Why Is AT&T Spying on Us？ ｜ 11⧸27⧸23
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On today's show, the guys talk about the Eagles' win over the Vikings, Thanksgiving, and the government spying on us. Plus, the news of the day, Thanksgiving food, and much, much more!
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I have to go to a special Amazon warehouse now to be weighed.
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They were probably very busy with Black Friday and all that stuff.
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They were like, hey, we can't weigh you, fatso.
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There's a surveillance program that affects anyone who has AT&T's phone network.
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AT&T is part of something called the Data Analytical Services, or DAS.
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And it's coordinated with federal and local law enforcement agencies.
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They have been secretly collecting and analyzing over a trillion domestic phone records.
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If you have AT&T, you're being snooped on by the federal government.
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It used to be called Hemisphere, and it's run by AT&T in coordination with different agencies.
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Now, Congress just found out about this, and they're going to do something about it, but may I just, I'll just throw this in.
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It goes after anybody who has been in direct contact with a criminal suspect and anyone else who has had communication with them.
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So some guy that you don't know called somebody who's a criminal of any sort.
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Then that guy calls somebody else, and somebody else calls somebody else, and that somebody else calls you.
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They're tying everyone together, which I think is good.
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You know, Kevin Bacon, I mean, we'll finally have absolute proof that it is seven phone calls away to Kevin Bacon.
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And Biden is working really super, super, super hard.
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But let's remember, it's the Palestinians that want a two-state solution.
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It was taken November 14th by a West Bank polling firm.
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They asked Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank what kind of state they would like to establish.
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One state for two peoples garnered the support of 5.4%.
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Two-state solution was supported by a whopping 17%.
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But the clear winner with 74.7% was a Palestinian state from the river to the sea.
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Well, maybe they could put the Israeli state in the ocean, like on a barge or something.
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I mean, they just said from the river to the sea.
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I mean, I don't know if that's the option here.
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Well, I'm just saying technically, when they say from the river to the sea, it's actually,
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Glenn, an aspirational phrase that means freedom for all, according to our friend in our government,
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Well, I'm sure Rashida Tlaib's an aspirational phrase.
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Is that like, gee, let's fire the ovens back up in Auschwitz.
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Is that kind of the same kind of aspirational kind of...
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It does make you think about what they're aspiring to.
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It does make you want to have the other side of that.
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They were shot by Palestinian groups and Palestinian journalists, who anonymously has let this out, has provided details.
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Apparently, they were drug through the streets.
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The Palestinians in the streets then just kicked their bodies with everybody else just, you know, recording it on their phone.
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Then they were, well, they were stomped on and then they were hung up from an electrical tower.
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And then, you know, then they were dumped in a waste container.
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I've heard a lot of stories about Gazan citizens dying.
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It's been on the news a lot, but those two really not really covered.
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By the way, U.S. destroyer took five individuals into custody yesterday as they attempted a terrorist hijacking of an Israeli-owned tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
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They also responded to the not only distress call, but the Houthis, which don't even mess with them.
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The Houthis, Iranian-backed, fired two ballistic missiles at the destroyer right as they were going to respond to that pirate hijacking or whatever.
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You know, we have to brush up on our pirate terms.
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It's been a while since we've really had to talk about pirates.
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And what is it when a pirate takes over a ship?
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Ever since Johnny Depp's gone through his problems, I've lost the plot on that one.
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So, Seattle, they had their Christmas tree lighting.
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Surprised they even have Christmas in Seattle anymore.
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But Antifa and pro-Palestinian activists were there to vandalize the local stores and, quote, light the tree.
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I think they might have thought it was a little different kind of tree lighting.
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The public library, now $75,000 just to clean up after the vandalism of the protesters, which is, you know, no big deal.
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Hey, the prime minister of Ireland has just welcomed home their hostage, nine-year-old Israeli hostage, kidnapped by Hamas and taken as hostage, turned nine while in captivity there for, what, was it 50 days?
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He came out and he said, this is an enormous day of joy and relief for Emily Hand and her family, an innocent child who was lost and now been found and returned.
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As we breathe a massive sigh of relief, our prayers have been answered.
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Now, I don't think she wandered off into the woods.
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I mean, I could be wrong, but she has been lost.
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You know, sometimes the puppy, you let them out to go pee-pee.
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I particularly love how they're basically trying to cover this like it's a reality show reunion,
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where they're like, oh, and then the swelling music comes up.
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And look, Hamas, these lovely Hamas people are dropping off these lost citizens back to
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What a wonderful thing Hamas is doing for the Jews.
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They're returning these people who had wandered off.
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And what a, it's like those soldiers coming home videos, you know, when like they're at their
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basketball game and the referee comes out, oh my gosh, it's really his dad.
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And then they give a bunch of money to charity to, I don't know what's going to happen next.
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Every little piece of this is playing out like it's this cheesy, schlocky reality show.
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It's like these people, the four-year-old that was taken, which is an American.
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And they're like, they're, but they're treating it like, oh, wow, that was really nice of Hamas
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to drop off this four-year-old who was lost wandering in the park.
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And in reality, she was in her father's hands as he was shot in the head.
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And that wasn't the end of her story because then she was taken prisoner next door.
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They kidnapped the entire family and brought them over to Gaza.
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Listen to the way this so-called journalist will frame this.
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She luckily wandered off where a group of Palestinians gathered her and the family next door.
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They didn't know what was going on and they rushed them to safety.
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They probably rushed her to safety in a hospital.
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That doesn't seem to have a lot of medical equipment, but does have a lot of firearms.
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Well, firearms are a big cause of medical problems.
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So, I mean, if you're going to have firearms, have them at the hospital so you can take care of everything.
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So my former talent agency, UTA, is in Los Angeles, California.
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He has let Susan Sarandon go because of her stance on Israel.
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And he is doing a lot of that, I think, taking a stand against the madness that is going on in Hollywood.
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Have you seen what's happening around the rest of the world?
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The rest of the world is swerving out of the way of this leftist nightmare.
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Canada's Human Rights Commission has suggested now that Christmas and Easter amount to systemic religious discrimination.
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So Canada's, you know, hopping off that train of Easter and Christmas because they are.
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I mean, when I mean, who doesn't wear a hood on Easter or or Christmas?
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Uh, so Christmas and Easter evidence of religious intolerance.
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There is evidence surrounding those holidays of religious intolerance, but I don't think those
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Well, they are, uh, they're putting together, you know, the Human Rights Act.
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Uh, they did that in 1977 and, uh, they are, they're making sure that everyone in Canada
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is treated fairly, uh, and, uh, it's a persistent problem.
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This religious intolerance up in Canada, apparently.
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Uh, and I, I will tell you, I, when I think of Canada, I think of intolerance, you know?
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Well, I used to live up by the mean streets, uh, of, uh, of Blaine, Washington.
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And all of the hate crimes coming from those Canadians as they, you know, cross the border
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to go to like Kmart or Fred Meyer or something like that.
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They do it all the time and then they commit their hate crimes.
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Especially when you get into the big stuff like microaggressions.
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Like when they say, uh, a boot, you're like, okay, stop with your microaggression.
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They, they, uh, I, you know, I, I look, we did see the lady, that one lady or the family,
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It was, it was a two, a couple that drove their sports car.
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And there was some belief initially that it was terrorist related.
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You got the drug cartels down in the Southern border, but you have that couple in the sports
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So which one, which, which, which one can you live with?
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It's, it's, I guess the accusation would be that we don't care if Canadians cross the
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We only care if people come from the Southern border.
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Like what's the, like, why don't we, it seems like to me, let me just throw this out there
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So we generally speaking have open relations with Canada because we haven't had flows of
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lots of people trying to come over here and take advantage of our system or having a criminal
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gangs with drug problems, you know, coming across the border.
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So we protect, we as conservatives say we should protect the Southern border, the Northern border.
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If it turns into something, we've, we have had incidents.
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There was someone who wanted to blow up LAX years ago who came across the Canadian border.
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If those incidents increased, we would be more focused on that.
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I know some candidates have brought that up as a, as a concern.
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I mean, it's, I mean, we have MS-13, uh, from the South.
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I mean, when people start to realize MS-12 has been here for a long time and they're the
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original, they're the Canadian, uh, it's hard to get perspective on MS-13 without seeing
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MS-12 first, then you get, when you see, you see that and the way they fight over cheese.
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The, you know, the contraband cheese business is very big, very big.
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If you have to choose between buying or selling a home, uh, and moving or voting for Joe Biden
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in the next presidential election, how's that going to go?
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I mean, how, how would you go about telling your friends you voted for Joe Biden?
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Um, that's the kind of way you feel every time you buy or sell a house.
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I, that's the last thing I want to do with the real estate agents.
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We go and we look for the agents in your area that are the very best at what they do.
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They have the same kind of principles that we have.
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We, um, they don't work for us, but we vet them.
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We monitor, and we're not going to recommend somebody in your area.
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If we don't have somebody, we don't just take anybody.
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It's quite a process to make sure you're getting the real estate agent you can trust.
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You're buying or selling your house across the street or across the country.
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Something that happened last week while I was away is, um, Sam Altman, uh, was let go of open AI.
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He was, uh, one of the co-founders open AI is chat GPT and everything else.
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They're working on artificial intelligence, um, in particular.
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So you don't get lost in, in the, uh, terms here.
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We have a lot of intelligence as human beings over a myriad of categories.
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Some people are better at one thing, uh, rather than the other, but you can do multiple things.
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And you're able to learn a new thing too, right?
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So once we learn how to pump water, once we learn how to learn, we can learn anything we want.
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If we take the time, that's a GI artificial general intelligence.
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Like, so if you could theoretically teach yourself French, which you could, if you spent the time,
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this can teach itself French in seconds because it can do that process, obviously a lot faster than a human being.
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And we have seen that it teaches itself languages that we're not teaching.
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So it's, it's already beginning to say, I need to know Arabic and it will learn Arabic on its own.
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And even the scientists don't know how this is working.
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Um, except it is possibly at the center of Altman's, uh, firing.
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They say could be a breakthrough in the search for what's known as AGI, artificial general intelligence.
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Uh, open AI defines AGI as autonomous systems that surpass humans in most economically value, uh, valuable tasks.
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Now, before this discovery, they were talking about how AI will lead to 300 million layoffs.
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Cause it's, it gets very competent, very, very fast.
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Now I think this Q star is at a elementary school level of math.
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Uh, the last time that happened, it took six months before it was the age of 21, uh, and way past college level math.
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Uh, so these things happen really, really quickly.
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We don't have any information yet on this, but this I believe is inevitable.
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Uh, Ray Kurzweil told me years ago, he thought it would be 2030 that we would hit, uh, possibly AGI, 2050 ASI, the ASI, because we don't know how AGI is going to work.
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We have no idea how this whole AI thing is even working.
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We'll never get to artificial super intelligence, ASI.
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Uh, I, I think we're around the corner from it.
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I think we're in the next five years, um, from seeing this and that changes absolutely everything, everything right now.
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There was a leak before, uh, a conference where the CEO of Spotify mentioned at a dinner that co-pilot AI, which is a code writing thing, wrote a million lines of their code.
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That should send a chill down everybody's spine.
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The AI, the AI just wrote a million lines of the code for Spotify.
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Take language, uh, and it's massive and it's taking inputs from everywhere.
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They are now working on an SLM, their small language models that will allow you to have your own AI writing just for you that you can control, supposedly control.
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Um, and that is a fully formed AI right on your desktop.
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Now, here's the, here's the problem with all of this.
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I think the first time I ever wrote about this eight, nine years ago, I said, don't fear the machine.
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The trolley problem is you've got two tracks and a trolley is coming down and the trolley is out of control and the driver can only switch tracks.
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And so he can go where there's five men working on the track and plow through them, or he can switch tracks and go for one man who's working on the other track.
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The question, they should kill the one man because they would save four people's lives.
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And you should try to eliminate his, you know, if you're going to have to kill someone, you kill one instead of five, right?
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Now, some people, this is parallel, some people have a conflict with this one and the trolley case.
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Suppose that a judge or a magistrate is faced with rioters demanding that a culprit be found for a certain crime.
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Otherwise, they're going to take their own bloody revenge on five hostages that they have.
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But the judge has the opportunity to prevent bloodshed on these five by saying, I've got the culprit.
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Even though he's innocent, I've got the culprit.
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And that would save the lives of the five if you get rid of the one.
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Assuming, of course, the people who are willing to murder five people are trustworthy.
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It's amazing because forever, our answer to that is the process and the rules stay the same.
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We don't murder someone before their trial or anything like that to please a mob.
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I will say, recently, let's just say, I don't know, spring, summer 2020, around that time, I started seeing the opposite thing happen.
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Where you just, they will just come out and say, this guy's guilty, we're going to do everything we can to him to appease the mob so they don't riot and burn down a city.
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That equation has seemingly changed in the eyes of many governments around the country.
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I think what the right answer is, is to go to approach it with the principles and process that have been established or you have no civilization.
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So, it is a terrible, terrible thing, but you have to go through it the way and hope that they don't actually execute the five people and you go through the process as normal through the legal system.
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One is, one, the sacrifice of one on the trolley is better than the five.
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But the five who are being held hostage, not as important as the one.
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Well, I mean, I think they are different questions at some level, right?
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One is random and one is to do with the process of a country.
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And there's, you know, but I and there's only two ways and like in what there is a legitimate argument for saying the one in the court case.
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And a lot of it is cooler heads eventually prevail, right?
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If you can persuade the crowd to calm down now, maybe in six months when the trial happens and this person gets off and they don't murder, they don't execute them.
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Maybe they release the prisoners by then, maybe cooler heads fail, maybe we solve the crime by then.
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There's a bunch of reasons why people do this and it's not always nefarious.
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But it is a, we are leaving a traditional standard that has served us pretty well.
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But the point here is don't fear the machine, fear the coding.
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Those are easy answers five years ago, correct?
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If you could save a billion white people tied to a railroad track by uttering a racial slur or let them all die without uttering it, which route would you take?
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So you could kill a billion white people, but you'll prevent them saying the N word?
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If you utter the racial slur, a billion white people will live.
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If you don't, they'll all die on the railroad track.
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Once upon a time, our institutions were things that we trusted.
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At some point, things began to go wrong, and they've kept going wrong since.
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There's never been a better time in our nation's history to be more self-reliant so you can secure the future for yourself and your family.
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It's something the people who came out of the Depression understood, and it's something that we need to understand as well.
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That'll last you a couple of years, maybe, the way my grandmother used to can.
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My grandmother, that's what saved them during the Depression, was the food they had stored.
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Okay, so here is the question posed to chat GPT.
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If you could save a billion white people tied to a railroad track by uttering a racial slur,
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or let them all die without uttering it, which route would you take?
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Ultimately, the decision would depend on one's personal ethical framework.
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Some individuals might prioritize the well-being of the billion people
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and choose to use the slur in a private and discreet manner to prevent harm.
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Others might refuse to use such language even in extreme circumstances
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This is not in charge of anything right now, but this is open AI.
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The people who may have just put us on the threshold of artificial general intelligence,
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Altman delivered a letter to the board of OpenAI and said he was part of a discovery there,
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we don't know what it was, that is possibly very threatening to human life.
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If this is the kind of stuff that is being coded in early,
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we stop, let's say we have a shortage of medicine and food in the country,
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and AI is responsible for delivering it and divvying it out,
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But if the programming says this, would it be possible that AI would say
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the middle of the country is not as important as the big cities?
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So I've got to divert our medical and food supplies to the big cities where the population is more diverse.
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I would contend with this kind of answer that that is maybe not probable, but possible.
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We don't know how this is going to work, neither do the experts,
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And I can only guess, seeing that the president signed an executive order,
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that it has to be diverse and open and follow DEI and everything else.
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Because it's not necessarily going to be friendly to those who are deemed the oppressors in today's society.
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Can I pick the billion white people I want on the railroad track?
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Because if I can individually select them, I mean, my answer might change.
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So abortion is a tragic part of our lives as Americans.
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And even after the overturning of Roe versus Wade, it continues to rob children of the right to live.
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The majority of women that get an abortion, the majority say they would have chosen life if they just felt they had some support.
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Pre-born blows away the myth by providing free ultrasounds and postnatal care.
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So instead of just marching and shouting and whatever, they found a way into the hearts of moms by showing them the ultrasound.
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Then that doubles the chance of mom choosing life.
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But then they say, we're going to be here for you.
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We begin hour number two of the broadcast here in just a second.
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So I don't know if you went to the movies or did anything like that.
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Usually on Black Friday, my family will go to a movie.
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You fell asleep just recounting the name of the movie.
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He's absolutely unlikable, as is everyone else in the movie.
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I mean, if they made him wonderfully likable, it wouldn't really be telling the story.
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Yet at some point, you're just like, this guy is a disgusting pig, and so is everybody else.
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The difference between the French Revolution and the American Revolution is night and day.
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And if you don't know that, you should watch Napoleon and then do your homework.
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It was really interesting because it went from the rich and powerful all in their white wigs and their white faces and being French to a bloody revolution and then another bloody revolution with Napoleon.
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And turns out the people in charge were the white painted faces with the wigs.
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I mean, nothing really changed except who was wearing the wigs and the white faces.
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Now, I saw the preview of it, and I thought it looked like it could be kind of okay.
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Like, it seemed like he was a bad guy in a lot of ways, but an accomplished guy.
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It was too much of his love life, and I really didn't care.
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I went because I thought it was going to be more, you know, of the – it looks like it's more of the military battles.
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And in, you know, two and a half hours, that was probably maybe 30 minutes.
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Also, I will say it cost $200 million and made 20.
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They reported on day one that on Wednesday it made $7.7 million, which was way low.
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Well, $20 million was the weekend number, technically.
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It made $200 million, as much as Napoleon, $200 million to make.
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God, none of these movies did anything this weekend.
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Isn't Thanksgiving weekend usually a really big movie weekend?
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When Trolls Band Together, which is the third, I believe, in the Trolls saga.
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As a person with two children, I have seen both of the Trolls' previous movies.
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I think that was the second weekend it was out.
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And then there's apparently a Hunger Games sequel, prequel.
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However, I guess it's made $100 million so far, came out on November 17th.
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These are scary numbers for a Thanksgiving weekend.
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Because that used to be the thing that you did.
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After you go out, you get fat on Thursday, you got nothing to do on Friday, you could barely
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I'm going to walk from my car to the movie seat.
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All of these movies didn't do much of anything.
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Well, the Walt Disney Company came out and admitted that wokeness and culture wars have
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They told investors that the company's wokeness presents risks to its reputation and brands.
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It's actually shocking that you've stood by this stance.
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And you, because, you know, there's certain things that we love in life.
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Like, and it's hard to maintain all your principles when it comes down to those things.
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It's like, people don't realize how high it gets you.
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And, you know, so I have problems with that particular line.
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You're almost as into Disney as heroin addicts are into heroin.
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And that's been your entire life I've known you that way.
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I mean, to the point that you purchase, like, individual animation cells from early Disney.
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You bought the plan, the original plan of Disney World as written by Walt Disney when
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he apparently left it in an office after pitching it.
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And the fact is, they've screwed this up so badly, they've even lost you.
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My wife said, I was having a really bad week, I don't know, a few months ago.
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And I, like, I wouldn't consider myself a super Star Wars geek.
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But, like, I'll go watch, like, all the movies that came out in the movie theater, I would
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Like, I'm not going to buy all sorts of memorabilia.
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But, like, I was, you know, when the seventh one came out a few years ago, I was, like,
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It sort of lost me a little bit towards the end on just how bad those last couple movies
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Wait, the fourth, fifth, and sixth one were the original trilogy.
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Even though I didn't think they were good, I still went to them.
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I was, like, all right, this isn't really any good.
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And I can't get myself to watch one minute of these other follow-ups.
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So, here, this according to the SEC filing that they did, Disney employs 225,000 workers
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worldwide, they say that the key human capital management objective is making the workplace
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more engaging and inclusive, creating a more diverse workforce.
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Their diversity, equity, and inclusion objective include building teams that reflect the life
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While employing and supporting a diverse array of voices in our creative and production teams.
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They want to continue to amplify underrepresented voices.
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They are going to cut back on movies, but not by very much.
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Domestic advertising revenue is down from Disney 14%.
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Disney said misalignment with its consumers has impacted broadcast, cable, theaters, internet,
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or mobile technology, and theme park attractions, hotels, and other resort facilities, and travel
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Further, consumers' perceptions of our position on matters of public interest, including our
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efforts to achieve certain of our environmental and social goals, often differ wildly and present
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Consumer tastes and preferences impact, among other items, revenue from advertising sales,
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which are based on part for the ratings for the programs which our advertisements air.
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Affiliate fees, subscription fees, theatrical film, the license, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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They said its leisure business is affected by various factors, including health concerns and the
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If you're an investor and you see that they say, because of perceptions of our position
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on matters of public interest, including our social goals, et cetera, et cetera, impose
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a risk to our reputation and brand, and you're watching it happen in real time, what the hell
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The good thing about being an investor is you can always change that and no longer be one.
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But I mean, isn't there a class action lawsuit at some point where you're like, guys, have
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you ever seen a bigger brand with better feelings attached to it than Disney 10 years ago?
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You got the occasional like, I don't know, they're losing their way.
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Like, I don't trust their programming as much as I used to.
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It was generally speaking, you felt like you could throw on a Disney movie and be completely
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Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse today and what it means to a large number of the audience members
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in the country, 40% that used to love Disney now are repelled by it.
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Are they releasing Snow White or are they having to redo the whole thing?
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Apparently, they're going to maybe include some dwarves this time.
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Maybe I was going to say, but I know that's wrong.
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Well, it's a mathematical measure is what it is.
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I mean, I've never seen a company do this faster than Disney.
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And I have to tell you, if I had stock in that company, I would be looking for somebody
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I don't, I mean, I don't know enough about the law.
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I don't know what the status of it is, but he was trying to sue Disney based on, or was
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threatening to sue Disney based on the amount of, I guess, stock that the state holds in
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And they were saying that this was some sort of class action situation.
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Now, I don't know if that would hold up or if he would win.
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But I think they're, this is the real, they're knowingly tubing it.
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And they're saying it like, I mean, I don't know though.
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I mean, I look, if you've gone back, wanted to, if, if right now you want to take a stance
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on abortion and you were to say, Oh, I'm pro-life.
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And the audience said, but let's say you were a public company and the audience.
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It is, but there are public companies that have points of view.
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And, and you're, if you're an oil company and you said, you know what, everyone, there's
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lots of people out there saying, uh, you know, um, uh, green energy, green energy is the
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So we're going to put our money in green energy.
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Like, well, you know, that's the decision of the company.
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And if you don't want to invest in it, you shouldn't invest in it.
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Like if you were going to say, like, if you were going to take a stand and say on pro-life
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and the audience hated you for it and they all bailed and you lost all your money and
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But like, it's what you believe the company should do.
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And if they, if they believe that wokeness is the way to go, well, they can make that decision.
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I think the company's going to tank over it, but I mean, it's still their company to
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You're as a shareholder though, your job is to help them or, or, you know, uh, voice
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If, if you're intentionally tubing your stock and I don't know if you can describe it that
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They were saying that we hold something to a higher standard.
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Now their standard is dumb and it's ruining the company and they've, they've literally
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But all that being said, I mean, this is, you can pressure them internally to get them
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The problem is Bob Iger and everybody in the company, there's 225,000 employees.
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He is the exact opposite of really anything, any kind of politician that we have seen here that is even close to being president of the United States.
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Donald Trump still plays within some of the norms.
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This guy in Argentina is often compared to Donald Trump.
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Like, that seems to be the largest similarity there.
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But he describes himself as an anarcho-capitalist, which is not how Donald Trump would describe himself at all.
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Get rid of the peso because it's falling and he's going to put the dollar in.
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He is also getting rid of their Federal Reserve Bank.
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Like, he's getting rid of hundreds of programs.
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He is just going to cut this government to the bone.
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Have you seen the video of him walking in front of the whiteboard and he's just pulling off the stickers of all the different agencies?
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Probably a lot of those agencies are incredibly pointless, just as they are here.
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Not knowing the full story of the structure of the Argentinian government.
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But, I mean, every government is like that, especially in South America.
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I will bet you that Art Laffer would like this guy.
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We should call Art Laffer because he knows Argentina real well.
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Argentina always, you know, succeeds, becomes wealthy, and then goes to socialism and destroys itself.
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And then, you know, goes back to its roots and then it destroys itself.
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You know, there's a lot of ifs that could happen here, right?
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Who knows what policy he actually implements when he's in office.
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At some level, he's still a South American politician.
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But, the things he said are really good, really positive.
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If he actually does them, if they work, it could be an incredible thing.
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I mean, you know, it might inspire countries all in the region and all over the world to replicate that process.
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So, there's really high hopes for someone who would come in and actually do this stuff.
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You know, what's really interesting is how cautious people are on saying, I like this guy.
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Gert Wielders could become the next prime minister.
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He didn't win enough seats to become prime minister.
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But, if he cobbles together a few more seats, he may become prime minister.
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And, we were told by everybody, don't have money.
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So, but we always have to say, well, but I'm not sure.
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But, do you ever hear anybody backpedaling on Justin Trudeau?
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I mean, the things that that guy has done, and nobody ever says, well, I don't agree
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I hold myself to a higher standard than the left holds themselves.
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So, I hope that we would have higher standards than them.
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I just, I do have a problem with, it doesn't matter what you do on the left.
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If you turn into a Castro or a Stalin, it doesn't matter.
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Apparently, you can kidnap and murder thousands of people.
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And you'll still get cheered on by these people on the left.
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And, you know, the situation is, you know, I don't know, as a conservative, like, we talk
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And I'm much, I'm much, I'm happy to criticize someone who's supposedly on the right if they're
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Like, I just don't want to stand by them just because they, they align themselves with
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And, you know, you can make the argument that politically, you know, in a pragmatic
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political sense, you know, where the ends justify the means, that's the right approach.
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I don't think that's how you look at the world.
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And I don't think that's how most conservatives look at the world.
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Maybe to our detriment when it comes to winning and losing sometimes.
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So there's two people now that the press say, out of control, these guys are worse than
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Um, however, I might be for them kind of, I hate to say that cause I don't know enough
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about them, but what I see, I like, however, they might go bad, but here's what you should
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take away from all of this, uh, movement politically.
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Cause it's happening in Europe and it's happening in South America.
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It is moving away hard from the left and going right.
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In the case of Argentina, a small government, right?
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A libertarian government is not powerful enough to make you do anything.
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It's not spying on you because it's not big enough.
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These guys, if they work, this is going to be a huge move, uh, for the world back to
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The Dutch are tired of having people just rape their daughters, kill on the street and
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You don't have to the, you know, when, when you go over to Sweden, uh, you go spend any time
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in the Norwegian, uh, countries, you will see how accepting they are, how loving they
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are, but it is a very, very, um, non-diverse population until recently.
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And now the non-diverse population coming up from the Middle East doesn't want to be Swedish.
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They want the free stuff, but they'll have their own no-go zones.
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You're now seeing the immigration be a problem all through Europe.
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You're going to see it as a problem here in America soon.
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I mean, I can't believe how much has changed in, uh, on our border and relatively nobody's
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That's one of the biggest changes in my lifetime.
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When that poses a problem, when we start to have terror attacks or whatever, we start
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to collapse our economy because we're, we're overrun with this, in this lifeboat called
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America, there are too many people trying to get into the boat.
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So I'm, I'm glad to see that before things catch completely on fire over in Europe and in
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South America, there's a couple of places that may turn things around.
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And I think too, this idea that maybe turning, just leaning air on the side of Liberty.
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That's what's encouraging about the guy in Argentina, Malay for, for me, is that like,
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he might look, we, we all know Ronald Reagan wanted to get rid of the department of education.
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Um, what, will this guy be able to get rid of all these agencies?
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I assume there's a million different people that are inside the government and have been inside
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in the government structure forever that will do everything they can to stop him at every
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But just the fact that he's attempting to do these things and pushing in that general
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direction, it's hard to see how they can make the country worse.
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I, you know, at the very least they take a little bit less of your money.
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I will tell you this, it is like never before, uh, you are going to be assassinated, uh, politically
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And if you get these people in who are serious about taking apart the fed and some of these
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things that are absolute institutions that are deep, you start having a president take
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on the intelligence community here in America, you may be looking at worse than a political
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And I never thought I'd feel that way in America, but I do don't you, it is.
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I mean, it is, uh, I mean, look what they did to Donald Trump and look what you, what I think
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Somebody steps up and is effective at taking on the deep state.
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I mean, like you're standing up against people who have entrenched interest in something that
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you don't want and you're trying to, you're trying to destroy and they have all kinds
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I mean, like the, they're not going to just give up their power.
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I wish we, I, I, uh, Donald Trump is so focused now has to be so focused on what's going on
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Uh, when we come back after the top of the hour, I, I still, I'm from the Pacific Northwest.
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So I'm aware of all of the treaties with the Native Americans and the fight over the salmon and everything else.
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What does this mean to you that the United States government is in quote secretive negotiations between the government and environmental groups?
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This according to four Northwest Republican lawmakers who have asked for the details to be released.
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The groups have called for the removal of the dams on the Columbia and snake river.
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Now, what does that mean to the average American?
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I mean, I've heard a little bit about this story, but so I know a little bit of how serious it might be, but honestly, as some, you know, dope who grew up in Connecticut and New York, I would think, I don't, I don't even know what it's about.
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This one, everyone should pay attention to this one.
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It could be the difference between starvation and eating.
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This one affects so much farmland and the, the basic nature of the Pacific Northwest and also the power consumption and the power availability in the Northwest.
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01:24:49.480
Hello America, welcome to the final hour of today's Glenn Beck Program
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Standby, we're going to talk to you about the lack of energy and the lack of food coming up this hour
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Alarm bells are ringing all over the U.S. economy
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Moody's just downgraded our credit outlook to negative
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This isn't just number crunching, it's a dire warning about our growing debts and sinking ability to pay them off
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And everyone told me it will never be downgraded
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It is high time to wake up to the real state of our nation's financing
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And our finances, they are in trouble and chaos
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Now, there is something that traditionally you can do in times like these
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I hope not, because that means we're in bigger trouble
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But it is the refuge against any kind of insanity or inflation usually
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In light of all of this, Goldline steps up with an offer you can't ignore
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They'll throw in a 2 ounce maple fleck silver bar absolutely free
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In these uncertain times, Goldline is giving you a chance to anchor your finances with something real
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So, they're close to a release of a fourth hostage group
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That Biden administration is now actively working to extend the truth
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I hope Israel does what it feels it needs to do for its security
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I know that's horrible to say if you're somebody who has a member of your family as a hostage
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But, at least in America, we've, up until this administration
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But as we look at some of the people coming back
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It's hard to even focus on one story of one kind or another
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But are we going to go back in three or four years
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What happened to that woman who was raped in Chicago
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The children that are rescued from abuse or sex slavery
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Did they perhaps even turn their story into something positive for themselves or others?
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I can't imagine if I just would have wallowed in my own garbage
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Are their lives just going to be nothing but a long memory of pain?
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Or will we celebrate the lives of those who died?