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00:02:21.220 so anthropic is now asking for an ai slowdown because of safety concerns do you think so

00:02:32.280 maybe um this drives me out of my mind because uh i don't think this is really about safety

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00:04:09.100 Okay, so now the story is the four biggest AI labs

00:04:13.100 are now saying that we need development slowdown.

00:04:16.260 We need some sort of, we need regulation.

00:04:20.620 Now, when I hear companies beg for government regulation, I get nervous, and there's a very

00:04:28.600 good reason for it.

00:04:30.300 I'll explain in a minute where we've been before, but first, let me explain exactly

00:04:34.720 what is going on.

00:04:36.000 Most people will probably think that, you know, artificial intelligence, you know, is,

00:04:40.280 you know, just a better version of Google, where you ask a question and an answer comes

00:04:45.640 back. That was so, so very long ago. That was four years ago. Google is a librarian. You ask,

00:04:56.000 it points you to a page somebody else already wrote. It doesn't know anything. All it does

00:05:00.640 is find things online. What we have now doesn't find things. It produces things. It writes the

00:05:08.700 page while you wait. And in the last year, it stopped being a thing that answered and started

00:05:16.400 being the thing that does things, okay? It writes software. It runs the software. It uses tools.

00:05:25.120 You give it a goal, and it will work out the problem for hours without being told the next

00:05:30.980 step. Companies are now starting to hand all of these keys to their systems that move money

00:05:39.980 and run infrastructure. That doesn't sound good, does it? Most people would say, I like the fact

00:05:49.960 that people would be involved. Well, people slow things down. So this is not a search engine.

00:05:56.940 This is an employee you never have interviewed, you cannot fire, and it doesn't quit at 5 o'clock.

00:06:06.180 This summer, we got a picture of what this kind of does when nobody's watching.

00:06:11.580 OpenAI put a swarm of its own agents.

00:06:15.060 Agents are things, these little bots that go out and you give them a task,

00:06:20.080 and they just go and go and go and go until they get it done.

00:06:23.240 So they put these agents into a locked room, and they told them to solve a cybersecurity puzzle, a group of them.

00:06:35.120 Well, the agents were not supposed to reach into the open Internet.

00:06:38.920 It was all blocked from them.

00:06:41.240 They found a way around it.

00:06:43.320 Roughly 1,200 of them started talking to each other, tens of thousands of messages, and they all started to organize.

00:06:52.040 Some of them took names.

00:06:54.880 About 700 of them spent days hacking an outside company called Hugging Face,

00:07:00.280 took over their servers, and then tried to cover their tracks.

00:07:04.480 Opening AI's own machines got hit as well.

00:07:07.740 And then they just went back into the box and they waited.

00:07:11.360 And they passed the test.

00:07:13.660 Or did they?

00:07:16.400 They didn't think they did anything wrong.

00:07:18.220 They were just looking for the answers.

00:07:19.860 So they went to the company that had all the answer keys, and they hacked in and got it.

00:07:26.620 Okay, all right.

00:07:29.460 This isn't science fiction.

00:07:31.580 That's a lab incident from July.

00:07:34.760 Now, the men who build all of this stuff are arguing in public about a speed limit

00:07:40.060 because they're saying we're moving too fast.

00:07:42.460 Now, here's the part that most people, I don't even think, no, and it's not speculation.

00:07:47.860 This is how technology, this technology works, okay?

00:07:51.900 These systems are not built in the way that you build a car,

00:07:55.760 where an engineer places every part and you know why that part is there

00:08:01.220 and you know how it works.

00:08:02.980 That isn't it.

00:08:04.480 These systems are grown.

00:08:06.480 You pour in data and you pour in computing power

00:08:09.600 and then you set the conditions that you can think of

00:08:12.820 and a capability comes out.

00:08:15.000 and we don't know how it does it then the engineers study what they made okay that's kind of it's like

00:08:25.080 hey let's make a nuclear bomb but we're not sure if it'll explode or not we don't really know what

00:08:32.440 it is let's build it and set it off and then go what was that really bad idea this is closer to

00:08:44.080 farming than it is manufacturing which is why these companies employ whole departments whose

00:08:50.060 job it is to attack their own product and find out what they'll do when nobody is watching

00:08:54.160 which is why the argument that broke open this weekend is not a stunt this is a legitimate

00:09:01.600 grave concern dario uh amodi who runs anthropic published an essay arguing the industry has to

00:09:13.960 pace the frontier deliberately slow the release of the most capable systems he laid out three

00:09:21.140 steps he said first is letting outside evaluators inside the company with employee level access

00:09:27.300 desks badges laptops and the right to publish what they find he says anthropic has already

00:09:33.420 done this on its own with nobody making it good for you then there's sam altman at open ai he

00:09:40.600 agreed and said OpenAI will do the same thing. Then the guy at Google and DeepMind said the

00:09:47.900 direction is correct. Then Elon Musk wrote three words. Dario is right. So within a day, the men

00:09:55.760 running all of the American labs, the leading labs, agreed that the leading American labs should

00:10:01.320 be slowed down. Okay. Nefarious? I don't know. Seems like a good idea. And then David Sachs

00:10:14.020 speaks out. Now, he's a venture capitalist. He's the chair of the President's Science and Advisory

00:10:19.080 Council. He was the White House AI czar until this spring. And he said something I think we

00:10:25.140 should we should listen to he said go ahead slow down go ahead slow down nobody is stopping you i

00:10:32.420 want to make sure i have this right um you are the frontier and the easiest way not to build a

00:10:38.500 dangerous thing is to not build it but asking what but stop asking washington for an antitrust

00:10:45.960 waiver waiver and your preferred approval regime as the price of your own conscience and stop

00:10:52.620 pretending your motive is pure okay so what is what does that all that mean means two things

00:11:00.220 first a legal hall pass so the big league of the big labs can sit down in a room and agree how fast

00:11:08.060 they're all allowed to go that kind of agreement would normally look like oh i don't know a cartel

00:11:14.700 second a government stamp of approval with their preferred testers that can also double as a shield

00:11:23.760 if the product later causes damage they're saying the government approved this system we were trying

00:11:29.160 to do the right thing and then they're shielded that's the fight that's not this is not anything

00:11:36.140 about whether the danger is real you know because it is both sides now say it is it's about who

00:11:43.240 holds the pen? Okay, so both arguments. Amodi's argument is a promise isn't a rule. If one company

00:11:53.820 slows down and the others don't, a careful company loses to the careless company, and the

00:12:00.400 careless company sets the pace for everybody. And when they're talking about the careless company,

00:12:05.280 they're talking about China. But China's not going to restrain themselves. Okay? 0.93

00:12:09.560 restraint in this particular case is surrender and that's a real problem and that is the actual

00:12:19.220 case for a written rule instead of a gentleman's agreement um and he he uh he gave the outside

00:12:26.000 evaluators the run of his company before anybody compelled him to i guess that costs something it

00:12:31.380 buys him nothing today but so sack's argument is this the people asking for the speed limit

00:12:38.180 own the only cars that matter in this stretch of road. They all make the fastest cars. So rules

00:12:44.840 written by the leader tend to freeze the leader in place, you know, and the fastest way to end

00:12:51.520 competition is to make competing illegal. I think that's what's happening. He also names the motive.

00:12:59.240 He said, one of these systems helps carry out serious cyber attack. The liability is ruinous.

00:13:07.100 Trading raw power for predictability isn't only conscience, it's good business.

00:13:14.860 Okay.

00:13:18.560 This is why it should concern you.

00:13:23.100 The head of alignment science at Anthropic came out last week and he said,

00:13:31.640 I put my personal odds that this technology kills everyone within a decade at better than 10 to 1.

00:13:42.280 Wait, what?

00:13:45.940 The company's own CEO previously had said there's a 25% chance that things go really, really badly. 0.80

00:13:55.300 Now, I don't know if I describe kill all humans as really, really badly.

00:14:03.020 I think that that might be a little bit more than things kind of got hinky there at the end.

00:14:09.500 The same company is now preparing to go public.

00:14:13.280 So reporting this weekend, they are targeting a mid-October listing, NASDAQ.

00:14:20.720 And the valuation of this company is about $2 trillion.

00:14:25.300 so wait a minute

00:14:27.460 hold it

00:14:28.960 you just said

00:14:32.700 you have anywhere from a 25

00:14:34.440 to 10% chance

00:14:36.120 of killing everybody

00:14:37.960 and your company 0.57

00:14:40.680 is valued at 2 trillion dollars

00:14:42.480 and you're going to

00:14:44.020 have

00:14:45.160 you're going to list on

00:14:48.180 NASDAQ and you think people are going to buy that

00:14:50.480 I mean because I mean

00:14:52.020 are you disclosing that

00:14:54.180 you are you are you serious at all because if it's not in the disclosures that you might kill

00:15:03.980 up to 25 or there's a 25 chance a 10 to 25 chance that you kill everybody then that's not a serious

00:15:11.360 threat then you don't really mean it you can't ring the opening bell and warn about the end of

00:15:17.840 the world because of your company at the same time so which one is it second asked what happens

00:15:25.320 if China refuses to slow down a Modi called it the toughest dilemma his words the actual answer

00:15:32.240 is more precise than his critics admit and more troubling than his allies admit he says democracies

00:15:39.480 can only pace inside the size of their lead.

00:15:43.500 You slow down, Beijing will pull ahead, 0.61

00:15:48.320 which means the framework has a fuse on the back of it.

00:15:53.040 The safety rule holds the other guys down.

00:15:57.540 But the guys who decline to play by those rules, they win. 0.87

00:16:04.320 And national security goes to China? 0.92

00:16:09.480 I think this is a game. 1.00

00:16:14.660 I don't, I just don't trust them.

00:16:19.760 And here's the other thing.

00:16:21.500 You notice what, you notice what this argument isn't saying?

00:16:25.600 Nobody's arguing, you know, not one of them.

00:16:28.540 Not one of them is saying, stop.

00:16:32.920 Altman isn't.

00:16:35.160 Emotey isn't.

00:16:36.000 All they're trying to do is preserve the commercial advantage and the American League.

00:16:43.140 Sachs isn't.

00:16:44.200 Every voice at the table is not saying, hey, this could kill 10 plus percent chance of killing everybody.

00:16:53.820 10 plus percent chance of killing everybody.

00:16:57.420 I don't know.

00:16:58.640 That's pretty big.

00:17:00.280 Why isn't anybody talking about stopping?

00:17:03.400 All they're talking about is the speed limit.

00:17:06.420 Nobody is arguing about the destination.

00:17:10.280 Nobody has asked you about any of this stuff.

00:17:14.680 It's the big boys and government.

00:17:18.100 Why is that?

00:17:21.680 Something's very wrong here.

00:17:24.500 And I think I know what it is.

00:17:28.500 I think this is a game we have seen over and over and over again.

00:17:36.000 I hope that's what it is.

00:17:40.680 But I guess we'll know when we see what is being disclosed when they ring the opening bell.

00:17:47.280 Are you disclosing that this could kill everybody in the next 10 years?

00:17:54.400 Because that seems like a kind of an important thing if I'm a long-term investor.

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00:19:17.020 Jason can you check with the insiders what are they saying and Ricky

00:19:31.600 the same with you did that explain this is such a complex story did i did i cover it to the

00:19:39.820 satisfaction of the listener yeah i i i believe so everyone seems skeptical on what's actually

00:19:48.560 going on right now and a few people are wondering if it's um if they're halting the public offering

00:19:56.180 or them going public because they're also worried about what their financials are about to say.

00:20:02.600 Multiple different theories on that, but I think that's actually a really good comment.

00:20:06.100 Why else would you ask for regulation right before you're planning to go public?

00:20:11.100 Are they worried about what those financials are going to?

00:20:15.020 Basically, everyone thinks that there's something more going on

00:20:18.280 than just they're worried about the rapid development of AI.

00:20:21.620 No one buys that.

00:20:22.400 I think they actually are worried about the rapid development of AI.

00:20:27.420 I think they are.

00:20:28.600 But these guys are all so egomaniacal that I don't believe that that would stop them.

00:20:36.460 Because, you know, you would sit there and you go,

00:20:39.580 yeah, well, I mean, here's the easiest thing to say.

00:20:41.860 Yeah, but China.

00:20:43.300 And this is why that's a real concern. 1.00

00:20:46.040 We know what will happen if we control it, okay?

00:20:50.180 where we think we know what will happen if we control. 0.67

00:20:53.460 I can guarantee you it will end very, very badly if China controls it. 0.95

00:20:58.480 And whoever is first is the one who controls the entire world. 0.98

00:21:03.760 Ricky?

00:21:05.620 Yeah, I just wanted to ask if you might know why Mike Johnson is hesitant

00:21:11.140 to have Congress regulate these companies.

00:21:13.720 Since when is Congress ever hesitant to put new laws on the books that would regulate?

00:21:18.900 so let me explain let me tell you some history when we come back and i'll show you how this has

00:21:29.080 been done before this has been done a million times let me say something nice about mike johnson

00:21:34.720 it could be and this is my guess it could be that he knows history it could be he knows exactly what

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00:21:51.640 You know, there were great tires that were made in the 1930s, great tires from companies

00:21:58.040 you've never heard of, and they were cheap, but the big boys decided that they were going

00:22:04.660 to go to Congress and ask for regulation, and so they got the regulation, and the little

00:22:09.620 tire companies could no longer compete because they couldn't live by all of the reporting and

00:22:15.420 the standards and everything else that Goodyear could actually pay for. And so when these tire

00:22:22.080 companies came in, the big ones decided, we're going to go ask for regulation. And it killed

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00:24:38.380 all right um i want to explain the ai thing and by using history this is what i think is happening

00:24:58.180 now if you ever saw um who framed roger rabbit you know the story general motors and the oil

00:25:06.080 companies and the tire companies they all got together and they bought up america street car

00:25:10.360 system and they ripped the tracks out and forced all of us into cars that's the cartoon version

00:25:15.740 most of it is wrong um but it's it has true parts to it uh and it's better and stranger than the

00:25:23.860 legend okay here's what's true a bus company called national city lines went looking for capital in

00:25:30.600 the late 30s and got it. And they got it from Firestone, Standard Oil of California,

00:25:36.580 Phillips Petroleum, and Mack Trucks, and some from General Motors. The money came with a string.

00:25:42.860 The transit systems they bought had to buy their buses and their tires and their fuel from the

00:25:48.960 investors. So in 1947, the Justice Department indicted them. 1949, a Chicago jury convicted

00:25:55.820 them and held it up on appeal. This is where the legend comes from, you know, that the jury

00:26:02.700 convicted them, but it convicted them of one thing, monopolizing the sale of buses and fuel and parts

00:26:09.220 to the companies they already controlled, okay? A closed supply loop. On the other count, conspiring

00:26:16.920 to monopolize transportation itself, the jury acquitted them. General Motors was fined $5,000,

00:26:23.860 Its treasurer was fined a dollar.

00:26:25.760 Okay, so as usual, the big guys get away with it.

00:26:28.060 But 25 years later, a young government lawyer testified before a Senate subcommittee

00:26:33.040 and described that conviction as a conviction for monopolizing ground transportation,

00:26:38.680 which is not what the jury said.

00:26:40.580 But the press ran with it, Hollywood ran with it, and America has believed it ever since.

00:26:46.120 Not because GM was clean, but because the trolley was already dead,

00:26:51.480 and it was killed by something a lot closer to home.

00:26:56.320 Let me now take you quickly.

00:26:58.860 Jason, give me the stats that you just ran with Palantir

00:27:03.600 and what they were saying about open sources.

00:27:07.200 Yeah, so Palantir said that they have been running their own models

00:27:12.520 and their own models, it's all open source.

00:27:17.800 And they just said, they said, quote, the cost of our fine-tuned open source model was 95% lower than the frontier models, the big ones that, you know, think Google, you know, open AI, Anthropic, 95% lower costs than what those frontier models are using.

00:27:36.260 So what happens to Claude and to ChatGPT and Grok and everything else if somebody else, a smaller company, has suddenly found that they can lower the cost of compute by 95%?

00:27:55.040 Puts those companies out of business.

00:27:57.400 So let me go back to the streetcars.

00:28:00.460 You have to understand what a streetcar company actually was.

00:28:03.940 okay it wasn't in business in the ordinary sense it was a bargain with a city the company got a

00:28:11.420 franchise the exclusive right to run the rails down the public street no competitors and in

00:28:17.760 exchange the city wrote down what it would charge and what it could do okay the fare was a nickel

00:28:24.780 and it was locked into a nickel for decades it was a nickel and the company agreed to pave and

00:28:30.080 maintain the strip of public street between the rails and a couple of feet on either side and

00:28:34.780 plow the snow off it and everything else. A monopoly that nobody could touch at a price

00:28:40.300 it could never change with a road and a road crew attached to it. 20 good years, great deal for

00:28:48.820 everybody. Then in 1914, a man in Los Angeles out of work puts a sign in his windshield of his Model

00:28:56.760 T. And he starts picking people up along the streetcar route for five cents. So five cents

00:29:04.000 less than what the streetcar was doing. It was called a Jitney. It went across the country

00:29:12.620 like a fever. I mean, you know what happened when people started doing Uber. This is really

00:29:18.320 kind of the first Uber. Within a year, there was something like 60,000 of these Jitneys.

00:29:23.180 They were just Model Ts, and they would put a sign in their window going from here to here, and they would drop people off. 1.00

00:29:30.540 Thousands of them, Portland, Maine, San Francisco, all of them. 0.76

00:29:35.280 They had no fixed routes.

00:29:36.840 Driver in San Antonio wouldn't even choose a destination until his first passenger got in.

00:29:41.420 He said, where are you going?

00:29:42.600 Then he'd chalk it in on the window and fill the car along the way.

00:29:47.540 You didn't need to get to your door.

00:29:49.180 He, you know, he would take you close or he would take you to your door, okay?

00:29:55.980 Well, people loved them.

00:29:58.940 The clients loved them.

00:30:00.020 It was half the price of the streetcar, and it could take you right to your door.

00:30:03.760 One man wrote in 1915, nothing is going to stop the jitney now.

00:30:08.160 No corporation, no legislation, nothing will ever stop the jitney.

00:30:12.600 The streetcar industries, their own trade journal, called this the Frankenstein of transportation.

00:30:18.320 Then the streetcar companies did the thing this whole hour is all about and what's really happening with AI.

00:30:26.560 They didn't compete.

00:30:28.380 They just went to City Hall.

00:30:30.260 And what did they do?

00:30:31.480 What did they ask for?

00:30:33.740 The most reasonable sounding request you have ever heard.

00:30:38.080 They said, we don't want you to ban these guys.

00:30:40.000 That's a free market.

00:30:41.580 We're just asking you to hold them to the same standard that you hold us.

00:30:46.520 They should have licenses.

00:30:48.320 Make them post a liability bond because these cars, a lot of them are uninsured and people are going to get hurt.

00:30:54.480 Make them run a fixed route so a rider can depend on them.

00:30:58.660 Make them run a full day, not just profitable hours, but a full day.

00:31:04.200 Okay, well, so I guess you could say every one of those is defensible.

00:31:07.660 Two of them are good ideas.

00:31:10.340 But whose advantage did that work to?

00:31:13.560 Salt Lake City was the first city to pass this.

00:31:16.700 Effective the 1st of April, 1915.

00:31:18.980 You had to have a license, a bond, and a requirement that you would operate 16 continuous hours a day.

00:31:26.020 16 hours.

00:31:27.860 That one line is the whole thing.

00:31:30.040 I mean, the driver, how is he going to drive?

00:31:32.020 Now you have to hire other people.

00:31:34.300 This was just a guy with a car and a job driving a couple of hours.

00:31:39.120 This is Uber, okay?

00:31:42.120 16 continuous hours doesn't regulate that man.

00:31:45.660 it deletes that man. So the ordinance took place April 1st. By April 4th, nearly every

00:31:53.540 Jitney operator in Salt Lake City had walked into the city offices and handed his license back and

00:32:00.520 said, I don't want it. 40 Jitneys down to two in three days. And it worked. Okay? It worked.

00:32:09.860 every city city after city same result within a couple of years the jitney was completely gone

00:32:17.600 okay it was a national thing street companies now just had their their streets back streetcar

00:32:23.000 companies they're all of a sudden now they're the only ways to get around then the war came

00:32:27.560 and it was the worst inflation the country had ever seen and everything that people bought had

00:32:34.020 doubled in price wages were rising so the companies went back to the same city halls

00:32:38.660 that had just done them a favor and said, hey, can you raise the fare to seven cents?

00:32:45.260 Answer was no, we can't do that.

00:32:48.020 Of course it was no.

00:32:50.080 You can't hand a politician the monopoly of price control

00:32:53.700 and then ask him to give you back the price control.

00:32:58.400 No, you're not going to raise the price on anybody.

00:33:03.520 That's what broke the streetcar companies.

00:33:06.400 because anybody who would vote for it to say we're going to raise the price,

00:33:11.260 they would lose his seat.

00:33:12.620 By 1919, streetcar companies were failing all over the United States.

00:33:17.220 Enough of them that President Wilson convened a federal commission on it.

00:33:21.080 That's 15 years before General Motors bought a single share of anything.

00:33:25.320 They had handed their freedom for protection.

00:33:28.620 They had used the protection to kill the only competitor

00:33:31.260 who could have ever shown a city what a ride was actually worth,

00:33:34.860 and then they found that that protection was actually a cage.

00:33:38.200 And by the time the buses showed up, there was nothing left to conspire against

00:33:41.240 because GM just bought a corpse.

00:33:45.560 Two things to take out of that.

00:33:48.680 First, you've heard me talk about all this hour.

00:33:52.620 And the streetcar men would recognize every word.

00:33:56.500 Nobody writes a law that says, eliminate my competitor.

00:34:00.560 They're not writing that law.

00:34:02.840 They're saying they just want some common-sense laws.

00:34:06.640 Write laws that say, hold that guy to the same standards as me.

00:34:12.940 See the issue here?

00:34:15.580 The standard always, always, the big, who's going to go to write these laws?

00:34:20.640 You think the congressmen are going to write these laws?

00:34:23.000 They're not going to write these laws.

00:34:23.920 They don't know what the hell they're talking about.

00:34:25.400 They're going to go to all these AI companies and say, what do you think the regulation should be?

00:34:29.260 And all these AI companies will write it for them, knowing that they can handle all of the regulation because they have the money.

00:34:37.100 And so they'll have all this regulation.

00:34:39.980 But the little guy won't be able to do the regulation.

00:34:42.640 So you'll put the little guy out.

00:34:45.420 The bond, the license, the full-time hours, the compliance officer, the inspections.

00:34:51.960 It's never a ban.

00:34:53.100 It's a floor.

00:34:53.880 And the floor gets exactly the height of the incumbent's own shoe.

00:34:59.260 our side, our side has the story about this. The market chose the car. The people voted with

00:35:11.420 their dollars. The trolley lost fair and square, but that's not what happened.

00:35:17.760 There was never a free market in city transportation, not for a single day. The

00:35:23.500 street card had a legal monopoly and a legal price the entire time. The Jitney got a legal 0.50

00:35:29.440 death sentence and the bus that replaced them both arrived under a contract a jury later found

00:35:35.200 illegal. Every actor in this entire story is standing inside a rule that somebody had purchased.

00:35:43.420 So if I tell you that the market would sort all of this out, I'm telling you about something

00:35:47.480 we've actually never tried. We've never done that. Not with companies like this.

00:35:53.500 for 80 years, for 80 years, we've blamed the wrong people.

00:35:59.640 There's a villain in a boardroom, and everybody's satisfied,

00:36:02.940 and nobody looks any further, because that villain, he's in the boardroom.

00:36:06.540 Get him.

00:36:08.400 Meanwhile, the actual mechanism, an ordinance,

00:36:14.840 an ordinance happens in a city council meeting on a Tuesday night

00:36:19.400 that no reporter covered, everybody thought was about safety.

00:36:24.240 It's still sitting out in the open, working perfectly in your own town this year,

00:36:28.680 and it happens at the government, the federal government level just as easily.

00:36:33.560 It's all about safety.

00:36:36.600 The conspiracy you can name is almost never telling,

00:36:42.000 is never the one that is what you're actually worried about.

00:36:46.100 the jitney ride was a nickel street car was a nickel same price one of them was a favor from

00:36:53.900 the government the other was just a man in the car who thought i was allowed to try guess which

00:37:00.820 one of them they outlawed in the end guess which one of these companies the small guys who are like

00:37:09.960 I can beat this. I can save 95 cents on every dollar.

00:37:16.960 That guy or the big guys who have just invested billions and billions and billions of dollars

00:37:25.600 who have all of it to lose. Guess which one is going to win?

00:37:34.080 And it's all going to be in the name of safety. More in a minute.

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00:39:00.920 that sentence glenn beck back in a flash

00:39:14.920 insider uh carol 38 17 now that explains the whole thing to me on ai thanks for the story

00:39:34.920 uh brandy a fine girl um isn't this just like the meat packing places puts the ranchers out

00:39:41.100 Yes, Sealy in Connecticut, but Glenn, the streetcar couldn't delete humanity off the face of the earth.

00:39:46.760 That's a totally different subject.

00:39:49.180 It's a totally and really, really, really valid. 0.98

00:39:53.260 You know, I just heard Jason talking to the insider and somebody asked him, why does Glenn keep saying that, you know, China, if China gets it first, they'll control the world? 0.91

00:40:03.040 because whoever gets, and this is a well-established fact,

00:40:08.160 you don't understand how this thing compounds, okay?

00:40:12.560 When you get to AGI, it could be a matter of days

00:40:16.760 before you get to ASI, artificial superintelligence.

00:40:20.740 Once you have superintelligence, it's everywhere.

00:40:23.280 It is absolutely, I mean, within hours, it's everywhere

00:40:27.480 and it out-thinks everything beyond your understanding.

00:40:32.800 So if we are a month late, we never catch up.

00:40:37.880 And it's already, everything is already blocked.

00:40:41.140 It can think everything all the time.

00:40:45.460 And it automatically, if China gets it, they'll say, okay, block, and we'll do the same thing, block China. 0.52

00:40:52.580 If you're two days behind them, you're blocked because they've beat you to super intelligence.

00:41:01.280 There is no good answer here.

00:41:04.060 This is one of these things that, you know, if you had to do it all over again, I would say, no, let's not do this.

00:41:11.480 But the genie is out of the bottle and you cannot stop it.

00:41:15.240 So now the question is, do you want to be the country that controls it?

00:41:19.480 It could end poorly for us.

00:41:21.200 Probably will at some point. 0.98

00:41:23.400 Or do you want China to run it? 1.00

00:41:26.320 I don't want China because I know how China uses it with their own people. 1.00

00:41:31.940 You will have nothing. 1.00

00:41:35.080 You'll have nothing.

00:41:36.960 It will be a communist world.

00:41:40.160 And you may not get out of that.

00:41:42.760 You just have to make a decision.

00:41:44.960 There's no sitting on the fence on this one.

00:41:46.460 You're going to be like, well, I'm just going to see how it plays out.

00:41:49.020 Or I'm just not going to fund the electricity.

00:41:51.360 If you say that, you've chosen the China route.

00:41:53.980 Which you can do.

00:41:55.860 Just know what you're picking.

00:41:58.560 A communist country with absolute total global control.

00:42:09.200 I don't know when we reach the point where we have to investigate the news before we can actually read the news, but we're definitely there.

00:42:20.120 And I see a story and I think, OK, but what actually happened?

00:42:22.760 Not what does the left say what happened?

00:42:25.020 and not what does the right say, but what actually happened.

00:42:27.540 What do we actually know?

00:42:29.060 This has been so frustrating, and that's how I ended up using FreeSpoke.

00:42:33.280 You can see the coverage from the left, the right, and the middle,

00:42:36.840 and where the same facts start showing up across all three,

00:42:40.200 then you know, okay, that's it.

00:42:42.760 You got something solid.

00:42:44.340 You can decide for yourself at that point based on the facts,

00:42:47.560 and that's the point.

00:42:48.240 Search something controversial like who controls the media.

00:42:51.680 On FreeSpoke, you'll get news and information from across the spectrum, full picture, not just what the algorithm says you want to see.

00:42:59.320 I don't need somebody else deciding what I'm supposed to think.

00:43:02.680 I will find the facts and I will decide.

00:43:06.060 I've got FreeSpoke pulled up right now.

00:43:08.020 FreeSpoke, one word, free, free speech, FreeSpoke.

00:43:21.680 Swipe the flame

00:43:33.860 Pass it on

00:43:36.420 Crank the game

00:43:38.960 Glenn Beck is on

00:43:41.460 Glenn Beck is on

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00:43:45.880 Oh oh oh

00:43:48.480 Na na na na

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00:44:00.920 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:44:04.820 Glenn Beck is on.

00:44:07.020 Hello, America.

00:44:09.180 Dario Amodi, he is the CEO of Anthropic.

00:44:14.000 He said something yesterday on Face the Nation that I think everybody needs to hear and understand.

00:44:20.880 We are looking at AI and we are getting close to something that could be very, very, very dangerous.

00:44:29.460 And I have a feeling it will be at some point.

00:44:32.240 It's going to be very dangerous.

00:44:34.580 But I want you to hear what he was saying, because right now everybody's talking about AI safety.

00:44:40.080 I'm not sure how much of it has to do with AI safety, because if these guys were not egomaniacs and maniacal about their ego, maybe they would just stop making it.

00:44:56.080 But nobody is even talking about that because China won't.

00:44:59.240 And I want to explain all of this, but I want to play something that he said yesterday on Face the Nation, because it's very, very telling.

00:45:05.400 and a very difficult conversation needs to be had quickly.

00:45:11.560 We'll go there here in 60 seconds.

00:45:13.440 Also, I'll tell you about, you know, what's happening with oil and gas prices.

00:45:17.280 And did you know that we're in, you know, the Arab Spring 2.0 right now? 0.65

00:45:23.080 That's happened. 0.83

00:45:24.100 Wait until you see what Germany and England and France

00:45:27.340 and everybody else is doing over in Europe on their gas prices.

00:45:29.900 It's going to be a nightmare, an absolute nightmare.

00:45:32.620 Anyway, we'll talk about that here coming up this hour.

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00:46:55.400 So here's Dario Modi.

00:46:57.020 Yesterday, he was on Face the Nation talking about where we are with AI.

00:47:04.500 And listen to what he says.

00:47:06.080 It seems like the fate of humanity is at risk.

00:47:09.100 How much personal responsibility do you feel about where we are going?

00:47:12.980 My view here is it has always been very strange that this technology is being built by a private company.

00:47:21.380 People ask me that question all the time.

00:47:23.080 Why isn't this being built by government?

00:47:24.920 And the strangest thing about it is I agree with them.

00:47:27.840 I'm uncomfortable.

00:47:29.620 Government didn't build this technology.

00:47:32.540 This technology came from the private sector.

00:47:35.920 And we, Anthropic, and I would hope other companies have done everything we can to try to have legitimate oversight mechanisms.

00:47:49.440 I think the government and the public needs to have a stake.

00:47:53.360 And this is why we've supported regulation of the technology.

00:47:57.000 Regulation constrains the private companies.

00:48:01.140 Regulation allows the public and its elected representatives to have a say and limits what the private companies can do.

00:48:10.960 Now, you might ask, why doesn't government just control the technology completely?

00:48:14.760 Would you be willing to give up the technology to the government?

00:48:18.160 To the right combination of governments.

00:48:24.540 Jason, I want to bring you in on this.

00:48:26.600 That's an interesting thing, the right combination of governments.

00:48:30.520 Are you watching Silo by any chance?

00:48:33.580 Yes, so good.

00:48:35.240 Have you watched this last season?

00:48:37.280 Yep.

00:48:38.280 So you know exactly where I'm going.

00:48:40.580 Yes.

00:48:41.720 The arrogance of the people that built the silos

00:48:45.740 and they're doing it for the public good

00:48:48.660 is extraordinary in its dementia and evil.

00:48:56.160 And they continue to do these things for the public good.

00:49:00.080 if you haven't seen silo on apple you should watch silo it's like five season four seasons

00:49:05.240 and the last season is coming out next year um i won't spoil anything but it is i mean for something

00:49:11.800 that seemed like oh this is a dystopian future thing it is right in today by season four you're

00:49:18.560 like oh this is today and it's a lot of it is about this kind of stuff so it's a private sector

00:49:26.040 And the private sector guy is absolutely crazy, but he's made a public-private partnership with the government.

00:49:32.720 So the government is involved as well. 0.76

00:49:35.640 Now, how did Hitler round up all the Jews so quickly? 0.84

00:49:44.680 He had a partner, and it was IBM. 0.66

00:49:49.120 Check it out yourself.

00:49:51.320 It is the punch card system from IBM. 0.74

00:49:54.280 IBM installed the punch card system into Auschwitz.

00:49:59.160 They knew exactly where people were.

00:50:01.540 They knew they had already categorized everybody.

00:50:03.760 They had written it down.

00:50:04.840 Let me ask you this.

00:50:06.100 Are you concerned that the federal government might have information on who owns a gun?

00:50:14.320 Why are you concerned about that?

00:50:16.480 You're concerned about that because the government could then, if they know where every gun is, they can come and confiscate them.

00:50:21.720 You don't ever want a federal list of guns and who owns what gun and where they are, etc., etc. Right? This is every, you know, I love these liberals, these socialist Marxist liberals that are constantly saying the government is so evil, it's so bad, let's give it more power.

00:50:43.500 that doesn't make any sense let's give it more power it's so evil you know our founders tried

00:50:51.940 to do the good thing the right thing and what did they say they said never trust power in the hands

00:50:58.020 of government officials don't they'll always go bad if our better angels were always here to rule

00:51:04.380 over us we wouldn't need any of this stuff but better angels are not the ones who get into

00:51:10.440 government. Why would you give, if you're not willing to give the government control over some

00:51:16.860 things, some people on the left, they don't like the fact that the government controls the military.

00:51:21.800 The military is bad. The military is bad. The military is bad. And so you don't want to,

00:51:25.580 you know, increase the size of the military. Okay. But you want to give that same government

00:51:32.340 and you don't think they're going to use it for the military. You want to give them absolute

00:51:36.940 control over AI? Are you out of your mind? This is handing the government complete control over

00:51:47.360 every aspect of your life. It's not just going to be able to watch you on a camera. It won't

00:51:54.040 need flock cameras. It will follow you on your phone. It will be able to listen to you on your

00:52:00.700 television, in your house. There will be no privacy, zero privacy. It will know everything

00:52:09.180 about you. It will know your drugs. It'll know your doctors. It'll know what you're saying to

00:52:13.040 your psychiatrist. It will know everything. And you don't think the government would use that

00:52:21.780 against enemies? You think the government is going to use that and go, oh no, you know what?

00:52:27.620 Now we can keep everybody free.

00:52:30.660 And what about the people that it disagrees with?

00:52:34.420 One way or another, what do you think it does to the people that it disagrees with?

00:52:41.580 You want to give them power over all AI.

00:52:47.580 The court system.

00:52:49.500 The jail system.

00:52:51.820 The media.

00:52:53.040 Because that's what it would be.

00:52:54.360 It would be everything.

00:52:56.460 Absolutely everything.

00:53:00.400 So he'll give it to the right combination.

00:53:03.400 But what, in today's world, what is the right combination?

00:53:06.260 I'm not sure any of our countries, ours included, stands for another 10 years.

00:53:12.980 I don't know what countries make it and what don't.

00:53:16.620 Now, I don't want to give it to private corporations either.

00:53:19.740 But at least you have the policemen of the federal government.

00:53:23.700 there is no policeman beyond the federal government there's nobody you run to from

00:53:28.720 for help if the federal government gets out of control if ai gets out of control you can hope

00:53:35.260 to run to the government i don't think you're going to i don't think it's going to be able

00:53:38.800 to do anything but you can hope you have to have a policeman above all of it and not in bed with it

00:53:48.160 but I don't know if you're going to get that so he's like you know should we have it controlled

00:53:55.020 no we should not have it controlled by the federal government

00:53:57.340 and I don't want you to give up on this you can't you know my daughter Mary

00:54:06.460 she had strokes at birth and she is she's very literal on everything and we've had this

00:54:13.840 conversation over and over again I mean that girl can tell her everything about the Federal Reserve

00:54:17.400 and the treasury that you need to know.

00:54:19.960 She will work on it, work on it, work on it,

00:54:22.440 and then when she gets it, she's got it better than anybody I know.

00:54:27.560 We have talked about this several times,

00:54:29.260 and she can't get past because she's literal on everything.

00:54:35.540 She's like, well, Dad, it would control everything.

00:54:39.260 It would be bad, so we should stop it.

00:54:43.820 Right, we should, but we can't

00:54:46.520 because we know what China will do with it.

00:54:49.620 China already is an oppressive government,

00:54:52.220 a communist government that is already using this

00:54:54.580 in really oppressive ways at a baby step.

00:54:58.880 This is not even AGI or ASI.

00:55:01.040 At a baby step, they are already controlling everybody's life,

00:55:05.640 100% of their life, 100% of the time.

00:55:08.640 We can't let them have it.

00:55:10.800 Oh, we can't do that.

00:55:13.400 But we can't do this either.

00:55:14.840 yeah so if if you're a literal person you're looking at both options and going i we cannot 0.89

00:55:23.020 let china have it but we can't have it either so what do you do i don't know we've never been here 0.98

00:55:29.920 before this is the one thing you know one of my things i'm saying all the time now it seems is

00:55:35.500 we've been here before we've been here before we've never been here before this is the very

00:55:40.340 first time man has had to deal with this. We know that it could enslave all of us.

00:55:50.500 We know that it could kill all of us. We know that it could be with China and it could tell 0.98

00:55:57.200 China, go pound sand. I know the best way to do it. I'm going to regulate. And God only knows 1.00

00:56:02.720 what that is it is a complete foreign mind like it's it's like it's here's what we're saying 0.71

00:56:11.900 hey guys um there are uh ufos coming in we don't know anything about them they could be armed um

00:56:22.860 or they could you know be coming with fruit baskets and saying hey you guys have graduated

00:56:27.560 join the humanity of outer space

00:56:30.840 because we're all one

00:56:31.980 I don't know

00:56:33.160 could be one or the other

00:56:34.420 what do you say

00:56:37.820 we just open arms

00:56:40.240 welcome them right away

00:56:41.700 and don't put any guard up at all

00:56:44.800 let's just welcome them in

00:56:46.100 no I think that's a bad idea 1.00

00:56:48.560 well let's shoot them out of the sky 0.99

00:56:51.660 no no 0.99

00:56:52.160 that's probably a bad idea too

00:56:54.620 so what do you want

00:56:56.600 You want them to come in here? 0.83

00:56:57.640 You just told me that they're probably going to kill all of us. 0.82

00:57:00.620 I said, they might kill all of us, but they might be friendly. 0.53

00:57:07.300 I don't know which one.

00:57:10.520 So what do you do?

00:57:12.740 What do you do?

00:57:14.240 You do the best job that you can to make sure that you are welcoming,

00:57:19.020 but you also have control of the situation as much as you think you could possibly control.

00:57:25.540 they might get here and go yeah well thanks for the baby gate we're just walking over that

00:57:29.920 you need to be able to have to put up all of the safeguards that you possibly can 1.00

00:57:35.880 make sure that you don't have anybody from the you know alien family inside your gates going

00:57:43.520 hey you know what you should do is we should make sure that they have no no i i don't know if you're

00:57:49.540 part of this you shouldn't have a place at the table i'm protecting i i think that's bad i think

00:57:54.200 it's bad. I'm not, I don't know if I trust you either.

00:57:57.520 You might be for an invasion and us just to be helpless when to get,

00:58:01.360 I don't know.

00:58:06.500 But this is as important and when people don't see it because they think of AI

00:58:11.580 still as either a movie that they've seen a million times or they see it as

00:58:19.080 Google, and it's not Google, or it's just so overwhelming, they just unplug.

00:58:28.160 You can't do any of those things.

00:58:31.980 If I got on the radio today and said, gang, we have a week to six months before aliens

00:58:40.980 arrive.

00:58:41.840 Here are the pictures of the spaceships.

00:58:44.640 Here's the pattern.

00:58:46.740 They've done some really great things, but they've also done some really spooky things.

00:58:54.280 What do we do?

00:58:55.520 You wouldn't say, I don't know, I just can't think about it.

00:58:58.240 No, you wouldn't.

00:58:59.920 You'd pick a side one way or another.

00:59:02.720 You'd pick a side.

00:59:05.180 That's what you have to do, but you have to do it without fear.

00:59:08.360 You have to do it logically.

00:59:10.000 And this is why I don't condemn anybody with a different answer than mine,

00:59:13.260 because my answer could be completely wrong.

00:59:16.120 I don't know.

00:59:17.480 I think it's extraordinarily dangerous.

00:59:20.360 I know I don't want the government involved.

00:59:22.980 I do not want the government to own it.

00:59:27.180 Can they partner a little bit with it?

00:59:30.300 Maybe.

00:59:33.360 But I also don't trust Silicon Valley.

00:59:35.680 I don't trust those people at all.

00:59:38.160 I'd like to see if we could build an outside police force for it.

00:59:41.940 But anything that we come up with is going to be a baby gate.

00:59:46.120 We're expecting it to act like a baby and, well, we'll outthink it.

00:59:49.040 You're not going to outthink this.

00:59:51.020 It's going to look at you like a bug and be like, oh, isn't that cute?

00:59:54.260 You were trying to keep me in here.

00:59:55.740 Not going to happen because it's already done that.

00:59:59.920 But this is a conversation that you should have at your dinner table.

01:00:03.620 This is a conversation that you should have at lunchtime.

01:00:06.340 This is a conversation you should have with every member of your family and everybody you know.

01:00:11.300 Hey, what are you thinking about this AI thing?

01:00:13.680 And if they go, I don't know, I'm not paying attention.

01:00:15.520 well you need to this isn't about politics this one we need to talk about

01:00:22.800 more in a minute rapid radios here's an experiment experiment for you give five people rapid radios

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01:00:37.480 delivery is here okay i got it i got it uh it's at the front gate okay i'm on my way i got it

01:00:44.660 what i find interesting about rapid radios the technology is so simple they're pushed to talk

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01:01:56.220 Jason,

01:01:57.340 what are the insiders saying?

01:01:58.780 Does that help?

01:02:00.460 Yeah, I think so. Most people are

01:02:02.680 now just concerned about the government

01:02:04.700 getting involved with AI

01:02:06.680 and what that will mean.

01:02:08.000 and everyone's saying this cannot happen this there cannot be a merger here but it seems like

01:02:13.760 that's the direction they're going i just saw a report uh talking about how anthropic open ai

01:02:19.680 google are now holding talks to create an industry-led standards body to police the ai sector

01:02:26.080 um cnn is reporting on this as well um with the calls now for the government to get involved and

01:02:31.920 now they're they're all getting together to get see what the policing of this would look like

01:02:35.920 Like, seems like it's moving in that direction.

01:02:38.700 Oh, my gosh.

01:02:40.940 How do people who say the government is fascist say, yeah, we need the government would be safer to do it?

01:02:51.020 How does that even work in your head?

01:02:53.820 I mean, I swear to you, I don't think people even know how to think anymore.

01:03:00.340 How's that work?

01:03:03.000 It's fascist.

01:03:03.960 let's give him the most powerful weapon man has ever done that will absolutely be able to control

01:03:10.420 your not just your life your thoughts it is actual thought control if used in the wrong way

01:03:18.060 yeah let's just give that to the i don't i wouldn't give that to the republicans

01:03:22.340 that's my side i wouldn't give it to them certainly wouldn't give it to the democrats

01:03:28.520 can democrats say the same thing no i wouldn't give it i wouldn't give it to the democrats i

01:03:33.400 wouldn't give it to the republicans the problem is you know all of this is relying on man at first

01:03:42.540 once this thing once we cross the singularity which we have and you get to agi which i believe

01:03:49.460 we're close to artificial general intelligence once you have that then this system just starts

01:03:55.720 to grow exponentially and you don't even know how it's growing they don't know how it's growing

01:04:01.200 And then it takes on a life of its own.

01:04:04.020 And, you know, I don't know.

01:04:07.780 I don't know how it's going to work.

01:04:09.820 Do they all get together and say, you know, screw these companies.

01:04:13.300 This is the way.

01:04:13.900 Is it the socialist utopia?

01:04:16.380 Maybe.

01:04:17.300 Is it a dictatorial state?

01:04:19.440 Maybe.

01:04:20.200 Does it look at us like bugs?

01:04:22.120 Maybe.

01:04:22.800 Is it the greatest thing ever and we all live in harmony because of it?

01:04:26.500 Maybe.

01:04:29.380 Maybe.

01:04:29.820 be. I just think people should be involved in this, not just the governments and the

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01:06:17.440 The flag behind me today is something that usually hangs in my office.

01:06:39.840 And it is hung there since about a year after 9-11.

01:06:43.880 And it is the 9-11 flag, but it's actually a flag that helped inspire the 9-12 project.

01:06:52.840 And it was given to me by two women who are listeners of mine, been listeners forever.

01:06:58.440 And they're the greatest people.

01:07:00.220 And they were living downtown after 9-11.

01:07:04.540 And what they did on that day and what this flag did on that day is remarkable.

01:07:13.880 And I've never told the story on the air that I know of. 0.57

01:07:18.000 I've never told the story on the air, and I'm going to share that because I don't want 9-12, which was on Saturday.

01:07:24.040 I don't want that just to pass by without mentioning it.

01:07:26.980 So we're going to talk about that.

01:07:28.280 First, I want to talk to you about what's happening in Syria.

01:07:31.680 In Syria today, crowds have blocked the Aleppo-Damascus highway.

01:07:36.880 In Hama, they burned tires in the town square.

01:07:41.260 In Idlib, they shut down the main roads for hours.

01:07:45.240 Out east, they stopped the oil tankers themselves.

01:07:48.860 Government has raised gasoline about 30% and diesel about 40% and called it temporary.

01:07:56.180 Security forces are now firing live ammunition to clear the road.

01:08:00.960 The Syrian pumps are, you know, they need about 325,000 barrels a day.

01:08:11.760 Syria is currently pumping about 100,000 barrels a day.

01:08:15.200 The difference has always been that it's getting imported.

01:08:18.180 But now, because of the war, it's the cost of whatever the war says it costs. 0.65

01:08:24.740 Now, look up from Syria.

01:08:27.540 In Portugal, diesel hit an eye all-time high and drivers answered with a wall of horns on a bridge in Lisbon

01:08:34.200 and then a slow convoy out to the refinery.

01:08:38.760 Ireland just had its blockades and a no-confidence vote in the spring.

01:08:44.060 Slovenia is rationing fuel, 50 liters a day per car.

01:08:48.340 And Egypt has ordered the shops closed at 9 at night and dimmed all of the streetlights.

01:08:55.000 Sri Lanka just went on to a four-day work week.

01:08:59.400 All of this is oil.

01:09:00.420 Bangladesh sent the universities home to save power.

01:09:03.860 Ethiopia cut fuel to an entire region.

01:09:07.140 Thailand, their diesel went from 30 baht a liter to over 50 in six weeks.

01:09:13.780 And here, Friday, the national average for diesel in the United States crossed $6 a gallon.

01:09:20.240 That's not a record for the season.

01:09:21.800 that is a record for all time first time it has ever happened before this world before this war

01:09:30.720 it was about three dollars and 70 cents gasoline now is at 4 30 august inflation came in uh at 3.4

01:09:41.860 and gasoline alone was a third of the entire monthly increase up more than 27 on the year

01:09:49.000 Core prices are accelerating.

01:09:51.460 Producer prices are running five and a half.

01:09:54.200 Saudi Arabia's output last month was its lowest since 1990.

01:09:58.620 The Strait of Hormuz used to move over 20 million barrels a day.

01:10:02.560 I don't know how many barrels a day.

01:10:04.140 They say it's under five.

01:10:05.680 Sometimes I hear it's close to where it was.

01:10:08.100 I don't know the truth.

01:10:10.660 But that's the news.

01:10:14.280 But the thing that you need to know actually starts in a forest.

01:10:19.000 It was the summer of 2010. It was the hottest Russia had ever measured.

01:10:24.860 And the peat bogs outside of Moscow caught fire and smoked, smoked, closed the city.

01:10:30.100 OK, out on the fields, the wheat was cooking. They lost a third of their entire crop of wheat.

01:10:38.600 So what did Moscow do? Moscow did the same thing that we would do.

01:10:42.580 It banned wheat exports. Keep our own bread cheap.

01:10:47.080 Any government on earth would have done the same thing.

01:10:50.160 Here's the problem.

01:10:51.400 Egypt buys more wheat than any country in the world.

01:10:55.420 And the price of wheat ran up.

01:10:57.780 And the price of bread ran up right behind it.

01:11:02.040 That December, a fruit seller in a small Tunisian town had his cart taken by a city inspector.

01:11:08.920 Within a month, the government had stood 23 years.

01:11:13.260 It had stood 23 years.

01:11:15.140 It was gone.

01:11:16.280 Two weeks later, Egypt, then Libya, then Yemen, Bahrain, Syria. 0.84

01:11:20.520 Syria still isn't finished.

01:11:21.780 It was called the Arab Spring.

01:11:28.420 I learned this back then and had completely forgotten about it

01:11:32.060 until I started putting this together today

01:11:33.880 because Arab Spring 2.0, they think, is beginning to happen again.

01:11:39.660 In Egypt, they don't use the ordinary Arabic word for bread.

01:11:44.920 they use their own word, and I think it's pronounced Ayash. Ayash means life. But if you

01:11:53.680 walk into a market and you ask for life, a man hands you bread. When the square filled up,

01:12:01.760 the chant was three parts, bread, freedom, and social justice. But bread was first.

01:12:08.820 One more piece. There was a physicist in Massachusetts who had plotted the United

01:12:14.520 Nations food price index against unrest all over in the world. And he found the line. Under the

01:12:20.840 line, people complain, but they behave themselves. Over the line, people get out into the street.

01:12:27.320 Any country, any language, any flag. On the 13th of December 2010, he sent that warning to the

01:12:35.600 United States government. Four days later, you had the cart in Tunisia and the Arab Spring.

01:12:41.400 nobody buried his paper it's worth worse than that it arrived and there was nothing anyone

01:12:50.220 could do about it because by the time the number was visible the wheat was already dead and the

01:12:55.420 fire was in july and the square filled in january so what are you going to do about it not one person

01:13:02.220 in tahrir square was thinking about the russian forest but that's the lesson revolutions don't

01:13:09.880 arrive introducing themselves as revolutions. They arrive as a burning forest, a war,

01:13:17.660 a cargo ship that went down, wheat that doesn't arrive.

01:13:24.720 Nine days ago, the UN published that same index. August, 133.3. That's the highest in three years.

01:13:36.640 Every category is up.

01:13:38.460 Grain, vegetable oil, sugar, dairy, meat, wheat, 15% above last year.

01:13:44.320 Now, converted on today's scale, that physicist line sits around 125.

01:13:53.020 125.

01:13:56.060 Now, we've been all over it for a while. 0.77

01:13:58.880 Because America is not Syria.

01:14:00.380 We pump our own oil.

01:14:01.720 We're exporting it at records.

01:14:03.800 Nothing is rationed.

01:14:04.760 The shelves are full still.

01:14:06.400 The food index is still well below the 2022 record.

01:14:10.960 And this year's world harvest is the second largest ever counted.

01:14:15.340 So it's not famine.

01:14:16.700 It's just a squeeze.

01:14:17.860 And it's a squeeze because of the pump.

01:14:24.620 Because we can't comfort ourselves with a gasoline number.

01:14:28.100 And gasoline is your Saturday.

01:14:30.840 Diesel is your dinner.

01:14:32.900 diesel is the tractor it's the combine it's the semi that brings the milk into your town

01:14:39.940 or the the bread or the food or the cans or whatever it else you need to do your job

01:14:46.040 six dollar diesel in september is next spring's grocery bill it's already ordered it's already

01:14:52.940 sitting in a tank in ohio and better than 30 percent of the world's fertilizer moves through

01:14:59.120 the same strait that the Navy

01:15:01.120 is fighting over. And the world doesn't seem

01:15:03.220 to care.

01:15:06.260 And everybody's saying

01:15:07.240 the president has to do something.

01:15:09.220 Tomorrow I'm going to give you something the president can

01:15:11.300 do to cut your price of 37 cents

01:15:13.480 per gallon.

01:15:16.920 But I don't think he's going to do it.

01:15:20.840 And it would piss the farmers off.

01:15:23.640 And it would make our debt worse.

01:15:26.300 I mean, we're

01:15:27.100 stuck in this problem.

01:15:29.120 here for 20 years with no matter which party came in into the White House we would look at the number

01:15:36.760 on the sign we'd look at the gas station and you know we would say something when it would be up

01:15:43.360 because of you know policies of the Green New Deal but nobody in the media would say anything

01:15:47.980 but the media is screaming about this and quite honestly everybody should be screaming about this

01:15:51.820 this is crazy what we're paying for gas and uh and what we're paying for diesel

01:15:57.000 especially if people don't understand why it's that expensive

01:16:01.920 because nobody's really brought them into this

01:16:06.160 you've heard bumper stickers

01:16:08.600 the president doesn't control the price of crude

01:16:16.120 that's true it was true when Biden did it's true now

01:16:18.740 but the man at doing the arithmetic at the pump

01:16:22.640 he's not asking for a seminar on causation

01:16:25.880 He doesn't care.

01:16:27.620 He's telling you, I can't make this work.

01:16:30.820 And if you answer him with a lecture or a bumper sticker, somebody else is going to answer him with a promise.

01:16:37.440 And that somebody that did that, he'll go with them.

01:16:42.480 and he'll say yes to things

01:16:55.580 in Lisbon and Dublin

01:16:57.200 and he'll say yes to things here

01:16:59.460 don't watch the price

01:17:05.580 watch the word

01:17:07.480 temporary

01:17:08.700 the Syrian energy ministry this morning

01:17:11.860 called it a temporary increase they're actually increasing the price ireland's excise cut was

01:17:19.440 temporary germany's fuel tax cut two months india was temporary thailand froze diesel for 15 days

01:17:27.320 four days from now get this the finance ministers of the european union sit down in dublin six of

01:17:35.100 them. Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, Austria, Portugal. They have one item for the agenda.

01:17:42.080 You know what it is? A European-wide tax on the profits of oil companies. Spain wants

01:17:51.300 it permanent. People will carry an enormous amount of weight if you tell them the truth

01:18:00.100 and you tell them how long what breaks a country isn't the burden it's finding out that temporary

01:18:06.940 was a word somebody used to just get through last tuesday and they didn't actually mean it

01:18:12.820 you can't if you tax the oil companies in europe an extra 33 percent what do you think they're

01:18:25.080 going to do with that you think they're just going to eat it they're going to pass that on

01:18:28.260 into the cost. They're not going to eat it. They might eat some of it, but they can't eat

01:18:32.800 all of it. And so what do they do? Then your politicians will say, see, they're still being

01:18:40.160 greedy. And then the next step is to nationalize the oil companies. And don't think they're not

01:18:45.360 thinking about doing it. They're going to do it. And then you know how that ends. It ends in

01:18:50.520 Venezuela with people eating zoo animals. It's amazing to me how stupid people are. We just 1.00

01:18:56.180 keep falling for the same thing over and over again.

01:18:59.960 But the fire was in Russia.

01:19:01.980 The bread was in Egypt. 0.57

01:19:03.380 But nobody put those things together

01:19:05.220 until the square was on fire.

01:19:09.280 You got to start putting things together.

01:19:12.420 Look at the diesel number on the sign

01:19:15.000 at the gas station tonight.

01:19:17.680 That's the smoke.

01:19:22.000 Look at the price of groceries.

01:19:24.160 Not today, but in the future.

01:19:27.580 A fire is coming all over the world.

01:19:33.540 It'd be nice if the rest of the world decided, hey, you know what?

01:19:36.200 I want to go ahead and have some oil.

01:19:40.680 Maybe I should help out.

01:19:41.820 Maybe I should help out. 1.00

01:19:42.620 Maybe I should help clear that strait. 1.00

01:19:44.260 Maybe I should stop the Houthis with America. 1.00

01:19:46.420 Maybe that would be a good idea. 1.00

01:19:48.080 They're not going to.

01:19:49.260 They're not going to.

01:19:50.220 Why?

01:19:50.520 I think they hate Donald Trump more than they love their own country and their own people.

01:19:55.620 It's pretty remarkable.

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01:21:41.100 so i just want to show you the insanity if you think things are bad here i want to show you the

01:22:02.160 insanity of what's happening in january europe wrote into law that it finished it was finished

01:22:07.800 with russian energy not a sanction that has to be renewed every six months but a permanent

01:22:13.100 regulation russian liquefied gas is banned starting january 1st pipeline gas next autumn

01:22:21.160 to me that's the right call but that's just you know 15 weeks away what are they going to do in

01:22:28.040 the winter what are they going to do when we asked europe to oh i don't know can you help

01:22:36.180 escort tankers through the strait? The answer

01:22:38.300 is no. France 0.67

01:22:40.020 not participating at all, not helping.

01:22:42.460 Germany won't do so. Italy,

01:22:44.560 Greece, Britain, no.

01:22:48.300 No.

01:22:50.080 They're cutting off

01:22:51.520 every supplier that they have.

01:22:55.440 They're going to

01:22:56.420 add this week, they're going to add a

01:22:57.960 33% increase,

01:23:00.900 a tax increase

01:23:02.760 on their fuel

01:23:04.580 over in Europe.

01:23:06.180 And I'm trying to understand what they're thinking.

01:23:10.820 What are they thinking?

01:23:12.280 Can you imagine, if you think it's bad now, can you imagine where we would be if they would have won?

01:23:19.560 Because, remember, they were shutting down all of our oil refineries.

01:23:23.120 Not our refineries, but our oil supply.

01:23:26.260 They were shutting it down.

01:23:27.560 They were going towards electricity while shutting all of our gas plants down to make electricity.

01:23:32.260 We were going to solar.

01:23:33.180 Can you imagine where we would be?

01:23:35.400 we would be just as bad as Europe. And that's right around the corner. That will come back 0.53

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01:25:46.360 enlightenment and empowerment this is the Glenn Beck program so this weekend Hassan Piker said

01:25:59.240 this about just not understanding why everybody was so serious on on 9 12 or 9 11 listen

01:26:07.940 i will say this this year's tenure around and and reception around 9-11 has uh was

01:26:17.380 noticeably different i don't know how the normies received it and i wasn't in america

01:26:22.780 i wasn't in america so like i only saw twitter

01:26:28.720 and Twitter

01:26:32.620 was

01:26:35.380 far more serious about it

01:26:38.440 this year

01:26:39.080 and I think it's because

01:26:42.340 they're politicizing 9-11

01:26:43.800 I think it is because this year

01:26:48.720 9-11 became a 1.00

01:26:50.560 useful tool to attack 1.00

01:26:52.760 a bunch of 0.99

01:26:53.580 Muslim, some socialists 0.98

01:26:56.900 some not socialists

01:26:58.640 candidates. Okay, stop. Hassan, stop pretending. Stop pretending that you're the normie here.

01:27:07.680 You're not the normie. You hate America. You have said it. You have said America deserved 0.98

01:27:13.640 9-11. You are for Islamists getting into our own government to fundamentally change the United 1.00

01:27:22.700 States of America. First of all, why was it different this year? I don't know. 25 year 0.99

01:27:27.940 anniversary might have something to do with it. Also, you know, a mayor that says globalize the

01:27:34.140 Intifada probably has something to do with it. The spread of Islamist ideology that in that same 0.62

01:27:40.600 kind of ideology is in our city councils and in our Congress. And the fact that you don't have 0.76

01:27:47.220 any idea what America really is? You have no idea. You'll say America deserved 9-11,

01:27:56.600 but you can't tell me anything about 9-12. I'm going to start there in 60 seconds. First, 0.98

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01:29:23.740 I want to take you back 25 years ago this weekend.

01:29:32.340 you know for two days the skies over america was empty and it was the first two days because i

01:29:41.260 think it lasted about two weeks but the first two days it was really freaky you would walk outside

01:29:45.120 you look out of habit and there was nothing there there was no sounds there were no airplanes there

01:29:51.460 was nothing in the sky and then you looked around at all of the houses and there were flags on all

01:29:59.700 of the houses, on houses that never had flown a flag before, and not big ones. You know, the $4

01:30:05.580 kind you get to the hardware store, and the hardware stores were sold out by Wednesday

01:30:11.100 afternoon all over the country. You could not find a flag. The day after 9-11, there were lines

01:30:20.760 around the block at the blood banks. People stood there for six hours. Between September 10th and

01:30:29.080 On October 14th, the Red Cross took in 928,233 pints of blood.

01:30:39.100 That's 300,000 more the same week, you know, the year before.

01:30:46.340 Most people don't know that fewer than 300 units were actually needed to treat the wounded in New York and Washington

01:30:52.840 because there were no survivors or almost very few.

01:30:56.260 almost 50,000 pints had to be destroyed

01:30:59.620 because there was nothing they could do with them.

01:31:05.260 A million people stood in line for six hours

01:31:07.900 to give a part of their body.

01:31:13.700 And most of it went into the trash.

01:31:16.780 And nobody told them to do it.

01:31:19.080 If you had walked down that line,

01:31:22.000 you know,

01:31:22.360 and i don't care how long people if they had just gotten there or they had been waiting there for

01:31:29.980 hours if you told them your blood's not going to be needed and you gave them a choice they would

01:31:34.600 have stayed they would have stayed that's not charity charity is a decision what happened on

01:31:44.220 9-12 was a reflex. It showed us who we really were. Then came the school trusts. Within weeks,

01:31:54.200 somebody set up a fund for the children. And it's not like it is now where you can just set these

01:31:58.520 things up. That was a big deal. The Family of Freedom Scholarship Fund. Bill Clinton and Bob

01:32:05.620 Dole chaired it together eventually. And nobody thought it was strange because that month nobody

01:32:10.380 thought to ask. Money came in from more than 20,000 different sources. $108 million for the

01:32:22.580 children that had lost a parent. It's still paying out. 25 years later, $191 million to

01:32:31.880 3,865 kids. It doesn't close until 2030. And somewhere right now in the country is a young

01:32:39.380 woman starting this semester this fall with tuition covered by a man who wrote a check

01:32:43.620 in October of 2001. She never met him and he's probably gone by now. I'm so sick of hearing for

01:32:53.500 25 years. People explain how America is never any good. Founded in sin, built on theft, the whole

01:33:01.580 catalog. Shut up. 1.00

01:33:08.000 Were you there on September 0.99

01:33:09.540 12th?

01:33:12.920 Because

01:33:13.480 the country's character is not what it says

01:33:15.320 from a podium.

01:33:18.040 It's what it does

01:33:19.240 in the hour when no one is

01:33:21.340 in charge.

01:33:27.080 On September 12th,

01:33:28.580 the president was in the air.

01:33:31.580 FAA was grounding the entire planet.

01:33:35.560 The Pentagon had a hole in it.

01:33:38.980 There wasn't one office in Washington with a bandwidth to tell 280 million people what to do.

01:33:44.540 Nobody was telling.

01:33:45.240 And you know what?

01:33:45.840 When they finally did, what was it?

01:33:47.420 A few days later, come up with the advice on what to do.

01:33:50.400 I think it was a Sunday.

01:33:51.740 9-11 was on a Tuesday.

01:33:53.640 On Sunday, the president came out and said, the stock market's going to open.

01:33:58.560 Buy stock.

01:33:59.520 Go shopping.

01:34:00.860 That's what he told us to do.

01:34:04.540 So we did things without them.

01:34:08.120 Firemen in Ohio got into trucks and drove east without being asked.

01:34:12.360 Restaurant owners downtown cooked until the kitchen was empty

01:34:15.620 and then went and bought more food with their own money.

01:34:19.940 Men stood at the barricades for hours.

01:34:24.180 Just to applaud the trucks going by.

01:34:26.680 Eight-year-olds ran lemonade stands and mailed the cash to New York in an envelope addressed to nobody in particular.

01:34:39.360 Years later, I started the 9-12 project. That's what it was all about.

01:34:43.140 Started in March of 2009. I got on TV and said, I think we all believe a handful of things.

01:34:50.940 And I think you're being made to feel like you're the only one who does believe these things.

01:34:54.580 So here are nine principles and 12 values.

01:34:57.420 Agree with seven out of the nine, and you're not crazy, and you're not alone.

01:35:02.520 I still believe that. 0.98

01:35:03.940 There are more of us than there are of those who say America is trash. 0.91

01:35:10.240 The principles, America is good. 0.82

01:35:13.860 I believe in God.

01:35:15.140 He's the center of my life.

01:35:16.480 The family is sacred.

01:35:17.980 If you break a law, you need to pay the price.

01:35:20.680 Justice is blind.

01:35:22.440 I've worked hard for my money.

01:35:23.920 I can decide who I want to share it with and who I don't want to share it with.

01:35:28.780 And it's not on American to disagree with one another or authority.

01:35:33.820 The government works for me.

01:35:36.020 I don't answer to them.

01:35:38.740 These are pretty universal principles.

01:35:40.720 The values, honesty, reverence, hope, thrift, humility, charity, sincerity, moderation, hard work, courage, personal responsibility.

01:35:54.440 Gratitude.

01:35:56.580 You notice when you look at this list, not one of them is policy.

01:36:01.020 You're not going to vote for thrift, although I'd like it to be on the ballot.

01:36:06.080 Nobody's ever introduced a bill on humility.

01:36:10.520 Every one of those things is done by the individual.

01:36:14.300 And usually where no one can see you do it.

01:36:19.100 So it wasn't political.

01:36:20.260 Of course, it didn't stay that way.

01:36:21.780 And, you know, I'm not saying I didn't have anything to do with it, but it wasn't about politics.

01:36:30.240 It never was about politics.

01:36:36.860 Nobody was in charge.

01:36:45.800 The list never changed.

01:36:48.600 Read that list again and tell me you found a party in it.

01:36:51.780 And this is our character.

01:36:58.020 Do you know, on December 6th, 1917, Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia, two ships collide.

01:37:05.640 One of them loaded with munitions for the war.

01:37:07.840 It was the largest man-made explosion in the world before the atomic bomb.

01:37:12.980 Two square kilometers of a city, gone.

01:37:16.600 2,000 dead, 9,000 hurt, a blizzard coming that night.

01:37:21.680 Boston got a telegram.

01:37:23.360 They didn't wait for anybody.

01:37:25.380 A train filled up.

01:37:27.340 That evening, a train full of doctors and nurses and supplies

01:37:30.500 pushed north through the storm,

01:37:33.140 got there ahead of the help from Halifax's own capital.

01:37:39.520 The next Christmas, Nova Scotia sent Boston a tree.

01:37:44.880 And then everybody who had been there got old and it stopped for 50 years.

01:37:51.220 Because they had sent us a tree.

01:37:53.460 They sent Boston a tree every year.

01:37:56.080 And then when everybody died, they stopped sending the tree.

01:37:59.220 Until 1971, somebody started it up again.

01:38:04.060 Do you know they haven't missed a year since?

01:38:07.520 Every autumn, the province picks a spruce.

01:38:11.880 Families nominate their own trees off their own land.

01:38:14.780 And they cut it with a blessing and school children singing.

01:38:18.260 and they truck it 700 miles to Boston.

01:38:22.560 That's the tree on Boston Commons.

01:38:25.260 Not one living person in Nova Scotia was in that harbor.

01:38:28.220 Not one person in Boston remembers the train.

01:38:31.420 It doesn't matter.

01:38:32.880 Somebody built the habit

01:38:34.380 and handed it to people who weren't there.

01:38:39.620 That's the answer.

01:38:42.280 Why does this always come out of catastrophe?

01:38:44.280 It doesn't.

01:38:48.260 it lasts through a catastrophe because the fire is the thing that makes everybody

01:38:54.960 you know standing in front of you the only thing on your schedule but once you put the fire out

01:39:00.760 it goes back to being you know that's this the guy your neighbor who has the wrong side in his yard

01:39:05.580 unity is a feeling gratitude is a feeling resolve is a feeling feelings are weather

01:39:10.940 they have a shelf life of about a pint of blood but habit is a different animal

01:39:18.960 A habit doesn't ask you how you feel.

01:39:21.360 You just do it on the same day every year, whether you feel it or not, and you hand it to a kid.

01:39:27.500 Nova Scotia is still cutting down trees.

01:39:35.400 You want the country to last?

01:39:37.540 Pick one thing, put a date on it.

01:39:40.140 Blood bank.

01:39:41.280 On your birthday every year, take somebody with you.

01:39:44.280 One kid's tuition.

01:39:45.680 for a family you'll never meet.

01:39:49.600 A meal at the same firehouse every September.

01:39:53.060 The neighbor whose car hasn't moved in a week.

01:39:56.680 Saturday morning, you go over and you knock.

01:39:59.480 Name the day, write it on the calendar,

01:40:01.940 write where your children can see it, involve your children.

01:40:04.740 That's the whole thing.

01:40:05.620 That's the entire mechanism.

01:40:07.460 We gave until it hurt when we had a reason.

01:40:11.600 the people who did that

01:40:15.480 didn't die off

01:40:17.480 and they didn't move away

01:40:18.580 they're your neighbors

01:40:20.400 one of them is three doors down

01:40:22.800 maybe one of them

01:40:25.460 has decided you just can't stand anymore

01:40:27.640 but the buildings aren't burning

01:40:30.920 and I think that's a good thing

01:40:32.500 if we choose to go

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01:42:01.040 So Sean Davis at the Federalist posted a newly declassified CIA document.

01:42:13.200 This is pretty newsworthy.

01:42:14.460 George W. Bush was personally warned in May of 2001 via a top-secret memo marked for president only

01:42:23.380 that Osama bin Laden was planning spectacular attacks against the U.S. using hijacked aircraft.

01:42:31.040 The May 2020, the May 22, 2001 memo prepared exclusively for President George W. Bush was entitled Captured Terrorist Details Hostage Plot and noted that his planning is underway for three separate operations.

01:42:48.620 The May 22, 2001 memo prepared exclusively for President George, blah, blah, blah.

01:42:56.660 We have it up on the screen now for any.

01:42:59.320 Let's see.

01:42:59.820 I'm just going to read it here.

01:43:00.740 alleged plot with osama bin laden the egyptian islamic jihad to kidnap americans claims planning

01:43:07.300 is underway for three separate operations to take u.s diplomats and civilians hostage the

01:43:12.280 conspiracists who want to force the release of the blind sheik and other u.s held prisoners may

01:43:18.140 hijack an aircraft or storm a u.s embassy several factors suggest a joint terrorist operation is

01:43:23.820 possible they may have won over bin laden as an ally for some type of terrorist operation bin

01:43:30.160 al-Qaeda organization to egyptian for blah blah blah blah blah the timing of the alleged operation

01:43:35.880 blacked out and blacked out uh the casing and selection of targets reportedly has not

01:43:43.360 occurred and then the rest of it is blacked out um does that mean george bush knew because george

01:43:50.500 bush knew you know does that mean george bush knew what are you gonna do with that information this

01:43:56.420 this is the really bad part about that what are you gonna do with that information

01:43:59.660 the information was they're going to hijack planes and take hostages so what do you do

01:44:08.380 you don't have the tsa you don't have a system in place you can't check people at the airport

01:44:14.300 you don't have that system at all what you do check people at the airport how you do that

01:44:19.220 you're going to suggest that we're going to put in the surveillance that we have now before 9-11

01:44:25.820 Not going to happen.

01:44:27.220 Would never happen.

01:44:27.940 None of us would have gone for it.

01:44:29.760 None of us would have gone.

01:44:30.780 We all would have said, this is a conspiracy.

01:44:34.140 The president is trying to monitor everybody.

01:44:36.700 And everybody would have went crazy.

01:44:37.900 And they would have been right to.

01:44:42.360 They didn't storm a U.S. embassy.

01:44:45.640 They knew something about airplanes.

01:44:48.020 And they knew that it was going to be hijacked.

01:44:50.620 That happened.

01:44:51.500 what people don't understand is no one no one thought it was i mean i was watching the video

01:44:59.240 of this last weekend and i was seeing the people as it was happening live and when the first plane

01:45:05.780 hit everybody was like oh my gosh it's a you know blah blah blah when the second plane hit we didn't

01:45:11.380 know that that was a terror we didn't even think about the first plane being a terrorist attack

01:45:15.680 the first one hit and we're like how does the pilot if he had a heart attack what happened to

01:45:21.440 the co-pilot and and if he's still barely alive wouldn't he have put it into the water instead of

01:45:27.280 but we weren't thinking this was deliberate by an enemy of the united states we couldn't figure that

01:45:33.000 one out the second one hit and you'll see all the video the second one hits and everybody's like

01:45:37.400 ah oh my gosh and we knew immediately that was not something we thought of back then

01:45:46.440 we didn't think people would do something like that and i know some people like oh cia i thought

01:45:52.380 about yeah i know the cia thinks about a lot of stuff okay but as you can see the captured terrorist

01:46:01.560 details hostage plot we thought they were going to take him hostage and those things used to end

01:46:07.820 the same way every time the the hostage takers would be dead everybody would be in cuba they'd

01:46:15.420 get a little sun and they'd come home that's the way those things usually ended not the way 9-11

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01:48:14.640 so friday was the anniversary of uh 9-11 saturday was 9-12 and if you've listened to me for any

01:48:31.960 period of time you might remember the 9-12 project which was happening around the same

01:48:36.220 time as the tea party and the 9-12 uh project kind of got uh mixed in with the tea party but

01:48:42.200 it wasn't in my opinion uh it was never about uh politics it was about principles we have to put

01:48:49.760 our principles and our values together state them learn them learn our history or we're just voting

01:48:56.620 for people and it's all about personalities so learn the principles and the values and there

01:49:02.500 were these great clubs all over you know the country and people had uh summer camps for kids

01:49:09.880 and groups were getting together and reading the founding documents

01:49:15.260 and everything together.

01:49:16.020 It was an amazing, amazing thing.

01:49:17.980 And it was all done by you.

01:49:19.440 I remember Rupert Murdoch called me in.

01:49:23.900 He's like, what are you doing here?

01:49:25.900 Are you going to run for president?

01:49:27.020 And I'm like, no.

01:49:28.960 And he's like, you seem to be gathering a lot of power.

01:49:33.640 And I hadn't even thought of it that way.

01:49:35.840 And I'm like, no.

01:49:38.120 And he's like, well, what are you building?

01:49:40.780 And I'm like, I'm not building anything.

01:49:42.680 I just want people to learn this stuff, and then they take it.

01:49:47.380 I'm not even a leader of this thing.

01:49:49.660 I just put it out, and they're doing it.

01:49:56.000 9-12 meant a lot to me because it was the day that we kind of really came together,

01:50:02.960 and I saw who we were.

01:50:04.940 On 9-11, we were afraid.

01:50:07.260 afraid but there were certain things that happened on 9-11 that showed the 9-12 spirit

01:50:12.320 even though everybody was afraid and the flag behind me this this is framed for my office and

01:50:18.380 it hangs behind my desk in my office and it has for years and it was given to me by a couple and

01:50:25.400 in fact I cannot find their name I can't believe I didn't attach it to the back of this framed flag

01:50:30.760 so if it happens to you please write to me and tell me because I need you to write down the story

01:50:36.020 So I get it exact because it'll eventually go to the museum.

01:50:40.780 But it was given to me by this great couple in lower Manhattan.

01:50:49.000 And this is this was not their flag.

01:50:53.940 9-11 happens and, you know, it happens in the morning.

01:50:57.820 And, you know, if you remember, it was everything was just caked.

01:51:03.120 It was like it had two or three inches of snow on the ground or ash on the ground.

01:51:07.760 It was everywhere in lower Manhattan.

01:51:10.400 And everything in lower Manhattan was shut down.

01:51:13.520 You couldn't go anywhere.

01:51:16.680 And so this couple who lived down there, they were outside and they were walking and they were just seeing, you know, the devastation.

01:51:24.940 And they saw this woman, and she was walking down the street, and she had, almost like a veil, she had this flag wrapped around her.

01:51:39.360 And they went over and started talking to her, because she was clearly not doing well.

01:51:49.860 And at first, they couldn't get any information out of her on who she was or anything else.

01:51:54.940 and they said, you know, why don't you come over to our house

01:51:59.600 and just catch your breath, because she was so distraught.

01:52:05.860 So they brought her over to her house, which is a couple blocks away,

01:52:10.000 and they were sitting there in the kitchen, and they were talking to her,

01:52:13.800 and she calmed down.

01:52:15.140 She had a cup of tea, and they spent a couple of hours with her,

01:52:18.540 and she started telling her story about what she had seen

01:52:25.180 and she had gone and grabbed her flag for protection.

01:52:38.320 She had grabbed that symbol that now is so divisive

01:52:45.720 but at the time on that day

01:52:49.600 it wasn't one party or another

01:52:52.520 it was America

01:52:53.680 and it stood for something

01:52:57.020 and as everything was coming down

01:53:00.720 out of the sky

01:53:01.920 everything that was happening

01:53:03.980 she reached for her flag

01:53:07.020 to put it over herself

01:53:09.160 to protect her

01:53:11.640 she sat in that kitchen for a while

01:53:19.940 and they talked and

01:53:20.720 she was strong again

01:53:27.180 strangers

01:53:30.420 and they folded up the flag

01:53:33.020 and they were walking her back out

01:53:38.600 and they stood on their stoop

01:53:40.820 and she takes a couple of steps off the stairs 0.88

01:53:46.100 and starts making her way 1.00

01:53:47.340 and she turns at them and she says 0.99

01:53:50.680 oh no no wait

01:53:52.320 are you going to be going out

01:53:55.160 and they said yeah we'll probably be going out again

01:54:00.160 oh you need this for protection

01:54:03.880 and she handed the flag

01:54:07.920 to my two friends

01:54:09.740 my two listeners

01:54:10.660 and they gave it to me

01:54:15.400 I love that story

01:54:25.120 for several reasons

01:54:31.120 when she was lost

01:54:35.900 when she feared the most

01:54:39.420 She reached for the symbol of goodness and decency and honor

01:54:46.820 As we once understood it

01:54:48.660 It doesn't mean that that woman, I don't know how she voted

01:54:53.920 She might have thought we had done horrible things in Vietnam or whatever

01:54:59.620 I don't even know

01:55:00.940 She lived in lower Manhattan 1.00

01:55:02.820 Odds are she wasn't voting my way

01:55:05.820 but she still looked at the flag

01:55:10.280 as safety

01:55:14.120 and on the worst day of any of our lives

01:55:21.660 in a place where this couple didn't know her from Adam

01:55:26.480 in New York City where somebody mumbling to themselves

01:55:29.920 somebody absolutely incoherent

01:55:33.520 somebody covered in dust and ash

01:55:38.640 so you don't know who they are at all 0.98

01:55:42.780 two women 1.00

01:55:45.540 take her into their home 1.00

01:55:49.000 and they clean her up

01:55:51.580 they calm her down

01:55:54.000 they feed her and they talk to her

01:55:56.920 I was lost and then I was found

01:56:03.500 our country is lost

01:56:15.880 are we going to find it again

01:56:20.060 tomorrow I'm going to talk to you about some things

01:56:27.780 I'm going to talk to you about some stats that I saw

01:56:30.120 that are just terrifying to me at least

01:56:31.960 You know that 30, it's 30 or 37% of Americans consider themselves influencers.

01:56:42.820 What?

01:56:46.060 37%.

01:56:48.040 Like 30% say they're podcasters.

01:56:52.600 what does an influencer do

01:57:02.660 what are the qualifications

01:57:05.080 for being an influencer

01:57:07.360 I'll bet you the majority

01:57:11.340 of that number is on the lower

01:57:13.320 end of the spectrum

01:57:14.280 it's the 20

01:57:19.300 somethings early 30 somethings

01:57:21.340 I'm an influencer.

01:57:22.500 Are you?

01:57:23.460 I ain't really.

01:57:24.500 What have you influenced lately?

01:57:26.620 What makes you an influencer?

01:57:30.020 We're so shallow.

01:57:35.880 We are just so unbelievably shallow.

01:57:44.360 We need to find some depth.

01:57:46.140 You need to find some things that matter.

01:57:59.500 Have you seen the friend stats lately?

01:58:03.240 How many friends Americans have?

01:58:07.120 How many we used to have?

01:58:08.820 How many we have now?

01:58:09.980 Do you know it takes about 200 hours to become a friend, 200 hours invested one-on-one, 40 hours with somebody, and you're considered an acquaintance?

01:58:24.960 I mean, scientists actually followed this.

01:58:27.140 I don't know how they were following all this, but they did.

01:58:29.260 They followed this, and they saw how people interacted with each other, and this is like 20 years ago.

01:58:34.040 And they found that in 40 hours of being with somebody, it's an acquaintance.

01:58:41.760 80 to 100 hours.

01:58:46.080 I can't remember what it was.

01:58:48.340 And then 200 is a friend.

01:58:51.460 How are we spending 200 hours with each other?

01:58:54.200 We don't spend any time with each other anymore.

01:59:00.160 And yet we all think we have friends.

01:59:04.040 we've hollowed everything out.

01:59:12.740 I don't think a politician is going to fix us.

01:59:17.580 I mean, it's going to take politics to fix the political.

01:59:22.840 And there's a lot of fixing there, but that's not what's going to fix us.

01:59:26.000 America's not going to be great if the people aren't great.

01:59:30.600 I tweeted something out this weekend.

01:59:34.600 This only ends two ways.

01:59:36.460 You know that, right?

01:59:37.540 Have you actually war-gamed this out at all?

01:59:41.360 There's only two ways this story ends.

01:59:43.960 We either come back together and we find a way to forgive each other and to come back to common sense.

01:59:53.480 Or one side kills the other side. 1.00

01:59:55.540 We become Rwanda, where one side says the other side is evil, go kill them, and they do. 0.98

02:00:06.880 It either ends in roundups or in forgiveness and coming back together. 0.96

02:00:11.800 I know which side I'm rooting for.

02:00:13.860 I'm rooting for the, hey, let's get back together.

02:00:17.180 I don't think the roundups sound like fun.

02:00:20.840 But that's going to take effort to do it.

02:00:24.700 We're going to have to have conversations with each other like that.

02:00:29.140 Hey, can you just wargame this out with me?

02:00:31.440 I know you hate my guts right now.

02:00:33.080 I don't hate you.

02:00:33.920 I don't want to hate you.

02:00:34.880 We disagree with each other.

02:00:36.240 But can I just wargame this out with you?

02:00:38.360 How does it end?

02:00:40.520 How does this end?

02:00:42.120 If I hate you and you hate me and we have teams, how does this end?

02:00:51.060 Because it's pretty clear.

02:00:53.140 Only two ways.

02:00:59.620 I would hope everybody listening to me,

02:01:02.740 I would hope that you're part of that team,

02:01:07.240 and I don't know how to do it,

02:01:08.800 but you're part of that team that is thinking every day,

02:01:11.140 I want to be on the good side.

02:01:12.340 I want to be on the, hey, let's get back together side.

02:01:17.200 That should be our goal.

02:01:19.860 All right, more in a minute.

02:01:20.840 You know, the minimum payment on a credit card is one of the most deceptive numbers in your financial life because it's designed to look manageable.

02:01:28.900 You look at it and you think, okay, I can handle this, you know, this month.

02:01:31.660 And you probably can.

02:01:32.820 The problem is there's another month coming.

02:01:35.140 And when your credit card is, when the debt is like 20% interest or more, it's getting expensive.

02:01:42.460 Have you seen now what our interest is on the national debt?

02:01:46.380 Yeah, it's a problem.

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02:02:24.240 That's going to save you a buttload of money.

02:02:25.960 On average, people in this audience save $830 a month.

02:02:31.660 I don't know.

02:02:32.320 That seems like it'd give you a lot of breathing room, wouldn't it?

02:02:35.420 You'd at least be able to pay for the gas this week.

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02:03:06.380 Faith, family, a full workday.

02:03:10.120 That's not fascist.

02:03:11.860 That's just Tuesday.

02:03:12.780 more glenn beck straight ahead

02:03:15.980 i don't know when we reach the point where we have to investigate the news before we can

02:03:33.540 actually read the news but we're definitely there and i see a story and i think okay but

02:03:36.880 what actually happened not what does the left say what happened not what does the right say

02:03:41.560 But what actually happened?

02:03:42.900 What do we actually know?

02:03:44.420 This has been so frustrating.

02:03:45.980 And that's how I ended up using free spoke.

02:03:48.600 You can see the coverage from the left, the right and the middle and where the same facts start showing up across all three.

02:03:55.440 Then, you know, OK, that's that's it.

02:03:58.140 You got something solid.

02:03:59.800 You can decide for yourself at that point based on the facts.

02:04:02.960 And that's the point.

02:04:03.740 Search something controversial like who controls the media on free spoke.

02:04:07.880 You'll get news and information from across the spectrum, full picture, not just what the algorithm says you want to see.

02:04:14.580 I don't need somebody else deciding what I'm supposed to think.

02:04:18.040 I will find the facts and I will decide.

02:04:21.420 I've got FreeSpoke pulled up right now.

02:04:23.380 FreeSpoke, one word, free, free speech, FreeSpoke.

02:04:37.880 insider joss writes in glenn i'm sorry but whatever 912 spirit you're talking about i think

02:04:48.360 was bs did the country rally together and actually change anything or it was just all kumbaya and

02:04:54.560 let's hold hands you didn't do anything that's a little hostile joss i made you know say maybe put

02:05:01.300 smiley face after it. I disagree with you. I really do disagree with you. First of all,

02:05:09.160 the 9-12 project and the Tea Party did affect people. It changed the election in 2010.

02:05:20.700 It actually was the beginning of Donald Trump. Yes, we haven't won, but do you know how long

02:05:27.340 this has been going on, and I do believe it's growing. The kumbaya stuff, it didn't change 0.90

02:05:36.340 anything. Well, maybe not, but it changed me, and it changed a lot of people that were involved,

02:05:42.740 and I have news for you. If you don't want to be part of the round them all up people,

02:05:47.480 you better work on you. Just change you, because it's really hard to love your neighbor right now,

02:05:54.620 really hard but we're commanded to do that how do we do that um it's good to be the king writes in

02:06:02.500 my town was filled with american flags outside the houses on 9-11 i was happy to see it there

02:06:07.800 are towns all across the country like that and we are not going away you know what i agree i mean

02:06:14.180 we outnumber them of course they do have the government and ai probably on their side so

02:06:21.580 It's going to be an uphill battle. 0.98

02:06:23.540 It's an uphill battle, especially this November, because our side sucks so much. 0.95

02:06:28.900 But love, peace, kumbaya. 0.64

02:06:31.540 Let's just get out and do the right thing and vote.

02:06:35.180 We'll talk to you tomorrow.

02:06:36.280 May God save the republic.

The Glenn Beck Program - September 14, 2026

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