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LIVE: AI Companies Are Destroying Millions of Books... On Purpose | Sunday w/ Seth · Man in America Podcast

• 3:36
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Man in America, a voice of reason in a world gone mad. I'm your host, Seth Holehouse. Thank you so much for being here live tonight. This is Sunday with Seth where we get to take a look at what happened in the past week or so, the big stories, and not big in terms of what's going viral on Twitter, but big in terms of stories that I think are significant to the future of humankind. I I think that's the scale of, where our reporting is at right now.
• 4:07
  We're not just looking at, oh, there's this little thing happening there. There's some celebrity, you know, trifle happening over here. I feel like that we're on the precipice, on the edge of something very drastic, which I'll be getting into tonight, but that's what we talk talking about. You know? So, again, looking back, but also looking forward, you know, into what's waiting us next week and beyond, and just try to rationally analyze what's going on, how can we make sense of it, and most importantly, what can we do about it?
• 4:38
  Because there's no use just complaining about all the bad things happening in the world. It's good to acknowledge them, but it's also good to have solutions and try to think through some things like that. So, anyway, here we are. Thank you for being here live. I will have the comments, coming up throughout the show.
• 4:57
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• 5:29
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• 5:44
  So, anyway, if you wanna know about chicken, just ask. So, getting into, tonight's show, you know, there's some good content I have. There's some good information that we're gonna be reviewing specifically about AI, but AI is you know, I I think that AI is the representation of this big change that's happening. You know, it's not all AI, and not all AI is is doom and gloom necessarily, but I think that AI as a whole is a very important topic for understanding the changes that are happening, but also understanding where these changes can take us. And that's why if you've been following my show recently, I've been really focused on AI, data centers, flock cameras, and just technocracy in general.
• 6:41
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• 7:15
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• 9:35
  Alright. So jumping into today's content. AI book burning. Like, that's this this you know, I first saw this this article over the past week or two, this this kind of topic floating around that these AI companies, Anthropic being one of the major ones that's been highlighted. Now, Anthropic, they're the ones that are behind the AI chatbot known as Claude.
• 10:01
  And, so, you know, if you know the know, there's a handful of the major ones. Right? You've got ChatGPT, which is open AI. You've got Claude, which is done through Anthropic. You've got Grok, obviously, through, X and Elon Musk.
• 10:15
  And there's a handful of other ones, but those are some of the more major ones. And, you know, Claude and ChatGPT are the two kind of major players in this. And so I saw this article talking about how these companies were buying up millions of books and then going through a process of they use these big, kinda guillotines, you know, cutters to slice off the the the binding on them, and then scan them, and then basically get rid of the books. Right? Destroy the books.
• 10:45
  It's obviously it's it's a destructive process. And I think I remember thinking, okay. What's what's really going on here? Now I I tend to be more suspicious. It's just I'm not I'm not like a suspicious person.
• 10:57
  I'm actually a very trusting person. I'm, you know, Midwest Ohio boy. Grew up in the in the cornfields of Ohio. So I'm a really trusting person. However, when it comes to AI, when it comes to big tech, when it comes to the government, I I tend to be very suspicious, which is why, you know, I I didn't really follow all the COVID stuff.
• 11:19
  Right? And I'm sure you probably didn't as well, be as well because I just think that there's oftentimes these much deeper and darker agendas behind this. And so when I saw these stories of these AI companies buying millions of books and destroying them to scan the information in, it didn't sit right with me for a lot of reasons. And so let me first by just start with kinda introducing you an overview of what's happening. So this is an article on this, website called Decrypt.
• 11:49
  Says AI book burning. Companies are destroying millions of books to feed chatbots. So they say here this came out, about a week or so ago. It says like a scene out of the classic dystopian novel Fahrenheit four fifty one, some AI companies aren't just reading books. They're destroying them.
• 12:07
  As AI developers race to build more powerful AI models and lawsuits over copyright mount, a cottage industry has sprung up to supply them with millions of physical books that are stripped apart, scanned into training datasets, and then discarded. So first reported by four zero four Media, AI companies are using intermediaries to acquire books at industrial scale anonymously. Companies specializing in bulk sourcing advertise their ability to locate hundreds of thousands of titles while promising confidentiality for AI clients, reflecting the sensitivity strung the practice. Now, Chris, so he continues, I'll read some kind of comment on this. It says, critics say the bird the buying spree is driven by AI companies racing to preserve human authored knowledge before it is diluted by AI generated text often called AI slop slop.
• 12:56
  Books published before the rise of generative AI in 2023 are especially valuable because they provide high quality training data written entirely by humans. So that's, like, that's kind of interesting in and of itself is that they are specifically targeting books roughly, you know, written in 2022 and earlier because they want books that weren't written by AI. They want books that were written by humans because they know that AI is AI. You know, the reason why it's called AI slop. AI is not always dependable.
• 13:31
  AI hallucinates. You can have AI that will literally tell you that, you know, that Donald Trump isn't president right now. Be and then they say, wait. Are you are you sure? And they'll go, oh, sorry.
• 13:43
  Yeah. That was wrong. Or they'll make up quotes for things. I mean, AI does some really weird stuff because it's just it's just this soulless code and algorithm. And so it's just again, I find it interesting that that they're seeking out the pre AI slop books.
• 14:00
  Now you just say, okay. What has what's led to this? Okay. So I'll give you a little bit of background story in this because claw or Anthropic paid out, think it was a $1,500,000, lawsuit against them for copyright infringement. Because, basically, what they're doing and Meta got in trouble with this as well, is they were downloading all of these pirated books.
• 14:22
  Like, we're talking about millions of copies of books that were just you know, you can find them in an online database. They were pirated. And they were scanning all of this information to feed their AI models. Right? So these AI models, they feed off of human information, human words, human knowledge, and that's how they then build their their databases.
• 14:46
  And so that's a lot of what AI is doing is you're asking it a question, and it just very, very quickly going through massive databases of information to find the answer for you. It's not it's not thinking in the same way that a human being will think, though there's people that argue that we've reached, you know, AGI, this artificial general intelligence, which is almost as if AI has a soul and it's independent. But, yeah, I'm not sure if I buy that. I I think that it's really it's just it's just an algorithm. It's just something that is just kinda, you know, seeking data, and it can pull data together really quickly and assemble it and make sense of it for you and spit it back to you.
• 15:21
  And so how they've fed these these AIs, one one of the ways is through feeding all of these books. Now what happened is that a lot some of these authors got together that had their books being ripped off by these AI companies, and that their books were being used to train the AI models. And so they sued them because of copyright issues. And so, basically and they they settled and and, you know, there's some things that kinda came about that. But in the discovery process of that, that's when they it was made public that they had changed their strategy, probably in response to these lawsuits.
• 16:00
  And so to then get around that, what they started doing was basically buying up all these physical copies of books and scanning them in. And so then they could say, well, you know, because copyright law so if I have a a book, which I don't have one sitting here, but, anyway, you know, if I buy a book, I'm buying a copy of it. Right? So I I'm purchasing a book from an author. I can then use that author's information.
• 16:26
  I can quote them or whatever because I purchased the original copy of it. And so their way of getting around that was to then go to buy up all these books. And but then as they're they're buying them, how they're actually scanning them is they are taking the books and they slice off the binding, and then they have a basically a stack of paper, which they feed into a sheet fed, scanning machine that then scans them, and then the books are then destroyed afterwards. I guess you could you could argue the book is destroyed as soon as they cut the binding off because, obviously, it's not gonna be a functional book from that point on. And so that was their way of doing this.
• 17:06
  So these companies have been on these, like, mass buying sprees of buying these books. Now there's another argument which relates to the copyright issue that if they buy one copy, they can make one digital copy, but they then destroy the original copy, and it has to do something with copyright that that that way they get around it. I don't know. It sounds a little bit kinda fishy to me. And so, you know, we look at this, and here here's actually another, article I wanna pull up for you.
• 17:35
  They're not just buying, you know, like, twilight vampire novels that were, you know, in mass, you know, mass production. They're oftentimes buying rare books, you know, books that very few copies still exist. You know, books that survived wars and fires and have made it through as a preservation of human knowledge and and human thought, and they're they're buying those kinds of books. So this is an article. This is on a European website, I think over in, The Netherlands.
• 18:06
  I I forget what, perhaps Netherlands. So this right here says, rare book dealers fear tech firms are destroying obscure editions to train AI models. Secondhand booksellers across Europe, including in The Netherlands, are raising concerns over AI companies buying large numbers of obscure and often rare books. The alleged intent behind such shopping is to scan and destroy them for AI training. Dutch booksellers have also received requests from abroad according to a survey by B and R.
• 18:36
  This Peter DeVeers of Antiquarian Bookstore in Harlem recently received an email from a person identifying herself as Natalie from Singapore based company two thousand seventy seven AI. And in the message, she wrote the company, was participating in a new project focused on collecting books in multiple languages, mainly in English. And so they're ordering very, you know, kind of rare books. Sent them in order of thousands of books. And so but what they're saying, though, is that the, initially, they thought this was spam.
• 19:12
  Right? These requests coming in to buy you know, these are booksellers that maybe they would have sold 10 books a week or 20 books a week. All of sudden, they're getting orders for hundreds or thousands of books every week. But they're what they're also saying, though, is that these books that they're buying, they're they're they're actually oftentimes obscure books that are very limited. And so let's see this getting into some of the background story.
• 19:37
  Yeah. You know, anyway, basically, what they're what they're saying, what the overall consensus of this is, is that they're they're actually they're they're buying books that very few copies exist. So they're buying them, they're scanning them, and they're destroying them. And so this really rubs me the wrong way because you can see this same kind of behavior happening. Right?
• 20:02
  You know, if you look at the idea of tokenization, right, digitizing everything. And so, you know, in my recent show, I think I I put out last week going into technocracy, which I highly recommend you watch the show I did on technocracy. And and I think the headline was about the, you know, tech billionaires wanting a monarch in the White House. And I went deep into what I believe is really happening and how I I genuinely believe there's been a technocratic coup that's happened, specifically under Trump in the recent term. And that what we're experiencing right now is we're experiencing a transition of America from a constitutional republic into a technocracy.
• 20:40
  And a technocracy, you know and, again, I went went into this deep in the last show, does not have any regard for the constitution. It's it's kinda just tossed aside. It's this belief that our society should be ruled by the engineers and the scientists and the people that can analyze data and use that data to decide what's best for us. Instead of us using our, you know, God given will and our rights and our, you know, ability to work out our own lives for us, they think that they can do it better. And so getting into what this looks like with the Books, though, the idea is that tokenization, right, is a key a key foundational point of technocracy is tokenization.
• 21:22
  It is basically taking the things that are physical. Right? That, you know, this I always hold this bar of silver, like this 10 ounce bar of silver. It's taking things like this and creating a digital token that represents the ownership of that item. And so, you know, the whole idea of you'll own nothing and you'll be happy, I think a lot it is rooted in this idea of tokenization, that we don't really own anything, and they'll rent it to us.
• 21:46
  Right? Or or you have a license, like a terms of service agreement that you can license it. And so I've seen the same trend happening with a lot of different things. Right? So I I was I grew up in the I was born in the eighties, in the mid eighties.
• 22:00
  Grew up in the nineties. So I I it's kind of a unique place in my life where I was born into the world where this technology did not exist. And in my formative years, you know, in my high school years, in college, etcetera, I saw the Internet come about in a very strong way and really change how life was was done. And growing up, I remember so if you wanna watch a movie, you know, it was great. It was so such a wonderful thing.
• 22:28
  I grew up in this little city called Plain City in Ohio, this tiny little town, and we had a little local video store. Or we'd go a little further if you wanna go to Blockbuster. It was a big deal to go to Blockbuster. But you go to local video shop, and you'd go and you browse the cassette the VHS tapes, and you'd pick out your movie, and you'd rent it, and you get fined if you don't rewind it when you return it. And though that's what it was.
• 22:50
  Or if there's a movie you loved, you would buy the copy of it. Remember when DVDs became really big? And, you know, I had friends of, you know, mine or even myself that you'd have a big DVD library. It's a really impressive thing. You'd have a big shelf in your the TV room with all your DVDs on it, and you owned those DVDs.
• 23:06
  And what's happened now is that now we have streaming services, and so you don't own anything anymore. And you're just paying to have access to it. But even if you go and you purchase those things, like, say you go on to, say, you know, Apple TV or, you know, Prime or whatever it is, and say you buy the the show. Right? Which sometimes say there's, like, a new release, sometimes you don't have the option of renting it yet to buy it.
• 23:30
  And oftentimes, it's, you know, $20 to buy the digital copy of it. And so you think that you own it, but you don't really own it. And that's the thing. And this is what this centers on. And I think this is actually what's happening with the books, consolidation of the physical and moving the physical into the digital.
• 23:50
  Because when when the items in the assets are moved into the digital realm, we lose control over them. That's the thing. It's like, we lose control. And then who decides what we have access to? Right?
• 24:07
  If you look at think about 1984 or, you know, Fahrenheit four fifty one, you know, we have all these stories, these books ironically, that show us what happens when you lose control of that. And when the government centralizes information and knowledges, and when they become the arbiters of truth, that's a very, very slippery slope. And I'll get into that in a little bit with a video of, Yuval Noah Harari, I'm play for you in a second here. But I did want to bring, this up to you. This is just an example, right?
• 24:39
  This is a something I saw, and as a Google Play user, right, so you you can, you know, Google Play allows you to buy things digitally, that had purchased the Lord of the Rings extended trilogy, and it suddenly disappeared from their library after Google removed it from its catalog. So it says according to screenshots shared by the user, Google support confirmed the films were no longer available, and so they couldn't issue a refund because the purchase was made in 2022, which is outside the the standard one hundred and twenty day refund window. This person says, bought these in 2022, and all of a sudden they aren't available, and there's no possibility of a refund or a gift card. And this is so he actually shows right here, this is, their actual his chat with the support specialist. Pardon me.
• 25:25
  Throat spray. And so this is the perfect example though of where I think this is going, is that think about books. You know, so I listen to a lot of books, and so I use, Audible. It's just, it's convenient. There's a huge selection of books on there.
• 25:47
  And so I will, I'll buy books. You know, I use my Audible credits to buy an audiobook. But, thing is, like, don't own that book. Now, what I will do is whenever I have if there's a book I'm really enjoying that I'm to, I will buy the physical copy of the book as well. And so we have where my wife, Kate, I do a lot of our work is that we have a little library slash office.
• 26:09
  And so I I put a, you know, a bunch of bookshelves. And so we've got, you know, hundreds and hundreds of copies of books. And so I've made a point of that. But if you look at what's happening with the AI book burning, it highlights even more the importance of owning the real thing. Now you have to think though, it's like, okay.
• 26:30
  Well, where does this go? Or kinda kinda where do these steps go if this continues? And this is where it gets, I I can say frightening, if I'm being honest, because it is frightening. And this is where my mind goes. Right?
• 26:44
  It's just how my my brain works where I'm looking at things happening, and I'm looking at these little data points and trying to understand, okay, how do I make sense of what's going on right now? But I'm naturally playing things out. I'm extrapolating into the future. I'm saying, okay, what's this gonna look like five years from now? What's it gonna look like ten years from now?
• 27:04
  Because if you were to go back think about this. If you went back to someone, let's just say in 2004. Right? This is the year I graduated high school. 2004, DVDs were really big, and you'd have an entire DVD library, as I mentioned.
• 27:20
  And if you went back to someone in 2004 and you said, hey. You know, say my own self. I say if I said, hey, Seth, I travel back in the future. Okay? Yes.
• 27:28
  Your beard is getting gray by then, so it's okay. But if I went back to that Seth back in 2004, I said, hey, buddy. Listen. Here's the reality of this. You see a huge library of DVDs?
• 27:38
  No one's gonna have that anymore. Like, if you fast forward two decades, say, you know, 2024, right, twenty whatever. If you fast forward, no one's gonna have these huge walls of DVDs. And, actually, what you're gonna be doing is you're just gonna be renting. You're gonna have just access through your TV to what you've owned.
• 27:56
  Now to someone back in, you know, 2004, it would seem like such a strange concept. Of course, there's a convenience to it. It's like, oh, okay. Wow. You mean I can actually just go and type in a movie on my, you know, on my little, you know, whatever.
• 28:10
  You can use your phone as remote or whatever, your remote itself, and you can access access all this content. It's like, oh, okay. Yeah. That's that's kinda cool. But the idea though is like, no, you're still paying $20 for a movie.
• 28:23
  Right? You're still paying $20 if you want to own that, but you don't get the physical version of it. You can get a digital copy of it that you have access to, but that digital copy can go away and you can't do anything about it. And this has happened sometimes, you know, with us, with my kids. Right?
• 28:39
  So we've done it's very hard to find any kind of shows that are the older shows for for you know, we've got a two year old and a five year old. Occasionally, we'll have TV night for them or let them watch a movie. Like, we we recently watched, Swiss Family Robinson. It's a fun film to watch for the kids. But, you know, we've found these older, obscure cartoons that we've you know, you we can't find the physical copy of it.
• 29:02
  So we bought the digital, and all of sudden, we paid for it. And six months later, it's not there anymore. And my wife, Kate's like, Seth, I know I bought that. I I paid for the whole season of that show. And we'll look at it and say, oh, what happens is all it's been removed from the library.
• 29:17
  And so that's that's frightening. So that's frightening from an ownership perspective. And that's that's one thing. Because if you think about books, for instance, what's gonna happen, say, ten say, five or ten years from now? Because maybe what if these AI companies continue on this buying spree?
• 29:33
  And maybe there's something deeper behind it where they are not just buying these books to have a, you know, non copyright infringing process of scanning the information to train the data models. But what if they're buying them because it's part of a bigger agenda to remove information and knowledge from the human race? And now while they say that, well, we wanna preserve it and because, you know, maybe there's only 10 copies of this rare book, well, wouldn't it be better if that book could be preserved digitally and everyone has access to it? And, yeah, if I trusted these companies, I'd say, yeah, maybe that makes sense. But the thing is, I don't trust these companies.
• 30:13
  And so I'm concerned that as we move further in the future, we're gonna have all of a sudden a lot of books that just disappear from existence. It's not like they're gonna give you access to this huge library of information. They're gonna be very selective, which you already see it. If if you ever use AI, AI is very selective over the information it will give you. And if you ask questions that threaten the system, the AI will refuse to answer them for you.
• 30:41
  And so the AI becomes a tool for the people hiding behind the machine to, you know, rewrite our history, to do whatever it wants with the human race. And that's a very, very dangerous place to be in. And so I want to show you something else though, because if you're looking at this this whole process, here's someone saying that it's completely unnecessary to destroy books when machines like this exist. So this is just an example of a a book scanning machine. Right?
• 31:11
  So this is a book that can scan, you know, obviously it's scanning in a non destructive way, it has a way of doing that. Now, what they say is that they say, they'll say, Oh, well, it's actually, it's too expensive to do it that way. And if it's actually cheaper and more efficient to just chop off the binding and scan them in. And okay, yeah, I guess there's a cost. If you're scanning a million books and your cost per book scan goes from 3¢ to 2¢, maybe.
• 31:43
  Right? There's some some cost saving there. But also think about it, You know, I I can't imagine that it costs, say, $10 to scan a book. Right? So why not buy all the books, scan them without destroying them, and just resell them?
• 31:58
  Right? Or why not why not do humanity a favor and buy all these books and then put them in a library somewhere? Put put them in some you know, these companies have so much money. You they're they're kind of pissing away money. So why not build a library for humanity and say, hey.
• 32:13
  Look. We understand that you're worried about AI. We understand you're you're you're scared of where things are headed. You know? But, hey, to show you that we believe in preserving, you know, the human race to the best of our ability, we've created a huge library that, you know, or whatever with all the books or or just resell them because a lot of these are rare books.
• 32:33
  But, again, that's not happening. And they say, oh, there's some copyright issues, but I think it's much deeper than that. And so I wanna look to I'll play a video from, Harari. So Yuval Yuval Harari, something he says. Now before I jump in at the I'll take a quick look at the comments and just see just check-in.
• 32:53
  I was kinda on my little half hour rant there. So just kinda say hello. RJ, the man over at Removal says, love this show. He has such a a way to give the bad news with a positive message and hope for humanity. You know, honestly, you know, I think that you've nailed it.
• 33:08
  Right? You you you understand me exceptionally well. That that's it. Because the the reality is, like, we we live potentially at the end of a major historical cycle in humanity. We we in our lifetime, we might see the apocalypse of some sort.
• 33:27
  We you know, we're seeing the the rapid changes that are happening are frightening. However so I don't wanna ignore that, but I like how he says that, hey. I'm gonna talk about these bad, scary things, but I'm also gonna do it in a way that I'm not, you know, telling you that you're doomed and that the only thing you can do is go buy a, you know, 100 acre ranch in the middle of nowhere and arm yourself to the teeth. And, you know, again, that's not my that's not my point. That's not my way of doing things because I because I know that, you know, in our reality, most people can't do that.
• 33:58
  I think a lot of people are living in the suburbs or living in cities. They're living on a, you know, on a half acre somewhere maybe out in the country. So most the vast majority of people can't just go buy, you know, a huge bunker and ranch to to to live out the apocalypse. And so, you know, that's not my solution. I believe that there is a a different solution.
• 34:21
  And so, anyway, I'm glad that you I'm glad that you, you appreciate that, mister RJ, or yeah, RJ the man, mister. You know, Tomahawk, good to see you Tomahawk, this is how they rewrite history. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And Rumble Media, I would rather have a book in hand and read than listen to AI read a book or read on the screen.
• 34:46
  Yeah, I agree. I absolutely agree. And it's kind of funny because my wife, there was one day, probably two or three weeks ago, that she misplaced her phone, and she couldn't find her phone. I think it was in, like, a pile of laundry in the laundry room. And so she couldn't find her phone for twenty four hours, and she doesn't use her phone too often.
• 35:08
  And but, anyway, so she's on her phone, and she just happened to pick up a book instead. And we've got a whole library of books, and she she started reading. She thinks she's right now, she's reading, John Gottow on, all the education stuff. Anyway, she started reading a book. And so she's I think in the past three weeks, she's read five books.
• 35:25
  She's a very fast reader, and she just has loved it. Like, she you know, and we got these little nice amber, you know, book reading night lights so she can, you know, stay up in bed at night, and she can read a book, nice soft light. And she's just loved it. She's absolutely loved it. And so, yeah, I agree.
• 35:44
  I absolutely agree with that. Let me go check out the Rumble crowd sorry, YouTube. Shy Guy Adventures over on YouTube. Yes. Good evening to you, Shy Guy.
• 35:55
  Shy Guy Adventures. Yes. Nice to see you there, buddy. Bend Rocks. Yes.
• 36:02
  There you go. Nice to see you, Bend Rocks. He says, I wanna say I say they want to destroy the paper books when scanning them because they probably wanna modify the digital version of the scanned book to rewrite and control the narrative. I think that's absolutely it. Yes.
• 36:19
  I I absolutely I I agree to think that that is a big, big part of it, right there. And so okay. Now, you know, continue, because I told you I had a video to play for you from Yuval Noah Yuval Harari. I guess I always mess up the guy's name. And I don't feel bad about it either.
• 36:41
  So let me pull up real quick. Is it right here. Yep. So here's Harari. So okay.
• 36:48
  If you if you want to understand where they when I say they, you know, the elites, the cabal, whatever you wanna refer to them as. If you wanna understand where they want to take things, A good place to start is looking at who are their philosophers. Right? So I talked about, Curtis Yarvin. So this is a guy that I covered my technocracy show last week where this guy was, you know, really what they say he was, you know, know, kind of had the ear of Peter Thiel, and he was really involved with Elon Musk.
• 37:23
  And, you know, very foundational guy in setting up technocracy, a big believer in technocracy. And if you look at his words, it's like he says pretty plainly what the goal is. Now Harari, I'd say that in in often, you know, Harari similarly, he's kind of like the scientific prophet of the WEF or of the kind of the the European elite system. And so, you know, a lot of what he says, you know, he he really tells you what they're thinking. You know, he tells you he's kind of the guy that is the the person coming out to reveal the agenda.
• 37:57
  Right? And so, anyway, I wanna play this for you. This is this is about it's a minute and a half long because listen to how he talks about this. Now this this is a a speech he gave, I think it was back in January of this year. And so think about the process we're going through of the AI scanning all these books and destroying the physical copies.
• 38:19
  So think about that and just reflect on that with as you listen to him talk about this. I'll go ahead and full screen that this for you. Let's go and play this minute and a half.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Do you know? As far as putting words in order is concerned, AI already thinks better than many of us. Therefore, anything made of words will be taken over by AI. If laws are made of words, then AI will take over the legal system. If books are just combinations of words, then AI will take over books.
• 39:01
  If religion is built from words, then AI will take over religion. This is particularly true of religions based on books, like Islam, Christianity, or Judaism. Judaism calls itself the religion of the book, and it grants ultimate authority not to humans but to words in books. Humans have authority in Judaism not because of our experiences, but only because we learn words in books. Now no human can read and remember all the words in all the Jewish books, but AI can easily do that.
• 39:50
  What happens to a religion of the book when the greatest expert on the holy book is an AI?
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: So let's try to unpack that a little bit here. Basically, what I understand he's saying is that AI is the master of words. The AI can read, copy read, catalog, remember words far, far better than human being. And and I agree with that. Right?
• 40:24
  You know, I've read a lot of books in my life. I I can't I can't recite the books I've read to you. I I don't have one of those kind of weird, kind of GIFs like that where I've got a photographic memory and I can just flip through books and read them. I I read them, and my reading comprehension is probably that of, like, like, a six year old, it seems a lot of the time. But AI can.
• 40:44
  Right? AI can you know, you it can remember probably billions of words. It's not really remembering. It's just that it accesses those words very quickly, right, through the the data centers that we're building for them. And so he's making the point that, basically, because AI is the master or the god of words, you know, in kind of how he's phrasing it, that anything to do with words, AI will become the supreme authority on words.
• 41:10
  And so books, AI will be the supreme authority. Law, legal system, AI will become the supreme authority. He's even talking about religious books and how well, yeah, he's kind of, you know, boiling it down into, well, yeah, religious books are just words on paper. That's all religion is. It's just a book that's full of words.
• 41:26
  And so if AI is the master of words, then, of course, AI is the master of religion. And, I mean, not only is I think it just purely blasphemous, like, just to put it lightly, but I think that it it it repre what you see with that is that someone, you know, this guy, you know, has consistently talked about, you know, human beings basically describing us as just these sacks of flesh walking around. You know, I'd I'd like to say the guy's kind of an atheist from a lot of his viewpoints, but lots of people aren't atheists. They're they're something else. Right?
• 41:56
  There's I'm not sure what they even are. It's it's a mix of all kinds of weird, bad stuff. And so by him saying that, it's very revealing to him that revealing to us his perspective. It's almost as if his perspective is that, well, human beings don't really have a soul, and we just comprehend words. And and that's it.
• 42:17
  But it's like, well, I mean, Christ, when when Christ was on earth, he wasn't walking around passing out books. Right? He was he was he was teaching people. And, of course,
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: you could say, yeah, he
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: was teaching with words. But, again, you know, the the the Bible wasn't commonly available to people until, really, I mean, in the in the grand scheme of things, until, like, the equivalent of yesterday in terms of history. You know, because for the longest time, it was only something you kind of had to be interpreted through the church. And so but if you look at if you look at what he's saying here, it's that, basically, that he's setting up the idea that anything to do with words is going to be controlled and run by AI. And so if you look at the book burning that's happening, I I have a feeling that part of what they see as the end goal to this is this idea that AI itself will become the arbiter of truth.
• 43:12
  And see, the problem with this is that AI doesn't make decisions on its own. AI is given guidelines for decisions. Right? So a human being still has to program into AI and say, okay. Here is your limit about what you're allowed to talk to, but even this is what counts as being a success or a failure.
• 43:34
  And so it's actually the the you know, when he says that kinda paints this picture of AI as almost a supreme being, AI is not in and of itself some independent being. AI is just a machine, and that machine does not make moral decisions. The decisions are programmed by a human being. And so AI and technology, as they're pitching it to us, it's just this it's this idea that, well, this AI will get so advanced and, you know, it'll do all these amazing things. But, no, it it really is its Oz behind the curtain because AI is still it's just a it's just men hiding behind the machine.
• 44:15
  And so they wanna tell you that, oh, AI will be able to interpret the law. AI will be able to do this. No. AI is still following the decisions and the guidelines that were inputted and programmed into it by human beings. And if you look at the people that are building the AI and you look at their moral framework, then you can see that the AI is not it's not like the AI is gonna take the Bible or some religious text or the 10 Commandments, and it's gonna say, you know what?
• 44:48
  This is the this is the ultimate truth, and we're gonna structure society around this, this divine word that was given to us to be used as guidance for the direction of humankind. That's not the that's not the the reality of this. The reality is that if you look at the people behind these companies, they're, in my opinion, a lot of them are probably Luciferians or Satanists or atheists. And so they're programming that into this digital brain, basically. And that's that's frightening.
• 45:22
  That is it's honestly, it's it's it's not good. It's not good at all. Let me hop over to the, the the chats and see what everyone see what you all are thinking. Yeah. Four Fahrenheit, Atlas b, Fahrenheit four fifty one is reality.
• 45:39
  Yeah. Electromechanical on Rumble says, It seems to me if AI was as smart as they think it is, that it would behave honorably. That is the only way it can survive. Look at Jesus. He did what he did walking the earth.
• 45:57
  We still follow him. Yeah. You're right. WLMC says not everyone will be duped. I agree with that.
• 46:05
  I think there's a lot of people that will not be duped. I think a lot of people that are watching this show, hopefully, are not gonna be duped. This is my story. I've been buying physical copies of books like crazy lately. Don't have time for reading them all, but at least I have a hard copy for them.
• 46:19
  Yeah. That's I feel like I've gone through a very similar thing where I mean, I I tend to have a little bit of a hoarding mentality, which I think my dad gave me that that gene. And it doesn't really mesh well if you're kind of more of a prepper because you tend to just hoard a lot of stuff. Even I was out in the shed the other day, and and and my wife, Kate, she was like, why do you need all those random pieces of wood in the shed? It's taking up a lot of room.
• 46:45
  And I'm like, well, I mean, I might need to use it someday, and and I've I've used pieces of wood from that pile before. So I did just tend to if there's a board longer than a foot long, then I'm gonna put it and I'm gonna store it because maybe I'll need to use it someday. But when it comes to books, you know, I've been talking to Kate, and we're thinking, okay. Hey. We need to you know, I'll probably set up some more bookshelves in my studio because I've got a little more space here, and we're just gonna start buying books.
• 47:10
  And the the beautiful thing is that you can still get books for really inexpensive. Right? If you go especially if you go to used bookstores, you go to garage sales or thrift stores, you can buy books for for very little. And so, you know, we've been going back and we've been buying the classics. You know, we just bought a big stack of books, you know, Frankenstein, The Scarlet Letter, some of the, you know, the the kind of classics, you know, Mark Twain, you know, a lot of old philosophy books, you know, Plato and, you know, let's see, Marcus Aurelius.
• 47:41
  And, you know, we've been building out a lot of these kinds of books. We've also got a lot of books on preparedness and, you know, how to country living and that kind of stuff. You know, natural medicine, there's a whole lot of that. And so anyway, yeah, I feel like that I'm kind of on the same, on the same page of this. Yeah, so here actually, here's a message from Hemp Carr says, By getting rid of paper files and replacing with digital ones, they can erase history.
• 48:06
  One day you'll encounter the message page not found, and the next day you'll see them deny that it ever existed. Yep. Yeah, also Atlas BE. Yeah, you're right. There you go.
• 48:17
  AI regurgitates what the elite feed it. Absolutely. Yep. Oh, actually, he's quoting, Julian Assange here. He, he continues here.
• 48:30
  It says, The next day you'll see them deny that it ever actually happened. That's exactly, that's exactly it. Yep. I'm so thankful that, you know, you all, especially here in this chat, you're all really smart people, and it's great to yeah, it's great to have this interaction, because sometimes I feel like, maybe feel the same thing that when you're just going through life, if you talk about these things, lot of people just kinda stare at you cross eyed. If you talk about AI book burning and hoarding books and, you know, let alone mentioning, you know, Harari or anything like that, people just kinda look at you sideways.
• 49:09
  And so, yeah. Let's say hello to the YouTube crowd. Hello, YouTube crowd. Oh, goodness. Yes, Simulation1984 says, I'm part of the executive AI adoption committee at work.
• 49:24
  That's kind of the upset face. Yes. Exactly. Yeah. Anarchist Cookbook, there you go.
• 49:33
  From Aaron David Spiegel over on, YouTube. I remember I got a hold of that book when I was in high school, The Anarchist Cookbook. It was a pretty cool book. It, you know, showed you how to build a lot of things that anarchists would build. I don't wanna talk about publicly.
• 49:46
  I'll probably get in trouble. But yeah. Yeah. Yep. Also, simulation also says, big fan, great positive spins on our ever changing potential dystopian future.
• 50:00
  Yes, that's it. Thank you, I'm glad you're a fan. And someone's like sending little exciting things happening there. I'm not sure what's happening there. Maybe is that a heart that does that?
• 50:12
  Oh, yeah, someone's seeing all kinds of little party emojis. There we go. That's fun. Yes. Exactly.
• 50:21
  So, anyway, I've got one I've one other topic I just wanna touch on, you know, briefly, and then then, I've got actually a fun little video to play for you. But I wanted to see what was it. Let me see here. Oh, yeah. Okay.
• 50:35
  Again, continuing with the AI and the use this as control grid. Just a reminder, right, so this this is this is a post from April, but, every new every new car in The US will be required by law to have tech that puts constant surveillance on the driver by 2027. AI in your car will determine if you're sober and fit to drive, automatically turning off the vehicle if it determines you're in danger on the you're danger on the road. And again, this is this is the continuation. This right here, it's like, okay, so here's and this this is the thing that, like, I disagree with.
• 51:10
  It says, AI in your car will determine if you're sober and fit to drive, and turning off. That's incorrect. Right? It's not the AI that make that determination. It is the is the human beings that program the AI to make that determination based upon the criteria that the human beings input into it.
• 51:32
  Right? AI is not making that decision upon its own. AI is not looking at you and saying, hey, Seth, you look a little drunk, buddy. No. AI is looking at you and analyzing you based upon algorithms and based upon information that some human beings somewhere programmed into it.
• 51:47
  And so this is, you know, this is a serious thing. And this is a whole rabbit hole getting into, vehicles. And I know I've talked recently about, you know, I'm in the process of looking for an older vehicle. Know, we've got a couple newer vehicles, want to sell, one or both of them, and I want to just get older vehicles. I'm looking at, right now I'm actually looking at a, hey, who knows if I'll get it, but it's like a 1987 Bronco.
• 52:13
  Old school Bronco, mostly EMP proof. Like you can get a few backup parts in a Faraday cage if you need to. But, you know, I'm just I'm just I'm so sick of these new cars. I was driving we have a a minivan. It's a 2023, I think, Odyssey.
• 52:29
  I was driving it today because I'd taken the girls out, and I had something in the back of the SUV. So I took the minivan. And, you know, it's like you have to, you know, the one thing that has that auto start thing, you have to always turn it off every time you get in the car because otherwise, it shuts the engine off if if you're if you're if it's on the brake at, like, a stop sign or something. I hate that. Right?
• 52:47
  And you can't just disable it. You have press the button every single time. But as I'm driving down the down the road, it's saying lane departure warning, and it's, like, bumping the steering wheel. And and and it's, like you know, then then it'll say, you know, hold steering wheel. It's like it's like I it drives me nuts.
• 53:03
  It drives me crazy. But, actually, I've got a little video for you here. Okay. Here we go. And may maybe you've experienced this too.
• 53:11
  Like, I just and part of the reason why I want I wanna get an old car is I wanna go back to knobs. I want to go back to buttons and sliders and knobs. I hate all the digital stuff. Not to mention, okay, you get in trouble if you're driving with your phone. You get in trouble, yet they're putting a a freaking tablet in the dash of your car.
• 53:31
  So how is it you get control for using your phone, yet they're putting the equivalent of like a 16 inch little mini TV right in your dash, and they're making everything you want to do behind a button, some digital buttons. If you wanna turn your air on, you gotta go press some button on the screen. And if you press it wrong, I I I think that's, like, that's gonna has to be an increase in accidents from that. I mean, because, you know, when I grew up, you know, the cars I had, if you wanted to just turn the heat up, your your memory, your kind of muscle memory remembers, oh, yeah, that's the knob for the heat, and you could crank it. Right?
• 54:05
  Here, you get to actually look at a screen, press the right button, go into a menu. Actually, I'll play this video for you. He does drop the f word in here, so, you know, if you've got cars, then just no. Sorry. Not cars.
• 54:17
  If you have kids, beware that I think he says the f word once in here. So I try to be family friendly. Right? But here, watch this. Come on.
• 54:26
  Let me turn the AC on. I get it. You're a Ford. Let me turn the fucking AC on. Was it that hard?
• 54:44
  That simple. And that's and that is a great. Right? It's like that's what it used to be. Like, look at that.
• 54:50
  I miss this. Like, I want again, I'm looking for I wanna get an old car that just has little dials on it, where you just turn a dial if you wanna turn your air up or if you wanna put the defrost on or turn the volume up on the radio. Just has an old classic dial. You know, the the fact that these, you know, these modern cars again, it just it's part of this whole thing. Right?
• 55:12
  This is part of the entire thing. It's like I I just I feel like I'm I mean, I'm not sure if you I mean, I get this sense I was just born too late. I I feel like I should have been born a 100 ago, but obviously, I'm here for a reason. But I just I feel like I've become the crotchety old man that is, you know, the guy that would've been, you know, sitting on the front porch saying, hey, kids. Turn down that that rock and roll music.
• 55:37
  I I I just feel like I'm becoming this this guy. It's like I I just wanna go the opposite direction. And let me know in the comments what where you're at and how you feel, but that's just how I feel about this world. I just it's like the whole world is just driving full speed into this digital version of of everything, and we're losing what it means to be humans. We're losing what it means to touch, you know, physical things that react to us, and everything's being put behind a screen that you interact with.
• 56:11
  And I just, you know, I mean, you know, I've made life choices, and we live out in the country. And we've got, you know, our chickens, and we're surrounded by the forest. And, we've got dogs and cats and all kinds of critters running everywhere, and we're homeschooling our kids. And I just I just feel like I just want to live, like, as old as I can. I I I want to just almost create as much of a bubble as I can put around myself and my family and just try to preserve these old ways of doing things.
• 56:45
  I feel bad for these kids that just they don't even grow up knowing where their food comes from. They don't grow up they don't have, you know, they don't grow up feeling a physical book or smelling a book. I I love smelling books because it's it's part of the experience. And again, this is like, you know, Harari who thinks that these books are just words on paper. Well, it's like you've never been inspired in a in divine way through a religious text that you're reading, obviously, if that's what you feel.
• 57:12
  Or even the feeling of just having that old book and and smelling the age in it. It's just like there's something beautiful about that. And you don't get that through a screen. It's the opposite. You feel less human when you when you're using one of these screens like that.
• 57:28
  So anyway, I just feel like that it seems like the older I get, the more I just wanna go back to an old way of living. And and I'm contemplating getting rid of my smartphone and just getting a little flip phone. And even, you know, it's like with our girls too. This is this beautiful experience. So we do a lot of bike riding around our area.
• 57:49
  And so we'll be bike riding in a couple weeks ago, was berry season. And so you're just driving or biking down the, you know, country road, and there's just these big bushes of raspberries just on the side of the road. No one's picking them. So we're just we're loving it. We're going off, and I've got handfuls and handfuls of raspberries, and the girls have raspberries all over their faces.
• 58:08
  They're eating them. And even today, we were out on a bike ride, you know, this evening, and we were driving, and my wife's like, oh, look, an apple tree. Right? This in the ditch and, you know, growing up in the ditch, was kinda off hanging up over the power lines was an old apple tree. And so we picked a bunch of apples, these little green apples.
• 58:26
  I picked, you know, maybe six or seven apples, and we're all eating apples. And and that would this is how we're raising our girls. Like, they they know they know what an apple tree looks like. And actually, we we planted apple trees in our backyard, and we've got apples now. And so it's like, where are the girls at?
• 58:41
  And they're both just kind of walking around the backyard with a couple of apples, eating apples. It's just, it's, it's just lovely. It really is. And that's just, that's how I want, that's how I want to live. And that's how I'm trying to live.
• 58:54
  So anyway, so, let's go and say hello back to the, the chat here. Yep. Yeah, there you go. Shake Shakels on Rumble says, Seth, I'm so with you on the knobs. I have a 2025 Mazda and hate it.
• 59:17
  Yes. Yeah. Also, yeah, see what you're saying that they're they're outlawing the old cars. Yeah. And I've been able to do an episode on this, but there's a lot of things that are showing that there's been a very concerted effort by the government to get rid of old cars, destroying old engines, you know, the the kind of cash for clunkers thing.
• 59:36
  They're they're doing a lot to get the old cars off the road because they they want they wanna force you into the new cars. So that's why I'm kind of yeah, I'm gonna be doing this. I'd like I'd like to replace all of our cars, and just have some old school cars. Yeah. So, again, if I can get an 'eighty seven or there's this really cool 'eighty six Bronco I was looking at, I'd love to get one of these old vehicles.
• 1:00:01
  Know, I can fix them. That's the other thing too. I grew up fixing my cars. You get a Haynes manual, and hey, okay, the clutch cylinder is out. You get your manual, go get your replacement, go to a local auto parts store, fix it.
• 1:00:15
  Right? I miss that. I miss that. Yeah, there you go, Bend to Rocks. How about no phone at all?
• 1:00:23
  No phone for over a decade here. Good for you, man. Good old Bend to Rocks. Yeah, good for you. If you get away without having a phone, I would love to go back.
• 1:00:33
  Maybe I will, maybe I will. So, we're gonna get rid of this guy here. The, Alex Jones, inappropriate name here. So we're gonna get rid of that guy. Some people just come here to cause trouble.
• 1:00:48
  I told you I had something fun and fun to show you. This is something silly. That's all this is. Let me see. Let me pull this up here.
• 1:00:55
  It's just something for good for a laugh. You know, the well, I recently did did a show, published it last night, think, actually. Yeah. On the the occult history of rock and roll. Great show.
• 1:01:06
  Got great feedback. I'll probably do a couple more on that. And so I had a little bit of a musical fun for you here. Let's see. Where where is it?
• 1:01:14
  Oh, here we go. Now this is this is a parody, but it's just so funny. So you are probably familiar with the Bee you know, staying alive. So the funny thing is someone made this parody video where they say that, okay, this is staying alive by the Bee Gees with but without the music. You think, oh, it's interesting.
• 1:01:33
  Okay. Bee Gees staying alive without the music. Now it's obviously a parody, and it's really fun, but I think people a lot of people were responding to it, saying, wait, that's not right. They're kinda taking it seriously. Anyway, I'm gonna play this for you.
• 1:01:45
  It's it's about I'll play about forty five seconds of it. It's just really, really funny. I know. I thought it was just so funny. So, anyway, check this out.
• 1:02:37
  I know it's silly and kind of stupid, but I got a good kick out of that. And now I I tend to have kind of a dad sense of humor, I think. I find things funny that are probably kind of silly. I I don't like a lot of the more modern humor, just kind of dirty jokes and that kind of stuff. I'm not really into that as much.
• 1:02:58
  But I thought that was quite funny, and so I wanted to share it with you. So if it makes you laugh and it made you laugh, then let me know in the comments. Yeah. So, yes. Anyway, I think let's see.
• 1:03:16
  Yep. Oh, yeah. Atlas B. E. Says, Your rock and roll show was my wheelhouse.
• 1:03:24
  Yeah. I'm glad you like that. I I I wanna do more of that. I'm I'm I'm very interested in that kind of stuff. Yeah, very interested in that.
• 1:03:33
  So and, Oh, yeah. Yeah. Shake Shakel, who says, Hanes manual. I got one for every car I've owned. Money well spent.
• 1:03:43
  Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. I had this as a kid. I was you know, this is what you did.
• 1:03:49
  You you know, I always bought used cars as a kid. I I think my first car was a I think it was, like, a '94 Ford Ranger. It's a four cylinder manual. You know, I think it was a five speed. And, yep, you go get your Haynes manual and and, you you know, you're not using a screen.
• 1:04:05
  You just have this book, and you figure it out. Right? If something goes wrong, if you have to replace an alternator or, you know, whatever it is, you just look at your book. There you go. Yep.
• 1:04:18
  Okay. Let's go check-in on YouTube. I think we're we're kind of rounding out. Oh, wow. Great.
• 1:04:24
  Thank you so much. So, V A C M over on YouTube gave a $20.19.9 dollars donation over there. Thank you. I really appreciate that. Thank you.
• 1:04:35
  Thank you, Lake. And no comment either. You just gave the nation. That's it's usually that's lovely. Yes.
• 1:04:42
  Thank you. Yes. Okay. Well, I think that I mean, I think that we've we've kind of run that. It's been about an hour.
• 1:04:52
  I wasn't planning on this being one of those really long shows. I just wanted to just cover what was on my mind. And I appreciate you all you all being here for this. And yeah Oh, thank you, Hemp Carr. Oh, there we go, actually.
• 1:05:10
  So actually, Kay, if you wanna write this down. So Hemp Carr says, if you reach out to John Potash, he'll probably be on your show. He wrote drugs as weapons against us about M. K. Ultra musicians and the C.
• 1:05:22
  I. A. Okay, interesting. Yes, okay, if you want to write that down. Thank you, Hemp Carr, A, for the donation, but also thank you for the, suggestion.
• 1:05:34
  Yeah. And Benda Rocks, who says, The isolated vocal track of Van Halen's Running With the Devil is funny. I'll check that out. Eve and Eve, your first car was a 'sixty three red Corvair. Yeah.
• 1:05:47
  I love those old things. That's all I want now. I'm getting so sick of the modern world. Honestly, I'm getting so sick of the modern world. But this is where we are.
• 1:06:00
  Right? So yeah. Anyway, thank you all for for being here. You know, there's probably some breaking news topics, some geopolitical thing that I could have covered. But I honestly, I just the more I do this show and the more I get into the rhythm of, you know, having, you know, hosting a podcast I never set out to be a podcaster.
• 1:06:23
  It's kind of what came about in my path. I just I I don't I only want to focus on the things I think that are really important to me. And I don't like just looking at here's the big headlines, and here's what's going viral, and trying to catch the viral wave. I just like talking about what I think is important and what matters to me and what matters to my children and my family. And I'm, you know, I'm deeply concerned about where the world is heading.
• 1:06:57
  I'm deeply concerned about all the technology, that we have being infused into everything. But I'm also very hopeful because there's a lot of people that think like me, and there's lot of people that think like you. And there's a lot of people, I think, that they are kind of tapping in, and they feel it in their soul. They can tell that something is wrong with the modern world, and they don't want to participate in it. And that's really encouraging.
• 1:07:22
  That's really encouraging that that that's where, a lot of us are. And so, yeah, it's great to great to be here with you. Just so know, quick ARC update. We're actually doing our beta testing finally this week. We're doing beta testing.
• 1:07:37
  So we are very, very, very close. I haven't talked about it as much, like, because I hate this kind of telling you we're still working on it. I wish I could come give you a date, but we're we're we're beta you know, doing the beta testing is a huge step for us. And so hang in there. And if you're not familiar with the ARC, just a quick little kind of pointer.
• 1:07:57
  It's basically it's it's the biggest project that my wife and I have ever done together. And and it's basically it's our own private online platform. It's almost like a social media platform, but it's so much more than that. But it's private. It's members only.
• 1:08:11
  We're gonna have access to a huge suite of tools and guides for, you know, survival, you know, disaster guides, preparedness. There's gonna be a whole academy for education. But I think what's most important, though, is that the people that I guess, we're kind of thinking the way I'm thinking, it's gonna be a place for us to gather, a place for people that really see where the modern world is heading, and they don't want it. They don't they're rejecting it, and they're trying to preserve this old part of what it means to be human. And that's kind of a lot of what's behind The Arc, is building this platform to bring people together, to preserve our own humanity together, and help each other and and build relationships.
• 1:08:51
  So, anyway, if you wanna be on the wait list for it, it's buildthearc.com. It's arcwithak, not with ac. So buildthearc.com. You can join the waiting list, and we'll let you know as soon as it's, ready. So okay.
• 1:09:06
  Yeah, I think that that's, that's it for tonight. Thank you again for joining me. It's been wonderful. I'm honored to, have this opportunity to talk to you all. And I'm also honored that you come and spend your evenings with me on these live shows.
• 1:09:20
  I feel very, very thankful that. So, yeah, have a wonderful night. Make sure you hit that subscribe button. Share the show if you enjoyed it. And, oh, next Sunday, I won't have my live show.
• 1:09:34
  I have to travel back to Ohio for some family stuff that they take care of. So I won't be on live next Sunday. We'll probably publish a different show instead, but I'll be back the following week. So that's it. Thank you so much.
• 1:09:46
  Have a wonderful, wonderful night. Have a wonderful week. And, oh, thank you. Actually, Tomahawk pops in. He gave me the quick donation there.
• 1:09:55
  My son called me half an hour into the stream. Gotta watch the replay. Thanks for another great show, Seth. Well, tell tell the son that you've got plans, man. I'm just joking.
• 1:10:03
  You know, take family is first. Family is first. So, yes. Yep. Thank you.
• 1:10:11
  Also, Susie Q, I like your take on what we can do. I really love your old school attitude. Thank you. Yes, I appreciate that. I do appreciate it.
• 1:10:21
  Alright, everyone, have a wonderful evening, and I will see you at a later point. Thanks again.