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00:00:00.000 hey today was uh um kind of an important podcast we're gonna play parts of it but you might want

00:00:05.260 to listen to the whole thing at least hour number two because it's uh there was there were two things

00:00:10.580 that i felt compelled to share with the audience today and one of them is included a message to the

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00:00:25.580 listen to uh episode uh this episode but hour number two in the edited version that you're

00:00:32.360 getting right now news of the day government shutdown faa canceling and cutting back on

00:00:36.840 flights what all of this means what does the election mean to any of this uh also noah oppenheim

00:00:43.620 uh joins me he is the guy who put house of dynamite on netflix which is a great thriller movie that you

00:00:52.740 should watch this weekend it's all about nuclear war it is uh if you're old enough to remember

00:00:58.760 um the day after it's like the day after on steroids noah oppenheim joins me on today's podcast coming up

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00:03:10.920 you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program there's a difference between a revival

00:03:24.980 and an awakening we're in a revival right now but that doesn't necessarily lead to anything except oh

00:03:30.220 i gotta relearn those principles but that doesn't mean you apply them in your life okay that's an

00:03:35.960 awakening um there's been two great awakenings in american history one brought us the american

00:03:41.460 revolution the second one brought us the civil war and the freedom of slaves um we have a possibility

00:03:46.340 of of going into a third great awakening and that's the only thing that will save us but if you don't

00:03:51.760 know the difference between a revival and awakening let me give you let me give you the the negative print

00:03:57.780 of a godly awakening our kids right now they don't have any purpose they don't have any meaning

00:04:04.580 they look at everything and it doesn't it's not real none of it's real it's money it's fame it's

00:04:10.820 uh you know it's change ever changing truths and definitions and they have no purpose in their life

00:04:16.980 okay so they're looking for that because man has to have purpose in his life man has to search for

00:04:24.200 meaning so they're searching for meaning and they found a group of people that actually mean something

00:04:29.680 and they're willing to die for it and it's isis and so they're like you know what at least these

00:04:34.960 people believe in something they they believe it and they're willing to die for it i'm going to stand

00:04:39.620 with them and they put that twisted understanding into action that's the that is a that's an awakening

00:04:48.960 it's just an awakening to the dark side and that one's already happening it has to happen on the good

00:04:54.660 side and let me speak directly to young men look you are inheriting a very loud angry cynical and worst

00:05:03.340 of all spiritually starving and malnourished society and you are being sold a future of cheap pleasures and 0.63

00:05:13.460 hollow heroes and screens with blue light that just rob you of your strength one distracted second after

00:05:23.260 another and in the middle of all that noise may i just give you one piece of instruction

00:05:29.200 if there is anything virtuous lovely of good report or praiseworthy

00:05:37.860 seek those things don't admire them don't nod at them seek them hunt them chase them build your life

00:05:49.560 around those things a man who will do that a boy a young man who will do that will become different

00:05:57.680 noticeably different he will stop letting the culture feed him garbage he stops applauding the trivial

00:06:05.260 he stops laughing at the obscene or cheering for the cruel he will become a curator of of real lasting

00:06:14.880 beauty in an age that has forgotten what beauty even looks like when other men are chasing down or

00:06:23.420 holding up cynicism this man holds up hope when everyone around him is chasing dopamine he chooses discipline

00:06:35.240 when others will blame their circumstance he'll take responsibility for his own action when the world

00:06:42.700 worships the shallow he goes and searches for the deep you want to know what the secret of becoming strong

00:06:50.340 is or becoming trusted or becoming the kind of man that your future wife your future children your future 0.96

00:06:56.580 nation can depend on here it is you become what you seek if you seek trash you become trash you seek

00:07:07.040 virtue you become a man of virtue you seek excellence and your life will begin to shine not loudly

00:07:14.540 but steadily like the steel glow of a blade being forged that's who you'll be

00:07:21.740 the world has a plentiful seemingly never ending supply of angry boys we don't need any more addicted

00:07:32.780 boys we don't need any more distracted boys the world needs men whole men clear-eyed men

00:07:41.920 men whose souls are anchored to something higher than the algorithms trying to own them

00:07:52.620 build a life worthy of admiration forget about the applause fill your mind with words that make you

00:08:04.900 wiser fill your days with work hard work that makes you stronger fill your home with beauty that lifts

00:08:11.940 every soul who walks into it have your home a place where people walk in and go man it is so great here

00:08:17.180 I just love it here there I don't know what it is about your house I just love it it's the spirit that's

00:08:21.660 there because you built it you protect it protect your integrity like a watchman on the wall don't lie

00:08:29.820 don't cheat don't steal and when you fail and you will stand back up again because a man who seeks the

00:08:42.360 virtuous is not a man who never fails he just he just becomes a man who refuses to stay on the ground

00:08:51.640 if you seek things that are lovely and pure trustworthy praiseworthy you become a kind of man this age

00:09:02.820 almost never produces a man whose very existence is a rebuke to the darkness

00:09:09.220 that's your calling that's why you were born not to be lost

00:09:21.120 not to play video games not to give up not to say there is no hope not to end up in the trash bin of human

00:09:35.080 history because you've you've taken so many drugs you can't stand up straight anymore

00:09:41.380 you're not destined to be alone you are destined for great things you are destined to find an amazing

00:09:51.260 woman believe me I didn't think I would ever find an amazing woman because I didn't think I was worth it 1.00

00:09:56.560 I didn't think it was worth it and until I started understanding how God works that yeah I'm not worth any of the

00:10:04.780 stuff I have

00:10:05.860 when you realize

00:10:16.080 it's all a gift

00:10:17.960 it's all a gift

00:10:20.420 and even if you work your brains out you may not ever get all the things that you want

00:10:29.080 but you're going to have everything you need

00:10:33.200 once you realize carefully selecting friends makes a difference

00:10:40.520 my mother used to always say show me your friends I'll show you your future

00:10:44.600 oh it's true be careful who you select as friends watch your language watch what you're putting

00:10:52.640 into your brain and what's coming out of your mouth

00:10:56.080 because the brain is so amazing it's being turned to mush

00:11:02.040 did you know that there is a new study that just came out I'll tell you about it next week

00:11:08.640 maybe new study going out it is it's AI and it has access to social media and they have found that

00:11:19.180 the AI the AI that is scrolling through social media all day just to keep updated on everything 0.53

00:11:28.280 that's going on social media it's getting brain mush it's actually becoming dumber it's becoming less 0.99

00:11:35.540 less effective that's a machine 0.98

00:11:38.540 what do you think this flesh and blood this thing is going to do 0.94

00:11:43.320 we say life is meaningless and life is the only thing that has any value

00:11:53.400 and yet we spend all of our time on things like social media

00:11:57.220 and that has absolutely no value but we think that's life

00:12:00.080 I'm not that smart I've just lived a long time and I've made so many mistakes

00:12:21.100 and I decided at one point I'm going to stop saying it's somebody else's fault

00:12:31.060 I'm going to start saying maybe what did I do to create that

00:12:35.840 what did I do to attract that

00:12:37.980 why does this thing keep happening to me

00:12:41.220 why is it I always find myself involved with the same kind of people

00:12:45.220 because Glenn dummy it's you what you think it's like it's like think of yourself as a

00:12:57.240 as a beacon it's just you're a beacon you're a GPS pin that is constantly saying here I am

00:13:07.780 here I am here I am here I am except it's transmitting more than just your location

00:13:13.280 it's it's transmitting what you're looking for

00:13:16.160 who you are and it's attracting other dropped pins to you

00:13:21.860 it's saying I like this I think this way I believe these things

00:13:26.280 I am afraid of these things whatever it is you're thinking

00:13:29.620 it's constantly putting that out and saying here I am

00:13:34.540 is there anything else like that anything else that can reinforce that

00:13:37.860 anything else that wants to live like this

00:13:39.980 because that's me here I am here I am here I am

00:13:42.560 that's why you keep finding yourself in exactly the same situations

00:13:45.900 nothing will change if nothing changes

00:13:50.020 and the only thing that you can change is you

00:13:54.800 seek the things

00:14:04.960 that have virtue seek the things that have beauty in music in in art in life in architecture in clothing whatever it is look for real lasting beauty and value find the things that are true truly true universally true find the things that uplift

00:14:33.960 seek those things

00:14:36.960 and you will change your life and your world

00:14:41.420 let me tell you about relief factor pain doesn't have to be dramatic to be disruptive sometimes you know it's just that constant low hum in the background the shoulder that just doesn't turn the same the back that doesn't bend the knee that makes you think twice before standing up and you start to wonder is this normal now I mean this you know when did normal start to hurt all the time relief factor was created to change that it's a daily supplement developed by doctors to help your body fight the inflammation that causes pain naturally without depending on masking it with temporary fixes.

00:16:10.420 So congratulations on that first question are there going to be sequels?

00:16:15.420 Well first of all thank you very much I really appreciate it means a lot coming from you there is no plan for a sequel we know we wanted the movie to be a provocation in the best sense of the word you know a provocation to a larger conversation about this nuclear issue which I'm so glad to be having with you right now.

00:16:38.080 Yeah was your primary source the Annie Jacobson book or was that just one of many I mean did you go to government sources where how did you get all this information?

00:16:49.360 We spoke to a wide variety of people who had worked in places like the White House the CIA Strategic Command we you know I had worked as a journalist previously and so new folks who had held these kinds of jobs Catherine Bigelow who's the director of the movie had made Hurt Locker Zero Dark Thirty.

00:17:12.720 So she has extraordinary relationships in the national security world and obviously there's an incredible body of work that has been done over the past several decades you know think tank folks authors journalists etc.

00:17:26.720 Um and you know it's it's surprising how much a lot of this information is in the public domain in terms of what procedures the government would follow in in case of a of an attack like this and then a lot of it you know you can build by talking to sources uh you know much like you would do if you were trying to report out a story or get to the bottom of something.

00:17:47.720 You know it's it's amazing to me that most presidents don't ever ask for training on this they don't they don't they don't do dry runs this is you're the one person that could change the whole world uh in 15 minutes and you're coming into it most of them are just coming into it absolutely dead cold if something would happen they don't they don't know how the work and this is not so I don't know how you would make the decision

00:18:17.580 in that amount of time yeah it's I mean two of the most terrifying things that we that we zeroed in on early was this question of sole authority and decision time right so the idea that in the united states we live in a nuclear monarchy the president united states has the sole authority to determine whether these weapons are used it's not like he has to build any kind of consensus with the joint chiefs of staff or take a vote of the cabinet he has to decide uh and he has to decide

00:18:46.520 under extraordinary time pressure so you know if a missile is launched from the pacific theater that part of the world it's you know under 30 minutes to impact on the continental united states if a missile is launched off our coast by a russian sub for instance it would take 10 to 12 minutes so you do have a scenario in which one person has arguably the fate of all mankind in in their hands and they've got a clock ticking and you know depending on where they are and what the target is they're probably running for their life or

00:19:16.440 being evacuated worrying about their own family um and it's all put to them what do you want to do um and if you that's not scary enough the cherry on top is we spoke to people who had worked directly with presidents directly with secretaries of defense and we said how often uh is the president rehearsing this practicing for it preparing and they said never

00:19:39.440 basically never never they get one briefing when they take office where they're introduced to the military aid who we're all familiar with the guy who follows them around with the the suitcase the nuclear football if you will

00:19:50.920 their the process is explained how that would work um and then after that uh they never think about it again and you know ronald reagan we were told was the last

00:20:02.380 president who participated who participated in any kind of live nuclear decision making exercise uh and it's and and so the the guy who

00:20:11.240 has the most responsibility all the authority is also arguably the least practiced and prepared of anyone in this whole

00:20:19.000 it's really it's it's terrifying you know i've i've talked to president trump about nuclear capability and i will tell you

00:20:27.680 you'd say whatever you want about donald trump but the one thing i know he's afraid of is nuclear war he that has

00:20:35.940 kept him awake night after night he he knows like reagan did and gorbachev did you start that you push that

00:20:46.680 button it's over it's all over uh there's i mean you you hinted at it you know when you know you were like i got

00:20:53.860 you know if we fly these missiles over this country what are they going to are they going to perceive this

00:20:59.460 as a threat you know missiles you know russia i think in in the movie you've got russia saying how do we

00:21:04.900 know you're not going to bomb it we should just trust you i mean it's it's over yeah and all of which

00:21:12.200 begs the question i think um for president trump and for all of our leaders what do we do about it you

00:21:18.780 know how do we solve this problem we we've lived with this threat in the background of all our lives

00:21:23.460 since the dawn of the nuclear age i i am despite my last name not related to oppenheimer um but you

00:21:30.480 know we've lived with this we've we've lived with this uh dynamite in the walls uh for so many decades

00:21:38.640 now and really since the end of the cold war we haven't really talked or thought about it very much

00:21:43.080 it is obviously on president trump's mind he does talk about it he's talked about trying to build the

00:21:48.700 golden dome and a better missile defense system and i think that you know this this question of

00:21:54.880 how do we make the world safer and it may be part of that is building a better missile defense system

00:22:00.000 it it may be that part of it is re-engaging with an arms control and arms reduction process right i mean

00:22:07.120 new start our last remaining treaty with the russians that that governs the the development and you know

00:22:13.560 proliferation of these weapons is set to expire at the end of the year um maybe we should engage in a

00:22:19.640 process with russia with china to try to dramatically reduce the nuclear stockpile um there are a lot of

00:22:26.140 levers that before the president and can pull to try to make us all safer so you know part of the

00:22:33.120 controversy with your um your movie which is uh house of dynamite and it's on netflix um part of the

00:22:41.480 controversy i guess with the with the pentagon is that um the ground-based missile uh are interceptors

00:22:50.520 and the interceptors you say it's 60 success i think i think uh annie jacobson says it's like close to

00:23:01.880 zero and um the pentagon says it's 100 every time what do you think it really is is it 60

00:23:09.940 so there's a there's a few factors involved here um the record of uh the testing record for

00:23:18.280 this system which is the ground-based mid-course interceptors uh is is is public and it is 61 percent

00:23:26.040 they have done a series of tests over the last 25 years and if you add up uh the you know the number

00:23:33.120 of successes uh over the number of failures it comes to 61 percent the the pentagon in their memo

00:23:39.520 is trying to say that the last several tests have been successful the previous ones were not

00:23:46.460 so they say if you only count the most recent ones it's 100 which is of course that's like saying

00:23:52.260 i made my last i made my last two free throws and so i'm a hundred percent free throw shooter even

00:23:59.160 though i missed the previous exactly right four yeah so now that being said they're not wrong in

00:24:04.580 that the system is getting better the software is getting better all of it is improving but it is

00:24:09.260 nowhere close to being able to say it's 100 effective and part of that also comes down to

00:24:15.280 the conditions under which these tests are undertaken right if i tell you you know glenn i'm

00:24:20.540 going to throw a baseball at your head it's a lot easier for you to brace yourself and be ready and

00:24:25.400 catch that baseball it's you know if an attack were to happen in the real world it's far less likely

00:24:30.620 uh you know it's far more complicated to defend against so you know this though is not a debate

00:24:36.580 between you know us as filmmakers and the pentagon it's really a debate between the pentagon and

00:24:40.980 a much wider community of experts um about the efficacy of this system and you know like i said

00:24:47.680 you know it's it's a good conversation to have do we want to improve the system do we want to try

00:24:53.120 yes building something like golden doles yes yes we do yes we do um the um uh the one thing that

00:25:01.780 you didn't uh hit on that was in annie's book that i thought was fascinating was that the president

00:25:07.180 when the president has to finally make the decision he still doesn't know if it's nuclear tipped

00:25:13.260 there could be a conventional weapon on a ballistic missile that is being sent by north korea

00:25:22.940 let's say i mean it would be an incredible waste but you know if we launch before the missile hits

00:25:30.200 we don't even know if that's nuclear and we would have then started a nuclear war because we're

00:25:36.120 launching nuclear weapons and they didn't i think that one of the things that we're trying to capture

00:25:44.680 in the story that we tell which is of course a fictional story um is the difficulty of making

00:25:52.300 decisions in the fog of war and that particularly when you have such a tight decision window when that

00:25:58.880 clock is winding down so rapidly it's it you're gonna find yourself being forced to make calls with

00:26:06.960 imperfect and incomplete information and the other thing that is scary is is that the system that we

00:26:13.900 built to that governs the use of nuclear weapons was designed during the cold war for a specific

00:26:19.100 purpose it was to make sure that the soviets believed they could never get away with a first 0.54

00:26:25.940 strike that if they launched missiles at us the president would be able to fire back so quickly

00:26:31.240 that our decision making our command and control apparatus would be able to retaliate and so

00:26:38.280 maintaining that deterrent threat we needed to make sure that the president could respond and

00:26:44.940 retaliate as quickly and as easily as possible so that's the world we still live in now and so you 1.00

00:26:51.040 know again if one domino falls there aren't breaks a lot of breaks built into this the idea is to make

00:26:56.580 it easy for the president to fire back um and so yeah i mean you're right i mean mistakes can be made

00:27:02.860 it's i i think it's miraculous frankly that you know we're all still here it hasn't it is it really

00:27:09.260 is you're streaming the best of glenn beck to hear more of this interview and others download the full

00:27:14.480 show podcasts wherever you get podcasts hello stew welcome thank you glenn appreciate that yeah yeah yeah

00:27:22.460 yeah well i meant it with everything in i could tell uh yeah i know listen uh so 10 percent of the

00:27:29.540 flights in 40 major cities is where we're starting we could go as high as 40 percent of our flights

00:27:37.900 in fact uh we had um uh we have our secretary of uh transportation sean duffy actually coming out and

00:27:46.700 saying you know what uh the problem is we're not going to have skies that you know are unsafe sorry

00:27:56.100 can't do it we'll just shut down the airspace before we have unsafe skies which i appreciate

00:28:01.940 uh however you know there comes a time when you're like okay maybe we should stop this

00:28:06.700 maybe democrats you should open the government back up

00:28:12.120 at what points do do people start to lay the blame you know at the feet of the democrats do they

00:28:20.700 ever

00:28:21.000 i mean they should of course do that they should uh that does not seem to be happening you know with

00:28:30.840 a big thanks to the media right i mean we see this in all different topics so you know the what was

00:28:35.360 the stat i uh the uh it was is it eight ninety something percent i don't have it in front of me

00:28:42.320 um that are favoring when it when it comes to talking about the shutdown for example uh 90 percent

00:28:49.680 uh coverage has been favoring democrats basically saying that republicans are the ones responsible for

00:28:55.840 it and when you look at that 87 thank you 87 87 when you look at that and you say well this is a

00:29:02.540 strategy potentially that goes right through uh what changed the the elections in virginia and i and i

00:29:09.320 would point specifically to the jay jones election you know when you have a good chunk of northern

00:29:14.140 virginia that is you know home and not at work because of government shutdowns you could keep this into

00:29:21.140 effect through the election get that election win and then you know democrats are kind of free now as far

00:29:25.960 as consequences probably to their base they got past this election they got their wins and now they

00:29:32.280 could theoretically bail on this the question is will republicans uh kind of fold and give them this

00:29:37.740 win all this being said though if the republicans are going to be the ones getting blamed for this

00:29:42.900 why bail on the shutdown i mean what's the what's the point all these workers are going to wind up

00:29:48.620 getting their money anyway uh eventually so why not hold out and see what happens they're getting no

00:29:54.300 blame from this because the government's shielding them or the media's shielding them from any

00:29:58.000 consequences yeah and you know only both on abc and cbs only 12 percent of the reports on either one

00:30:06.420 of those network mentioned any details on it so they're they're saying republicans are shutting the

00:30:14.100 government down and not giving any details yeah that's remarkable and think of how clear this is the

00:30:20.720 path here this is a a budget if you will because you know budgets aren't really budgets anymore but

00:30:27.740 this is a spending plan that was voted for by democrats democrats during the biden administration

00:30:35.260 voted for this spending plan okay republicans are like all right we'll just keep it going

00:30:40.960 then democrats came in and stopped it and caused a shutdown why because democrats are saying that they want

00:30:49.520 and uh a um these uh subsidies from obamacare to continue despite the fact that democrats voted for

00:30:58.840 them to end right this is this these all these subsidies were just for covid and we said at the

00:31:05.700 time you can't give them they're not going to take they're they're not going to let you take them

00:31:08.940 back they're not going to stop it and that's exactly what they're doing so they voted for this budget

00:31:13.920 what the what the republicans are saying just leave it alone just continue this just continue the

00:31:20.720 spending as is but those subsidies have expired because that's what you voted for so those subsidies

00:31:30.560 are gone now and the democrats are saying it's not enough it's not enough wait this is your biden

00:31:37.420 budget this is your biden budget and it's not good enough and they're willing to throw our airports

00:31:45.160 and our air transportation system just throw it away just throw it away wreck your day if you play

00:31:52.740 if you're planning on travel i'm i've got lots of travel coming up in the next couple of weeks

00:31:57.160 and i have to tell everybody now i'm not sure i'm going to be able to make it well i mean we'll see

00:32:01.440 we'll see just have to see what's happening with air traffic control and this is the beginning of

00:32:06.800 that and it's going to get worse and worse can you imagine what thanksgiving is going to be like

00:32:11.500 these guys have got they have got to stop they have to stop uh democratic senator chris murphy said

00:32:23.460 yesterday his quote party's brand could under uh undergo substantial damage if democrats were to cave

00:32:31.220 and reopen the federal government their brand their brand there will be some pretty substantial

00:32:38.400 damage done to the democratic brand uh that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in

00:32:44.920 which the people told us to keep fighting we immediately stop fighting so he's he's looking at

00:32:50.600 what happened as a mandate and now it will damage the brand

00:32:56.800 wow can somebody not talk i mean that's worse than talking just making everything about politics

00:33:04.400 that's making it about your brand as a party it's it's disgusting i can't believe he had the guts to

00:33:12.180 say it out loud but i'm glad he did so we all know exactly you know where this is coming from

00:33:18.440 uh let me look some of the other things that are going on um shut down meanwhile do you see

00:33:27.740 elon musk's payment uh he's they his shareholders voted yeah give him a trillion dollars he hits these

00:33:36.180 things give him a trillion dollars i mean that's absolutely incredible i mean i love it incredible

00:33:43.440 the standards are so high for tesla though they would have to do so many incredible things for

00:33:51.040 him to get this and of course like it all seems ridiculous now but i will say that is the exact same

00:33:58.120 thing everybody said about elon musk's last pay package right and he wound up hitting all the goals

00:34:03.060 and getting the money so good for him i mean get it great so what are some of the things that he

00:34:09.800 has to hit i'm i'm looking for the story here what are they what are the things he has to hit i mean

00:34:15.680 i know that he has to the the the company has to be worth like eight trillion dollars i think it's

00:34:21.560 8.5 trillion dollars would be uh right what it needs to hit which is obviously really really high

00:34:27.580 it's a you know it's the the most expensive company in the world or the highest value company in

00:34:33.260 the world is nvidia which is i think at five trillion um so and that's nvidia yeah that's

00:34:39.520 nvidia it is yes i mean it's it's the one making all the chips for all the ai that's nvidia at five

00:34:48.980 trillion give it to him if he makes it worth eight trillion dollars why wouldn't you give it to him

00:34:55.620 right i you know first of all it's a great incentive right you're basically saying hey if you

00:35:00.580 can hit 85 home runs next year you can have 100 million dollars and like it's like well no one's

00:35:05.780 ever done that but okay uh so again it's a great incentive and you know this is a different uh it's

00:35:13.000 a different way uh he's a different guy right like we talked a little bit about this before we came on

00:35:17.720 the show you talked about was it rockefeller that so let me tell you the story rockefeller when john

00:35:23.420 when john d rockefeller senior died he's the guy who you know built standard oil um and he built it with

00:35:30.240 partners by the end his partners had all gone you i mean he owned all of standard oil okay he was the

00:35:37.700 wealthiest man to ever live at the time um and when he died the accountants and the lawyers came to his

00:35:46.780 son and said junior i don't think you understand how much money you have just inherited and they

00:35:54.040 explained it and i can't remember what book it was that i read that had all this in it's a fascinating

00:35:58.480 story on how they approached him and said look you this is bone crushing your family your fat your

00:36:05.280 family will have the highest gdp over any country on earth in 25 years uh and they're like you you've

00:36:14.700 got to divest yourself of some of this and just get it under control um and that's why he went out and

00:36:21.300 he you know gave what is it part of the virgin virgin islands he bought them up and gave it away

00:36:27.180 he uh bought that huge forest on the side of you know jackson hole and gave it to the government

00:36:33.420 it's why he bought up all of these things and then gave it away because he was trying to get his wealth

00:36:40.220 you know somewhere somewhat manageable um and it's still out of control wealth still out of control

00:36:47.280 wealth and i was i was asking stew you know at a trillion dollars and this is what makes you

00:36:51.700 uh elon musk unique at a trillion dollars at some point money becomes meaningless i mean we can't even

00:37:00.960 fathom a trillion dollars you know what you could do with a trillion dollars um you know how many how

00:37:06.580 many boats and airplanes and whatever else you need how many more do you need how much is enough

00:37:13.480 except that's looking at it from a from the the viewpoint that you only are an entrepreneur

00:37:23.720 because you want to make money and just like nikola tesla elon musk is different he wants to

00:37:32.580 change the world he's not doing it for the money he does it and the money follows and then he takes

00:37:38.680 that money and he plows it back into something even greater that's totally different totally

00:37:44.020 different than than the old school of you know versions and and and some of that old school was

00:37:49.660 a little bit of a myth right like a lot of those people did incredible things for charity and everything

00:37:53.540 else but they looked at it carnegie yeah yeah exactly carnegie built libraries in every small

00:37:59.620 community all across the country because he said everyone should have a king's library because you can

00:38:06.180 succeed in this country if you have access to knowledge and books yeah i mean the guy was amazing

00:38:12.840 the robber baron arrow is is exaggerated in its evils uh but still you know musk i think is different in

00:38:20.020 that he's constantly trying i mean he's trying to solve paralysis right he's trying to he's doing all

00:38:26.140 sorts of things that uh you know he's trying to solve uh the traffic problems in the cities he's trying

00:38:32.820 to get people he's trying to stop people from dying in car accidents he's trying to literally send humanity

00:38:38.980 to mars right these are the things if he gets this trillion dollars that's where a lot of this money

00:38:43.920 goes i mean if you look back at his history very early on when he first became wealthy he bought a

00:38:49.580 mclaren f1 it's you know one of the greatest cars ever built and uh he almost killed him and peter

00:38:56.220 teal when they were driving it around and they got in an accident in it and uh you know you look at

00:39:02.920 his pattern since then it's not about fancy incredible cars not about giant mansions i mean

00:39:09.200 he's been living in relatively normal housing now he flies around in private jets all the time he's got

00:39:15.460 a good life there's no question but like it's just that he does not live the life of a person who has

00:39:21.560 who is the richest person in the world that's not what he does he's i mean the reports of him

00:39:25.760 recently it's just been him constantly at work all the time at xai like again he's back in another one

00:39:31.860 of these stretches where he is not coming home uh he's you know you know reports are he's staying at

00:39:39.220 work all hours of the day and night uh to try to get to try to uh beat out uh you know his competition

00:39:46.520 when it comes to ai so uh that is who the guy is and i think like that's the type of person you want

00:39:52.880 to incentivize to hit these massive goals uh the goals by the way are split into 12 tranches that you

00:39:59.580 know there's 12 varieties of this the details are hilarious though let me give you some okay hang on

00:40:04.300 just a second let me take a quick break and then we'll come back on this and i don't let me forget

00:40:08.080 it may not be able to do it today but i mean i wrote a what is it a 12 episode uh

00:40:14.900 miniseries on tesla versus edison and i did so much research on tesla it boggles the mind when

00:40:26.480 you see how much elon musk is like nikola tesla i mean it's just it's mind-boggling he is almost

00:40:33.400 exactly the same guy working working working working working and then just gets sick has to go to the

00:40:39.320 hospital because he's worked himself almost to death and then he gets out and he works works works

00:40:43.880 and he just never stops i mean there's so many parallels between these guys

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