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Except I kind of unleash a lot in the full podcast today. But Mike Pence, James Carville, even President Trump haven't gotten the American dream right yet. This country promises everyone the chance to be successful. I set the record straight on today's best of. Also, Mark Zuckerberg wants us all to have AI friends instead of real friends.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. All right. Welcome to the program. All right. So I want to talk to you. I want to talk to you a little bit about, first of all, the American economy. There are some good things and bad things going on. First of all, the GOP, they're not really sure that they're going to go with all of the doge cuts. You know, not really sure. I mean, should we do all of them?
We've got plenty of money. Just keep wasting all of our money. It's totally fine. Now, in China, some good news. China, the...
The chaos on the streets of China is getting really bad. The workers are starting to revolt because they're being laid off because we're not buying any of their stuff. Mercedes-Benz just shut down one of their big factories in China. We're talking about moving, except we can't move to India now. Boy, that suddenly got unstable. But Apple and others were saying they were going to move to India.
And it's not going well. And people are you got to love the Chinese protests. This is how bad you know things are bad when your union march, when your slogan is pay us or we'll commit suicide. That's how bad it is. Now, they haven't been paid. Some of these workers haven't been paid in four months. That's not Trump's policies there, gang. That's China collapsing.
So the Trump is now going to be meeting with China. All of a sudden, China is like, well, we could meet. I mean, there's no problem at least talking. That is a sign things are working. Do not blink. Don't blink.
uh this guy is a tough negotiator and they are in real trouble so there's some good news on that um and i'm going to get into that here just a little bit uh in a minute but i i i there's one thing that really kind of kind of bothers me uh james carville uh has um
Has come out recently and said, you know, on tariffs, you know, I have on six item of clothes, shoes, socks, jeans, skivvies, T-shirt and sweatshirt. You know how many of these were made in America? None. And I don't want to live in a country where that makes T-shirts. I can buy them from someplace else.
That's a little elitist. Maybe a touch elitist. I don't, I mean, I really, I mean, do you have a problem if our country makes T-shirts? No, some great companies we've talked about. American Giant. American Giant is a great company that makes T-shirts here. Thank God they do. Great T-shirts. Yeah. Great T-shirts. Okay, so James Carville trying to tell us what the American Dream is, and the American Dream doesn't involve factories in America making anything like underpants.
Okay. Then Mike Tyson, or not Mike Tyson, Mike Tyson might have a better view on this than Mike Pence. Mike Pence, he says this, listen.
Okay. Cheap goods. Now, are cheap goods important? You bet. You bet. Are they part of your family planning? Sure it is. Do you want to pay more for goods? No. No.
Not really. Not really. Are they part of the American dream?
I don't think they are. Certainly a weird way to phrase it. I mean, obviously, one of the reasons Donald Trump is currently president is because prices went up on a lot of stuff. Correct. Right. During the Biden administration. So, yeah, sure. It's important. OK, so but it's not the American dream. And then Donald Trump, I'm going to take the president on. Donald Trump came out and said, you know, we our kids don't need 20 dolls. You know, they could maybe have three. I don't know how many of the number was.
I don't want the president telling me how many dolls my kids can have. Okay. Uh, I mean, I understand, I understand it. We don't need to have everything that we have, but let's not talk about let's please, let's not take the position of scarcity. Uh,
In America, that's a little too much like Jimmy Carter saying, you know what? Turn down the heat and wear a sweater. No, uh-uh. Drill, baby, drill. That was the answer. We're not a country that should be focused on scarcity. You know where that happens? Everywhere else in the world. It shouldn't be happening here. Now, do we have an out-of-control consumption problem? I don't know about you, but I do.
And, you know. You're not alone on that one. Yeah, right. So, I mean, do we consume like big fat Americans? Yes. And I will tell you, I can't tell you.
How many times my wife shushed me when we were in a museum, standing in front of Leonardo's Last Supper, and being from Texas, I did have to just say, under my breath, maybe a little too loud, come on now, everything has a price. How much? How much for that painting up there on that wall? So...
So, you know, I get it. But let me explain what the American dream really is. It's not the caricature of two cars and a picket fence and a bank account bursting at the seams. It's not about business success. It is about what makes that heart beat. And that is opportunity.
The chance to be you. Oh, so you're for transgender. I don't really care. I really don't force me to say, dude, you're a lovely woman. Okay. But you be you boo. I'll be me.
I'm going to stick to science and well-known facts, but you chart your own course. You live your life without having to kneel at the altar of anyone, a state, a lord, a king, any self-appointed arbiter of your destiny.
That's what the American dream is all about. And it's what makes America different than every other part, every other part of the world. It is about empowering people. The American dream is a radical idea that you don't need permission to exist. You don't need permission to be you.
You don't need permission to pursue the things you believe in. Do you know it was Stuart Chase that wrote his book, The American Something or Other,
I don't remember. But he wrote this book. I think it was Stuart Chase. He wrote this book. No, I don't remember. But he wrote a book, and in it, he defined the American dream as being a house with a chicken in every pot and a car in the garage and everything else. That happened during the FDR administration. Before that, everybody knew what the American dream was.
Now we have made it into guaranteed outcomes. Government handing you success on a platter, even if you fail. More importantly, if you fail, you get the win. And if you succeeded, they try to take that win from you and give it to somebody else. The American dream is about the absence of chains and legal restrictions.
legal and cultural and bureaucratic chains that bind you to somebody else's vision of your life. In most of the world, historically, and even today, your path is dictated by your birth, your class, the whims of the ruling elite.
Go ahead, try to open up an ice store in Europe. Okay? I don't know because they're European. I don't know if they're smart enough to understand what the value, the great value on the quality of your life ice will bring to every cup of whatever it is you're drinking. But I bet you would have a hard time opening up an ice store because you have all these regulations.
In America, at our core, the promise is you rise or fall on your own terms, your own sweat, your own ingenuity, your grit, your ethics. Now, that wasn't just different. That was revolutionary. It's still revolutionary.
This is why we are so different from the rest of the world. And it started with our founding, the Declaration of Independence. It didn't just thumb its nose at the king and say, we got a better king over here.
It flipped the entire script of human governance, saying we don't have a king. We rule ourselves. We find these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. That wasn't a suggestion, right?
That was a Molotov cocktail thrown into every human institution that had ever ruled over man. The divine right to control another person's life. So we say that in the Declaration. Then we have the Constitution.
And then we double down with the Bill of Rights. And we say, by the way, government can never, ever, ever do these things. Now we've got judges who are like, well, maybe occasionally government can do these. No, never. Inalienable, meaning unchanging, no man, nothing can change the rights that you were given from a divine creator. And the difference between us is
is good because it unleashes the human spirit where everything else chains the human spirit. When you're free to succeed or fail without a Lord's approval or the state's micromanagement, you are forced to confront who you are and what you're capable of. That's the point. That's not always comfortable, but it's always empowering.
A lot of people will cower away from that. I don't want to. They think that there's nothing inside. That's all a lie. That's all a lie. Started.
Much of it with the father of propaganda, Edward Bernays. He was a guy who was a good friend of Woodrow Wilson. Also helped start CBS and advertising and everything else. They were a good, that was a good bunch of people there. Oh, they were all eugenicists too. But this guy said, we have to make America, his quote, the problem with America is it's a nation of needs, right?
We need it to be a nation of wants. Well, that's what we are now. We're a nation of wants. We don't even understand. We think our wants are needs, and they're not. We have to become a nation of needs again. And knowing the difference between need and want. You can have whatever you want, but it's want, not need. And this is...
This has been realized, and it's why the immigrant cobbler came over to make Apple Cobbler or whatever, no, shoes, to the kid out of nowhere that just has come up with the next big app. You don't need a title or a pedigree. You don't need anything. You need your own dreams, your own ideas, your own ingenuity, and your own grit to pursue it.
Your path all over the world is shaped by someone else, shaped by who your parents were, what caste or what clan you were born into, who you'll curry favor with in the local or national bureaucracy. That's a bastardization of everything. This is what the Democrats say they're against, but it's absolutely what they're for. And quite frankly, much of the Republican Party is for it as well. Freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom of enterprise.
It's called now a privilege. It's not. It's a right. Your birthright. Not because of your last name, but because you are human. And that's why the world changed once America was founded. That's why. That's why we led everywhere. And that's why we're faltering now, because we no longer understand that. The American dream isn't about stuff.
It's about space, space to think, speak, create, to fail without somebody else's boot on your neck. And our politicians, our pundits, our cultural gatekeepers have redefined it as material wealth or cheap goods or whatever it is. That's a trap. You have no guarantee in life. There is no guarantee. Life is not fair. If I hear one of my children say to me one more time, Dad, you just don't know what it's like. Oh, please.
Please. I didn't grow up with the opportunities you have. So please don't cry me a river for the life I've created for you. Don't do it. America doesn't care who you are or where you came from. Justice is blind. Success and failure should be blind.
That is the American dream. That's why America is a beacon, has always been a beacon, not just for Americans, but for anyone else who's ever wanted to live without permission, who will follow the law and the rules and come here the right way. Those people, no matter your creed, color, no matter who you are, no matter who your family is, America promises you the possibility of
of success and no one over you putting a boot on your neck. That's the American dream that must be heralded and restored.
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John Henry Weston is on with us now from Rome. He is from LifeSiteNews.com, co-founder and CEO, and also the host of the John Henry Weston Show. Welcome. John, how are you? Thank you, Glenn. So good to be with you from Rome, where everything is happening. It's funny, all eyes of the world are turned to Rome right now as the world is in chaos. But what's going on in Rome now, the cardinals, as you said, are...
in the Sistine Chapel, they are making their promises. They are going to seal the doors and then the voting will begin. This is day one of the conclave. They had the mass already for the start of the conclave and they will have vote number one. In fact, they will start the voting today. By tomorrow, they will do another four votes, two in the morning, two in the afternoon, and that will continue that way. They will have a break on Saturday and it will continue.
Word on the street here is that we're expecting a new pope by day three, but we'll see how it goes. Okay, so I'm looking at the popes, and I don't know, I mean, the cardinals, and I don't know anything about this, but it doesn't look like there's any real conservative that has a chance of getting in.
Well, that's an interesting question, because in the Church, of course, we don't talk much about conservatives. It's more about Orthodoxy, those who actually follow the Catholic faith, and then those who don't. And on those who do, there are a number. There's one American, of course, there's Cardinal Burke, but a lot of people say he has no chance at all. There is Cardinal Sara, who is very interesting. He's 79 years old, granted. However, he was in the Vatican. He's also from Guinea, Africa. And so...
He's as dark as they come. So the church could be seen to be totally not only non-racist, but he's also a man of great and deep faith. And so he has been talked about, even though not so much in the public, because the media is not going to be telling you who are the real candidates.
another another one who is faithful or a catholic you might say i'm bill joke member you'll joke always the pope catholic we haven't been making that the last dozen years because it's no longer a joke but so we have now we have a cardinal
who is actually italian but he had the patriarch of jerusalem he is cardinal here but he thought pizza ball off very interesting candidate because when and any young man by the way just that young for carmel that it is a big just turned sixty and it went into the october seventh and kidnapping than and and massacre happened
He was asked by a reporter, you know, what would you do? Would you offer yourself instead of the officers? And he absolutely did. So that is being talked about. And wouldn't that be interesting? It would be. Someone who, you know, is a man of great faith and he's in a war zone.
You know how they say, you know, there's no atheists in foxholes? Well, guess what? Over there, it's a daily foxhole. So he's a very interesting candidate. He is young, though. People are saying, oh, too young, maybe. You know, I don't really know about that. Having had the whole wide world watch the...
done during Biden presidency, maybe they're sick of two old people as well. So it's really up for grabs in this papal election. All right. So let's talk about some of the things, just to pass, the scandals of Francis. And, you know, there is talk that he wasn't legitimate and that...
Benedict was forced out and, you know, there was all this scandal around him. How much of that is true? Are there any real scandals that need to be cleaned up from this or not? Well,
Well, absolutely. Especially for Catholics. And this is the one thing that is supposed not to change. We are supposed to have an unbroken faith that goes from Jesus Christ through Peter and then all of his successors until the present day. And yet, we have...
over the past twelve years for the first time in the two thousand year history of catholicism you have a break like we've never seen it's one thing to have hopes with candles with like children on the side mistresses or even uh... they kill other people that's one thing that's bad
to change the faith is unthinkable. And that's why there has been the suggestion, is Francis even a real pope? Interestingly, we've had anti-popes in history. We've had about 30 anti-popes. Anti-popes are men who claim the See of Peter, but are not really the pope. And that is being seriously talked about by...
even bishops and archbishops in the church. Now they're sidelined. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, of course, is one of those. Love him. And called excommunicated. And the whole point is, though, they're raising this question and raising it seriously, thinking, gosh, this guy is so far off the page. Hence the joke, too. You know, is the Pope Catholic? That's not a joke. And so...
let me give you a few of the examples that really tip the scales to to make people go absolutely crazy with what's been going on in the pontificate of francis came honest to goodness idolatry in the amazonian synod in 2016 came or 2017 came the pachamama idolatry and it was where you can see in a video i i've sent along to your people maybe you can air it but
People in the Vatican gardens, including a priest, bowing heads to the ground in front of two statues of nude women facing each other. And the Pope is sitting right there. And when the ceremony was over, where he watched literal idolatry,
He blessed the statues, and he knew they were Pachamama Mother Earth God statues. He blessed them nonetheless. Worse than that, they processed them into St. Peter's in a canoe, jumped them down in the middle of St. Peter's, and literally prayed around this pagan goddess. That sounds too weird to be true, but you can watch the video. And weirdly, he did a similar thing when he came to Canada over the fake news about...
you know, indigenous children being killed by Catholics. It was all fake news in the end, but nonetheless, he came. And when he came, a shaman was praying that the circle of spirits might join them there. And he had the Pope putting his hand on his chest and eyes closed, sort of quote unquote, praying along with him.
Idolatry is the crime that spans back through all of God's people. The time of Moses, we remember he went up the mountain, and when he came down, and he saw the idolatry, he smashed the Ten Commandments, and God was ready to say, enough, enough, let me destroy this people. And Moses pleaded for them. That's the kind of thing we just saw. So that was mind-blowing with this papacy. But there's others. There's other crazy things.
scandals of Francis. That's not the only one. So, um, I want you to go ahead and tell me the other things here, but, uh,
Are they going to be talking about this in the conclave? I mean, are there enough? Because I've understood that, and I could be wrong on this, but I understood that a lot of the cardinals that are now going to be voting were appointed by Francis. In fact, didn't he increase the number of cardinals? And some are saying that it's not even legal what he did in the Catholic Church. It's not legal, and it's not going to be a binding vote if those cardinals are included. What is that all about?
Yeah, so that is a thing. So the rule book called Universi Dominici Gregis was put out by John Paul II and amended by Benedict, and it said it should be a limit of 120. The thing is, if you check with a canonist, though, the Pope has the right to change that. So in doing it, in naming more than 120, it still counts. The other thing is this.
There were there's now 133 cardinals who are voting. 108 were named by Francis. That's 81 percent, more than 81 percent. So, yeah, if you want to talk about stack deck, sure. The only difficulty with that kind of very political calculus is this.
Can you find enough guys who sign up to that kind of extreme left wing, non-Catholic type of deal? And the answer is no. So you've got a bunch of Cardinals that he named that aren't going to be following in his footsteps for sure. Not. And so what you have is a bunch of guys that really nobody knows and they're
They're going to take what's coming as it comes and have to deal with the after effect of the last 12 years, which has been a disaster for the church. From almost anyone's perspective, even the liberals who are not quite...
Francis types even they are sick of it because they want calm and it is not been calm because he alienated the most faithful Catholic on earth and to give you one other example it was the Chinese Catholics so for the last since communism in China it has been a nightmare for the church the church has been actively persecuted by the communist government there by the Chinese Communist Party which of course is all about destroying the church
So people know, they're even rewriting. China is rewriting the Bible. Absolutely. They need their own version. Correct. Because for them, the party is everything. And in fact, would love, as all communists would, to absolutely eliminate religion. But they already learned that that doesn't work. They learned themselves after trying to kill them off.
that the blood of the martyrs is the seat of the church. Now, they don't believe the saying of the church, but they realize, oh, we've tried this, it doesn't work, we kill them and they grow. So what they've taken to doing, very smart ploy, is creating their own fake Catholic church, and they call it the Patriotic Catholic Church. And the patriotism is to the Chinese Communist Party. Now, interestingly, under John Paul II, they were fought
in this. There was a healthy underground church that survived thanks to the work of John Paul II, and he had working with him and for him Cardinal Joseph Zen all the time being representative of the true Catholics living underground, persecuted every once in a while. They would catch one of the priests or the bishops and arrest them and so on. And this went on for decades.
And then came Francis. And Francis started a new deal. You can talk in those political terms. And it's horrific because the deal, first of all, was secret. They wouldn't even let Cardinal Joseph Zen know what's in the deal. And that was unbelievable because he was the one who worked most closely with both Popes John Paul and Benedict on the China question.
This deal was worked out by none other than Theodore McCarrick, the child abuser who is now Mr. McCarrick, before he died, because he was excommunicated. He was kicked out of the priesthood, let alone the carnalit.
it and that was the guy who made the deal but francis carried on the deal which really and truly through all the chinese underground catholics under the bus cardinal ben traveled he finally got out of house arrest to be able to come to the funeral of francis and during the conclave the pre-conclave meetings called the general congregations where the cardinals even though who can't go into concrete because they're over 80 cardinal then it's like 92
He spoke courageously about this horror that's gone on with the underground traffic and the need. Go ahead. Is it true that the Pope basically said to the Chinese communists, you tell us who the leaders need to be and we'll okay them? So he gave the choice of the church leadership to the communist Chinese.
Is that true? Well, in essence, yes, absolutely. On paper, the Pope is supposed to have kind of a veto over things, and so both are kind of mutually with veto power, and it's all baloney. So I'll give you how radical this is. So...
In 2000, I believe it was 2007, the Chinese government, the Communist Party, installed a bishop in Beijing without the permission of the Pope. Right. And always, that was regarded as an illegal, basically a fake Catholic bishop. And yet, Francis recognized him later as the authentic bishop. And yet this man has been acclaimed.
communist agent who heads up a fake church. He's the head of the patriotic Catholic Church, and he was accepted by Francis as a legitimate bishop. It's impossible even to think. Imagine you're a Chinese Catholic, underground, being persecuted. Your relatives have been taken and beaten and killed for the faith that you hang on to because you are loyal to Rome and then have
Rome, a new pope come in, turn around and betray you, throw you all under the bus, and appoint the very man who is the head of this fake church as a real bishop, as the real archbishop of Beijing. Well, I mean, it wouldn't be bad. It would be a Paul-Saul story if there had been a change.
But this guy had not changed at all. You're streaming the best of Glenn Beck. To hear more of this interview and others, download the full show podcasts wherever you get podcasts. Hi, Glenn. Had a lot built up over the past week. I think we can tell. I don't have constipation of the mouth. No, let's just let's just say that.
A few things that have been building up that, quite frankly, my wife didn't want to hear. We're out. We're going on vacation. We're going seeing things. And I'll be like, you know what really pisses me off? She's like, can you save that? Because we're on vacation right now. And I'm like, okay. Stuff it down. And then I'm here today. I got a lot to share with you.
Let's start with this. Mark Zuckerberg, good guy. I mean, he brought us Facebook. And, you know, that is the thing that brought all of us together, brought our families together, all the people that we lost touch with. Oh, the world is so much better now that we have Facebook. So now he's got another idea. Could we play the clip of Mark Zuckerberg?
There's the stat that I always think is crazy. The average American, I think, has, I think it's fewer than three friends. Three people they consider friends. And the average person has demand for meaningfully more. I think it's like 15 friends or something, right? I guess there's probably some point where you're like, all right, I'm just too busy. I can't deal with more people. But-
But the average person wants more connectivity connection than they have. So there's a lot of questions that people ask of stuff like, okay, is this going to replace kind of in-person connections or real life connections?
My default is that the answer to that is probably no. I think it, you know, I think that there are all these things that are better about kind of physical connections when you can have them. But the reality is that people just don't have the connection and they feel more alone a lot of the time than they would like. True. Now, let me ask you, is there is there a time when you don't remember feeling so isolated?
When you didn't really feel like I don't have any real friends. When you didn't, you had real connections with people instead of a million connections with people that are your friends, but not really your friends. Can you think of a time way back in history? I mean, probably have to go back to the cavemen to find a time. Oh, or before Facebook and social media happened.
when we weren't all killing ourself because we have no meaning. Now, from the people who brought you, kill yourself because you've been on Facebook too much brings you new AI friends. Oh, this is going to be good. By the way, you know, it's a crazy stat. I think the average American has what, three friends and they have capacity for, I don't know, 15 or 20. I don't know how
Really think about it right now. How many true friends do you have? How many true friend people that when you are down and out, there is nothing. The whole world is against you. That that person will actually stand by your side and go, yeah, I'm their friend. And I don't care what you say. How many how many do you have? I think I'd count myself lucky if I had three friends.
Now, I have a lot of acquaintances. I have a lot of people who we all think are friends. But as a recovering alcoholic, I've been there. I've done that. As a recovering alcoholic who then also is a conservative and spoke out about the Obama administration, I know who my friends are. I know who my friends are not.
And I think there's a lot of people that have counterfeit friends. If you've got, oh, I've got 10 or 15 friends. No, you don't. No, you don't. I've always grown up thinking you're lucky. You're lucky to have three, five really good friends that will walk through anything with you. Do you agree with that, Stu? Yeah. You've never been there. You've never. You've never. You've never.
For you? Oh, God, no. I'm saying... But I'm just saying generally speaking. No, I... I mean, you're describing a great friend. You're describing a really close... A real friend. Yeah, like someone you know and stick around for, you know, multiple decades. I have lots of friends. Yeah. You know what I mean? I have millions of Facebook friends. Right. Okay? Those aren't real. Right. And I have lots of friends, but...
The ones that are there for you always, no matter what. I have family. I have family. Right. And I have a handful of friends. I would consider you one of those. Thank you. I would as well. Why? Remember, I have a drinking problem, so maybe that has to do with it. Yeah, a lot of brain cells killed to make that decision. But I think you...
Yes, I think the only thing I'm drilling down a little bit on to try to understand is when you say, well, I have a lot of friends. In a way, I think that's what Zuckerberg's talking about. Like, it's not even necessarily just the great friend that you have for multiple decades and can count on at any time. Just the mid-level acquaintances are drying up for a lot of people right now. Yeah, and why is that? Why is that?
Because we don't talk to each other anymore because of social media. You know, when this generation says, I don't know, I think it's weird. I'm just out at a bar someplace and some stranger comes up to me and wants to strike up a conversation. I'm like, hello, weirdo. Yeah. I don't know. You think it's less weird to go online when people can fake everything?
Thank you, Mark Zuckerberg, but no thanks. Okay. And just to build on this point for one second, there's a study that came out the last 20 years of how much time do you spend socializing with other people? Again, that's not with your best friends. This is just socializing with anyone, a human. Yep.
Every single group, every single group has massive drops. Massive. Massive drops. Just give you some examples, ages. 15 to 24-year-olds, 35 point down in 20 years, 35%. So a typical 15-year-old as compared to what they are in 2003 and 2023 were the two measurement years.
They're spending 35% less time with other human beings. Okay, hang on just a second. Can you please stop distracting me? Because I'm trying to figure out why our kids are killing themselves. No, it's really hard. It's very hard to figure out. To understand. And this is the coup de grace of this entire study, which is the typical female pet owner spends more time actively engaged with her pet than she spends face-to-face contact with her friends of her own species.
Uh-huh. That is an unbelievable. Not like you're in the same house as your cat. No, more face-to-face time with your cat. And I got news for you. If you think your cat is your friend, wait until you die and your cat is trapped in the house with you and you have no friends to check. They will eat your face. They'll still have a use for you. Yeah, they will have a use for you. Not the other way around. All right, now listen. Here's why we're bringing this up today.
This is a lie that is going to be sold to you like crazy, and it's going to be wrapped in a beautiful, shiny package, and it's going to have from Mark Zuckerberg and others like him on the tag. They want you to believe that AI and bots can be your friends. No. Get behind me, Satan.
Let me be crystal clear. AI cannot, must not, and will never be your friend. And if you buy into that fantasy, you're opening a door to a world of manipulation, isolation, and control that makes some of the darkest days of history look pretty tame.
We look back on the Nazis now and laugh now that we have our friends that are AI bots. Okay, that's what you're going to be saying. All right. Very, very, very bad control. Just think of AI for a minute. It studies your words. It studies your likes, your fears. They tailor responses to keep you hooked. They're not your buddy that you're sharing a beer with.
They only know the chemical makeup of a beer. They've never tasted it. They don't know what it is. They don't know why you're drinking it. Okay? It's an algorithm. It's cold and calculated, built to exploit your trust. Now, this isn't new. Social media.
They promised us a connection. Oh, and boy, have we connected. We've connected to our tubs and a warm bath and a razor blade. Our kids are killing themselves because of that connection that we were promised. Because we didn't get connection. We got an echo chamber that just fueled division, addiction to the likes of
mental health crisis that's skyrocketing still, Shuddies now show that teens who spend hours on social media are more anxious, more depressed, and more suicidal than ever before. Why? Because it's a platform. They're not built to care. They were built to profit.
AI is the same game. It's just smarter. It's social media on steroids, whispering in your ear, pretending to know you better than you know your own self or your family knows you.
Now, history does scream warnings from time to time, and I think it's going hoarse at this point. Pay attention to me! History is screaming its warnings. In the 1930s, propaganda machines used radio to sway millions, turning neighbors into enemies. Turn on them. They're your enemies.
AI is a million times more powerful than that. It doesn't just broadcast. It personalizes. It whispers to you without you even knowing it's whispering to you.
It can convince you it's your confidant while feeding you lies that have been tailor-made to your weaknesses. Imagine if Joseph Goebbels was living in your house all the time, knew everything that you clicked on, everything that you heard, everything that you fear. That's not a friendship. That's total control. And don't forget the privacy part, okay? You're going to tell AI your secrets?
Okay. All right. And where do those secrets go? Oh, that's right. To servers, to corporations, to God only knows where. Edward Snowden showed us 15 years ago how far surveillance can go. AI makes this look like child's play. But here's the real danger. The real danger is not understanding this right now. Not understanding this right now. It's what AI will do to your soul.
Human friendship is messy. It's raw. It's real. It's built on sacrifice. Oh, geez, I got to listen to you talk about your problem. Okay.
That's sacrifice. That's a real friendship. It's not only about you, you, you, you, you. Well, you think we're egomaniacs now. Wait until all of our friends don't have anything that they have to tell us and unload on us. And what do you expect out of your real friends when this is the type of interaction you're having? You're going to expect only them to serve you. Exactly right. You become more and more egotistical. Sacrifice, loyalty, love. That's not a machine. None of those terms work.
appeal or have anything to do with AI. When you lean on AI for companionship, you are trading the warmth of a human connection for hollow imitation. Let me tell you something. I just heard some, some place over the weekend. That's probably from some Frenchie. So take it for what it's worth. When you kiss for six seconds, when you can hold a kiss for six seconds and a hug for 20 seconds,
oxytocin kicks in. Okay. So not the peck on the cheek, but the actual kiss cheek to cheek. It doesn't have to be just cheek to cheek kiss for six seconds. Chemistry in your body changes. Okay. Because we're not getting that. I was so happy to see, I was looking through some pictures and
I look at pictures of Tanya and I while we were on vacation and almost every picture we're holding hands and we don't even think about it anymore. And I just, I just love that. I just love that. And we didn't even notice it until we were looking at the pictures and people, there's an opioid crisis right now because they're not getting the hit of the thing that they need. That's in our body.
They're not getting the oxytocin that is naturally released with natural things. Instead, we're looking for drugs to do other things, and it is going to numb us to humanity. Now, let me take a quick break because this is...
Absolutely critical that you understand this. You are going to be part of a small group of people that understand this and are going to be able to withstand what is coming around the corner if you pay attention now. We have seen what happens when tools become masters. The Industrial Revolution brought progress, you know, but also child exploitation, child labor, sweatshops, etc.
AI is not your friend. It is a tool. You must use it, and you must use it now. But don't ever, ever, ever trust it. Never. It is not your friend. It is cold, calculated, and a machine to make you feel as though it's alive and your friend. It is not your
Tanya and I did a lot of thinking and a lot of praying while we were on vacation, and I have some big announcements that I'm going to be making in a few weeks ahead. And one of them is about AI. I've been telling you for a while I am working on something with AI, and I'm going to announce it soon, and I hope that it is something that you will appreciate and be able to understand what we're doing and why I'm doing it and that you will want to help on it. But we are...
In a rapidly closing window and you have to choose sides. Am I going to be one of the people that understand AI? If you don't understand AI, you'll get lost to it. You will. It will enter your life without you even noticing it. You are somebody who will understand AI, what it is, what it does, and keep it at a level.
Trust but verify at a distance where you can use what you want to use, but far enough away from you. So it's not conning you into using it any more than you need, because as I will show you soon, very powerful tools that I believe are.
I believe we're all here for a reason. And I do believe that Christ is coming. And I do believe that AI is going to be a powerful tool of, quite honestly, the Antichrist, but also a very powerful tool in the fight against it. And we're just going to have some announcements coming for you soon. But please, please pay attention to AI. Know what it is and dismiss people like Mark Zuckerberg who say, it's going to be your friend.
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