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#0194_ STORY INSPIRE: The Cornell 7, Bari Weiss & A Botched Execution — Politics, Media & Unfiltered Commentary · INSPIRE STORY

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  Speaker 1: The failed execution of death row inmate Krista Pike has
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  Speaker 1: left many questions up in the air. CBS News has
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  Speaker 1: now spoken with Pike from her hospital room in her
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  Speaker 1: first interview since the incident.
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  Speaker 2: What is your take on the Cornell 7? Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Am I alive? Do you want to speak up against
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  Speaker 2: the Cornell 7?
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  Speaker 1: Silence is complacency.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really marginally familiar with the case. Again, they.
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  Speaker 3: didn't check me with a bunch of poison, and I
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  Speaker 3: did think I'd be dead right now. That being said,
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  Speaker 3: obviously the conduct is deplorable. There was an affidavit that
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  Speaker 3: she had signed two years earlier where some of the
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  Speaker 3: events seemed different, although when drugs or alcohol are involved,
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  Speaker 3: nothing exactly goes by the letter of the law, are
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  Speaker 3: they going to kill me again?
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  Speaker 1: Had the execution been successful, Pike would have been the
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  Speaker 1: first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.
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  Speaker 3: I remember the chaplain saying, may God have mercy on
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  Speaker 3: her soul, and then everything went black, and.
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  Speaker 2: I was all.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I requested an all-female execution group. Well.
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  Speaker 2: Egg on my face. I told him to shoot me
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  Speaker 2: in the head. Now, you have him posted in support
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  Speaker 2: of Jane Doe. Do you want to comment on that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I was being injected with poison in the death
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  Speaker 3: chamber of the Nashville penitentiary. And I was dying. And
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  Speaker 3: I had a spiritual advisor kind of leading me in
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  Speaker 3: a song. And that was where my mind was at,
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  Speaker 3: you know. But in hindsight, I do think it would
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  Speaker 3: have probably been a good idea to at least make
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  Speaker 3: a small post about this to try to let people
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  Speaker 3: know that I was on the right side of history.
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  Speaker 2: And for that, I am sorry and I do regret it.
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  Speaker 3: When I am executed again, I promise to use my
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  Speaker 3: platform to condemn the actions of the Cornell 7.
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  Speaker 1: Despite her initial silence on the Cornell 7, Pike did
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  Speaker 1: offer her thoughts on a number of other current events.
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  Speaker 2: I like Mom Donnie. I'm excited about what he's doing.
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  Speaker 3: I have certain reservations, but I'm cautiously optimistic for the youth.
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  Speaker 2: I really am. I just don't love that Timothee Chalamet
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  Speaker 2: is in everything.
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  Speaker 1: As of now, Pike's execution has been halted for the
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  Speaker 1: remainder of the year.
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  Speaker 2: The Charlie Kirk thing never made any sense to me.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like as soon as he turned on Israel.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon show. A
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  Speaker 3: lot going on this week. A lot we need to address.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not easy because this is, this is, these
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  Speaker 3: are the weeks that I walk in here and I go,
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  Speaker 3: my job is tough.
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  Speaker 2: It's tough.
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  Speaker 3: And people don't understand that. I wish I was doing
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  Speaker 3: construction or in some mine.
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  Speaker 2: Like you lucky fucks. You're in a mine.
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  Speaker 3: You know how nice it is with a couple of
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  Speaker 3: my buddies in a mine?
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  Speaker 2: How nice that would be?
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  Speaker 3: But I'm here in front of millions of people going
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  Speaker 3: on the record about the issues of the day. You
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  Speaker 3: know how nice it would be to be a public
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  Speaker 3: school teacher? Or it's a relatively unimportant job?
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  Speaker 2: Like that?
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  Speaker 3: You know how nice it would be to have a
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  Speaker 3: job that nobody cared about?
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  Speaker 2: Like a firefighter or a pediatrician? Oh, put the bandaid
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  Speaker 2: on the knee. Enough.
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  Speaker 3: I'm here going on record about the issues of the day.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't go to Cornell. My best friend did. We
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  Speaker 3: went to community college and we both said we were
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  Speaker 3: going to succeed. And I did drugs and dropped out
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  Speaker 3: and sold subprime mortgages. And he really tried hard. And
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  Speaker 3: he went to Cornell. And I'm so much more successful
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  Speaker 3: than him right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. He said that to me recently.
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  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: But he has an Ivy League education. What does it mean,
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  Speaker 3: so what? Nothing if there's no heart.
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  Speaker 2: Where's the heart? Where's the heart? Okay? I don't have
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  Speaker 2: group sex.
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  Speaker 3: It's tough enough to get one person on board. We're
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  Speaker 3: not getting.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't take a village. Enough with this. College is done.
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  Speaker 2: You're done now. You're done. I'm sick of it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling you right now. And I'm dead serious. I've
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  Speaker 3: had enough with it. I've had enough with it. With
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  Speaker 3: the hazing. With whatever it is. The group activity. the
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  Speaker 3: gangland fuckfest. You're done now. You're going to be electricians
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  Speaker 3: and you're going to be plumbers.
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  Speaker 2: You're done. You're not going to be what you think
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  Speaker 2: you're going to be.
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  Speaker 3: AI is coming and you better realize this life that
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  Speaker 3: you think you're living, you're going to live in another way.
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  Speaker 3: You'll die for Israel. You will die for Israel. These
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  Speaker 3: colleges are getting closed the fuck down. And if this
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  Speaker 3: is what you're going to do, text your buddies and
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  Speaker 3: say we got pussy in the dorm for everybody, then
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  Speaker 3: you're going to die for Israel.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll support it. BB!
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  Speaker 3: You will die in fucking southern Lebanon for Israel's expansionist
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  Speaker 3: policies if this is how you're going to behave in
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  Speaker 3: college when you have students. Me and your mother took
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  Speaker 3: student loans out, you pig. We took coasts on your
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  Speaker 3: student loans. But seriously, can anyone explain? I date younger
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  Speaker 3: men sometimes. I'll go out with them. They graduate college
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  Speaker 3: or in a few years after college and they're sitting there.
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  Speaker 2: They don't know what's going on. What the hell?
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  Speaker 4: They don't know.
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  Speaker 2: What does this do for anyone anymore? This college? What
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  Speaker 2: does this do for anybody? I'm genuinely asking. It is crazy.
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  Speaker 3: It's either tent encampments or fuck fest, rape festival.
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  Speaker 5: Whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now, I don't like.
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  Speaker 3: This whole system that we've set up with college where people,
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  Speaker 3: my scumbag family, and I say that with love.
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  Speaker 2: I always do. All they said to me was, go
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  Speaker 2: to college, make sure you go to college.
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  Speaker 3: That's all they told anyone in my hopeless generation of nothings.
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  Speaker 2: Myself included, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: They told us, go to college, just go to college.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't give us any guidance in life. Not about morals, ethics, dignity, hopes, dreams, health, wellness, fitness. Sex, love, anything.
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  Speaker 3: No advice on any other topic. Money, real estate, career, nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Just go to college. That's all our parents told us.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, go to college. Go to college.
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  Speaker 3: They'll figure it out. Just get a college degree. Get
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  Speaker 3: a piece of paper that says you went to college.
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  Speaker 3: And then they pointed some guy in the street and go,
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  Speaker 3: or you're going to be like him. And it was
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  Speaker 3: a construction guy, like a normal guy. Making money to
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  Speaker 3: feed his family. He's probably doing well now. You probably
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  Speaker 3: want that job now. You go, you want to be
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  Speaker 3: like him? You want to be a garbage man? That's
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  Speaker 3: a great job. They said that all the time. You're
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  Speaker 3: going to be a garbage man. You better go to college.
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  Speaker 3: Go to college.
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  Speaker 2: It was a way to not parent your children. Go
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  Speaker 2: to college. Get a degree. Go to college. Get a job.
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  Speaker 2: Sit in a suit. I'm in a.
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  Speaker 6: Suit.
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  Speaker 3: Not any advice in any other area of life that
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  Speaker 3: would have mattered. Somewhere along the way in history, we
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  Speaker 3: started demeaning any other job that didn't make you a
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  Speaker 3: fat corporate cog.
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  Speaker 2: And a slob. That's what we wanted.
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  Speaker 3: We wanted gluttonous slobs at their desks watching CP.
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  Speaker 2: On their lunch break. Sexual deviant pigs.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the Midwestern sales rep for the.
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  Speaker 2: You're a pedophile. That's what you are. And you went
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  Speaker 2: to college. It is what it is. You following my
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  Speaker 2: logic here? Yes or yes?
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  Speaker 3: I hope you are. What is this college shit? It's terrible.
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  Speaker 3: It's terrible half the time. These liberal arts colleges... These people,
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  Speaker 3: they're going insane. These kids are going insane. They're inventing
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  Speaker 3: new ways to be crazy. And then these frat fucks.
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  Speaker 2: I've had enough. If you're going to be gay, be gay.
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  Speaker 2: But don't stand.
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  Speaker 3: There in your underwear and smear each other with peanut
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  Speaker 3: butter and then talk about heterosexual behavior. It's like if
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  Speaker 3: you're all going to get hot and sweaty in a
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  Speaker 3: basement naked, which I'm all for. I'm all for that.
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  Speaker 3: But it's gay. Just be gay.
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  Speaker 2: What is this? I really have.
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  Speaker 3: Had enough, you know, I really am thinking about it,
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  Speaker 3: this idea that colleges have allowed all these fake industries
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  Speaker 3: to grow private equities, like the biggest, all it does
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  Speaker 3: is buy things and destroy them. Everything that you like
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  Speaker 3: that sucks now is private equity. I major in finance.
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  Speaker 3: I major in finance. And they just all get into
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  Speaker 3: the pipeline of these companies. College explodes these sectors of
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  Speaker 3: the economy.
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  Speaker 2: Because of college, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: Because everybody needs to go get a white-collar job destroying
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  Speaker 3: Earth instead of going and doing something else. You can
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  Speaker 3: do things without college. You can be in sales. You
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  Speaker 3: can have a trade.
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  Speaker 2: You can be a chef.
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  Speaker 3: There's so many things you can do. Real-world experience is
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  Speaker 3: such a big thing. I got to be honest. The
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  Speaker 3: scam of Sally Mae and student loans, people graduating six
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  Speaker 3: figures in the hole in debt, moving to cities they
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  Speaker 3: can't afford, charging everything, putting everything, putting themselves deeper and
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  Speaker 3: deeper into debt, putting everything on a credit card, paying
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  Speaker 3: their student loans. Student loans can't discharge them in bankruptcy.
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  Speaker 3: They follow you to the ends of the earth. I
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  Speaker 3: hope those four years were fun. This is not a
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  Speaker 3: sustainable model for a society. It's not a sustainable model
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  Speaker 3: for a society.
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  Speaker 2: It's not. I went to community college and I dropped out.
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  Speaker 2: I dropped out. I knew it was bullshit. Immediately.
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  Speaker 3: I knew it made no sense. I was like, this
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  Speaker 3: is crazy. Yes, times in my life I regretted like
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  Speaker 3: not going to some school because it's deep. College is part,
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  Speaker 3: you know, from the animal house days.
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  Speaker 2: Till now.
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  Speaker 3: People, it's a dream that you're going to have the
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  Speaker 3: perfect college experience and that they're going to be the
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  Speaker 3: best four years of your life. Nothing is going to
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  Speaker 3: be the best four years of your life. I'm telling
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  Speaker 3: you right now. I'm telling you right now. You better
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  Speaker 3: cut that out. Sam Altman's going to make you into
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  Speaker 3: a liquid. You're going to be a fucking liquid. Nothing's
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  Speaker 3: going to be the best four years of your life.
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  Speaker 3: You better reign it the fuck out.
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  Speaker 2: Are you high?
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  Speaker 3: The best four years of your life. You're going to
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  Speaker 3: be a liquid or a gel or a gas. You
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  Speaker 3: understand me? If you're under 25, you better fucking lock in.
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  Speaker 3: The best four years.
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  Speaker 2: What the fuck do you think this is? 2005?
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you right now. We don't have drafts anymore.
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  Speaker 3: We just send people to die and everybody goes and
• 12:44
  Speaker 3: gets drunk. So there's no drafts anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Okay? And we have a bunch of people wandering around
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  Speaker 2: this country.
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  Speaker 3: You know, aimless with tons of student debt because they
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  Speaker 3: went to a school chasing the, quote, best four years
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  Speaker 3: of their life. They graduated mired in debt. Mired in debt.
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  Speaker 3: And they're going to die for Israel. And I'm now
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  Speaker 3: supporting it.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry.
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  Speaker 3: You made your bed. You made your bed now. Whatever
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  Speaker 3: Israel's doing over there, I don't know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: From what I understand, they're giving the Palestinians water, I think,
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  Speaker 3: and rebuilding their homes.
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  Speaker 2: Is that not it? Anyway, you're going to be doing that.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be doing.
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  Speaker 3: That because college is a scam and we're done with
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  Speaker 3: it now.
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  Speaker 2: We're done with it.
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  Speaker 3: We're done listening to you bitch and moan about how
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  Speaker 3: expensive it is. You're to move to Phoenix and you're
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: to sell real estate now. You're to move to Phoenix.
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: You're to move to Phoenix.
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  Speaker 2: There's no best years of your life anymore.
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  Speaker 3: You will be in a hot car without air conditioning
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  Speaker 3: going to open houses in Phoenix during the summer months
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  Speaker 3: and that's your fucking life.
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  Speaker 2: You will have skin cancer.
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  Speaker 3: The best four years of your life. You're out of
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  Speaker 3: your mind. Peter Thiel's going to put you in a cage.
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  Speaker 3: A digital cage that you can't even see or feel.
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  Speaker 3: Until you try to break out of it. In which
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  Speaker 3: case you're thrown back.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Those anthropic fucks are going to take you down.
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  Speaker 2: What is college for anyway?
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  Speaker 3: Every five minutes they keep saying we're taking all the jobs.
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  Speaker 3: We're not going to be leaving any crumbs for the people.
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  Speaker 3: The jobs are leaving. I think they're exaggerating that, obviously.
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  Speaker 3: I think the timeline's a bit hurried. I think they've
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: raised a lot of money and lost a lot of money,
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: these tech guys, anthropics, and a lot of them. And
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  Speaker 3: they're asking for regulation from the government in the form
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  Speaker 3: of a big, massive bailout. They know the government cannot
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  Speaker 3: regulate them because they know our octogenarian senators have no
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  Speaker 3: idea what's going on. You think Mitch McConnell's going to
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  Speaker 3: walk into Anthropic and start cracking the whip? Hey, show
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  Speaker 3: me the latest model, boys.
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  Speaker 2: Show me the latest.
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  Speaker 6: Model, boys.
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  Speaker 2: Our senators are dead. They're dead.
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  Speaker 3: So nobody's afraid of them walking into fucking OpenAI. They
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  Speaker 3: don't understand a cell phone. The people in Congress don't
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  Speaker 3: understand a cell phone. So they're not going to be
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: regulating Anthropic. They don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Okay? They have no idea what it is. Okay?
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: They think it's restoration hardware or something. They think you
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  Speaker 3: buy a couch there. Who's going to exactly regulate these companies?
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  Speaker 2: The people in our government who know nothing?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: They're not afraid of that.
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  Speaker 3: And the people in our government who do know something
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  Speaker 3: were installed.
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  Speaker 2: By the tech people. So they're not regulating anybody.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: So all of these tech people go, we need money
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: because we've created a monster. And if you knew how
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  Speaker 3: bad this monster was, I'm telling you right now.
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  Speaker 2: And listen, the monster is creepy.
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  Speaker 3: AI is creepy, but I don't think it's taking everything tomorrow,
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  Speaker 3: but let's, let's grant them even a small percentage of
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  Speaker 3: what they say is true.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say half.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: And that's maybe an inflated estimate at the moment, but whatever,
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: what the fuck are you doing at the university of Ohio?
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Other than going to football games, what are you doing?
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: What job are you going to do? Get a trade. Truly.
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  Speaker 2: This is a trade. What I'm doing is a trade.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't study this. I didn't study this. This is
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  Speaker 2: a trade. It's what it is.
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  Speaker 3: I did not go to school for this. I know
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  Speaker 3: that's shocking. This is not the result of a graduate degree.
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  Speaker 3: It's a result of a trade. I spent time in
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  Speaker 3: a trade. This is a beautiful thing. Trades are beautiful things, actually.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: And I just think this idea of this corporate, this
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: funnel to an unfulfilling life through college, saddled with debt,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: being weird and doing weird shit. And I don't know,
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: I'm not a lawyer here. Sunny Hassan got in trouble
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: on The View, a friend of the show, Sunny Hassan,
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: we love her. She got in trouble saying, listen, you're
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: not going to get a rape conviction. I don't think
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: you will either, but I'm not a lawyer. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think you will.
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  Speaker 2: She had a statement saying it was consensual, whatever.
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying it's grotesque behavior to offer up free pussy
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  Speaker 3: and say, you know, hey, we got free pussy in
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  Speaker 3: a room and you can come in and whip it out.
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  Speaker 3: And is the shop still open? And this is all
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  Speaker 3: grotesque behavior. And if this is what people are doing,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: if this is what they're doing in college, they can
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: go die for Israel.
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  Speaker 2: It's what it is.
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  Speaker 3: And can someone give me, can Robert Kraft give me
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  Speaker 3: money now?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, enough.
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  Speaker 3: Clip this and send it to Bob Craft with a
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  Speaker 3: question mark and my face with a dollar in my mouth.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Photoshop a dollar into my mouth and go like this.
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  Speaker 4: There's the money.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: If you're going to haze each other to death and
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: fucking just have orgies. And then I got to get
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: annoyed by all the it's so negative on social media.
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  Speaker 2: It is negative. It is negative.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: You're trying to eat a grouper sandwich like a person
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  Speaker 3: in Newport Beach. And everyone on the Internet is talking
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: about rape. Coleslaw on the side.
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  Speaker 2: Add jack cheese. Melt in. And now let me go
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  Speaker 2: on my machine and scroll. Everybody's talking about rape. I
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: don't like it. I don't like it. It's not fun
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: for me. What about home renovation? Something fun. Remember that?
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Remember HGTV? How fun that was? You'd fix a bathroom.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I know no one can own anything now, so that's
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: less popular. But that was nice.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Remember House Hunters Abroad? What can you get in Peru
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: or something? That was nice. Let's go back to that.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: We need to go back to early aughts pleasantness.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: The society needs to be pleasant society it's not anymore
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  Speaker 3: it's a vulgar angry vicious society it we need to
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: go back to pleasantries we need to go back to
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  Speaker 3: them our show sent you. And if these five AI
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  Speaker 3: fucks keep coming on TV telling everyone we're going to die.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what scares me about them.
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  Speaker 3: Zuck, Dario, Wario, Emoti, whatever his name is, fucking Elon,
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: fucking whoever else they've got in there. Saron, Saruman, all
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  Speaker 3: the whole crew. They're not people. This is what bothers
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  Speaker 3: me about them. They're not human beings. They're not even
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  Speaker 3: bad human beings. They're not human beings. When you watch Zuck,
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  Speaker 3: when you watch Zuckerberg, when you watch any of these people,
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  Speaker 3: when you watch Sam Altman, when you watch Teal, they're
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: not people. They're another thing. I don't know what that is.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a theologian, but they're not people. So where
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: is like the big bankers were bad people because they
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: were greedy and heartless, whatever. They were people and they
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: had identifiably human traits, although ones that one would call.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Concerning to say the least.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: If you ran into a big, greedy oil guy, an Enron,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: a scammer or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: They were identifiably people.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: These guys, when you look at Altman and Zuckerberg, Elon,
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: when you see these people talk, they are not people.
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  Speaker 3: They are not human beings. They don't love human beings.
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  Speaker 3: They are kind of weird around human beings. When Zuckerberg
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: sits down with Giovanna and feels a human being in Zuckerberg,
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: how do I approach this? How does this work? They
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: do not like human beings. Human beings gum up their system.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: They get in the way of what they want to do,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: and they don't love that. Human beings are really inefficient.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: That's what Elon Musk said. It's like an inefficient operating
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: system that desperately needs an upgrade.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is what they all believe.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: They don't like sloppy humanity and they'd like to eliminate it. So,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: you know, that's, and I'm not saying I won't have
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: any good things either. There will be good things. Like everything,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: there will be good things. I'm a little uncomfortable that
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: five people are running the planet. And every 72 hours,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: they are terrifying you into you have to give them
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: all the money?
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: We've built something.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know how powerful it is.
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  Speaker 2: All right. It's going to take all your jobs. Okay.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: And we need more money. What? We need more money.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: And we need to build more data centers. We need
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: to kick you out of your house. So that's what
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: you have to be on board with now, by the way.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: You have to be on board with your tax dollars
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: going to OpenAI and Anthropic and then also a data
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: center being built on the house where your mother died.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're not on board with that, you're not
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  Speaker 2: a good American, by the way.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: And Pete Hegseth can take a break from bombing the
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: schools of children using AI targeting, and he's bombing the
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: schools of girls to then– put an office of religion
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  Speaker 3: in the Pentagon, an office of faith.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what a fraud. How disgusting. How abhorrent. Impeach
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: them all. It's heinous. It's hideous. It's grotesque.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: So we can't, you know, we can't even kill people
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: in this country. We inject this bitch twice. We can't
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: kill this bitch in Nashville. In Nashville, we can't.
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  Speaker 2: Kill a bitch?
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: She's strapped to a gurney. You've got a needle and
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: you still can't kill her. Now let's leave out for
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: a minute, the death penalty and the corporate barbarism, the totalitarian, whatever.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: I'm actually pro death penalty in certain cases.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I really am. I'm sorry. I know people aren't. I
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: really am.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: I think it's a tool and I don't think everyone
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: can be here. Sorry.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: What did she do? She did something horrible. What'd she do?
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Bring up what she did.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Chop her head off. Cut her head off. Cut her
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: fucking head off. Fuck you if you have a problem
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: with it. She was convicted of the first degree murder
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: torture conspiracy of 19 year old Colleen Slimmer.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Cut her head off. Who gives a fuck? Enough with
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: this shit. Sick of this fucking country. Cut her head off.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: We can't even kill someone. It's a fucking embarrassment. It's
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: a fucking embarrassment. This is with Teal's point. This is
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: all these tech people's point. You can't even.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Kill a bitch.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: They're like, you don't want AI. You can't kill a
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: bitch in fucking jail. On January 12th, 1995, 18-year-old Pike,
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: her boyfriend, Tadarl Shipp, and their friend, Shadola Peterson, Lord
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Fellow Job Corps student, Colleen Slemmer, to a secluded wooded
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: area on the University of Tennessee Agricultural Campus.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Pike believed Slemmer was interested in Shipp.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Pike and Shipp brutally tortured and bludgeoned Slemmer, cutting her
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: with a box cutter and a meat cleaver and striking
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: her with a piece of asphalt.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Slemmer's throat was slashed while she begged for mercy. Here's
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: the deal.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: I try to be a Catholic. Jesus would not execute them.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: I'm not Jesus. It is very hard to be a Christian,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: and it is very difficult to be a Christian every
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: moment of the day, and it is really tough to be.
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  Speaker 3: My grandmother tried to live in the examples of Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: It's a very difficult thing to do. Most people don't
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: do it. No one in our government does it. Hint, hint, hint, hint, hint.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: Okay?
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: So yes, the instinct should be forgiveness.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Turn the other cheek. It is the most difficult thing
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: in the world.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: But I also, listen, listen.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Here's the reality.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: You gotta be able to, unfortunately, this woman tortured someone
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: to death.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: It is what it is.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: It is, you know, it's not something that I like
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: to say, but when that second shot did not work
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: and she was in agony, which is not right, we
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: shouldn't be torturing people on their way out. We should
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: have shot her in the head. It would have been humane.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: We should have shot her in her face, shot her
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: in the head. And here's the thing like that. It
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: would have been kind of unexpected for the audience, and
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: it would have been something that I think a.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Few of them would have went, that's a real story.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Watching an execution is fine, but you go, it didn't work,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: and she kept writhing around in pain, and then a
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: deputy just said, fuck it, and shot her in the
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: head because it's Tennessee.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: She tortured somebody. She's on death row and I'm embarrassed
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: that we can't kill her. And this is the fucking
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: anthropics point. They're going to go, you can't even kill
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: this bitch.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: You dumb dumbs.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Can we play a little of a news story about this?
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: What's she going to do now? She's going to wake up.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: She's on a view.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: Good evening. I'm Nikki Batiste.
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: We are coming on the air with a breaking news
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: update in the case of Krista Pike, the Tennessee death
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: row inmate who is still alive tonight, according to her lawyer,
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: after an apparent botched execution attempt. Pike's attorneys are seeking
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: an emergency stay from the Tennessee State Supreme Court. Two
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: syringes of the lethal injection pentobarbital had been administered, but
• 30:16
  Speaker 8: Pike still had a heartbeat and was audibly snoring and
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: complained of pain, according to witnesses. Correspondents with our Knoxville
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: affiliate were there, and they break down what happened.
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: It has been a day unlike any I have ever
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: experienced in my 30-plus years of reporting here at Riverbend.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: It's brutal. Here's the thing. State-sanctioned death is brutal. We
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: don't want it.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: The machinery of state, but just, just someone go in
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: there and smother her with a pillow, please.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: We can get over this while she sleeps.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Just smother her with a pillow, please. We have to
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: move on in this country. We have to show that
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: people can do it. We're losing to fucking machines. You
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: fucking retards go in there and blow her brains out
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: in her bed. And show these tech fucks that people
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: still rule. Otherwise, Claude is going to do it. You
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: know who wouldn't have fucked that execution up?
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Claude. Claude would. Or Grock. But you know who did?
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: These fucking inbred retards in the Tennessee prison system. So
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: can someone please, for the sake of humanity, to prove
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: that we still got it, quietly walk into her room
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: and blow her brains out? Let's continue watching. And by
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: the way, this is a pro-human piece that I'm doing.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: And it's right. And I'm right.
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: As we waited and waited and waited for a moment that, John,
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: you eventually witnessed. We don't know if it was the
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: execution of Krista Pike because we don't know if she's
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: alive or dead at this point.
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: No, as we stand here in the parking lot right
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: outside River Bend, we have no idea whether she's alive
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: or dead. We were told basically at 8.49 p.m.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Tonight, you need to leave, it's time to go, and
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: so that's what we did.
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: We obliged, and last we heard, she was still breathing.
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: A few minutes after we left the building and emerged here,
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: we were actually going to start talking to our.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Colleagues in the media.
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: I noticed a lot of flashing red lights off to
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: our left, and I pointed over there, and sure enough,
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: it was a fire truck from Nashville Fire, I think
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: a couple ambulances, and I'm going to infer they were
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: picking up Krista, dead or alive, I don't know.
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: And then they took off. They did, and the sirens,
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: after minutes, they went back and left. John, you have
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: witnessed several other executions. This, unlike anyone you've experienced.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Prior, I'm sure. Well, you know, let's be clear. Let's
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: be clear.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: I get aroused, and my doctor said that that's something
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: that is not unexpected. And it's not only sexual arousal.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: What's interesting is that my doctor said it's a response
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: to any elevation in blood pressure. So when I watch
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: the execution, my penis becomes erect. And I also feel
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: my anus muscles loosening and getting wet. Now, as someone
• 33:22
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• 33:25
  Speaker 3: as I watch the execution, I myself want to be
• 33:30
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• 33:33
  Speaker 3: asking my wife to dominate me. I want her to
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: kind of straddle me with a dildo and peg me
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: is the term and basically teach me a lesson because
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: I long to be in the pain of the person
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: being executed because it feels like the ultimate release. And
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: what I've learned about sex as I've gotten older is
• 33:58
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• 34:00
  Speaker 3: is this cerebral things going on behind it. And I
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: long for the release of, of that death. So to me,
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: coming is actually like death. And I want to die many,
• 34:14
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• 34:19
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• 34:24
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• 34:27
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• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Continue. They think this thing out. They put it in paperwork,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: and there are steps. By the way, look at him.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: He should not be allowed to watch executions. This guy
• 34:50
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• 34:53
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• 34:58
  Speaker 3: When he gets a call, it's going down Thursday night.
• 35:01
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• 35:06
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• 35:07
  Speaker 2: When he gets to go to the death house.
• 35:10
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• 35:16
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• 35:18
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• 35:20
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• 35:25
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• 35:29
  Speaker 3: But this man is very sick. Obviously the man we're
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: looking at now and all right, get him out of here.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: All right. She's not dead. I know what to do
• 35:37
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• 35:39
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• 35:47
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• 35:50
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• 35:57
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  Speaker 3: who's now making a foray into stand-up comedy, the great
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Barry Weiss.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Barry Weiss is a.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: She's doing comedy now. She's, doing a performance art. She's,
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: and I like it. I like it because when you're
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: a creative person, you don't want to be boxed in.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: And I think she's just been boxed in and that's
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: a crowd's reaction. Take a look at the crowd. There's
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: a teal and the rest of them. That's the crowd's
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: reaction over the comedy.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: She's new.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Hey, guys, she's a beginner. How about you lighten up?
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: She's a beginner. She's been running CBS News. She's a beginner.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: So Barry is now starting out in comedy, but she's
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: got raw talent and charisma. So if you pair that
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: with work ethic and then a desire to dominate the
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: world and subjugate others, which we know she has, I
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: think she will do actually very.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Well in this.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: So let's play one of her first sets.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: That's on camera.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: We have Barry Weiss doing comedy for Peter Thiel and
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: I believe the Palantir audience.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: And they're a fun-loving group. And so here she goes.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Barry Weiss, friend of our show for a very long time,
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: doing stand-up comedy.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Here she is. The Axel Springer Award 2026 goes to
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Peter Thiel.
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: Please welcome on stage the CEO of the Free Press
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: and Editor-in-Chief of CBS News, Barry Weiss.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: I want to begin tonight by thanking you all for
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: attending my lecture on the Antichrist. For all the media
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: journalists who are watching this or pouring over this transcript,
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: that was a joke. I only talk about the Antichrist
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: at my secret weekly meeting supervised by the Mossad in
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: Tel Aviv. What's not a joke is that I'm deeply
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: grateful to be here in Berlin with Matthias Doffner, a
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: true friend and ally.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: All right, stop it right there. Now, Barry goes up.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: And she's nervous. You can tell she's nervous because she
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: hasn't done anything in public in a while. She's been
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: in a bunker in CBS News. And she's surrounded by
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: security guards all day, every day. And if you as
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: much at CBS News go, hey, I'm going to get
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: a Caesar wrap.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: You want something?
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: They'll kill you. That's the imagined threat level she's under.
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: So....
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: She has not been in public. She used to do
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: these debates.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: And you know, she was in public a lot. I
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: opened one of them with standup. I opened two of them.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Paid me well, very nice.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: And, and, and, and I'm told, I told someone recently,
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: she still thinks I'm funny, which I appreciate.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: I appreciate. Um, and so she is, uh, giving Peter
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Thiel some award. He's won an award. I don't know.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: He doesn't seem happy about it.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: And, No one around him seems happy, but it's an
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: award that Axel Springer. Can you look that up? What
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: kind of award that is? I'm curious what kind of
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: award he's getting. But I imagine it's for his humanitarian work.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: You know, he's always trying to help. He's always trying
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: to help people from what I understand about him. But
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: Barry is there. Now, Barry is kind of she's doing
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: a playful roast because we all know Peter Thiel gives
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: lectures about the Antichrist. We also know that Peter Thiel
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: owns the company Palantir, which provides a lot of tech
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: to Israel for what they're doing in Gaza.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: So Barry does a joke. She goes, okay, so it's
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: the Axel Springer Award. Click on that.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, he honored Thiel for creating new markets, driving technological chains,
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: and shaping digital payments and data analytics.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's a digital payment award. Amazing. Well, by the way,
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: hats off. Congrats.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: So Peter Thiel is in Germany to accept a digital
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: payment award. And Barry Weiss is hosting the event. And
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: Barry goes out there and goes, hey, this is my
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: speech on the Antichrist. Playfully talking about Thiel. And then
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: she goes, no, no, no, no, no. I actually only
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: give that at my secret meeting, which he has. Peter
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: Thiel has that secret group. And everyone that was in
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: it got outed. And she goes at the Mossad meetings
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: in Tel Aviv. Now... Palantir works with the Mossad and
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: the CIA, and they provide a lot of weapons technology
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: for the IDF. Peter Thiel does give lectures on the Antichrist.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: Peter Thiel also has a secret group.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Barry, honey, baby. Barry, sweetie, darling.
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: Where's the joke?
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Honey, it's got to be a bit. Baby cakes, sweetie.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: It's got to be a bit. You can't just go
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: out there and say three provably true things and hope
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: everybody laughs because of how ridiculous they are. They're all
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: provably true. They're on Wikipedia. You could prove that case
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: in court. He has a secret group. He works with
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: the Israeli army and the Mossad. And he's fucking gives
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: lectures on the Antichrist.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: So she's going out.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: Now, this is how detached she is. She thinks that
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: this is, she's making fun of the absurd suggestion that
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: this guy's lecturing about the Antichrist in Tel Aviv, which
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: he would. Why wouldn't he? He's doing it in Nashville.
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: He'll do it in Tel Aviv. He makes more money
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: in Tel Aviv than Nashville. But Barry comes out and
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: lays this all out as.
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: If it's, play it again.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: It's a fact.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: She states three facts. Here she is, Barry Wise. She's
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: rushing too. Pause it for a minute. When you're bombing,
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: you're usually rushing. I've had bad stats and you're usually
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: going like this and you're going really fast because you're hoping.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: To get to something that'll make someone laugh. Please, I can't.
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: I want to begin tonight by thanking you all for
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: attending my lecture on the Antichrist.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Fact, he does.
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: For all the media journalists who are watching this or
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: pouring over this transcript, that was a joke. I only
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: talk about the Antichrist at my secret weekly meeting supervised
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: by the Mossad in Tel Aviv.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: He has a secret club. He has a secret group.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: He sells, the Palantir sells their weapons tech to the
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: IDF and to the Mossad.
• 46:18
  Speaker 7: What?
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: What?
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: So now she's doing this. Now Teal is in the
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: seat going, can you shut your mouth? You know, here's
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: the thing with her. They keep trying to make her
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: a thing. The Mossad has to be so unbelievably embarrassed.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Look at his face. Look at his face. The Mossad
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: has to be so embarrassed by the money they gave her.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: They go, can't she just.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: Go back to doing these debates and stop whatever the
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: hell she's doing?
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: She's bringing heat on the whole operation.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: This is like the scene in Goodfellas when they're like,
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: I told you don't get a new fucking car.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Like, you know, like.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: So this is Peter Thiel's face at Barry Weiss's attempt
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: to comedy when she's just stating facts about him that
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: she thinks are quirky.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: Keep playing this.
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: I want to keep I want to see where she
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: pivots to because Barry does love a pivot.
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: Secret weekly meeting supervised by the Mossad in Tel Aviv.
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: What's not a joke is that I'm deeply grateful to
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: be here in Berlin.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: None of it was a joke, honey, honey. When you
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: have to say what's not a joke, none of it
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: was a joke. That's why the audience is sitting there
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: in stunned silence because none of it's a joke. They
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: don't know why you've put it all together so well.
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: You've genuinely linked it all up quite nicely. You've summarized
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: three hours of InfoWars into one pretty believable anecdote tidbit
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: that you decide to open the thing up with.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: But go on. Keep going.
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: A true friend and ally. And with Axel Springer, a
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: company with morally clear values and leaders willing to stand
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: up for them. And obviously, I'm happy to be here
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: with all of you. Back home, there is a quote
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: widely attributed to Bismarck. God has a special providence for fools,
• 48:07
  Speaker 5: drunkards and the United States of America. Now, who knows
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: if the German chancellor actually uttered the backhanded compliment? But
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: I love it, as do so many others, because it
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: gets to a higher truth about my country, that America
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: is a very lucky place. It's a lucky place to
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: be born and it is a lucky place to end up.
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: It's why people from every corner of the globe still
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: reach for our shores as a place to build, including
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: our Frankfurt-born honoree. Tonight, I have the pleasure to introduce
• 48:40
  Speaker 5: a man whose life.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: She's using Peter Thiel as the example of the American dream.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: That's great. That is kind of cool. That is pretty hilarious.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: She's using a guy that built a defense tech company
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: that is murdering people in at a massive scale all
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: over the world.
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: Here's what she's saying is it's still, it's a lucky place.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: It's a lucky place.
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: That's why people from all over the world come here
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: in hopes of starting an AI defense company that can
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: massacre people all over the world. Because it's a lucky
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: place in America. By the way, the guy, he left America.
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: He doesn't even live here anymore. He's living in Argentina.
• 49:22
  Speaker 6: Argentina.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: Keep going. God, I can't get enough of her. She's
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: just top notch, isn't she?
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: Every time you think it's bad, it gets worse. It's unbelievable.
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: By the way, what are the Ellisons even doing? You
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: know if Larry Ellison calls his son and goes, what
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: are you doing with her?
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: I guarantee you Larry Ellison calls his son.
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: I don't even know, and I don't know if it's
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: any of them. I guarantee you Larry Ellison's going, what
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: exactly is going on with her?
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: I know you had a few nice dinners, but what's
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: happening here?
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: Gay?
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: Whose character embodies what I think of as the quintessential
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: American spirit. Heretical, driven, audacious, pioneering, innovative, entrepreneurial, original, eccentric,
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: and above all, ferociously independent. And that, of course, is
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel is many things. He is a
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: center of gravity in Silicon Valley, a vanguard of the
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: counter elite. He's a man whose name.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: By the way, I just, I'm just delighting in this really,
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: you know, this is like made for me.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: This is like a tailor made.
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: This is, I want nothing more than to watch this. Like,
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: this is what I curl up with, with it, with
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: a nice cup, a nice bowl of Haagen-Dazs.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: And, and, you know, other people want to watch, like,
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: Know, The Hunger Games or fucking, you know, they want
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: to watch The Godfather or they want to watch Resident Evil.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: All of those three movies together to me are this.
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: To watch one sociopath give an award to another psychopath
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: is unbelievable. It's actually the most beautiful. Barry Weiss giving
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: an award to Peter Thiel right now. is a gift
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: to me from almighty. Like, thank you. I don't deserve this.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: I do not deserve this. At a digital payments conference
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: in Berlin? I mean, stop it. And Barry's dressed in
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: all black?
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: Stop it. And she's saying.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: Peter Thiel's the American dream and he's ferocious.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: Entrepreneurial, independent. Like it's and.
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: He's sitting there emotionless waiting for it to end. He goes,
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: when will they get her off the stage? Peter Thiel
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: wants the Sandman to come out with the Apollo with
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: the hook and get her off. Peter Thiel doesn't want
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: his shit discussed. Peter Thiel just goes, give me the
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: fucking award. He's sitting there looking at her going, God,
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: you're a mediocre adult. Keep going. Please keep going. I'm
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: not going to play this whole thing because it's too long.
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: How long is this, by the way?
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: Her speech is like 10 minutes. Oh, it's only 10.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: We might stick with it, folks. I'm telling you right now.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: It's too good.
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: This is too.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: First of all, number one, let's just think about this, folks.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: Whose idea was this for either one of their PR?
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: Whose idea was this? Where is the president of CBS News?
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: She's giving Peter Thiel an award at a Germany digital
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: payments conference?
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: Didn't this happen recently?
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: This woman is supposed to be the impartial head of
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: one of our greatest legacy news brands.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: She's giving an award to the head of a defense
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: tech AI surveillance company who's left.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: The country, doesn't even live in America.
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, God, it's so good. It is so good.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: And they wonder why everyone hates them. The tech people,
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: the elites, the people go, why is everyone mad at
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: the cost.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: Of a burrito? You know what they're really mad at? You.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: They hate you.
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: Yes, the cost of the burrito is annoying. But when
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: you do shit like this, it's unbelievable.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: God, keep going, please.
• 53:37
  Speaker 5: A Rorschach test the world over, including judging from the
• 53:41
  Speaker 5: protests down the street here in Berlin. But above all,
• 53:45
  Speaker 5: I would say Peter Thiel is free. The New York
• 53:49
  Speaker 5: Times columnist Maureen Dowd once called Thiel a walking oxymoron.
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: And in a certain light, it can certainly appear that way.
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: Is he a traditionalist or a transhumanist? Is he the
• 54:01
  Speaker 5: ultimate insider or the consummate outsider? An orthodox Christian or
• 54:07
  Speaker 5: the most prominent unorthodox figure of our age? A prophet
• 54:11
  Speaker 5: of doom who believes that we're in a period of
• 54:13
  Speaker 5: technological stagnation? Or a utopian who thinks we're on the
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: precipice of beating death itself?
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: Pause this. She's asked to give this guy an award.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: Now I feel bad for him. This is how bad
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: Barry Weiss is at her job. She makes you feel
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: bad for the devil.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: If Barry Weiss was giving an award to the devil,
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: you would go, halfway through it, you'd have to go, oh, really?
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: He has to sit through this? This is how bad
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: Barry Weiss is. She's there to give this guy an award.
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: She goes, is he a prophet of doom? Can you
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: imagine giving someone an award and that's one of the
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: lines in the speech that nobody takes a big marker
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: out with red pen and goes hey hon that's a
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: little negative we're kind of giving him an award for
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: whatever whatever fucking markets he built in this digital payment
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: you know this bullshit we're all doing here we're just
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: giving him an award she goes is he a prophet
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: of doom it's like you almost think who is there
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: no editor does she have no editor does her wife
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: or anyone who her wife's a really good writer does
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: anyone grab it and go.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: Hey honey you called him a prophet now by the.
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: Way she happens to be correct but It's the guy's
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: fake award.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on.
• 55:26
  Speaker 5: But why isn't he just all of the above?
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 55:30
  Speaker 5: The thing is, is that Peter Thiel defies categorization. And
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: that is just one of the many things that confounds
• 55:36
  Speaker 5: his critics. But what those who love him and those
• 55:39
  Speaker 5: who love him just a little bit less can't dispute
• 55:43
  Speaker 5: is this. He sees things before the rest of us do.
• 55:47
  Speaker 5: He knows what's coming and seems... consistently to get there first.
• 55:52
  Speaker 5: It's an extraordinary quality and one that's given him an
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: astonishing track record. Like back in 1998, betting on an
• 56:00
  Speaker 5: e-commerce platform when no one knew what an online order was.
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: Like launching the Teal Fellowship and urging bright young people
• 56:08
  Speaker 5: to skip college long before anyone dared say out loud
• 56:12
  Speaker 5: that much of American higher education had gone bust. Or
• 56:16
  Speaker 5: writing in an email to Mark Zuckerberg back in 2020
• 56:19
  Speaker 5: that high housing costs and student debt would drive legions
• 56:24
  Speaker 5: of young people to reject capitalism and embrace socialism.
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: Or making the crazy bet that Israel might go into
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: Gaza and kill everyone.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: Who would have thunk it? Only Peter Thiel.
• 56:38
  Speaker 5: The DSA was making daily headlines. or predicting the rise
• 56:42
  Speaker 5: of a global movement around AI safetyism years before people
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: knew what AGI even stood for. I don't think those
• 56:51
  Speaker 5: are lucky breaks. They happen because Peter actually lives out
• 56:55
  Speaker 5: that classic Apple slogan, think different. He's able to see
• 56:59
  Speaker 5: around corners because he sees the world differently from other people.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: And he has people around those corners going, here's what's
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: going to happen, but go on.
• 57:07
  Speaker 5: Which means, of course, like everyone in this room, Peter
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: Thiel and I have our differences. He's a gay man.
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: I'm a gay woman, which makes us cosmic foes. He's
• 57:16
  Speaker 5: into seasteading. I get seasick in a canoe. He believes
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: the Messiah has come and I'm Jewish, so I'm still
• 57:23
  Speaker 5: waiting for him to show up. And of course, there's
• 57:26
  Speaker 5: the difference in our attitude, at least sometimes toward the
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: press and to the vital role that it plays in
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: maintaining a liberal democracy. I view it as essential. It's
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: my life's work. I see it as an instrument of
• 57:38
  Speaker 5: liberty and as an engine of progress that deserves to
• 57:41
  Speaker 5: be invested in and perfected. But to the extent Peter
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: and I disagree on this, I'm going to consider it
• 57:47
  Speaker 5: a victory for my side of the argument that he's
• 57:49
  Speaker 5: here tonight receiving an award from an institution that's become
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: synonymous with freedom of the press and just freedom around
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: the world. Because in a free world, we won't always agree.
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: That is in the nature of freedom. And I want
• 58:05
  Speaker 5: to live in freedom. I want to live alongside people,
• 58:08
  Speaker 5: even those that I disagree with. I would say especially
• 58:11
  Speaker 5: those that I disagree with.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 58:13
  Speaker 5: Because in thinking freely and in risking big and in
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: risking being wrong.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: Such terrible.
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: Three people expand the scope of what is possible for
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: all of us. My brilliant colleague, Ross Douthat, recently called
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: Peter the most influential right wing intellectual of the past
• 58:32
  Speaker 5: 20 years. I think that might be true. But what
• 58:36
  Speaker 5: that label right wing or conservative misses is how strange
• 58:40
  Speaker 5: and wild, how untamed Peter's worldview is. It's why it's
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: so fun to sit across from him in a conversation
• 58:48
  Speaker 5: or an interview, because you never know where he will go.
• 58:52
  Speaker 5: He might wind up saying he's not sure if freedom
• 58:54
  Speaker 5: and democracy are compatible or seriously considering, as he did recently,
• 58:59
  Speaker 5: whether or not the human race should continue. I think
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: in the end, the answer is bad.
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: Let's pause it for a minute. Honey, these are bad things.
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: I just want to reiterate that.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: My love, my dear. These are not good things. She goes,
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: it's always fun.
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: To sit with Peter because he goes, he doesn't know
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: if democracy and freedom are compatible.
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: And maybe that human beings shouldn't even exist. And that's
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: a fun night out. You know, maybe.
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: But he's a billionaire and he runs a huge company
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: that has contracts with the government and it's subsidized to
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: a degree with tax dollars.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: A lot, by the way.
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: So it's not nice, sweetie, that he wants to eliminate
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: the human race. I know that you find it cute
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: when you have dinner with him.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: It's quirky. But it actually disturbs many of us. Keep going.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: Let's see if she finishes big. What a.
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: What a real– not a– how long does this keep going?
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: We can't go on here forever.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: Like another four minutes.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: I can go to the end.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's another four? No, we're giving her four. Listen,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: let me tell you right now. This is my Super Bowl.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: The head of CBS News is giving Peter Thiel an
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: award in Germany. It is Barry Weiss. She's up there.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: He looks so uncomfortable. This is my Super Bowl. We're
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: going to give her the next four minutes because she's
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: just getting to the good stuff. She's saying he doesn't
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: think the human race should exist and he doesn't believe
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: in democracy.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: But that's one of the reasons she likes him. Continue.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 5: His is a worldview informed by both Ayn Rand and
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 5: Rene Girard, by Strauss and Tolkien, as you saw in
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 5: that video, by Christianity, by libertarianism and techno-optimism, and perhaps
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 5: above all, by unorthodoxy. or as Gerard would have put it,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 5: by anti-memesis, as a school of thought and as a practice,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 5: as a habit of mind. That unusual blend has produced
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 5: what is perhaps the defining question of Peter Thiel's career.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 5: What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 5: He famously asks that to founders and to potential hires.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 5: But it's more than an interview stunt. I think that
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 5: question is at the essence of Peter's character. What important
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 5: truth do very few people agree with you on is
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 5: a question that can only be asked and answered by
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: someone with courage. Because it takes courage to interrogate your priors.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 5: It takes courage to say out loud the thing you
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 5: know will set you apart. It takes courage to be lonely.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 5: There is a reason that so many public figures of
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 5: our age seem to speak in perfect unison on every
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 5: important topic. And there is a reason that we can
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 5: count on one hand the ones that don't, which is
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 5: why that quality, that willingness to be shouted out without
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 5: going wobbly, is vanishingly rare these days. It's better to
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: risk boldness than triviality, Peter writes in his book Zero
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 5: to One, which is available in bookstores everywhere. He needs
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 5: the royalties. And it is a principle that Peter has
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 5: lived out and then some in his own life. No
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 5: one in the world, can accuse tonight's honoree of being boring.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: It has also.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 5: Animated the most tangible way that he has changed our world,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: through the companies that he has founded and funded. What
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 5: happened to the future, Peter asks, and not with nostalgia.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 5: He asks it in order to change it and to
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 5: challenge the rest of us to think bigger, to think
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 5: in civilizational terms. And his companies have created the future.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 5: PayPal changed the nature of commerce. Palantir changed the nature
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: of warfighting, among many other things, and the countless number
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 5: of startups and companies that Thiel's capital has launched into orbit,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 5: not to mention the vast network of founders and builders
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 5: and young people, including even a free press intern, that
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: he has influenced. To name just a few, Meta, SpaceX, Neuralink, Anduril, Hadrian, Airbnb, Ramp, Stripe,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 5: and Spotify. These are founders and companies that have transformed
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 5: the way that hundreds of millions of people around the
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 5: world live their lives, making commerce more efficient, making music
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 5: and travel more accessible, launching satellites, manufacturing drones, promising future
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 5: life on Mars, allowing the mute to speak, as in
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 5: the case of Neuralink.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: By the way, can you go mute? Where's the technology
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: to get you to go mute?
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 5: These are companies that make the American, maybe the Western,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 5: will to build alive and real, propelling to success the
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 5: startups and the people that might just guarantee that the
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 5: next century remains a free one. I know Germans like
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 5: their operas long, so I am sure that we have
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 5: only witnessed the first act in Peter's Ring Cycle. There
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 5: will surely be more provocations, more ideas to test, more
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 5: worlds to build. We are in the early stages of
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 5: a century that Peter has said promises to be far
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 5: greater and more terrible than the great and terrible 20th century.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 5: But greater and more terrible in what way? Will the
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 5: 21st century usher in machine gods, populism, or rule by algorithm, apocalypse,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 5: or abundance? As Strauss put the bigger question we all face.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: Or even, or she goes, or worse than any of
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: those things, me. Will it worsen anything? Worse than machine gods,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: rule by algorithm, or populism?
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: Me.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: More of me in this black outfit. This ill-fitting black suit.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: Will it be more of me droning on in this
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: ill-fitting black suit? Doesn't she have 200 million?
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: Honey, get a stylist. Keep going.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 5: Or return. What's amazing about Peter Thiel is that he
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 5: can argue either side of any of those questions. What's
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 5: more important... And what I know we need as we
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 5: hurdle through the era of AI and the algorithm is
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 5: that he has practiced at being perpendicular. In this era
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 5: of conformity, it is essential that we have sharp people
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 5: unwilling to soften their edges.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 5: People who demand.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: You've softened your edges a little.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 5: And crucially, who still remain interested in the questions that
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 5: so many left behind or, frankly, never even entertained by
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 5: the time they graduated college. Peter Thiel still hungers for
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 5: knowledge and understanding.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, these billionaires are sitting there going, when do
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: we get to eat the children? When do we get
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: to eat the children? When do we get to the adrenochrome?
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: How long do we have to listen to this bird babble?
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: Finish up here.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 5: Another way, he investigates what Socrates was accused of investigating.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 5: The things aloft and under the earth.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: God help us.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 5: The pursuit of truth.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 6: Enough.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 5: The interrogation of the things that in the end truly matter.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: You're repeating yourself.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 5: And God knows we need people like that now more
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 5: than ever.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 5: So please join me in giving a heartfelt congratulations.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: Get God's name out of your mouth.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 5: To the singular Peter Thiel on receiving this remarkable award.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: All right, give it up. Clap for Peter Thiel. Clap
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: for Peter Thiel. They're good friends. That's what it's about.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: It's about friendship. Look at him. All right, get her
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: out of here. Barry Weiss. What a big disaster. What
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: a horror. What are you going to do? What are
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: you going to do?
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: Barry Weiss giving Peter Thiel, the head of CBS News,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: she's the head of one of our legacy news networks.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: Her boss now runs everything. Warner, the other one, Paramount, Warner, CNN.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know. So this is what it's going
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: to be now.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: You're just going to turn on the TV and it's
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: going to be Peter Thiel getting an award. It'll be
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: some tech guy getting an award about how he's built
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: a new world.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: This is going to be the future of America.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: It's just going to be Barry Weiss or someone of
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: that ilk going, hey, by the way, we're giving a
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: great award now to Marc Andreessen or Sam Altman's getting
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: an award.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: A lot of people say Sam killed one of his employees.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: But what is he? Is he a murderer or a visionary?
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: We don't know.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: What is he?
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: We don't really know what he is.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: We don't get it. Is Mark Zuckerberg even real? What's
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: that guy about?
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: Is he making people kill.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: Themselves by driving negative algorithms, driving them insane with that?
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: Or is he a fun guy that likes jujitsu?
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: We don't know.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: Isn't it wacky?
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: What a weird speech. But that's going to be the future.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: They're just going to be like, what's this Sam Alba
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: guy about?
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: What's he about? What makes him tick?
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: You know, that's as clear a proof as any, by
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: the way, that this is a supranational government that she
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: is now a part of. Although I don't know how
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: no one else does, including the people there. But I mean,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: it's like it's unbelievable that. to work your whole life
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: to get into that room. And then you're sitting there
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: with Barry White and you go, this is deeply mediocre
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: and like really bad. It's like babbling. It's like not
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: even collegiate level. It's like really bad. It's jumbled up.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: It's not delivered well. It's just bad speaking. It's all
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: of the above. It's bad writing. It's bad presentation. It's like,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 3: you know, amateur hour. And there's a lot of demons
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: in that room that go, I sold my soul to Satan.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: to get in this room. I eat children to get
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: in this room and I have to sit here and
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: listen to her. I mean, this is a woman and
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: with all the respect, you know, to her, she was perfectly,
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: she should be on like Bill Moore once every four months.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: And like, that's what she should be doing. That's what
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: she should be doing. Like on Bill Moore, you know,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: like with a hot take, she's Bill Moore, hot take lady.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: She's not like fucking, um, uh, fucking, um, Bilderberg group
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: speaker of the night, uh, She's fucking hot take Bill
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: Moore lady. These German billionaires are so bored.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: Oh God.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: What's the Peter? Is he a prophet of doom or
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: see an Orthodox Christian? He's not an Orthodox Christian.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: That's number one. Either am I, but it's.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: He's not that. She's like, is he humanitarian or does
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: he want to kill everyone on the planet? It's like, well,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: no one's ever asked that question about anyone. So no
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: one who's ever been a humanitarian has said or done
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: anything like he's done.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just so funny.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: She's like, is he this or is he that?
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: It's like, you can't ask those questions. You know what
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: I mean?
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: Is he a crackhead or the most trusting guy you
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: should trust in your house? It's like, well, no, it's
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: one of the two. There's no confusion about which extreme is.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: Well, we love her.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: We love people living their dream. This is what she
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: always wanted. Barry always wanted this. She always wanted to
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: be in a room like that, giving a speech like
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: that to a bunch of disinterested German tech billionaires who
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: desperately want it. And they literally don't know who she is.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 3: They go, who is she again? They're at dinner going,
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: who is she? And they go, she runs CBS News.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: They go, oh boy, interesting.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: Here's the deal. Those people more.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: Than anyone are invested in the establishment. They are invested
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: in the way things are supposed to work. The blue
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: blood blazer button up fucking Eastern elite, Bilderberg, Davos, WEF,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: world economic shit. They're invested in that in a real way.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: And she's the bitch giving the speech. They're like, what's
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 3: going on? They want the top tier operators and they
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: need them. Because the dam of information, I mean, it's
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 3: like it's breaking and the internet has made a lot
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: of people wake up and it hasn't sent all the
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: people in the right directions clearly, but a lot of
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 3: people are going, hey, what's going on?
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: Life doesn't make any sense.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 3: And it keeps getting more expensive and it's harder and
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: it makes no sense and no one will explain to
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: me why this has to be done. But if there's
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: any group of people that is invested deeply in the
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: status quo and maintaining it, It is that group of
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: people and the fact that she is up there like
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: completely talentless is probably terrifying them because they go, we
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: need somebody at the helm who knows what they're doing. Otherwise,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: the world order is going to fracture here. She's going
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: to fracture the world order. I'll tell you right now,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: if the Iran war doesn't do it, she's going to
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: fracture the world order. Don't think they're not having those conversations.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: They're in a cafe in Brussels going, what's happening? They're
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: calling the Ellisons going, what's going on here?
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: Like, what?
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: Let her host Big Brother. Get her out of the
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: CBS Evening News.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 6: Ugh.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 3: Folks, it's always good to be with you. We'll be
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: with you next week. Thank you so much for your time.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 3: And congrats to Peter Till. Congrats on the award. You know,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: because here's the thing. We can have our differences. As
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: Barry said, we can have our differences about Satan and
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: the human race existing, people having any rights at all.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: But still enjoy our dinner here and say, Peter, we
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: thank you and we thank Barry and Long live the
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 3: Satan-obsessed techno-optimists.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: Good night.