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Father, we honor you. What a privilege always
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to come together. Even if we're sitting across
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the table from each other or we've got a huge
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ocean between us, Lord. Brothers are brothers
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no matter what. There's no distance here. Father,
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we get to do this. It's our privilege. Pray for
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our listeners that they would be encouraged,
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inspired, motivated even. Father, to stand their
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ground for faith, for family, and for freedom
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in Jesus' name. It's Wednesday, September 9th,
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2026. We get to do this. This is episode number
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49. I love how you started just moments before
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the prayer by saying save it for the show. Don't
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say anything Who do I sound like I know you sound
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like me is exactly right exactly I know I'm learning
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man. You you've taught me I feel like the grasshopper,
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you know, you know, just just trying to learn
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You snatch the pebbles from my hand a long time
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ago. It's all good I am in Rotterdam the Netherlands
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still I mistakenly on the last show said I'd
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be back but it actually we travel tomorrow You
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my friend, I believe you're at the bridge church
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studios. I am just right my familiar seat. Oh,
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how beautiful Man we are ready to come home,
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but we're also sad we're leaving I get that it
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is it's so hard because you know we're not gonna
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see our granddaughter for several months at least
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I mean we'll see her every week on you know on
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the video call, but oh man That's it's it's being
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a grandparent is weird. It's like what is this?
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I have this new heart that lives outside of me
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It's crazy. It's crazy. I love it though. I love
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it. It's beautiful So yeah, I know you've been
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soaking it up enjoying the time and just making
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the most of it, you know, we have so we have
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Yeah, are you gonna cry on the plane? No, we
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already It's just, yeah, it's strange, you know,
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because we've been here for 10 days and every
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single day, you know, hop in the cab, we drive
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over, we're hanging out, we're helping them,
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you know, doing things around the house. And
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then yesterday was great for me. Christina and
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Tina were doing closet reorganization. And I
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think for four or five hours, just me and Cleo
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just sitting there. Yeah, playing games. You
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found a new rhythm. Yes, yes. You're in a rhythm
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right now. Yeah, exactly. I know. Anyway, there's
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some amazing things happening right now. And
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this crossed the transom for me yesterday. And
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I want to get it out as soon as possible so people
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know because The Passion, Mel Gibson's iconic
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movie from 2004. is returning to theaters tomorrow
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for a whole week. Did you know this? That's gonna
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be awesome. Did you know about this? Yes, I did
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hear about this. I did, yes. And so this is,
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I forget who this is, Arioio, some guy from Fox,
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he had a sit down with Mel Gibson, and I just
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need to play a couple of clips from this. Oh,
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come on, I love it. This is so good. What do
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you want, young men? We are seeing a surge. Faith
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in young man. Yeah, there's a really yeah, but
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there's a whole generation that has not seen
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this movie on the big screen Yeah, they haven't
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but they will if they care to look And do you
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have a message for them? No. I love this. No.
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Go see the movie, man. I got no message. No.
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It's on the screen. Yeah. Yeah. So what am I
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going to say? Well, I've been encouraging them
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to see the movie. Do you want them to see the
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movie? And what is there that they can't find
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in other depictions of the resurrection, I mean
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of the passion? Well, I think it's a very real
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and visceral look at it and has an impact for
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the enormity of the event. Kind of depicts it
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in a In a good way. And it's just a depiction,
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but if you can hit some chords of truth or feeling
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an effect here and here. It's powerful filmmaking.
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I don't know if everyone has seen The Passion
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because it was 22 years ago. Yeah, right. This
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is a must see movie. There is no doubt. I saw
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it by myself. Tina hasn't seen it. She doesn't
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actually want to see it. afraid it'll be too
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disturbing for her. I get that, but I think she
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needs to. I mean, we need to have that visceral
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reaction of how brutal it was, but also how beautiful
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it was. I mean, so there's both. And I think
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it's such a powerful depiction. I was very moved
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when I saw it 22 years ago. I saw it only maybe
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a year and a half ago and I watched it at home
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and I was just like, it was crazy when you see
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this. It really brings the whole crucifixion
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to life, really. You're right. That's a good
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way of putting it. There definitely is a beautiful
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side to it, but it's also, it's just as a movie,
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it's amazing. It's very epic and it will also
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bring your Bible to life. Yes, because he really
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did a good job of trying to stick in the story
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and the narrative from Scripture. And I believe
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for many, many years it was the number one grossing
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film, R -rated movie, I think, there's some category,
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with over $650 million, which is just an amazing
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amount of money for 2004. And he's doing all
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of this in lead up to not one, but two new movies
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about the resurrection. How is making the two
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resurrection films different from the passion
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experience for you? Bigger. You had to broaden
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the canvas a lot as far as why it had to happen
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and the effect of it and the salvific nature
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of it and the continuing the story. Is actually
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the biggest part is when he comes back. I mean
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and then he's coming back again, too I don't
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know. I think you know you could do the You could
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you could do the Revelation movie, right? Yeah,
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but I don't think I'll need to because by the
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time I get pre -production done We'll be experiencing
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it in about 48 hours. I love You know, he's always
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been rough around the edges, right? Totally rough.
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So then he gets totally just shazam by God and
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he's still rough around the edges. But I love
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that. He even used a great word, salvific. That's
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a very theological word. That's a great, it's
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salvation. Talking about the nature of salvation.
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So when you say something salvific, that's like
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you're saying it's gospelized. You know, this
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is the gospel, the good news. So for him to use
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that word is impressive. And I love his heart.
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I love his passion in it. There's, you know,
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I listened to this whole interview and I just
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pulled out a couple of quick quotes because he
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is not just a movie maker. I mean, he is a believer,
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man. And he, he lives by the word. Even when
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I because I watched my Joe Rogan Maybe a year
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or two years ago and he was already talking about
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his faith then and but I mean He he talks the
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way that you and I do in everyday parlance so
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I Would say that you know, there's you know,
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this is coming at the perfect time you know his
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his new movies I think come out in May and I
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think you and I would agree that you know certainly
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you've even been preaching about this in our
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church, that it's coming. I mean, there is a
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revival, there is an awakening. This movie seems
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to be perfectly timed. Totally agree. I think
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it was timed perfectly 22 years ago with what
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was happening historically and in our culture.
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That came out and it made a huge splash. I mean,
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you could just know that just by the box office
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numbers. It was totally unexpected from a lot
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of people at that time. And it blew everything
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away. But it was a message saying, hey, pay attention.
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And now we're all 22 years later, we're seeing
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things happen on such a grand scale. We're globally
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connected through our screens more than we've
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ever been in our lives. So I mean, we're seeing
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things in real time. ships being blown up. I
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mean, just crazy stuff, drones hitting buildings
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and things that we just never had a category
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for. So what a time to bring the gospel. I mean,
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we had the Jesus Revolution movie. We had the
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one, A Great Awakening recently. And then this
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is coming and this will be more epic in scale.
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He's wired that way. When he creates something,
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it's going to have scale to it. And so I am super
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excited. I'm definitely going to go, you know,
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watch the, the, the re -release of the passion
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just to even just framework. Is it playing at
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the rim? Is it playing at our favorite theater?
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I haven't looked yet. I'm sure it is. I haven't
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even looked. I haven't had time this week to
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look. Goodness. Is it out this week or next?
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Tomorrow. It starts tomorrow. Yeah. One week
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run. Yeah. So that's, that's the, that's the
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rerun of the passion. Everyone should go see
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it if they can. Yeah, absolutely. So was this
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just Accidental that he does this at this point
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in time. We'll be experiencing it ourselves in
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about 48 hours Revelation starts at our clock.
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Yeah, it feels that way sometimes. Yeah I mean,
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yeah things seem to be coming to a head. Do you
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think the timing of this movie is providential?
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In your mind everything there's no accidents
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anywhere. So I know yes it is You know, I thought
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I was late. This is too late, you know, 23 years
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later, but It's probably just right. Yeah, it's
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not my timing. Uh -huh. Exactly Wow, if I had
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a bell I'd be hitting it over and over I know
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the whole thing. Come on, bring the bell. I gotta
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get you a bell. Wow. Wow And so, man, that is
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so good what he said though. He said, I'm not
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even going to have time to make the revelation
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because it's going to happen. I mean, this is
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where he's at in his mindset. And I love that.
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So Mel Gibson is a guy who's been, you know,
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he was kicked out of Hollywood. There's, you
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know, it's just a lot of people really didn't
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like him in the industry. And so listen to him
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when he's asked about, you know, people he doesn't
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like. Who's the person you most despise? Oh,
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in the mirror every morning. You know, you can't
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despise anybody. Yeah. I mean, you have those
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moments because we're all guaranteed that we're
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going to have enemies and we get them. Yeah.
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And they can be really brutal and merciless.
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But if you don't forgive them, you're the one
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that suffers. And that's all there is to it.
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So yeah, there are people that I have ill feeling
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toward, but that's usually spawned by some kind
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of act of aggression. I love it. I love it. This
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is Mad Max talking. I know I'm going, I missed
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the Australian accent. I mean, he's kind of lost
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it through the years. I'm sure he could doll
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it up if he needed to, but you know. Man, just
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to hear him, you're hearing a guy, his voice
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sounds like he's smoked 10 million packs of cigarettes.
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He's had a rough go. I mean, he's had some stuff
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he's had to deal with in terms of addictions
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and whatnot through the years. And yet you're
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also hearing a soul that's redeemed, somebody
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that's brought back in his story arc. He's in
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the place of redemption right now. And I just,
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man, it just literally makes me almost giddy
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listening to him talk. Cause you don't know what's
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coming next, you know? I mean, he's always been
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unpredictable. That's why Hollywood couldn't
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handle him. And I love it. I love his, his heart,
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his passion. I love his, it's just a straight
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shot kind of guy. And that's exactly why I love
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him when I heard this next piece, because this
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spoke to me just very deeply. What's the best
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advice you ever got? Just forgive. Really. And
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don't worry. My dad told me, he said, you worry
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too much. I said, you think? I thought it was
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a good thing. He said, no, it's a sin. I said,
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what really? And I said, why is it a sin? He
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said, well, because it shows a decided lack of
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faith in Providence and in God. He said, so if
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you're worried too much, it's not good. That's
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good advice. Yeah. That's really good advice.
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Yeah. So he didn't worry about a bunch of stuff.
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I mean, that hit me like a ton of bricks. Wow.
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Now, is it? Is it considered because his father
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said, don't worry too much. I mean, we know don't
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worry about tomorrow. Today has enough trouble
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for its own, et cetera. But can you consider
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worrying like that a sin? I thought that was
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an interesting statement he made. Yeah. I mean,
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the fact that we're told, you know, don't be
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anxious about anything, but in everything by
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prayer and supplication, you know, with Thanksgiving,
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let your requests made known to God. We're commanded
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not to worry. We're commanded not to. And so
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when we do, I mean, you're not committing a sin
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unto death. I mean, that's not that, but you
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are committing a sin that actually brings some
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level of death to your own psyche, to your own
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heart, your own mindset, to where when you live
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spun up like that and you live in that negative,
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dark, anxious, worrisome place. And you and I,
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we have friends, people that we love who live
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that way. And it breaks our hearts because we
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know they don't have to live that way. So in
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a very real sense, they're reaping the consequences
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of that sin in the moment, in real time. There
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was actually a story that broke today that I've
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seen people posting on social media. I only have
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X, but that's enough for me. I saw actually...
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Glenn Beck's producer, Ricky, who I like her
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a lot. She moved with him to Florida and she
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commented on this story. I don't know if you've
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seen it yet. And she said that she was worried
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about it and she's a believer too. So I just
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wanted to... Play this the opening up to this
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story because you've probably seen it. It's it's
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the biggest hottest news today Meantime yet another
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resignation from one of the two big AI firms
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ahead of an expected IPO former anthropic researcher
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Jacob Coxon saying neither anthropic nor open
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AI are acting responsibly with regards to safety
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and accusing them of gambling with people's lives
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The statement made on X has raised eyebrows following
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its boost by current Anthropic employee, Evan
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Hubinger, who leads the firm's alignment stress
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testing team and said that while he believes
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the company is trying its best, it doesn't have
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a plan and that they earnestly believe AI could
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kill all humans. Anthropic's latest risk report
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published last month detailed potential threats
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from its agents. The news comes amid a Financial
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Times report that Anthropic withheld its latest
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model from testing by the UK's AI Security Institute
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before its release, only making it available
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to vetted US organizations. Because this is promotion
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and it's not just promotion for all. Oh, look
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how incredibly good our stuff is. This is promotion
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and the second clip will prove it because these
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guys either they're in on or they're walking
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right into it. What these companies want is one
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thing right now. They want government regulation
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on all things artificial intelligence. So notice
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the guy who left and we don't know the story
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of him leaving. Right. But right away, an executive
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comes out and says, well, you know, that is true.
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There's a 10 % chance, you know, that that AI
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will kill the world and we're all going to die.
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And these two news, news models here, they walk
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right into it. Thank goodness that they have
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to submit these new models for testing by the
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security agency set up by the government. Oh,
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no, they don't. Anthropics says it about this
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Financial Times report. New model wasn't submitted.
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What's anyone going to do about it? Yeah, I mean
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right now that that that is a voluntary procedure
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in the US and so there is there have been look
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huge over the last few years a lot of concern
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about even before we got to chat GPT and the
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improvements we've seen in models there have
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been warnings from academics from people even
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within technology like Elon Musk who've warned
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about the risks AI poses to humanity and so there
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is a serious discussion going on. The problem
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is These AI labs are locked in an intense competitive
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and commercial battle with each other, as well
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as with the Chinese and other companies as well.
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And that means there's very little incentive
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for them to slow down. Right? Yeah. So that's
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one of the big tensions amid all these warnings
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around out of control AI. So as someone who has
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studied this very, very closely for the past
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two years, please. Don't take any of this at
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anything more than just what it is, which is
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we don't want anyone with open source models
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or anything. that we don't control. We don't
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want them running away with our business. We
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have an IPO to do. There it is. We have an IPO,
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so we've got to keep all control. And we want
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the government to step in and say, oh, wait a
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minute, this is too dangerous. We have to have
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a regulatory agency, something like the Federal
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Aviation Agency. There's all different proposals
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that are already out there. That is all that
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this is. AI is not going to kill you. Right.
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But they will create fear so that the agencies
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will slap the regulations on so that it will
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protect their slice of the pie. It's exactly
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what it is. Bingo. Makes total sense. There's
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always a control C, as we call it. You can always
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quit the program. You can always unplug the computer.
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None of this is as dangerous as it sounds. None
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of it. Well, I'm glad because I'm enjoying mine,
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so I'm getting a lot out of it. So my Grokbot,
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which you recommended, brother, man, this is
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great. I suggested to Pastor Jamie, I suggested
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him using Grokbot, which is not a chat bot. This
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is the thing that I'd love everyone to get away
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from is the chat bots because you know using
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anything as an oracle is by definition idolizing
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something which is as we know as believers is
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not a good thing to do but the the grok bot it
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literally gives you control over your it makes
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your computer more powerful would you say i'd
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love to hear your your experience with it So,
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I mean, very easy to set up, and so I've developed
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four so far. One is a daily briefing writer,
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and it gives me briefings on spirituality and
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faith. It gives me briefings on politics, on
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culture, on human interests, and on AI and tech.
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and then I actually added a piece for spiritual
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revival and awakening. So these are all individual
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little robots that you program within Grokbot
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and you give them each a task and they just do
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this over and over again, right? And you can
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shape the task. I told it I wanted it from a
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theologically conservative and balanced perspective,
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non -denominational, spirit -filled, evangelical,
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and I mean it nails it. I mean it does what I
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ask it to do. So I set it up where it gives me
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three updates a day or I can go in and get one
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manually in the moment. It's kept me up to it.
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So I also did a biblical research assistant so
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that I can dive into theological issues. However,
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I was able to set all the parameters on it so
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I can put the guardrails on it how I want, which
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I did. And then I set up a YouTube clip tech.
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That's pretty amazing where it can go in and
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it'll scour YouTube and then it'll bring you
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back clips. that I may want to use for my sermon,
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which I did last Sunday. Already prepared, dropped
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it on my desktop. Perfect. So I used it last
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week. And then I did a book summary assistant.
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This is like Cliff's Notes for Books. Hold on
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a second. You've said like seven or eight bots.
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I'm proud of you. This is great. No, four so
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far. Four so far. Sounds like a whole bunch.
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But I'm telling you, these are amazing. I mean,
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I'm just like a kid in a candy store because
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I'm getting to get news that I want the way I
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want it. And I put parameters for source docs
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only through the, through every one of them.
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So it will literally even tell me I will not
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get any information from social media or anything.
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It says, and it will, it will cite the source
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docs it's pulling it from. Nice. And so, so then
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you can actually go in because people always
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ask me, you've asked me. Like, what new source
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can I trust? And I always say, none. You can't
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trust a single one. What you can do is you can,
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and I think that these types of robots, and I
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want to continue to call them robots. I think
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that's really important for your framing of your
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mind. These sorts of robots, it'll bring stories
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back, but then you can say, okay, go find all
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the source material, the background. I really
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want to understand what the story is about. It's
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a little more work. than just reading the headlines
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on your newsfeed? Yes, it's interactive, which
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actually I like, you know me, I like hands -on,
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so I like being able to tell it what to do and
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then shape what it brings back to me. So I feel
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like I've got control of the guardrails. And
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what's fun is, because I said, you know, you
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should get the Grok bot and you said, no, I tried
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Grok and all, I said, no, no, no, this is something
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else. And it truly, what you have right now is
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a simpler interface version of what I've been
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using for the past 18 months or 24 months and
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It's this is what this stuff is really really
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good at. This is where it makes sense This is
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I want everyone to have this joy this this type
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of power at their fingertips Please get away
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from the chat bots that right that that is the
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wrong and it's a it's a parlor trick It's going
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to agree with you. It's going to be sycophantic.
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It's going to get things wrong. There's very
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little opportunity to delve deep into what it's
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doing. That's what I want everyone to get away.
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I agree. Unfortunately, Grokbot is Elon Musk
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only right now. It's actually a company that
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he bought called Cursor. But all of, I believe
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all of these big model companies will be providing
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this type of functionality. And this is, it's
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not going to replace Pastor Jimmy. No, in fact,
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I don't do anything interpretive. None of this
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is interpretive. It's just the facts, Jack. It's
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very basic. And it's very, very, sometimes I'm
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like, wow, that's all I get, but it's because
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it's given me the facts. It's not adding fluff.
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So I can get five updates or five point update
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and it's all fits almost on a page. And I like
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that because then I can go dig deeper on my own.
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I've been looking at different scripture to help
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us understand really the chat bot version of
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what I think is swept the world. People are dropping
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their their receipts for their tax forms into
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the chat bots, they're dropping their emails,
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rewriting email, all this stuff. But really they're
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using it for question and answer, for getting
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answers. And there's no doubt that if you say,
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find me a YouTube video that shows me how to
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adjust the thermostat, I have this model. It'll
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do that. But if you're just asking it, well,
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biblically, how should I look at this? You know,
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this is where you get into a very dangerous track
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and I'm really concerned about that and just
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just listen to these that I found and and maybe
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This took me a while and I want to ask you the
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term idol It's thrown around very easily believers
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talk about idolizing something or do you have
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an idol? You know, is there an idol you need
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to get rid of? I think that the term itself has
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changed meaning throughout the years. Whereas,
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maybe you can explain the biblical interpretation
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of just the word idol. Yeah, from a biblical,
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I'm not looking at anything, so this is just
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off the top of my head, but from a biblical historical
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perspective, idols were actually a physical something.
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Like it could have been a piece of wood, it could
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be a statue, whatever. It is some kind of iconoclastic
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thing that represents a deity or you know And
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that's what it was so that would be called so
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they would have idols in their tent You know
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and there were times in in the Old Testament
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when when they were they were actually commanded
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by God Through Moses through through or through
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the prophets to remove the idols from your tent
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in other words Get those things and they were
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things they were actually physical things trinkets
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or whatever. And people would assign deity or
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powers to them, or it would be a representation
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of a deity, of a God, little G. And so they would
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say, get those idols out of your tent. Or it'd
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be like an Asherah pole, you know, sort of like
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the old school totem poles, they'd call it an
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Asherah pole. So then they would worship those
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things. And by worshiping them, they felt they
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were vicariously worshiping their deity. So that's
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a physical idol. In New Testament times and bringing
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it even into modern day, we think in terms of
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an idol, it may not be like a specific object.
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It could be a person. It could be an idea, a
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concept, a construct, a philosophy, whatever,
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an ideological thing. But it's anything that
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you put in the place of God is considered an
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idol to a New Testament believer. I think these
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days when you say idol, the first thing that
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pops into people's minds is American Idol, you
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know, a pop idol, K -pop idols, you know, all
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these like celebrities. And I think people often
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get confused. Whereas if we just look at scripture,
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so I got a couple pieces that just help me really
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frame my mind around it. Habakkuk 2, 18 and 19.
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What good is an idol carved by man or a cast
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image that deceives you? How foolish to trust
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in your own creation a god that can't even talk
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Although they can talk now What sorrow awaits
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you who say to wooden idols wake up and save
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us and believe me people are saying this to their
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chat bots To speechless stone images you say
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rise up and teach us Can an idol tell you what
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to do? They may be overlaid with gold and silver,
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but they are lifeless inside exactly Exactly
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what it is Psalm 115, four to eight. Their idols
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are merely things of silver and gold shaped by
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human hands. They have mouths but cannot speak,
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eyes but cannot see. And this is very important,
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because your chat bot can't actually see. And
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yes, words are coming out, but it's not actually
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speaking. They have ears but cannot hear and
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noses but cannot smell, that's for sure. They
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have hands but cannot feel and feet but cannot
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walk and throats but cannot make a sound and
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those who make idols are just like them as are
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all who trust in them This is this is really
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spot on it's really speaking to me Which is interesting
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because it's written thousands of years ago and
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yet it's the same dynamic we're seeing right
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now Genesis 1 27 so god created human beings
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in his own image In the image of God, He created
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them male and female. He created them. 2 .7 Genesis.
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Then the Lord formed the man from the dust of
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the ground. He breathed the life into the man's
00:29:30.980 --> 00:29:32.960
nostrils and the man became the living person.
00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:37.700
This is not your chatbot. It's not. And as I
00:29:37.700 --> 00:29:40.660
was working through this thinking, what kind
00:29:40.660 --> 00:29:43.519
of guardrails can we give believers for this
00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:49.380
stuff? And the first thing is you cannot anthropomorphize
00:29:49.380 --> 00:29:53.740
it. You cannot give it a name. And by the way,
00:29:53.819 --> 00:29:55.519
we do this, we talked about this in the last
00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:58.380
show. We give our pets names and we think that
00:29:58.380 --> 00:30:02.079
we know how they feel. And we don't really. We
00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:07.519
give all kinds of inanimate objects names. So
00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:11.099
just call it your robot. That helps me a lot.
00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:16.720
And just say robot, do this, do that. But don't
00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:21.160
outsource discernment. Prayer, talking to your
00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:27.440
pastor, confession. Interpreting scripture. Don't
00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:30.119
outsource that. Exactly. Because if you let it
00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:34.180
tell you what it thinks it means, then you're
00:30:34.180 --> 00:30:38.240
outsourcing your own. ability to have a relationship
00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:42.740
with the Holy Spirit, who the Bible says is in
00:30:42.740 --> 00:30:45.920
John chapter 15. He's the Spirit of truth who
00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:49.299
leads you and guides you into all truth. That
00:30:49.299 --> 00:30:52.599
is the Holy Spirit of God. And that's the only
00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:56.380
thing that can do that. Not a machine. And I'm
00:30:56.380 --> 00:30:59.759
so concerned about people not feeling like they
00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:02.200
can talk to another human about things that are
00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:05.880
going on in their lives. And I know from just
00:31:05.880 --> 00:31:08.960
observing you and Day Manette, a lot of what
00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:12.240
you do is literally pastoring people outside
00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:17.119
of the sermons, working with people through things,
00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:20.440
praying with them. The minute we start to outsource
00:31:20.440 --> 00:31:24.490
that to to chat bots just because they talk back
00:31:24.490 --> 00:31:28.730
and make you feel good. That's a dark, dark hole,
00:31:28.930 --> 00:31:32.789
man. So true, brother. I sat with a family this
00:31:32.789 --> 00:31:36.009
morning who I'm doing their, the husband's and
00:31:36.009 --> 00:31:38.710
the father, the grandfather, I'm doing his funeral
00:31:38.710 --> 00:31:42.309
on Saturday at 10 o 'clock. You can't replace
00:31:42.309 --> 00:31:44.769
that. You can't replace the conversations we
00:31:44.769 --> 00:31:47.210
had, the tears that were shed, the prayers that
00:31:47.210 --> 00:31:50.920
we prayed. the feelings, the grief that is being
00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:55.140
expressed. You cannot outsource. You can't copy
00:31:55.140 --> 00:31:58.160
it. You can't imitate it. It's in real time.
00:31:58.440 --> 00:32:01.140
And it's the real interaction of human beings
00:32:01.140 --> 00:32:04.240
guided by the person of the Holy Spirit. And
00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:06.779
I also don't want people to be afraid of this
00:32:06.779 --> 00:32:11.799
technology. When it first started, I was very,
00:32:11.799 --> 00:32:16.259
very anti -AI because I saw what the parlor trick
00:32:16.259 --> 00:32:20.039
of the chatbots was. Now that we are two years
00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:22.259
further down the road, now I'm saying, okay,
00:32:22.740 --> 00:32:26.599
this is something very, very useful, a very useful
00:32:26.599 --> 00:32:32.000
tool, and tools are good. In fact, for maybe
00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:34.440
a year or so when I was struggling trying to
00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:37.140
figure out how to make this stuff work, I would
00:32:37.140 --> 00:32:41.039
literally be praying, Holy Spirit, help me understand
00:32:41.039 --> 00:32:45.180
how to use this plow. And I always got a message
00:32:45.180 --> 00:32:47.500
like, look behind you, are the lines straight?
00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:50.519
And then you're not doing it right. So it's like,
00:32:51.019 --> 00:32:54.579
okay, you know, and it's still these things are
00:32:54.579 --> 00:32:57.880
not perfect, but man, they are not going to replace
00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:01.819
us. Of course, when things change, economies
00:33:01.819 --> 00:33:06.740
change, buggy drivers eventually went away. We
00:33:06.740 --> 00:33:09.660
still use candles, but not as much. By the way,
00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:11.980
when electricity first came out, people were
00:33:11.980 --> 00:33:15.500
very, very afraid of electricity. They were like,
00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:17.799
this is going to kill me, it's going to electrocute
00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:20.940
me, it's going to burn down my house. Nuclear
00:33:20.940 --> 00:33:24.259
energy is the exact same thing. And, man, look
00:33:24.259 --> 00:33:27.140
at the psyops that went on, everything from the
00:33:27.140 --> 00:33:30.920
the China syndrome, which happened just within
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:33.559
a few days of Three Mile Island, coincidentally,
00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:37.700
that movie came out. Does art imitate life or
00:33:37.700 --> 00:33:40.140
life imitate art? I mean, which way is it? Well,
00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:42.559
for sure. Yes, there were a lot. Yes. And there
00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:45.299
were a lot of industries like oil and gas who
00:33:45.299 --> 00:33:48.539
did not want nuclear to succeed. And that has
00:33:48.539 --> 00:33:52.839
been going on for an extremely long time. Whereas
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:55.980
nuclear energy has become incredibly useful,
00:33:56.759 --> 00:33:59.720
incredibly safe. The new small medium reactors
00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:02.519
literally eat their own waste so you don't have
00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:06.400
vats of toxic stuff rolling around. You have
00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:09.659
to bury into into mountains anymore. And now
00:34:09.659 --> 00:34:13.210
we're seeing In the United States alone, I think
00:34:13.210 --> 00:34:16.789
we deployed eight or 10 small medium reactors.
00:34:17.769 --> 00:34:20.909
This has been a big push from Chris Wright, our
00:34:20.909 --> 00:34:26.889
energy secretary. And energy power is life. It
00:34:26.889 --> 00:34:32.090
is just literally life. And I was listening to
00:34:32.090 --> 00:34:34.690
Jensen Wang, the only guy whose company is making
00:34:34.690 --> 00:34:37.309
money in this whole AI thing, which is NVIDIA.
00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:41.840
because they produce the chips. And he was talking
00:34:41.840 --> 00:34:44.619
at the G20 meeting of all the finance ministers
00:34:44.619 --> 00:34:46.880
in North Carolina and he had this to say and
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:49.260
I completely agree. We've had the benefit in
00:34:49.260 --> 00:34:51.840
the United States to have built one of the largest
00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:56.460
infrastructures and because of the pro -energy
00:34:56.460 --> 00:35:00.340
growth and the speed And the regulatory environments
00:35:00.340 --> 00:35:01.980
in the United States, we've been able to build
00:35:01.980 --> 00:35:04.440
out really quite substantially. And you look
00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:06.760
at what's going on in the United States, AI is
00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:09.099
now generating jobs across every single sector,
00:35:09.880 --> 00:35:13.659
from chip fabs, to computer plants, to AI factories.
00:35:14.719 --> 00:35:17.260
Boy, the number of jobs that we're creating is
00:35:17.260 --> 00:35:19.260
just hundreds of thousands. And as you know,
00:35:19.739 --> 00:35:22.360
and this year alone, we're going to invest close
00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:24.500
to a trillion dollars into the world's, into
00:35:24.500 --> 00:35:27.250
the United States infrastructure. And that's
00:35:27.250 --> 00:35:29.510
generating enormous economic growth and, of course,
00:35:29.650 --> 00:35:32.530
a lot of jobs. And it's true. This is going to
00:35:32.530 --> 00:35:35.349
create jobs. It's not going to get rid of jobs.
00:35:36.590 --> 00:35:38.650
Well, that has been the big fear, right? That's
00:35:38.650 --> 00:35:42.570
been the narrative that if this goes, then, you
00:35:42.570 --> 00:35:44.289
know, you're going to lose your job and you're
00:35:44.289 --> 00:35:48.429
going to be destitute. Now, your social, you
00:35:48.429 --> 00:35:52.969
know, your poli sci degree may not be as useful.
00:35:54.409 --> 00:35:58.440
And without a doubt, we've had at least half,
00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:01.559
if not an entire generation who got a real bum
00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:06.780
deal by hearing, get into debt, get this piece
00:36:06.780 --> 00:36:10.860
of paper, it'll all work out great. So I feel
00:36:10.860 --> 00:36:17.380
very, very bad that that took place. But change
00:36:17.380 --> 00:36:21.079
is here, changes are happening. And the Trump
00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:25.519
administration just started this This initiative
00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:29.119
with eight universities called the Foundry Schools.
00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:32.739
Have you heard about this? I'm not sure. I'm
00:36:32.739 --> 00:36:35.440
tracking with you. I've heard something. Go with
00:36:35.440 --> 00:36:39.099
it. Yeah, they just kicked this off earlier this
00:36:39.099 --> 00:36:41.800
week. The Trump administration is putting a spotlight
00:36:41.800 --> 00:36:44.940
on American colleges with a new program designed
00:36:44.940 --> 00:36:47.920
to prepare students for careers in advanced manufacturing.
00:36:48.269 --> 00:36:50.869
Speaking at the Donald J. Trump Institute of
00:36:50.869 --> 00:36:54.110
Peace in DC Thursday, Vice President J .D. Vance
00:36:54.110 --> 00:36:56.789
and Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced
00:36:56.789 --> 00:36:59.369
Foundry School, a new program partnering with
00:36:59.369 --> 00:37:01.670
eight universities to train the next generation
00:37:01.670 --> 00:37:04.670
of American manufacturing workers. As American
00:37:04.670 --> 00:37:07.769
manufacturing continues to grow, Secretary Rubio
00:37:07.769 --> 00:37:10.710
says colleges should be more than diploma mills,
00:37:10.869 --> 00:37:12.690
giving students the skills they need to land
00:37:12.690 --> 00:37:16.190
a job. So both Secretary of State Rubio and Vice
00:37:16.190 --> 00:37:17.909
President Vance spoke at this. Did you hear about
00:37:17.909 --> 00:37:20.690
this? Is this the news at all? Yes. This was
00:37:20.690 --> 00:37:23.530
very encouraging. Here's Marco Rubio. It's an
00:37:23.530 --> 00:37:25.769
opportunity to say to students, if you come here
00:37:25.769 --> 00:37:27.750
and you go to school and you follow this curriculum,
00:37:28.010 --> 00:37:30.230
you will leave here not just with a paper credential,
00:37:30.809 --> 00:37:32.750
but with the skills that make you immediately
00:37:32.750 --> 00:37:35.710
employable in a high paying job, in a good paying
00:37:35.710 --> 00:37:38.659
job with long term stability. And so this partnership
00:37:38.659 --> 00:37:40.699
is critical because what I hope it means, what
00:37:40.699 --> 00:37:42.980
I hope it symbolizes, and not just symbolizes,
00:37:43.099 --> 00:37:46.860
but what I hope it is evidence of, is how government
00:37:46.860 --> 00:37:49.480
partnering with non -government entities like
00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:52.079
our higher education system and the private sector.
00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:54.820
the combination of those three pillars, the private
00:37:54.820 --> 00:37:56.480
sector that needs the workers and knows what
00:37:56.480 --> 00:37:58.760
they need from the workers, the higher education
00:37:58.760 --> 00:38:01.059
system that can equip young Americans with the
00:38:01.059 --> 00:38:03.460
skills they need to fill those jobs, and government
00:38:03.460 --> 00:38:06.380
that ensures not just that it's acting as a convening
00:38:06.380 --> 00:38:08.340
body, but ensures that our national policies
00:38:08.340 --> 00:38:10.599
reflect these priorities. I gotta tell you, if
00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:12.559
this podcasting gig doesn't work out, Pastor
00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:15.239
Jimmy, I'm gonna go get me a Foundry School diploma.
00:38:15.659 --> 00:38:18.780
I'm telling you, we'll bring it in. It does take
00:38:18.780 --> 00:38:21.719
a couple of old geezers, man, who can still swing
00:38:21.719 --> 00:38:25.679
a hammer. I think I can weld. I don't think that's
00:38:25.679 --> 00:38:30.039
changed much. This is very encouraging to see
00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:33.119
this. Here's the vice president. I think Marco
00:38:33.119 --> 00:38:35.059
said a lot of things that I want to echo, which
00:38:35.059 --> 00:38:38.360
is one, that we need industry and government
00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:40.900
and educational institutions to cooperate to
00:38:40.900 --> 00:38:43.920
make something like this make sense. Now, when
00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:46.639
Jacob... asked me to come and speak on this event.
00:38:46.719 --> 00:38:49.539
He and I talked about this for a very long time.
00:38:49.659 --> 00:38:51.159
I knew this was in the works for a very long
00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:53.800
time. But I said, I'll only come and speak if
00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:56.139
you don't allow Michigan to be part of it. And
00:38:56.139 --> 00:38:57.880
you do allow Ohio State to be part of it. So
00:38:57.880 --> 00:39:00.360
I'm very proud that we have Ohio State front
00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:02.099
and center, along with Stanford, Penn State,
00:39:02.119 --> 00:39:05.389
and a few other great universities. with all
00:39:05.389 --> 00:39:07.650
due respect to our friends in Michigan, I think
00:39:07.650 --> 00:39:11.150
it's an amazing collection of people, of institutions,
00:39:11.530 --> 00:39:14.289
of businesses, of thought leaders, and of entrepreneurs
00:39:14.289 --> 00:39:16.429
that we've gotten together in order to make this
00:39:16.429 --> 00:39:18.289
possible. Let me just sort of outline. Yeah,
00:39:18.389 --> 00:39:20.630
so of course we're joking a little bit. This
00:39:20.630 --> 00:39:22.530
is good. Yeah, but then here's this final clip
00:39:22.530 --> 00:39:24.210
where he kind of brings it all together. It's
00:39:24.210 --> 00:39:27.530
gonna do something specific and discreet. It's
00:39:27.530 --> 00:39:30.050
gonna put... really smart kids in the room with
00:39:30.050 --> 00:39:31.949
other really smart kids. And they're going to
00:39:31.949 --> 00:39:33.690
be entrepreneurs there. And they're going to
00:39:33.690 --> 00:39:36.210
be academics who are worried about the future
00:39:36.210 --> 00:39:38.130
of American manufacturing. They're going to learn
00:39:38.130 --> 00:39:40.969
interesting things in virtue of sitting in the
00:39:40.969 --> 00:39:43.610
classroom together. But I think the more important
00:39:43.610 --> 00:39:46.670
thing is the signal it sends. Not just to the
00:39:46.670 --> 00:39:49.150
kids who are going to sit in the classroom, but
00:39:49.150 --> 00:39:51.820
to all of us. to the industry leaders here, to
00:39:51.820 --> 00:39:53.900
the people who hopefully pick something up from
00:39:53.900 --> 00:39:56.840
what Jacob and Marco and I have said, which is
00:39:56.840 --> 00:40:00.860
that we have to rebuild our country and we cannot
00:40:00.860 --> 00:40:04.179
do it without reinvesting in American workers.
00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:07.539
One of the interesting things, I've become friends
00:40:07.539 --> 00:40:09.840
with Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs guy, and he has
00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:12.260
this amazing podcast, but he's also working a
00:40:12.260 --> 00:40:17.760
lot on this idea of why do we have so many people
00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:20.820
with hundreds of thousands of dollars of college
00:40:20.820 --> 00:40:24.900
debt, but not the skills necessary to participate
00:40:24.900 --> 00:40:28.099
in what I think is the beginning of a manufacturing
00:40:28.099 --> 00:40:30.360
renaissance in the United States of America.
00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:34.460
So what I wanted to bring to our podcast today,
00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:37.340
because you know, we're we're in our early 60s.
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:39.739
I don't know how many really young people are
00:40:39.739 --> 00:40:43.500
listening to this podcast, I hope a lot. But
00:40:43.500 --> 00:40:46.570
parents, grandparents, Talk to your kids. Talk
00:40:46.570 --> 00:40:49.869
to your grandkids. Make them aware of these programs
00:40:49.869 --> 00:40:53.070
because our president is not a great communicator
00:40:53.070 --> 00:40:57.190
when it comes to this stuff. He's just not. So
00:40:57.190 --> 00:41:01.409
I'm happy we have Rubio and Vance because this
00:41:01.409 --> 00:41:03.909
is a really big push from the government and
00:41:03.909 --> 00:41:06.690
we need it. And part of it is yes, data centers.
00:41:06.909 --> 00:41:09.469
And no, they're not slurping up the water. And
00:41:09.469 --> 00:41:12.130
no, they're not polluting the entire environment
00:41:12.130 --> 00:41:16.849
with noise. This is all midterm stuff to make
00:41:16.849 --> 00:41:20.769
you not vote Republican or whatever it is. And
00:41:20.769 --> 00:41:24.849
get involved with what is happening. Get involved
00:41:24.849 --> 00:41:27.530
with your kids. I've been talking to Parker.
00:41:27.949 --> 00:41:34.130
He's 30 years old. I know that two gigs waiting
00:41:34.130 --> 00:41:36.940
tables pays the rent and everything, but you're
00:41:36.940 --> 00:41:39.440
a smart young guy. You can still re -school and
00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:42.840
do this stuff. So you've got to mentor and push
00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:45.179
these kids towards that. And it's not just guys,
00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:48.400
of course, it's men and women. So we need to
00:41:48.400 --> 00:41:50.599
find what the on -ramps are to this, because
00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:52.119
if we're going to point people toward it, we
00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:55.119
got to point them to the ramp to it. And so how
00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:58.760
do we find out where, I mean, I've got the story
00:41:58.760 --> 00:42:02.599
pulled up as well, but how do we connect the
00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:05.260
dots for young people who are like, You know,
00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:08.800
man, I want to know more about this. I want to
00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:10.960
possibly be involved with this. I'm glad you
00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:14.219
asked. Whitehouse .gov. I will put a link in
00:42:14.219 --> 00:42:18.280
the show notes. The White House website is much
00:42:18.280 --> 00:42:20.900
more than just kind of the marketing website
00:42:20.900 --> 00:42:23.820
it has been for most of your life. Oh boy, why
00:42:23.820 --> 00:42:25.519
go there? I used to go there only to see what
00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:31.360
stupid proclamations there were. Crestation Awareness
00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:35.900
Week. That was the only reason to go there before.
00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:41.420
But there's a lot of resources. We have a labor
00:42:41.420 --> 00:42:44.619
department. All of that is linked. It's really
00:42:44.619 --> 00:42:48.199
well done. I'll put some links in our show notes
00:42:48.199 --> 00:42:52.099
in the newsletter so folks can go and see what's
00:42:52.099 --> 00:42:56.179
going on because this is real and yes. It is
00:42:56.179 --> 00:42:58.860
the future I mean and the future is here on this
00:42:58.860 --> 00:43:01.760
and this is the time to get in and maybe be an
00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:04.199
early Adopter and get on the front end of this
00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:06.380
because for at least the next two and a half
00:43:06.380 --> 00:43:10.360
years This president is going to reindustrialize
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:14.099
our country. We haven't had that we haven't been
00:43:14.099 --> 00:43:19.719
much of assembly workers steel workers physical
00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:23.449
workers We just haven't, we outsource all of
00:43:23.449 --> 00:43:25.929
that. And that is the big ship that is turning.
00:43:26.010 --> 00:43:28.250
And I can finally start to see the bow as it
00:43:28.250 --> 00:43:30.949
comes around and starts to float back towards
00:43:30.949 --> 00:43:35.070
us. And to me, it's super exciting because there's
00:43:35.070 --> 00:43:36.989
a lot. This is exciting for the next gen for
00:43:36.989 --> 00:43:42.090
sure. Yes. But it's going to reshape how we see
00:43:42.090 --> 00:43:46.309
work. And that's the thing is... We have to move
00:43:46.309 --> 00:43:48.489
with this. This wave is coming. It's not going
00:43:48.489 --> 00:43:50.190
away. If you've ever tried to stand in front
00:43:50.190 --> 00:43:52.909
of a wave and stop it, it doesn't happen. Good
00:43:52.909 --> 00:43:58.150
luck. You're down. So we've got to catch the
00:43:58.150 --> 00:44:01.070
wave instead of resisting it, fighting it. And
00:44:01.070 --> 00:44:05.889
so, man, if I was 15, 16, 17, up to 35, even
00:44:05.889 --> 00:44:08.510
maybe 40 for some of these guys who can bring
00:44:08.510 --> 00:44:11.690
real world experience to this, man, I would start
00:44:11.690 --> 00:44:13.869
finding these on ramps. So I would start getting
00:44:14.429 --> 00:44:16.809
Connected to see what's out there because I mean
00:44:16.809 --> 00:44:19.989
there it's gonna be a hiring craze I think on
00:44:19.989 --> 00:44:22.750
in the brief on Sunday. It's sort of like 400
00:44:22.750 --> 00:44:26.750
,000 jobs Right now or I mean need to be filled.
00:44:26.909 --> 00:44:30.429
Yes. Oh, yeah It's all look up Mike Rose dirty
00:44:30.429 --> 00:44:34.510
dirty work. There you go. We've got two Two boots
00:44:34.510 --> 00:44:37.250
on the ground guys in our church who are involved
00:44:37.250 --> 00:44:41.809
in that industry data centers And they're not
00:44:41.809 --> 00:44:44.250
evil. They never sprouted horns. They don't have
00:44:44.250 --> 00:44:46.769
a pitchfork and a tail. I mean, these guys are
00:44:46.769 --> 00:44:50.530
great guys. And when we talk about the narratives
00:44:50.530 --> 00:44:52.630
that are out there, they just laugh and go, it's
00:44:52.630 --> 00:44:55.530
just midterm stuff. I mean, these have been around
00:44:55.530 --> 00:44:57.809
for a long time, by the way. There's a lot of
00:44:57.809 --> 00:44:59.929
new ones being built, but they've been around
00:44:59.929 --> 00:45:03.369
14, 20 years. There have been data centers. So
00:45:03.369 --> 00:45:06.230
all of a sudden it's, you know. It's the Antichrist.
00:45:06.710 --> 00:45:10.949
Brother, I built a data center in 2002 in Amsterdam.
00:45:11.670 --> 00:45:15.199
Come on. It was called the Data Barn. Now, I
00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:23.320
was way too early, of course, but even then we
00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:25.380
had Google, had servers in there like, yeah,
00:45:25.460 --> 00:45:28.519
no, we want our content as close to the end.
00:45:28.699 --> 00:45:31.219
This is where your Netflix lives. Your Netflix
00:45:31.219 --> 00:45:33.699
does not live in California. The movies you watch
00:45:33.699 --> 00:45:37.099
on Netflix live in a data center very near you.
00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:40.360
I always wondered about that myself actually.
00:45:40.519 --> 00:45:43.340
Where do they store all this? So they have multiple
00:45:43.340 --> 00:45:46.099
copies everywhere because it's a lot cheaper
00:45:46.099 --> 00:45:49.139
to have it stored, what we call it the head end.
00:45:49.920 --> 00:45:52.940
So you have maybe a Comcast at home, I'm not
00:45:52.940 --> 00:45:56.280
sure what internet provider you have. So they'll
00:45:56.280 --> 00:45:58.820
have a fiber going into their data center because
00:45:58.820 --> 00:46:01.300
they have data centers. And that's where Google
00:46:01.300 --> 00:46:04.639
rents space and they put big hard drives in there
00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:07.119
and they store all of the YouTube videos that
00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:09.980
you might happen to watch. And Netflix has all
00:46:09.980 --> 00:46:12.340
of their stuff there. So they only have to ship
00:46:12.340 --> 00:46:15.739
it once over expensive lines, because it's big
00:46:15.739 --> 00:46:20.119
data files. And you don't want buffering. We've
00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:23.639
all witnessed that. And so that's why they have
00:46:23.639 --> 00:46:26.679
copies everywhere. And this is how the internet
00:46:26.679 --> 00:46:31.920
has worked for the past 25 years at least. It
00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:34.320
wasn't that way in the beginning, but and boy,
00:46:34.380 --> 00:46:37.199
we learned our lessons. I was part of all that.
00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:41.159
I bet you did. But here we are two decades later
00:46:41.159 --> 00:46:45.340
and now a new wave, a much larger wave is coming,
00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:48.500
which means many, many jobs are going to be available
00:46:48.500 --> 00:46:51.880
and they will be hiring and training on the job.
00:46:52.380 --> 00:46:55.699
And also opportunities. And this is, this is
00:46:55.699 --> 00:46:58.119
what I really like because it's entrepreneurial
00:46:58.119 --> 00:47:02.670
opportunities for anybody. to create any kind
00:47:02.670 --> 00:47:05.389
of business you can almost think of and not have
00:47:05.389 --> 00:47:11.929
to rely on all kinds of expertise that you might
00:47:11.929 --> 00:47:14.670
not have been able to access previously or be
00:47:14.670 --> 00:47:18.289
expensive to outsource. And I'm gonna go back
00:47:18.289 --> 00:47:20.550
to Jensen Wang for this for a second because
00:47:20.550 --> 00:47:23.050
what he's about to say is exactly what you are
00:47:23.050 --> 00:47:25.289
doing now with your robots. This is the great
00:47:25.289 --> 00:47:30.289
equalizer. People, if you just take a step back
00:47:30.289 --> 00:47:33.730
and think about computer technology. In the last
00:47:33.730 --> 00:47:40.829
50 years, computers has been a tool for about
00:47:40.829 --> 00:47:46.550
10, 20 million people. And the only way to take
00:47:46.550 --> 00:47:48.610
advantage of this capability is to know how to
00:47:48.610 --> 00:47:51.150
program the computer, design the computer. And
00:47:51.150 --> 00:47:53.130
so that's my career, designing computers and
00:47:53.130 --> 00:47:56.119
programming computers. It's really narrowly focused
00:47:56.119 --> 00:47:58.679
on 10, 20, 30 million people around the world.
00:47:59.099 --> 00:48:01.480
For the first time, anybody in the world can
00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:03.579
program a computer. You can program a computer
00:48:03.579 --> 00:48:08.159
using human language. And so we've now democratized...
00:48:08.139 --> 00:48:10.780
this computing technology that is so valuable
00:48:10.780 --> 00:48:13.900
to society, and we've elevated everyone. And
00:48:13.900 --> 00:48:16.119
this is one of the reasons why I really encourage
00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:18.199
everybody to engage artificial intelligence.
00:48:18.619 --> 00:48:21.480
It bootstraps you, it elevates you, it enables
00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:24.360
you. You know, it's a great equalizer. This is
00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:28.019
the crazy thing. We have these incredibly powerful
00:48:28.019 --> 00:48:31.400
computers in our pocket, incredibly powerful
00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:34.719
laptops and desktops, but the only people who
00:48:34.719 --> 00:48:37.239
have been able to harness that are the people
00:48:37.239 --> 00:48:41.320
who make the apps. And you're like, oh, if only
00:48:41.320 --> 00:48:44.199
this app would do this, or why am I stuck in
00:48:44.199 --> 00:48:47.820
using this app this way? Now you can create your
00:48:47.820 --> 00:48:53.320
own exactly the way. My whole life, now I have
00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:56.800
one level of abstraction higher, so I've actually
00:48:56.800 --> 00:48:58.920
programmed my computer. With the Grokbot, you're
00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:00.659
still kind of using a computer in the cloud,
00:49:00.699 --> 00:49:05.699
but that's fine. That's a good start. But all
00:49:05.699 --> 00:49:08.739
of the functionality that you could ever want,
00:49:08.940 --> 00:49:11.920
you can now dream up, they call it the dream
00:49:11.920 --> 00:49:14.900
build loop. You can dream it, you can build it,
00:49:14.980 --> 00:49:18.300
you can deploy it, you can use it. What a great
00:49:18.300 --> 00:49:20.800
time to be alive. I wish we were 30 years younger,
00:49:21.019 --> 00:49:22.519
brother. We would be doing crazy things. It really
00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:25.539
is exciting. It is. I mean, because I had never
00:49:25.539 --> 00:49:31.690
tried to send a robot to YouTube. and scour that
00:49:31.690 --> 00:49:35.349
thing and scrape it and then get me a clip. And
00:49:35.349 --> 00:49:37.909
I was able to tell it exactly what I was looking
00:49:37.909 --> 00:49:41.989
for. It brought back options. And then it just
00:49:41.989 --> 00:49:44.389
cut the words off on each end. So I just, I told
00:49:44.389 --> 00:49:47.190
it, I said, I need to, I need a fade in, fade
00:49:47.190 --> 00:49:50.050
out. So the words are not cut off. It did it
00:49:50.050 --> 00:49:54.829
in seconds. And I had a clip ready to go in five
00:49:54.829 --> 00:49:57.320
minutes that would have taken, you know, If I
00:49:57.320 --> 00:49:59.739
was trying to scour that myself and try to search
00:49:59.739 --> 00:50:01.619
for it myself, I could have been a day doing
00:50:01.619 --> 00:50:04.059
that, and yet I was able to do it in minutes.
00:50:04.420 --> 00:50:06.619
Easily. And just notice what you're doing. You're
00:50:06.619 --> 00:50:09.559
not having some chat bot write a whole sermon
00:50:09.559 --> 00:50:12.079
for you. You know the outcome. You know what
00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:16.139
you want, and you have all these assistants now
00:50:16.139 --> 00:50:18.860
like Faith. Faith could have done that for you.
00:50:19.019 --> 00:50:22.690
Faith is busy. She does a lot of things, you
00:50:22.690 --> 00:50:24.809
know, she does exactly and I'm sure that faith
00:50:24.809 --> 00:50:27.889
if she's not deploying robots She better be we're
00:50:27.889 --> 00:50:30.150
gonna have to have to show her how to do it because
00:50:30.150 --> 00:50:33.989
she is yes, of course because this just the productivity
00:50:33.989 --> 00:50:37.849
level and I'm just a little Concerned at this
00:50:37.849 --> 00:50:41.889
point that this political midterm backlash against
00:50:41.889 --> 00:50:45.559
data centers and AI which is based on ignorance,
00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:50.480
just ignorance, and headlines, and click bait,
00:50:51.300 --> 00:50:55.539
that it's going to, it's actually a perfect use
00:50:55.539 --> 00:50:59.280
of the word, is going to retard progress for,
00:50:59.820 --> 00:51:03.880
I'm on pilot, so we retard the engines. It's
00:51:03.880 --> 00:51:06.820
going to retard progress of our young people
00:51:06.820 --> 00:51:10.639
and of an entire generation where there's absolutely
00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:13.909
no need for it. Yeah, yeah. Well, I think after
00:51:13.909 --> 00:51:17.750
November 6th. Oh, it'll go away. It'll be, we'll
00:51:17.750 --> 00:51:20.150
be onto something else. I really, I'd really
00:51:20.150 --> 00:51:21.750
think that. I think this is like just to hang
00:51:21.750 --> 00:51:23.510
on for a little bit here until they get through
00:51:23.510 --> 00:51:25.750
with the midterm madness. So what else are you
00:51:25.750 --> 00:51:28.730
hearing with midterm madness? Man, you know,
00:51:28.829 --> 00:51:33.969
I mean, obviously I saw the video that Paxton
00:51:33.969 --> 00:51:37.579
and the MAGA team put out. on Tallarico. Have
00:51:37.579 --> 00:51:40.659
you seen that? Yeah. Well, I've actually got
00:51:40.659 --> 00:51:44.820
some clips of Tallarico responding to it. Okay.
00:51:45.019 --> 00:51:47.280
Yeah. I'd love to hear that. So Tallarico, that's
00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:49.480
a big thing right now with midterms, especially
00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:52.739
here in Texas. Everybody's watching this. Apparently
00:51:52.739 --> 00:51:55.340
it got the president's attention because they
00:51:55.340 --> 00:51:58.719
now are having a conference right now, a Republican
00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:01.179
convention right now in Dallas is happening.
00:52:02.099 --> 00:52:04.769
And one of the main themes of that is basically
00:52:04.769 --> 00:52:08.329
to get rid of Talarico. I mean, that's the unspoken
00:52:08.329 --> 00:52:12.030
theme. But I mean, really, it's a targeted approach
00:52:12.030 --> 00:52:15.309
to make sure that Texas stays Republican and
00:52:15.309 --> 00:52:19.170
doesn't bring a heretic into the Senate. So it
00:52:19.170 --> 00:52:21.210
was interesting, you know, because the president
00:52:21.210 --> 00:52:23.269
does what he always does, trolls with names.
00:52:23.550 --> 00:52:27.690
Talafrico is the new nickname. What was interesting,
00:52:27.730 --> 00:52:32.190
I was listening to Talarico retaliate his retort
00:52:32.190 --> 00:52:36.289
against what was being said. Well, let's play
00:52:36.289 --> 00:52:38.730
a clip here and then we'll discuss. So President
00:52:38.730 --> 00:52:41.710
Trump a couple of days ago called you Talifrico.
00:52:42.329 --> 00:52:44.530
He's called you weird. Other Republicans have
00:52:44.530 --> 00:52:47.269
said the same thing. Paxton has called you too
00:52:47.269 --> 00:52:50.429
radical for Texas. You've got the RNC midterm
00:52:50.429 --> 00:52:52.949
convention happening in Dallas after Labor Day.
00:52:52.949 --> 00:52:55.739
They're going to blast you for two days. Talking
00:52:55.739 --> 00:52:59.400
about your comments and your policies on transgender
00:52:59.400 --> 00:53:01.980
issues. What do you say to that? Well, I think
00:53:01.980 --> 00:53:04.960
a lot of people in our state voted for President
00:53:04.960 --> 00:53:06.739
Trump in the last election because they thought
00:53:06.739 --> 00:53:09.639
he was going to lower prices. They thought he
00:53:09.639 --> 00:53:11.940
was going to end the forever wars. They thought
00:53:11.940 --> 00:53:13.940
he was going to release the Epstein files. They
00:53:13.940 --> 00:53:15.639
thought he was going to drain the swamp. That's
00:53:15.639 --> 00:53:18.599
why a lot of people in my family voted for President
00:53:18.599 --> 00:53:21.639
Trump. But just a year into this administration,
00:53:21.940 --> 00:53:24.260
prices are up because of these crazy tariffs.
00:53:24.940 --> 00:53:27.920
There's a new forever war in Iran. The Epstein
00:53:27.920 --> 00:53:30.800
files have not fully been released and the swamp
00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:33.179
is bigger than it's ever been before. So notice
00:53:33.179 --> 00:53:34.579
what he said. First of all, let's notice what
00:53:34.579 --> 00:53:37.780
he's not saying. He's not saying the borders
00:53:37.780 --> 00:53:42.119
are closed. Right. Not saying that he is not
00:53:42.119 --> 00:53:47.159
giving any policy. He is only responding. And,
00:53:47.159 --> 00:53:52.659
you know, striking back at, there are definitely
00:53:52.659 --> 00:53:56.699
some campaign promises, forever wars, I can understand
00:53:56.699 --> 00:53:59.699
why that one hits home, but he's not really coming
00:53:59.699 --> 00:54:01.539
up with anything saying, here's what I'm going
00:54:01.539 --> 00:54:05.119
to do. No, no, here's what they didn't do. So
00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:07.119
I think that's important to take note. And then
00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:10.400
he brings out. the good old data centers data
00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:13.400
centers a hot topic as you know you came out
00:54:13.400 --> 00:54:15.800
with your plan paxton came out with his plan
00:54:15.800 --> 00:54:19.280
why does yours stand out in your opinion what's
00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:21.260
the difference between yours and his and the
00:54:21.260 --> 00:54:23.380
record on that well you shouldn't trust anything
00:54:23.380 --> 00:54:26.099
a politician says you should look at what a politician
00:54:26.099 --> 00:54:28.519
has done because the best indicator of future
00:54:28.519 --> 00:54:31.039
behavior is past behavior exactly kent paxton
00:54:31.039 --> 00:54:33.800
has taken nearly half a million dollars linked
00:54:33.800 --> 00:54:37.929
to the data center industry And it's why he ignored
00:54:37.929 --> 00:54:40.449
residents in Hood County when they asked for
00:54:40.449 --> 00:54:43.070
his help as attorney general to pause data center
00:54:43.070 --> 00:54:44.889
construction in their community. He just ghosted
00:54:44.889 --> 00:54:46.730
them. And that's because he's bought and paid
00:54:46.730 --> 00:54:49.469
for by the data center industry. I don't take
00:54:49.469 --> 00:54:51.329
money from data centers. I don't take money from
00:54:51.329 --> 00:54:53.170
the data center industry. I don't take any money
00:54:53.170 --> 00:54:56.369
from corporate PACs. Okay. Well, we're just going
00:54:56.369 --> 00:54:58.150
to take your advice and look at what you've done.
00:54:58.269 --> 00:55:03.280
I'm sorry. Nothing. I also, I'm not so sure he's
00:55:03.280 --> 00:55:05.739
such a threat. I mean, I've heard this before
00:55:05.739 --> 00:55:09.239
with Beto, like, oh, Beto's going to flip Texas
00:55:09.239 --> 00:55:11.599
blue. I actually thought about Beto with, when
00:55:11.599 --> 00:55:13.800
he came on the scene, it was like, this feels
00:55:13.800 --> 00:55:17.480
oddly familiar. Yeah. Instead of Beto stickers
00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:19.840
on the back of Priuses, now I'm seeing, you know,
00:55:19.900 --> 00:55:22.239
Talarico on the back of Subarus. Exactly. Just
00:55:22.239 --> 00:55:25.239
taking it up a notch. Exactly. So I'm not so
00:55:25.239 --> 00:55:28.280
sure that that's, that's really happening. Yeah.
00:55:28.500 --> 00:55:31.329
Yeah. I don't know. I mean, it's, You know, all
00:55:31.329 --> 00:55:33.489
the, you know, the polls for whatever that man,
00:55:33.570 --> 00:55:35.969
there's a poll coming out every day right now.
00:55:36.050 --> 00:55:38.230
And, you know, they're neck and neck, you know,
00:55:38.530 --> 00:55:40.610
everybody's watching Texas because, you know,
00:55:40.610 --> 00:55:43.409
Texas could swing blue because of Taylor Rico.
00:55:43.449 --> 00:55:46.969
And I'm like, that's a pretty big claim that
00:55:46.969 --> 00:55:49.690
one seat could completely, you know, turn the
00:55:49.690 --> 00:55:52.969
whole tide. But I know, you know, it's a volatile
00:55:52.969 --> 00:55:56.650
thing with politics and you've got mentalities.
00:55:56.949 --> 00:56:00.079
You've got, you know, the. the whole morale of
00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:02.280
its state and all that. So there's a lot of things
00:56:02.280 --> 00:56:05.739
up in the air right now. Suddenly I'm not hearing
00:56:05.739 --> 00:56:07.760
about Islam this week. I mean, it's like that
00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:11.400
just went away. I guess we got that under control,
00:56:11.639 --> 00:56:14.860
so I don't know. There is some news actually
00:56:14.860 --> 00:56:18.260
regarding that, specifically regarding Frisco
00:56:18.260 --> 00:56:24.300
and other Dallas suburbs. McKinney. Yeah, I'll
00:56:24.300 --> 00:56:26.739
play this from Bloomberg. And by the way, we
00:56:26.739 --> 00:56:29.909
have to understand The largest contingent of
00:56:29.909 --> 00:56:33.750
Muslims in the United States are Indians. And
00:56:33.750 --> 00:56:38.309
they have come in, there was a big wave of immigration
00:56:38.309 --> 00:56:43.050
in the past five years, four or five years, really
00:56:43.050 --> 00:56:47.269
during the Biden administration on H -1B visas.
00:56:48.210 --> 00:56:51.829
And there's a lot of fraud and a lot of, you
00:56:51.829 --> 00:56:57.539
know, literal Mills and factories moving people
00:56:57.539 --> 00:56:59.920
in keeping them here making sure they don't go
00:56:59.920 --> 00:57:04.960
away a lot of them hired by tech firms also a
00:57:04.960 --> 00:57:07.780
lot in the Dallas area specifically for lower
00:57:07.780 --> 00:57:12.619
costs and. Now things are changing and this is
00:57:12.619 --> 00:57:14.519
Bloomberg and we'll kick it off with that Since
00:57:14.519 --> 00:57:17.320
2020 the suburbs north of Dallas have grown at
00:57:17.320 --> 00:57:20.139
a remarkable pace Helped in part by corporate
00:57:20.139 --> 00:57:23.800
relocations and South Asian workers on H1B visas
00:57:23.800 --> 00:57:32.840
moving into the area Obviously showing the infiltration
00:57:33.980 --> 00:57:36.519
New housing developments, schools, and a highway
00:57:36.519 --> 00:57:39.639
expansion followed, reshaping towns like Frisco,
00:57:39.940 --> 00:57:44.219
Prosper, and Salina. But now some of the forces
00:57:44.219 --> 00:57:47.059
behind that growth are starting to shift. President
00:57:47.059 --> 00:57:50.760
Trump's $100 ,000 fee on new H -1B visa applications
00:57:50.760 --> 00:57:54.019
is triggering confusion for corporate America
00:57:54.019 --> 00:57:56.900
and for workers. Governor Greg Abbott is temporarily
00:57:56.900 --> 00:58:00.199
pausing all H -1B visa applications. Now there's
00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:02.820
no confusion. The president has just fixed the
00:58:02.820 --> 00:58:06.440
problem. He said hey, you want a cheaper worker?
00:58:06.639 --> 00:58:09.400
Okay, you got to put up $100 ,000 for this cheaper
00:58:09.400 --> 00:58:12.360
worker to come in take American jobs and this
00:58:12.360 --> 00:58:17.420
this h1b visa Program has just been an absolute
00:58:17.420 --> 00:58:21.840
scam and now we're seeing housing prices Just
00:58:21.840 --> 00:58:25.440
falling like crazy in these areas. You can't
00:58:25.440 --> 00:58:28.719
sell them that no one wants to buy them There's
00:58:28.719 --> 00:58:32.079
no more new buyers coming in. The system is working
00:58:36.170 --> 00:58:39.550
You still there? Yeah, I'm still here. I wanted
00:58:39.550 --> 00:58:41.449
to let that sink in and then I was waiting for
00:58:41.449 --> 00:58:45.889
you to say something. Yeah, I saw that. I mean,
00:58:45.929 --> 00:58:50.750
he's tagging $100 ,000 per where before that
00:58:50.750 --> 00:58:53.110
is just in the low thousands where you could
00:58:53.110 --> 00:58:55.610
get workers over here. So it was almost cheap.
00:58:55.809 --> 00:58:57.889
I mean, you could literally almost buy people
00:58:57.889 --> 00:59:00.829
and get them over here and set them up. And now,
00:59:00.889 --> 00:59:03.840
of course, they're saying this has potential
00:59:03.840 --> 00:59:06.579
impact on the Dallas housing market. You know,
00:59:06.579 --> 00:59:09.099
he's talking about North, you know, that so McKinney's
00:59:09.099 --> 00:59:12.139
North, Frisco's North, Prosper's North, all of
00:59:12.139 --> 00:59:15.920
that whole corridor there is North. I think it's
00:59:15.920 --> 00:59:18.579
I -75. It runs right up through there, if I've
00:59:18.579 --> 00:59:23.000
got that right, the 75. So that's where all that's
00:59:23.000 --> 00:59:27.639
happening. But man, I mean, with one fell swoop,
00:59:27.880 --> 00:59:31.010
President Trump locks that down. Yeah. But the
00:59:31.010 --> 00:59:32.409
thing about it, he's locked it down, just kept
00:59:32.409 --> 00:59:34.949
moving. It wasn't even hardly anything said about
00:59:34.949 --> 00:59:38.389
it. It wasn't big news. It is news, but it didn't
00:59:38.389 --> 00:59:41.590
blow up in my news feed. I had to look for it.
00:59:42.429 --> 00:59:44.610
And so it's interesting because, and Talarico
00:59:44.610 --> 00:59:46.610
is not going to give credit where credit's due
00:59:46.610 --> 00:59:49.289
in terms of what's been happening. I mean, if
00:59:49.289 --> 00:59:52.010
we were to list out what has happened, and yeah,
00:59:52.030 --> 00:59:54.809
it's frustrating about Iran. Yeah, we were hoping
00:59:54.809 --> 00:59:57.900
that would be quick. It's frustrating about Uh,
00:59:58.320 --> 01:00:01.599
other things, but look at what's been done. And,
01:00:01.619 --> 01:00:04.340
uh, that's what I'm seeing here. So it's like,
01:00:04.519 --> 01:00:06.800
he did this. Oh, I'll fix this. We'll just slap
01:00:06.800 --> 01:00:09.599
a hundred thousand per. And, uh, and he just
01:00:09.599 --> 01:00:12.820
kept moving. Well, the financial warfare is what
01:00:12.820 --> 01:00:15.059
is taking place now since you bring up Iran.
01:00:15.480 --> 01:00:19.920
And I had that fun little, uh, uh, meme of, uh,
01:00:20.019 --> 01:00:24.760
Scott Besson in the news. Economic outcast yes
01:00:24.760 --> 01:00:27.340
operation economic outcast. It's important to
01:00:27.340 --> 01:00:31.360
understand What is being done and then it is
01:00:31.360 --> 01:00:34.679
important to understand the entire oil business
01:00:34.679 --> 01:00:39.079
has always been under control of the city of
01:00:39.079 --> 01:00:43.280
London who said a lot of the pricing and their
01:00:43.280 --> 01:00:46.599
indirect and sometimes direct control of not
01:00:46.599 --> 01:00:49.480
just oil coming out of the Straits of Hormuz
01:00:49.480 --> 01:00:53.630
but the cash flows where that money goes, you
01:00:53.630 --> 01:00:56.530
know, is it, clearly didn't go to the Iranian
01:00:56.530 --> 01:01:00.610
people. So, you know, this was all being funneled
01:01:00.610 --> 01:01:04.570
and funneled into, this is part of why Venezuela
01:01:04.570 --> 01:01:08.329
was important. Drug trade has all been financed
01:01:08.329 --> 01:01:12.570
and supported by this. All kinds of terrorism,
01:01:12.829 --> 01:01:15.909
all kinds of nefarious businesses. And Scott
01:01:15.909 --> 01:01:19.670
Besant, who we talked about him before, he worked
01:01:19.670 --> 01:01:23.400
for George Soros. in the hedge fund part, not
01:01:23.400 --> 01:01:28.059
in his foundations, he knows exactly how these
01:01:28.059 --> 01:01:31.199
things work, how the money moves, and he is stopping
01:01:31.199 --> 01:01:34.820
this. And if you listen to his most recent interview,
01:01:34.860 --> 01:01:38.460
I think this was Larry Kudlow on Fox, he even
01:01:38.460 --> 01:01:41.039
points out where they are shutting these things
01:01:41.039 --> 01:01:43.519
down and the difference this is going to make
01:01:43.519 --> 01:01:46.860
in a longer term picture, but also short term
01:01:46.860 --> 01:01:49.719
for what will actually happen with oil itself.
01:01:49.929 --> 01:01:55.329
Countries that go against this embargo, you'll
01:01:55.329 --> 01:01:58.170
cut them off. Secondary sanctions, you'll take
01:01:58.170 --> 01:02:01.409
them out of the US dollar system. This is critical
01:02:01.409 --> 01:02:05.309
to understand. If you are working with Iran,
01:02:05.489 --> 01:02:08.670
with Iranian oil cash flows, you will be cut
01:02:08.670 --> 01:02:11.690
off from using the US dollar. That's a death
01:02:11.690 --> 01:02:16.659
sentence. Work with American financial networks
01:02:16.659 --> 01:02:18.920
and American banks. You're out of the system.
01:02:19.119 --> 01:02:21.980
You don't exist. Yes. It's critical to understand.
01:02:22.179 --> 01:02:24.179
You take them out of the U .S. banking system.
01:02:24.360 --> 01:02:26.500
You take them out of the Federal Reserve wire.
01:02:26.719 --> 01:02:29.320
You take them out of the Swift ledger. That's
01:02:29.320 --> 01:02:33.420
what happened to this bank in Dubai and it could
01:02:33.420 --> 01:02:38.139
be entities. It could be airline leasing companies.
01:02:38.719 --> 01:02:41.480
Actually just stopped, just took out an airline
01:02:41.480 --> 01:02:43.800
leasing company out of the U .S. dollar system.
01:02:43.760 --> 01:02:47.059
I mean, this is all happening in real time. Which
01:02:47.059 --> 01:02:51.360
we'll be looking at. It could be anyone who does
01:02:51.360 --> 01:02:54.920
business with the IRGC. We are tracking down
01:02:54.920 --> 01:02:59.079
the IRGC's assets and I will say it on worldwide
01:02:59.079 --> 01:03:03.139
TV just so you know, we know ‑‑ where in the
01:03:03.139 --> 01:03:06.380
British Virgin Islands your accounts are at these
01:03:06.380 --> 01:03:09.480
trust companies. We know the $100 million houses
01:03:09.480 --> 01:03:12.139
you have around the world and we are going to
01:03:12.139 --> 01:03:15.539
freeze those. We are going to our partners, we
01:03:15.539 --> 01:03:18.679
are going to close all of that down. So we are
01:03:18.679 --> 01:03:22.039
going to go after the regime's legitimate assets
01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:24.139
that they have stolen from the Iranian people
01:03:24.139 --> 01:03:27.079
and those can go back to the Iranian people or
01:03:27.079 --> 01:03:29.920
they can go to the victims of terror like the
01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:33.940
families of the soldiers who are on the USS Cole
01:03:33.940 --> 01:03:36.780
were in the Lebanese barracks. British Virgin
01:03:36.780 --> 01:03:41.360
Islands. This has been known for decades. This
01:03:41.360 --> 01:03:45.019
is all the offshore money, tax shelters, go look
01:03:45.019 --> 01:03:48.780
at the Panama Papers, all of this stuff. And
01:03:48.780 --> 01:03:51.940
he's finally, it's crazy that all the previous
01:03:51.940 --> 01:03:56.030
finance secretaries or treasury secretaries didn't
01:03:56.030 --> 01:03:59.929
know about this. It's so puzzling, so puzzling
01:03:59.929 --> 01:04:03.469
to me. They never did anything. And so eventually
01:04:03.469 --> 01:04:05.690
what is going to happen to the Straits of Hormuz?
01:04:05.769 --> 01:04:08.389
And this is the end goal. And yeah, it was not
01:04:08.389 --> 01:04:11.789
a couple of weeks. That's for sure. But the end
01:04:11.789 --> 01:04:14.050
goal is clear. Larry, as I've said many times,
01:04:14.510 --> 01:04:16.789
the only good thing about COVID and we were just
01:04:16.789 --> 01:04:19.750
talking about your experience in the White House
01:04:19.750 --> 01:04:22.789
during the COVID crisis. The only good thing
01:04:22.789 --> 01:04:25.710
was that it showed us where many of the choke
01:04:25.710 --> 01:04:30.570
points are. And I often say in our trade discussions
01:04:30.570 --> 01:04:36.650
with China that we do not want to We don't want
01:04:36.650 --> 01:04:40.610
to pull apart from them, but we have to de -risk.
01:04:40.889 --> 01:04:44.050
We have to de -risk everywhere in the world.
01:04:45.130 --> 01:04:47.710
We can see the Iranians are trying to use the
01:04:47.710 --> 01:04:49.869
Strait of Hormuz as a choke point. It's not a
01:04:49.869 --> 01:04:52.130
choke point for the U .S., but it is a choke
01:04:52.130 --> 01:04:57.170
point for many other countries, but that will
01:04:57.170 --> 01:05:00.329
be bypassed in two years. In two years, the Strait
01:05:00.329 --> 01:05:04.510
of Hormuz will be a worthless piece of water,
01:05:05.110 --> 01:05:09.150
that the oil will be going on pipelines across
01:05:09.150 --> 01:05:13.349
land. There it is. Pipelines across land. It
01:05:13.349 --> 01:05:15.949
will be wakesurfing on the Straits of Homos.
01:05:16.889 --> 01:05:24.190
It will be a big family lake. Yes, the price
01:05:24.190 --> 01:05:26.949
of oil is determined by worldwide supply and
01:05:26.949 --> 01:05:32.090
demand, but the United States is doing this for
01:05:32.090 --> 01:05:36.550
everybody. But it's just the message gets snowed
01:05:36.550 --> 01:05:39.070
under the, you know, forever wars, et cetera,
01:05:39.170 --> 01:05:42.329
et cetera. Right. And yet this is a, this will
01:05:42.329 --> 01:05:46.489
be a process. You don't isolate an entire country
01:05:46.489 --> 01:05:48.989
overnight. I mean, there's things they're doing,
01:05:49.030 --> 01:05:51.570
but it will take time to do it as I'm looking
01:05:51.570 --> 01:05:55.070
at the aviation sanctions, the broader financial,
01:05:55.250 --> 01:05:58.949
which is basically an isolation campaign. And
01:05:58.949 --> 01:06:01.710
then also you've got military pressure getting
01:06:01.710 --> 01:06:04.429
their transportation. So there's a lot going
01:06:04.429 --> 01:06:09.730
on, but it doesn't happen overnight. But it's
01:06:09.730 --> 01:06:11.369
really the oldest trick in the book. The oldest
01:06:11.369 --> 01:06:12.969
trick in the book was cut off your water and
01:06:12.969 --> 01:06:15.849
food supply and you dominate a nation. I mean,
01:06:15.869 --> 01:06:19.889
this is like old school. This is not new warfare
01:06:19.889 --> 01:06:23.210
tactics. Well, it's just new networks. It's cutting
01:06:23.210 --> 01:06:25.369
off the networks that could have been cut off
01:06:25.369 --> 01:06:30.340
many times over. And in an interesting way, I
01:06:30.340 --> 01:06:33.800
don't have any clips, but the war in Ukraine
01:06:33.800 --> 01:06:37.280
plays into this as well. You probably saw that
01:06:37.280 --> 01:06:40.820
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff visited Moscow.
01:06:41.139 --> 01:06:44.380
Quite interesting to see President Putin come
01:06:44.380 --> 01:06:48.159
out on camera with a translator say, hey, please
01:06:48.159 --> 01:06:50.039
send my regards to President Trump. He's doing
01:06:50.039 --> 01:06:52.039
something really hard here. I really appreciate
01:06:52.039 --> 01:06:54.489
it. and then they'd get on the plane and head
01:06:54.489 --> 01:06:57.710
back and then the bombing resumes. Well, they
01:06:57.710 --> 01:06:59.869
went to Ukraine first and there was no bombing
01:06:59.869 --> 01:07:03.030
there. Everyone stopped for 72 hours per minute.
01:07:03.909 --> 01:07:06.690
But what is happening, and this is also Scott
01:07:06.690 --> 01:07:11.369
Besson, General Scott Besson, the way I see him.
01:07:14.090 --> 01:07:16.610
I'm going to try and make this as simple as possible,
01:07:16.670 --> 01:07:20.289
but there's something called the yen carry trade
01:07:20.289 --> 01:07:27.079
and it kind of works like this. for 30, 40 years,
01:07:27.980 --> 01:07:31.820
financial institutions would borrow money in
01:07:31.820 --> 01:07:36.860
Japan, borrow Japanese yen, because their interest
01:07:36.860 --> 01:07:40.099
rates are very low, like they were around 1%.
01:07:40.099 --> 01:07:42.800
And then you take that money that you just borrowed,
01:07:43.219 --> 01:07:47.400
and then you buy US debt, US treasuries, because
01:07:47.400 --> 01:07:49.940
the interest rates are about 4%, they're higher
01:07:49.940 --> 01:07:52.949
now, they're moving towards five. and then you
01:07:52.949 --> 01:07:57.170
pocket the difference. It's literally that simple.
01:07:57.309 --> 01:08:01.369
So you borrow it from one country and then you
01:08:01.369 --> 01:08:05.949
invest it in another and there's three points
01:08:05.949 --> 01:08:08.849
difference. And that's, if you do a hundred million
01:08:08.849 --> 01:08:11.650
dollars, that's a nice payday. And that's been
01:08:11.650 --> 01:08:16.010
working for a very long time. Europe has been
01:08:16.010 --> 01:08:20.199
financing ever since President Trump came in
01:08:20.199 --> 01:08:23.500
and stopped sending free money over to Ukraine,
01:08:24.140 --> 01:08:27.060
Europe has been financing their war, because
01:08:27.060 --> 01:08:29.960
it is their war against Russia, and Ukraine is
01:08:29.960 --> 01:08:34.760
just the patsy in the middle, sadly. It's their
01:08:34.760 --> 01:08:37.500
people dying, not Germans, not French, not English.
01:08:38.260 --> 01:08:41.779
They've been financing that in the same manner.
01:08:42.340 --> 01:08:45.819
And Scott Besson has now gone in and is starting
01:08:45.819 --> 01:08:49.600
to I'll say it, manipulate the yen versus the
01:08:49.600 --> 01:08:53.020
euro so that that trade is not working for them
01:08:53.020 --> 01:08:59.119
anymore. And this is financial warfare to stop
01:08:59.119 --> 01:09:02.359
Europe from this insanity. And it's gotten so
01:09:02.359 --> 01:09:07.039
bad. I was watching a Dutch politician, she's
01:09:07.039 --> 01:09:10.560
on the interior side for one of the parties in
01:09:10.560 --> 01:09:13.229
parliament. She said, you know, The way things
01:09:13.229 --> 01:09:15.850
are going, we probably should just start shooting
01:09:15.850 --> 01:09:19.069
missiles, inter continental ballistic missiles
01:09:19.069 --> 01:09:23.069
at Russia from Holland if we have to. Wow. And
01:09:23.069 --> 01:09:24.989
she said it just like, oh, like we have no other
01:09:24.989 --> 01:09:27.229
choice. That's what we have to do. These people
01:09:27.229 --> 01:09:31.630
are insane. Luckily the Dutch are seeing it,
01:09:31.989 --> 01:09:36.930
but holy cow. So they are choking off Europe's
01:09:36.930 --> 01:09:40.710
ability to do this and hopefully Hopefully, someone
01:09:40.710 --> 01:09:43.510
with some sense will stand up and say, maybe
01:09:43.510 --> 01:09:47.130
we should stop all of this. Because it's just
01:09:47.130 --> 01:09:50.890
insane. I'm not even sure they know why they're
01:09:50.890 --> 01:09:56.430
doing it anymore, other than creating a war economy
01:09:56.430 --> 01:10:00.630
or whatever. Yeah, there it is. Follow the money.
01:10:01.750 --> 01:10:05.529
For all of the weirdness and when I hear the
01:10:05.529 --> 01:10:09.060
president Comparing the length in Iran to Vietnam.
01:10:09.060 --> 01:10:11.720
I'm like dude bad messaging. I don't know what
01:10:11.720 --> 01:10:13.680
you're doing I don't know why you're saying these
01:10:13.680 --> 01:10:18.060
things that is dumb But what is actually happening
01:10:18.060 --> 01:10:23.560
is pretty incredible I'm delighted with if they
01:10:23.560 --> 01:10:28.199
can pull it all off and and you know impeachment
01:10:28.199 --> 01:10:31.000
doesn't slow everything down because obviously
01:10:31.000 --> 01:10:35.020
if the house and the Senate move over to the
01:10:35.020 --> 01:10:38.439
Democratic Party after this midterm, everything's
01:10:38.439 --> 01:10:40.359
gonna be bogged down. That won't stop the president
01:10:40.359 --> 01:10:44.159
per se, but it's gonna bog down a lot. So I'm
01:10:44.159 --> 01:10:47.579
sure that's why there's such a push to make sure
01:10:47.579 --> 01:10:53.399
that doesn't happen. So, whatever you vote, how
01:10:53.399 --> 01:10:55.579
do we vote, Pastor Jimmy? What do we think about?
01:10:55.979 --> 01:10:59.520
We think about what most closely aligns with
01:10:59.520 --> 01:11:02.479
biblical values Jesus is not on the ballot and
01:11:02.479 --> 01:11:05.659
until he is we're gonna vote for What's the closest
01:11:05.659 --> 01:11:08.880
that there will never be anyone perfect? Amen.
01:11:09.439 --> 01:11:12.479
Amen that yeah until Jesus on the ballot and
01:11:12.479 --> 01:11:15.199
until Definitely won't be anyone perfect, but
01:11:15.199 --> 01:11:17.340
we still need to get out We need to participate
01:11:17.340 --> 01:11:21.020
and we need to go to the polls with faith expectant
01:11:21.180 --> 01:11:24.079
that things will turn for the better. And register
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now. Make sure you're registered. Don't wait.
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Yes, do not wait. Don't wait a long time. Let's
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on the ground? Any notes to read? Anything that
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came in? Yeah, actually I did get just this morning
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heard from one. He's going to remain nameless,
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but it had more to do with what's going on in
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the contemporary Christian music business world.
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That's something we can cover another time. We
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don't have to hit that today. Wait, is this about
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the children of America? It's actually more about
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the Michael Tate case, but that's another...
01:12:31.770 --> 01:12:34.270
The newsboys element. Yeah. Another element of
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this. Let's do that next week. Cause I, I have
01:12:37.430 --> 01:12:39.989
delved way deep into that, but it'll take 20
01:12:39.989 --> 01:12:42.850
minutes. And I think it's important as well.
01:12:43.210 --> 01:12:45.329
Yeah. I jumped into it as well. So we need to
01:12:45.329 --> 01:12:47.210
take time to unpack that. Yeah. Let's do that.
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Let's do that next week. Excellent. I'm glad
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we have a boots on the ground for that. So with
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have liked to have seen, but we appreciate every
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single person who supports us. And right there
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at the top is Darius Walker. I believe, is it
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Pastor Darius Walker? I have a feeling it is.
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Yes, yes, it is. He comes in once again with
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$77 .14. We see the numerology. We see what you
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did there, brother. No note this time. David
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A. Jackson with $62 .88. No note. Aaron Newberry,
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$53 .33. And he says, God is good. Your brother
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in Christ. Aaron in Colorado. Justin Zetzer,
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$50. Brian Haley. H -I -L -E -Y. Is that our
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Brian Haley? H -A -I -L -E -Y? Yes, yes. Is that
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our pastor, Brian Haley? It is Pastor Brian.
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Wow. Oh, $40. Thank you. He says, thank you for
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sharing your life and faith with us. Oh, that's
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beautiful, brother. Thank you. Wow, cool. Love
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that. John Swaboda, $29 .13. He's could be with
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fees. I don't know if I have all the numerology
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right, but he'd love it anyway. Andrew Bader,
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1111. And he says, thanks for all you've done
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over the years, Adam. Feeling politically and
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churchly homeless right now, but glad you and
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Pastor Jimmy are doing this. God bless and rest
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in peace, JCD. John's Creek studios five dollars
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What else you got brother in that we should we
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should land this plane, I guess One last thing,
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I'd like to share a daily grind from yesterday,
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because this is something that keeps coming up.
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You know, when people start saying things around
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you and you hear it several times, the same thing,
01:15:35.250 --> 01:15:38.050
you start to think, okay, I think God may be
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saying something here because He'll bring things
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in multiples. And something has been coming up
01:15:43.210 --> 01:15:44.689
lately, it's just people feeling like they're
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under attack or in fighting some kind of spiritual
01:15:48.250 --> 01:15:51.789
warfare or something. I pulled up James 4 -7,
01:15:51.949 --> 01:15:54.229
it says, submit yourselves therefore to God,
01:15:54.529 --> 01:15:57.270
resist the devil and he will flee from you. So
01:15:57.270 --> 01:15:59.109
I want us to read the daily grind from yesterday
01:15:59.109 --> 01:16:01.930
because I feel like it may help people realize
01:16:01.930 --> 01:16:03.649
kind of what's going on. There is a bigger thing
01:16:03.649 --> 01:16:06.289
going on than politics, family. There's a bigger
01:16:06.289 --> 01:16:09.189
thing going on than AI and data centers and Talarico.
01:16:09.289 --> 01:16:12.109
So just know there's much bigger things happening.
01:16:12.619 --> 01:16:15.239
And what we're seeing in a lot of things are
01:16:15.239 --> 01:16:17.380
just the outflows and manifestations of something
01:16:17.380 --> 01:16:19.819
that's happening much bigger around us. And a
01:16:19.819 --> 01:16:22.140
lot of it's just distraction and look over here.
01:16:22.800 --> 01:16:25.640
So this is, I call it the spiritual battle, spiritual
01:16:25.640 --> 01:16:28.319
authority. Hardly a week goes by when someone
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doesn't tell me, pastor, I'm under spiritual
01:16:30.779 --> 01:16:34.460
attack. Well, you were born again into a world
01:16:34.460 --> 01:16:38.579
at war. However, God equipped you to win spiritual
01:16:38.579 --> 01:16:41.750
battles the day you said yes to Jesus. So listen
01:16:41.750 --> 01:16:44.590
to what that scripture says. Submit to God, resist
01:16:44.590 --> 01:16:48.350
the devil, and he will flee. So when your identity
01:16:48.350 --> 01:16:51.689
in Christ is secure, your stand against the enemy
01:16:51.689 --> 01:16:55.909
will be effective. And the battle will not dominate
01:16:55.909 --> 01:16:58.010
your time or energy because that's what happens
01:16:58.010 --> 01:17:01.850
a lot. So today, do this. Pause, submit yourself
01:17:01.850 --> 01:17:05.609
to God, realign your heart with his, and turn
01:17:05.609 --> 01:17:09.029
to the one who has conferred his authority upon
01:17:09.029 --> 01:17:12.430
you. So here's a prayer for that. Father, I submit
01:17:12.430 --> 01:17:16.229
to your hand of protection and care. I stand
01:17:16.229 --> 01:17:19.310
in your authority and resist the enemy. Thank
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you for the gift of freedom. In Jesus' name.
01:17:22.489 --> 01:17:25.869
Amen. Amen. And as a new believer, I can attest
01:17:25.869 --> 01:17:29.510
it works. It works. It really does. Thank you,
01:17:29.550 --> 01:17:32.739
brother. I can't wait to be back home. Oh, I
01:17:32.739 --> 01:17:35.359
miss you, bro. Big time. Well, we are getting
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on the plane tomorrow and we'll be back next
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Wednesday with another We Get To Do This. See
01:17:40.199 --> 01:17:40.960
you then, everybody.