Glenn’s Message to Elon Musk as He Leaves Washington ｜ Guest： Zachary Levi ｜ 5⧸30⧸25
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When times get tired, stand your ground. Stand your ground when things get tired. Gotta face the dog and embrace the fire. Glenn Beck explains why it s more than necessary to have a gun in order to defend yourself and your family.
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If you are a parent, it is your sacred duty to defend your family from any and all danger and to raise your children to be able to defend themselves as well.
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In the world in which we're living today, it is more necessary than ever before.
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But, you know, not everybody feels comfortable carrying a firearm.
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I do, but some places will even make it impossible, and some situations make it unwise.
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I have to tell you, have you ever thought about what you would do if you were in a grocery store or at 7-Eleven or whatever,
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and it was being robbed, and somebody had a gun or somebody, you know, had a knife?
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I'm not sure I would feel comfortable pulling out my gun and shooting the person, because I believe in shooting to kill, and the nightmare that would be.
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I have to stop with this, because this drives me out of my mind.
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Democrats, if you feel like you're a normal Democrat and you're not, you know, for Mao and Marxism and, you know, loads and loads of bodies of death because of communists,
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Because you have, in your own party, you have Maoist communists.
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And the Democratic Socialists of America, remember, it was Socialists of America, because nobody wanted to say they were communists.
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And even with a socialist, they were like, well, no, not really.
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They are now doing a campaign, Free Elias Rodriguez and All Political Prisoners.
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So the guy that, what was it, last week, went and shot two Jews on the street who were just leaving a symposium on how they could help the people of Gaza.
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They come out, and this guy shoots what is going to be a husband and a wife a week later, shoots this couple, cold blood in the street, and then says, Free Palestine.
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And, in fact, as she was crawling away, trying to get away, he takes the time because he's out of bullets.
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Well, the Democratic Socialists of America, you know, think he's pretty neat.
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So in addition to his activism on Israel, he is also in favor of, and I'm quoting, the genocide of white people.
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The liberation caucus wrote excellent statement, and we are proud to add our name to the Free Elias Rodriguez and All Political Prisoners campaign.
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The Democratic Socialists, this holds especially true for those of us struggling behind enemy lines inside the U.S.
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An entity that is equal party in all crimes committed by the Zionists.
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There must be consequences for genocidal Zionist imperialism, and those consequences are righteous.
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Now, you can say all you want, well, I'm not a Democratic Socialist.
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And I don't know if you know this, but they don't always play by their rules.
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And if, well, let me ask you, how many people have a differing opinion on anything now in the Democratic Party?
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Okay, and that's when you were still denying that they were Democratic Socialists in your party that, you know, and radical revolutionaries that were running the party.
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Now you have people coming right out and saying, yeah, you'd probably have to round up, you know, tens of millions of white people and rehabilitate or just genocide them to make this a decent country.
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And that guy has a Democratic Socialist standing with him and saying he's a political prisoner for shooting two people in the streets.
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And these are the same people in your own party that are now fine with a shooting of a CEO in the streets.
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Do you see how you're going to lose control of this?
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But for anybody who thinks, you know, Mao is neat, you might want to crack a book.
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To his followers, this guy is a revolutionary god, a beacon of hope for a classless utopia.
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How about that river of blood that he set loose in China?
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The millions of lives drown in that blood in the name of his ideology.
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This isn't just history that you look at and you watch it as a documentary.
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Although, strangely, nobody seems to have a problem with the communists.
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We watch those documentaries because we're fascinated, strangely, I think, by evil and how they did all of the things.
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But we also watch them so we can see and go, oh, I see what that is.
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Isn't that, aren't those seeds being planted again?
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And if you care to learn history, you will see that they are being planted again.
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You know, when you have a single man's dream that the followers are just diehard believers and say the ends justify the means.
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See, this is a difference between Donald Trump.
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He's got a very bold vision, but the ends don't justify the means.
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This is what the democratic socialists and the people of their ilk are all saying now.
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And this is what, this is what happens, this is what leads to the butchering of millions.
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A plan, he said, was going to rocket us to modernity.
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And we're going to make steel flow like rivers and grain pile high as mountains.
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It's inspiring, except Mao didn't know how to make steel.
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And so what he did is he took the communist ideals and he put people into communes.
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And every peasant was turned into a cog in his grand machine.
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Backyard furnaces sprouted like weeds, churning out useless, brittle iron.
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And people starved because all the fields laid fallow.
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Any grain that they did do, remember, he was for the little people.
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What he did is he exported all of the grain and the rice and everything else elsewhere so he could look like a global titan.
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Meanwhile, because he was so terrifying, the local officials started saying, oh, no, we've grown all kinds of – they were faking all of the crop numbers because they didn't want to get held responsible for anything and end up in a camp or death.
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Parents were boiling grass to feed their children.
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That is a mountain of corpses, a river of blood.
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Maybe we have to round up and re-educate people?
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Round up people and re-educate them or do a genocide on them.
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He wanted to get rid of capitalists because they were the ones that were holding China back, not him.
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They're kids, barely out of school, who have read his little red book like it was the Bible.
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And he uses them and he points them like a dagger into the hearts of teachers and artists and party officials.
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People are allowed to stone them in the streets.
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And children have to deny their own parents or they face the same.
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Well, at revolutionary spirit, you know, he had a dream of a utopia and it didn't work out that time.
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Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever works out.
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Philippines, brutal death, 40,000 deaths there.
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And Ho Chi Minh, you know, he drew on Mao's tactics, but it wasn't.
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Yeah, of course, there was that famine and the repression that killed thousands of people.
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But then Mugabe, you know, he starved his people, killed his people, stole from his people, economic collapse.
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So, out of all the Maoist revolutions, let's say 10, how many of them led to utopia?
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Because I have to count Zimbabwe, Vietnam, and Nepal as a mixed result.
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7 out of 10 times, rivers of blood, starvation, purges, endless conflict.
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Because somebody says the ends justify the means.
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Somebody says, well, these people are not as important as the other.
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These people are the ones standing in the way and the ends justify the means.
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So, my question is, for Democrats, when are you going to learn from history?
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Walking around with signs of Chairman Mao, well, no one will listen to you anyhow?
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I mean, this is the same story over and over and over again.
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First of all, let's go with the Nashville Democratic,
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He says the release of the names of ICE agents was just a mistake.
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And he is in trouble because he's also, they claim,
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And he has talked about how he survived a 2017 active shooter situation at Dallas High School.
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Yeah, I was fascinated to see, because I saw the headline.
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Is it one of those things where there was a shooting scare, and luckily, maybe people survived.
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Or his brother was shot in a different shooting, and he exaggerated it.
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I mean, I can't, it seems to be, and this is a Dallas township in Pennsylvania.
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Not Dallas, the city in Texas, but Dallas township released a statement.
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They're like, not only was, did this not happen, there wasn't any shooting at all.
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And there has never been a shooting in this school district at any point, ever.
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It's gotten, no mass shootings have occurred that look anything like this in the township.
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Either insanity, stupidity, or just the ends justify the means.
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I can lie, I can do whatever I want, because the ends justify the means.
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We now have 200 Democrats, 200 Democrats that now say, yeah, I knew that Joe Biden was incompetent.
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We have 200 Democrats that now claim, while people were being called all kinds of names,
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while people's lives were being destroyed, while the guy with the nuclear football was eating pudding and drooling on himself.
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You have 200 Democrats now openly admitting, yeah, I knew that.
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Doesn't matter that this is actually a violation of democracy.
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And Democrats, you are about to be eaten by radical revolutionaries.
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Right now, we basically have one chance to right the economic ship.
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And if we're being honest, the odds are, you know, nobody's done this before.
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We piled up debt that no one, no one left, right, or center seemed to be willing to touch at all.
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You know, for Democrats, if you don't think you're playing with communism or socialism, talk to the people in Washington State.
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Talk to anyone who is sane in Washington State.
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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 because they're going to – I'm telling you, they're going to go to wealth confiscation.
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But there is a place – Lake Washington is, you know, by Bellevue, in between Bellevue and Seattle.
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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 – and when I was a kid, it was not like that.
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It was, you know, there were still normal people that lived there.
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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 million to $100 million houses.
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They just happen to be in an area where there's not very much land, and it is the place to live if you like water.
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And you're living right on the water, and it's just spectacular.
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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 Point, it would never last.
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People, they wouldn't want to sell it because you couldn't replace it.
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And so they would come up for sale, and they'd be gone before anybody would even know.
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I am told by a friend who knows that area quite well that – I think he said 17 homes in Hunt's Point are up for sale.
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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 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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Washington, the property values are going to start plummeting.
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And you've got crazy people, not only crazy people all around you.
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I'm telling you, I grew up in Washington State.
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I grew up listening to hippies and everything else.
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My friends and I, I remember going to a friend's house, and we were standing on our front porch.
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And, you know, we were – this is the Alex P. Keaton days, and not politically, but just – I mean, I guess a little politically.
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But my friends, not all my friends, you know, agreed with Reagan.
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And I remember standing on our 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 she said,
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I really apologize, my folks are probably in the living room getting stoned, just never mind.
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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, and they're like, hey, kids, what's going on?
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And there's these people that believe in this thing called Cascadia, which is a communist state.
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Just get out of America, start a new communist country called Cascadia, and it is Washington, Oregon, and I think they want parts of Idaho.
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And you see people like – you know the mayor of Seattle?
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Do you see what happened in Seattle over the weekend, Stu?
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You're talking about the mayor and this accusation going back?
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The Christians had had a revival out in a park, and all of these revolutionaries came.
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The police came and shut down the Christians, and they deemed the Christians, the police, against their will, I think, but under the direction of the mayor.
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Shut down the Christians, excused all the radical revolutionaries, and said, you know, it's the Christians here that are causing all the ruckus.
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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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Well, I mean, just like you, if you had been arrested in 96 for brandishing a firearm over a parking space.
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In 1996, this has been out for a while, he was a young attorney, and he had just been appointed to the housing authority board in, I think, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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And he was at a casino, and he was pulling up to a parking space, and this other couple 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 he pointed a gun at them, and they were afraid for their lives.
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He admitted at the time to say, yeah, I had my gun, but I wasn't pointing it at him.
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And so he's charged with it, but he's not convicted of it.
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Well, it comes up again recently, and now he's saying, no, I didn't have a gun.
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I like watches, and I have some big watches, but I've never had anyone 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, 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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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 elect radicals, if you're going to elect people that don't, you know, they just don't care about the law, the Constitution, you know, they don't care.
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There's no even attempt to come up with stories that even sound real.
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Because basically, like, and if you think about it, there's some pragmatic sense to it in our current day, which is like, in reality, like, what's going to happen is the people who already liked you are going to support you no matter what you say.
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And I just, they just, you might as well just say something.
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And everyone's going to, like, nod along and say, well, yes, I like his other policies or I want him 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 talked a little bit off the air a few minutes ago about this is the sort of conversation we have, which is the WNBA and the situation with Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, where, you know, again, these are two basketball players, one white, one black.
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There's some sort of rivalry that seems to be basically one way from Angel Reese toward Caitlin Clark.
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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 percent can just fill in the blank, if you know nothing about the story, claim that there is racism.
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And there's people in the stands yelling racial slurs at her.
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Full investigation launched, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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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 an 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 happen.
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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 falsely accusing all of these people that are fans of the other team of being racist and manufacturing claims of racial slurs.
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The story is a two paragraph statement from the WNBA.
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No follow ups from no follow ups from any of the journalists who were concerned about it at the time.
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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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Yeah, it'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 somebody said to me that if you've seen that Donald Trump is now saying that if you're working for the government, you have to go through.
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I think it's 100 hour class on the Constitution and somebody said, well, wait a minute.
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I don't want that because I don't want them doing that with DEI.
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And right now we have a bunch of people that are trying to put our country together and they've never read the instructions.
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And, you know, it's like it's it's like our country came from Ikea.
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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've got to go take a course on the Constitution of the United States because that's the owner's manual.
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Oh, I didn't know that that was in the Constitution.
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I didn't know we couldn't do that, even though they're not even saying that.
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They're now saying 200 people, Democrats, are now saying, yeah, I knew that he was I knew that he was gone.
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But, you know, we we couldn't lose the election.
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Well, I think you need a refresher on the Constitution because none of that is part of our country.
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There's no place in the Constitution that allows that.
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One of the ways it's interesting, they talk about that in the book of those decisions being made.
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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 and justify the means.
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And they said that one of the reasons why, especially the really close group around the Bidens, including the family and some of these advisers, basically said, number one, Donald Trump is, you know, basically Hitler.
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Right. Like he's an 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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That's another level of delusion, I suppose, to think that Joe Biden was uniquely qualified for this victory.
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But he was the only person who who did win in an election against him.
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Uh, also, uh, Mike Lee may be joining us, uh, later on the program.
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We also have, uh, Zachary Levi, uh, the Wildwood studios owner, uh, the actor, uh, that is just, he's fantastic.
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I think it's, he's on phone or is he in studio?
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i were a director you know i made film uh i would be refreshing my uh my skills and also maybe my
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resume uh what google released this week uh is it going to put the industry out of business
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i don't know as i'm not in that business but it doesn't look good zachary levi he is the uh studio
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owner of wildwood studios uh and he's with us he's an actor you've seen a lot of his movies and love
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zachary levi is with us hi zach how are you hey good morning glenn i'm doing all right man how you doing
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um i'm i'm i'm really good uh i but i'm not in your business how how concerned are you by what google
00:49:21.980
released this week i mean i'm i'm very concerned i mean you know when i i you and i talked about this
00:49:29.500
when i came on your show last um and i hate to sound like you know a doomer and gloomer um but i
00:49:40.160
this is something i've been foreseeing for a really long time i've been banging this drum for
00:49:45.020
a really long time and trying to wake people up and say hey listen technology it moves exponentially
00:49:52.600
this is one of the things that i i think most people just don't understand whether it's people
00:49:56.820
in my industry or other industries and and might i say yes this is knocking on the doorstep of
00:50:02.940
entertainment right now but understand that ai is knocking on the doorstep of all of our industries
00:50:09.280
your your industry radio you know everything in entertainment all of it anything that can be
00:50:14.240
recorded and and and broadcast but every industry that we are i mean there are um huge you know
00:50:22.560
experts in in many fields that say within a year two years you certainly within five years every
00:50:28.800
white collar job will be gone and a lot of blue collar jobs are going to be right behind that because
00:50:33.920
you have to recognize that ai is not just moving exponentially but also humanoid robots and the
00:50:40.100
development of humanoid robots is developing exponentially and exponential growth is something
00:50:45.260
that people just don't understand most people see growth as you know kind of just you know
00:50:50.900
multiplicative meaning like okay every year it gets twice as good no no no it doesn't get twice as
00:50:56.780
good every year it gets 10 times as good and then it gets a hundred times as good and then a thousand
00:51:00.420
times as good and so on and so forth and so years ago i was telling people guys if what we have right
00:51:07.300
now you know like for example two years ago uh ai was generating images and um you know but but you
00:51:15.180
know humans had six fingers and so people said ah this is schlock look at this you know this is never
00:51:20.060
going to get good they can't even get the amount of fingers right on people's hands i said yeah yeah right
00:51:24.680
now it can't right now it cannot do that but six months later it did six months after that you had
00:51:31.800
video and now you've got video with audio that is almost indiscernible as you've been seeing with
00:51:39.060
these new examples it's almost indiscernible now people say yeah but i can still tell i go yeah right
00:51:44.580
now you can but six months from now a year from now two years from now we're gonna even think that
00:51:51.160
world and no probably not even that long no and and and so people have got to wake up and so for
00:51:58.340
people in my industry i think that yes we should all be very very concerned but everyone should be
00:52:04.480
very concerned and it's not even just you know like for example yes this could very much replace my
00:52:10.220
job this is partly why i've i am building wildwood studios in in austin texas it you know has always
00:52:16.620
been this is a 25 year plus you know calling that god has put on my life to to create a better
00:52:21.860
hollywood to give artists a better life a better work life balance to give audiences better content
00:52:28.180
these are all things that we've deserved for a really long time but ai is really the kind of i think
00:52:34.260
most galvanizing galvanizing um force in all of this because if we don't do something about it if we
00:52:41.100
don't hold the line if we don't build the ark which is really kind of what i've always felt on
00:52:46.760
my life i felt this kind of noah calling on my life that god's like hey listen a flood is coming
00:52:51.980
it's not going to be water it's going to be something entirely different and that is this ai and
00:52:56.620
if and if you can build the ark then you can at least save as many of those jobs two by two as you
00:53:01.380
can but if you don't build the ark then the flood just wipes everything out and so yeah go ahead let me
00:53:08.140
let me interrupt you on that because um i believe i mean i'm developing some things with ai and i've
00:53:15.040
been on this for a very long time as well um and uh i believe you're absolutely right that you have to
00:53:22.740
get you know you have to get into a boat because floods are coming um yeah however you you have to
00:53:30.540
you can't dismiss it you have to i think use some of the skills that it has in a positive way because
00:53:40.180
i think it could it will enhance as long as you don't surrender to it it will enhance what you can
00:53:47.440
do so are you talking about you know building something that it has no use for ai and it's just
00:53:54.260
this island or are you saying that we'll use it but we'll use it in ethical ways and we'll never
00:54:00.280
allow it uh to become the master we will always use it as a tool yes that that's exactly right so
00:54:08.960
i'm a firm believer and have been for many years that you know philosophically you cannot stop
00:54:15.000
progress you can only hope to guide it that that is right the bottom line right right so it would be
00:54:20.500
folly to look at new technology that by the way is going to do some really cool things in this world
00:54:26.060
example being we're at the brink of nearly having our ear pods you know apple i think will start but
00:54:32.980
other companies will be right behind it it's not simultaneously you will have real real time
00:54:38.740
language translation it's going to happen it's happening very very soon now that's incredible that's
00:54:44.880
something that as a human race we've all been wanting really since i mean since i guess the tower of
00:54:49.060
babel right the ability for all of us to be able to communicate across the world no language barriers
00:54:54.480
whatsoever that is huge that's a huge leap forward for mankind now that's going to absolutely displace
00:55:00.620
what is a smaller let's say industry of translators right it's not there are many translators in the
00:55:07.820
world but it's not the biggest industry let's say and i feel for those people and i think we have to
00:55:12.060
be very conscious about trying to rehome them in other jobs but that's it that's an you always have to
00:55:18.360
ask yourself is the juice worth the squeeze is it ultimately worth it for for the betterment of of
00:55:23.880
all of us right so i don't think that we can't embrace ai we must embrace ai but we must do it in
00:55:30.600
as ethical a way as possible and be mindful of what is it doing how is it disrupting and how is it
00:55:36.560
displacing jobs because that's the only thing that we can do now when it comes to entertainment there's
00:55:42.960
going to be all kinds of ways that we can implement ai to make the process more efficient more enjoyable
00:55:48.360
and i have every intention of utilizing ai like that i don't i don't i don't vilify it you know
00:55:54.400
writ large but i think that we must be very mindful about how we implement it in still holding on to
00:56:01.000
human creativity human human um art and entertainment is is at the brink but i also believe you know with
00:56:09.760
with wildwood example being like i think that not only is it necessary you know to prevent let's say
00:56:17.840
the extinction of human art and entertainment but there's also a market opportunity in this because
00:56:22.800
similar to vinyl for example you know once upon a time all music we all listen to vinyl records that's
00:56:29.920
what it was and then the cassette tape came out and everyone said oh well i don't need vinyl anymore
00:56:34.240
i'm going to go with these little you know rectangular plastic you know uh cassette tapes
00:56:39.120
and i'm going to do that great and then the cd came out even more people left vinyl and then streaming
00:56:43.200
and now even more people have left vinyl but the people that held on the people that said you know
00:56:48.080
what yes everyone is going to zig but i'm going to zag i'm going to i'm going to hold on to this i'm
00:56:53.520
going to keep printing vinyl because i believe that there's something special about it unique about it
00:56:57.520
and sure enough vinyl sales have gone up because people are looking for something that's more human
00:57:02.320
more tangible more slightly imperfect with a little crackle a little you know whatever so what why would
00:57:10.080
that's what we intend to do we intend to hold on to we're not i'm not trying i can't save the entire
00:57:15.280
industry that's impossible but i'm going to try and save as many jobs as i can and in doing so provide
00:57:20.800
audiences the alternative and i think a lot of people are going to be looking for that alternative
00:57:25.040
so zach i because i i like you i've been on this for a long time and i have put a lot of thought
00:57:31.120
into because my job is uh you know at stake everybody's job is up oh yeah um and i've always
00:57:38.480
felt well there's something special about humans that we have a different sense to us but i don't know
00:57:45.280
if you heard there was a study done of i think a hundred thousand songs and uh and they did you know
00:57:53.760
what's called hook testing to see which tested the best the i think it was seven out of the top 10
00:58:01.600
were ai and people didn't know it was ai seven out of the top 10 we used to say ai couldn't you know
00:58:10.160
art can never be done so what is it that that you think is going to be unique quickly i mean i believe
00:58:20.320
that there is going to be a huge draw back to handmade individual you know when uh when
00:58:28.720
machines came out and you had factories and they started producing shirts nobody wanted a homemade
00:58:33.840
shirt nobody wanted a handmade shirt they wanted one that was from the factory but now handmade is the
00:58:40.800
best of the best so there's going to be a renaissance if you will of handmade and human made stuff but what is
00:58:49.760
it right now that will bridge this gap that humans can do that you don't think ai can do
00:58:58.480
well i think that you know obviously live performance that's going to be huge right so
00:59:04.320
people in in this in this rebound effect of people saying ah you know it just flooded with ubiquitous ai
00:59:11.760
content a lot of people are going to say oh i want something authentic right and and authenticity
00:59:15.920
is the most important in fact there's been studies done where um you know just from an energy level
00:59:24.800
like you know as humans we we have uh we produce an energy when we have various emotions right and
00:59:31.920
there's lower energy if you're sad depressed angry and there's higher um energies when you're joyful and
00:59:38.400
happy and you feel love but there's an energy even higher than love as they've tested and it's
00:59:43.520
authenticity that is the highest energetic level that we can all reach and so people yearn for that
00:59:49.280
they really do yes live performance obviously is going to be that uh sports is going to have a big a
00:59:56.480
lot of people are you know uh investing in and in sports and live performance because that is going to
01:00:03.040
hold on the longest at least as you know long as long as let's say you know um robots and holograms
01:00:10.480
that's going to start to kind of eat into that market a little bit we'll see how long that goes
01:00:15.040
but but ultimately i have to tell you may i say may may i say something on that have you been to
01:00:19.920
london and seen the abba experience i i haven't but i've i'm very well aware of it and i've heard it's
01:00:26.960
incredible and that's just the tip of the iceberg yeah no it's it's it's beyond incredible it is
01:00:32.720
my son and i said i didn't tell my daughter who was a teenager at the time you know 17 years old
01:00:38.080
that abba wasn't really performing we just didn't tell her and two songs into it i said do you think
01:00:43.440
they're real does it look like they're real and she's like what are you talking about and i'm like
01:00:47.120
that's not real those aren't people and she's like what are you talking about and she couldn't believe
01:00:52.880
it and the first couple of songs my son who was probably 18 17 at the time kept looking at me
01:00:58.880
going dad this changes everything this is not good this changes everything and i mean everything
01:01:06.320
is about to just turn upside down yeah yeah well it's yeah it's already it's like in front of our
01:01:13.440
eyes it's happening already yeah and and and i am not one of those people many people that i talk to
01:01:20.240
a you know a a common pushback that i get is people saying well it will never be able to fully
01:01:29.600
replicate let's say you know human emotion or you know we'll always be able to tell and i just don't
01:01:35.280
believe that i mean i don't believe ourselves no we are um amalgamations of everything that we've
01:01:42.640
taken in right so we're we are we ourselves are kind of llms we we scrape our entire lives we scrape
01:01:49.600
information from our parents our community people around us the you know the internet whatever we're
01:01:54.560
learning all the time and then we are replicating from the things that we learn ai is doing that
01:02:00.240
and it's doing it at scale and it's happening exponentially and we're very very close to it
01:02:05.040
becoming a gi general intelligence which is then just a few steps away from super intelligence and it
01:02:11.440
will be then at that point it will be more intelligent and more capable than not just any individual
01:02:17.280
human it will be more capable and more intelligent than the sum of all humanity so we're stepping into
01:02:23.600
some insane insane territory and when you start you know powering um video agents like google and others
01:02:33.200
that will that will keep popping up um it it's terrifying to to acknowledge that a lot of people just
01:02:40.240
don't they were trying they're kind of burying their head in the sand and saying no no no it won't happen
01:02:44.160
it won't happen it's going to happen at that point i think that what we have to and what i'm hoping
01:02:50.560
that trump and the administration uh are going to be working on in earnest is legislation that at the
01:02:56.560
very least requires all content that is ai generated to be watermarked right so that therefore we know
01:03:04.960
we can say okay i can't tell the difference i don't know the difference but just by looking and
01:03:10.800
listening to it i can't tell if it's real humans doing this or not the difference will be that
01:03:16.000
there will be some kind of watermarking that indicates that and therefore that is what people
01:03:20.720
are going to be looking for in the same way if you go to the supermarket and you're looking at
01:03:24.880
blueberries and that these ones on the left look the same as the ones on the right but there's
01:03:29.200
packaging that says these ones on the right or organic oh those are the ones i'm looking for i want
01:03:33.600
the organic ones that aren't sprayed with glyphosate i'm trying to make certified organic human-made
01:03:39.760
content for free-range artists that that is what wildwood studios is going to be about and also
01:03:45.440
at wildwood studios we're not just going to be making in and and really you know focusing and
01:03:50.160
dedicated to making human uh film television music and video games but also providing amphitheaters and
01:03:57.280
live performance venues so that it's a one-stop shop so people can really know when they go there
01:04:02.160
they support us they're supporting humans in that process zachary uh i appreciate it uh thank you so
01:04:08.160
much and uh anything we can do to help you at wildwood let me know please zachary levi wildwood
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studios owner uh actor he was you know chuck he was shazam i mean he's a ton of great movies and
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suv in the dust uh looks like war zone absolutely 100 believable
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it absolutely looks like a film um it absolutely looks real and it's just somebody typing in
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welcome to the glennbeck program i'm thinking about what zachary levi was talking about and we
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watched that video which is just a few sentences turned into what this i don't know 90 of the way
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to a future film right like quality wise there's still a a little bit of that uncanny valley gap
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there that you can kind of see it's a little bit a little bit but it's you know a year ago we had a
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conversation probably on the air where we're saying gosh look at this video uh that was just shown on
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the internet that's ai it's incredible imagine what this is going to be like in a year i would say this
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is better than the expectations for most people of what that's all going to be yeah it's all going to
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be that way that next what it will do next year no one can imagine at this point i don't i just don't
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think we have an understanding of the the true power of the exponential growth that we're getting
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now we have no idea so but i think it's fair to assume from just that projection of what the last year
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was that we're going to get there right it's going to be as good or better than what most human
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beings can actually produce yeah wait hang on just a sec with an exception of you know who's a great
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answer to this is tom cruise tom cruise does all of his own stunts so when you see a tom cruise mission
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impossible and he is he's actually in the water in the submarine rolling down he's actually in the plane
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hanging from the edge of it that's actually him and there is something to say for that you know you
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can go see all kinds of you know uh all kinds of cgi stuff and and it's great and everything else but
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eventually it just becomes okay i've seen it i've seen it i've seen it every time tom cruise is doing
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something even though i've seen people hang from airplanes etc etc you know it's really him actually
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doing it it makes it even bigger and better yeah i think there there is that authenticity that people
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want right yeah um you know like for example there is uh there's a few horror movie nerds that work
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here and uh every time one of these movies comes out they're like yeah this is there was that a good
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movie well yeah the practical effects were blah blah blah blah and like i as a person who doesn't care
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about the production of horror movies i want to know is it a good movie is it a good story was it scary
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whatever you wanted a horror movie what they want are the fact that they made all these deaths with
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practical effects instead of cgi right like because they're horror movie nerds they're always will there
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always be that audience like will there always be that desire there's the organic thing he was just
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talking about vinyl records yes there will always but that'll be niche yeah here's here's what i think
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you know this is not going to affect people like tom cruise joe joe rogan anybody who is at the top
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of their craft you know i i i witnessed this in the 1990s uh i got into radio in the 70s and so by the
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1990s i had established a name for myself even though it was a bad name at the time i had established a
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name for myself and i was good enough to be able to survive the bloodbath that radio became and i said at the
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time i remember i was i was running several stations uh for iheart and i said at the time where are you
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going to get your farm team uh how is that gonna you know how are you going to replace the people
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like me because there's nobody up and coming and everybody was saying it's the death of radio well
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they've been saying it's the death of radio since you know in the 70s um but uh we didn't know and all
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of a sudden while they paired all of those people off what remained unfortunately were just the top of
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the radio people okay those guys who did very well and continued on um but they cut everything else out
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because there was no farm club now we never saw podcasting coming podcasting is the farm team but now that
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you are getting uh ai and asi and agi when this really hits and it's going to hit soon 90 of your
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podcasts are going to be done by ai and you won't know the difference really um you will i mean if people
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are unscrupulous you should always know what the difference is um but uh you look at people like joe rogan
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um people you know hopefully like me that have established themselves as real human beings and
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are at the top of their game and have something real to offer those people will remain i don't
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know what happens to the farm club you know what i mean yeah i think that's a real problem and it's
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not just in broadcasting by the way if you want if you want to see uh glenn at the top of his game i
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encourage you to go to uh x.com studios america and look at the latest baby video um that no that's
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not necessary uh he really is at the top of his game i think that's all ai it's all ai
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but like i think you know this is every industry right now like i was listening right to uh somebody
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describe the legal field right now and you will know i am not a lawyer by the way i described this but
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like what what do you do how do you develop the next the next crop of great lawyers well
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people come out of college they go to you know law school they come into a legal firm they're at the
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bottom doing basic tasks they're looking things up they're producing basic documents all that stuff
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is already being done by ai in a lot of places so now that experience of development is is really
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hollowed out so how does how do industries go on when that process is so easily done by ai this is
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something that really concerns me because we already have a class system in the world that is getting
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worse and worse okay you know you look at um you look at companies uh the top of their game uh let's
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ferrari rolls royce whatever you know it used to be that they were making a 200 000 car you know and
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it was like everybody's like wow it's a 200 000 car you know rolls royce if you go into a rolls royce
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showroom their cars you know anywhere from 400 to 900 000 okay rolls royce doesn't look at that as a
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great car that's their entry model they kind of look down their nose at those cars because what
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they really build are 20 million dollar cars they may build a buy they only build them for like 10
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people around the world or 50 people around the world but that's what they're doing i think it was
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ferrari that i just read uh is doing uh they're doing these one-offs and they're all in the millions
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of dollars okay well what you look at what's happening we are we are getting a class of upper
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upper upper class and so many companies are now looking at well i'm going to serve that instead of
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serving you know that and people you know that that are normal human beings everybody's pushing up
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because the money is is so big up at the top you're you now will also have these this class of people
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that are accomplished and good and rock solid when this changes those some of those people will shake
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out and they'll be destroyed others will survive this but they'll be then again in another class of
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people we're just losing connection to reality to what's what is real life you know what was that
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what was that movie uh where they were living up in the clouds the rich people were living in the
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clouds and the average person were living on earth and it was really horrible you remember yeah i didn't
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see it but i remember the commercial for it okay um it's almost like that i feel like if we're not careful
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here we're going to leave everybody in poverty the majority and then there's going to be this
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upper class and they won't be able to even relate to each other because they're so far
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separated by wealth power um access to technology scary how does that analysis differ from the typical
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liberal critique of income inequality or does it or it's a crossover say that we have to they
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say they would say we have to regulate our way out of it i would say that you know the average car now
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is fifty three thousand dollars that's the price of the average car fifty three thousand dollars
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that's a year's income for a lot of people um i'm not sure that cars were a year's worth of income
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uh maybe they were um but i don't remember it that way um and you know can we make cars that are good
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quality um is there anybody that could make that less than that so the average person could get into it
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i mean i i don't know i just feel like everybody's pushing towards the top instead of and and and
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forgetting about the bottom uh and and i i just i would hope that companies don't just focus on the
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top you know when when if i if i if i were to design something and i would say you know uh you know i'm
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just gonna i'm gonna present this to you know people that are going to spend a hundred thousand dollars on
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this um but i'm using that to be able to bring another version of that down to a lower let let
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them be elon musk that's exactly what tesla tried to do yes and has succeeded in they they their first
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car we profiled it back in the mid 2000s was uh the tesla roadster which was well over a hundred
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thousand dollars and was really only made for rich people um and as elon musk took it over that became
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his focus almost entirely was was yes he was making cars for for you know that go really fast for rich
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people but it was all in the goal to make low priced cars for everybody when it comes to electric
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cars yes and quality he makes a quality car now they're still expensive but he's making a quality
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car i mean if that's the kind of car you want it's not actually a car it's just a it's a battery with
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wheels but anyway um if you know it's not like you're you're getting a crap box you're not getting
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the yugo you're still getting a tesla but he's used the upper end that's what happened with flat screen
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tvs that's the way the market works you when you come up with something and it's going to cost a lot
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of money to make but you get the rich people to adopt it first and then that brings that price
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down that is not through regulation that's just good business sense and it's also i don't know
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carrying a little about uh humanity you know just not being just some rich you know greedy bastard
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that's like i'm gonna milk these people because i want to live like those people and i could screw
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everybody else that's that just comes from just being a decent human being not regulation and i think
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that is the story of capitalism really right it really has even though not everybody with moral
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sentiment with moral sentiments moral sentiments even though i i do think overall generally speaking
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people are you know generally good they want to help uh the the community they want to help their
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country they want to help their fellow man might not be their main goal all the time and usually mixed
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into markets there are bad actors people who only care about profits and everything else but the
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overall current of the of you know the river of capitalism if you will it it brings people toward
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that end it doesn't always do it in a linear line but it does bring them to that location where
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yeah you know maybe the rich do get richer and that's true and i don't think that's bad by the way
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i don't think elon musk being rich is bad it's uh but but it does raise the boat so those people who
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used to be in the middle class often do leave it but leave it for the upper middle class and people
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who are in the lower class have a better life in the lower class even though they might not uh
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raise up in the percentage measure does that make sense well yeah and let me let me i can break this
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the financial industry treats investing like it happens kind of in a bubble you know it's you
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know you get your 401k accounts you get your retirement accounts and they don't just kind of
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sit there quietly in this magical bubble they actively participate in all sorts of things uh they're
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they're kind of like votes toward what the company is doing and of course they are literal votes as
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well when you come to the the proxy voting um many of these companies that you're investing in probably
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use their resources to support political causes that directly go against what you believe um that's a
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huge problem for a lot of people um when you talk about investing a lot of people separate that from
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their day-to-day purchases you might think hey wait a minute i i have uh i'm gonna go and i'm like
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i don't like what bud light's doing so i'm not gonna buy a case of bud light i'm gonna buy something
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else and that's great but when you talk about tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of dollars when
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working towards your retirement over decades that really does a lot more than what you buy at a store
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so i would argue you should go to constitution wealth constitution wealth is a great group of people
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so you know stew said you know capitalism works and and uh and you know we've we've always gotten past
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these things and in in and we'll solve these through capitalism in some ways you're right but we have
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something now that we didn't have back then and that is uh wedge politics uh cries of of racism sexism
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whatever it is uh to divide people and then when you divide them you put them in a camp i mean not
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literally yet but you put them in a camp and then you can do whatever you want because the they're not
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even real people on the same at the same time you have social media showing you um unrealistic expectations
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of how to look how to live what wealth is etc etc and so everybody has this unreal unrealistic view of
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of life and happiness um and and nobody really cares about one another okay because it's nothing's real
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that's the real problem with uh all of this you know if if you lose the connection to
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reality and to humans it's over um and that's the society that we're growing right now you know i was
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at a restaurant i was taking my family out to uh celebrate my daughter's graduation and uh i collect
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cars and i have some nice cars and i i pulled into this uh restaurant and i get out of the car and um
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some kids who are across the street they go hey mister i turn around and they said that your car
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and i said yes and they said what do you do for a living and i told them and they said okay i gotta
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remember that because i'm going to be rich someday i want a car like that and i said you want to be rich
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someday don't ever say that again what you need to say is how can i help people men make their lives
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easier and better if you focus on that and you find ways to make people's lives better and easier
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you will be rich but i guarantee you won't be rich if your goal is just to be rich
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don't need this is why chapter exists the founders of chapter lived through that same disaster with
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their own parents and they they left silicon valley to start chapter because they were like this has
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got to stop this is happening to everybody um i i want you to go to ask chapter um and find out how
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So Elon Factor, Elon Factor, Elon Musk is leaving Washington, D.C. today.
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In fact, many of us believed that there was no way this was going to end well with him
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How are these two strong individuals going to get along?
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They got along famously, and we're losing today one of the few individuals in our time
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that is willing and has been willing to challenge the most sacred assumptions.
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Here's a guy that when he, you know, when they were talking about, I think it was the X Prize,
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And what kind of money do you want this to come into?
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I mean, 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
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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 believes something,
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And all he was fighting for was the freedom to invent,
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the freedom to think differently, the freedom to speak your mind,
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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
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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.
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Not only did he do that, he thought that crap up.
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Here's a guy who completely thinks out of the box.
01:34:48.020
restoring capability that we had already given away.
01:34:55.120
dragging it unwillingly into the 21st century with electric vehicles
01:34:59.540
that shattered the idea that sustainability has to come
01:35:05.520
Here's a guy who, remember, the big three didn't want him around.
01:35:09.740
He had to break that entire system, and look what happened.
01:35:13.540
Then he took a brand-new platform, a speech that was supposed to free us up,
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and it had become oppressive, ossified, monopolized.
01:35:26.080
It became the public square, and what did he do?
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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,
01:35:46.200
And now with Grok and AI, he's fighting to ensure that the machines of tomorrow
01:35:50.300
are actually aligned with not centralized power, but with human liberty.
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But for all of this, all of this that would earn anyone
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a chapter in the history books of the history of man,
01:36:16.820
He has endured the public efforts all around the world to ruin him,
01:36:22.780
coordinated efforts to deplatform, demonetize, to destroy.
01:36:34.940
All the while, he just keeps on doing what he does.
01:36:50.360
Without getting angry, without being vengeful, spiteful, any of it,
01:37:03.340
Real high personal risk, high stakes, sleepless nights, relentless attacks,
01:37:16.860
We have a few great symbols that we didn't have 20 years ago.
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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.
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Galileo was, you know, imprisoned because he was telling the truth too early.
01:37:54.240
Winston Churchill, because he was telling the truth too early.
01:37:57.460
Nobody, I mean, he was cast aside until people realized, oh, the barbarians are at the gates.
01:38:04.420
These are people that saw over the horizon, saw the storms of life, or saw what was capable of being.
01:38:13.040
They came, they spoke up, and they paid dearly for it.
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That means you stood for something in your life.
01:38:30.000
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.
01:38:48.440
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.
01:39:07.900
But that'll happen, you know, at a time when the real effects of everything.
01:39:17.220
I mean, when the future that he is helping shape right now, better or worse, is really taking root, that's when he'll be recognized, once this nonsense is over.
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The thing I like about him, he never asked us to trust him, he never asked for our loyalty.
01:39:39.420
But I think he does deserve our respect, you know?
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I don't care what side of that, I don't care who you voted for.
01:39:46.520
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.
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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.
01:40:17.720
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.
01:40:31.080
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.
01:40:56.280
But I think you did some things that are absolutely remarkable, and you're going to continue to do things that are remarkable.
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How do you think Elon Musk is going to be remembered his time in Washington, D.C.?
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I mean, I think at some level he's viewing it as a disappointment, right?
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And I think he ran into the problem that a lot of well-meaning reformers run into when they get to that freaking, you know, rat's nest.
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It's just very difficult to do, and you have to depend on a lot of people who don't have the same interests as you.
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At least he tried to do something, and I think he did identify a lot of actual places we can improve.
01:43:34.360
You know, I don't think it's going to be – honestly, when I think of the Elon Musk final story, like when we watch the CGI AI movie that's made about his life with no actual real people in it later on.
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I mean, you know, think about like the brain implants and SpaceX and all these other things.
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We were talking about cars last hour, and the cheapest – you said, what was it, $53,000 is the average price now?
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And how does that compare, Stu, you know, throughout history, inflation adjusted?
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So it is – part of the increase is people trading into larger vehicles, SUVs and everything else.
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Really, as far as inflation goes, the only time you really see inflation any time recently as opposed to, you know, the same car, trying to buy the same car over and over again, an equivalent vehicle, is the Biden inflation era.
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Like that post-COVID era, but into the Biden inflation era, there is a real rise there.
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But so it hasn't increased all that much, but still is, you know, has gone up as far as the average price goes.
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What's interesting about Tesla – like right now, I can go on Tesla.
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I'm looking at their inventory right now available in my area.
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I can buy a brand-new Model 3, brand-new, for $34,990.
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That car has a 363-mile range, at least, you know, that's the advertised amount.
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It's the new model, like they had a new redesign, which is –
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Still some decent space, you know, like again –
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And what I think is undersold here is the fact that that car is now available to way under the average purchase price.
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There's things to like about electric cars, things I don't like about them.
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But, for example, and we lose sight of this over long periods of time of how this stuff improves,
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the Model 3, $34,990, is faster 0-60 than the Ferrari Testarossa was.
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That was a car that everyone in the world wanted.
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Now, of course, you'd also have to acknowledge all the safety features are way better.
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All the technology in the car is way better than anything that Ferrari could even theoretically produce in the 1980s.
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And that improvement gets lost in what is the average car price, right?
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Cars that are way below the average purchase price are much, much better than they were 5, 10, certainly 40 years ago.
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But do you have to pull the engine out every 25,000 miles?
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If there's a problem with the transmission, does it cost you $75,000?
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And, by the way, we should also note the car drives itself.
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I mean, you know, if I'm looking at a $53,000 car, I don't know why I wouldn't buy the Tesla – if you could handle electric.
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I don't like electric cars and – anyway, but if you could handle electric, why wouldn't you?
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I mean, if you wanted just – if you wanted, you know, like a four-door – that's a four-door, isn't it?
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So, you just wanted a four-door car, you know, something you're just going to use to get stuff done around, you know, town and et cetera, et cetera.
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If you don't need an SUV, why wouldn't you do that?
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Like, I think about the way this is all changing.
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Like, I have, you know, relatives who can't drive anymore, you know, older people who have, you know, eyesight issues and things like that.
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How close are we, though, to being able to, like, hey, just get the Tesla and it'll just drive you everywhere?
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They're not quite legally approved for you to basically just not do anything.
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You're still supposed to be able to be there to react.
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But, like, I think a lot of people as they age are in that position where they don't necessarily want to be in control of the car all the time, but probably could hit that standard.
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And that standard is going to go away as well where you're not even going to need to put your hands on the wheel.
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And think about how that could improve the lives of someone who, you know, maybe doesn't have relatives around, you know.
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My daughter Mary, she's never had her license because she has seizures.
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So she can't have her license, so she has to Uber everywhere.
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I mean, that would be great when she doesn't have to have a license, she doesn't have to have Uber.
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And how many Americans are there that are either old or just have a reason they just can't drive?
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I will say, we all love Elon, but, man, I remember, Glenn, taking calls from people who were like,
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Do you know that some cars, I don't know about Tesla, but some cars will send a message in the middle of the night back to the factory
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It'll say, this is how the car was used today, and it'll make different changes in the algorithm for the engine
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And it's calling, and it's giving what you did, where you drove, everything, every night.
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So Glenn, do you think, um, when you're looking at the Doge legacy,
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and you look at Elon's legacy, and when I, you know, legacy,
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I don't mean the actual legacy of what seems like about 40 children at this point,
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but I'm talking about his, I'm talking about his, uh, his, yeah,
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The Doge cuts are, they're going to send some little sliver of them in a separate bill now to Congress.
01:52:38.560
Now, of course, it's much harder to pass a separate bill, um, and it's only $8 billion.
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Um, I think that, uh, very few of them are serious about it.
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Um, some of them are, you know, Mike Lee is very serious about it.
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Chip Roy, Massey, they're, they're all serious about it, but that's, you know, there, there's a handful of them.
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Um, and the rest of them, you know, are either too stupid to get it.
01:53:22.840
I mean, we've spent a lot of time on our debt this week and what it means and what's coming if we don't get serious about it.
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And, you know, there's $190 billion, uh, that, that Musk, you know, said we can cut all this stuff.
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I mean, if you can't, if, if the Republicans can't cut the easy stuff, what good are you?
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I mean, there should have been, you know, it would have been nice to get up to 900 or 900 million or, I mean, billion or a trillion dollars in cuts.
01:54:00.520
That, that would have said to the world, we're serious.
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And it would have put us on a completely different course than the one we're on right now.
01:54:08.320
And, you know, Donald Trump is going to do his best to grow us out of this, to set up the conditions for AI and everything else and bring manufacturing back here to America, yada, yada, yada.
01:54:18.080
To try to grow our way out of, of this, uh, debt, but it, it, you have to cut and, uh, you know, I'm, I'm just sick of the Republicans, just sick of them, sick of them.
01:54:32.960
You needed to have the house and the Senate and the white house.
01:54:43.520
Well, there's, they're continuing much of the spending from the inflation reduction act.
01:54:54.820
You can't say we're going to go back to the spending that we had in 2019.
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Or at least, yeah, just we'll even increase the spending for all the programs that existed when Joe Biden took over.
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But the stuff that he passed, that is brand new, that people aren't used to and depending on for years and years and years and years, we're going to get rid of the rest of the spending from those programs.
01:55:21.940
The money that hasn't even gone out, you can't say we're not going to send that out.
01:55:35.020
And, and of course there are a lot of good things in this bill.
01:55:37.740
I mean, I think you'd agree with, you know, at least continuing the tax cuts.
01:55:44.680
But like, if you let those expire, that would be devastating to the economy.
01:55:49.240
What do you make of the criticism from some, and this goes mostly towards the right, who are more hawkish on the budget and such, that, look, it's true.
01:56:05.660
But Donald Trump could demand this is in this bill.
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And there's no sign that the Republicans would not take him up on what his demand was.
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There's no reason to believe they would say no to him if he demanded it.
01:56:17.320
He has not made a big deal publicly pressuring lawmakers to include the doge cuts.
01:56:22.600
So I do have, I do have concerns about that, that, I mean, you know, he should have pushed harder for that.
01:56:36.340
I'm not sure that the Republicans would have gone along with it.
01:56:39.980
Because, you know, if you do have an argument, first of all, you cut, you have all of those Republicans that are part of the game there and have their favorites, and they don't want anything cut.
01:56:58.300
Sorry, gang, everybody's going to have to lose something.
01:57:00.380
I think if he would have made this his priority, priority, it would have happened.
01:57:14.480
And there's some things in this bill that are going to strengthen his priorities.
01:57:20.180
And that was, you know, he was more focused on that and I think more hopeful that maybe the Congress would do their job and they'd care about the spending.
01:57:34.100
But he's not a guy ever that has ever talked about debt or deficit.
01:57:39.000
He does not believe there's a debt or deficit that is too big.
01:57:42.520
He believes the problem is that the economy is not roaring.
01:57:47.120
So let's open the economy and we'll make that money in tax revenue and we'll be able to afford these things.
01:58:04.960
He's never talked out about the debt and deficit to any real degree.
01:58:11.360
Yeah, that's not, he didn't run on that initially.
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I mean, you know, he cares about it at some level.
01:58:19.460
Let me ask you about the Musk relationship there.
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Elon, there's definitely, I think, a clear effort by the media to portray this departure by Musk as this adversarial sort of situation.
01:58:41.540
Or there's been leaks about Trump saying that he was angry at Musk for trying to get some briefing on some China issue.
01:58:49.500
You know, that, you know, a lot of the people inside the White House didn't like Musk.
01:59:05.220
I think Donald Trump and, yeah, no, I think those two get along, they're thick as thieves.
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I mean, I think they are, in many ways, two peas in a pod.
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They understand each other, unlike I think a lot of people could understand either one of them.
01:59:20.600
What's interesting is he's, what, a month away from his July 4th goal?
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And, you know, I'm not going to be staying for very long.
01:59:37.500
And then on the anniversary next year, July, we'll have cut X number amount.
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Now, he's a month away from this July, and I think he just got frustrated.
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And I don't necessarily think necessarily with the president, maybe, but I don't think so.
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Why would I take all of the hits that I'm taking right now?
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Why would I put my car company in danger, SpaceX in danger, you know, risk the reputation
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to everything that is, I hold sacred and dear, to do all of this hard work and sleep on the
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I mean, he was sleeping on the floor, to sleep on the floor, to right the ship on this,
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But I also think that there's a, you know, we were talking about some of the people in
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the White House and in the surrounding apparatus that don't appreciate Elon Musk.
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You're now getting that his departing, the hit pieces, things being leaked about Musk.
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The recent one today, this is in the New York Times, that Musk was using drugs at high levels.
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Mr. Musk's drug consumption went well beyond occasional use.
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He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that he was affecting
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He took ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, and he traveled with a daily medication box
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that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall,
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according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.
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Now, how many people have taken photos, Glenn, of your medication box?
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I would say that's not common unless someone's trying to destroy you in the media.
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Basically, they're just now, everybody who had a problem with Musk while he was there,
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now that he's out, they all think they can leak stuff negatively to the media to destroy him.
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Let me give you another perspective on why they are trying to destroy him, the people
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In a situation like this, and really any real powerful situation, everybody jockeys for a
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He doesn't play by the rules and he'll just go right into the White House and he'll just
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walk right into the Oval and go, yeah, I didn't talk to any of those guys.
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That must drive the career people out of their ever loving mind.
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What is he, what is he saying to the president?
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We've been working, all of us have been working so hard to get the president to go this,
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I think that the people in the White House have with Donald Trump is his access and his
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ability to connect with Donald Trump one-on-one without any filter in between.
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People like filters between the top and access to the top.
02:03:06.140
Well, we learned about this with Joe Biden when he was president.
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Even his own cabinet secretaries couldn't come see him.
02:03:17.100
Is there a part of this too that's just, you know, germane to the way Trump has kind of
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constructed his White House, which is like, you know, I think a lot of good things come
02:03:26.360
out of it where he has a bunch of different sort of factions, right?
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And he has a bunch of people around him who really are-
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And I think there's, at its best, there's really good things that come out of that, right?
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When people who really care about the country are arguing the best things that, the best
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And on the downside of that is there's always people who are just out there to cut everybody
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else's throat so that they can get closer to Donald Trump so that they can have that
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I really, I think Elon Musk is probably pretty pissed because he realized a lot of people
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You know, if Donald Trump got in and all the people that he had trusted that he put
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I think Elon Musk is risking his life to stay, but he's certainly risking his career and his
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none of you are serious, I'd say screw you in a heartbeat.
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I've been texting back and forth with Palmer Luckey lately.
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Hopefully, he'll be on the show here in short order, but we've got to schedule, you know,
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But there's a story about him going back to work with Zuckerberg at Meta, and oof.
02:08:59.980
Are you bothered at all by some of the defense tech that they're working on now?
02:09:06.360
Because that's what Palmer Luckey has gone into now, is defense.
02:09:12.920
It's just like we were just talking about with Teslas.
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One of the great reasons why Teslas are good is because of how connected they are.
02:09:21.940
However, you know, and I think the same thing here with defense.
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I want the ability to be able to do all these things to our enemies.
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But we've seen so many times how it winds up being used by the government.
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I mean, I want to give him every bit of technology, but I know that China is working on stuff, too.
02:10:02.420
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02:10:17.520
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