00:17:36.900A kid's choice award for weirdest penis.
00:17:41.900What does that joke even mean? Why would your mind go there?
00:17:46.660I mean, I know why, but that's the kind of joke that reveals way more about you than it does about the person that you're targeting with the joke.
00:17:55.960And second, that aside, needless to say, again, that what you just heard there is a statement, a statement even braver than it is timely.
00:18:07.240I mean, going after the guy who was vice president four years ago.
00:18:12.460Wow. A guy that everyone in the room hates and who, even if you were in a room with conservatives, many of them would hate him too.
00:18:19.220Now, that takes guts. I mean, to go after a guy like that, to pick on a man who in every way is like, he's literally the easiest target in the world.
00:18:31.080I can't think of one individual who's an easier target than Mike Pence.
00:18:35.200And that's who she decided to spend time going after.
00:18:38.700And just incredible. Really incredible.
00:18:42.480Although it is interesting that, yet again, we have someone on the left insulting somebody on the right by claiming that the person is gay.
00:18:51.420And as I said recently, that never goes in the reverse, right?
00:18:56.140Like, you never hear a straight conservative person insult a gay liberal by claiming that the gay liberal is really straight.
00:20:04.800And I think the reason for this dynamic is pretty obvious.
00:20:10.260Some of it, some of it I'm sure is personal guilt and shame that they are projecting onto Mike Pence.
00:20:17.660So there's some of that, but I think also what we see is in, is their mentality where on the left, they are motivated always by sex, by sexuality.
00:20:34.060That's their, that's their primary motivation behind everything.
00:20:36.900And they cannot conceive of anyone being driven by anything else.
00:20:42.480The idea that anybody would have like principles or a belief system or a worldview or a philosophy or a moral code or anything that is not driven by sexuality.
00:20:57.500To them, it's, it's a foreign, they can't believe it.
00:20:59.840It's, it's, it's a foreign concept to them.
00:21:01.780So they assume that somebody who disapproves of, for instance, gay marriage, must be driven by some sort of repressed sexual urge.
00:21:11.420Because they know that if, if they had that position, that would be their reason for having it.
00:21:18.160Because on the left, their sexual urges are their primary animating force.
00:21:24.380And they, they just can't imagine anything else.
00:21:27.640They are, they are, the fact that they are driven by that, and also that they cannot control their sexual urges at all, or practice any form of like chastity whatsoever, that they feel incapable of doing that.
00:21:47.420And so they just believe that everybody's like, they, they can't imagine that anybody is able to function differently from that.
00:21:54.340And you see that come out in these kinds of accusations, which is interesting.
00:21:59.960Chat GPT is about to become a lot more useful.
00:22:02.480OpenAI on Monday announced its latest artificial intelligence large language model that it says will make Chat GPT smarter and easier to use.
00:22:10.380The new model called Jet, called GPT-40 is an update from the company's previous GPT-4 model, which launched just over a year ago.
00:22:19.200The model will be available to unpaid customers, meaning anyone will have access to OpenAI's most advanced technology through Chat GPT.
00:22:25.860Based on the company's Monday demonstration, GPT-40 will effectively turn Chat GPT into a digital personal assistant that can engage in real-time spoken conversations.
00:22:34.920It will also be able to interact using text and vision, meaning it can view screenshots, photos, documents, or charts uploaded by users and have a conversation about them.
00:22:42.780OpenAI chief technology officer, Mira Murati, said the updated version of Chat GPT will now also have memory capabilities, meaning it can learn from previous conversations with users and can do real-time translation.
00:22:56.960Now, they put out several videos demonstrating this technology.
00:23:02.300Here's just the first video that kind of gives an overview of what this new AI will be capable of.
00:28:19.700So that's actually the dystopian scenario.
00:28:22.280And there's a good chance it will happen.
00:28:25.260And I find it sort of bewildering that more people don't see the problem with that scenario.
00:28:30.640Okay, like every time I talk about AI and the advancements in technology, and most people seem to think that it's all good and it's great and it's exciting.
00:28:39.960And when we talk about it, I hear from a lot of people who insist that AI will be a great help to mankind and there's no reason to fear the advancement of technology.
00:28:51.280So it's hard for me to understand how people don't see the major, major downside here.
00:28:59.020So imagine for a moment, let's just imagine that somebody invented an AI that could literally do everything.
00:29:08.800Okay, imagine that every human effort was rendered needless by an AI.
00:29:14.680This thing can do every household chore.
00:31:09.720And we'll probably get there way ahead of schedule.
00:31:12.920You know, and eventually, of course, AI will be able to do everything, including making and maintaining other AI.
00:31:19.300In fact, part of this demonstration, we won't play the clip, but part of this demonstration, they show how the AI that they've made here can communicate with each other.
00:31:30.060I guess bore each other to death with the small talk.
00:31:34.400And so, that's the next step in the process.
00:31:36.680I mean, you know, many people who would claim that someone like me, that I'm kind of a chicken little, they would say that, you know, there'll still be stuff for us to do, and there'll still be jobs.
00:31:46.460Because, you know, we need people to make the AI and maintain it and all that kind of stuff.
00:32:32.380You know, the key to a happy life is to have nothing that you need to do at all so you can just experience pure, pointless existence where you just exist and sit there and do nothing.
00:32:47.300To me, that is clearly a nightmare scenario.
00:32:52.320But I think a lot of people have become so, I don't know, so clouded by their own laziness and their own slothfulness that for them, it's like, what do you mean?
00:33:24.080Governor Christy Noem banished by, here's the headline anyway.
00:33:27.160Governor Christy Noem is banished by two more South Dakota tribes and is now banned from nearly 20% of her state.
00:33:33.500The South Dakota governor, Christy Noem, is now banned from entering nearly 20% of her state after two more tribes banished her this week over comments she made earlier this year about tribal leaders benefiting from drug cartels.
00:33:46.660The latest developments in the ongoing tribal dispute come on the heels of the backlash Noem face for writing about killing a hunting dog that misbehaved in her latest book.
00:33:55.560The Yankton Sioux tribe voted Friday to ban Noem from their land in southeastern South Dakota just a few days after the Sisseton-Wapiton, Sisseton-Wapiton, Ovati tribe took the same action.
00:34:11.800The Oglala, Rosebud, Cheyenne River, and Standing Rock Sioux tribes had already taken action to keep her off their reservations.
00:34:18.260Three other tribes haven't yet banned her.
00:34:20.240Noem reinforced the divisions between the tribes and the rest of the state in March when she said publicly that tribal leaders were catering,
00:34:25.560according to drug cartels on the reservations while neglecting the needs of children and the poor.
00:34:32.180So the governor is completely correct here, by the way, about the drug cartels and Indian reservations.
00:34:37.120Everything she said is correct, and the reservations banishing her for saying it really tells you all you need to know.
00:34:44.860That kind of, that's basically a confession.
00:34:47.760But the very fact that they supposedly have the authority to ban the governor of South Dakota from entering wide swaths of South Dakota is just ridiculous.
00:35:00.240I mean, it's just, it's a farce, okay?
00:35:02.880The whole thing, the whole Indian reservation thing is absurd.
00:35:07.860Like, can we just be, can we be done with this?
00:36:27.120And it's where one warfaring society, Western society, went toe-to-toe with another warfaring society, the native tribes.
00:36:37.660There were no peaceful doves on either side.
00:36:40.700This was a time when you had to fight for whatever land you wanted.
00:36:44.320And that's how it worked all over the world.
00:36:46.100The law of conquest was observed by all people everywhere.
00:36:48.500And these two groups, of course, were divided into many different factions, and particularly on the native side, factions that warred with each other all the time and would not have recognized themselves as belonging to one society.
00:39:25.900I know we killed a bunch of people and scalped them and raped their women and stole their children in order to take the land that we're on right now.
00:39:33.660But we would really like to stop it here.
00:39:35.280We would like to stop the line of bloodshed here because we want to kill everyone and not be killed ourselves.
00:39:40.700And so would you all please just let us have all of this land?
00:39:43.460We can't defend it, but just let us have it out of the kindness of your hearts, please.
00:39:49.260They didn't say that because it would be pointless.
00:40:28.040And we should start saying that and we should stop being ashamed of saying that I'm tired of people being just everyone get over it and live, live in the, in the, the, uh, I'm not one to use the, it's the current year arguments.
00:40:42.080But there are times when it's necessary to remind people of that, that it, that it is in fact the year 2024.
00:40:48.700And that, that these wars were settled 150 years ago.
00:40:52.700And it's in many cases, much, much, uh, in, in, much farther back than that.
00:40:58.040And, uh, now we can all, we all really should just move on.
00:41:00.800And if you're going to live in this country, uh, it is our country, it's our land and be a part of the country.
00:41:08.700And, you know, you shouldn't be able to ban the governor of your state from being on your land.
00:41:14.660Cause she pointed out the drug cartels and all the crime that you are allowing to happen there.
00:42:52.620The written word can take many forms and come in many genres.
00:42:57.220And one of the most excruciating of these genres is the commencement speech.
00:43:01.220These speeches are the worst of all worlds.
00:43:03.300They're boring, trite, cliched, pointless, and also long.
00:43:06.480The average commencement speech is so boring and so stale that it makes the average priest's homily at Sunday Mass seem positively compelling by comparison.
00:43:14.880Which, as someone who has gone to Sunday Mass every week for 37 years, I can say from experience, extensive experience, is a difficult thing to pull off.
00:43:21.980But every once in a while, there's an exception to this rule.
00:43:24.680On very, very, very rare occasion, somebody will show up to a graduation ceremony to deliver a commencement speech that is actually not god-awful.
00:45:47.480And certainly as far as commencement speech jokes go, if that's where the bar is set, by that comparison, it's pure comedic brilliance.
00:45:53.980But in any case, putting Frankenstein's dress code to the side, his point about privilege is important.
00:45:59.040And to flesh it out a bit, I'd say that there are two problems with the way that we view privilege in our culture.
00:46:03.340The first is that we often have a twisted view, of course, of what privilege is and who has it and how they got it.
00:46:10.040The left will, of course, claim that white heterosexual males have the most privilege,
00:46:13.980that we as a group are the epitome of privilege in all its forms.
00:46:17.280But from a systemic perspective, we actually have the least privilege.
00:46:20.780There are no policies that explicitly seek to help, favor, or in any way benefit white heterosexual males.
00:46:27.840Every other group in existence is served by the system and by its policies in an explicit way.
00:46:33.200Politicians will get up in front of cameras and they will specifically say that they want to help women and black people and Hispanics and Asians and gays and trans identified people and everything else.
00:46:42.320But they'll pass laws and they'll put in place programs meant to do exactly that.
00:46:48.060But no politician, even the supposedly conservative ones, will ever stand up and say that they want to specifically help straight white males.
00:46:56.560They certainly will not attempt to pass any law or create any program or enact any policy for that purpose.
00:47:02.680In fact, straight white males are so lacking in this sort of privilege that it's considered politically toxic to even say that you care about them.
00:47:09.740It would be controversial if any public figure were to get up and even say, yeah, you know, and straight white males, they're people too.
00:47:21.020Even that statement would be seen as highly provocative.
00:47:25.220And yet this is the one group that is called the most privileged or even it is said they're the only privileged group, which is completely ludicrous and obviously backwards.
00:47:32.720But there is another kind of privilege, the kind that Seinfeld was referring to, that anyone can benefit from.
00:47:40.000There is privilege that virtually everyone in this country just by living here benefits from to some significant extent.
00:47:46.260And this is privilege in the sense of a special honor or pleasure or benefit.
00:47:51.200And these privileges can come two different ways.
00:47:55.520If you work hard and succeed, you'll gain privileges.
00:47:59.340A successful person has more of these kinds of privileges than an unsuccessful person.
00:48:04.400But as Seinfeld pointed out, our culture has taught us to be embarrassed, even of these privileges, the kinds that we earn, that we work towards, that we toil for.
00:48:13.560It is somehow shameful to go out and achieve something and then reap the benefits of that achievement.
00:48:18.980By many people, it is judged as more desirable and more beneficial to be seen as a pitiable creature than as a successful and accomplished one.
00:48:28.860This is a spiritual sickness rooted in the elevation of victimhood and the fetishization of suffering.
00:48:35.940Now, and this is how accomplishment has become something that you're accused of rather than admired for.
00:48:42.020People sneer at you and say, oh, you earned a lot of money and now you get to have nice things.
00:48:49.680And the successful person who also was raised in a culture that glamorizes victimhood will often respond by denying his own success or finding a way to make himself a victim too.
00:48:57.820But to Seinfeld's point, what he should say is, yeah, you're damn right.