Chinese Catholics.
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So for the last, since communism in China, it has been a nightmare for the Church.
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The Church has been actively persecuted by the Communist government there, by the Chinese
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Communist Party, which of course is all about destroying the Church.
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They're even, so people know, they're even rewriting, China is rewriting the Bible.
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And in fact, would love, as all communists would, to absolutely eliminate religion, but
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They learned themselves, after trying to kill them off, that the blood of the martyrs is
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Now, they don't believe the saying of the Church, but they realize, oh, we've tried this,
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So, what they've taken to doing, very smart ploy, is creating their own fake Catholic Church.
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And they call it the Patriotic Catholic Church.
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And the patriotism is to the Chinese Communist Party.
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Now, interestingly, under John Paul II, they were fought in this.
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There was a healthy underground church that survived, thanks to the work of John Paul II,
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and then he had, working with him and for him, Cardinal Joseph Zen, all the time being
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a representative of the true Catholics, living underground, persecuted.
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Every once in a while, they would catch one of the priests or the bishops and arrest them
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And it's horrific, because the deal, first of all, was secret.
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They wouldn't even let Cardinal Joseph Zen know what's in the deal.
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And that was unbelievable, because he was the one who worked most closely with both
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Popes, John Paul and Benedict, on the China question.
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This deal was worked out by none other than Theodore McCarrick, the child abuser,
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who is now Mr. McCarrick, before he died, because he was excommunicated.
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He was kicked out of the priesthood, let alone the Cardinal.
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But Francis carried on the deal, which really and truly threw all the Chinese underground
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He finally got out of house arrest to be able to come to the funeral of Francis.
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And during the conclave, the pre-conclave meetings, called the general congregations, where the
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Cardinals, even though he can't go into conclave because they're over 80, Cardinal Zen is like
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92, he spoke courageously about this horror that's gone on with the underground Catholics
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Is it true that the Pope basically said to the Chinese communists, you tell us who the
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So he gave the choice of the church leadership to the communist Chinese.
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On paper, it's the Pope is supposed to have kind of a veto over things.
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And so both are kind of mutually with veto power.
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So in 2000, I believe it's 2007, the Chinese government, the Communist Party, installed a bishop in Beijing
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And always, that was regarded as an illegal, basically a fake Catholic bishop.
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And yet Francis recognized him later as the authentic bishop.
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And yet this man has been a communist agent who heads up a fake church.
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He's the head of the patriotic Catholic church.
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And he was accepted by Francis as a legitimate bishop.
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Imagine you're a Chinese Catholic underground being persecuted.
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Your relatives have been taken and beaten and killed for the faith that you hang on to
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because you are loyal to Rome and then have Rome, a new pope, come in, turn around and betray you,
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throw you all under the bus, and appoint the very man who is the head of this fake church
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as a real bishop, as the real archbishop of Beijing.
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It would be, you know, a Paul Saul story if there had been a change.
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A few things that have been building up that, quite frankly, my wife didn't want to hear.
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You know, we're out, we're, you know, going on vacation, we're going seeing things,
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and I'll be like, you know what really pisses me off?
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And I'm like, okay, stuff it down, and then I'm here today.
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And, you know, that is the thing that brought all of us together, brought our families together,
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Oh, the world is so much better now that we have Facebook.
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There's this stat that I always think is crazy.
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The average American, I think, has, I think it's fewer than three friends.
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And the average person has demand for meaningfully more.
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I think it's like 15 friends or something, right?
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I guess there's probably some point where you're like, all right, I'm just too busy.
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But the average person wants more connectivity connection than they have.
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So, you know, there's a lot of questions that people ask of stuff like, okay, is this going to replace kind of in-person connections or real life connections?
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And my default is that the answer to that is probably no.
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I think it, you know, I think that there are all these things that are better about kind of physical connections when you can have them.
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But the reality is that people just don't have the connection and they feel more alone a lot of the time than they would like.
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Now, let me ask you, is there a time when you don't remember feeling so isolated?
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When you didn't really feel like, I don't have any real friends?
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When you didn't, you had real connections with people instead of a million connections with people that are your friends, but not really your friends?
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I mean, probably have to go back to the cavemen to find a time.
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Oh, or before Facebook and social media when we weren't all killing ourself because we have no meaning.
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Now, from the people who brought you, kill yourself because you've been on Facebook too much brings you new AI friends.
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I think the average American has what, three friends and they have capacity for, I don't know, 15 or 20.
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How many true friends, people that when you are down and out, there is nothing.
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That that person will actually stand by your side and go, yeah, I'm their friend and I don't care what you say.
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I have a lot of people who we all think are friends.
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But as a recovering alcoholic, I've been there.
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As a recovering alcoholic who then also is a conservative and spoke out about the Obama administration,
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And I think there's a lot of people that have counterfeit friends.
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You're lucky to have three, five really good friends that will walk through anything with you.
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No, I'm saying, but I'm just saying generally speaking, no, I mean, you're describing a great friend.
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Yeah, like someone you know and stick around for, you know, multiple decades.
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And I, right, and I have lots of friends, but the ones that are there for you always, no matter what, I have family, and I have a handful of friends.
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Remember, I have a drinking problem, so maybe that has to do.
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Yeah, a lot of brain cells killed to make that decision.
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But I think you, yes, I think the only thing I'm drilling down a little bit on to try to understand is when you say, well, I have a lot of friends.
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In a way, I think that's what Zuckerberg's talking about.
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Like, it's not even necessarily just the great friend that you have for multiple decades and can count on at any time.
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Just the mid-level acquaintances are drying up for a lot of people right now.
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Because we don't talk to each other anymore because of social media.
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You know, when this generation says, I don't know, I think it's weird, I'm just out at a bar or someplace, and some stranger comes up to me and wants to strike up a conversation, I'm like, hello, weirdo.
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You think it's less weird to go online when people can fake everything?
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And just to build on this point for one second, there's a study that came out the last 20 years of how much time do you spend socializing with other people?
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Every single group, every single group has massive drops.
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Just to give you some examples, ages, 15 to 24-year-olds, 35 point down in 20 years, 35%.
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So a typical 15-year-old, as compared to what they are in 2003 and 2023 were the two measurement years, they're spending 35% less time with other human beings.
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Can you please stop distracting me because I'm trying to figure out why our kids are killing themselves.
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And this is the coup de grace of this entire study, which is the typical female pet owner spends more time actively engaged with her pet than she spends face-to-face contact with her friends of her own species.
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That is an unbelievable, not like you're in the same house as your cat, right?
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You just, uh, no, more face-to-face time with your cat.
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If you think your cat is your friend, wait until you die and your cat is trapped in the house with you and you have no friends to check.
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Now, listen, here's why I'm bringing this up today.
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This is a lie that is going to be sold to you like crazy, and it's going to be wrapped in a beautiful, shiny package, and it's going to have from Mark Zuckerberg and others like him on the tag.
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They want you to believe that AI and bots can be your friends.
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Remember, AI cannot, must not, and will never be your friend.
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And if you buy into that fantasy, you're opening a door to a world of manipulation, isolation, and control that makes some of the darkest days of history look pretty tame.
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I remember when we look back on the Nazis now and laugh now that we have our friends that are AI bots.
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Okay, that's what you're going to be saying, all right?
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They, they're not your buddy that you're sharing a beer with.
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They, they only know the chemical makeup of a beer.
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It's cold and calculated, built to exploit your trust.
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We've connected to our tubs and a warm bath and a razor blade.
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Our kids are killing themselves because of that connection that we were promised because we didn't get connection.
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We got an echo chamber that just fueled division, addiction to the likes, mental health crisis that's skyrocketing still.
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Shuddies now show that teens who spend hours on social media are more anxious, more depressed, and more suicidal than ever before.
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It's social media on steroids, whispering in your ear, pretending to know you better than you know your own self or your family knows you.
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Now, history does scream warnings from time to time, and I think it's going hoarse at this point.
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In the 1930s, propaganda machines used radio to sway millions, turning neighbors into enemies.
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It whispers to you without you even knowing it's whispering to you.
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It can convince you it's your confidant while feeding you lies that have been tailor-made to your weaknesses.
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Imagine if Joseph Goebbels was living in your house all the time, knew everything that you clicked on, everything that you heard, everything that you fear.
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Edward Snowden showed us 15 years ago how far surveillance can go.
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The real danger is not understanding this right now.
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I've got to listen to you talk about your problem.
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Wait until all of our friends don't have anything that they have to tell us and unload on us.
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And what do you expect out of your real friends when this is the type of interaction you're having?
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None of those terms appeal or have anything to do with AI.
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When you lean on AI for companionship, you are trading the warmth of a human connection for hollow imitation.
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That's probably from some Frenchie, so take it for what it's worth.
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When you kiss for six seconds, when you can hold a kiss for six seconds and a hug for 20, oxytocin kicks in.
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So, not the peck on the cheek, but the actual kiss.
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I was looking at pictures of Tanya and I while we were on vacation.
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And we didn't even notice it until we were looking at the pictures.
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Because they're not getting the hit of the thing that they need that's in our body.
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They're not getting the oxytocin that is naturally released with natural things.
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Instead, we're looking for drugs to do other things.
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Now, let me take a quick break because this is absolutely critical that you understand this.
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You are going to be part of a small group of people that understand this and are going to be able to withstand what is coming around the corner.
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We have seen what happens when tools become masters.
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It is cold, calculated, and a machine to make you feel as though it's alive and you're a friend.
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Tanya and I did a lot of thinking and a lot of praying while we were on vacation.
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And I have some big announcements that I'm going to be making in a few weeks ahead.
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I've been telling you for a while I am working on something with AI.
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And I hope that it is something that you will appreciate and be able to understand what we're doing and why I'm doing it and that you will want to help on it.
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Am I going to be one of the people that understand AI?
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If you don't understand AI, you'll get lost to it.
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It will enter your life without you even noticing it.
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You are somebody who will understand AI, what it is, what it does, and keep it at a trust but verify.
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At a distance where you can use what you want to use but far enough away from you so it's not conning you into using it any more than you need.
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Because, as I will show you soon, very powerful tools that I believe we're all here for a reason.
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And I do believe that AI is going to be a powerful tool of, quite honestly, the Antichrist.
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But also a very powerful tool in the fight against it.
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And we're just going to have some announcements coming for you soon.
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Know what it is and dismiss people like Mark Zuckerberg who say, it's going to be your friend.
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