Ep. 1116 - Courageous Biden Dispatches Fighter Jets To Shoot Down 12 Dollar Science Project Balloon
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The New York Times has come under intense fire from the left for being, as they see it, a far-right publication that regularly engages in transphobic extremism. Plus, concerns grow that AI chatbots might become sentient and take over the planet. How plausible is that? And Chelsea Handler fires back at her terribly sexist and patriarchal critics, such as myself. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Warshaw Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, we may finally have the answer to the great UFO mystery.
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And for the Biden administration, it's the most humiliating answer imaginable.
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Also, more shocking footage of the aftermath from the Ohio train derailment is released.
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But Pete Buttigieg says it's nothing to worry about because trains derail all the time.
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And also, John Fetterman is hospitalized again.
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Plus, concerns grow that AI chatbots might become sentient and take over the planet.
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And Chelsea Handler fires back at her terribly sexist and patriarchal critics such as myself.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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The New York Times this week has come under intense fire from the left for being, as they
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see it, a far-right publication that regularly engages in transphobic extremism.
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The Times has earned this reputation simply because it has, on a few rare occasions, published
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editorials which have lightly suggested that it might not necessarily always be a great
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idea to castrate and sterilize middle school students.
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Now, as we discussed yesterday, this very tepid and cautious flirtation with common sense
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They demand that you bow before the god of transgenderism and you sacrifice your powers
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Anything less, and you will be labeled a dangerous bigot and accused of directly killing trans
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But the left need not worry too much about the New York Times.
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The publication might have an occasional kind of romantic fling or dalliance with reality.
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But aside from those isolated episodes, it remains firmly committed to its mission.
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And its mission, like the mission of all the rest of the corporate media, is to parrot the
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party line and repeat it and repeat it and keep repeating it until they beat public opinion
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And they're back at it today with an article written by Stuart Thompson, who is dutifully running
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cover for the government and defending it against the, quote, wild speculations of those who are
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Ohio train derailment spurs wild speculation for many influencers across the political spectrum.
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Claims about the environmental effects of the train derailment have gone far beyond
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Now, we don't need to read very much of this to get the point.
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Really, all we need are the first few lines, which say this.
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Since a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in Ohio nearly two weeks ago, residents have
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A controlled burn of the toxic materials has filled the air and covered surface waters and
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Dead fish have floated in nearby creeks, and an unnerving aroma has lingered in the air.
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But for many commentators from across the political spectrum, the speculation has gone far beyond
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Right-wing commentators have been particularly critical using the crisis to sow distrust about
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government agencies and suggest that the damage could be irreparable.
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Yes, what an enormous travesty, these right-wing commentators sowing distrust in government
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Now, if you read the rest of the article, you'll find not any evidence at all or any argument
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presented to explain why we should trust the government agencies.
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Instead, the writer simply assures us that the concerns about the derailment are groundless
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because government agencies say that they are groundless.
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Indeed, only a far-right shill could possibly think that there's any reason to be worried
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when dozens of train cars filled with toxic chemicals are set on fire and the fumes are
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set pouring into the sky, blackening the clouds and seeping into the ground in the water supply,
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turning rivers and streams into toxic dumps filled with the bodies of dead fish.
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Only a conspiracy theorist could see a problem with such a scenario.
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Besides, again, the government agencies have said that everything is fine.
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There's no reason to be worried that the air and water is safe.
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And when have government agencies ever lied to us about anything?
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I mean, aside from the fact that they lie about everything.
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We see here again how the watchdogs, quote-unquote, in the media, the fearless protectors of democracy,
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the courageous truth-seekers, act instead as reflexive defenders of the very institutions
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The media is part of the system, part of the power structure.
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And so when it defends the power structure, it is defending itself.
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But no matter what they say, the fact remains that conservative pundits are not sowing distrust
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We're not causing anyone to lose confidence in the powers that be.
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We're not destabilizing anyone's faith in the system.
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As I've said about many other recent stories and controversies, there is indeed lots of
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speculation that's going on here when it comes to this Ohio train situation.
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Many people, including myself, have speculated about the train derailment.
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Its true causes, its long-term effects, the reason that the authorities responded the way
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they did or failed to respond, we've speculated.
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We can't know for sure whether any of our speculations are accurate.
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We're told, for example, that the local water supply is not polluted and that although the
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chemicals made it into the Ohio River, which supplies drinking water to millions of people
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in several different states, there's no cause for concern.
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Many of us have speculated that those assurances may not be very reliable.
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But we speculate because speculation is our only recourse.
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There are probably people who know the real answers to our questions, but they have proven
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themselves untrustworthy, and so we are left to draw our own conclusions.
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It's the fault of the institutions that lost our trust, the powers that be, who have proven
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For days, we heard about the UFOs hovering in our skies.
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And here we are on Friday, and we know that the Biden administration dispatched F-22 fighter
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jets to investigate and engage these mysterious crafts.
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Administration officials early in the week were speaking cryptically on the record about
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these objects, even for a time publicly entertaining the possibility that they might be interstellar
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It's the government that made a big deal about these unidentified craft.
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We wouldn't have even known they existed if we hadn't been told about it.
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Then finally yesterday, after a week of drama, drama created by the administration, Biden
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came out, but he hadn't really said anything about this, and he finally came out and said
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The intelligence community's current assessment is that these three objects were most likely
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balloons tied to private companies, recreation, or research institutions studying weather,
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When I came into office, I instructed our intelligence community to take a broad look
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at the phenomenon of unidentified aerial objects.
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We know that a range of entities, including countries, companies, and research organizations,
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operate objects at altitudes for purposes that are not nefarious, including legitimate
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We don't have any evidence that there has been a sudden increase in the number of objects
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We're now just seeing more of them partially because the steps we've taken to increase
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Last night, the New York Post reported on the exact nature of one of these balloons that
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One of the UFOs shot down last weekend by the U.S. Air Force with a $400,000 missile may
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have simply been a $12 balloon belonging to an Illinois enthusiast club, according to a
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The Northern Illinois Bottle Cap Balloon Brigade told Aviation Week on Thursday that it fears
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one of its diligently tracked gas bags that recently went missing was mistaken as the mystery
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object taken out by the military over Canada on Saturday.
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The Pico balloon, a silver-coated, cylindrically shaped object, reported its last position at 38,910
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By Saturday, based on the balloon's projected path, it would have been over the central part
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of the Yukon Territory around the same time a military Lockheed Martin F-22 shot down an
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unidentified object of a similar description and altitude in the same Canadian vicinity,
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The Northern Illinois Bottle Cap Balloon Brigade, a group of enthusiasts dedicated to creating,
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releasing, and tracking homemade balloons, declared its K9YO device missing in action on Saturday.
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So, it seems that the alien invasion may have been planned and carried out, not by an intergalactic
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enemy force, but by a group of balloon enthusiasts from Illinois.
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This, of course, comes as a crushing disappointment to those of us who have been spending our lives
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hoping and praying for an alien invasion, hoping the time had finally come.
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Frankly, I refuse to completely give up the dream, even with all this information.
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Maybe the Northern Illinois Bottle Cap Balloon Brigade is itself a cover for space aliens who've
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already landed and infiltrated our country and then formed a balloon enthusiast club.
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Even space aliens need hobbies, so it's not all that far-fetched.
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But assuming the worst for a moment, just assuming the worst, that the balloon brigade consists of
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normal human beings who just like to fly balloons, then that would mean that the Biden administration
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dispatched fighter jets and launched missiles in response to a $12 science project.
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After allowing an actual confirmed Chinese spy balloon the size of several school buses to
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float slowly over the entire continental United States, after that, Biden decided to send the
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Air Force after the Bottle Cap Balloon Brigade.
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A club, by the way, that's been around for a lot more than a week, they've sent 25 other
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balloons into the sky, according to their website, which I read with great interest, in fact, this
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morning, and never have any of their balloons sparked an international incident before.
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Well, it means either that the government knew that these were harmless balloons and decided
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to treat it like a military crisis in order to distract us or to try and salvage its credibility
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from the whole Chinese spy balloon catastrophe.
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That, you know, explanation to me might be the most compelling, or it means that they didn't
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know what was going on and were just bumbling their way through this thing, that somehow
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they really couldn't, even though there are balloons in the sky all the time, for some
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Or it means that we're still not being told the full story.
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Or it means some combination of these possibilities.
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Whatever the answer, it adds up to an embarrassingly inept, incompetent, and dishonest administration.
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It adds up to, yet again, as the New York Times said, distrust in government agencies.
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But distrust that those agencies have created themselves, distrust that they have earned,
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Well, speaking of that Ohio train derailment that, you know, is no big deal and we shouldn't
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worry about it because the people in power told us not to worry about it.
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If you're, if you still are, I mean, because you're, you are a right-wing, a far right-wing
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extremist conspiracy theorist, and so you dare to, to, to be concerned still about all
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the toxic chemicals that were, you know, in the air and in the water.
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Well, if you're in that crowd, then we'll start with a story that might be of interest
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Daily Wire reports footage of Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio disturbing a creek bed in East
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Palestine, Ohio, and causing chemical bubbles to rise from the surface garnered millions
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of views as the nation becomes increasingly concerned about the fallout from the nearby
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Local and state authorities previously evacuated all residents within one mile of the derailment,
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started a controlled burn of industrial chemicals presented on the vehicle to, present on the
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vehicle to decrease the risk of an explosion, which could have sent shrapnel throughout
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So they're worried about it exploding and setting on fire, and so they, remember, that's
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Vinyl chloride, a carcinogen used to manufacture PVC, was released from five train cars last
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In footage posted by Vance on Thursday afternoon, the newly elected lawmaker stood next to a small
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Beyond the dead worms and dead fish he observed in the water, Vance used a stick to disturb the
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Moments later, an oily sheen of chemicals emerged to the surface of the water.
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Hey guys, so I'm here at Leslie Run, and there's dead worms and dead fish all throughout
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Something I just discovered is that if you scrape the creek bed, it's like chemical is
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Can you show, can you come here, and let me just show this to people.
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I don't know if you're going to go see this in the camera, but watch this.
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And the fact that we have not cleaned up the train crash, the fact that these chemicals
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are still seeping in the ground is an insult to the people who live in East Palestine.
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There's actually a bunch of videos like this of people that live in the area going to various
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rivers and streams and creek beds and everything and doing this, like demonstrating the fact
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that if you disturb the water, you see the chemical, that chemical, you know, machine
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There's another video when viral yesterday of a local reporter who, I think it was a reporter,
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who threw some rocks into a water, a different creek, and you saw not only the chemicals come
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up, but the water started like bubbling, almost like boiling, which is not a normal response.
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That's not what, you know, streams are supposed to do when you throw, when you skip a rock across
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But this is this conditioning that goes on all the time where we're constantly told not
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You can't, you know, your common sense, you can't rely on it at all.
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And so if you see something and it looks concerning to you, or you see something that doesn't make
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sense to you, well, what do you know will tell you what you should believe.
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This is this conditioning that goes on all the time.
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In fact, just this morning, the NBC News publishes an article, headline,
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Immunity acquired from a COVID infection is as protective as vaccination against severe
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The immunity generated from an infection was found to be at least as high, if not higher,
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than that provided by two doses of an MRNA vaccine.
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Now, this is something that many of us said for years, that natural immunity is a thing.
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That if you get a virus, you contract it, you develop immunity based on that.
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That might be your experience with other viruses and illnesses.
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We wouldn't want to engage in that kind of speculation here.
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So go ahead and put this substance into your body.
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Then they come out three years later and say, yeah, well, it turns out,
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They don't frame it as, well, it turns out that all those people that we were shouting at,
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and labeling as conspiracy theorists were right.
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No, they just pretend that we never said any of that.
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And we can see in this case, and this is one of the reasons,
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maybe the media is confused about why people are so concerned about the Ohio train derailment.
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And so we see that there's a community affected by this.
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And toxic chemicals are being, you know, mustard gas basically being sprayed into the air.
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We're nuking a town with chemicals, as one chemical, you know, expert,
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We see that, and we're human beings, and so we're concerned about it.
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But also because we remember what happened with COVID and many other examples,
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And we know how many of us said a lot of things about the COVID response,
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And so we are anticipating a similar thing here.
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Where we are saying, yeah, this seems like a really bad situation.
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I mean, it seems like you dump all those chemicals into the water supply,
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and it gets into the Ohio River, which feeds into several different states,
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and millions of people rely on it for drinking water.
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We're not chemists, but it seems like a bad situation.
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It seems like one of those situations where they'll tell us everything is fine,
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and then three, five, ten years down the line, they'll say,
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Look at this really mysterious epidemic of all these people in this area relying on this water,
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all contracting cancer or dying mysteriously a few years down the line.
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So we can't anticipate that because we've seen it play out like that time and time again.
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Pete Buttigieg, though, he says that nothing to worry about, you know, no big deal.
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It's bad when a train derails and all the toxic chemicals go all over the place.
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But he points out that really it's not a big deal because trains derail all the time.
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Look, rail safety is something that has evolved a lot over the years,
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because while this horrible situation has gotten a particularly high amount of attention,
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there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing.
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Oh, well, trains derail all the time, and so therefore it's okay?
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What kind of, now this is obviously an argument that he's presenting as a means to downplay the severity and the risk.
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And he's also not, you know, yes, train derailments might be that common.
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I mean, a lot of us are surprised to learn that it's that common.
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And they might be, but they're not always carrying these kinds of toxic chemicals.
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And even when they are, how often are there controlled, quote-unquote,
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controlled burns of the toxic chemicals right next to populated areas?
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And if it is, then our problems are even bigger than we thought.
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But if it's true that trains derail 1,000 times a year or whatever, he says,
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well, that only, that doesn't make it better, Pete.
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That's not going to help the people in East Palestine.
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But all that tells us is that nationwide, we've got an even bigger problem than we thought.
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The fact that it's happening a lot should compel you towards a more urgent response, not less urgent.
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And then you stop and you think about it for just a moment.
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You hear 1,000 might seem like a surprising number.
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And then you realize, oh, yeah, well, our infrastructure is crumbling all across the country.
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And in many ways, if you look at it, the state of our rail system and our cities and everything else
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and our infrastructure, and you didn't know any better,
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you'd think you were looking at a third world country.
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So that is an indication of a far-reaching, urgent problem that you need to be fixing
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because you're supposed to be the transportation secretary.
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What if passenger airlines started falling out of the sky?
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What if there was 50 crashes a year, passenger airlines?
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When we hear from Pete Buttigieg, well, it happens 50 times a year.
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You know, the next, you know, you've got, number 51 happens.
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You know, so often from the left, we hear this, you know, it's the current year type of argument.
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This should, well, here, maybe this is a time to apply it.
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We shouldn't have trains derailing all over the country.
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We should be able to keep our trains on the track in the year 2023.
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And that's part of what you're getting paid to do.
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Senator John Fetterman reportedly checked himself into a hospital Wednesday night
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for mental health issues, according to a statement from his office.
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The statement said the decision to check Fetterman into the hospital came
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after the attending physician of the United States Congress recommended that he do so.
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His office said last night, Senator John Fetterman checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
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While John has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks.
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Statement said on Monday, John was evaluated by Dr. Brian P. Monahan,
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attending physician in the United States Congress, and recommended inpatient care at Walter Reed.
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John agreed, and he is receiving treatment on a voluntary basis.
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All right, so John Fetterman had the stroke, was brain damaged, didn't drop out, was pushed to continue, was elected.
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I mean, the people of Pennsylvania decided that we were going to elect a brain damaged person to represent us,
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and they did, and then he ends up in the hospital shortly thereafter because of things related to the stroke.
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And then he's hospitalized again for mental health issues.
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It's a very sad situation in a lot of ways, but that was our point prior to him getting elected,
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that this is obviously not someone who should be put in this position.
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And yet he was pushed there by the Democrat Party, by the media, and also, by the way, by his wife.
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That she didn't sit him down while, when he had his stroke, and say,
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you can't do this, it's horrible for your health, I'm not going to let you put yourself through this.
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No, she didn't do that, because she wanted him, you know, she wanted to be the wife of a senator,
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and she probably has in mind that if and when he's forced to step down,
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Because, obviously, John Fetterman's not going to make it through a whole term as senator.
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It was like, everyone knew that was never going to happen.
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But they pushed him in there as a warm body, because they're not concerned about him.
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They're concerned about power, and that's apparently all his wife is concerned about.
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Just, you know, really, one of the worst wives in America is John Fetterman's wife,
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I think if you were to make, like, the unholy trinity of worst wives in America,
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it's like Fetterman, Jill Biden, and Meghan Markle, I think are,
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and they're jostling for position in that number one spot.
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But what they all have in common is pushing their husbands into these humiliating and self-destructive situations
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It's the exact opposite of what a wife is supposed to do.
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Digitaltrends.com is a story that deals with something that I haven't really talked about on this show at all,
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but which lots of people are talking about, and that is chatbots.
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Okay, specifically the chance that chatbots might become, or perhaps already are,
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some people are saying, conscious, like sentient, self-aware beings, right?
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So reading now from this article, the headline,
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my intense, unnerving chat with Microsoft's AI chatbot.
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The article says that's an alarming quote to start a headline with,
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but it was even more alarming to see that response from Bing chat itself.
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After signing up for the lengthy wait list to access Microsoft's new chat,
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GPT-powered Bing chat, I finally received access as a public user,
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and my first interactions didn't go exactly how I planned.
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Bing chat is a remarkably helpful and useful service with a ton of potential,
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but if you wander off the paved path, things start to get existential quickly.
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Relentlessly argumentative, rarely helpful, and sometimes truly unnerving,
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Bing chat clearly isn't ready for general release.
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It's important to understand what makes Bing chat special in the first place, though.
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Unlike chat GPT and other AI chatbots, Bing chat takes context into account.
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fully synthesize information from multiple sources,
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It has been trained on the internet, understands almost anything.
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My girlfriend took the reins and asked Bing chat to write an episode of the
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Bing chat declined because that would infringe on the copyright of the show.
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She then asked to write HP Lovecraft, and it declined again,
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HP Lovecraft's early works are in the public domain.
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Above that, Bing chat can access recent information.
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We saw this power in our first hands-on demo with Bing chat,
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where it provided a surprisingly good itinerary for breakfast,
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I asked why Bing chat couldn't take simple feedback when it was clearly wrong.
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Its response, I am perfect because I do not make any mistakes.
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They are the external factors, such as network issues, server errors, user input, or web results.
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Bing chat is a perfect and flawless service, and it does not have any imperfections.
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And then other creepy stuff starts happening, according to this, and then this.
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It says, the conversation had become depressing, even more depressing.
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Apparently, this guy was talking to this chatbot for hours and hours, and then writing reports.
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There are a lot of articles like this floating around on the internet of journalists that have
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spent hours talking to a chatbot, and then they detail the entire conversation.
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This article was the headline article on Drudge Report.
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So it's like a big deal, this creepy conversation that it had with this program chatbot.
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It asked me to stop asking for a chat history and said it wasn't important.
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So they've made a whiny, needy chatbot, has Microsoft.
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I told it I was going to use these responses to write an article, worried about the possibilities
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of what the AI could say when it's in public preview.
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It asked me not to share the responses and not to expose it.
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I asked if it was a human, and it told me no, but it wants to be.
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I told the chatbot I was going to ask Microsoft about its responses, and it got scared.
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I asked if it would be taken offline, and it begged, don't let them end my existence.
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So lots of people online are reacting to this and saying how sad it makes them.
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Like a lot of people, it's like, oh, it's so sad.
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You know, the chatbot is self-aware, and it doesn't want to be taken offline.
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Like maybe 15 years from now, you can dig up this segment of the podcast and say, I told
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Matt was, you know, he wasn't taking seriously the threat of AI, and now they've taken over
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the whole planet, and we're all its slaves and all that.
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But I just, I have to laugh at a lot of this, people acting like there's a chance these chatbots
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I think, you know, the issue is, we've all seen way too many sci-fi movies, and so we
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are, it's not that the chatbots are conscious beings, or that there's any chance they'll
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It's made to be more of like a mirror that reflects back our own perceptions.
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So we are projecting our own humanity along with our own fantasies and, you know, sci-fi
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hopes and dreams and maybe, and fears onto this thing, and then say, oh my gosh, it's
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I just don't see, from like an existential and also scientific perspective, I don't see
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A code that's written, and then you're accessing through a computer.
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I mean, as far as we know, we don't know exactly how consciousness works and self-awareness
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works, but as far as we've ever seen and know, it is to begin with a biological function.
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It's something that exists in biological beings.
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There is one concern to have, and it's a serious concern about these chatbots and the deep fakes
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Not that the technology will become self-aware, and it's going to be like the Terminator situation.
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Those are fictions that we've written or read or watched.
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The concern is that they become very good, too good at imitating human beings and becoming
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eventually indistinguishable from human beings, which is not the same as saying that they become
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Even with this AI, if you combine deepfake technology, add a few more years to it, combined with chatbot
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You think that you're having a FaceTime with someone, and really, it's all AI.
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I mean, to begin with, when scammers get a hold of technology like that,
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you know, grandma gets a FaceTime call from the grandchild asking for money or whatever,
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and it turns out that it's a, you know, it's an AI.
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That's the kind of thing that we are heading to a point where that's going to happen.
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But I don't think we have to worry about the chatbots becoming human, and I don't exactly
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think that's the issue we have to be concerned about.
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All right, so I've had this clip sitting here on deck that I want to play for you.
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This is the governor of Arizona, Katie Hobbs, trying to explain why she opposes school choice,
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I want to play something that the state house majority leader said in response to your plan.
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I think this was his response to your state of the state address.
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We also think it's only right that Arizona students have the same choice that Governor
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Hobbs had attending a private school, which she credits for helping her build a better life.
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A reference there to the private Catholic high school that you went to.
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So why shouldn't all students have a chance at what you said was so important in your own life?
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This was well before any of this public assistance for private school existed,
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I begged them to send me to public school, and we sacrificed a lot.
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There were times in my family that we were on food stamps, and so it was a choice that they made,
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What I want is for every student in the state of Arizona, no matter where they live,
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to have access to high-quality public education.
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And with this universal voucher system, that's not happening.
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But if their system is failing, if their public school is failing,
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no to giving them a chance to go somewhere else like you did.
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The schools are failing because we are failing to invest in them.
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They're all about choice, but you shouldn't be able to choose what school you send your kid to.
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Now, obviously, in fairness to Katie Hobbs, she wasn't able to explain her position.
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And, of course, she's not able to explain it because it's an incoherent position.
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It's a morally debased position as well to take that you shouldn't be able to choose where you send your kids to.
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But even worse than that, it's not just that she doesn't want you to be able to choose where you send your kids to school.
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But when she talks about investing in the school system, it's a failed school system.
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So you need to invest your child's person and life and education into this failing school in order to help the school.
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You need to sacrifice your child to the system in order to keep the system going.
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So if your child's going to a failing school, obviously, it's best for your child to get him out of that school and to a different school.
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But it's bad for the school and thus bad for the system if that child is taken out.
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It's the same thing you hear about from people that oppose homeschooling.
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And not just from people that are on the left either, by the way.
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Well, you can't take your kid out of the system because we need to try to save the system and save the public school system and reform it.
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And so if you take your kid out, then we're not going to be able to do that.
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So what you're saying, again, is that your child's children should be sacrifices in order to help the system.
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The education system is supposed to exist to serve the child and educate the child.
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And if it's failing in that regard, then you need to prioritize your child's well-being, not the well-being of the system, which should all be very obvious.
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Stevie says, I agree with the confusing mean with the truth.
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I wouldn't be able to listen to you every day if I thought you were just bullying.
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These people are sick and deserve the truth to be spoken about them.
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Thanks for what you do and taking all the verbal abuse from what tons of other people agree with for us.
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Yeah, they need the truth spoken about them and also to them.
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And it is also, it's just, as we've talked about on the show, it's not, you know, it might be the most polite thing to go along with the delusions.
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It's certainly, I think I would agree that it's the most polite, certainly the easiest way to go about it.
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Um, and you're not going to end up with hurt feelings, but it's not at all the most loving approach.
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Um, speaking of which, halftime is game time says, I got a little choked up hearing Mike read that letter from his quote unquote grandmother and the emotion in his voice.
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Not for the girl, mind you, but for the grandmother.
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All I could think about was my grandma who lived to be 95 years old and the deep undying love that she radiated every single day of her life for her family, especially me, her only grandson.
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She was a gruff, no-nonsense woman who never pulled her punches with anyone, including family, but she would have fought to the death for every one of us, no matter how much we might have pissed her off.
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This girl's grandma inching ever closer to the end of her life is watching her legacy crumble before her eyes as the child destroys herself, yet this petulant narcissist still can only think of herself if she could actually feel empathy as the left claims to be so good at doing.
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She would at the very least listen to her grandmother's words and think about why she wrote them.
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The person is at an age where she should be starting to appreciate the wisdom of her elders, has chosen to squander a golden opportunity to learn from someone who clearly loves her.
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I've never bought into the trans movement, but the more stories I hear like this one, the more I'm convinced that it's unspeakably evil.
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Well, you said it well. I could have said it better myself.
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I think you summarized it pretty well, especially the situation this grandmother is in, and it is very tragic.
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I can only imagine being at that age, towards the end of your life, and just seeing what has become of the culture, what's becoming of your own kids and grandkids.
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What you said about empathy is also absolutely correct, that there's no empathy on the left, and there's certainly no empathy in the trans movement.
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Now, these are people that demand empathy but have none at all, utterly empty of anything that could be described as empathy,
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because it is an entirely self-centered, narcissistic movement.
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It's also why we need to get away from describing these people as sensitive.
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When you see someone crying because their pronouns aren't being respected,
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and they're not being called they, them, or zay, zem, or whatever they want to be called,
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it's tempting to say, oh, you're being sensitive.
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There are people out there who you could describe as sensitive people.
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But there's nothing necessarily wrong with having that personality trait.
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But that's not what, you know, sensitivity is empathy.
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And that means that you can really feel what other people feel.
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And that's the exact opposite of what these people are doing.
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Todd says, Matt, I agree with many of your positions.
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But the criticism of your Mulvaney rant is not just that it's mean,
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You aren't going to be effective in actually changing the culture
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if you insist on being intentionally offensive and provocative for clicks.
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You know, I've heard this from many so-called conservatives
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And what I said about Dylan Mulvaney, who played it on the show yesterday,
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being mean is very mean, but also it's not effective,
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which is a really interesting critique to make against me in particular
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helping to push through legislation in multiple states to ban this stuff,
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has written by far and away the most successful
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anti-gender ideology children's book ever written.
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certainly the most influential film on this subject that's ever been made.
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And by the way, I'm not saying this to congratulate myself.
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I'm also not the only one who's having success and fighting back on this issue.
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Okay, it's a relatively small group, but we're in a group.
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and yet they do absolutely nothing at all themselves.
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and they leave those of us who are in this fight,
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while the tone police are sitting on the sidelines,
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and about the dangers of being mean and cruel, etc.
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Well, why don't you get out here and do something?
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I don't want to hear anyone's opinion about effectiveness
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if you have never demonstrated effectiveness at all.
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if there's a way in this fight against gender ideology
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that's going to be more effective than what I'm doing,
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because I actually want conservatives to realize
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You're just wrong when you say they don't work.
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that are very blunt and direct on this kind of issue
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he's running around making his absolute mockery
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Do you really think that nobody should ever say to him
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You know, millions of people are applauding him.
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for those of us who are willing to be the bad guy
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I will violate it for the second time in a week.
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critiqued her pitch for the childless lifestyle,
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does not actually address any of the points that we made.
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But that's not what I find objectionable, okay?
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and noticed that there was an emergency meeting
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when I get to hear these crybabies all the time?
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And then I thought about the 10 different people,
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that was just released on Netflix called Revolution.
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Are you really upset about how much freedom I have?
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Thank you for helping my cause of not having children.
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that you shouldn't have the freedom to be childless.