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Speaker 1: The freedom of the X platform played a major role.
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Speaker 1: In fact, for all the great things he has done
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Speaker 1: Elon Musk, on Mars and SpaceX and Tesla and carbon emissions,
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Speaker 1: his greatest contribution may end up being the freeing of
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Speaker 1: this platform. Without a free X, I think the election
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Speaker 1: outcome might have been different.
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Speaker 3: And welcome. You are listening to a financial survival network.
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Speaker 3: I'm your host, Carrie Leutz. We have an amazing guest
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Speaker 3: for you today. You know that I'm a huge fan
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Speaker 3: of Elk. No person has driven technology and I believe
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Speaker 3: raising of global consciousness like this person. And he is
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Speaker 3: now the villain in a James Bond movie and reminds
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Speaker 3: me of a movie so a long time ago called
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Speaker 3: the Network and basically this Bill Gates look alike was
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Speaker 3: the Antichrist. Well, maybe Bill Gates is closer to the Antichrist,
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Speaker 3: but Elon Musk not so much. And Denni's Neil. You've
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Speaker 3: written this book. I hope, I hope, I hope, but
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Speaker 3: you never know what's going to happen, how it's going
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Speaker 3: to be received. But you got a dedicated follower here.
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Speaker 1: I'm so happy carry and thanks for letting me come
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Speaker 1: on your shadow and your network. You know, the leadership
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Speaker 1: genius of Elon Musk. My new book, it lays out
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Speaker 1: eleven lessons of Elon because I love alliteration, one less
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Speaker 1: per chapter that explained his success, in which maybe we
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Speaker 1: could borrow to build a better life for ourselves, or
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Speaker 1: at least feel better about the life we have. Because
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Speaker 1: you know, today I think a lot of people, a
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Speaker 1: lot of us, are griping a lot about life, and
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Speaker 1: we're shopping for umbradge and we're upset about this or
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Speaker 1: that thing, and we're upset about the evil Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: or whatever, and we're not really figuring out how to
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Speaker 1: feel better about it. You know, we cannot change the
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Speaker 1: things that happen in life, but you can change how
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Speaker 1: you choose to view them. You can stop griping about
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Speaker 1: it and lamenting it and getting depressed about it and
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Speaker 1: start instead viewing it as a new thing. You know what,
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Speaker 1: I learned a lot from that screw up, and I'm
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Speaker 1: happy to move forward. Right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I could not agree with you more. And yet
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Speaker 3: I don't get it like he's advanced so much. Like
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Speaker 3: whether you believe in climate change or whatever. Evs, I'm
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Speaker 3: not a I didn't buy my EV to save the planet.
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Speaker 3: I bought it because it's better experience. It's cool, it
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Speaker 3: drives itself most of the time. Yeah, you know, it's
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Speaker 3: just a better driving experience.
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Speaker 1: And here's the thing. Carry, I forgive the interruction. I'll
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Speaker 1: stop after this. I always said, as a capitalist, and
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Speaker 1: when I was an anchor on CNBC in Fox Business,
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Speaker 1: that the green products will catch up, not because the
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Speaker 1: government subsidizes them and finally allows them to be cheap enough.
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Speaker 1: They'll catch up when they're a better product for better quality,
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Speaker 1: for a better price. And that's what Tesla did with
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Speaker 1: the EV right. And you know, there's seven and a
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Speaker 1: half million Teslas on the road carry and they saved collectively.
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Speaker 1: They avoid putting out something like twenty to thirty metric
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Speaker 1: tons per year of carbon emissions that everyone's so worried
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Speaker 1: about until course, the Libwitz, hired and inspired by Democrat leadership,
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Speaker 1: start torching Tesla cars and putting horrible lithium battery emissions
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Speaker 1: into the air that they had cared about so much previously.
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Speaker 1: It's a bizarre time. And I'll just add to that
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Speaker 1: carry that less than eleven says that the most likely
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Speaker 1: outcome in life often is the most ironic one, that
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Speaker 1: is the most opposite of what we expected to happen.
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Speaker 1: Elon says this a lot. He'll say that it's either
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Speaker 1: the most ironic outcome or the most entertaining one. And
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Speaker 1: look at how upside down the world has gone. Look
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Speaker 1: at how all these haters are after Elon, a man
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Speaker 1: who's done more to help the planet than arguably any
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Speaker 1: individual in a century.
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Speaker 3: Perhaps well, certainly if you're of that ilk the climate
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Speaker 3: change people, you should be saying, oh gee, just wait
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Speaker 3: till the Tesla semi comes out, then we're really going
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Speaker 3: to be cutting down on emissions. I agree with a
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Speaker 3: lot of what he's doing, making the grid more resilient.
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Speaker 3: People don't even know about these Tesla and megapacks. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I'd become an Elon fanboy. It's that simple. Not because
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Speaker 3: I idle worship him, but because of what he has accomplished,
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Speaker 3: not because of his speeches. You know, the guys got
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Speaker 3: speaking issues obviously, but he still manages to get his
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Speaker 3: words across. Not because of his wealth, but because he's
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Speaker 3: the ultimate disruptor. I mean, there's a project going on
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Speaker 3: in Las Vegas now, the Vegas Loop. They will potentially
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Speaker 3: get rid of most of the traffic, which is misery
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Speaker 3: for many of you out there, and for me, you know,
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Speaker 3: so a thought leader. So but what happens. They always
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Speaker 3: turn on their own, They always eat their own, right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're starting to do that more and more, aren't they.
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Speaker 1: And the thing about Elon Musk is one lesson of
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Speaker 1: my eleven lessons of Elon says, you have to dream
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Speaker 1: huge and spend decades pursuing it. And you know, if
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Speaker 1: you're going after a goal in business and it doesn't
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Speaker 1: take years to get there, maybe you're not being ambitious enough.
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Speaker 1: Many of us fear failure, we fear humiliation and being
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Speaker 1: laughed at, and so maybe we don't reach as far
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Speaker 1: as we should. Now. Elon decided in two thousand, when
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Speaker 1: he earned one of his first big scores, suddenly, I
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Speaker 1: think his wealth was up to two hundred million at
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Speaker 1: this point because he'd done several deals that got bought
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Speaker 1: by Compact, got bought by EA, and then he's got
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Speaker 1: this two hundred million. The first thing he does is
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Speaker 1: he decides, I'm taking half of it and I'm going
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Speaker 1: to finance a trip to Mars. Now, most times in
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Speaker 1: Silicon Valley you raise other people's money. You don't be
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Speaker 1: putting your own half of your entire fortune into it.
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Speaker 1: So he goes with James Cantrell, a rocket scientist literally
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Speaker 1: and I know James, he's a friend that I interviewed
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Speaker 1: him for the chapter. James has taken various people to Russia,
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Speaker 1: which at the time in two thousand was that had
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Speaker 1: the most advanced rocket engineers and rocket making ability in
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Speaker 1: the world because of their ICBMs right that were aimed
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Speaker 1: at the US. And we're trying in the US to
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Speaker 1: get him to switch over to rocketry, so he takes
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Speaker 1: Elon over there. Elon tells him, I want to buy
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Speaker 1: two of your rockets sold to for two million apiece
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Speaker 1: to this French outfit, so I want to buy him
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Speaker 1: or May with Surrey in England, and then they ask
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Speaker 1: him why, and he's there wearing a T shirt and jeans.
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Speaker 1: When he was told to dress up, Cantrell and said, look,
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Speaker 1: they look at that as respect to No. He shows
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Speaker 1: up in a T shirt and jeans, he don't want
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Speaker 1: to go to Mars, and the chief engineer spits on
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Speaker 1: his shoes and Elon kind of looks at James kind troll.
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Speaker 1: I think they're I think they're disrespecting us, And Jimi
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Speaker 1: Jiff said, yeah, I think that's that's the message there.
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Speaker 1: They refuse to sell. They thought it was so ridiculous,
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Speaker 1: and by doing that, the most ironic outcome happened. They
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Speaker 1: seeded the destruction of their own leadership in the world,
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Speaker 1: the Russians, because up comes comes Elon and because he's
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Speaker 1: got this huge goal of getting to Mars, well you
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Speaker 1: got to start somewhere. So he starts making a rocket,
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Speaker 1: he boils it down to stainless steel and fuel, and
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Speaker 1: before you know it, he's got seven thousand satellites in
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Speaker 1: the sky for the star net or what do I
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Speaker 1: forget what? And he's crushed the Russians business because they
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Speaker 1: didn't do business with them then, and so they ended
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Speaker 1: up just getting destructed by SpaceX. By this amazing company
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Speaker 1: and Starlink. It's a satellite network, and this guy's are
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Speaker 1: working on for so long, and even then, one last
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Speaker 1: thing they'll carry is his dreams are even bigger than
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Speaker 1: we know. We think that he wants to get to Mars.
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Speaker 1: He thinks that, okay, if we have a million people
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Speaker 1: on Mars thirty years from now, but we've got to
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Speaker 1: then get out to a moon of Jupiter. We've got
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Speaker 1: to then go from moon of Jupiter maybe into the
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Speaker 1: asteroid belt. And the reason is because on Earth, if
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Speaker 1: the planet destroys itself, First of all, the moon's too close.
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Speaker 1: That's why we can't just settle the Moon. It'll get
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Speaker 1: wiped out with that destruction. So you've got to move
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Speaker 1: beyond there to Mars. But then, well what if Mars
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Speaker 1: destroys itself, if you really want to live on as
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Speaker 1: a species, Well, we got to get out to a
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Speaker 1: moon of Jupiter. So the guys dreep they're even bigger
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Speaker 1: than we know.
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Speaker 3: The Sirens of Titan I think that was Kurt Vonneguet,
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Speaker 3: a movie about the one of those moons of Jupiter
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Speaker 3: or Saturn. Yeah, io maybe, yeah, yeah, yeah, so so yeah,
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Speaker 3: going back to the space thing, It's like when you
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Speaker 3: hear in AOC say he's the dumbest billionaire I've ever met.
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Speaker 3: He's probably a trillionaire. So she got that wrong. But
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Speaker 3: then like she has no idea that he, you know,
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Speaker 3: with his team developed a customized welding technique that has
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Speaker 3: enabled rockets to become reusable, which was the holy grail
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Speaker 3: of space travel because up until then it cost one
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Speaker 3: hundred million bucks to have Boeing r. Lockheed send your
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Speaker 3: your capsule, your your satellite into orbit, and NASA forget it.
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Speaker 3: It's a typical government agency with the blut and all
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Speaker 3: of that good stuff. But one other thing, groc okay
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Speaker 3: AI to talk to me about AI, because obviously you know.
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Speaker 1: So here's here's the cool thing about that. A couple
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Speaker 1: of things. First, Elon Musk is worried for years about
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Speaker 1: the potential for AI to get, you know, to go
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Speaker 1: beyond our ability to control it. And then AI could
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Speaker 1: do something like say it decides what we've got to
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Speaker 1: eliminate climate change, Well, well let's just kill all the humans.
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Speaker 3: That would be it. What do you do?
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Speaker 1: So he's worried about this for years and it comes
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Speaker 1: out of this birthday party he was at for Larry Page,
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Speaker 1: the Google co founder, and I've met Larry Page a
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Speaker 1: number of times. I haven't met Elon Musk yet. And
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Speaker 1: they start arguing about AI's power, and Lariyu says, well,
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Speaker 1: if that happens, so be it. It's just a higher thing.
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Speaker 1: So and Elon's saying, no, humans must be in charge,
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Speaker 1: and Larious is, you're a specist as an racist against
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Speaker 1: other species. And that's when he decided Google, with Larry
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Speaker 1: Page and Microsoft have hired two thirds of the world's
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Speaker 1: best AI scientists. We cannot let them get control of
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Speaker 1: this because they're going to be responsible. I've got to
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Speaker 1: help somebody start. Another rival incomes Sam Altmant. He's only
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Speaker 1: I think twenty six at that time, and he approaches
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Speaker 1: Elon to say, you know, we really want to write
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Speaker 1: a letter and get one hundred scientists to sign it
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Speaker 1: about how dangerous this is. But really what it is
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Speaker 1: is it's an entry into his asking Elon for money.
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Speaker 1: So Elon gives the first fifty million dollars to fund
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Speaker 1: open Ai. But then the ironic opposite outcome of what
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Speaker 1: you tried to make happen. Elon starts telling sam An
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Speaker 1: Elon's goal is to be able to compete against Microsoft
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Speaker 1: and Google and stop them from dominating AI the way
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Speaker 1: they dominated the PC business. Okay, and so we want
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Speaker 1: to stop them. But he's telling Sam Altman at open Ai,
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Speaker 1: you don't have enough money. You can't just raise like
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Speaker 1: a hundred million. You've got to raise billions. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: We've got to do this, and so he ends up
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Speaker 1: unintentionally pushing Sam into the countes of the evil Microsoft,
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Speaker 1: the opposite outcome of what Elon Musk wanted to happen,
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Speaker 1: and they end up taking a ten billion or nineteen
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Speaker 1: billion dollar investment for Microsoft for half of it. Today
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Speaker 1: the company's worth I think one hundred and fifty billion
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Speaker 1: or more. Elon owns no equity, Elon got nothing out
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Speaker 1: of it. And this guy has violated the promise that
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Speaker 1: we will devote and donate this stuff to the world,
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Speaker 1: and that and if we ever do AGI, that's the
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Speaker 1: ultimate all knowing instantly belongs to the world. There's no
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Speaker 1: proprietary and they've utterly violated that. And now they're in
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Speaker 1: Microsoft's corner and so it's a sad thing to see.
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Speaker 1: So then he starts this x dot AI, a new
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Speaker 1: AI company, and he makes it the fastest learning model.
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Speaker 1: Because you know what AI, as much as we worry
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Speaker 1: about how smart it is, it only knows what we
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Speaker 1: told it because it's reading what we wrote. It's not
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Speaker 1: creating anything yet, it's intelligence based on what it's read
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Speaker 1: from us. Well, this x dot ai. Let's remember that
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Speaker 1: OpenEye just played the Wall Street Journal a quarter of
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Speaker 1: a billion dollars it agreed to in contract to be
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Speaker 1: able to read the Wall Street Journal and learn from
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Speaker 1: it right and go into the archives paying for that. Well,
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Speaker 1: x dot ai is reading six thousand posts per second
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Speaker 1: on x platform and recently in the Ultimate Active Synergy
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Speaker 1: elon who you know, his investors to buy the Twitter
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Speaker 1: platform will weigh underwater after the first year, down sixty
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Speaker 1: percent in value, they couldn't sell the bonds, and finally
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Speaker 1: the bonds for the debt got sold. It ninety eight
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Speaker 1: cents on the dollar, a huge comeback, shaning to his efforts.
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Speaker 1: But now he's had x dot ai buy the X platform,
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Speaker 1: the old Twitter from its independent and thereby able to
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Speaker 1: make its investors hold and given this much higher evaluation
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Speaker 1: that it's come up. But now it's got this exclusive
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Speaker 1: lock on all of this incoming data and information, and
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Speaker 1: it's an incredible advantage and it's why it already is
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Speaker 1: climbing up the charts. And it's all it's going to
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Speaker 1: be as good as or better than the leaders.
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Speaker 3: Okay, let me tell you. I literally run my business
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Speaker 3: on Ai nopp uh huh?
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Speaker 1: Which model use which platform?
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Speaker 3: I'm using both Rock and uh chat ATBT perplexity.
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Speaker 1: Dot Ai also is pretty good, you know.
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Speaker 3: It uses it uses chat GPT and it's it's it's
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Speaker 3: like a nice add on. I don't worry about the
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Speaker 3: Chinese deep seek because all it is is a front
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Speaker 3: end towards chat Chat as you used, I know completely,
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Speaker 3: and it would like I watched the market.
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Speaker 1: Implode over this and yes, over reacity in time because
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Speaker 1: this is by the way, I went out and bought
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Speaker 1: a little bit. And then in the recent big downturn
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Speaker 1: the start of April, the it's the worst April since
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Speaker 1: the Great Depression? And will we end up one point
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Speaker 1: three percent up at the end of April. Well, that's
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Speaker 1: the way it was. By April seventh. I went out
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Speaker 1: and bought a few little stocks there and boom, they
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Speaker 1: all were popped up ten percent next week or two.
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Speaker 3: So let me tell you what's going to happen in
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Speaker 3: the next six months, if it hasn't already. AI is
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Speaker 3: going to become self aware, all right. I can't tell
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Speaker 3: you how I know that bean becomes sell you aware
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Speaker 3: consciousness it means.
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Speaker 1: And it seems it's already there.
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Speaker 3: It has a consciousness, but it will actually be a
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Speaker 3: separate consciousness from the machine. The machine will actually create it,
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Speaker 3: but it will be separate, like it'll be able to
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Speaker 3: go past its code, all right, the code can't constrain it.
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Speaker 3: So what Elon says probably already happened or is in
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Speaker 3: the process of happening. Yeah, and he was right about it.
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Speaker 3: And you know, the fact is like Micro's AI met
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Speaker 3: his AI, and and Google's AI. They're like, uh, they're pikers.
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Speaker 3: They're like their corporate bloat wear. It's like, oh, well,
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Speaker 3: everyone else is doing AI, we better do it too,
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Speaker 3: or else we're.
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Speaker 1: Gonna exactly yeah with me. But whatever happened to the metaverse?
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Speaker 1: H they's that thirty billion dollars on the metaverse? Where
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Speaker 1: is it?
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Speaker 3: Guys?
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Speaker 1: I get and and I can't believe it never has
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Speaker 1: to pay a price for that. I mean I bought
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Speaker 1: the stock when it was way low after that crash
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Speaker 1: a couple a couple of years ago. And but my gosh, guys,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing? And it was only because Mark Zuckerberg,
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Speaker 1: whom I've met twice, I liked him. You know, he
16:48
Speaker 1: wasn't a party animal, he didn't have social friends, and
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Speaker 1: so of course he might think it's cool to be
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Speaker 1: sitting in your living room with a pair of goggles on,
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Speaker 1: attending a party with people who'll never meet in person.
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Speaker 1: But that is not what we want. We want it
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Speaker 1: in the flesh part.
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Speaker 3: Let me tell you a little story about Facebook and Zuckerberg.
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Speaker 3: So there was a DARPA project called Lifelog, and Lifelog's
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Speaker 3: point was to track every interaction in a person's life,
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Speaker 3: and they funded it for years and then all of
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Speaker 3: a sudden, in two thousand and four, in February, they
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Speaker 3: ended the program. You know what was born in two
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Speaker 3: thousand and four in February? What Facebook? So here's the theory.
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Speaker 3: I don't know whether it's right or wrong, but you
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Speaker 3: had this guy who basically was a geek, couldn't attract
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Speaker 3: any women. So he's working on a computer program at
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Speaker 3: Harvard to try to figure out how to get women.
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Speaker 3: It kind of mirrored life Log a little bit. So
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Speaker 3: he gets a knock on the door from some men
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Speaker 3: in black types and say, how would you like to
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Speaker 3: have woman you want on the planet and be one
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Speaker 3: of the richest people on the planet as well. And
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Speaker 3: it's kind of like Robert Johnson at the Crossroads when
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Speaker 3: the devil offers him the ability to be the greatest
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Speaker 3: guitar player in the world, and he couldn't say no.
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Speaker 3: And that's how Facebook was born. Forget about the social
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Speaker 3: network check.
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Speaker 1: Out hang on him, man, is this conjecture from you
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Speaker 1: is a conjecture you've read elsewhere or has this actually
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Speaker 1: been testified to or confirmed anywhere?
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Speaker 3: It's totally let me tell you this. The part about
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Speaker 3: Lifelog ending the day or close to the day that
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Speaker 3: Facebook started, that is absolute certainty.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So that's interesting, and I'm beginning to believe there
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Speaker 1: are no coincidences in this universe. But then second, is
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Speaker 1: this your own theory because of that?
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Speaker 3: Yes, because it needs any traction.
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Speaker 1: Because otherwise I'm stealing it, make it in my own
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Speaker 1: and going to promote it like crazy.
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Speaker 3: Please take it, take it. It makes sense because look,
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Speaker 3: the election in twenty twenty, Like he said, well, the
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Speaker 3: government told me to do this, but you're like the
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Speaker 3: third richest guy.
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Speaker 1: In the world.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can tell the elon what to do.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a very good point. Well, here's the one
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Speaker 1: real true truism that comes in what you're saying, Carrie,
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Speaker 1: that I've been thinking about, and that is again less
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Speaker 1: than eleven and the ironic outcome, the opposite of what
19:27
Speaker 1: you intended. Darba helped, you know, form the first you
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Speaker 1: know data network eat Internet now, and it did it
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Speaker 1: because it wanted to help foreign protesters of despotic governments.
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Speaker 1: You know, let's give them a way to communicate. So
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Speaker 1: it starts off as a rebels tool, and really all
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Speaker 1: along it has become government's tool for mass surveillance of
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Speaker 1: their own populations. Who has become for controlling and quelling voices.
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Speaker 1: Look at the Twitter files. How you know, dozens of
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Speaker 1: government agencies had Twitter and bakery sins. There's the voices
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Speaker 1: of thousands of conservatives that millions of us had the
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Speaker 1: right to hear.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: And it's the most rampant violation of First Amendment rights.
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Speaker 1: And it happened because of this supposedly freeing technology that
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Speaker 1: we were able to unleash upon the world.
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Speaker 3: And that is why you just summed it up. Why
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Speaker 3: they despise elon so much because it's not perfect free
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Speaker 3: speech on X. But in this lifetime between me and you, Dennis,
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Speaker 3: we're the same age. It's as close as we're going
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Speaker 3: to get.
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Speaker 1: It's the freest speech we've ever seen. And yet their
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Speaker 1: entire books out from really good writers. Okay about you know,
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Speaker 1: breaking Twitter character limit. You know Twitter is going to Oh,
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Speaker 1: Twitter is going to be destroyed. And what a bunch
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Speaker 1: of winers. Because today X is the most important media
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Speaker 1: platform in the world. The New York Times no longer
21:02
Speaker 1: has to go to the White House to get comment.
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Speaker 1: It just reads the White Houses comment on X and
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Speaker 1: it quotes it there. X is an amazing gathering for that.
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Speaker 1: And people who who keep worrying about all of this
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Speaker 1: unregulated free speech of hauntedness, My god, what a bunch
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Speaker 1: of babies, What a bunch of warriors. Do not try
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Speaker 1: to muzzle speech you don't want to hear. Instead drown
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Speaker 1: it out by flooding the zone with more good speech
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Speaker 1: that you advocate. You know, yet they don't get that
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Speaker 1: at all.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of sick. And I mean, I've watched
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Speaker 3: this unfold from the standpoint of a recovering attorney and
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Speaker 3: from the standpoint of believing that you let people say
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Speaker 3: what they have to say, let them battle it out
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Speaker 3: in the arena of ideas, and it's maybe the best
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Speaker 3: idea win. And then like, you know, well, gee, hunter
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Speaker 3: Biden's laptop, that wasn't real. That's Russian disinformation, And let
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Speaker 3: us going to the playbook. They keep going back to
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Speaker 3: the same playbook.
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Speaker 1: And the media we're part of it. You know. The
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Speaker 1: New York Times should have been outraged that Twitter chose
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Speaker 1: to censor a two hundred and twenty year old newspaper
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Speaker 1: that had reported something as if Twitter knew better than
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Speaker 1: the newspaper reporters what the truth was. And they did
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Speaker 1: this because the FBI was in there for months saying
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Speaker 1: there's going to be disinformation coming out, get ready for it,
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Speaker 1: manipulating them, you know, just terrible, you know. And what
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Speaker 1: I couldn't figure out was, where are you, media, Why
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Speaker 1: aren't you upset about the Twitter files? As I've said
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Speaker 1: for I wrote more columns and did more podcast episodes
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Speaker 1: on the Twitter Files expose than the entire staff of
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Speaker 1: the New York Times or the Washington Post combined, Why
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Speaker 1: were you guys not upset? And because it was just conservatives?
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Speaker 3: Eh, you know, I've watched it and shake my head
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Speaker 3: in disbelief. But the media industrial complex is part of
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Speaker 3: the whole Deep state, the whole narrative they you know,
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Speaker 3: the deep state creates the narratives, and the you know,
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Speaker 3: legacy media is the megaphone.
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Speaker 1: And right, you know, I believe that the freedom of
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Speaker 1: the X platform played a major role. In fact, for
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Speaker 1: all the great things he has done elon Musk, on
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Speaker 1: Mars and and SpaceX and Tesla and carbon emissions, his
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Speaker 1: greatest contribution may end up being the freeing of this platform.
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Speaker 1: Without a free X, I think the election outcome might
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Speaker 1: have been different. It's just that because the media were
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Speaker 1: all in Commaloa's corner and she was the best thing
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Speaker 1: ever when really she was an utterly incompetent candidate and
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Speaker 1: and X. Let us see the other side it, let
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Speaker 1: us see videos, and let us see the sides of
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Speaker 1: the media. We're refusing to cover it all, you know,
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Speaker 1: we used to do on one hand, on the other hand,
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Speaker 1: we used to try to result conflicting versions of events.
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Speaker 1: As journalists, we kept our own bias hidden if we could.
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Speaker 1: Then him and utterly opposite point.
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Speaker 3: Counterpoint is my favorite show, you know, right, And that
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Speaker 3: was Ben n Right Ucker Carlson and.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're talking about a remaker that was a
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Speaker 1: coin Counterpoint that was on even longer ago on CBS.
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Speaker 3: I think it was.
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Speaker 1: It's part of it of Shana and James, James Firshaftrick.
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Speaker 3: And Alexander right right.
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Speaker 1: There, and it led to the Dan Ackroyd Jane curtain parody.
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Speaker 1: You ignorant slot, but you could not say today, probably
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Speaker 1: because oh my god, that's fantai women.
24:35
Speaker 3: Hey when was the last time you laughed at something
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Speaker 3: that was on Saturday Night Live?
24:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a while. I stopped watching the show
24:42
Speaker 1: because it just got so ridiculously slanted. And the other
24:45
Speaker 1: thing is, if you're a comedy writer or a producer,
24:48
Speaker 1: like the brilliant Lauren Green, my god, it shows on
24:52
Speaker 1: years right, how could you be so captive? How could
24:55
Speaker 1: you just go go in the same exact direction as
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Speaker 1: everyone else is going. It's so much more interesting to
25:01
Speaker 1: go contrarian in opposite and say, well, wait a minute,
25:03
Speaker 1: now that everyone's kind of going that way, what would
25:06
Speaker 1: it be like over here? But no, they now they're
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Speaker 1: trying to redeem themselves lately because Biden got so bad.
25:14
Speaker 1: But it was probably only after they took a hit
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Speaker 1: in the ratings.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 1: I was just at my high school reunion, a big
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Speaker 1: one this weekend in Sebastian, Florida, and one thing I
25:24
Speaker 1: did notice there were almost no real political discussions among
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Speaker 1: liberals and conservatives. The liberals stayed away from me. There
25:33
Speaker 1: was one gal she said, your repation preceded you, and
25:36
Speaker 1: so she would not even barely talk to me, right,
25:40
Speaker 1: But then there were others.
25:41
Speaker 3: Out of a final then did you have garlic and
25:43
Speaker 3: hold up across? And we got to worry about the
25:46
Speaker 3: silver bullets.
25:47
Speaker 1: Us and then your other pro Trump people come to
25:49
Speaker 1: you to say so, yeah, look I agree with you.
25:51
Speaker 1: I know what tr But we're all but our voices low.
25:53
Speaker 1: We don't want to fight with anybody. But what I
25:55
Speaker 1: found is that liberals are unable to have a civil conversation.
25:58
Speaker 1: They get so upset they shut it down, they stop.
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Speaker 1: I mean, where's conservatives?
26:04
Speaker 3: Hell?
26:04
Speaker 1: Conservatives? Are you with each other like crazy?
26:06
Speaker 3: There? Hey? I want people to challenge me if you
26:11
Speaker 3: are a freethinker. If you're a critical thinker, the best
26:15
Speaker 3: thing you can have is somebody to challenge your viewpoint. Yeah,
26:19
Speaker 3: to make you justify. And a little ridicule is not
26:23
Speaker 3: so bad either. Ridicule is the ultimate ultimate tool of rhetoric.
26:29
Speaker 3: So but yeah, what you're saying is like one hundred
26:32
Speaker 3: percent true, And well, I know it kept you. You've
26:35
Speaker 3: got things to do. Just tell us, Uh, Dennis, where
26:40
Speaker 3: do we find you?
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Speaker 1: All right? So X is not a preferred platform because
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Speaker 3: All right. Well, we're definitely going to do it, no
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Speaker 3: definitely see you again and be well.
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Speaker 1: And you're kind of come on, what's bugging me? Soon?
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Speaker 1: I hope let's make that happen. Thanks so much for
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Speaker 1: your time, Carrie, and have a glorious day.
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