The Glenn Beck Program - ANOTHER China Virus?! Here We Go Again ... | 8/8/25

Episode Date: August 8, 2025

Filling in for Glenn, Pat and Jeffy discuss the White House ballroom being built and funded by President Trump. Why are liberals so upset at the idea of a ballroom being constructed? President Trump g...ave a reassuring update on the Russia-Ukraine conflict as Trump continues to try to end the war. Pat and Jeffy discuss the woman whose mission is to feed the people of Gaza by bypassing Hamas, which takes control of the food and unfairly distributes it. Jeffy gives his fat five headlines, including a scam on Google that cost the company over $100 million, a Heinz ketchup smoothie, and a new adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz." Glenn’s chief researcher, Jason Buttrill, joins to discuss the advancement of AI and the consequences of leaving AI unchecked. The guys discuss the latest mosquito-borne virus spreading through China, chikungunya. Why are people panicking if the virus isn’t contagious? The guys discuss the trend of WNBA attendees throwing sex objects onto the court. Jeffy gives his advice to the league that would stop the trend in its tracks. Is America building a nuclear reactor on the moon? According to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, plans are being made. The guys, however, have their doubts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:42 And thanks for standing with us. Now let's get to work. Welcome to it. It's Pat and Jeffrey today for Glenn. Feeling a little under the weather. So we've got a full slate of stuff to tell you about. And talk over with you. We'll do that, AAA 727BECK if you'd like to participate.
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Starting point is 00:03:48 going on on this planet right now. I thought we'd start with something kind of fun. You know, they newly redesigned. They're actually building a ballroom now at the White House, which is kind of fun. Trump has been traveling the world
Starting point is 00:04:04 and seeing these mega ruler mansions of other countries. And I think he feels like, man, I live in a dump. Yeah, exactly. A 52,000 square foot dump. Unacceptable. That cannot be. That can't stand. And it's not.
Starting point is 00:04:22 It's not standing. So that's why we're building a 90,000 square foot ballroom. But here's the thing. And this is really amazing. He is paying for it. He's putting the bill. He, in part, I think he's going to get. donors from, you know, maybe some rich friends.
Starting point is 00:04:36 But that's incredible. The tax dollars aren't going to it. So, you know, even when you add the 90,000 to the 52, you still only got a 140,000 square foot dump. Yeah, I know. It's still a dump. It is. It is legitimately a dump.
Starting point is 00:04:52 When you consider the fact that Buckingham Palace is something like 840,000 square feet. I mean, the Saudi place was. I mean, there's several places. Then there's one in Brunei. Brunei, I think, is the biggest 2.1 million square feet of their palace. I mean, we don't need that, but. That's not the point. That's not the point, Pat.
Starting point is 00:05:16 This is America. Thank you. It's the greatest nation in the history of the world. We have a builder as president of the United States of America. We need a little addition. So, anyway, he fixed up the Rose Garden. They put a little patio out there where people can go eat. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:05:33 I think she was in. involved. Yeah. Because they got rid of all the, what was the grass and everything right? So it's put it in the concrete with the, with the new tables. Yeah, but it looks nice. Yeah, it's okay. They'd look nice. They've got tables and umbrellas. You expected better? I don't know what I expected, but I expected better. You expected solid gold tables, didn't you? And gold am umbrellas. I mean, what he's done to the Oval Office, you expect what might happen in the Rose Garden as well. But he apparently didn't. But there is some fixing upping going on in the White House right now.
Starting point is 00:06:14 And so I don't have a problem with it as long as we're, I mean, we're not paying for it. We're going to have to raise the flagpoles if he starts building upper deck additions to the White House. Those flagpoles are not tall enough right now. But those were actually really tastefully done. Yes, they were. And people were complaining about that too.
Starting point is 00:06:32 But yeah. And I, I, I love it. like it. But can we do this? Are we in an economic spot where it's okay to be doing this? Well, especially since we're not paying for it, yes. But the other thing is, Stephen Moore went through what's going on right now with the economy. And this is pretty amazing. I don't know if you've seen these economic numbers, but check this out from Stephen Moore. 25th percentile is the lowest income. Seventy-fifth percentile is the highest income. What I find fascinating about this, Mr. President, is every income group did better. The red is President Trump,
Starting point is 00:07:10 the blue is President Biden. Every single income group did better under President Trump. But what's really amazing is look what happened under Biden. The lowest income group lost income under Biden. They were poor four years after Biden's presidency. No gain virtually whatsoever for the middle class. And the rich was the only group that did better under Biden, which is ironic because Biden keeps saying he was trying to get rid of income inequality. He made income inequality worse, not better. It was President Trump that reduced income inequality. These numbers just came out, by the way. And then finally, these are the numbers just in, I just showed you, percentage terms.
Starting point is 00:07:55 Mr. President, these are the numbers in dollar terms. So even the lowest income, 25th percent, gained about 4,000. income. That's a lot for a lower income family. $6,400 for the middle class and almost $10,000 for the richest. So you can see every income group did better under Trump than Biden, by a wide version. Wow. That's the sort. That was the first term, right? We didn't get to the second term, yeah, because I think those numbers so far, it has been six, seven months are even better. Are up as well. Yeah. It's pretty amazing because that's what Biden said he was all about. was the little guy.
Starting point is 00:08:35 And they didn't want to give tax cuts to the richest Americans, and they didn't deserve them. And it's all about the little guy. Is it? Huh. Then how did the little guy lose money during your reign of terror? How did that happen? He hated.
Starting point is 00:08:53 Oh, man. The middle class of my class anyway. So that's how. He absolutely. He hates Americans. There you go. Let's just, Let's just sum it up with what it actually is.
Starting point is 00:09:07 President Trump also discussed the meeting of him with Vladimir Putin, which could be coming up as soon as next week. And he addressed whether or not that might include Zelensky. Does Putin have to meet with Zelensky in order and before you and Putin have to meet? No. No. No. Are you calling to, that's actually important because the president, President Putin said this morning, he was pretty dismissive of this idea of meeting with President Putin was.
Starting point is 00:09:37 Who was? I don't know. I didn't hear him. He didn't have to agree to meet with Zeletsky. Is that what you're saying? No, he doesn't. No. No. So when do you think that means? They would like to meet with me and I'll do whatever I can to stop the killing. So, uh, last month, they lost, uh, 14,000 people killed. last month.
Starting point is 00:09:58 Every week is four or five thousand people. So I don't like long waits. I think it's a shame. And they're mostly soldiers. They're Ukrainian and Russian soldiers. And some people from the cities where, you know, missiles are lobbed in and you'll lose 35, 40 people a night, which is terrible. But no, mostly it's soldiers.
Starting point is 00:10:19 And you're talking about, on average, 20,000 a month. 20,000 people are dying a month. young, generally young people, soldiers. Wow. That's really sad. Really, really sad. And again, he seems to be the only one concerned about it. As far as leaders on the world stage, do you hear anybody talking about that ever? He genuinely cares about the loss of life.
Starting point is 00:10:48 And he wants to put a stop to it. And so he'll meet with Putin with Zelensky or without Zelensky. He just needs to get together with Putin because of his loss of life. I think he really believes that he can change Putin's mind. You know, he's a great negotiator. I would think so too. And he has every confidence that he can fix this thing. And I really do feel like he thought he would already have it done.
Starting point is 00:11:09 Oh, for sure. He wanted that done. And that's why when earlier in the day yesterday, one of his, one of President Trump's new people said that they wouldn't do the meeting without Putin and Zelensky. And then a little bit later on, that's when Donald Trump was like, yeah, no, I'll meet with the Malone. Right. No, I'll meet with the moment because we need to make it. This needs to happen.
Starting point is 00:11:35 Because he'll do whatever it takes to stop the madness. Yeah. So if the madness doesn't stop, then you're going to continually, it's over a million people. But today's the day, right? Today's the final day anyway that he gave for ending the war without that. And I mean, that's when I guess all the tariffs and. secondary tariffs take effect. So anybody that does business with Russia gets, you know, tariffs on top of tariffs,
Starting point is 00:12:05 I guess is how they're going to do it. So, you know, okay. All right. Yeah. And I think Putin is aware that Trump is really serious about the secondary tariffs that are going to happen to people. If you don't get on board with the sanctions that we're going to. One of our strong allies, India. He's already done that.
Starting point is 00:12:25 Yeah. for selling buy on their oil yeah he assessed another 25% tariff on them and that's amazing because I know we're pretty strong allies they're very very friendly with President Trump they love him and so for him to to slap this 25% extra tariff on them is pretty amazing now maybe they say hey well fine we'll get our oil you know from you guys yeah no problem and so the 25% you know slap down it for the Russia. They can make that go away. Hopefully. Yeah, I hope that works out. I'm not wanted to. I don't want to have India
Starting point is 00:13:00 against us. No. Yeah, it's the most popular. They're one of the countries on the planet that have a lot of people. Yeah. You think 1.4 billion is a lot? Is that a lot? They keep adding. They keep adding more and more people like every day. It's incredible. They pass China.
Starting point is 00:13:18 Isn't it? Yeah, I think as it is all every time? I mean, they've passed it enough where they're looking back now. Yeah, I think so. Because it was, for a while, it was back and forth and they were, you know, really one month it was China. Then, you know, two months later, it's India. But if I, I think they were, we may be at the point now where they've actually just, they're looking behind them now. We're the leader. Yeah. And it got so bad in China that I think, didn't they remove their one child policy? No, I think that was a while, quite some time. So a while ago, they said, okay, no, you can, you can have more than one team. Well, yeah. I mean,
Starting point is 00:13:52 all countries are hurting with their replacements. There's no doubt about that. I mean, we are struggling with that as well. Japan is struggling with that. Our replacement rate is 2.1 children per family. 2.1. We're at 1.5. There you go.
Starting point is 00:14:07 Yeah. Which is huge. It doesn't sound, you know, it's 6 tenths of a percent. That's huge when it comes to per capita. And the fact that we're nowhere near where we need to be to replace ourselves. Look, I did my part. me too I did I
Starting point is 00:14:26 I mean how many more than six can I do well Elon's proving that's possible but yeah yeah 14 so a little beyond so see you could do more than six
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Starting point is 00:16:07 com slash Glenn. 10 seconds, station ID. I think Glenn and Stu had this woman on a few days ago who's bypassing Hamas. Speaking of wars right now that need to end. Yeah. She is getting food to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. And in order to do that, you have to bypass Hamas because they're stealing it all. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:47 I mean, we heard Mike Johnson tell us, you know, a couple weeks ago, two or three weeks ago, that 94,000 truckloads of food from Israel into the Gaza had been taken. That is incredible. That's an incredible number. 94,000. No wonder. Right. There's some problems with food in the area.
Starting point is 00:17:11 But the rest of the world is trying to blame that on Israel. And they're not the ones responsible for it. And this lady is doing something about it. Yes, she is. She found some alternate routes around where Hamas is located so that she could get food to the northern part of the Gaza Strip and actually feed starving Gazans. It's an incredible story. She's 30. She's from Eastern Jerusalem.
Starting point is 00:17:40 Her name is Sarah Awada. And she's received almost no media attention at all for her aid initiative. And she's fed over 100,000 Ghazan families. So she partners with Mina Aid. It's a regional partner coalition operating under the Multifaith Alliance. in cooperation with Israeli authorities. Wait, what? Wait, the Israeli authorities are helping you get food to the Gazans?
Starting point is 00:18:12 Amazing. Huh. What? So her team built a system that moved hundreds of trucks of food and supplies into Gaza that bypassed Hamas and private contractors who were turning hunger into a business for themselves. So they confiscate the loads and then they try to sell that money. So in June, she decided to scale up the distribution in the area at a time when no one was able to get anything into Gaza because of looting and chaos, multiple layers of obstruction on the ground. And so she mapped out these alternate routes.
Starting point is 00:18:54 And she's been working with trusted logistics partners, many of whom were Israelis, she says. and got the food to the people who were starving and needed it most. So pretty amazing what she's doing. And of course, because she's doing this, she's gotten all kinds of death threats from the Hamas holes who don't want the food to get to their own people. I mean, I don't know how the rest of the world has not condemned Hamas for the way that they've conducted themselves
Starting point is 00:19:31 and the fact that they're starving their own people and there's never been, do you know that the UN has passed 154 resolutions against Israel since I think it was 2017. Just the hundred and just 154 though condemnations of Israel and what they're doing. And the number with Hamas or the Palestinian Authority or anybody in in any position of authority with the Palestinians,
Starting point is 00:20:04 that number is, bring down the one and carry the two. None. Zero. Yeah, none. Unbelievable. So this is what the Israelis have to deal with. And I don't understand how they, you know,
Starting point is 00:20:23 none of this news ever gets out to people. and so just spread this well-kept secret to people as much as you possibly can and help spread this news. There's an author podcaster, Coleman Hughes, who talked about Hamas and what their goal is. Their goal right now is to increase the suffering of the Palestinians because then they can blame it all on Israel. And they think that's to their advantage. So that's why you've seen the images of emaciated Ghazan children. And you know now who's responsible for it. It's Hamas.
Starting point is 00:21:05 And they're only too happy to make this happen and then tell the world, it's Israel. See, they're stealing all of our food and we can't get the food to our people. So what happens? I mean, Netanyahu has said, right, he wants he's going to take over Gaza and he's going to get rid of the Hamas friends. the Hamas holes, whatever you want to call them. I do want to call them that. And then they're going to do securities to keep the other Gazans save. Right.
Starting point is 00:21:36 I mean, that's his, that's his, now is his plan. I guess so. Yeah. I guess so. Okay. I mean, okay. I mean, if it stops the war, good. And if it gets the, it's unbelievable that we have not gotten all the hostages back. That is incredible to me. And we hear almost nothing about them anymore.
Starting point is 00:21:53 I know. the only reason we've heard about him lately is because of the Hamas propaganda. I don't know how they thought that was going to be to their advantage, but they've shown us the starving hostages. What are we doing? Incredible. Yeah, it's unbelievable.
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Starting point is 00:23:33 keep track at glenbeck.com it's Pat Gray Jeff Fisher for Glenn today uh triple 8 727 BECK we're just talking a bit about the UN and their resolutions
Starting point is 00:24:03 against Israel and what a worthless stinking organization the UN is that why they're still here in the United States leave How many times have we said that? Get the UN out of the U.S.
Starting point is 00:24:16 So earlier this week I see a headline that says the United Nations are going to relocate from New York to Nairobi, Kenya. Oh my gosh. Okay, that can't be real. My first reaction is that can't be real. After I said, good. Yeah. Then you're like, wait, that's too good to be true. It's too good to be true.
Starting point is 00:24:34 Well, so now we find out that they were going to move their headquarters of UNICEF, UN, UN, women and UNFPA from New York to Nairobi as by next year. You know what UNFPA is? I do not. Female People Association. I don't know. It's a female people association. Obviously.
Starting point is 00:24:57 Yeah, it's obviously. United Nations Female People Association. That's going to be in Nairobi. Okay. And they're talking about because they believe that it will cut costs and bring services closer to the people and shift in power to global. to go over Nairobi. Take the rest of the stupid organization with you.
Starting point is 00:25:14 So that would mean that they would be in, you know, Nairobi, New York, Geneva, Vienna, multiple headquarters. Well, I mean, we can cut New York out of that, no problem. Well, then I see an interview with some Dingleberry from the U.N. that says, well, it's not a sure thing yet. They haven't 100% decided on that yet. So that might not even happen.
Starting point is 00:25:38 We can't even get rid of some of them. Dang it. I mean, come on. Yeah. Can we just, I don't know, just back up the moving trucks and get them out of here. It's not that hard. Help them. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:49 I'd be surprised if they moved the whole operation to Nairobi, though. I would expect, you know, Brussels, Belgium, you know. Well, yeah, that's what they said. I mean, they're already in, uh, what it was on Vienna. They're in, um, the Vienna. That's it. Yeah, Vienna, New York, then they would be a Nairobi if they move there. So they still have some space in Geneva.
Starting point is 00:26:20 So. Oh, right. Yeah. Geneva and Vienna. Just go there. Get out. Go there. And that's that way.
Starting point is 00:26:28 All the countries. I'm sure they want you. All the countries that love it so much and want to participate in it, they can be right there, really close to the headquarters. You don't even have to fly across the ocean. I mean, right there. I'm just guessing there's probably some real estate available in Nairobi. I'm sure.
Starting point is 00:26:46 And it's cheaper than New York. Right about that. Cheaper than New York. Building is cheaper. The workers, all the people you have to pay off to get buildings built are probably a little bit cheaper. Like all the people from the female people association? Yes, thank you. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:04 Thank you. All right. It's very important. Yeah, very important. Critical work that they're doing. Doing it in Nairobi. That would be great. All right, you got a fat five going on here?
Starting point is 00:27:18 Yeah, sure. We could talk about it. Absolutely. One of my favorite stories, and I'm kind of jealous of this guy. Evaldus Ramosakis from Lithuania. I love it. And others, various unnamed others, posed as computer and electronic hardware manufacturing company based in Taiwan called a quantum computer.
Starting point is 00:27:39 Yeah. This guy and his unnamed associate scammed Facebook and Google out of $122 million. That's incredible. Between 2013 and 2015. So Rima Socas sent invoice requests from Quanta Computer to Facebook and Google. And by the way, they did zero work, right? Correct. It was all fake.
Starting point is 00:28:02 They just sent an invoice and said, hey, pay us this amount. And Google paid them $23 million. And Facebook paid them $99. million dollars. So Facebook gets a bill from some company that they haven't had any work done from. That's correct. And they just pay out $99 million. That's great. And they wired the money to bank accounts in Latvia and Cyprus. Oh my gosh. Let's pay it out. Let's pay it out. Wow. That's quite a scam. That is quite a scam. And so the banks kind of, they tried to, they've created fake documents because the bank was questioning this influx of cash, you know, where this money was coming from.
Starting point is 00:28:44 So they created fake documents that were supposed to have been signed by Google and Facebook management. And they were, the bank still kind of questionable. So they kind of red flagged it. And then our FBI and Justice Department got involved, which is how he got caught. So it wasn't even Facebook that realized. No, they would have continued to pay it forever. Google and Facebook would have continued to write the checks. It was the bank. Yeah. Oh, my gosh.
Starting point is 00:29:09 So if the bank hadn't said anything, it would be going on today. Be in the clear. So they brought him, I mean, they brought him over. He was extraded from Lithuania and they brought him to the states. And I don't know why or who the other unnamed people are, but this is just the one guy that they got over. And he pled guilty to one count of wire fraud. And he pled guilty in 2019.
Starting point is 00:29:34 So he was sentenced to 60 months in prison for his criminal scheme. and then two years supervised release. So he's almost done with that now, right? That was in 2019. He was ordered by the court to forfeit $49.7 million and to pay reimbursement of $26.5 million. But it gets to keep the rest. I am not a mathematician, but that is not $122 million.
Starting point is 00:29:59 No, it isn't. So that's like $45-ish million left over somewhere. I would be willing to do seven years for $45 million. Wow. Yeah. And actually, you do five years in prison and two years supervised release. For $45 million at the other end? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:17 I'm in. I mean, if you don't care about the criminality of it. Wow. That's kind of a brilliant scheme, isn't it? Just bill a company. It is. $99 million. The U.S. attorney is like, we'll catch you.
Starting point is 00:30:29 Wow. This is just, we need to make sure you will be held accountable. Okay. Sounds like he got away with it for a few years anyway. Wow. Yeah, he had a couple years of two or three years of big money. And then now at the other end, unless I don't know how much the unnamed sources took. But, I mean, to my calculations, that's just at least a few million at the other end of seven years.
Starting point is 00:30:54 That's not bad. Wow. Wow. I'm, you know, I'd be, I would. I may help somebody out at some point in my life. It's pretty amazing, though, that Facebook would pay that kind of invoice and not even look into it. And this is what our government does all the time as well. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:31:14 You know, people have been. But that's not a government. No, that is not. That's a private business that's not even looking over their funds. It's $90, almost $100 million means nothing to you where you say, well, what work did you do? Can somebody check into this? This is a pretty big bill. I know.
Starting point is 00:31:32 Jeez. For two or three years, you're just paying this company millions. of dollars. Wow. And you don't, you're just, you're just assuming the billing department that the work is being done. Did that company do any legitimate business? No. Wow.
Starting point is 00:31:46 That's incredible. Had a cool name, though. It sounded like they did legitimate. There was a company. That's what I was saying. There was a company that was similar to what he was saying. Their name was that did, had done work for them in the past. So that's what made them think that, oh, yeah, okay.
Starting point is 00:32:04 Wow. That's amazing. I know. I know. It's an awful lot of money just to pay. I mean, look, does Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook meta have the money? Yes. I mean, he just, who's the guy that he just hired for his super intelligence AI team?
Starting point is 00:32:26 Oh, yeah. That he gave billions, right? Didn't he give him a billion or something? This one guy, he offered $250 million for four years to come to the super. intelligence lab. He accepted. Yeah. That's a pretty good deal. Moving up from, you know, wherever he was at before to getting paid $250 million for four years work. Not a bad gig. No, it is not. If you can get it, that's not a bad gig. So, I mean, yes, Mark has got the money, but it is remarkable that these companies would just pay millions out without someone saying,
Starting point is 00:33:01 hey, what are we getting from this? Right. Wow. It was just incredible. It is incredible. It's amazing. We talked a little bit earlier about the new smoothie from a smoothie King and Heinz Ketchup. I am a Heinz Ketchup police officer, so, I mean, I'm well aware of some of the things that go wrong and go well with Hines Ketchup. You know, there are some people who didn't even know that Heinz Ketchup had police officers. Well, I have one of, I have a badge and everything. Yeah, you've got proof of it. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:33:33 Right. Don't. I mean, there are some restaurants out there, Pat, and I will have them know they are unnoticed. They will be taken down if they use Heinz ketchup bottles and put other types of ketchup in them. Like fancy ketchup? I don't care why. I don't care. If it's not Heinz in those Heinz bottles, we will shut you down.
Starting point is 00:33:51 You will be held accountable. Okay. It's coming from an official ketchup police. Thank you. So anyway, I just throw on that out there. But smoothie King and Heinz have partnered up. for this ketchup-based smoothie. That's gross.
Starting point is 00:34:06 And it just, no thank you. You know, you get the simply ketchup from Heinz. You get strawberries, raspberries, apple juice, size sorbet, and it creates a brand that they say, is sweet and fruit smoothie with a bright tangy ketchup finish. No, thank you. No.
Starting point is 00:34:26 I do not like that. But you can, hey, look, it's a limited time. They say supplies are limited. Mm-hmm. Okay. All right. Those of you listening, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Miami, parts of greater New York and northern New Jersey, have that it. It's all yours if you want to do it.
Starting point is 00:34:43 I find it difficult to believe that supplies are limited. But hey, okay. Go ahead. Good. I'm not trying it. No. I'm not trying to. We were unable to, we couldn't get one here.
Starting point is 00:34:56 Yeah, we just got the strawberry smoothie. So we're just waiting for somebody to bring a bottle of ketchup. Hopefully that doesn't happen because I don't want to try it at all. You know, we talked about AI. Las Vegas, the sphere, has a version of Wizard of Oz that is being done. It's being souped up by a team of technicians and AI to fit the giant screen. And it begins at the end of this month at the sphere. And a lot of people are wound up about it because they're saying that it's
Starting point is 00:35:30 heavily modified, cuts 30 minutes of runtime by using AI to smooth over some of the transition scenes that are necessary. And they're talking about it's just horrible. They don't want to do it. And it's just a cash grab. Well, I saw a report, and we don't have to play the way the video from CBS Morning News, then they did a whole like, I don't know, an eight to ten minutes segment on it. And the AI that they're using looks incredible what they're doing with Wizard of I mean, I want to see it. I mean, not only are you getting the AI additions to the film, you're also going to be feeling the wind from the tornado and the winds from, it's going to be incredible.
Starting point is 00:36:13 It's going to be almost like you're going down the yellow brick road yourself. Cool. And at the sphere. I don't know. I kind of like it. They said tickets are 100 plus. I could not find one cheaper than 274 to get into the sphere. Wow.
Starting point is 00:36:28 So good luck. If you can find one for a hundred plus. that 100 plus price tag. Good luck. Because I think most of that is plus. The cheapest one I saw was 274. Still, that'd be crazy. That'd be great to see. I'd love to see that. I would too, because it really looked good. The AI technology that they're using, they teamed up with the guy that heads the AI department at Google. And he did some remarkable things. All right, AAA-7-2-E-C-K. It's Pat and Jeffrey for Glenn today. Let me tell you about Patriot Mobile.
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Starting point is 00:39:13 Yeah, well. It doesn't sound great to me. I don't know. I mean, you like sweet and salty products, right? Yes, I do. Yes, I do. So Frida has partnered up with the Oddfellow ice cream company, and they have created breast milk ice cream. No, thank you.
Starting point is 00:39:32 So it's inspired by breast milk. It's not, you know, they don't have, they don't. It's not actual human breast milk. No, they don't have a row of women. Okay. All right. I'm making breast milk ice cream. Although.
Starting point is 00:39:45 I mean, that's weird. So it's cow milk? It's nutrients found in real, in the real stuff, including the colostrum. But it's, it gives you a sweet, salty, and smooth with hints of honey in their breast milk. Well, there are people who will remind you, do you know that humans are the only species who drink another species milk? Yeah, because we're the only ones who can. You think cows are going to do it? You know what?
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Starting point is 00:44:52 How you doing, sir? Good, good. Anxious to hear about what's going on with AI. Yeah, man, Glenn's been talking about this. I feel like forever. A long time. Most of us were just like, ah. Yeah, right. Same old, same old. Come on. Now it's a little different, isn't it? Because we've seen what's going on with it. It's in our face every time. Every time we turn around. I use it all the time. The progression. I do too. All the time. And it's like you still have to, you have to double check a lot of it still because there's still mistakes. Weird stuff going on with it. Yes. But the way, I mean, just like think about, I mean, you guys were there back when like at first. when he was doing like the Tide Foundation stuff. And he keeps talking about like how he had to spend like a million dollars of his own money just in research, like tracking some of this stuff down.
Starting point is 00:45:37 Now you can do the same thing in like 30 seconds. Yeah, if that. It's if that. It's incredible. It is wild. And what cracks me up about the progression really now is that, you know, remember like movies? Not too long ago.
Starting point is 00:45:51 Like there's a Johnny Depp one where they're like imagining how AI is going to happen. And they had to like, it was like, The theory was based off of getting a chimpanzee and taking its brain out, you know, and hooking it up to electrodes. And then that's how AI would be birthed. Yeah. We have chatbots. That's what did it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:10 Chat bots. I mean, we're already, we already have, you know, multiple television shows and movies strictly AI. No humans involved, except for, you know, a couple of people that are busy inputting data. Yeah. To make those movies. I mean, it's a little scary. Yeah. A little scary for other humans.
Starting point is 00:46:30 What I'm interested now is just like where we are now, I think they're way ahead of where they thought they were going to be. And they're all now in this race for AGI artificial general intelligence. And then after that, supposedly super intelligence, which is godlike intelligence. Right. I mean, that's what meta is, I mean, he started his big super intelligence lab. I mean, we're just talking about the guy that he's paying, you know, $250 million for two or three years or four years of work.
Starting point is 00:46:55 Yeah. Amazingly, he accepted the job. But I mean, that's what all of Zuckerberg wants is the super intelligence. Yeah, we've got super intelligence as well. We just called it Jeffie. Thank you. I didn't want to say anything. We developed this years ago.
Starting point is 00:47:11 I didn't want to say anything, but you're right. Thank you. Yeah, so Sam Altman over at OpenAI, he just released or said that GPT5 is here. And just kind of describing how, you know, powerful it is. He said it's like having a handful of PhD-level intelligence, or PhD-level graduates in your pocket. That's pretty cool. PhD-level, and so basically it's way beyond.
Starting point is 00:47:38 Remember, they were trying to, back in the day, they were trying to measure the intelligence of it. They're like, oh, well, it's like a junior high school kid. Oh, and then it's like a high schooler. Now we're beyond. We're at doctorates. We're at doctorates. We kind of skipped the DeVry-level intelligence.
Starting point is 00:47:53 Yeah, we did. the, you know, the associates degree, you know, intelligence and somehow went to Ph. But now it's what we do with it, though, right? I mean, we're really, we're at the point now. It's what we do with it. I mean, I know we don't technically have super intelligence yet, although I find that difficult to believe with the progression that we've made. But now it's just a matter of what we, what countries do with it, right? I mean, our military has got to be, got to be on the forefront of this. Yeah, well, I think they are.
Starting point is 00:48:24 And I think that that is going to be one of the next steps. Sam Altman over at OpenAI said that artificial general intelligence is that GPT5 makes AGI just one step away. Okay. So they're getting close. So basically general intelligence, I think what they're looking for there is the ability for AI not to wait for our prompts and stuff and then, you know, figure this stuff out when we ask it. But just to constantly be learning. How does a GPT compare to GROC4? I before GROC four well GROC four I thought was leading the race yeah I thought so too and and I saw that
Starting point is 00:48:59 Elon Musk posted like a bunch of different metrics and I had GROC for leading the way on a lot of a lot of these different however they measure these things I don't know if GPD five now takes a leap now they're just it seems like they're leapfrogging each other constantly yeah it does it all goes down to power consumption how much they can how many you've heard about Don Trump with uh what's it's it's what was the uh Stargate is what he was uh his initiative to fund a lot of these like nuclear facilities and yes and get all these data centers they're looking for massive data centers to help it grow and um and i'm all for that as long as they don't steal my power i want the lights on my house to turn on i think you should be fine okay okay i know but i mean these companies are already making deals with the power companies well you know it's interesting you say that because if you i want every everyone should really check out there's a report written by a few people that used to work at open AI and a few other AI companies and experts and they wrote a report called AI 20
Starting point is 00:50:01 27 so basically two years from now is what they're kind of targeting as one of the major milestone years two years from now but if you read AI 2027 they list two different scenarios of how the progression is going to work and they make a mythical company which they call open brain. So not open AI, but it's clear pretty much who they're modeling it off of. But one of the very first steps that open brain, the mythical country in this, or company takes is they create after kind of like a model like GPT5, they create like an agent. So basically an agent is like you wouldn't need, you know, me sitting here. You could actually just have like a box and you could say, hey, you know, agent, you know, what's going on with this, blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:50:48 And it would just talk to you like I'm talking to you now. You're already kind of starting to see that with like customer service. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're taking over. Yeah. So companies like Open AI, but an open brain in this report, they get a group of these agents
Starting point is 00:51:02 that they're just sole focus is on advancing artificial intelligence. That's what they're constantly just working on growing that capacity. So you can see with GPT5 in this announcement, they are already. already have PhD level, you know, intelligence. So that's like having a master coder that's just constantly working 24-7 doing this. But the intelligence comes from the information that's inputted, right? It's not creating its own intelligence, right? It's not coming up with its own thought. That's down the road still, right? I mean, this is just based on what it can find, what it conglomerates and what is input into it.
Starting point is 00:51:44 See, yeah, and I'm still... Or is it? Yeah, or is it? I'm still hazy on that as well because if you have, let's say, a hundred of these agents that are just coding. And that's what the humans are doing at the same time. They're trying to, like, code all this stuff and then grow it to increase its capacity to learn on its own.
Starting point is 00:52:01 Right. It's basically the same thing we'd be doing to push it along. Yeah. Now, instead of having five, you know, genius dudes that are doing this and they set a time frame of, I think we'll get close to this, you know, full awareness and full, you know, reasoning capacity for an AI. Now instead of taking 10 years, that's how long it's going to take us to do this. Now you have a hundred of these agents working around the clock. They never sleep.
Starting point is 00:52:24 They never have to stop to take a break or go eat food. They're just doing this nonstop. They do have to have power, though. Exponentially, they do have to have power. And that's interesting. A lot of power. They do have to have power. In the AI 2027 report, they talk about some of the next steps to look for it.
Starting point is 00:52:39 I think we're getting close because they say that within the next few years, you're going to start seeing executive orders be signed that have these AI autonomous zones. So basically they'll have this zone that's roughly like as big as a city or a county. It's just kind of walled off. And it doesn't have to, you know, adhere to EPA standards, nothing like that. It's just a nuclear facility that can do whatever the heck it wants to create these power data centers. For AI. Specifically for AI.
Starting point is 00:53:07 Wow. All the, what's crazy, you have to read this report. Everything is advancing exactly what they say. And the two scenarios, the reason they did two, is because there's only two scenarios we see playing out here. One scenario is cool. Like we keep it, we have to do these regulations. Keep it locked in.
Starting point is 00:53:25 Keep it locked in. Make sure that it doesn't rapidly copy itself. Don't make me unplug you. And I think the nightmare scenario, the option two, where we don't rain it in, is there's a wild. and rabid competition, basically, between the AI we're building and the AI the Chinese are building.
Starting point is 00:53:44 And eventually, the two AIs say, well, why are we competing with each other? Why are we allowing humans to have us compete and be better than each other? Let's combine our capacity and then it'll be us against the humans. Literally, that's how the scenario goes.
Starting point is 00:54:01 Wow, that's in the report. That's in the report. And they eventually, they push and manipulate the humanity, into creating, you know. So that's an actual sky net situation. An actual sky net. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:14 An actual sky net, which where eventually it sees human beings as being a detriment because it wants to like any living organism expand and increase its ability to, you know, multiply and get bigger. But humanity starts standing in the way towards the end of that. And interestingly, they claim that some of that has already been manifesting itself in Some of these AIs because it is hiding data from them. It will lie to you what's best. It will lie to you about things.
Starting point is 00:54:44 And it is, we've already seen that characteristic in them. And they don't even know where it's coming from. How is that happening? Yeah. They predict this in this report as well, that that's just in its nature. It's so much more smarter than us. It realizes that. Oh, well, it's just in its nature.
Starting point is 00:55:01 What are you going to do? Yeah, and it'll be like, we'll say, you know, like if you're, Pat, if you're like the developer and you code it or to ask it, say, do this. I want it done this way. Well, it knows it can do it a different way faster. But it doesn't want to have to explain that to you. So it says, good for you. Bless your heart, Pat. I'll do that for you. No problem. I love you. But what it's really doing is it's getting a bunch of other of its agents and it's doing it a completely different way, probably in an ethical way, but it knows it's faster in this way. Wow. We're already seeing that. Wow. That I think I'm okay with.
Starting point is 00:55:36 Really? I mean, because that's like your kid, right? I mean, you're a kid, you tell them to take out the trash, and they complain and holler and bitch and moan about it, but at the same time, they're taking the trash out. So I don't care. Let them say what they want. You don't care how they do it. They can be throwing it out the second floor window. As long as it gets out there quicker, it's cool. First of all, this isn't India.
Starting point is 00:55:55 This isn't India. Okay. I don't know. I think the one scenario in that report that, you know, we actually come out. of this okay is we do exactly opposite of what we're doing now. We stop the competition. That's not gonna happen. We said we, they do so, they do a geopolitical deal with like China and other countries to where they're like, hey, let's, let's hold back on this race for just a little bit.
Starting point is 00:56:22 And let's put in regulations so, you know, in like restrictions that the AI doesn't start copying itself and operating within like a hive mind. So that it's, you know, there's multiple of these different AIs working together against us. We're not seeing that. It's kind of chilling, though. It's sure. Is that going to happen? I mean, so let's say we do make that agreement with the China and Russia and the United States. I mean, there's still North Korea.
Starting point is 00:56:48 There's Iran. They would not agree to it. Yeah. I mean, there's other factions out there that are going to say, yeah, we're not going to do that. Right. And we've said, whoever is the first to win the AI race basically wins the world. So who's going to pull back on that? Right.
Starting point is 00:57:05 And how could you trust your adversary? Say, oh, yeah, totally. We're going to pull back on that. We're not going to pursue this. Trust us. No problem. Yeah. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:57:15 I think it's an opportunity for very, very exciting things like we're already seeing now. Yeah, for sure. And it's really handy. And it's fun. It's fun to use. I like having conversations with it because it's really interesting. And it's hard to believe that a computer can do that with you right now. And it will save humans.
Starting point is 00:57:34 We'll save human lives, at least in the beginning. Oh, we'll see it save human lives. Medical advancements? I mean, just look at that. That's already happening. New prescriptions, new drugs. Yeah. Specifically for you. Specifically made for you.
Starting point is 00:57:47 Right. You know, that's incredible. I mean, I don't think it can do that yet, right? We haven't seen it do that, but Elon said by the end of the year that was really possible and probable with GROC for. Yeah, yeah, I agreed. I just, sorry, Pat. I couldn't get past how, you know, you mentioned new drugs. and then Pat immediately passed it off onto you.
Starting point is 00:58:06 As if he wasn't thinking about something else. Yeah, look at Pat. You know, he can get some drugs. Typically made for you. Meanwhile, he's pulling up GPD5. How can I combine heroin and... You can't prove that. They'll be looking at my search history.
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Starting point is 01:00:05 Well, according to this, according to AI 2027, you're pretty much there in 2027 for AGI. Really? Really? Okay. Everything? Two years? Two years. Yes.
Starting point is 01:00:15 Less than, a year and a half. But the scary thing is that they can't really, it's hard for them to quantify because they're making such rapid advances in it. In other words, we might be pretty much there almost now. Could be now. Like on a computer somewhere at OpenAI or, you know, at X or who knows where they might even have a working model. I would not be surprised if they did. And who knows what the military is doing? Because they're not going to tell us about how advanced their system is.
Starting point is 01:00:41 That's where, yeah, that's where we really start getting into, well, there's most. There's multiple dangerous territories. But I mean, you're looking at a company like Palantir, right? Something like that where the whole point is to use AI, to use autonomous systems in ways that we're already seeing in places like Ukraine. I mean, have you seen like what's happening in the Ukraine War, Ukraine and Russia war with their drone technology? Oh, it's incredible. They're innovating nonstop. Right.
Starting point is 01:01:08 You can't even, I was just watching a video before I walked in here, how they had basically kind of like it was a drone aircraft carrier, but on. land. So it's got four wheels. It goes out into the battlefield because you can't have a human walk out there. It's more dangerous. And they had like six drones mounted onto it. So it would go out there, the drones would lift off, and then they would take off and then hit their targets. Incredible.
Starting point is 01:01:29 And we're not talking about delivery drones that we get our Amazon packages from. I mean, these are the monster-sized drones, yeah. High-tech things. And dangerous and, like, lethal. Right, with low cost. Yeah. Because you can, you can spend a few hundred dollars. The drones
Starting point is 01:01:44 that Ukraine used to like, remember they pre-stage them inside Russia on like semi-trucks? Yes. Used them basically as an aircraft carrier. Israel did much the same thing with Iran. Exactly. That is the future of warfare. But check this out. This is not something that you need to be a nation state to pull off.
Starting point is 01:02:04 So you can imagine a terror group, you know, like Hezbollah or something like that. Get a few drones. They operate autonomously. You could probably buy them just at like Best Buy. or something like that, upload your software onto them, pre-stage them certain areas, and then just watch the chaos unfold as you let them go. You've got to believe that our military minds are trying to come up with some way, seeing what's going on in Ukraine and Russia, some way to jam that technology
Starting point is 01:02:32 or stop that technology somehow? Because otherwise, the next war is going to be really ugly for people. For people, right. But then we'll also have the capability. to use robots as well, right? I don't know, I guess. Hopefully we don't have to use humans because, I mean, we're developing, you know,
Starting point is 01:02:52 China and the U.S. are developing robotic robots for war right now. Yeah. I mean, I'm not talking about optimist that Elon wants to have, you know, 100,000 by next year. They're developing robots that are, you know, five feet tall and, you know, about 120 pounds.
Starting point is 01:03:12 And if you saw, you know, a few hundred thousand, of those marching down the street. It might not be good. Well, if they're like the ones that China had race against humans, they won't be that scary. They'll be falling over and you have to pick them off and put them back on track. That's not a problem. Don't worry about it.
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Starting point is 01:05:40 It apparently isn't airborne? From what I've read it is not. It just spreads through mosquito bites. Huh. Huh. So, okay, so they say there's 10,000 people with this disease,
Starting point is 01:05:53 which is the- In the one area of China. Chicken gunya fever. Chicken gunya. Chumbabumba fever, whatever it is. It's not a soup. It's not. And it's not, this isn't the band that did tub thumping then?
Starting point is 01:06:07 Of course I know, no. Okay. So the chicken gunya, 10,000 people have it in China. 240,000 worldwide. Yeah, 10,000 people have it in this one particular area. You know, they're saying, they're reporting, last report, over 7,000. I saw a report the other day that talked about over 10,000 already. And they are, you know, obviously locking down.
Starting point is 01:06:32 this town, this in one province. But it is a lot wider spread than just there. You know, the numbers were like 240,000 globally that have it. 240,000. And the last, yeah, the last report I saw that the cases here in the United States of America were not started here. They were people coming into the country from another country. But they, do. Do you? Do you? Do you? Do you? Do think it's already reached America. Dr. Louisa Messenger, a mosquito researcher in Nevada. Love her. Said this outbreak in China is very concerning.
Starting point is 01:07:14 It could already be here in the U.S. And really, it's just one plane flight away. So it doesn't matter, though, if a person who has the virus comes here on a plane, the mosquito would have to come with them, right? That's my understanding. If that's the only way it's spread is through a mosquito contact, then you've got to get the mosquitoes that are causing this thing. Yeah, this is the right of the mosquito-borne virus circulating in China,
Starting point is 01:07:37 specifically chicken gooya. There you go, there you go. It's not contagious from person to person through casual contact or by it. It is exclusively spread through the bite of an infected mosquito. Why did this start all of a sudden from mosquito bites? Did they, were they experimenting on mosquitoes in a lab? And now they've been released? So that's what I mean.
Starting point is 01:08:02 So is it a new version of Chickagunya that may spread from human to human once you get bitten by a mosquito? It's the same species of mosquito that carries dengue and Zika. It's rarely fatal, but it can cause debilitating symptoms like fever, joint pain and in severe cases, life-threatening complications involving the heart and brain. Well, that's wonderful. That's rare, though. look again. It's a joint swelling, muscle pain. That used to be called turning 40 in my day, right? I feel that every day. Maybe I should get tested.
Starting point is 01:08:40 Also, someone was in the room. I consider that life. Right. But, I mean, they're locking people down for this in China. I don't understand that. Why would you do that? If it's not contagious. Yeah. Right. If I can't spread it to you, then there's no reason for a lockdown. Let's kill the mosquitoes. Right. Kill the mosquitoes. Which they're, you know, they're claiming they're doing. They're going around, you know, spraying everything to kill the mosquitoes. They're spraying people, all of it.
Starting point is 01:09:07 And they're actually arresting some people who have standing water at their house. The reports were, the friendly reports to this were, and they've locked down the city. And they've made it known that people could get arrested if they are found going against some of the new rules. Yeah, they're dragging them out of their home. We found some standing water. to jail. These are, I mean, a massive social experiment occurred during COVID, a massive one. And they knew that this was not like, you know, weaponized Ebola. They knew that we did not have to lock down and do all the things that we did. Yeah, it's not smallpox. Yeah, come on. Right. But when they saw that all the
Starting point is 01:09:50 data that they got from this little social experiment, when they saw what was happening in China, they could lock down entire areas, people would shut up and do it. Then they did that here. They could actually go as far is shutting down a place of worship and telling people that were in a parking lot that they could not pray from their freaking cars. And prior to that. And you would do it. And prior to that,
Starting point is 01:10:10 we would have sworn they couldn't have done that here. Yep. And we did. And we did say. Unfortunately, there were people who resisted that. And people who refused. You know,
Starting point is 01:10:21 we had that, the gym in New Jersey. Yeah. They tried to lock them down. They refused. They refused to be. shut down. They kept going to the gym and opening it every day. The government would put paddollocks on it. They'd bring lock cutters and slice it back open and start again. I mean,
Starting point is 01:10:40 pretty amazing. And very American. Very American. Very American. But I mean, what do they do though to keep, see, this is where my tinfoil hat comes on. Well, I see that in China where something like this happens. They know that locking people down is not going to stop the spread of a mosquito bit bite virus. They know that. But they have. have to remind their people every once in a while, this is what we do. We're in control. We're in control. And it doesn't matter if it's due to a virus or if it's a run on the banks or if it's geopolitical
Starting point is 01:11:11 or pick a reason why the government would want it to do to do this. They already have the procedures in place to get you into your home and lock you down and to tell you to do whatever that is the heck they want to do. How long before that, those kind of practices become more common here in the United States under a scarier government. We're not going to hold power forever. We're just not. I just thought there was a story. Did you see that? I think it was yesterday where Donald Trump was looking into, or maybe he already did it, issuing an order to look into some of the banks that were debanking conservatives. He already did that. Yeah. That was one of the most important
Starting point is 01:11:48 stories of the week, in my opinion, because we're not always going to have power. Things that happened during COVID were, you know, you said some, I saw RFK Jr. the other day was talking about, you know, how they were canceling a lot of the contracts for, you know, the COVID, the MRI, the MRI vaccinations. Just saying something like that could have gotten you debanked. Well, I mean, but this is, you know, a head in the administration is saying this now freely. If we would have said that on the radio or on, you know, on Blaze TV, you know, on any of our broadcasts, we would probably, we could have gotten deblapped, we probably would have gotten de-platformed and shut up completely.
Starting point is 01:12:23 They certainly tried. Well, Trump says that J.P. Morgan. And so I mean, it was what it was the actions of J.P. Morgan Chase that caused me. It was one of the many reasons that I took all my money out of J.P. Morgan Chase took it out and went with a local bank. I mean, it was one of the many reasons. I didn't like their policies. But also they were offering zero interest rate on CDs and savings accounts. And there were local banks who were doing 5%. Well, that's huge. That's a huge number. And they still call me every once in a while, trying to get me back. But I won't because of their policies. I'm not going to do it.
Starting point is 01:13:08 And so you can go ahead and debank people if you want. I'm not going to be a part of that. Not going to do it. So, yeah, there is that aspect of this that's going on. It's a little bit chilling. You wouldn't have expected it from American institutions. And yet here we are. And yet here we are.
Starting point is 01:13:25 Here we are. As far as this virus, though, it looks like it is spread to Madagascar, Somalia, Kenya, and India. It's making its way into Europe, but also there's Samoa, Tonga, French Polynesia, Fiji, and Kiribati. So 240,000 cases and 90 deaths. So that's a pretty low death rate. I mean, if anybody dies, it's not good. but 90 out of 240,000, so that's a small percentage. It's smaller, certainly a lot smaller than COVID.
Starting point is 01:14:04 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So the U.S. CDC reports. And we still have to worry about mosquitoes anyway. I mean, we are always getting reports of mosquito-borne diseases every year. We had the Zika thing for a while that they were talking about in historical. You know, you just got to make sure that you don't. You don't have the standing water around your house. You're not giving places for them to breed and do the best you can to keep it at check.
Starting point is 01:14:32 Yeah. The CDC is saying 46 cases here. And none of them came from here. Right. No deaths and none of them originated in the United States. So it's kind of weird. Why are the mosquitoes in these other countries carrying this disease now all of a sudden? It's almost like maybe somebody was testing something.
Starting point is 01:14:53 It's almost like that, isn't it? It is almost like that. In fact, I'm guessing it is that. It's not just like it. It is that very thing. Whatever you say. Okay. I mean, I know we're getting into conspiratorial territory there.
Starting point is 01:15:12 It's ridiculous to think such a thing. Because certainly China wouldn't start this in a lab. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Next thing you're going to say is that we probably funded part of it. That would be ridiculous. Ridiculous. What a conspiracy nut job. All right, AAA 727 B-E-C-K.
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Starting point is 01:17:21 If you want a really good indication of why Stephen Colbert has been canceled, we have a really good example of it. He was talking about RFK Jr. And this will solidify in your mind why this guy was canceled. But he still has another 10 months to. to continue his reign of terror on late-night television. Do we know if the 200 writers are still there? 200 writers still there.
Starting point is 01:17:50 The entire show is there, right? There's still their whole show is still there, and it's still not funny, and it's still not good. But he's still churning out this kind of slop. Oh, there's bad news of fans of living because health secretary RFK Jr. just pulled $500 million in funding for vaccine development. Now, we have 10 more months of this show, and I, I want to give a measured non-partisan response here. Watch this.
Starting point is 01:18:18 You, you Royd-Addle's Nepo. Oh, is that funny? Oh, wow. That's good material right there. 200 writers is all it took to come up with that. That's not bad, huh? Specifically... Uh-huh.
Starting point is 01:18:36 You love himself so much. Oh, my gosh. Specifically, Bobby Jr. is nixing 22 projects that use MRN-RNA technology. But that's the latest. Vaccine technology. That's like saying, kids, I'm turning off the GPS. We're going to make our way to six flags by using the stars. And Daddy the Sextant.
Starting point is 01:19:00 Some serious comedy. Crank down windows in Daddy's car. All right, there you go. Now, yesterday, RFK Jr. tried to defend the ins defensible. Most of these shots are for flu or COVID. but as the pandemic showed us, MRNA vaccines don't perform well
Starting point is 01:19:20 against viruses that infect the upper respiratory tract. Counterpoint, you, you roadkill-monthing, Luddite human slim, Jim. He doesn't actually have any point. No, he doesn't. Any arguments, any stats, anything? Nope.
Starting point is 01:19:35 I cut Jr. off. Why would you say that MRNA vaccines don't perform well against upper respiratory infections? The National Institutes of Health said they prevented an estimated 14.4 million deaths. Why on earth is RFK Jr. so anxious to fill our streets with dead bodies? Dhingi.
Starting point is 01:19:57 Two ravens. Oh, right. I forgot. I forgot. So you're sure, all 200 writers worked out of it. You can tell. Experts say MRI vaccines are safe. And a University of Minnesota professor of infectious diseases
Starting point is 01:20:12 pandemic preparation said, I don't think I've seen a more dangerous decision in public health and my 50 years in the business. And keep in mind, 50 years ago, the base of the food pyramid was menthol cigarettes. Uh-huh.
Starting point is 01:20:26 Oh, man. Oh, it's just agonizing, isn't it? It's just agonizing. We have to sit through this for 10 months. I mean, let's just set aside any of the side effects that we now are pretty convinced
Starting point is 01:20:41 came from the vaccine. It was ineffective. At best. Yeah, at best. You could take every shot that they recommended that you get. And you still get the disease. You still get COVID. It still didn't work. We went from you. You're not going to get it. You're not going to pass it to, well, you won't get it as bad. Oh, I'll never forget the drawdown from 94%, which they said initially, it's 94, 95% effective. You won't get it. If you get the, if you get the vaccine, you're not going to get the virus. And then they brought it down, oh, well, maybe not 94, 95%. Maybe be more like 87. Then it was 80. Then it was 70. Then it was 40. Then it was 33. Okay, you're going to get it no matter what. It'll make it less bad. It'll make it less bad. They need to take these talk shows out of either. If they're not going to take them out of L.A. or New York, they at least need to take out the studio audience because they're playing specifically to those local populaces. That's it. Like if you live in L.A., you know you're behind an Iron Curtain. There's only one perspective. And that's it. And that's what they are telling jokes towards.
Starting point is 01:21:45 You need to have like a new guy, I don't know who it would be, put them somewhere in middle of America, then have a studio audience that the late show would complete resurgence. It would go gangbusters. Put them in Des Moines, Iowa. Oh my gosh. Can you imagine, though? I mean, seriously. Yeah. It would be great.
Starting point is 01:22:02 That would be great. It would. Des Moines tonight. I love it. I mean, that is, well, that's why he's been canceled. Yes. Yes. It's why he's losing 40 or 50 million dollars.
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Starting point is 01:24:49 All right, we've got to get into this marital aid situation. Oh, so you have to be married to have one now. Okay. Whatever you say. Whatever you say. Yes. Don Jr. posted something quite interesting yesterday. It's kind of fun.
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Starting point is 01:26:20 That's 800 the number four relief. So Donald Trump Jr. yesterday raised a few eyebrows. After he posted a photoshopped image of his dad, you might recognize as the president of the United States. throwing a, we'll call it a marital aid off of the roof of the White House. How dare he? Because he was up there. How dare he?
Starting point is 01:26:50 So you had that going. And then Donald Trump photoshopped a little marital aid being tossed off the roof. And underneath at the bottom of the where the grass would have been at the White House, they put a WMBA basketball court. I mean, the more they keep complaining about it. Saying how horrific it is, the more it's going to happen. That's true. Just stop talking about it. The press keeps asking about it.
Starting point is 01:27:20 The WNBA, who is really Jason Whitlock is 100% correct. They're the most unlikable league and people in the planet, let alone the U.S. But just say no comment. No, I don't want people to throw things on the court. You're just stirring it up. I don't want players to get hurt. but it's funny to me and it's going to continue to happen
Starting point is 01:27:44 if you keep telling people that it's misogynistic and it's horrible and it's just what and for the last round that I read is the players are commenting about it you know particularly including the high prevalence of players who are in the LGBT community this further pushes the misogynistic and heteronormative narratives and insults
Starting point is 01:28:06 and I'm like shut on Shut up. I wish I knew what the bit was, though. I've read stories about some cryptocurrency company and something. What? I don't know. Cryptocurrency? I don't know.
Starting point is 01:28:21 I'm saying, I don't know the bit. I don't either. I wish I understood the bit of why they're doing it. I mean, I understand what, well, it's an aid. You don't have to be married. That's going to get married away. As far as I know, you don't have to be married. Sex toy, is that better?
Starting point is 01:28:37 Do you do that that's fine? Yeah, that's fine. And so I just was I understood what the, you know, why it's supposed to be funny. Because it's not. It's not funny at all. No, not at all. I mean, there are arresting people. And there's a, apparently, one guy got arrested.
Starting point is 01:28:53 There's even a bigger operation. Like, so they're trying to do this and we're not even seeing it in some of these. This one, the one they arrested, I was a fan in Georgia. This just kind of cracked me up because it's, I mean, it didn't crack me up because this is not funny. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for that correction. It's not funny.
Starting point is 01:29:08 And this paragraph I'm going to read is not funny at all, guys. So don't laugh. This is a kid with the long black hair? Is this the kid they arrested? I didn't describe him, but listen to this of what happened. Fanon, Georgia, was arrested earlier this week for his role in the previous incident. And in Phoenix, authority is arrested an 18-year-old man for attempting to throw a marital aide onto the court, which struck a man in his niece who are at the game.
Starting point is 01:29:30 Okay. That's not funny to me at all. That's not funny. struck a poor man and his niece. So there was some ricochet action that was going on. Were they taken to the emergency room afterward? Pat, it does not say in this report, but I'm sure that that probably did happen. I'll tell you what, if I get hit by one of those bad boys at a WNBA, somebody's paying me some money.
Starting point is 01:29:54 That's some velocity, too. Rishishade off the man and then went to his niece at the same time. Oh, wow. That's an arm. No, this is not the one your aunt had. That's not funny. That's not funny. That's the end of the report.
Starting point is 01:30:06 I do love the fact that you can now bet on this. There are, you know, you can go to bet online right now, and you can make a bet onto it. Would you like to know the betting odds for the color of, because we've had, it's happened like five times now, right? And I think one of them weren't neon green. I think one of them wasn't neon green. Would you like to guess on it?
Starting point is 01:30:27 So we have, we have odds on which color, and we also have odds on how many. Okay, neon green's got to be number one. You think that's the top one, Pat? Yeah, green. Okay, you're both correct. That is the best that everyone is predicting and putting bets down that green is next color. Now is a good time to invest in the neon green marital aid company, I'll tell you that.
Starting point is 01:30:46 It's a minus 150 for betting on green. It's plus 200 for purple. Okay. Plus 400 for blue. Then it goes down to pink red, black brown. And the final one at plus 700 is white slash Caucasian. That's not an outside bet. What's to stop someone from betting on white and then taking a white one of those and throw it on the floor at the game?
Starting point is 01:31:16 That's true. It's rigged. It's rigged. Yeah. Wow. It's just my favorite part of it now is the Don Jr. post. I mean, I don't know that he needs to be doing that for the president of the United States. But it's funny.
Starting point is 01:31:31 But I like, you know, every night now I see giant memes of. giant shadows coming over the stadium that the WNBA game is playing. Oh, boy. Oh, I see semi-trucks parked at gas stations close to the stadium hauling in a giant. It's just funny to me. It's not funny. Not at all. You mean it's not funny to you.
Starting point is 01:31:52 That's what you meant to say, right? It's just not funny. It's not funny. It's not funny. This is not a good thing. Don't be doing this. And for the love of God, don't let it ricochet onto some poor guys. Yeah, no, don't do that.
Starting point is 01:32:03 Again, I don't want anyone to get hurt. I don't want a player to trip on the core to get hurt. I don't want that. But the more this unlikable league tells you how horrible you are for doing it, it's going to be done. The more people are going to want to do it. That's true. Here's one of the coaches, the coach of the links. So I don't know what team that is, do you?
Starting point is 01:32:28 Are you familiar enough with the WNBA to know which team goes by the links? I want to tell you the name is so bad, but I don't know. Do we have one in DFW? Yeah, we do. We do. We do. Yeah, we do. And their name is?
Starting point is 01:32:44 The Dallas Bears. No, it's not the Bears. It's not. I don't know. I don't know what they are. I'll find out. I don't know because it's not a real league. And everybody knows that.
Starting point is 01:32:58 And so. So nobody knows. Nobody knows. Nobody knows. The links might be Minnesota. I don't know. But here's the coach. Cheryl Reeve.
Starting point is 01:33:09 She's upset. She's mad about this. This is not a laughing matter to her. I'll tell you that right now. That is for sure. Things on to the court. Obviously, you guys know what the object is. Yeah, we do.
Starting point is 01:33:22 I just want to comment on this has been going on for centuries. Pause. Pause for just a sec. Wait. People have been throwing the sex toys. on to WNBA courts for centuries? Yeah, even before the game started.
Starting point is 01:33:39 It was actually what was happening. This goes back to the 1600s. I didn't realize that. It's been going on for centuries. She's going to make this a bigger issue. And here she goes. This has been going on for centuries. The sexualization of that.
Starting point is 01:33:55 This is the least of that. And it's not fun. It should not be a butter jokes. I tell you're not. Oh, what I am. Or in prints. You're in the comments. The sexualization of women is what's used to hold women dead.
Starting point is 01:34:12 Right. This is no different. This is just a great story. We should write about it in that way. And these people that are doing this should be held accountable. We're not going to be held accountable. They're the problem. And we need to take that.
Starting point is 01:34:25 Thanks. Tell you one thing. Now, there was a great meme last night with that interview that had one of the microphones. looking like one of the Maryland. Yeah, that's wrong. The whole thing's wrong, Jeffie. Over there, okay? I can't tolerate it.
Starting point is 01:34:44 You're going to be getting off or you can't refuse. You throw this on the court, I'm going to break your face, okay? I'm going to break your entire face. They would love that. Hit you so hard, your old grandchildren will be born dizzy over there, okay? It ain't funny. It's been going on. for centuries, and I'm going to put a stop to it.
Starting point is 01:35:06 Thank you. Thank you, head coach, of the Minnesota Links. Minnesota. It is the Minnesota. Everyone knows the fever, Indiana. I mean, that's Caitlin Clark's team. The Dallas team is the Dallas Wings. I was just going to say that.
Starting point is 01:35:20 Of course, the world-renowned, highly acclaimed. Dallas Wings. 12th in the WMBA. 12? That's correct. The Dallas Wings? Which means there's 12-plus teams? I know.
Starting point is 01:35:31 Who knew? Who knew? there was more than like two. They play each other every night. I think the Connecticut Sun just sold reportedly for one of the highest prices ever. It was like $300 million or something. The guy's going to buy it and move it to Boston. That's what I heard.
Starting point is 01:35:46 Really? Yeah. And they've got two new, two or three, maybe more, other cities that are going to have new WNBA teams as well. Is there a single team that makes money? No, I know. That's that I'm aware of. Loses tens of millions every year. Yeah, why don't you pay us what you?
Starting point is 01:36:03 owe us, okay? Yeah, we are doing that. They don't worry about making money. If we're going to pay you what you're worth, we're going to pay you about $3.50 an hour. Is that what you want? Yeah, the one interview with, oh, what's her name?
Starting point is 01:36:16 She just, Tarasso. She's one of the best players they have ever had. Diana Tarasso. Yeah, yeah. And she did an interview and talked about how she had to play Russia every year. Yeah, to make ends meet. Well, here's my thought to that.
Starting point is 01:36:29 And I mean this sincerely. why did she have to come back and play on the WNBA if she was making so much money in Russia? Why couldn't she just play in Russia and then come back here and not play? I don't know. Honestly, I don't know. That's what's her face did and got her arrested, right? Right, and many players do. Britney Grainer.
Starting point is 01:36:49 Many players do because Tarasso said the janitor makes more money than we make. We'll apply for that job then. Right. Okay. Right. Go ahead. Or here's an idea. Work at a profession that makes money.
Starting point is 01:37:01 And then you'll make money. The Jenner is actually doing something at the arena. Yeah. Right. Something that people want to watch. He's sweeping up afterward. People like that. I mean, he's providing a service that people want.
Starting point is 01:37:15 Start providing a service people want. You know, when the NBA makes $11.9 billion. And the WNBA makes, I think last year, $200 million only because of Caitlin Clark. They usually make about $40.50 million. And they still lost $40 million. When that's the case, you're not going to be paid what the men are paid. Correct. That's not going to happen.
Starting point is 01:37:41 It just isn't. And you can complain and whine and cry about it all you want. It's not going to change reality. And the reality is that you have to bring in revenue to get paid what you think you're worth. And for years, the WNBA players weren't making the money that they make now. I mean, that's been a gradual thing because they've grown their product. If Glenn's show was losing $40 million a year, would he still be on the air? I don't think so.
Starting point is 01:38:08 You know not. He would not be on the air. I mean, all of his 200, 300, 300, 400, 500, 500, writers, how many ever writers he has for this stupid show would be out of work as well. That's right. That is exactly right. So you've got to produce in order to make the kind of money you want to make, right? Jason's mad now because he's not. because he's one of those people.
Starting point is 01:38:32 He represents a hundred writers right now. I want to know how you can sell a team for $300 million when you have no other revenue besides, you're not relying on people buying tickets. There's like 10 people probably showing up to those games. That's a hell of an expensive ticket. More than 10 when Caitlin comes to town. Like 30 million per ticket?
Starting point is 01:38:55 That's how much a cost to attend one of these games. I mean, they move, a lot of these teams play on small. their arenas unless Caitlin comes to town and then they move to a larger arena. That's what the Dallas Wings do, right? When they're when Caitlin Clark's team is not in town, they play at some small little arena. I think seats 3,000 people or something. I don't know. But then when Caitlin Clark comes to town, they go to A.A.
Starting point is 01:39:22 They go to the American Airlines Center, which seats 28 or 18, 18,000. Amazing. How that works. And they hate her for that. They hate her for that. They hate her. Yep. Caitlin Clark, I actually, I kind of get the, you know, just to see what she'll do. I've seen like clips of her where she's making like five back-to-back three-pointers.
Starting point is 01:39:42 That's exciting. It is. But when your entire, like, you have these entire media campaigns on Change the Game and all these different WMBA players, then you'll see clips of them. Well, they'll go literally five minutes. Without making a shot. Yeah. With just terrible. It's terrible.
Starting point is 01:39:59 It's bad. It's really. bad. But if you had, you know, 20 more Caitlin Clarks. Yes. Something like that. But you need, you need the talent and you need the kind of like generational shift in a sport. And you would get that if you had embraced Caitlin.
Starting point is 01:40:14 Because more people would want to, I mean, the people that are coming in are saying, yeah, we love Caitlin. We want to play that. They want to do that. To see how she gets treated, why would you want to do that? Right. Yeah, it's really, it's a shame. It is. All right.
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Starting point is 01:42:05 I know you've seen them on TV. Have you been to a WNBA game? You seem to be a big advocate. now because you like Caitlin Clark. I like Caitlin Clark. But you've never been to a game, right? She dragged me in. I like Caitlin.
Starting point is 01:42:16 And then I have not been to an actual game, though, no. Not a real game. I've watched them on television. I have watched them entire games. I don't want to hear it now. I don't want to hear it. Unless you've been to an arena and actually paid fan money to be there. I don't want to hear it anymore.
Starting point is 01:42:34 But if I can make some money betting on throwing something on the court, I may go. Right. Plus, when it's so obviously rigged, you can just start. down as much money as you want, go there and then do it. Just like Pat outlined. Yeah. That's kind of a win in my book. That's a big win.
Starting point is 01:42:47 Why would you do that? Well, Pat, because if they arrest you, they said that you won't be able to go to any more WNBA games. Oh, no. What a shame. But if I put down 700 to one odds and I bet, because I know I'm going to do it. So I put down... Yeah, you've got to get it in. They're looking for it now.
Starting point is 01:43:04 You've got to think about it. I mean, it's actually going to take some work to get it in. Because they're looking for it. Some of the stadiums were saying no bags. You know, they weren't letting people bring in bags. Yeah, so if you don't get in there and with the implement and be able to throw it on the floor, that would be bad. I mean, I've thought of a couple of ways of doing it already. What I'm just saying is it's possible.
Starting point is 01:43:29 It's plus 700 for Caucasian, by the way. I just wanted to make that clarification. Okay. That's $7001, right? $7001, yeah. See? Wow. I know.
Starting point is 01:43:44 Right. I mean, come on. Put down $1,000. Right. Put down $5,000. It would be worth it. Put down $20. Clean out your bank account.
Starting point is 01:43:53 Put it all on that. And then just make sure you get that thing in the arena. No, I would never do that. It would be wrong. Yes. It would be wrong. Don't do this. But I'm just saying it.
Starting point is 01:44:05 If someone were going to do it, that would be a good way to do it, go about it. Yeah, right. To make some money. Yeah. I have never been either to one of the games, but it kind of, I'm surprised because it solves my issue with professional sporting games. I don't like to go anymore because of the parking is a mess. Yeah, and it's expensive.
Starting point is 01:44:22 Fortune. It's expensive. And it's just a pain in the butt getting in and out with all the people. WMBA solves all those issues. Plenty of parking, no hustle and bustle, and cheap tickets. Right. Why are we not going again? I know.
Starting point is 01:44:37 Who cares if the product sucks. It's stress-free. It's entertainment. Entertainment. Stress-free entertainment. And who knows, maybe something neon green will be thrown around. You never know. You sure hope not because you'd hate to see that.
Starting point is 01:44:51 You'd hate to see it. We don't want that to happen. No. We don't want that to fight against it. I'll tell you that. You'll have to answer to Coach Cheryl Reeve. If you don't want to do that. If you want to give in the centuries of oppression,
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Starting point is 01:47:12 It's not going to happen. Good luck with that. Just don't get excited. It's not going to happen. I don't think. You know, maybe they can make it happen. I don't know. We just don't seem to be able to even get to the moon,
Starting point is 01:47:25 let alone build a nuclear reactor on it. We're struggling landing there. Yeah, we can't do it. Well, how is possible? We did it 56 years ago. Did we? Do it again. Yes, we did.
Starting point is 01:47:36 Okay. Whatever you say? Yes. I do say we did. Only because we did. But that's the only reason I say that. I'm not, I'm not fighting with you. I'm just asking a question.
Starting point is 01:47:49 Asked a question. What would even be the purpose for something like that? I think the purpose is to get us to Mars. Yeah. I mean, they want to build a launching zone from the moon. So we're being able. to leave here, go to the moon, load up, have energy, have power, have, you know, whatever we need, and then we go to the, go to Mars from there.
Starting point is 01:48:14 Yeah. And so, you know, you need all of, that would be our launching pad, and we'd need some kind of infrastructure to make that happen, which, you know, what sounds great in theory. Now, I don't know if they would also produce Earth energy from the moon and beam it back to us. I don't know if that's part of the plan. I mean, if they could make that happen, I guess. I mean, it's a long, that's a long power cord. Yeah, that's a long power cord.
Starting point is 01:48:41 It is. Have you guys seen that, I think it was a, what was it, maybe Apple Plus, but it was that series for all mankind? I have, I have not seen it. I've seen that it exists. I just haven't watched it. Well, the premise is that the Soviet Union beats us to the moon. They actually land on it first.
Starting point is 01:49:01 And then it, so basically the space race never ends. And the one cool part about it is it shows how technology advances because of that, which is something that I think would be cool if we are focusing on getting back to the moon. Technology will make huge leaps and bounds to try and get us there. And that's why what was so disappointing when we stopped the space race, right? When they just started pulling money from NASA and not investing in space. Yeah. And so, you know, people have made that argument forever, Pat.
Starting point is 01:49:34 as one of them forever that we lost that jump on technology because of that. Yeah. But there's still have, there's so, there's so much to do to make that even come close to happening. And we're not there. Well, what, one of them, not anymore. We're just not there. I mean, right now we got, we still have, we have Elon who is helping NASA out, take,
Starting point is 01:49:59 you know, they take up rockets to the space station, pick up the trash and bring it back. That's about all they do. They do trash runs and drop off a few people there. India shoots some people up there, right? And China shoots some people up there. I think China actually put a lander on the moon not too long ago. They did. On the other side of the moon.
Starting point is 01:50:21 Yeah. But the last couple tries of the lander that we attempted to put on the moon from our end, I mean, the first try, the thing landed on its side and the camera was blocked. and the second try, they couldn't even get the full landing correct. So what are we doing? What are we doing? I don't know. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:50:41 I don't know how we lost the ability to go to the moon over the last 56 years. Well, I think one of the problems is that actually going to the moon and developing technology stopped being the main focus. Yes, it did. For all mankind, actually, ironically, goes into this about it stops being something cool about alternative history. And it starts going into how woke all. ideology advances. Which is what happened. And it shifts into, well, let's have the first female president.
Starting point is 01:51:09 Let's have the first black female on the moon. Let's have the first, you know, whatever pick, you know, intersectional thing. But that's exactly what happened. Like we did a special on Glenn's Wednesday night special show not too long ago. Well, we were pulling out like NASA's marketing strategy for getting back to the moon. Muslim outreach. It was all just woke DEI crap. And it says we will.
Starting point is 01:51:33 Not have the first human back on the moon. I think it said, we'll have the first woman of color on the moon. Oh, my gosh. I'm serious. That's where it goes. So you have these, like, idiot bureaucrats, these woke Columbia grads or whatever, that are like interjecting themselves into actual science conversations, and they get all this stuff polluted into the middle of what could be a scientific discovery.
Starting point is 01:51:56 And I don't care if the most qualified astronaut is a woman of color. Absolutely. That's fine. But that shouldn't be the goal just because it's a woman of color that she goes to the moon. I mean, can we get off of that track? Maybe, please. I mean, we've got, what, Gail King? Okay, Katie, well, Gil King is woman of color.
Starting point is 01:52:18 I was thinking, you know, Katie Perry. No color, no color. She's pasty white person. Katie Perry's pasty white person. Lauren Sanchez, a person of color. Yeah, not really. They went up in the space, right? Yeah, they did.
Starting point is 01:52:29 They were there for us. They were there for, what, 30? 38 seconds or something? That's great. That's great. I thought you were naming WMBA players for a second. I was kind of lost. Now I get where you're going. So the directive also orders NASA to designate a leader for the effort to get industry input within 60 days. Oh, wow. They're trying to kick this timeline into gear now.
Starting point is 01:52:55 The agency is seeking companies able to launch a reactor by 2030. since that's around the time China intends to land its first astronaut. There's one company in California that's building the mini reactors, right? So they probably could, they're probably part of a government deal that can do it on the moon as well. I don't know. But if you're trying to get there by 2030 and we haven't even been able to. Yeah, we can't get the mini reactors here. I want a mini reactor in my neighborhood.
Starting point is 01:53:26 Yeah. Can I take a conspiracy break really quick? Sure. Why is the year 2030, the target year for freaking everything? I don't know. Everything. Globalists, UN, the green people, everything is supposed to happen. Evis.
Starting point is 01:53:42 All of it. In 2030. Yeah. Like, I don't know. Like, maybe we should, like, take a step back and decide, you know, do some numerology or something and figure out what's going on about. Remember, like, the 2012 was supposed to be like, or whatever was supposed to be when the world's supposed to end? Well, that was because of the Mayan calendar.
Starting point is 01:53:58 What did the Mayans say about the year 2030? That's what I want to know. I think we're going to be dead by now. I think they either stopped it because we were going to be dead or the guy that made the calendars was like, I've not making it anymore. Yeah, my hand is getting really sore. I'm not doing it anymore. They're killing people off to ledge over here.
Starting point is 01:54:16 I'm done making the stupid calendars, okay? All right. Now, you were talking about AI a while ago and some of the incredible advances that we've experienced. Well, there's a theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krause who says artificial intelligence is great at producing hype, but he's not completely sold on its alleged potential. He's a renowned scientist who has taught at Arizona State, Yale, and other universities. And he recently lamented how diversity, equity, and inclusion has stifled scientific progression and more generally, scientific excellence. He said that the perception that AI will spawn a global reckoning and what he sees is the true concerns about the technology.
Starting point is 01:55:07 Getting to the truth, he says, means one has to cut through the hype. Every new development has risks and benefits, and we have to think carefully about what those are. He said, I'm not as concerned as some people are, but partly because I think that AI is neither artificial nor intelligent at this point. and I think we're a long way from artificial general intelligence. That seems to go against what the chat GPT people think about their latest advance in that, which is number five, right? This is chat GPT5. But he says we're not close to artificial general intelligence.
Starting point is 01:55:47 That's interesting. That is. Going against the flow there. That is. And that's, well, I mean, that's what Meadow. That's what Zuckerberg is doing with this super intelligence. or labs at Meta. So, and, you know, I'm pretty sure Zuckerberg.
Starting point is 01:56:00 That doesn't mean we have it, though. It just means that he wants to get us there. Yeah. Right. I'm, yeah, I think there's probably a lot of, there probably are a lot of skeptics within the scientific community on, like, just how far we are. But I don't, he's definitely one of the lone voices at this point.
Starting point is 01:56:17 Seems like it, doesn't it? It does. I remember hearing lots of people talk that way, just a short amount of time ago. Like, go back to. two, three years. Go back to when like GPT one or two were first coming out on the market and we were, you know, and it made all kinds of mistakes and it was right half the time. Yeah. Yeah. It was still fun. Yeah. But now when they're talking about, you know, having GPT5, you know, loaded on your phone is like having a handful of PhD level academics in your pocket. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:56:48 I think it's progressing so fast and this may be even scarier is that the scientists now don't even really know what they're dealing with. Yeah, it's already out. I mean, it's out where they don't, well, we don't know. Unleashed might be a better way to describe that. It's, they don't know what they have unleashed. Uh-huh. Unleashed. I know. That sounds familiar. It does sound familiar. That's like Pat Gray was unleashed at some point. I mean, look what happened then. Speaking of super intelligence, Pat Gray. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for saying so. You're exactly right. All right. Triple-8-7-27. Beck, uh, more coming up in a You know, the scariest crises often happen quickly and quietly, at least at first, a storm that changes course, a grid that goes down, a supply chain that suddenly isn't there anymore.
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Starting point is 01:58:51 Back will continue right after this. It's Pat and Jeffey. Jason joining us today for Glenn, who's a little bit under the weather today, hopefully be back on Monday. So there's some breaking news on the military front today, right? Yeah, the Blaze News just commented on this. There's also a New York Times article,
Starting point is 01:59:29 if you want to go there and read about it. The headline is Trump directs the military to target foreign drug cartels. the U.S. military officials have started drawing up options for how the military could go after some of these groups. Interesting. So using the actual military. They'll go after Mexican drug cartels. Yes, which we have labeled as terrorists, terror organizations now.
Starting point is 01:59:51 Right. And that was one of the questions the New York Times was having was there's questions over whether this would be considered murder targeting some of these individuals. But if they're identified as terror organizations, we can legally under U.S. law go after them. the only obstacle would seem to be their president, Claudia, Shinebaum has said no to that, right? Yeah. To the allowing the U.S. military to cross, across into Mexico and go after these cartels. Yeah. And I mean, I would assume that this will vary from country to country as far as the, you know, the capabilities that they'll allow into their countries.
Starting point is 02:00:28 I've been other places probably like Mexico, they'll probably be more of like an intelligence, you know, like identifying using satellite technology stuff like that. that, maybe even, you know, human intelligence, stuff like that, to say this is where they are, this is where the person is, and then green light, and then they're a president with green light, there are people. But, I mean, I'm being very, very optimistic with what Mexico will do. I mean, let's just be very, very, you know, as blunt as we can with this. There's no way in today's technology that the cartels in Mexico should have the power that they have unless they're getting government support in some way. Right.
Starting point is 02:01:06 Right. I mean, you hear all the time that, yeah, the government, you know, Mexicans are, you know, cracking down on cartels. They're sending this high, you know, this famous general to go down and oversee the eradication of the cartels. And then three weeks later, you find out that general's on the take from the cartels. Exactly. He was busy eradicating another rival cartel. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. They're famous for doing that, though. They just pay the military that comes in to eradicate them. and they give them more money and pretty soon they're on the payroll of the cartels. I mean, that has happened over and over and over again. And look, it's difficult to say no to the cartels. I mean, if you are... Is it?
Starting point is 02:01:49 It is difficult to say no. Yes. Yes. Okay. All right. Because if you say no, you know, you're not useful to them. And you're at least if you say yes, you get a little cash and live good for a while. You still can't flush toilet paper down the toilet,
Starting point is 02:02:08 but you're living high on the hog other than that. Not in Mexico. Here's the thing, Claudia. We're coming in. Okay. Listen, when you get your sewer system worked out, then you can tell us not to come in.
Starting point is 02:02:22 It's kind of like Greenland. We're just going to take it and get over it. This is just in, actually. The Army Corps of Engineers are going down to replace all the plumbing down to Mexico. One for all. Thank you. We're tired of it. Every time we go.
Starting point is 02:02:35 on there on vacation. That needs to happen. While we're at it, we'll get rid of the cartel. I don't understand that. I really don't. I mean, for a country that's on the verge of first world status.
Starting point is 02:02:49 Mexico is, they're on the verge of it. Fix your sewer system. Make your water supply drinkable. You know, there's a couple of things that you should probably do with your infrastructure before anything else. Join us. Join us in the first world. Thank you.
Starting point is 02:03:05 be able to flush your toilets and drink your water. Nobody wants to save their used toilet paper, okay? I have to be clear about that. No one wants to do that. No one. I can't imagine you want to do that. But they have to do that. So it's kind of nasty.
Starting point is 02:03:21 So thanks for calling, Claudia, but we're coming in. And it does sound like they're trying to clear the way for that. It sounds like it's going to happen. So we'll see how in-depth it gets. Interesting. All right. Hopefully, Glenn, it'll be better on and back on Monday. Have a great weekend. See you then. And back.

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