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On today's Friday podcast, Washington State has gotten so far, they are so crazy even Mao has to be impressed. This is what happens when you adopt the attitude of the ends justify the means. It's a really important part of the program today. Also, Zachary Levi, the actor and the guy who's starting his own studios in Austin, Texas is talking to me about AI and the new Google AI that will change the industry. And a thank you to Elon Musk as his fight against the swamp comes to an end.
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On today's Friday podcast, Washington State has gotten so far.
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This is what happens when you adopt the attitude of the ends justify the means.
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It's a really important part of the program today.
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Also, Zachary Levi, the actor, and the guy who's starting his own studios in Austin, Wildwood Studios,
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he's talking to me about AI and the new Google AI that will, it's going to change the industry.
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I mean, is there a reason we will have photographers and actors and everything else?
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Just what has been released this week from Google has changed things dramatically.
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And a thank you to Elon Musk as his fight against the swamp comes to an end.
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You know, for Democrats, if you don't think you're playing with communism or socialism,
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Talk to anyone who is sane in Washington state.
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I'll give you his number, but they are going to full-fledged communism, Marxism.
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You have every giant corporation now moving out of the Seattle area in Washington state
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because they're going to, I'm telling you, they're going to go to wealth confiscation.
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And there is a, uh, a place Lake Washington is, you know, by Bellevue and between Bellevue
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It is just the most beautiful place you've ever seen.
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And this is where Bill Gates and everybody else.
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And when I was a kid, it was, it was not like that.
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It was, you know, there were still normal people that live there.
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Um, and, uh, now you can't even get close to it.
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And there's this place in the middle of the lake and it's called Hunt's point.
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And it is where, you know, these are 60 to a hundred million dollar houses.
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Uh, they just happen to be in an area where there's not very much land and it is the place
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to live if you like water, uh, and you're living right on the water and it's, it's just
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It used to be that when a place would go up for sale, even when I was a kid on Hunt's
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People that would, they wouldn't want to sell it cause you couldn't replace it.
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And so, uh, they would, they would come up for sale and they'd be gone before anybody
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So I am told by a friend who, uh, knows that area quite well that I think he said 17 homes
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And some of them have been up for sale now for over a year and there are no buyers.
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All of these people are trying to get out of Washington state and nobody's buying their
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home because nobody you're going to, are you going to buy that?
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Hey, rich person, where are you going to move from?
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No, Washington, the property values are going to start plummeting and you've got crazy people.
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I'm telling you, I grew up in Washington state.
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I grew up listening to, um, you know, hippies and everything else.
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My, you know, my friends and I remember going to a friend's house and we were standing on
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our front porch and, uh, you know, we were, this is the Alex P Keaton days and not politically,
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but just, I mean, I guess a little politically, but my friends, not all my friends, you know,
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greed with Reagan, but we didn't talk politics.
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And I remember standing on a front porch and my friend was going to open up her front door.
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She had her hand on the doorknob and she, before she opened it, she turned to me and
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My folks are probably in the living room getting stoned.
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We were the adults and we opened up the door and I'm like, I get it.
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And so open up the door and there they are getting stoned in the, and they're like,
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And there's these people that believe in this thing called Cascadia, which is a communist
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Just get out of America, start a new communist country called Cascadia.
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And you see people like, you know, the mayor of Seattle, do you see what happened in Seattle?
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over the weekend, Stu, where there was this, yeah, yeah, go ahead.
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You're talking about the mayor and this, this accusation going, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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The Christian, the, the, uh, the Christians that had a revival out in a park and all of
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these revolutionaries came, uh, they were threatening them.
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The police came and shut down the Christians and they deemed the Christians and police against
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Um, but under the direction of the mayor, shut down the Christians, excused all the radical
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revolutionaries and said, you know, it's the Christians here that are causing all the
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Well, now what you were talking about is the scandal that's going on with Bruce Harrell.
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Uh, well, I mean, just like you, if you had been arrested in 96 for brandishing a firearm
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over a parking space, uh, in 1996, this, this has been out for a while.
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Um, he was a young attorney and he was, had just been appointed to the, the housing authority
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And he was at a casino and he was pulling up to a parking space and this other couple
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in their family, it's a husband, wife, a mom, and somebody else.
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They pull up and they pull into the parking space and he gets pissed off and they say
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he pointed a gun at them and they were afraid for their lives.
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Um, he admitted at the time to say, yeah, I, I, I had my gun, but I wasn't pointing it
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I just want you to see that's called brandishing a firearm.
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Well, the charges, you know, fall apart or whatever.
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And so he's, he's charged with it, but he does, he's not convicted of it.
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And now he's saying, no, that I didn't have a gun.
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I, I, I like watches and I have some big watches, but I've, I've, I've never had anyone
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at any airport or on the street go, oh my gosh, you've got a gun strapped to your wrist.
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Has that ever happened to you, Stu, where you're like, that guy's got a gun on his wrist.
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And it, and you realize, no, it's just actually a watch.
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I mean, I try not to wear that at night because people do make that mistake.
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I mean, besides the watch gun, you know what I mean?
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Now when it's brought up, he's like, no, I didn't have one.
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He said at the time he did, but he wasn't pointing it at him.
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Now he says, no, they mistook that for a watch.
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I mean, if you're going to, if you're going to elect radicals, if you're going to elect
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people that don't, you know, they just don't care about the law, the constitution, you know,
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There's no, there's no even attempt to, to come up with stories that even sound real.
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Because, because basically like, and if you think about it, there's some pragmatic sense
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to it in, in our current day, which is like, in reality, like what's going to happen is
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the people who already liked you are going to support you no matter what you say.
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And, uh, I, I just, they just, you might as well just say something and everyone's going
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to like nod along and say, well, yes, I like his other policies or I want him to, to succeed.
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He's still saying that it was, you know, he was targeted.
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I mean, we, we, we talked a little bit off the air a few minutes ago about, this is the
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sort of conversation we have, which is the WNBA and the situation with Caitlin Clark and
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Angel Reese, where, you know, again, these are two basketball players, one white, one
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black, uh, the white player fouled the black player.
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There's some sort of rivalry that seems to be basically one way from Angel Reese toward
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Um, you know, the team, you know, Angel Reese's team lost by like 30 points in the game.
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And of course, as you 100% can just fill in the blank, if you know, if you know nothing
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And there was people in the stands yelling racial slurs at her.
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Can you believe this full investigation launched?
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Now, remember, this is not, this doesn't happen in the woods.
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This doesn't happen like under a bridge, you know, you know, in Madagascar somewhere.
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This happens on a, in an, in arena where that's being televised.
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So of course there are hundreds of fans around the area where this was supposedly going to
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There were dozens of employees around this area.
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Of course, no one can find any evidence that this happened at all.
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And then the end of the story is not a massive controversy about how this player could be
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falsely accusing all of these people that are fans of the other team of being racist
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and, and, and manufacturing claims of, of racial slurs.
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The story is a two paragraph statement from the WNBA.
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No, no follow-ups from, no follow-ups from any of the journalists who were concerned about
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And, and why no follow-up on the investigation of how that began?
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Are they going to pay a price for starting those charges?
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And didn't I see that, that very player sitting on the bench talking about white girls?
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That's hard to see many conversations without that phrase used from that particular player.
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I mean, it's just, it, it doesn't, it doesn't seem to matter anymore.
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You know, I, I, uh, somebody said to me the other day, have you seen that, uh, Donald Trump
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is now saying that if you're working for the government, you have to go through, I think
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, um, the constitution is the owner's manual.
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And right now we have a bunch of people that are trying to put our country together and
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And you know, it's like, it's, it's like our country came from Ikea and you know, I can
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It's never, and you've got like 47 screws left over at the end.
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This, this I think is one of the best things that the president has done so far.
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You want to work in the, you want to work in the administration.
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You got to go take a course on the constitution of the United States because that's the
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Even though they're not even saying that they're now saying 200 people.
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Democrats are now saying, yeah, I knew that he was, I knew that he was gone, but, uh, you
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I think you need a refresher on the constitution, uh, cause, uh, none of that is part of, uh,
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There's no place in the constitution that allows that.
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They talk about that in the book of those decisions being made, right?
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Why would you hide this from the American people?
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And, you know, it is exactly what you're saying.
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And they said that one of the reasons why, especially the really close group around the
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Bidens, including the family and some of these advisors basically said, number one, Donald
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Like the, he's a existential threat and he's the worst thing that could ever happen to us.
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And the people really close to Biden believed the only person who could beat him was Joe Biden.
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To think that Joe Biden was uniquely qualified for this victory, but he was the only person
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So you could, there's some, maybe some sense to that.
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But as I think it was Alex Thompson, one of the authors pointed out, it's like, when
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you, when you exist, when those two things are true, you can justify anything.
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Like if you believe Hitler's about to come into power and the only person who could beat
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Well, of course you're going to justify all of this.
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If you believe that Elon Musk is evil, I can, I can firebomb and terrorize anybody with a
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If you believe that global warming is going to wipe the entire earth out, I can kill anyone
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This is why you can never adopt the ends justify the means, which is Saul Alinsky.
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So you're in debt, you're behind the eight ball.
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First thing you do, stop avoiding looking at it.
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There are mornings when you log into your bank account.
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I mean, I, who wasn't the comedian that said, you know, I'm just thinking about, you know,
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Um, I, I, I want you to look at things and get somebody that is an expert that can help
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You know, your, your mortgage most likely sold to you by a bank.
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And by people who got a kickback for selling you that mortgage, that's not the same with
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It's American financing.net, American financing.net.
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How, how concerned are you by what Google released this week?
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I mean, you know, when I, I, you and I talked about this when I came on your show last, um,
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and I hate to sound like, you know, a doomer and gloomer.
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Um, but I, this is something I've been foreseeing for a really long time.
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I've been banging this drum for a really long time and trying to wake people up and say,
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Hey, listen, technology, it moves exponentially.
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This is one of the things that I think most people just don't understand whether it's people
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in my industry or other industries and, and might I say, yes, this is knocking on the
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doorstep of entertainment right now, but understand that AI is knocking on the doorstep of all
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of our industries, your, your industry, radio, you know, everything in entertainment, certainly
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anything that can be recorded and, and, and, and broadcast, but every industry that we are,
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I mean, there are, um, huge, you know, experts in, in many fields that say within a year,
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two years, you certainly within five years, every white collar job will be gone.
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And a lot of blue collar jobs are going to be right behind that because you have to recognize
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that AI is not just moving exponentially, but also humanoid robots and the development
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of humanoid robots is developing exponentially.
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And exponential growth is something that people just don't understand.
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And most people see growth as, you know, kind of just, you know, multiplicative meaning
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And then a thousand times as good and so on and so forth.
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And so years ago, I was telling people, guys, if what we have right now, you know, like
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for example, two years ago, uh, AI was generating images and, um, you know, but, but, you
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They can't even get the amount of fingers right on people's hands.
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But six months later, it did six months after that, you had video.
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And now you've got video with audio that is almost indiscernible.
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As you've been seeing with these new examples, it's almost indiscernible.
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I go, yeah, right now you can, but six months from now, a year from now, two years from now,
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And so for people in my industry, I think that, yes, we should all be very, very concerned,
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And it's not even just, you know, like, for example, yes, this could very much replace
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This is partly why I've, I am building Wildwood Studios in Austin, Texas.
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It, you know, has always been, it's a 25 year plus, you know, calling that God has put
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on my life to, to create a better Hollywood, to give artists a better life, a better work
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life balance, to give audiences better content.
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These are all things that we've deserved for a really long time.
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And, but AI is really the kind of, I think, most galvanizing, galvanizing force in all
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of this, because if we don't do something about it, if we don't hold the line, if we
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don't build the arc, which is really kind of what I've always felt on my life, I felt
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this kind of Noah calling on my life that God's like, Hey, listen, a flood is coming.
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And if, and if you can build the arc, then you can at least save as many of those jobs
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But if you don't build the arc, then the flood just wipes everything out.
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Let me, let me interrupt you on that because I believe, I mean, I'm developing some things
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with AI and I've been on this for a very long time as well.
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Um, and, uh, I believe you're absolutely right that you have to get, you know, you have to
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Um, however you, you, you have to, you can't dismiss it.
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You have to, I think, use some of the skills that it has in a positive way.
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Cause I think it could, it, it will enhance as long as you don't surrender to it, it will
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So are you talking about, you know, building something that has no use for AI and it's just
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this Island, or are you saying that we'll use it, but we'll use it in ethical ways and
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we'll never allow it, uh, to become the master.
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So I'm a firm believer and have been for many years that, you know, philosophically, you
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You can only hope to guide it that, that is the bottom line, right?
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So it would be folly to look at new technology that, by the way, is going to do some really
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Example being we're at the brink of nearly having our ear pods, you know, Apple, I think
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will start, but other companies will be right behind it.
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If not simultaneously, you will have real, real time language translation.
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That's something that as a human race, we've all been wanting really since, I mean, since
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The ability for all of us to be able to communicate across the world, no language barriers whatsoever.
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Now, that's going to absolutely displace what is a smaller, let's say, industry of
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It's not, there are many translators in the world, but it's not the biggest industry, let's
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And I think we have to be very conscious about trying to rehome them in other jobs.
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You always have to ask yourself, is the juice worth the squeeze?
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Is it ultimately worth it for the betterment of all of us, right?
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We must embrace AI, but we must do it in as ethical a way as possible and be mindful of
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Now, when it comes to entertainment, there's going to be all kinds of ways that we can implement
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AI to make the process more efficient, more enjoyable.
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And I have every intention of utilizing AI like that.
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I don't vilify it writ large, but I think that we must be very mindful about how we implement
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it in still holding on to human creativity, human art and entertainment is at the brink.
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But I also believe, with Wildwood example being, I think that not only is it necessary to prevent,
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let's say, the extinction of human art and entertainment, but there's also a market opportunity
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in this because similar to vinyl, for example, you know, once upon a time, all music, we all
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And then the cassette tape came out and everyone said, oh, well, I don't need vinyl anymore.
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I'm going to go with these little, you know, rectangular plastic, you know, cassette tapes
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Even more people left vinyl and then streaming.
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And now even more people have left vinyl, but the people that held on the people that
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Yes, everyone is going to zig, but I'm going to zag.
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I'm going to keep printing vinyl because I believe that there's something special about
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And sure enough, vinyl sales have gone up because people are looking for something that's more
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human, more tangible, more slightly imperfect with a little crackle, a little, you know,
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So what, why would, that's what we intend to do.
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We intend to hold on to, we're not, I'm not trying to, I can't save the entire industry.
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That's impossible, but I'm going to try and save as many jobs as I can.
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And in doing so provide audiences, the alternative.
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And I think a lot of people are going to be looking for that alternative.
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So Zach, I, cause I, I'd like you, I've been on this for a long time and I have put
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a lot of thought into, because my job is, uh, you know, at stake, everybody's job is
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it's, um, and I've always felt, well, there's something special about humans that we have
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a different sense to us, but I don't know if you heard, there was a study done of, I
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think a hundred thousand songs and, uh, and they did, you know, what's called hook testing
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to see which tested the best, the, I think it was seven out of the top 10 were AI and
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people didn't know it was AI seven out of the top 10.
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We used to say AI couldn't, you know, art can never be done.
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So what is it that, that you think is going to be unique quickly?
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I mean, I believe that there is going to be a huge draw back to handmade individual, you
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know, when, uh, when, uh, machines came out and you had factories and they started producing
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They wanted one that was from the factory, but now handmade is the best of the best.
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Uh, so there's going to be a, uh, renaissance, if you will, of handmade and human made stuff.
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But what is it right now that will bridge this gap that humans can do that you don't
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Well, I think that, you know, obviously live performance, that's going to be huge, right?
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So people in this, in this rebound effect of people saying, ah, you know, it just flooded
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A lot of people are going to say, oh, I want something authentic, right?
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And in fact, there's been studies done where, um, you know, just from an energy level,
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like, you know, as humans, we, we have, uh, we, we produce an energy when we have various
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If you're sad, depressed, angry, and there's higher, um, energies when you're joyful and
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happy and you feel love, but there's an energy even higher than love as they've tested.
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That is the highest energetic level that we can all reach.
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So live performance obviously is going to be that, uh, sports is going to have a big, a
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lot of people are, you know, uh, investing in, in, in sports and live performance because
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that is going to hold on the longest, at least as long as long as let's say, you know, um,
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robots and holograms, that's going to start to kind of eat into that market a little
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We'll see how long that goes, but, but ultimately I have to tell you, may I say, may, may I say
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Have you been to London and seen the ABBA experience?
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I haven't, but I've, I'm very well aware of it and I've heard it's incredible and that's
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And I said, I didn't tell my daughter who was a teenager at the time, you know, 17 years
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And two songs into it, I said, do you think they're real?
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And the first couple of songs, my son, who was probably 18, 17 at the time, kept looking
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And I mean, everything is about to just turn upside down.
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Well, yeah, it's already, it's like in front of our eyes, it's happening already.
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And, and, and I am not one of those people, many people that I talked to, you know, a common
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pushback that I get is people saying, well, it will never be able to fully replicate, let's
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say, you know, human emotion or, you know, we'll always be able to tell.
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We ourselves, no, we are amalgamations of everything that we've taken in, right?
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So we're, we are, we ourselves are kind of LLMs.
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We scrape information from our parents, our community, people around us, the, you know,
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the internet, whatever we're learning all the time.
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And then we are replicating from the things that we learn AI is doing that and it's doing
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And we're very, very close to it becoming a GI general intelligence, which is then just
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And it will be then at that point, it will be more intelligent and more capable than not
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It will be more capable and more intelligent than the sum of all humanity.
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So we're stepping into some insane, insane territory.
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And when you start, you know, powering video agents like Google and others that will, that
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will keep popping up, it's terrifying to, to acknowledge that a lot of people just don't,
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they were trying, they're kind of burying their head in the sand and saying, no, no, no,
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At that point, I think that what we have to, and what I'm hoping that Trump and the
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administration are going to be working on in earnest is legislation that at the very
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least requires all content that is AI generated to be watermarked, right?
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So that therefore we know we can say, okay, I can't tell the difference.
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I don't know the difference, but just by looking and listening to it, I can't tell if it's real
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humans doing this or not, the difference will be that there will be some kind of watermarking
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And therefore that is what people are going to be looking for.
00:32:50.020
In the same way, if you go to the supermarket and you're looking at blueberries and that
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these ones on the left look the same as the ones on the right, but there's packaging that
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I want the organic ones that aren't sprayed with glyphosate.
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I'm trying to make certified organic human made content for free range artists.
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That is what Wildwood Studios is going to be about.
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And also at Wildwood Studios, we're not just going to be making and really focusing and
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dedicated to making human film, television, music, and video games, but also providing
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amphitheaters and live performance venues so that it's a one-stop shop.
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So people can really know when they go there, they support us.
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And anything we can do to help you at Wildwood, let me know, please.
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I mean, there's a ton of great movies and everything else.
00:33:50.480
You're streaming the best of the Glenn Beck program, and you can find full episodes
00:33:56.960
So Elon Factor, Elon Factor, Elon Musk is leaving Washington, D.C. today.
00:34:11.020
In fact, many of us believed that there was no way this was going to end well with him
00:34:23.220
How are these two strong individuals going to get along?
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And we're losing today one of the few individuals in our time that is willing and has been willing
00:34:40.840
Here's a guy that when he, you know, when they were talking about, I think it was the X Prize,
00:34:49.360
about, you know, making rockets for NASA, he went to NASA, this is early on, and they said,
00:34:58.260
And what kind of money do you want this to come into?
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What's your goal that I could hit that would make it affordable for you?
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And he's like, well, there's got to be a budget.
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And he really, really, it bothered him a great deal.
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And so here's a guy who comes in, reinvents absolutely everything,
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and then goes to Washington because he actually believes in something,
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I mean, I don't know of anybody that has been this vilified, you know,
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so vital to progress and what humans are experiencing and going through
00:35:57.880
I don't think I've ever seen anybody do that and been this vilified.
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In fact, when he said, because he believed something,
00:36:17.800
And all he was fighting for was the freedom to invent,
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and also the freedom to remain free by not becoming a slave
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to an out-of-control government and out-of-control waste
00:36:48.380
I mean, think if I would have said to you six years ago,
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and you're going to see it instead of just casting into the ocean.
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It's going to reignite, and it's going to come down in control,
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and we're going to just grab it out of the sky.
00:37:05.020
Not only did he do that, he thought that crap up.
00:37:11.160
Here's a guy who completely thinks out of the box.
00:37:17.000
restoring capability that we had already given away.
00:37:23.960
dragging it unwillingly into the 21st century with electric vehicles
00:37:28.380
that shattered the idea that sustainability has to come
00:37:34.420
Here's a guy who, remember, the big three didn't want him around.
00:37:38.580
He had to break that entire system, and look what happened.
00:37:42.380
Then he took a brand-new platform, a speech that was supposed to free us up,
00:37:50.540
and it had become oppressive, ossified, monopolized.
00:37:54.900
It became the public square, and what did he do?
00:37:59.580
He went in, bought it with his own money, and was like,
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Cracked it open and gave us, again, raw, uncomfortable at times,
00:38:15.040
And now with Grok and AI, he's fighting to ensure that the machines of tomorrow
00:38:19.140
are actually aligned with not centralized power, but with human liberty.
00:38:26.500
But for all of this, all of this that would earn anyone
00:38:32.720
a chapter in the history books of the history of man,
00:38:45.680
He has endured the public efforts all around the world to ruin him,
00:38:51.640
coordinated efforts to deplatform, demonetize, to destroy.
00:39:03.800
All the while, he just keeps on doing what he does.
00:39:19.200
Without getting angry, without being vengeful, spiteful, any of it,
00:39:32.180
Real high personal risk, high stakes, sleepless nights, relentless attacks,
00:39:45.700
We have a few great symbols that we didn't have 20 years ago.
00:39:49.580
We have some great symbols of real leaders, real examples of courage and innovation that we didn't have.
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I mean, history is riddled with people like this.
00:40:17.240
Galileo was, you know, imprisoned because he was telling the truth too early.
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Winston Churchill, because he was telling the truth too early.
00:40:26.320
Nobody, I mean, he was cast aside until people realized, oh, the barbarians are at the gates.
00:40:33.260
These are people that saw over the horizon, saw the storms of life, or saw what was capable of being.
00:40:41.880
They came, they spoke up, and they paid dearly for it.
00:40:56.200
That means you stood for something in your life.
00:40:58.840
Elon Musk, as he stood up again and again, technological sovereignty, speech, enterprise, for the radical, dangerous idea that the individual, not the institution, should shape the future.
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I think there's going to be a time, and hopefully it's not too far in the future, when the heat has cooled and politics have moved on, that society will acknowledge not only what he's done, what he's given, but the sacrifice that he just went through.
00:41:36.720
But that'll happen, you know, at a time when the real effects of everything, I mean, when the future that he is helping shape right now, better or worse, is really taking root.
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That's when he'll be recognized, once this nonsense is over.
00:42:00.880
The thing I like about him, he never asked us to trust him, he never asked for our loyalty, but I think he does deserve our respect, you know?
00:42:12.020
I don't care what side of that, I don't care who you voted for.
00:42:16.680
How do you not recognize what this man has done for humanity, especially if you're somebody who believes in global warming, what he's done for humanity, what he is still trying to do, the incredible strides that he has made, and the bravery that it has taken for him just to stand up.
00:42:36.840
I remember, he walked away from his side, didn't expect his side to leave him, but once he had a different opinion of theirs, they just abandoned him.
00:42:46.600
He lost all of his friends, he lost everything.
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So today, as he is leaving, I would like to say, Elon Musk, thank you.
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You didn't play the game, you changed the game.
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Thank you for reminding me and so many other Americans that progress has never come in polite little packages.
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