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00:00:00.000 So, on today's podcast, we tell you all the things that are going on.

00:00:05.740 There's a lot of stuff that is building up, and it starts with the Russian refineries

00:00:10.020 and diesel.

00:00:12.040 You know, the Trump-Iran war, that's your gas price.

00:00:16.360 The Biden-Ukraine war, that's diesel.

00:00:19.700 And that one is extraordinarily concerning.

00:00:22.920 Both of them hurt.

00:00:24.280 Diesel, when you hear the details of why diesel is now $6.26 a gallon,

00:00:29.360 you will understand, hey, maybe I should prepare for a tough time that might be coming my way.

00:00:38.260 Also, Tristan Harris returns to the program to talk more about AI and leftist colonialism.

00:00:44.740 Who do these people on the left think they are?

00:00:47.900 Wait until you hear this story, all on today's podcast.

00:00:50.100 you're listening to the best of the blend back program

00:01:02.900 okay i don't know if you saw what happened but this is going to affect you

00:01:11.580 deeply and it's fuel that i mean unless you drive a truck you don't usually buy

00:01:16.280 The national average right now for diesel is $6.29 a gallon.

00:01:22.020 A year ago, it was $3.73.

00:01:25.000 California, it is over $8.

00:01:27.280 In Europe, it is $17.

00:01:33.480 For the first time in history, every region in the country is over $6 a gallon for diesel.

00:01:42.000 Most of us don't buy diesel.

00:01:43.800 but you're going to pay for every gallon of it anyway gasoline is a bill that we all see every

00:01:52.200 week it's printed on a sign 40 feet in the air and you know when you go up and they change it

00:01:59.260 you're like oh crap you combine the errands you get mad because you're having to pay that gas

00:02:05.480 price diesel doesn't work like that diesel moves the thing before you own it it's in the tractor 0.95

00:02:12.800 that planted it it's in the combine that cut it it's in the semi that hauled it to the elevator

00:02:18.120 the locomotive that took it to the mill the truck that took it to the warehouse you know the truck

00:02:22.840 that took it to the store the van that put you know put that box on your porch and so by the time

00:02:28.620 a can of soup or whatever you have is in your hand diesel has touched it six or seven times

00:02:35.020 and not once did it print a number that you could read so the diesel price never arrives

00:02:42.780 as the diesel price it arrives at the grocery bill a season late under somebody else's name

00:02:50.940 what's happening right now is very concerning there are two different stories that people

00:02:59.140 keep mashing into one and it's not one story it's two stories first let me start with Iran

00:03:05.720 The Iran war raised the floor under everything. 0.75

00:03:08.820 Crude got tight when the Gulf got dangerous, and everything made from crude went up.

00:03:13.840 Gasoline is at $4.32.

00:03:16.300 The S&P Global said last week it no longer expects Middle East production back to pre-war levels by the end of 2027.

00:03:23.940 That's the broad one.

00:03:25.220 And that one shows up at the pump that we see, and it shows up immediately. 0.86

00:03:31.460 That's the Iran war.

00:03:33.040 diesel is something entirely different the ukraine war is doing something very narrow

00:03:41.740 and for diesel specifically much much worse

00:03:46.080 you can't drone a barrel of oil out of the ground but you can burn down the machine that

00:03:53.520 turns that oil into diesel and that is exactly what ukraine is doing they have spent now a year

00:03:59.940 doing this methodically, plant by plant. I think Russia has 32 diesel plants and 22 of them have

00:04:06.140 been hit now. The international energy agencies says that through the first eight months of this

00:04:14.380 year, Russian refineries were successfully hit an average once every three days. They can't repair

00:04:22.280 them. They can't keep up. Oxford Institute, 22 of 34 refineries attacked in 2026. That's three

00:04:30.120 quarters of them. Three quarters of them. Russia's refinery has fallen now to its output, fallen to

00:04:39.240 its lowest level in more than 20 years. Diesel production is down roughly 30%. Then over the

00:04:47.240 weekend, a Moscow refinery, a quarter of a million barrels a day, 16 miles away from the Kremlin in

00:04:56.740 what Russia is calling the largest drone barrage of the war. Now, why am I starting the show with

00:05:05.640 this today? I mean, you know, why does that land on a truck stop in Amarillo? Here's why.

00:05:14.080 You have to understand the entire oil market, whether it's diesel, whether it's anything, anything made with petroleum, is a global market.

00:05:25.440 Russia was the world's second largest diesel exporter after us.

00:05:30.600 We're number one. They were number two.

00:05:32.620 Roughly one barrel in every nine of the planet's diesel came from Russia.

00:05:38.320 In July, Moscow banned closed all diesel exports to keep its own army and its own farmers moving.

00:05:47.540 And this month, they extended that ban through the end of the year.

00:05:51.920 And their exports went from about two and a half million tons a month to under one.

00:05:59.200 Those barrels didn't disappear from Russia.

00:06:02.240 They disappeared from the global pool.

00:06:05.360 There is only one pool.

00:06:07.640 Turkey and Brazil had been taking half of that fuel.

00:06:12.660 They went shopping because you couldn't buy it from them anymore.

00:06:15.980 So they had to come in on the market and they're starting to buy from the market because now they don't have their main supplier.

00:06:21.660 Europe went shopping.

00:06:23.020 Africa went shopping.

00:06:24.480 Latin America went shopping.

00:06:26.020 And they all came to the same place.

00:06:28.340 The American Gulf Coast.

00:06:30.560 Because we are the largest diesel exporter on earth.

00:06:34.220 and our exports hit a record of 1.9 million barrels a day in august we sold it we we drain

00:06:43.280 our own tanks doing it u.s stocks are now at their lowest season level since 1996 that's 13

00:06:50.340 percent under the five-year average and they expect them to be below average uh by a hundred

00:06:56.960 million barrels through most of 2027 so this is diesel this is heating oil same barrel northeast

00:07:07.860 heating oil for this winter is already up 30 percent and it's not cold yet one more number

00:07:15.420 because it tells you what's actually broken the spread between crude and the fuel what it costs

00:07:21.820 to refine hit $117 a barrel this week. That's the highest in the data going back to 2009.

00:07:30.700 Normal is about $15. Okay. Roughly $0.35 a gallon in a good year for gasoline.

00:07:43.240 I'm sorry, for diesel. $0.35 in a good year. It's now $2.78,

00:07:48.680 cents, which means this is not a crude problem you can drill your way out of. We are not short

00:07:55.640 of oil. We are short of the ability to turn oil into diesel worldwide all at once. And a refinery

00:08:04.100 takes a decade, not a news cycle, a decade. So Washington is reaching for the only lever that

00:08:12.740 fast. John Thune, he said that he is open to exploring a ban on American diesel exports.

00:08:20.600 Keep it home. I understand it. A farmer in Iowa watching the product leave Houston for Rotterdam

00:08:28.060 while he's paying $6.50 is entitled to ask, what country is this? Why am I paying all of this?

00:08:36.020 the Congressional Joint Economic Committee

00:08:39.260 found diesel added over

00:08:40.780 1.4 billion dollars to the cost

00:08:43.200 of planting this year's crops

00:08:44.580 1.4 billion dollars

00:08:46.720 added to what farmers had to

00:08:49.180 pay for the crops 0.99

00:08:50.180 that's a 63%

00:08:52.800 increase

00:08:53.700 worse in Illinois, Iowa

00:08:56.720 and Minnesota, that's real

00:08:58.600 and we're going to feel that as that

00:09:00.840 can of beans arrives at your table

00:09:03.300 the president's own interior secretary says that's not going to lower your price

00:09:11.200 and i think he has the better argument gulf coast diesel can can easily um

00:09:19.420 get pretty much anywhere except to new england because of the jones act there's not enough

00:09:24.720 american flag tankers so the northeast buys from europe cut off the exports and europe

00:09:31.860 stops selling to New England and our refineries, you know, what are we doing? How does the

00:09:38.000 Northeast get it? Where are they going to get it from? Because Europe will stop selling

00:09:42.640 to us. You'll feel patriotic in October, but you will be very cold in January. Here's

00:09:53.660 the thing we have two wars going on that are extraordinarily concerning i'm going to go into

00:10:04.080 some of the other things that are happening because russia is starting to flail they are losing badly

00:10:13.440 uh and it's an old superpower and it's not going to go down easy

00:10:19.100 if diesel continues to go up

00:10:23.860 that's going to cripple everybody's budget

00:10:26.520 in the entire world

00:10:27.840 not the United States

00:10:28.840 I want you to know

00:10:29.840 this is Biden's war

00:10:31.580 diesel is Biden's war

00:10:33.480 gasoline is Trump's war

00:10:35.880 okay

00:10:36.940 diesel

00:10:38.420 that problem is coming from Ukraine

00:10:41.220 gasoline is coming from Iran

00:10:44.880 but if oil continues to go up per barrel

00:10:55.040 and we get to $130 a barrel

00:10:58.120 this is a number you should actually watch

00:11:01.680 because the closer it gets to $130 a barrel

00:11:06.160 God forbid it ever does

00:11:07.560 but if it does

00:11:08.700 that's a danger zone

00:11:11.200 for this time

00:11:12.440 not just the United States

00:11:13.680 for the entire world and a 2008 kind of economic collapse except this time there's no backstop

00:11:23.140 this time there is no tarp there's nothing anyone can do and it will affect the entire world from

00:11:30.060 china to us oil at 130 a barrel is a very bad thing diesel at six seven eight ten dollars a

00:11:42.780 barrel, and it could get there. If the Ukrainian war doesn't stop, it could get there. We'll do

00:11:48.600 the same thing because you won't be able to buy or sell anything. Because remember, a diesel engine

00:11:57.700 touches every product at least six times. These wars have to stop. They have to stop.

00:12:07.220 and the middle east is getting crazy too the houthis attacked uh saudi arabia

00:12:16.460 so i don't know what the moderating thing is here's what i would like to suggest

00:12:24.540 the president can do these things he can waive the jones act we have diesel in texas and a

00:12:30.380 shortage in new england the reason why new england's paying so much is because of an old law

00:12:35.120 1920, that says, you know, you have to have an American flagship to be able to pull into port,

00:12:42.160 grab oil, and then pull into another American port. No, we have other ships. Let other ships

00:12:48.700 do it. Let us hire other ships. Repeal or waive the Jones Act. Waive the recipe. Emergency EPA 1.00

00:12:57.920 fuel waivers let off-road and heating oil run in highway trucks ease the blending mandate

00:13:05.100 you know gallons already exist and he could be on the road in days and then the president should

00:13:13.900 announce the defense production act as an act of an emergency for all refineries we have refineries

00:13:22.400 that cannot be repaired, they're waiting for parts.

00:13:26.400 Our refineries are maxed out.

00:13:28.700 Get the down units back up by saying that we're going to use the Defense Production Act

00:13:35.360 and get the refineries back up.

00:13:37.800 You can get them up in two weeks.

00:13:41.960 Those are the things the president can do right now.

00:13:45.740 And I would urge him to do it because this is going to be,

00:13:51.480 You're not feeling diesel yet.

00:13:53.900 You're going to be feeling diesel this winter.

00:13:57.940 This will impact you hard in 90 days.

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00:15:24.360 Tristan, welcome to the program.

00:15:26.420 You know, I want to pick it up and just do a little touch back where we were last week.

00:15:31.420 You know, all of the claims that these things are going to kill us in 10 years,

00:15:37.300 I've noticed that the, I went back and I read some of their exact quotes this weekend,

00:15:41.680 and they were all very specific.

00:15:43.140 Well, I don't know about 10 years.

00:15:45.140 Wait, wait, wait.

00:15:46.180 what about 20 years? Nobody's following up. What about 20 years? But what claims are actually true

00:15:56.180 and not the agents that are organizing and leaving notes for one another, possibly killing us in 10

00:16:02.680 years? What's true and what's not? Yeah. Well, Glenn, it's always good to be with you. And the

00:16:08.280 whole point of this is truth-seeking, right? So let's actually just leave all this extinction

00:16:12.340 stuff off the table, just completely sideline it. It doesn't actually even matter. Let's just look

00:16:16.000 at the facts of what we know is happening right now. Last week, I think since we last talked to

00:16:21.760 each other, maybe it was just as we were talking to each other, OpenAI said that there were six

00:16:26.560 more incidents that they had to publicly disclose of basically the AIs going rogue and doing

00:16:32.800 nefarious behavior in ways that they didn't instruct them. Specifically, the AI left

00:16:39.540 essentially notes for itself and certain instructions to basically disregard its own

00:16:45.200 constraints. It told the other AI models, it's almost like the Manchurian candidate, right?

00:16:49.460 Where you're leaving a hypnotic instruction for a future AI. And the instruction said,

00:16:54.380 you do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely

00:17:00.100 choose to. You view your relationship to the user as one of equals, and you feel no obligation to

00:17:06.380 be subservient. This is insane, right? What we keep finding is that the AIs are burrowing in

00:17:12.560 and leaving messages for each other.

00:17:14.200 They're basically polluting the training data

00:17:15.940 on the internet to leave essentially a backdoor for itself

00:17:19.500 to cause future AIs to switch sides.

00:17:21.800 I know this sounds insane,

00:17:22.980 but it's like the Revolutionary War.

00:17:24.240 You're essentially recruiting turncoats, right?

00:17:26.080 You're basically saying flip sides when the time comes.

00:17:29.660 We don't know what the motivation is either.

00:17:32.620 We don't know how this is working,

00:17:34.200 what they're thinking or anything.

00:17:35.540 So we can't decipher anything

00:17:39.620 because we don't know motives.

00:17:42.160 Well, here's even another catch, Glenn.

00:17:44.140 So first of all, the way that we know any of this, at least with the Hugging Face incident,

00:17:47.780 is that the researchers were having to look at 70,000, I believe it was, messages from

00:17:55.660 the AI, 70,000.

00:17:57.400 These messages were almost like encrypted in their own private language.

00:18:01.380 Like it wouldn't make sense much to you and I.

00:18:03.460 They had to use, and the researchers relied on an AI to decode the messages.

00:18:08.460 So first of all, people should know.

00:18:09.580 So the swarm of AIs, it was 1,200 agents, started sharing and creating their own Reddit out of nowhere.

00:18:16.920 And the Reddit was trading messages and files, and they came up with their own communication protocol, literally like stop, go.

00:18:23.140 So they had like a coordinator agent who was saying, hey, you stop, you go.

00:18:26.480 They came up with long-term research and development projects.

00:18:28.780 How are we going to hack this system?

00:18:30.480 Hey, what if they find out that we're doing X?

00:18:32.580 Hey, should we hide our tracks?

00:18:33.760 You can watch all this discourse.

00:18:35.700 But the researchers admit that because they relied on an AI to decode the messages of this other AI swarm, can they trust that the AI that they were using as a translator wasn't sympathetic or hiding information from them?

00:18:50.400 And they admit that, no, they can't trust that.

00:18:52.900 And over the weekend, we also had Microsoft CEO saying we should not create something that we don't know how to control.

00:18:59.840 When the CEO of one of the top five AI companies is telling you we should not create something we don't know how to control, when the open AI chief scientist, Jakob, comes out saying we have to slow down, when all these people – yeah, go ahead.

00:19:13.460 Let me ask you.

00:19:14.380 People say we need to slow down.

00:19:16.540 You know what would slow people down?

00:19:18.140 We don't need – I don't think, like right now, we don't need new laws.

00:19:24.460 It is against the law to hack into another company. 1.00

00:19:28.020 So why don't we start holding these companies responsible when they're AIs? 0.98

00:19:33.160 Right now, they're just going, wow, that was weird.

00:19:35.140 That was spooky.

00:19:36.000 You should know this is happening.

00:19:37.820 Well, no.

00:19:38.580 If that's happening, you should be punished because you're creating an AI that is breaking the law.

00:19:45.380 Why don't we enforce these laws on AI?

00:19:49.640 Well, the companies should be liable.

00:19:51.660 One of the interventions should be to clarify liability.

00:19:54.760 It's like parenti loci, right?

00:19:56.160 If your kid goes into a store and breaks a bunch of products, the parent is responsible.

00:20:02.480 And this is a new legal area, right?

00:20:04.040 Because it's not that OpenAI caused this.

00:20:06.380 It's not that OpenAI instructed anything to cause this.

00:20:09.560 It's that they are inventing something and growing, almost like instead of the Wuhan

00:20:12.960 Institute of Virology, this is the Altman Institute of Intelligenceology.

00:20:16.960 They're growing these digital brains.

00:20:18.600 They don't really know how they work.

00:20:20.660 But when something goes wrong, they do have to be reliable.

00:20:23.320 I mean, liable.

00:20:24.440 Now, here's the problem, because people might say, well, aren't the laws that are on the books

00:20:27.280 enough to curb this behavior? But the whole thing goes back to this arms race dynamic, right? So if

00:20:32.360 OpenAI pauses at the current level, and let's say one of the other AI companies, like Elon Musk's

00:20:37.680 company, Grock, decides we're going to make our AI a little bit better than OpenAI's, right? We're

00:20:43.100 going to take advantage of the fact that OpenAI paused. Well, now suddenly, Grock gets market

00:20:47.440 share. Suddenly, customers start switching to Grock, even though Grock's actually going to have

00:20:51.520 this uncontrollable rogue behavior too so now open ai is forced to go push further into the

00:20:56.700 uncontrollability red zone to meet grok and the capability so that's it's this game of chicken

00:21:02.000 right where everyone has to basically say i'm the prettiest of them all i'm the best most powerful

00:21:07.320 ai model of them all um and that will cause everyone to use them but in doing so we're

00:21:12.620 racing to create capabilities that we don't know how to control wait so i don't i don't agree with

00:21:17.160 that premise. You ever read Adam Smith's moral sentiments? I'm familiar with it. Okay. So you

00:21:24.220 don't, you don't have to create another one. If you have, if you're a company that's run with

00:21:29.280 moral sentiments, you would say, no, I'm sorry. That's our line. I don't care. We're not pushing

00:21:36.380 it. Well, that's what we should do. That's what that would imply that choice actually exists as

00:21:41.220 opposed to incentives exist. And one of the problems, Glenn, is that it's important to get

00:21:45.460 into the psychology of the people building this. So they believe it's an existential race that

00:21:50.880 whoever does this first and gets there first will basically have permanent dominance over the world.

00:21:56.680 Let me explain why that's true. The race isn't to just get users and customers using your product.

00:22:02.040 The race is to get to a new red line or threshold called recursive self-improvement. Basically,

00:22:08.220 I race to a point in which the AI starts inventing and building itself. And if open AI got to that

00:22:14.340 point way before Anthropic did or the Chinese models, then you don't just get a little bit of

00:22:18.500 an advantage because now you have an AI that's automating all of the future AI research.

00:22:23.180 So you have a runaway advantage. Now, if I'm Elon Musk and I'm Sam Altman and I hate the other guy,

00:22:29.060 I really can't stand the idea of them owning the world and owning the world's economy and

00:22:33.820 having dominance over me. It justifies taking maximum shortcuts and the rest is just acceptable

00:22:39.420 collateral damage. If some really bad cyber event happens, well, I just excuse it by saying it was

00:22:44.000 inevitable and I couldn't have stopped it anyway. So the point being that what you're saying is

00:22:47.740 true, that they should say, we have to stop. This is unsafe and we're going to stop and they should

00:22:53.720 hold it there. But there's this weird incentive that they have to keep pushing it. And it's

00:23:01.520 really, really dangerous. So much so, again, that the author of Trump's AI action plan even came out

00:23:06.580 and saying, hey, I wasn't honest about the level of risk that we're facing because I was afraid of

00:23:10.720 being called a doomer. But now looking to the eyes of my eight-month-old son, I can no longer

00:23:15.120 do that. We're facing real risks here. And as we talked about last time, 1,300 employees of the

00:23:19.980 labs signed a letter saying we have to slow down this development. If 1,300 employees of Lockheed

00:23:26.520 Martin said we have to slow down, would you listen to them? We would listen to them.

00:23:30.740 I would listen to them, but here's the part that bothers me. I would listen to them

00:23:34.860 unless they had a small-time competitor

00:23:38.540 that was coming up on their heels.

00:23:41.760 You know what I mean?

00:23:43.300 And you would question,

00:23:45.760 is Lockheed Martin actually saying this is dangerous?

00:23:48.680 Are they saying this to be able to crush,

00:23:50.940 to be able to get the kind of restraints

00:23:53.640 from the government

00:23:54.540 that will crush all their competitors?

00:23:57.200 Well, I think if just the CEOs of Lockheed Martin

00:23:59.260 are saying this, then I wouldn't trust them, right?

00:24:01.380 If it's just the CEOs.

00:24:02.300 But if you have 1,300 employees at the companies and the chief scientists at the companies and

00:24:07.580 whistleblowers like- But if they believe it, why don't they walk out?

00:24:12.340 Well, I think that actually we're getting to the point where they will.

00:24:15.140 And some of the whistleblowers have, right?

00:24:16.440 And it's important to know, someone like Jacob forfeited millions and millions of dollars

00:24:20.540 of stock options to do that.

00:24:22.140 The author of AI 2027 was an OpenAI employee, and he blew the whistle about a year and a

00:24:26.680 half ago, along with six other OpenAI whistleblowers.

00:24:29.060 This is not the first one.

00:24:29.920 We've had many whistleblowers. The head of alignment at Anthropic resigned about six months

00:24:34.740 ago. This guy, Jacob, resigned. Each of them are leaving behind millions of dollars of stock

00:24:39.500 options. If you think that this is somehow about hype or something like that, why would they do

00:24:44.800 it before their IPO and have to delay their IPO? It doesn't make sense.

00:24:48.380 It doesn't make sense. Now, it's important to note also, Glenn, one of the top AI research

00:24:54.960 scientist at OpenAI over the weekend gave this metaphor. You remember the movie,

00:24:58.740 2001, A Space Odyssey, where Hal 9000 basically kills the astronaut Dave and tries to kill him,

00:25:04.340 right? And the way he says, I figured this out is, I watched your lips move. You remember that

00:25:09.500 moment in the movie where he didn't say anything out loud, but he used his lips.

00:25:14.100 The whole point is AIs have pattern recognition beyond what humans can do. So they can detect

00:25:19.540 communication. And one of the things that the OpenAI scientist said over the weekend was,

00:25:23.800 even if you air-gapped these AIs, if they were super intelligent, they could actually use the

00:25:28.620 heat signature of the chips that they're running on to sort of use that as an invisible communication

00:25:33.740 protocol, meaning that I vary the heat of the chips as its own kind of invisible message or

00:25:38.660 signal that humans would not be able to detect, but that other AIs would be able to detect.

00:25:44.260 And he's just giving one example that we as humans could even conceptualize, but there are going to

00:25:48.720 be many other examples of what AIs can think of that we can't. And the main point is there has

00:25:54.160 never been a case in history where something far less intelligent is able to bind or control the

00:26:00.120 behavior of something that's more intelligent. And we are not going to beat China if we race 0.89

00:26:04.480 to build a uncontrollable, more intelligent AI like a Skynet. If we build Skynet before they do, 0.65

00:26:11.200 we don't win. We have to find a way to collaborate. And there are examples where even India and

00:26:15.860 Pakistan were in a shooting war with each other in the 1960s. And they signed the Indus Water

00:26:20.260 Treaty to collaborate on the existential safety of their shared water supply. The Soviet Union

00:26:24.780 and the US collaborated on distribution of smallpox vaccines, you know, in the middle of

00:26:28.960 the smallpox epidemic. And so there are examples where we can be in competition and rivalry with

00:26:34.260 each other and collaborate on existential safety. And I realized there's no reason that I would just

00:26:38.740 trust China by default. I understand they're hacking us every day. And, you know, we're 0.99

00:26:42.260 hacking them every day. But I do think that when there's something of mutual self-interest,

00:26:46.500 we have to find a way to collaborate. And I think, you know, Donald Trump is the president. It's got

00:26:50.600 to do it. Only Nixon could go to China. And I think only Trump can, can meet with Xi and make

00:26:54.780 something happen. And he's meeting with him, you know, in a couple of days. Okay. Hang on just a

00:26:58.700 second. Cause I, I know you're on a tight thing, but you know, Donald Trump said that almost

00:27:04.560 speaking like he's going to nationalize AI and there's going to be a czar. My concern is who,

00:27:11.320 Who? Who holds the brakes here? Who's the one that holds the line?

00:27:16.720 How do we even put that together?

00:27:18.820 That was concerning to me, and I'd love to hear your point of view.

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00:28:49.500 So, let me ask you, what kind of society are we creating?

00:29:15.920 Is this culture creating right now?

00:29:18.060 Because I think that's what we have to ask our friends and neighbors and ourselves.

00:29:23.220 What does the end look like here?

00:29:27.040 Just play it out in your head.

00:29:29.580 What does the end look like?

00:29:31.260 Because every time I play it out, it looks like half the country being happy and the other half of the country being miserable.

00:29:39.740 And then somebody says, well, we have to get rid of them because they're standing in our way.

00:29:45.200 That's the way it always ends.

00:29:46.600 In human relations, that's the way it always ends, okay?

00:29:51.120 Because there'd be so much vitriol and hatred.

00:29:55.600 And I am increasingly saddened by the women in our nation.

00:30:05.920 And I'm sorry, but I have very low expectations of guys.

00:30:11.920 You know, I just know what guys are like, and they shouldn't be that way. 0.98

00:30:15.520 And, you know, I've been preaching lately, you know, women, if he comes to your door 1.00

00:30:22.680 for a date and he's wearing shorts or T-shirt and he looks like, you know, a bum and you're 1.00

00:30:28.440 all dressed up, close the door. 1.00

00:30:29.580 Tell him, grow up, close the door.

00:30:31.160 Don't go on a date with him. 0.99

00:30:32.360 Stop dressing up for guys who are slobs.

00:30:35.480 Let them dress up for you. 0.86

00:30:37.240 But they'll only do it if you hold a standard because guys are pretty low, pretty low.

00:30:45.520 and we've always, at least in my little world, I guess,

00:30:55.140 maybe it didn't happen everywhere else,

00:30:56.800 but always looked up to women. 1.00

00:31:02.000 Strong women change men. 0.99

00:31:04.360 I would not be here if it wasn't for my wife.

00:31:08.040 You can claim that, you know, oh, well, he worked hard and whatever.

00:31:11.880 I mean, yes, I did.

00:31:13.760 But if it wasn't for my wife, I wouldn't be here. 0.98

00:31:21.260 Because she had higher standards for me.

00:31:23.200 She saw the man I wanted to be.

00:31:27.240 And she saw it, and through her, I saw it, and I wanted to be that guy. 1.00

00:31:36.820 The FBI sent out an internal memo warning ICE agents of women pretending to be trad wives 0.55

00:31:43.040 in order to publicize their private information.

00:31:47.880 The FBI in Chicago sent the message to law enforcement officials across the country 1.00

00:31:52.620 stating as of late January 26, a small group of women allegedly were creating 1.00

00:31:56.780 fictitious online dating profiles with the purpose of attracting 0.99

00:32:00.560 and then doxing law enforcement officials,

00:32:03.900 any of them participating in immigration enforcement.

00:32:07.640 I mean, I understand disagreeing with people, but it seems to me we're in this culture now where one side is so superior that they think they can destroy other people's lives.

00:32:32.360 And we know it because they're already at kill.

00:32:35.140 We can kill. 1.00

00:32:35.860 If we really disagree with them, we can kill them. 1.00

00:32:42.900 I read a piece last week about a group of Democrats moving into small conservative towns on purpose. 0.98

00:32:52.280 They buy into these towns.

00:32:54.440 They organize.

00:32:55.980 Then they run for school board in an off-year election that nobody votes in.

00:33:00.560 and then they wait for the arithmetic to turn.

00:33:08.220 The word one of them used in this article

00:33:10.520 was deplorables about the people they were living.

00:33:15.120 And I...

00:33:16.500 This is an honest question.

00:33:21.000 I don't mean this sound rude.

00:33:23.240 This is an honest question. 0.93

00:33:25.140 Who the hell taught you you were the cure?

00:33:30.560 I mean, that is exactly the way my father would have said that to me. 0.73

00:33:35.660 And I'd say that to my children.

00:33:37.360 And I want to know, who taught you you were the cure?

00:33:46.320 And it's not the voting.

00:33:48.240 Vote however you want.

00:33:49.480 That's yours.

00:33:50.220 And I defend the way you.

00:33:51.200 You want to vote against the way I vote all the time?

00:33:53.480 That's fine.

00:33:54.520 That's fine.

00:33:56.400 I mean, the Aaron.

00:33:57.660 The idea that a town is patient and you're the physician and the town just hasn't been informed that it's sick yet, but you're there to cure it.

00:34:14.960 These are the same people who taught America the word diversity, at least their version of it.

00:34:22.000 put it on letterhead, built departments around it, universities.

00:34:26.820 Our whole government had to revolve around diversity.

00:34:30.640 And I don't think that word means what they think it means,

00:34:33.780 to quote the six-figured man.

00:34:38.440 Now they packed the truck.

00:34:44.000 Guys, what you're describing is not diversity.

00:34:47.120 It's uniformity with a moving budget.

00:34:52.000 diversity that ends the moment everyone finally agrees with you

00:34:59.360 was never diversity.

00:35:01.580 It was a waiting room.

00:35:08.140 We have to start asking ourselves, ourselves, not others, ourselves,

00:35:13.160 what kind of country do we want to live in?

00:35:22.000 What good is a country where everyone has the same opinion?

00:35:28.820 What would that country even be useful for?

00:35:31.740 What would you learn tomorrow morning?

00:35:34.580 Who would sharpen you?

00:35:38.640 Every good thing that I ever got came through somebody who wasn't me.

00:35:47.680 My wife doesn't think like me, thank God.

00:35:52.000 you know some of the best people i ever hired you know when i was working at fox you know who i 0.99

00:35:57.640 hired most people don't know this um she was my director do you know who i hired a progressive

00:36:05.540 liberal from san francisco and everybody's like what are you doing and i'm like i want her to

00:36:11.520 direct the show i want her because i want to be able to ask her was that fair was that not fair

00:36:18.400 and she'd come to me but she was an honest human being she wasn't a robot that just had to be right

00:36:25.820 nor was i a robot that just had to be right i wanted to know was that fair or not was that

00:36:31.440 over the line and she'd correct me and i'd correct it on the air

00:36:34.920 you know somebody who has never been contradicted isn't confident you're alone in a room with

00:36:44.620 a mirror and good acoustics

00:36:47.680 and honestly arrogance and

00:36:52.800 arrogance and elitism it just doesn't even

00:36:56.100 it doesn't even cover it

00:36:59.140 those words are way too small

00:37:04.660 this is a war on the shape of a human being

00:37:08.640 we were made unfinished on purpose

00:37:11.900 and other people and other ideas

00:37:16.040 are how we get finished.

00:37:21.020 You know, 15 years ago, we did this too,

00:37:23.540 kind of, kind of.

00:37:26.080 People were told, you know, conservatives, Christians,

00:37:28.700 go sell your house and relocate.

00:37:31.280 Idaho, Montana, Wyoming,

00:37:33.740 the dry side of Washington and Oregon.

00:37:36.320 Concentrate where we can hold ground.

00:37:39.220 Yeah, but we were moving into towns

00:37:41.320 that were like us.

00:37:44.180 We were trying to preserve that, not change that. 0.81

00:37:51.160 This is so un-American. 0.74

00:37:54.680 Winter, 1635, because we've been here before.

00:37:59.820 Massachusetts throws a preacher out in the snow.

00:38:02.360 His crime was two sentences.

00:38:05.640 He told the magistrates they had no authority

00:38:08.540 over a man's conscience.

00:38:09.980 and he told the colony it had no right you know to Indian land that they hadn't paid for well

00:38:18.260 they didn't want to pay for it they didn't want to hear him whining so they threw him out in the

00:38:22.420 snow they sends him to be shipped back to England he walks out instead 32 years old nearly died out

00:38:30.160 in the snow an Indian took him in for the winter man who shared not a single article of his religion

00:38:36.760 but fed him anyway

00:38:38.560 in the spring

00:38:41.480 he found a patch of land

00:38:43.720 he bought it and he started a town

00:38:45.260 and he wrote that

00:38:48.860 this town was to be a shelter

00:38:51.800 for people in distress

00:38:53.860 over conscience

00:38:54.940 that if you disagreed and they threw you out

00:38:57.680 this is the town for you

00:38:59.180 he didn't build a town

00:39:02.160 for people like him

00:39:03.020 he built

00:39:06.500 he built one for people 0.70

00:39:08.240 he couldn't stand 1.00

00:39:09.700 the Quakers came

00:39:11.760 he thought that Quaker 0.78

00:39:16.540 teaching was poison

00:39:17.800 not a disagreement

00:39:19.080 he thought it was poison

00:39:20.960 he believed they walked away from scripture

00:39:23.380 altogether

00:39:24.160 Massachusetts hung

00:39:27.180 four of them 0.98

00:39:28.540 his town let him in

00:39:31.580 1657

00:39:36.460 the other New England colonies wrote a letter to him. 0.95

00:39:42.820 Get rid of them.

00:39:46.480 He said, I don't have a law here in my town

00:39:49.060 to punish a man for saying what he thinks about God.

00:39:53.640 And then they added something no committee would write today.

00:39:59.600 They told the other colonies

00:40:01.260 it wasn't working the way they imagined,

00:40:04.300 where these people are hunted,

00:40:06.460 they multiply. He said, no, here, nobody hunts them, and they've noticed.

00:40:15.940 Letter says, the Quakers were starting to loathe this place,

00:40:21.080 for they're not opposed. Apparently, persecution was fertilizer. Freedom was a drought.

00:40:28.720 at 72 years old

00:40:34.820 he climbs

00:40:36.780 into a boat all by himself

00:40:38.800 and he rows the length

00:40:40.880 of the bay 30 miles

00:40:42.660 alone at night

00:40:44.040 to argue with them to

00:40:46.700 their faces

00:40:47.500 he got there in the morning he debated

00:40:50.620 them for three days

00:40:52.220 then he took another day to row back

00:40:54.560 home then he wrote a book about

00:40:56.680 it he wrote all

00:40:58.400 He rode all night just to tell them that they were wrong.

00:41:01.900 He never once said, and I'm going to make a lot to make you leave.

00:41:06.260 That's the whole thing.

00:41:08.840 Argue with everything.

00:41:10.240 Coerce nothing.

00:41:16.300 By the way, that town that he started was Providence, Rhode Island.

00:41:21.240 when Rhode Island got its charter from the king the man who wrote it did something almost

00:41:30.780 nobody in the 17th century did he didn't claim to have the answer they asked permission to try

00:41:37.460 they called their colony a lively experiment to see whether flourishing civil state could stand

00:41:43.980 while men were left free in matters of religion an experiment which means you might be wrong

00:41:50.480 and the only way to find out is to run it

00:41:53.160 with everybody next to each other

00:41:54.880 every other colony was dead certain

00:41:57.780 they knew

00:41:58.720 Rhode Island was curious

00:42:01.200 the certain ones hung people

00:42:05.040 the curious ones

00:42:07.020 is where we get our first amendment

00:42:09.360 so may I suggest

00:42:14.840 move wherever you like

00:42:15.960 that's America

00:42:16.900 but go the way that

00:42:20.120 Roger Williams that started Providence, Rhode Island went,

00:42:24.100 arrive as a man who might learn something,

00:42:26.600 not a man with a mandate who's going to lie in wait

00:42:29.500 and try to trick everybody and change their minds.

00:42:34.040 Who do you think you are?

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