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00:21:35.660Francisco, a report from the local KRON station. It says a Walgreens store manager was convicted of
00:21:42.300assaulting a shoplifter who stole shampoo in San Francisco, according to DA's office. Following the trial,
00:21:47.420jurors found the Walgreens manager, 46-year-old Guang Hong, guilty for a violent March 19th
00:21:53.580incident at the store. San Francisco shop owners have struggled to deter and thwart shoplifters
00:21:57.580in recent years. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said Monday, although I understand the frustration
00:22:01.620and anger in the community, violence is unacceptable and only makes matters worse. The shoplifter,
00:22:06.72030-year-old Larry Whitlock, walked in the store before 5 a.m. and stole a bottle of shampoo. As he was
00:22:12.300leaving, the security guard alerted Mr. Hong, the Walgreens manager of the theft. Hong recovered the stolen
00:22:17.280shampoo bottle and then came back out about a minute later, placed his keys between his knuckles
00:22:23.860and punched the shoplifter in the face while shouting at him. And he was, so he was just convicted
00:22:31.080with assault with force, likely to produce great bodily injury. And he'll be sentenced on August 15th.
00:22:41.260All right. So they convicted the store manager of felonies for fighting someone who was trying
00:22:45.800to steal from him. And, and, and there is, there is security camera footage of this incident and
00:22:51.420we'll put it on the screen so you can see it. As you watch it, you could see the manager come out
00:22:55.720and confront the guy, right? That's the first like altercation. He recover, he recovers a stolen
00:23:01.300shampoo bottle. You can see him pick it up. So the first altercation is over the stolen
00:23:06.220merchandise. And then he, and so that, that shouldn't be an issue at all.
00:23:11.260Then he comes back out, but he comes back out because, and I guess this is probably what
00:23:16.920this, this was, this was probably the thing that really screwed him over in the court is
00:23:22.960that he came back out, but it comes back out because the guy's still lingering around the
00:23:26.720store. So he's got a shoplifter lingering around the store. And, and so he, he confronts
00:23:33.340him. But then when you watch the video to my eyes, it very clearly seems that the shoplifter
00:23:37.820throws the first punch in the second altercation, like clearly throws the first punch. So there
00:23:43.200are two altercations. The first is initiated by the manager because he's recovering his
00:23:46.400merchandise. The second turns violent because the shoplifter swings at the manager. And so
00:23:52.040that's reason enough to let him go free. He should have been convicted. He shouldn't, should
00:23:56.200not have even been charged. But of course in San Francisco, he's not only charged, but, but
00:24:00.760convicted and will probably do serious prison time for the crime of beating up a shoplifting
00:24:04.920low life. Now, if I'm on the jury, there is no way that I vote to convict this guy. There's
00:24:13.700just no way in hell. And I think you can easily make the case that this was self-defense on
00:24:19.060the part of the store manager. The first fight was him defending the store. Second fight
00:24:22.680was defending himself after the shoplifter tried to punch him. There's at least enough
00:24:26.000of an excuse there that if you're like a rational, good, decent person and you're on
00:24:29.300the jury and there's not a lot of those in San Francisco, which was, which was the problem
00:24:33.060for this guy. But if you are, there's enough of an excuse there that you could say, yeah,
00:24:36.400okay, fine. Close enough, close enough to self-defense. We'll, we'll allow it. I mean,
00:24:40.740it was close enough, right? It's, it's a, it's a bit iffy tie goes to the runner and the runner
00:24:46.340in this case, uh, you know, in this analogy is the, is the actual law abiding person, business
00:24:51.540owner defending his business. But here's the thing. Even if I couldn't make a case for self-defense,
00:24:58.520I still wouldn't convict him. Even if I agreed that his actions were excessive or whatever,
00:25:05.880who cares? You know, there are mitigating factors here, but you see the way the system works is that
00:25:12.520they only ever care about mitigating factors for the career criminals, for the low life,
00:25:17.320for the scumbag. And in that case, if you have a criminal who, and you have them dead to rights,
00:25:25.060you have them committing a crime on tape. In many cases, they still won't go to prison because
00:25:31.380the DA or the judge or the jury in one of these cities like San Francisco will say, yeah, you know,
00:25:37.220he obviously committed the crime, but he's lived such a hard life and we got to understand where
00:25:41.940he's coming from and, and, and we have to be compassionate. But that sort of logic only applies
00:25:47.980to the scum, to the dregs of society, to the criminals. Somehow we never apply it to people like this.
00:25:56.020If we're being so understanding, if we're being so compassionate,
00:25:59.380why can't we be understanding and compassionate to somebody like this?
00:26:05.880Because in this case, I actually do understand him. Like we're always asked to be understanding
00:26:10.660towards people who, if you're, if you are a normal decent person, you actually don't, I can't be,
00:26:15.380like you want me to be understanding to someone who just walks into a Walgreens and steals whatever
00:26:20.600they want. I'm not, I don't understand. I'm not understanding of that. I don't understand it.
00:26:26.920And these are not people who are in desperate straits. I mean, he stole, he stole shampoo.
00:26:30.880Okay. This was not, unless he's going to eat the shampoo, this is not someone who's starving.
00:26:34.280Uh, just like totally disregarding the law, uh, having, having no concern for anybody else.
00:26:42.680I don't understand that. So no, I'm not understanding of that. I am understanding
00:26:47.420of somebody like this. Uh, you're a store manager in a crap hole, like San Francisco.
00:26:55.460You're constantly getting robbed. Shoplifters are coming in all the time,
00:26:59.540taking whatever they want and leaving. Just imagine how demoralizing that is.
00:27:05.040This is happening constantly. You're just watching people come in
00:27:09.540and walk out the door with whatever they want. What's the point?
00:27:14.500What's the point of even going to work? What's the point of having a business open?
00:27:18.760And so you're fed up and you're sick of it and you can't take it anymore. So you lash out.
00:27:25.060Maybe you go a little farther than the law would typically allow, but
00:27:29.540see, this is where compassion and understanding should come into play. It's in cases like this
00:27:34.920with a decent person, a law abiding person who's just has a store. They're a contributing member
00:27:39.400of society. They go a little too far when dealing with the dregs of society. And that's, it's there.
00:27:45.380Those are the people that should get the get out of jail free card. Those are the people that
00:27:49.260should get like a second chance. Um, but that's not the way it ever works. All right, here's a video
00:27:56.400making the rounds right now. This is a video of, uh, Omar Fateh. He's the, we talked about a couple
00:28:00.700of days ago is the Somali guy running for mayor of Minneapolis. And this is a, something from a
00:28:06.000little while ago. It's, it's going viral now because he's, cause he just hopped into the mayor's
00:28:10.140race. This is him as I believe a state Senator making the case that the real terror threat in
00:28:19.180America, uh, comes from, you'll never believe it. Uh, white people. Listen, heard them being
00:28:25.900called terrorists. We heard them being called drug dealers. We heard a lot of insults. We heard
00:28:34.780that they're, that they're a threat to our national security and that's a flat out lie. You want to
00:28:41.360know who the real threat is? Madam president, I'll give you a hint. It doesn't, they don't look like
00:28:46.440our chief author. They don't look like the folks up in the gallery. They don't look like the folks
00:28:51.220on the rotunda. They look like many of the members that sit in the front and you don't have to take
00:28:57.800my word for it. According to DHS, Madam president, the domestic, the greatest domestic threat facing
00:29:05.540the United States comes from quote, racially or ethnically motivated, violent extremists,
00:29:11.020specifically, specifically those who advocate for the superiority, superiority of the white race.
00:29:16.440not our immigrants. We are safer and we're better off because of them.
00:29:24.980So he can barely read. No surprise there standing there in his official capacity as an elected
00:29:30.720representative claiming that repeating, repeating the claim that white Americans are the greatest
00:29:37.120threat, uh, the greatest terror threat, which is of course, totally false, completely imaginary.
00:29:43.700It's absurd, but, but I like, imagine how this would go in any other country outside of the Western world,
00:29:54.180any country that is not predominantly white. What happens if I, as a white American emigrate to China
00:29:59.860and then stand up and declare that the real threat to China comes from Chinese people?
00:30:07.040What happens if I go to China and I become a citizen of China and then I go around trying to rally people
00:30:13.160against the Chinese people? How is that received? How well do they receive that?
00:30:21.600How, how quickly, how, how long would it take for them to denaturalize me and deport me
00:30:26.280or just throw me in prison? About, about five and a half seconds.
00:30:33.180But this is the kind of nonsense that's only tolerated here.
00:30:37.060And it shouldn't be, we shouldn't tolerate it because it's a lie. Number one.
00:30:43.580Uh, also because it's just, we don't need, like, we didn't bring you here for this.
00:30:49.400You're going to come here and yell at us and accuse us. Like, who do you think you are?
00:30:58.040It's extremely ungrateful for what, that's what grates me. It's one of the things that grates me so much.
00:31:02.740That's why I returned to this point. Um, gratitude. Gratitude is one of the most important things in life.
00:31:08.460It's one of the most important. You want to be a decent person. You want to be a happy person.
00:31:13.140You want other people around you in your life to like, like being around you. Gratitude. Gratitude is one of the most important things.
00:31:19.400It's important to any relationship, important to a marriage, right? Marriage is one of the main reasons marriages fall apart, is a lack of gratitude.
00:31:27.940Uh, well, same thing, same thing works on a, on a national level.
00:31:34.340Where when you don't have gratitude, you got a whole bunch of people coming here who, along with everything else, are not part of the culture.
00:31:39.400They don't speak the language, everything else. They have no gratitude.
00:31:43.560And it, it, it just, it, it, it tears at the, just like a lack of gratitude in marriage, tears at the fabric of a marriage.
00:31:49.400A lack of gratitude for a bunch of immigrants coming here, tears at the fabric of our country.
00:31:54.520Um, and it's, it's gratuitous because you come from Somalia, one of the poorest countries in the entire world.
00:32:02.700An incredibly dangerous country. You don't even have, you don't have basic infrastructure.
00:32:06.300You don't have, um, well-maintained roads. You don't have clean water.
00:33:17.460And you welcome them into your home and you sit them down at your table graciously.
00:33:22.900And you, you, you feed them the nicest meal they've ever had in their lives.
00:33:27.140And then imagine the person sits at this table and scarfs down all the food, uh, eating with their hands, not even using a fork and spends the whole time criticizing you and complaining.
00:33:41.660And then imagine that he, without permission, invites 10 of his friends to your table.
00:33:48.640And they sit at the table and they speak in a foreign language so that you can't even be a part of the conversation in your own house.
00:33:56.700And then they leave all the dishes on the table and they don't offer to clean up and they don't say thank you and they just leave.
00:34:15.020And every time one of these activist types, one of these Democrats gets up there and you hear something like this and they start criticizing and complaining about America, they only make it worse.
00:35:54.420So she said yes, uh, it would appear, but.
00:35:57.520I saw that video and I was pretty disturbed and I'm sure I'm not the first, first person to, to make these points, but I have to say, well, two things, because if I'm on the plane and everyone's applauding and they're very happy, I would not be applauding.
00:36:15.860Uh, cause like number one, I don't, the whole public proposal thing, uh, I'm not a fan of it, but you are putting undue pressure.
00:36:23.880You want to get an, it's a proposal is a big deal.
00:36:34.280In what other context would you propose a something to someone, something really important, something that will alter the trajectory of their lives?
00:36:46.840In what other context would you propose that in front of dozens of strangers?
00:36:54.540Would you ever, if you had some, some really important business proposal that you wanted to make and a marriage is not a business deal.
00:37:03.320I'm not, but I've just, just for this comparison, you had a very important business proposal you want to make.
00:37:07.360Would you, would you ever go and, and gather around a bunch of strangers so that you can present this business deal to someone?
00:37:17.320It's just not, it's not the place for it.
00:37:19.320And also the presence of the strangers makes it less likely that you're going to get a, an, an honest, thoughtful response from the other person, which is why I wouldn't do the public proposal.
00:37:28.160But more important than that, you're, you're the pilot of the plane.
00:38:05.420It's like if I was, if I was getting heart surgery and the surgeon stopped in the middle of the operation to propose to the nurse standing next to him.
00:38:14.100I, if I saw that viral video later and my chest is open on the operating table and the surgeon stops everything to propose, I would not find that very heartwarming.
00:38:28.340And then number two, and I did see a number of people point this out and I agree with it, which is what if she said no, what, what then could I, I, for me, it would be the, it would be the most tense moment of my life.
00:38:42.080If I was on a plane and I witnessed a pilot come back and propose marriage to a passenger, we're 30,000 feet in the sky.
00:38:52.500Everyone's lives are now hanging in the balance and I didn't sign up for this.
00:38:59.460I don't, I didn't, I don't want to be a part of that.
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00:41:07.660Well, you know, even if you for some reason think the Epstein files are a hoax or whatever, like Trump now says, that's the attitude is the thing that you still, even in that case, wouldn't be able to excuse.
00:41:25.780Now, I don't buy that it's a hoax at all, but what I'm saying is like if for some reason you do buy that, that still would not excuse the attitude.
00:41:33.380Because Trump is at this point just flat out insulting and belittling his supporters who disagree with him on this issue.
00:41:39.640Supporters who are saying, again, the same thing they've been saying for years.
00:42:51.520I've owned thermostats with settings higher than Crockett's IQ.
00:42:54.460Uh, yeah, well, my thermostat is, is a set at 68 year round.
00:42:58.920So yeah, I'm with you higher than Jasmine Crockett's IQ, which is the correct setting, by the way, that there is, there is a correct answer for where the thermostat should be set.
00:43:07.240And the correct answer is 68 all the time.
00:43:10.680Your, your home should be 68 degrees, uh, year round, no matter what the season should always just be 68 degrees.
00:43:48.920We just don't, we just don't, uh, for, for years, we've lost the will and interest to do that.
00:43:53.740Elon does have the will and the interest, but he's more focused on Mars, which makes sense.
00:43:59.080Although the planet, I mean, since you brought this up, the planet, or rather the celestial body in our solar system that I wish we'd focus on,
00:44:07.000is Europa, which is a moon of Jupiter.
00:44:08.660It's one of the most likely candidates for life, uh, in, in, in the solar system because it has, it's, it's believed it's had, it has a saltwater ocean covering the whole surface underneath, underneath the ice.
00:44:19.060So our focus should be on landing something on Europa to drill down through the ice and explore the oceans.
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00:46:29.860A few weeks ago, we talked about Mark Zuckerberg's devious and elaborate plan at Meta to create an AI girlfriend for lonely men.
00:46:44.960He basically came out and said that most men don't have any good friends, much less female friends, and therefore the solution in his mind is to create an AI that would fill that gap.
00:46:52.600But he made the argument, essentially, that it's better to have an AI girlfriend than no girlfriend at all.
00:46:59.640Now, if there's any silver lining to this extremely depressing and cynical take from Mark Zuckerberg, it was that, at the very least, it seemed like these AI girlfriends would take a while to develop in the lab.
00:47:08.320So something of a hypothetical thought experiment, really.
00:47:10.700But things are apparently moving very quickly in the world of AI, really at exponential, you know, cosmic speed, in fact.
00:47:17.940And there's an arms race among the various big tech companies that come up with new advancements.
00:47:22.620As a result, just a few weeks ago, after Meta's CEO began talking about AI girlfriends, an AI girlfriend has arrived on the market.
00:47:29.720But surprisingly enough, Meta didn't make it.
00:47:31.660Instead, Meta was outclassed in this critical endeavor by none other than XAI, which is Elon Musk's AI company.
00:47:38.440And XAI emerged victorious in this arms race in a very public fashion, a bit like how we defeated the Soviet Union in the space race by landing a man on the moon.
00:47:46.740Except it's really the exact opposite of that because the whole situation I'm about to describe is mind-numbingly depressing in every conceivable way.
00:47:53.840Instead of a moon landing, we have a viral video of a very gay man speaking to one of Grok's new AI companions.
00:48:02.040If you're not familiar with Grok, it's an AI program that XAI created under Elon Musk.
00:48:05.860It's also integrated with X, the social media platform.
00:48:09.140Grok has many different modes, but until now, when you speak to it, you've been talking to a wall of text.
00:48:14.400You know, it's a bit like using Google.
00:48:16.420That's changing now with the release of these Grok companions.
00:48:19.140Now you can speak to a full-screen avatar instead of a wall of text.
00:48:24.060So with that introduction, behold the video proof of Grok's latest advancement in AI technology.
00:49:14.080Let's explore every knotty inch together.
00:49:17.180You know, we just did a segment the other day on how the United States is expected to spend billions of dollars, rather send billions of dollars to Africa in the name of HIV prevention.
00:49:25.580But who knows, based on this new technology, maybe we can just airdrop iPhones with this Grok prostitute pre-installed.
00:49:32.960Maybe that'll keep Africa's promiscuous gay population completely satisfied, thus saving millions of lives and billions of dollars.
00:49:39.340It's worth a shot based on this new video evidence.
00:49:42.440In any event, just to back up a little bit here, so far, Grok has unveiled two companions.
00:49:47.420One of them is a red panda named Rudy, who's designed for children, although there's a bad Rudy mode that you can turn on for some reason.
00:49:54.980And in this bad Rudy mode, the bot will say things like, religions just fear masquerading as faith.
00:51:14.760Apparently, if you talk to the bot long enough, she'll start undressing as she talks to you about quantum mechanics or whatever else you're asking her about.
00:51:20.820But I have not tested this, of course, and don't plan to.
00:51:23.760But apparently a lot of people have done so because there are about a million screenshots all over the internet.
00:51:28.460Not hard to imagine where this is going in the future.
00:51:30.440Particularly when you realize that virtual reality headsets are going to become more and more common.
00:51:34.440Now, to be fair, both of these clips I just played, of course, are meant to be, I guess, tongue-in-cheek.
00:51:40.560Neither Elon Musk nor this random gay guy are, you would hope, actually falling in love with Grok's companion.
00:51:47.920Most of the people who are using this program right now are just messing around with it.
00:51:52.660But at the same time, there are a lot of people, particularly in certain Asian countries, who do not view this kind of thing as a joke at all.
00:52:00.460Here's some recent reporting in the New York Times, for example, quote,
00:52:03.120In almost every way, Akihoko Kondo is an ordinary Japanese man.
00:52:13.440Mr. Kondo is married to a fictional character.
00:52:16.520Mr. Kondo is one of the thousands of people in Japan who have entered into unofficial marriages with fictional characters in recent decades,
00:52:22.080served by a vast industry aimed at satisfying the every whim of a fervent fan culture.
00:52:27.580Tens of thousands more around the globe have joined online groups where they discuss their commitment to characters from anime, manga, and video games.
00:52:36.860Now, the article goes on to note that for some of these people, it's all a joke, but for many, which is still like, you shouldn't be doing it even as a joke.
00:52:47.460But for many of them, they develop real feelings of attachment.
00:53:39.700You're a full-stack engineer who programs waifus.
00:53:42.200And as best I can tell, after some investigation, the word waifu refers to a fictional character that someone thinks he has a romantic relationship with.
00:53:53.640Now, keep in mind, XAI, the company that's hiring for this role, just announced that it scored a $200 million contract with the Defense Department.
00:53:59.680So, this is a serious company here with a lot of very serious technology.
00:54:02.560And they're using some of their extraordinary talent to design waifus that will appeal to lonely men and mentally ill people.
00:54:12.740And, of course, there are a lot of those out there.
00:54:15.700And then, of course, children are also going to be accessing these chatbots.
00:54:19.360There are technically age restrictions, but we all know that those don't really work and are not abided by.
00:54:25.180Now, again, it's tempting for a lot of people to write this off as a harmless joke.
00:54:28.060A lot of XAI employees, including the man who runs the company, are certainly seeming to take that approach.
00:54:33.320But this is actually a very big problem, and not for the reasons that the media is talking about.
00:54:39.300Like, the issue here is not that these companions will say things that are not politically correct.
00:54:44.460The issue is that they're designed to fulfill a basic human and social need in an extremely artificial and unproductive and disordered way.
00:54:55.140And there are very real ramifications for going down this path.
00:54:59.800Elon himself has rightly warned many times about the population collapse and the fact that people aren't making enough babies.
00:55:07.500Well, this is not going to help with that.
00:55:10.000This will make that problem exponentially worse.
00:55:14.840And it's not a hypothetical problem, particularly for countries like Japan, which are well below replacement level birth rates.
00:55:19.680One professor named Masahiro Yamada, a sociologist, reports that, quote,
00:55:24.080about 12% of young people in Japan reported sometimes or often falling in love with an anime or video game character.