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00:00:00.000 We've got a great podcast for you. We start with Ilhan Omar, the congresswoman, and her connections

00:00:07.980 to really bad people, which is a special we're doing tonight on The Blaze TV. Yeah, you can

00:00:13.760 check that out at blazetv.com, and you can use the promo code BEC to save 10 bucks to subscribe,

00:00:18.740 but you should be subscribing already, and then you get to watch this show and so many others.

00:00:22.000 This one's really, really important, and it's just part one of this. We've got other people

00:00:26.000 to expose. Also, AOC's welfare call, she actually was talking about the welfare queens that President 0.99

00:00:36.740 Reagan, who was a racist because he was talking about this group of people. Well, no, he wasn't.

00:00:43.820 He was actually talking about one person in particular, and Pat brought that to play today.

00:00:49.040 Yep, also go into parenting and your dating. Dating, your daughter beginning to date as

00:00:56.220 one of our researchers. This had happened recently, and that's a scary, scary thought.

00:01:00.600 Lindsey Graham has a new red flag gun confiscation bill, and the anti-capitalism talk at South by

00:01:09.960 Southwest. How is that playing in Silicon Valley? And the meaning of all of this change with AI

00:01:18.240 from an insider in Silicon Valley. You don't want to miss today's podcast.

00:01:29.480 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:37.740 I want to bring in Jason Buttrill, who is our chief researcher and a guy that has worked with me

00:01:46.840 for a very long time. And quite honestly, we're starting to find some things that are really spooky

00:01:53.980 as hell. And I want to talk to you a little bit about socialism, because we found something,

00:02:00.780 you know, when we were at Fox, we always talked about top down, bottom up, inside out. And we talked

00:02:05.100 about how they did it to Hungary. Well, Hungary, actually, I don't know how we missed this.

00:02:10.340 Hungary was not the first place the socialists tried it, the communists, and they started calling

00:02:16.080 themselves socialists intentionally and changed language. The first place they flipped was

00:02:22.840 Czechoslovakia, and they did it within three years. And it was a pro-free market civilization 0.86

00:02:30.980 that wanted nothing to do with communism. And they flipped it behind the Iron Curtain in three years.

00:02:38.580 We've just found something that was never supposed to come out from behind the Iron Curtain.

00:02:45.020 And we found the the original plan on how to do it. And you are not going to believe

00:02:53.940 how much of it has already been done here in just the last few years. Also, at that care thing in

00:03:01.120 Chicago, this weekend, who is the Tlaib? Tlaib. Tlaib. She was speaking at the at the the care

00:03:14.560 convention or hearing or whatever it was. And she was one of the keynote speakers. And she was talking

00:03:21.280 about how, you know, we're here now, and we are in Congress and yada, yada, yada. And it was a pretty

00:03:31.120 powerful, pretty powerful speech. They also have had a plan on how to infiltrate and take the nation

00:03:39.300 through Hamas and Hezbollah. And we've told you about this for a long time. However, we I believe we are in 0.99

00:03:48.120 a very dangerous state. Even Rahm Emanuel in Chicago is saying, you, you have to sanction,

00:03:56.640 you have to sanction these people, because it's getting really bad. Tonight at five o'clock,

00:04:05.020 we're going to begin a dialogue with you on just Congresswoman Omar. And what we have found on

00:04:12.900 Congressman Omar is should wake you up. If you are a Democrat, and I don't mean a Democrat in

00:04:22.040 Washington, I just mean an average Democrat, and you care about your country. You need to watch this

00:04:28.620 you if you have a friend who's a Democrat, you have a friend who is Jewish, you have a friend who's not 0.99

00:04:36.100 an anti Semite should be all of them. Send this episode to them. This is a very important episode. 1.00

00:04:46.360 Jason, give me the just give us the headlines of, of what we've what we're going to reveal tonight and

00:04:54.200 how we're putting it together. So when you first, when we first are talking about Omar, I, I just wanted

00:05:01.160 to like see like, I was trying to find out where the origin of her anti Semitism was. So we just

00:05:05.720 started looking at that. And the more and more I got into looking at that, her like entire like story

00:05:11.820 is this weird, like spiral of crazy town. Yeah, we, we have to start the show tonight. And, and what's

00:05:19.440 crazy is we have to start with something that is not verified. And I hate doing that. But the AP has

00:05:27.420 done investigations and the AP says this isn't right far as there's something wrong here. And it leads

00:05:36.080 us to believe these things, but we can't verify any of them because she has, she has deleted all of it,

00:05:45.080 or she is, she won't answer any questions on it. But there's some crazy things on how she and her 0.69

00:05:54.840 family got into America that really need to be cleared up. Yeah, there's a, then that's just one

00:06:01.120 there's, we're going to look at three different things that are not verified right now that if it

00:06:06.160 hit anybody else, this, they, it would be like national scandals. It'd be plastered all over the

00:06:10.980 media. There'd be investigative journalists at the New York times, Washington posts all over this.

00:06:15.120 I know they would. These are big. And especially like she refuses to answer to any of these scandals. 1.00

00:06:21.420 And not only that, she's actually gone in and looks like deleted evidence that would have proved it

00:06:27.840 otherwise. And there is evidence really good solid evidence as the AP is. I mean, we're not just taking

00:06:35.120 this from blog sites or something. We are looking at it and what is the closest to verified. And even the AP

00:06:42.700 says, this is really pretty strong stuff here. And she keeps deleting these things.

00:06:52.180 The perjury that she has committed on the way she or her brother or her husband came into the country.

00:07:03.200 She testified on something and we have evidence tonight. That's an absolute total lie. And she knows it.

00:07:09.840 And we're not the only ones who have said this, but we're probably now the biggest ones to say this.

00:07:15.480 And you need to see it because in the next chapter and the tonight's episode, in the second tier,

00:07:23.940 we go into her connections to Hamas, Hezbollah, you know, care, all of these really, really dark

00:07:34.380 organizations.

00:07:35.120 And yeah, you talked about infiltration into the government. I've never, I've been looking at this

00:07:41.500 for a while and I've never seen it at the level that it is now. There was a, there was a shot of

00:07:47.480 Linda Sarsour with a group of men last week when they went to go support Omar when this vote was

00:07:55.700 going down, the anti-Semitism vote.

00:07:56.980 So I sent, I sent Jason, a video that I found of Linda Sarsour and this group of men going in to

00:08:05.520 Congresswoman Omar's office. And it was really odd. And there was a, I think a former Muslim woman

00:08:15.040 from the Middle East who was videotaping it or she had her phone and she was like, what are you doing?

00:08:20.320 What are you doing? And they're blocking her. And they obviously knew who she was and she knew who

00:08:25.900 they were, but I didn't know. And I sent it to Jason and I said, Jason, look at this. What's

00:08:32.420 happening here? Who are these people?

00:08:34.980 I don't know if I should say now who that was, because I don't want to spoil like this. This is

00:08:39.440 insane. But the main person that's there, let's just say he has been outed in court documents.

00:08:45.200 He has been labeled as the FBI, by the FBI as someone that supports, uh, in a roundabout way,

00:08:52.580 terrorism. Yeah. Uh, yes. Like it's fully documented the organization that he's, that he is the head of.

00:08:59.620 Um, I don't know why people aren't talking about it today as far as what, how they were established

00:09:05.080 and what their end game is, what their goal is. Everyone just seems to have forgotten. And I just

00:09:10.860 can't believe it. Like I would, if I was the FBI or DOJ, I would be starting an investigation

00:09:14.660 today. This is weird because I was, uh, I was listening to CNN today. They didn't talk about

00:09:20.440 this at all. They did mention, however, that Donald Trump had a picture taken with a person

00:09:27.100 who ran the spa chain that Robert Kraft went to. Oh my gosh. Um, now she didn't, she doesn't 0.79

00:09:34.620 currently run it, but she ran it, she opened it and then sold it. And she hasn't been working

00:09:38.660 there for a long time, but that is unfrickin' believable. When you see this, when you see

00:09:44.240 this tonight, when you see this, you, you will be much more angry at the mainstream media

00:09:51.560 than you already are because this is locked down with an exception of the opening segment,

00:09:58.340 which I will clearly say this part, we don't know because we can't get the information because

00:10:05.640 she keeps deleting it. But we give you the, a very strong case and a very strong case, uh,

00:10:13.940 that is verifiable that she committed perjury on her way, uh, in front of an immigration court.

00:10:20.900 Um, and it's, it's 100% verifiable. So when we show that, and then we come back after the break

00:10:29.180 and show you the second part, I'm telling you, you are going to know when, when the president

00:10:35.620 says, uh, the press is the enemy of the people. I I'm uncomfortable with that. I don't like that

00:10:42.520 language, but when you look at what's happening here and they are focused on somebody who owned

00:10:48.540 a spa years before anything bad happened to it. And Donald Trump took a picture with that woman.

00:10:55.980 They are the enemy of the people. They're the enemy of the Republic because they're not

00:11:01.000 doing their job. If we had a bunch, I don't care if they were the best, uh, of pilots in the world,

00:11:08.640 the best fighter pilots in the world. If they were sitting on their bunks while a squad of F-16s from

00:11:16.540 any other dangerous country were flying in. If we had a bunch of guys, the best in the world

00:11:23.740 sitting at NORAD and they saw missiles launched from North Korea. And they were like, you know

00:11:30.020 what guys, did you see what Donald Trump tweeted last week? And they were, they decided to go play

00:11:36.360 games. I would say they were the enemy of the United States. Well, that's the kind of misconduct

00:11:44.600 that is happening right now. And that's just on this one topic. I want to come back and talk to

00:11:52.400 Jason about socialism. Uh, and what we also found this weekend that is mind boggling.

00:12:00.680 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:12:11.780 She does. She was out at the, uh, South by Southwest and they loved her. Oh my loved her.

00:12:19.100 You know, that CNN panel we played for you last week. Uh, they all said none of them wanted Joe

00:12:24.760 Biden for president. Every one of them. Well, there are only six, but still all of them love

00:12:32.180 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She's just so great in the future of the party. Really? She's wrong on 0.86

00:12:39.960 everything. She is so ignorant on, on virtually every single issue. Here's what she said at South

00:12:47.940 by Southwest about Ronald Reagan. This is amazing. I think a perfect example of how special interests

00:12:55.920 and the powerful have pitted white working class Americans against brown and black working class

00:13:05.940 Americans in order to just screw over all working class Americans. The unions, is she going to put 1.00

00:13:11.060 unions here? I assume is, um, you're going to be surprised. No, she's not Reaganism in the eighties

00:13:17.860 when he started talking about welfare Queens, right? So you think about this image, welfare Queens,

00:13:22.820 think about that. And what he was really trying to talk about was he's painting this photo. He's

00:13:28.240 painting this like really resentful vision of essentially, uh, black women who were doing

00:13:35.360 nothing that were sucks on our country. Right. And it's this whole tragedy of the commons type of

00:13:43.920 thinking, thinking where it's like, because these one, this one specific group of people that you

00:13:50.240 were already kind of subconsciously primed to resent, you give them a different reason. That's

00:13:57.440 not explicit racism, but still rooted in a racist caricature. Um, it gives people a logical re a

00:14:04.480 logical reason to say, Oh yeah, no, toss out the whole social safety net. Okay. She's so wrong on 0.86

00:14:12.560 everything. Now, what she doesn't mention is that Ronald Reagan wasn't even talking about a group of

00:14:18.800 people. He was talking about one specific person and giving an example of how in some cases the

00:14:25.200 welfare system is completely out of control. He was talking about Linda Taylor. He never mentioned

00:14:31.360 her by name, but that's who this was. Uh, he said, there's a woman in Chicago. She has 80 names, 0.95

00:14:40.480 30 addresses, 12 social security cards, and she's collecting veterans benefits on four

00:14:46.320 non-existing deceased husbands. Uh, he said, and she's collecting social security on her cards.

00:14:53.040 She's got Medicaid getting food stamps, and she's collecting welfare under each of her 80 names. 0.59

00:14:59.360 Oh my gosh. Her tax-free cash income alone is over $150,000. This is in the eighties.

00:15:07.040 1976, 76, 1976. She's like 500 grand or more. And the woman was mostly white. She was not black. 0.54

00:15:17.920 She claimed to be black a few times. No, no. She had a Native American heritage. 1.00

00:15:22.160 Alexandria knows best. I'm telling you, she knows best.

00:15:26.480 I, it's, she's so dangerous because people are responding to her. Well, listen to this. Uh,

00:15:32.960 for anybody who, for anybody who says that they're not gonna get rid of, they're socialists. That's,

00:15:40.000 that's a different kind of socialism than in Venezuela.

00:15:43.360 Layla. I want you to hear what she said this weekend about capitalism. Here it is.

00:15:48.880 Um, isn't to me is it's an ideology of capital. It puts capital. The most important thing is the

00:15:58.160 concentration of capital. Yep. And it means that we seek and prioritize profit and the accumulation

00:16:06.880 of money above all else. Yes. And we seek it at any environmental cost. Yes. That is what that

00:16:15.280 means. That's what that means. That ideology is not sustainable. Not. It's not. Right. Well,

00:16:21.360 if that's what, hang on just a second, look deeply into her eyes. She knows best. That's what

00:16:28.560 capitalism means to her. Yeah. Well, that's not what capitalism actually means. Although it's based on

00:16:35.040 capital. I got that because it's part of the word capitalism. Right. Right. Yes. I like the part

00:16:41.200 where, cause I mean, how many times in our secret meetings of capitalists have we discussed the idea

00:16:45.840 that we want to enrich a few people at any human cost? Any, it's almost on our, of our bumper stickers.

00:16:51.520 Yeah. Yeah. It's just such an obvious thing. It's the first thing said at all of our, um,

00:16:56.400 based on capital meaning. Yeah. We all repeat it at any human or an environmentalist cost.

00:17:01.680 It's like, in fact, we like it better when it hurts people. Yeah. That's it. It's more fun that

00:17:07.360 way. It makes the money sweeter. It does. It tastes just a little better. They say blood diamonds are

00:17:12.480 bad. Blood diamonds. Oh, blood capital is the way to go. Blood money is delicious. I love it. I mean,

00:17:19.840 it's so ridiculous. How can anybody take her seriously? But they do. They do. They do. Listen to this.

00:17:25.360 They do. This is a new poll. Uh, this is from, um, Axios. Uh, generation Z has more positive view

00:17:35.440 of the word socialism than previous generation along with millennials. It's because they don't 0.86

00:17:40.720 know what social, you don't want to know what socialism is Venezuela. It's the new diet plan.

00:17:47.280 It's sweeping the world. You'll lose a hundred pounds in 60 days. They are more likely to embrace 1.00

00:17:55.680 socialist policies and principles than any past generation. Government should provide universal

00:18:01.760 health care. Millennials and generation Z 73%. Just so you know, the whole population is now 66.7.

00:18:15.760 You want to talk about moving the Overton window. When we talked about this 10 years ago and said,

00:18:23.440 they're moving to a single payer system. They're moving to a government run system. We were crazy.

00:18:30.320 We were crazy. That will never happen. Racist government should provide tuition free college. 1.00

00:18:37.360 The average person 56.2 over 50% say yes.

00:18:45.040 Wow. Millennials in general and generation Z 67%.

00:18:50.800 Jeez.

00:18:51.360 I prefer living in a socialist country 37% general population 49% millennial and generation Z.

00:19:00.240 And 37% is way too high. Way too high for the general population.

00:19:05.280 Go for it. Go for it. They're all looking for new people to support their system. Socialist

00:19:09.920 countries are more than happy to welcome you if you have any money at all to pay for any of the

00:19:13.840 programs because they're all in desperate trouble and then need, need more money. So they're going to

00:19:18.960 have, they'll welcome you if you want to go to one. Just don't screw our thing up.

00:19:21.920 Uh, support abolishing ice 29.7 for the general population, millennial and generation Z 43.1.

00:19:32.880 Ava September 11th, and you'll see how much you enjoy it. High earnings result of free enterprise,

00:19:38.960 67% of the general, uh, millennial and generation Z is 71%.

00:19:45.600 That's reversed on that one, by the way. Uh, go on. Uh, the, the average population thinks,

00:19:51.040 uh, free enterprises helping with wealth, uh, more than the younger generations, all the other

00:19:58.640 ones that you're reading that backwards. Cause we have a, that's why, uh, oh, you're kidding.

00:20:03.760 Yeah. Right. So this one is actually, again, once again, the average population is saying,

00:20:08.400 wait a minute. Okay. Yeah. Free enterprise is a good thing leading to positive things, high earnings.

00:20:12.720 Yes. And what is, what do the millennials think high earnings are a result of, uh,

00:20:18.800 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's will? I don't know. Government should allow, should allow private

00:20:25.200 insurance. Only 78% of millennials and no 78% of the general public. If you see the darker line there,

00:20:34.720 says, yes, 78% the general public does agree with that. That's it. I mean, that's an amazing,

00:20:41.360 uh, uh, the, the bottom line here, I guess, is if you look at this stuff is that, you know,

00:20:47.360 there always has been this situation where you start off as you're younger, right. And you embrace

00:20:53.840 these sort of ridiculous ideas. And as over time with life experience, you wind up becoming more

00:21:00.400 conservative, right? Like we've seen that. It used to be the thing of no one goes the other way.

00:21:04.800 You don't start off really conservative and then wind up being liberal. It's very rare for that to

00:21:09.440 occur. As we see here, I mean, the further we get down this road, even if they back off from

00:21:16.080 some of these claims, they're still socialists, right? They're still so far past what the American

00:21:21.280 people. And, and for the generation Z and the millennials, they, uh, first of all,

00:21:26.960 the education system has warmed them up to socialism. No, it doesn't warm them up. It is.

00:21:32.160 It is served them. It's put them on. Yes. And they're on fire for it now. And, and the other thing

00:21:37.520 is they haven't seen socialism at its worst in their lifetime, except Venezuela, Venezuela. And

00:21:42.880 they're told Venezuela is not a good example of socialism. Look at Denmark. I want to, I want

00:21:48.720 someone on the staff dedicated. I don't care if it takes a week. I want somebody on the staff dedicated

00:21:53.120 to going back and looking for every single celebrity that said this great socialist system

00:21:59.280 in Venezuela, where the hell are they? Yeah. Where are they now? Where are they? Those people

00:22:04.080 are now starving on Penn. Yeah. That, that held this all up as great socialism and the, and what we

00:22:11.840 should have. Yeah. I do not want people to forget who brought that misery onto people. Do you know

00:22:17.840 that 17 children died this weekend because the hospital, they were in neonatal care and the

00:22:24.800 hospital lost electricity? Yeah. The whole city one hospital, right? That was just one hospital.

00:22:30.560 Yeah. One of the hospitals, 17 children died. What, what is, where are you, Danny Glover? Where are you,

00:22:39.360 Sean Penn? Where are you? All you Hollywood phonies that say, this is what we should have. Oh,

00:22:46.000 well, maybe they just didn't do it right this time. Well, you know, Hitler didn't do socialism right 0.91

00:22:52.160 either. Neither did Mussolini. Neither did Franco. Neither did Stalin. Neither did Pol Pot. Neither

00:22:59.440 than Mao. I mean, how many more do you need? You're talking about taking away the free market. Do you know

00:23:08.560 why they ran out of electricity? Because the country that is the most oil rich in the world,

00:23:16.080 couldn't deliver any oil? Hmm. Why? Because the government said they could do it better than the

00:23:24.960 private sector. And that's what you get. Yeah, that's what you get. And in the middle of that is

00:23:33.280 when we're seeing this rise of socialism here in the United States. It's incredible. It's incredible

00:23:38.080 that that is happening at the same time. You've got 15 candidates running for president in the United

00:23:44.160 States. And I mean, by any measure, other than right now, at least 12, 13, 14 of them will be

00:23:49.920 considered socialists. I mean, now they're only probably only what three or four will admit to that

00:23:56.080 or cop to that. They might praise Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but only, you know, the Bernies of the world are 0.96

00:24:01.280 really going to admit to it fully. I mean, Elizabeth Warren, I don't even think claims to be a democratic

00:24:06.320 socialist. But still, I mean, by any measure of any time, these people, you'd be at least half this field,

00:24:14.160 half this field was whitewashed by the Obama administration. Half this field was brought in

00:24:20.640 and whitewashed, made to look, okay, they're all fine. They're all fine. Don't worry. They're not

00:24:25.900 crazy radicals. That's what, that's the real legacy of Barack Obama. That is the thing that history will

00:24:37.120 go back and look at. They will look at, he opened this door for the radical socialist Marxist to come

00:24:45.120 through. And they did. And they set up shop. They knew exactly what they were doing. And they set up

00:24:51.400 shop. And we're sitting around like a bunch of dummies. Oh, gee, I think maybe, well, I don't know.

00:24:58.680 They don't say they're really socialist. They really want Sweden. Watch what you're saying

00:25:05.800 with we, right? I mean, like not this audience. The country. You were saying it. We said that every

00:25:10.360 night. I know. The country is sitting around saying mainly our democratic neighbors and friends.

00:25:18.760 These guys, they are putting their head in the sand. And it is becoming, when you have

00:25:26.340 Rahm Emanuel standing up and saying, guys, you're, you need to censure these people and they're

00:25:33.460 Democrats. When Rahm Emanuel says you have to censure these people and they don't. Rahm Emanuel is not

00:25:42.880 exactly a mainstream guy. We didn't think of him as mainstream 10 years ago. Now he's, now he's out.

00:25:54.200 He's the voice of reason. He's the voice of reason. Hard to believe.

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00:26:45.060 this next, um, season here before summer. We are, we are going to be exposing and connecting the dots

00:26:52.840 like we used to at Fox and show you what's really going on tonight. Uh, Congresswoman

00:26:59.820 Omar and her, the history of her life and who she's connected to and nothing to see here.

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00:28:42.260 up onto who these people are. There are really dangerous people. And tonight it just happens to

00:28:51.240 be, uh, Congress, Congresswoman Omar. And so he's been dealing with this. And at the same time

00:28:57.880 dealing with your daughter, can I bring this up? Yes. Dealing with your daughter who is, um,

00:29:05.380 who's dating. You know, you've had me look into some very scary things before. Yes. And I've like

00:29:12.120 walked away from work with a just complete pale face. Right. And that pales inconsiderate, you know,

00:29:16.940 you were, you were actually in and around when the hairy back guy after nine 11 was interrogated.

00:29:24.360 Yeah. So you've, you've been around some spooky things. Doesn't even compare. Not at all. Yeah.

00:29:29.340 Yeah. I, my, my daughter now, she turned 16, uh, back in December and I was like, okay, this was how

00:29:35.620 it went for me. Like my mom said that you can date when you're 16 years old. Yes. That was a huge,

00:29:40.560 like, you know, pivot point in my life. So I was like, you know, I'm going to, I'm going to give

00:29:43.960 that to her too. She, you know, I trust her, you know, she's very responsible. It was 16. And, um,

00:29:50.500 so I was like, okay, fine. But I, you know, that's one of the things you just kind of say,

00:29:53.140 but you don't even really think it's going to happen soon. Yeah. But lo and behold,

00:29:56.860 two weeks ago happened. And, uh, so I had a rule, right? I had, I had a rule, but I didn't,

00:30:03.900 I didn't, you had a rule. I had a rule of how this was supposed to play out. I just didn't

00:30:08.360 properly like convey it, I guess. Cause I was just kind of like, okay, yeah, you can date

00:30:12.240 now, but I didn't fully go into it. All right. But, um, the rule was supposed to be, yes,

00:30:17.660 you can date. If the gentleman comes to the house, I meet him, hands are shaken.

00:30:22.700 A gentleman. Uh, yeah, very lightly, you know, but, um, but so that, that was supposed to be

00:30:29.740 the rule. Well, I get a call from a very nervous wife, um, a couple of weeks ago, your wife from

00:30:36.020 my wife. And she's like, okay. Um, yeah, I don't know how to tell you this, but this is like a

00:30:41.240 Tuesday. And, uh, yeah, Alexa just went on her first date and I was like, what? Like, what do you

00:30:49.320 mean? She's going to go on like on Friday? Like, no, she goes, no, she's there now. And I was like,

00:30:54.840 what are you talking about? And she's like, well, apparently this, you know, boy asked her and

00:30:59.640 he's very, very hardworking. He works on the weekends. He couldn't come to the house, you

00:31:04.000 know, and do all that. So he just wanted to take her to a movie and like a coffee, you know, a quick

00:31:09.080 coffee, like right after the movie and we'll pick her up at like, like five. And I am just like

00:31:13.980 instantly, you know, as a dad, like your world just ended, you know, like everything just

00:31:19.180 stopped. So you didn't meet the boy. No, please tell me you were there to meet him when you

00:31:25.280 went to pick her up. All right. So critique me here. So this is how I handled it. I was

00:31:28.920 like, so I had this full speech ready to go when she got home. We'll get into that later.

00:31:32.940 But then like, so like we go to pick him up and, um, you know, I'm rocking my best. Like

00:31:38.620 I'm in a tank top, even though it was like 30 degrees outside, the windows down, gun oil,

00:31:43.980 on your hands. Yeah. Like, like you can't see this on radio, but like, you know, I'm

00:31:47.020 like kind of like doing the flex mode as I'm leaning on the window. And so like they're

00:31:52.480 sitting at this coffee shop. She knows I'm about to pull up. I pull up. And then my wife 0.90

00:31:56.760 is like hiding her eyes. Cause she's like nervous about what's about to happen. My son's in the

00:32:00.700 back seat cracking up and, uh, I see them. He looks over and I kind of like give him like

00:32:07.200 the little stink eye and he like kind of smiles and does a little wave. Turn my head 90 degrees

00:32:13.880 the other direction. You get out of that car, dude. You get out of the car. I like, but

00:32:21.120 see, I wanted to like, so I, I didn't want to embarrass her. Right. So I didn't want to

00:32:25.200 embarrass her at that point. First of all, that is a parent's number one job. Okay. You embarrass.

00:32:32.660 If you haven't said to your children, Hey, uh, you're going to a movie. Great. Uh, you can

00:32:40.780 go to the movie. Um, I'm just going to go and dance with a t-shirt that I made with your

00:32:47.580 face on it. That says my daughter, and I'm going to dance in the lobby in, uh, sandals

00:32:54.160 with white socks and shorts and then do it. Okay. So like I'm debating that strategy actually

00:33:01.200 as we're doing this, but, but I'm like, I don't, I don't, this was like very, very critical.

00:33:05.500 I saw this as a very, very like pivotal moment. So I'm like, I don't want to completely turn

00:33:09.740 her off, you know, and completely embarrass her cause I don't want to turn her against

00:33:12.800 me because she's 16. Like, I know you know all about this, but like there, this is, you

00:33:17.980 can never predict those emotions at that age. So you're getting, you're getting, you'll

00:33:21.600 get here. I can't predict emotions of my wife. That's true. Yeah. Um, but so anyway,

00:33:28.740 so we get home and I'm like, uh, you know, Alexa family room right now. And my wife's

00:33:34.160 following and I was like, okay, first off, I just want to say, I think it's really cool.

00:33:37.640 You know, that this, this boy asked you out. Second of all, it'll never happen this way

00:33:42.220 again. And I was like, this person has to meet me. He has, if he wants to take you out,

00:33:47.280 he has to come to the house. He has to come inside. We have to talk. I was like, I will

00:33:52.460 not make it embarrassing. I promise. I will not be cleaning a gun. Don't ever promise. Uh,

00:33:56.200 you know, at the same time, you're a fool, but, but I was like, but that's, but he was 0.50

00:34:01.520 like, but he's not going to want to date me if he does this. And I was like, and that

00:34:03.940 is exactly the thing, the type of person I'm trying to protect you. He's not willing to

00:34:08.140 do that. Nope. Right. Nope. It's no big deal. It's no big deal. It's common courtesy. Now

00:34:14.560 she said, but it's not, it doesn't work that way anymore. Dad. Like, well, it does in my

00:34:18.760 house. She said the fifties, but I was, I was, this was the early nineties for me. Does in

00:34:24.500 my house. Oh, you know what? Then you know what does work? When I pulled up, he should

00:34:31.020 have walked over to the car and introduced himself to me. Yeah. It shows me he's a, he's

00:34:35.760 a boy of poor character. Yeah. Well, I was giving him a ticket to the gun show. So I, maybe

00:34:40.700 he was a little bit intimidated at that point. I doubt it. I've seen you in a tank top, unfortunately,

00:34:45.100 and I don't think he was intimidated. You got it. Maybe in the military days, my friend,

00:34:48.900 you have military friends. You know, you were in military Intel. What is wrong with

00:34:55.100 you, man? Well, you do a psych op on, on, on this young boy. Well, I have an update.

00:35:00.900 It's no longer needed that to go to that step. Okay. Because a week goes by and I'm like,

00:35:06.440 you know, Alexa, I told you you're game on to do this. Like what's happened? She's like,

00:35:10.200 well, you know, make a long story short. He didn't want to come and do that. He didn't

00:35:15.160 want to come to the house and do the meetup. Wow. Did not want to do that. And I was like,

00:35:19.220 go back to him. Say, look, it's game on. My dad is cool. You know, like that's all it is. It'll

00:35:23.960 be really quick. It'll take literally 60 seconds and then you'll be out and we'll go do whatever.

00:35:29.340 He did not want to do it. So I like this was this past Friday. Uh, I mentioned it again. She goes,

00:35:36.240 dad, do not bring up the name of that boy. I do not want to talk about him. I never want to see him

00:35:40.340 again. I was like, this is what I was protecting you from. Listen to me. Good. So it did it. I

00:35:46.080 know. I think that the psyop was like the next step, but wasn't even needed. So if you're looking

00:35:51.500 into asking, it's always needed. It's always needed just for fun. You sound like there's

00:35:56.600 some experience. Uh, you had some experience. Oh, Oh me. No, no, no, no, no. I will tell you

00:36:02.900 that I knew who my daughter was going to marry because of, of she would, she would bring the

00:36:10.860 boy and the boy had to meet dad and, and everything else, you know, and then she goes

00:36:15.360 to college and when she's dating this boy, she doesn't tell me at all. She's dating him

00:36:21.360 for a while. She doesn't tell him who I am either. And, uh, so she's just like this, you

00:36:28.840 know, so your folks, you know, what's your dad do? Uh, you know, he's in business. It

00:36:35.800 was that kind of thing. She didn't say anything. He's an entrepreneur. He's an entrepreneur.

00:36:39.720 Oh, that's really cool. Until the night before she said, you have to go meet my dad. And then

00:36:47.100 she said, he was clueless. He was just clueless. He said, uh, okay, who's your dad? And she said,

00:36:53.300 Glenn Beck. And he said, okay, so who is he? And she said, Glenn Beck. And this is in New

00:37:01.340 York at the height of, you know, everybody saying I'm the antichrist. And, uh, she said

00:37:06.440 Glenn Beck. And he said, I, I don't know who that is. And she said, yes, you do. And he

00:37:11.920 said, no, I, I don't. And she's like, now she's getting offended. No, my dad's a big deal.

00:37:17.660 And so she's going off on this. So he says, it's no big deals. No big deal. He goes home

00:37:24.500 and he Googles. Oh no. Now he's up all night now because he's been Googling and it's me going

00:37:33.900 you little pinhead, get off my phone, all of that stuff. And he comes in and the, the, the 0.78

00:37:40.480 office doors open. This is when we had a corner office in, in Manhattan opens up. We have the

00:37:46.180 whole floor and right by the elevators are all these crazy pictures of me, you know,

00:37:51.920 life size of doing crazy things. And he's just, he's just like a scared rabbit. Now he

00:37:59.640 met you in the office. He met me in the office with the corner office, like overlooking New

00:38:04.000 York city. And I said, and I said, and I said, uh, I looked at because of, because my daughter

00:38:08.940 was so, because I had done all of the psyops before, um, my daughter was doing on him and

00:38:17.860 she, she comes in and she sits down and he sits down and I said, nice to meet you, Tim.

00:38:24.020 And he's like, yes, sir. Nice to meet you. And, and Hannah said, you know, I think I'm just

00:38:30.300 going to leave you two alone. And he looked at her like, good God, no, no, he's going to

00:38:34.520 throw me out of one of these windows. She left and we had a nice conversation and I didn't

00:38:40.020 have to do any of the, the, the operations that I had done before because I did them to

00:38:47.200 her early and she learned and she learned and she knew she prepared him for dad's going

00:38:54.960 to be, and I didn't have to be, I didn't have to be.

00:38:58.020 Thank you. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:39:13.320 Ronald Reagan said freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction. And he was

00:39:20.540 absolutely right. The question is, is it this generation? We told you earlier on the

00:39:27.960 program about the latest poll on socialism. It is polling wildly favorably with, uh, everyone

00:39:35.540 who is under 40. Um, we have people now that are talking about openly at South by Southwest

00:39:42.700 calling capitalism, uh, a failed experiment and that it has no future capitalism, the free

00:39:51.740 market system. That person is a Casio Cortez.

00:39:57.960 So we know about socialism. We know that, um, about 99%, I think it's like 97% of the American

00:40:11.120 population cannot name the five freedoms guaranteed in the first amendment, let alone the 10 amendments

00:40:21.600 in the bill of rights. Now, these are the things that the government cannot must not ever violate.

00:40:29.600 If we don't know them, we lose them. The second amendment is the one that everybody seems to

00:40:35.420 talk about, but they don't seem to understand the words thou shalt not or not thou shall not

00:40:42.020 shall not, the government shall not, uh, uh, infringe. See if this is an infringement.

00:40:50.840 Uh, they have announced now a red flag gun confiscation bill and the hearing is set for the end of this

00:40:59.900 month and they're looking for common ground. Now, when I say they've said it and looking for common

00:41:07.780 ground, they believe they can find it, who is it that's saying that it's the GOP. The GOP says that

00:41:16.960 they have a common sense red flag confiscation bill. They've set the hearing and when Lindsey Graham

00:41:28.620 announced it, he said that he had spoken with the president about the bill and that president Trump

00:41:35.660 is on board. Now, what is the bill? It's Senate bill number seven and it would use federal funds to

00:41:44.600 help States implement extreme risk protection orders. Now, what is that? Stu, what do you think

00:41:52.320 that is an extreme risk protection order? This is the sort of thing that was discussed about,

00:41:59.160 I want to say it was Parkland afterwards, because the idea is a lot of people had

00:42:05.360 an indication that this student may be a problem and everyone around him said, yeah, we knew he was

00:42:15.500 dangerous or there's nothing we could do about it. So this is, and that's not even true in the Parkland

00:42:19.460 shooting. That's not, I'm not saying it's true. Yeah. The school had the ability to do something.

00:42:24.120 They didn't. The, the, the, um, uh, the FBI had the ability to do something. They didn't. The police

00:42:31.680 had the ability to do something. They didn't. Right. Um, however, this is an idea that if there's

00:42:36.900 a bunch of people around you, uh, you could say, if we all think that, you know, this person is a,

00:42:42.540 he's a danger. He's got a lot of guns. He's making me nervous. So we could go into somehow the,

00:42:48.320 a judge, the government and say, Hey, this guy's a real problem. And hopefully they would look into it.

00:42:54.120 Okay. That's the theory behind the red flag. Yeah. Let me, let me tell you, uh, what the red flag

00:43:01.100 extreme protect risk protection order will actually do. If anyone is accused, anyone is accused of

00:43:12.200 committing a crime or thought to be of danger and has a weapon, they are taken away. The police will

00:43:23.140 be able to confiscate skate guns based on nothing more than hearsay of a disgruntled family member

00:43:30.380 or friend, or perhaps somebody who really does know. But how many times do you think

00:43:38.960 if you are a gun lover and you're getting a divorce and it's ugly, if you, let's say, are a gun lover

00:43:48.960 and you cheated on your spouse or you cheated on your girlfriend and she wants revenge? Do you think

00:43:56.360 there's a chance she might go to police and say, by the way, I just want you to know, I think he's a

00:44:02.780 danger. You don't have to be mentally ill. If you have an argument with a neighbor, they'll be able to

00:44:09.520 turn you in just saying, I think you might be, he might be dangerous and they have to go in and take

00:44:17.060 your weapons and they take them for a year. There's no oversight to this, no judge ruling on whether

00:44:26.540 this is a legitimate claim. Nope. They would be able to, uh, a judge would be allowed to take your

00:44:32.880 judge, your guns and suspend your second amendment rights for up to a year after they've been taken.

00:44:41.220 Um, but you don't even hear that side of the story. You don't, you don't, you're not,

00:44:46.880 you're not there. They're, they can take your guns. They listen to the person and they can keep your guns

00:44:54.240 for up to a year. This is what happened in Gary Willis in Maryland. It happened last year. An angry

00:45:00.720 family member wanted to get back at him after having an argument. He told police that he needed

00:45:05.040 to have his guns taken away. An officer showed up at five o'clock in the morning, demanded that he

00:45:10.680 surrender all of his firearms. He refused. A scuffle broke out and he was shot and killed by police.

00:45:18.120 He was never charged with anything. It was a disgruntled neighbor. And he's like, you can't come

00:45:25.540 into my house and just take my guns. This is a GOP bill. Instead of police or prosecutors having to go

00:45:37.320 to a judge and say somebody is mentally ill or they broke the law. The burden of proof is completely

00:45:46.240 shifted. It is now shifting to the gun owners having to prove that they are okay.

00:45:55.540 They have to prove after the guns have already been taken that they deserve to have their rights

00:46:02.700 back. The gun owner is not even invited to be at the hearing where the confiscation is first

00:46:09.660 declared. Imagine this without the rights. You'd have to prove your sanity before you were able to

00:46:14.700 speak freely. You, uh, you would have to prove you were worthy before things like, I mean, even like

00:46:20.160 voting, right? I mean, the whole point of the, I know it's, it's really hard to imagine a society

00:46:25.400 that says, let's say that you have to prove you're not a racist, um, because of something

00:46:31.660 that you tweeted or are you, you have to prove, uh, that you didn't, uh, sexually assault someone.

00:46:38.800 Um, but they claimed it online and the population has declared you a rapist or, or whatever.

00:46:47.600 It's institutionalizing what we have in like a Twitter mob culture.

00:46:52.520 Yes, it's exactly that.

00:46:54.340 It's very scary, especially when it comes to a constitutional right. I mean, again, like you're

00:46:59.140 not allowed to infringe this if you want to. Here's an idea where there, this is a situation

00:47:03.920 where a random person can start saying that you, they feel you're unstable and that right

00:47:09.040 goes away. Not because you've been convicted of something, not because they can just dislike

00:47:13.000 you, uh, you know, a doctor or say, you know, somebody has said at least with some authority

00:47:18.200 that you have a instability mentally, or you've been, you know, confined to an institution and

00:47:23.500 they take them first. Then they show you the case. That's not, I mean, that's, that's not

00:47:29.760 not be constitutional. It's, this is the Republicans. This is Lindsey Graham. I mean, I don't think

00:47:35.780 Lindsey Graham cares at all about the constitution. I mean, he, he's, you know, but I mean, if

00:47:39.400 that's our friends, right. Who needs enemies? Right. All right. There's another, imagine

00:47:44.600 what Bernie Sanders does as president of the United States. Oh, they, I mean, did you see

00:47:48.520 the, did you see the California rep that, that came out and said the only way to really

00:47:52.440 control, uh, guns is to, is to change the second amendment and ban all guns. And they're

00:47:58.440 now starting a petition to, to repeal the second amendment. Good for him. First of all, because

00:48:04.620 he's right. Yes. The only way to, uh, to, to infringe on people's gun ownership rights

00:48:10.000 is to repeal the second amendment. Now that's only the very beginning of that process. And

00:48:14.160 you're not going to like the other steps because then after that were to happen, uh, states

00:48:18.660 all over the place, would you put it in their state constitution and you'd have to pass a

00:48:21.920 whole nother, uh, yes, amendment that would ban. So you'd have to repeal and ban at the

00:48:27.420 same time, which would be even harder. Then you'd have a society with 400 million guns

00:48:32.540 on it with, let's say 300 million of them, uh, in the hands of people who have no intention

00:48:37.780 of giving them back to you. So good luck going door to door to collect 300 million guns around

00:48:44.700 this country. They won't do it though. They'll do it like they did in Germany, German. Remember 0.99

00:48:49.120 the German people, they, they were hunters. They went out and they shot their own food. There 1.00

00:48:53.740 were a lot of guns in Germany. So what did they do first? They did the national database.

00:48:58.220 So they knew exactly who had what guns. Then instead of confiscating, you had to turn them

00:49:04.980 in. Right. And it was, uh, it started out, I think is a 10 year penalty if you didn't.

00:49:10.820 And then after a few months, they gave you a warning and said, by the way, anyone seen with

00:49:18.340 a gun will be shot. No questions asked. So then those people who didn't turn in their guns were

00:49:26.380 actually shot going to the police station, trying to turn their guns in. That's why the population 0.99

00:49:33.140 was, was toothless. When, when Hitler really started doing bad things, there was no one that 0.87

00:49:39.160 could stop them because they had all the guns. Right. I mean, by the way, uh, just a quick side

00:49:44.640 note in 2012, uh, that's when Venezuela lost their right to guns because, uh, uh, that wonderful

00:49:52.600 utopia, socialism utopia. Um, yeah, they, they thought that guns would be dangerous in the hands

00:49:58.080 of the people. So that's why they can't fight back. Just want to throw that in there.

00:50:02.980 Interesting. Interesting parallel there. Uh, yeah. I mean, I think that, look, the, that this would

00:50:07.860 be almost impossible to do in the United States. Almost impossible because I don't think so.

00:50:12.400 What? I don't think so. No, I'm not, you don't, you think, just look, this population, you think,

00:50:18.340 uh, with the culture that has been ingrained here, the most heavily armed, they always say this as

00:50:21.860 an insult, the most heavily armed society in, in the history of the planet. Well, yeah, yeah,

00:50:26.880 we are. Uh, it's because this, uh, this whole guaranteeing people's rights, right to bear arms has

00:50:30.960 put together a country that is almost impossible to go door to door. Think about this. Our military,

00:50:36.700 the best military in the history of the world, look at the problems it's had going door to door to

00:50:41.200 root out people like ISIS and the Taliban and Al Qaeda in countries that have almost

00:50:46.060 no weapons compared to what we have. Can you imagine trying to go door to door to collect

00:50:51.280 300 million guns in this country? They will make an example of a few people. They will come to the

00:50:58.220 doors of, you know, Wayne LaPierre or me, and they'll say, turn over your guns. And I'll say no. And

00:51:04.900 then they'll make an example. Well, your guns, though, you're not a good example because all your guns

00:51:08.480 were lost. Well, yeah, they were, they were, they were lost. There's a pterodactyl that came in and

00:51:12.860 picked them. I don't know. That's just one theory. Okay. I think that's a crazy one, but, uh, they're

00:51:18.380 all gone now. I was just on my way to report them. Uh, it's missing. Oh, yeah. But remind me, because if

00:51:24.480 I don't report them, I'll have to report them. You know, I got it. I got it. Just remind me. Yeah.

00:51:28.680 I got it. That's just a terrible tragedy. Don't know what happened to them. Anyway, um, let me

00:51:33.560 tell you about what's happening now in Washington state. There is another gun law that is being

00:51:38.400 passed in Washington state that the sheriffs have said, we're not going to enforce. And I've told you

00:51:44.880 before, support your local sheriff because your local sheriff is the one who will stand between you

00:51:51.820 and your guns, you and the constitution or you and whoever wants to take the constitution away.

00:51:56.940 We're seeing this now happen in Washington state. And now they're coming after the sheriffs

00:52:02.280 because they are saying this is unconstitutional and we will not abide by this. We will not enforce

00:52:08.640 this law.

00:52:14.060 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:52:26.940 I look on my list of, uh, people that we're going to have as guests, uh, in upcoming days,

00:52:34.400 I looked at on Friday and I see, uh, Oren, uh, Hoffman, who is a guy who runs safe graph, which

00:52:42.080 this is how the company is described building geospatial truth sets.

00:52:48.000 Well, thank God somebody's doing that. Oh yeah. I've been thinking that for a long time. No idea

00:52:53.300 what that is described that way, but he's a guy who his company says data is really important and

00:53:01.140 there should be one like central library for it. And as long as all of the information, all of the

00:53:08.560 names and people are stripped out of it, it should be, there should be a place like a safe library.

00:53:14.300 So if you're an inventor and you're like, I need data on this, you can go get that data. It

00:53:19.300 shouldn't be held in the hands of so few because the more you open that data up, the more you're

00:53:26.200 going to be able to innovate while still protecting privacy concerns. Correct. So that's what his

00:53:30.880 company does. He's on the, uh, he's on the phone now. Oren, how are you? Hey, how are you?

00:53:36.520 Very good. Very good. You know, it wasn't me that put you on the list of people to come on.

00:53:42.140 Actually, it was Stu. He, he saw a tweet of yours and, um, he was, uh, he brought it to

00:53:48.900 me or he brought it to the producers. And then we were talking about the other day and

00:53:52.600 I'm like, I know, how did I not think of this? So welcome to the program. Glad to have

00:53:58.640 you here. Oh, well, I'm happy to be here. Thank you for inviting me. Uh, so we wanted to

00:54:04.180 talk to you really about a couple of things. First of all, we were just talking about data

00:54:08.280 and how South by Southwest, all these politicians were out and they were all talking about socialism

00:54:14.860 and everything else. And Elizabeth Warren and, uh, Amy Klobuchar have now come out and said

00:54:21.300 they want to break these companies up to the point where Apple wouldn't be able to have an

00:54:25.600 Apple app on their app store. You know, it's crazy. Um, are you seeing any kind of, uh, fallout

00:54:32.800 or, or, or getting skittish at all on, on Washington out in Silicon Valley? Well, I think

00:54:39.800 there's definitely, there's definitely a movement of people that, that, that are taking this

00:54:46.460 like breakup very seriously, um, in Silicon Valley. And, um, there, you know, there are a

00:54:53.940 lot of people on different sides of things who find some of those arguments compelling.

00:54:58.940 And so I, I think, I think that will have a lot of legs over the next few years. And

00:55:03.480 it's a political argument that is, um, that we should expect to be made. Um, I'm, I'm concerned

00:55:11.020 about public private partnerships with some of these, uh, companies. Does that concern you

00:55:16.800 at all? Uh, what do you mean? You know, that these companies, because I feel like at some

00:55:23.180 point, uh, the politicians are going to know if we had, you know, our fingers in big tech,

00:55:30.720 we could use this to help move populations a certain way or whatever. Uh, and big tech

00:55:37.440 will know if we don't play ball with them somewhat, they're going to, they're going to just break

00:55:43.040 us up. So let's, let's get into bed fully with each other. Do you think that's a possibility?

00:55:48.760 I, I, that may be a bit, uh, higher than my pay grade. So I, I'm not, I'm not a hundred

00:55:57.040 percent sure whether that's a possibility or not. Okay. Um, let me talk to you a little

00:56:00.620 bit about, um, AI. Um, I just talked to somebody just last week who said they don't even think

00:56:08.800 that, you know, uh, artificial general intelligence is something that's going to happen. Uh, I've

00:56:15.440 talked to another friend who told me that DARPA is running an, uh, a, uh, algorithm. I don't

00:56:21.220 even know how this works. You probably would, uh, that, that is, is looking to see if anyone

00:56:26.360 has started any kind of artificial intelligence. He said that they told him privately that it

00:56:32.040 was, uh, uh, looking like somebody was either started it or on the verge of releasing some

00:56:39.600 sort of artificial intelligence. We're, if we, if it's not us, we're in trouble. Do you

00:56:45.780 agree with that?

00:56:47.740 That's right. Yeah. And there's varying degrees. We don't have to get all the way to AGI.

00:56:52.240 Every, every step in the direction of, of artificial intelligence is, is important for the United

00:56:58.400 States. If you just from like a middle as a military power, how far behind China are we?

00:57:04.540 Um, I'm not sure if we're behind China or not, but I do know that China and Russia, uh, both have,

00:57:12.260 uh, amazing engineering teams and they're working on this aggressively and it's a priority for both

00:57:17.760 countries. The last time we spoke, I asked you a question. I said, um, I feel like we need some

00:57:24.740 sort of a Manhattan project. You know, we have to, we have to do something, but I don't want a

00:57:28.960 Manhattan project because I don't trust the government. And yet I don't trust Google either. Who do we

00:57:33.820 trust? Yeah, I, I'm not sure. I, one, one kind of simple solution just could be to make sure that

00:57:43.160 the best AI scientists are in this country. Uh, and so, you know, if you, if you just think of

00:57:50.600 artificial intelligence as the most important battlefield and our rivals like Russia and China,

00:57:55.620 I think it also is the most important battlefield that we want as many of the top brains in AI

00:58:01.100 residing in the U S and having a positive attitude towards the U S. So you, what, what brought this

00:58:06.900 to Stu's attention was that you, uh, tweeted a while back that you thought we needed a Manhattan

00:58:13.560 project. And, and I want you to outline that, but it's not really a Manhattan project. Like I think

00:58:19.320 of a Manhattan project where it's the government actually running it. Uh, it's just the government

00:58:26.040 enabling people to come in. Is that how you see it? Yeah, exactly. In some ways, like it's similar

00:58:33.100 to get gathering, like the top rocket scientists post world war two. Um, you want as many of these

00:58:39.460 great AI engineers as possible. And there's likely less than 20,000 top researchers in AI in the world.

00:58:47.000 And at least half of them live outside the U S today. Um, and many of them live in places like

00:58:52.980 Canada, the university of Toronto is one of the top AI centers in the world, but they also live in

00:58:57.200 China and Russia, India, France, Israel, Iran, Germany, UK, Japan, South Korea, you know, many

00:59:03.320 of these countries. Um, and so we should have a system, I think, to identify these people, uh,

00:59:09.420 and then to attract them to the U S either give them some sort of special visa, give them things

00:59:14.740 like stipend visa for their spouse, you know, some sort of fast track to becoming a citizen,

00:59:19.900 get these people here, get these people happy. Um, because we want as many of these people here

00:59:26.460 as possible. And there's not that many, we're not talking about hundreds of thousands of people

00:59:30.860 talking about maybe 10,000 worldwide to attract to the U S. Could we attract them? Cause I know these

00:59:36.720 countries are gobbling these people up and not letting them leave. Well, it might be harder to

00:59:43.320 attract them from Russia and China, but, uh, but you know, many of these people who are in other

00:59:48.940 countries would be very happy to live in the U S if, if we were able to give them a compelling reason

00:59:54.900 to come. What is the, for the average person or in people, um, they don't have, they, they don't

01:00:04.120 have a concept of what this means. Uh, they don't know why the government is, you know, so worried

01:00:11.220 about 5g explain what the world looks like with the AI that you think we could have soon.

01:00:22.420 Well, I think AI is, is just a very important for both, both attacking and defending militarily.

01:00:29.180 So AI can help. Um, if you just think of it as, as purely from a cyber warfare, AI is, is both really

01:00:37.520 important if you want to defend your, your assets. Um, so if you want to defend your, um, uh, you know,

01:00:44.020 nuclear assets or whatever else you're defending, and then also very important if you're attacking

01:00:49.200 other people's assets. And so, um, and it doesn't have to be AGI, like you mentioned at the top of

01:00:55.180 the show, it just could be some sort of incremental improvements over what we have today. Um, every

01:01:00.060 incremental improvement, um, makes you as a power, uh, more, you know, more fearsome, both as a

01:01:07.120 defender and as a, um, and on offense as well. We're talking to Aaron Huff, uh, Hoffman. He is,

01:01:13.760 um, the, um, the founder, are you the CEO too of, uh, SafeGraph? I am. Okay. Um, of SafeGraph,

01:01:22.080 uh, dot com, uh, from Silicon Valley. And I, I, um, uh, I know that you call yourself a optimistic

01:01:31.780 pessimist. I call myself an optimistic catastrophist. Uh, explain what an optimistic,

01:01:39.820 uh, pessimist is and why. Well, uh, I, I think it's important to, to, to be a realist. Uh, so I'm,

01:01:50.160 I'm optimistic about the future, but also a realist as well.

01:01:54.560 So, Arnie, we, a lot of, we've been spending a lot of time on this show talking about immigration

01:01:58.200 and a lot of it, the conversation tend, tends to go to a point where, okay, we're talking about

01:02:02.820 what's, what's, is there a wall is, you know, what's going on at the border, but there are a

01:02:07.820 lot of smart things I think we can do as far as immigration. And I think your policy, your idea

01:02:11.940 kind of stems part of that is part of that conversation is not just, it's not just making, um, uh,

01:02:19.440 you know, business easier for businesses to, to come in and, and, and operate in these circles.

01:02:23.700 But also when we're talking about attracting these scientists, it's maybe, do you think it's,

01:02:27.740 is it a special visa? Is it, uh, what, how do we actually get people to come here to the United

01:02:33.480 States to develop these things for us rather than for China or Russia?

01:02:38.120 So one thing is, I think it's really hard is just identifying these people. Um, and so, uh,

01:02:44.100 and having some sort of way of, uh, some sort of way where other core AI researchers vouch for you.

01:02:51.720 And there's some sort of way to identify these people. I don't think that that is such a simple

01:02:55.760 thing. Um, and especially for like a government entity to go do, uh, once we do that, making sure

01:03:02.020 that they can come here easily, that it's also really important that their spouse can work. Um, so

01:03:07.980 getting, getting, getting a simple way for their spouse can work and get a visa, getting some sort

01:03:12.140 of, um, uh, citizen fast track, uh, giving them other reasons to come in. Uh, you know, immigration

01:03:19.040 is, is really important for, uh, getting these top scientists here. I think maybe the debate is

01:03:24.700 almost over emigration. Um, and so I think that's what, where like something like a China or Russia,

01:03:30.940 they're probably less likely to let their top scientists emigrate. Um, they're probably very

01:03:35.780 happy to have people immigrate and they are trying to tap our top scientists. Uh, I don't know. So

01:03:44.480 that that's, that I haven't heard of that, but, but I do certainly they should be if they, if that's,

01:03:50.880 uh, certainly they should be. Yeah. Aron, thank you so much. Uh, we'll talk to you again. Appreciate

01:03:56.300 it. Aron Huffman. Absolutely. Thank you so much. You bet. CEO of, uh, SafeCraft. The Blaze Radio Network.

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