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College grads are worried about AI overtaking the workforce · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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If you had to decide what American college
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graduates were most upset about today, what do
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you think it would be?
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What are they what are they most angry
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about?
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What is the topic that just uh gets
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under their craw?
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Yeah, yeah, we're talking about college seniors this
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year.
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Uh if you said, if you said AI,
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you would be correct.
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Uh welcome, ladies and gentlemen to the Dean's
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List.
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I'm happy to have you on board, the
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America Out Loud Talk Radio Network and AI.
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The topic of AI at commencement ceremonies is
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not going over well.
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No, it's it's being greeted with booze.
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It's being greeted with disdain and distrust.
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And why shouldn't it?
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Uh many of these college graduates feel as
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though they are entering into a workforce that's
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pushing them out by the machine, pushing them
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out by this unknown, this unnamed, this entity
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that we just call artificial intelligence.
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Fake intelligence.
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Um, but it's being it's being manipulated in
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a way that students are worried.
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They're worried that they're going to enter into
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a job market that's already saturated, and they're
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not going to have a place in it.
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Thousands of students graduating from the University of
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Arizona will go to Arizona first.
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They booed former Google CEO Eric Schmidt as
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Schmidt is commenting on artificial intelligence during his
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commencement address just a couple days ago.
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If you recall, Schmidt was head of Google
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for uh right around a decade.
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And during this May 15th commencement ceremony at
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Arizona, he is uh commenting on uh on
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the rise of of the computer and the
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evolution of computer technology.
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Here's what he said.
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The same platforms that gave everyone a voice,
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like you're using now, also degraded the public
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square.
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They rewarded outrage, they amplified our worst instincts,
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they coarsen the way we speak to each
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other and that way, and in the way
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that we treat each other and in the
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essence of society.
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He's not wrong.
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The um I don't know that that the
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platform did this.
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I mean, he's saying that um uh that
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the platform gave everyone a voice, uh, but
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it also rewarded outrage.
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Uh it amplified our worst instincts.
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I guess maybe that is the platform.
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I guess the platform did uh reward the
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outrage, it did amplify our worst instincts.
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Uh the platforms coarsen the way we speak
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to each other.
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Uh I I don't know that that's the
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platform coursening the way we speak.
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I mean, that's us.
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We are coarsening the way we speak, and
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the reason we're coarsening the way we speak
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is because that way has been rewarded by
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the platforms.
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I will give him that.
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The platforms have rewarded the amplification of our
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worst instincts, the keyboard warriors among us, those
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that just get on and just type type
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type typeity typeity type their their feelings and
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their emotions, unable to regulate in the moment.
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Just I just gotta respond to this guy.
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All in caps.
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Uh definitely our our worst instincts is to
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is to respond right away.
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And it's true, the platforms did reward this
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outrage, but but the platforms aren't courseing.
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We are the ones doing the course.
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Uh and so he's right in this regard
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that it's it's a coarsening in the way
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we speak and in the way we treat
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each other and in the essence of society,
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the the essence of society has somewhat changed.
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Would you agree?
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Would you agree that it's um it's it's
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changed in a way that um how has
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it changed?
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I guess let's put some words to it.
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Uh, I mean, we're not as patient with
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each other.
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We're not as um long suffering.
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That's another word for patience, isn't it?
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I I think that the the wick is
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shorter here, the candle wick is shorter.
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I I think we we light the fuse
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and we get there faster.
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We're we're not as we're not as thoughtful,
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perhaps.
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Uh Schmidt then likened the rise of AI
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to the impact of the computer.
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This, of course, was met uh by some
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upset uh uh gasps and sounds from from
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the crowd, the the rise of AI to
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the impact of the computer.
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And in response to the to the moans
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coming from the crowd, Schmidt said, I know
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what many of you are feeling about about
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that, and I can hear you, he said.
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There's a fear, there's a fear in your
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generation that the future has already been written,
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that the machines are coming, that the jobs
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are evaporating, that the climate is breaking, that
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politics is fractured, and that you are inheriting
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a mess that you did not create.
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And I understand that fear, it's rational.
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He then encouraged students to find a way
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to say yes to artificial intelligence, saying that
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it was a rocket ship that would change
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the world.
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So yeah, I get the fear, but say
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yes to that fear.
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Say yes to artificial intelligence.
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Say say yes to uh to to the
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fact that you're inheriting a mess that you
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did not create.
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Uh I don't I don't think that that
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Uh I I don't I don't think that
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went over too well, quite frankly.
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that went over too well, quite frankly.
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The um the population of graduating seniors, that
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The um the population of graduating seniors that
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this isn't what they want to hear.
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this isn't what they want to hear.
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They they don't want to to to have
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They they don't want to to have their
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their fears acknowledged and then and then and
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fears acknowledged and then and then be invited
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then be invited to say yes to them.
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to say yes to them.
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Uh you know, they they are afraid.
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Uh you know, they they are afraid, they
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are afraid that the future's already been written,
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They are afraid that the future's already been
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written.
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they are afraid that the
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They are afraid that the machines are coming
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for their jobs and the jobs are are
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evaporating before their their very eyes.
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But how can they say yes to that?
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They don't want to be pushed out.
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Here they are.
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This this group, they're about ready to enter
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life ultimately.
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They're gonna enter the workforce.
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They're they're entering into a time where they're
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gonna go out and make money and have
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a family, maybe and uh raise children of
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their own.
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Uh this is it.
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This is their time.
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This is the this is their launching pad.
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And what are they launching into?
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They're launching into a movement that is filling
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them with fear.
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It's not filling them with hope.
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It's filling them with fear.
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And if you're filled with fear, that yeah,
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that's not a good time to launch.
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I'm just telling you, it's not the best
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time to launch is when you're you're filled
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with hope.
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When when you have hopeful expectations about what's
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coming down the road, about what's just around
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the riverbend, as Pocahontas once saying to us,
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Disney style.
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The University of Arizona's announcement of Schmidt.
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Uh when they when they when they told
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everyone he was their commencement speaker, they referred
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to him as a leading architect in the
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era of artificial intelligence.
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They said few leaders have played a more
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defining role in shaping the future and advancing
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scientific frontiers.
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So he's he's being billed here as as
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the expert, the leading architect of artificial intelligence.
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It's true that uh close to 5,000 new
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AI data centers are are being planned throughout
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the country, despite, I might add, a growing
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number uh of opposition from the community.
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The the communities wherein, and this is this
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is uh a national thing.
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This isn't in one particular state.
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The communities are are rallying against the data
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centers.
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Um here in Michigan, there is uh there
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is um uh outspoken opposition to data centers
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that are that are being planned here.
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Outspoken, just and it's it's it's happening all
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over the country.
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Doesn't matter if the data centers are crapping
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up in red states or blue states, and
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a lot of them are cropping up in
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blue states.
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And the the people don't want it, they're
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not happy about it.
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The rise of artificial intelligence uh according to
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this piece has even invaded higher education to
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the point that Princeton University has already scrapped
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its honor system and returned to Proctor tests
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due to cheating via AI.
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Now, we talked about this yesterday, and this
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is true.
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This is why Princeton has said they're scrapping
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the honor system because of AI, because of
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the rise of AI, we just can't control
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cheating.
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Uh and to me, that's a cop-out.
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AI is not the problem here.
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AI is not doing the cheating.
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Uh Princeton should should call call it like
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it is.
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Who's doing the cheating?
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The students are doing the cheating.
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Well, well, Dean, they're cheating through AI, so
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it's it's AI's fault.
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No, it's it's not.
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It's the students' fault.
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We went over this yesterday, and I'm not
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gonna uh I'm I don't know that I'm
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gonna belabor the point, but I think it
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is worthy of mentioning that cheating, cheating happens
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because of a lack of something in education.
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Not look, cheating is is a thing.
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It it's in us, it's in our nature.
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But if it's not educated out of us,
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then it's gonna stay with us.
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If there isn't a moral foundation that in
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which we're educated, if there isn't a moral
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compass.
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Uh uh appropriately so that students sign stating
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they they won't cheat.
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And this this is the honor code.
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They they put their signature to it.
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Yet they continue cheating.
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30%.
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The um the survey from the 2025 graduating
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class, 30% of them acknowledge that they had
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cheated on an assignment.
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30% is a large number.
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That's that's practically a third.
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And and that's just those who admitted it.
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You probably maybe have another third who cheated
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and didn't admit it.
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You might have a third who didn't cheat.
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I'm I'm just, you know, a lot of
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a lot of times things happen in thirds.
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That's just how it is.
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Um in the American Revolution, roughly a third
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of the population, oh that they were loyalists,
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roughly a third of the population were patriots.
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And then roughly a third were like, yeah,
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we're gonna go with whoever went.
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It's just the the nature of math, the
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nature of humanity, it's the nature of the
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third.
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A lot of things just fall into thirds.
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It's very probable that if if a third
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is admitting, there's also another third that isn't
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going to admit to it.
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And then there's probably a third that that
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held the line.
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I'm just uh I'm estimating here.
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I'm I'm just simply um riffing and estimating
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it.
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I could be wrong.
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I'm you know, it might maybe it's just
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a third, and that's it.
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Just a third who cheated, you know, could
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be wrong.
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My point here is that it's not the
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AI doing the cheating.
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Yes, there is an avenue, but it's the
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student doing the cheating.
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And the reason the student is cheating is
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because there's there isn't a moral foundation that's
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been laid.
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At least maybe not one that's been laid
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deep enough.
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Uh if they sign their name to a
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document stating uh that by my honor, I'm
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not going to cheat.
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But then they cheat.
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It means that they don't understand the honor.
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They have no framework for honor and what
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No framework for honor and what it means
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it means to be honorable and what it
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to be honorable and what it means to
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means to be true to your word.
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be true to your word.
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If you say you're going to do something,
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If you say you're going to do something,
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then you do it.
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then you do it.
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Now, look, I I get it.
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Now, look, I I get it, circumstances come
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Circumstances come up and things happen, and we
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up and and things happen, and we don't
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don't always perhaps achieve what we say that
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always perhaps achieve what we say that that
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we want to achieve, but the saying goes,
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we want to achieve, but the saying goes
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we we achieve it or we die trying.
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we we achieve it or we die trying.
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Uh that's the honorable thing.
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Uh that's the honorable thing.
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When they when they sign the declaration, they
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pledged to each other their lives, their fortune,
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and their sacred honor.
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Their sacred honor was we're not going to
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go back on this.
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Look, we're we're committed to this.
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We have we have given each other our
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our word.
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Um lives came first, their lives, then their
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fortunes, and then their sacred honor.
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That comes after their lives.
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I mean, what else can you give?
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What else can you pledge after your lives
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and after your your money, your fortunes?
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They believed that there was something more.
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And they use the word sacred, their sacred
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honor.
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Do you do you do you know what
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what's you know what?
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I've got the I've got the Webster's 1828
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dictionary over here.
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And I'm gonna, I think I'm gonna look
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up what sacred means or what it meant
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to them.
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This word's important, and it will perhaps help
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to describe how they how they looked at
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a particular thing.
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In this case, how they looked at honor.
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Okay.
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All right, here it is.
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I've I've I've got it just because I
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am I'm that fast.
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I mean, the the Webster's 1828 dictionary as
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is with in arm's reach.
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It's constantly within arm's reach.
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Uh, I mean, if you don't if you
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don't have an 1828 dictionary within arm's reach,
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I mean, really, really, what good are you?
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I'm just kidding.
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You are you are good.
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All right, sacred.
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Here it is.
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Are you ready?
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Uh it's an adjective, it means holy pertaining
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to, man.
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This print is so tiny.
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Hang on.
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I need a I need a brighter light.
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Pertaining to God or to his worship, separated
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from common secular uses and consecrated to God
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and his service as a sacred place, a
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sacred day, a sacred feast, sacred service, sacred
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orders.
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That was number one.
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Number two, proceeding from God and containing religious
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precepts as the sacred books of the old
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and new testament, uh, narrating or writing facts.
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This is number three, respecting God and holy
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things as a sacred historian.
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Number four, relating to religion or the worship
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of God, used for religious purposes as sacred
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songs and music, sacred history.
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Number five, consecrated, dedicated, devoted.
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And then it just goes on and on
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and on and on and on and on.
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It refers to um respect that is born
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out of uh a religious belief, a religious
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belief in God.
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That this is what what sacred means.
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When they said that our honor is sacred,
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I mean, they were putting it on the
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same plane, on the same playing field as
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other religious precepts, like the sacred books of
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the Bible, or the sacred writings, or um
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a sacred service, or a sacred place, a
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place or a sacred day, these things that
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are considered uh devoted or dedicated or consecrated
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or set apart, as it were, not just
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normal secular, you know, mumbo jumbo.
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This is special, and this is how they
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viewed their honor, and they called it their
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sacred honor.
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They viewed it as something holy, they viewed
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it as something set apart, they viewed it
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as as something that was very, very special,
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and that was theirs only, their honor.
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They called it sacred, and they pledged it
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to one another.
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It's in our founding document.
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They pledged it to one another.
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And now we have an honor code that
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kids sign at Princeton stating they're not gonna
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cheat.
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And then they go on and cheat because
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who's gonna know?
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No one's gonna know if I cheat.
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I mean, certainly, uh, I mean, we don't
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believe in God anymore.
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We don't talk about uh uh, you know,
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how how yeah, we can do things in
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secret, but but God is watching.
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We don't have that reverence anymore.
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We don't have that fear anymore.
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There's no quote unquote fear of the Lord,
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which according to Solomon, by the way, is
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the beginning of wisdom.
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It's also the beginning of knowledge, but we
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don't have it anymore.
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It's gone, was ushered out, it was removed.
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So now we have leaders at Princeton scratching
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their heads when uh 30% of their graduating
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class admits to cheating after signing a document
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stating they won't cheat.
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Yeah, but we don't care.
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I mean, we don't because we don't we
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don't refer to honor anymore as being something
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sacred.
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Yeah, I mean, we can't because we don't
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refer to God anymore.
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God is not a part of our education
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system, and and therefore educationally we cannot describe
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to students how something can be sacred.
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How can you do how can you describe
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to a student?
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Someone tell me, how can you describe to
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a student that something is sacred when you
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don't have any context for for sacred?
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They don't, and and and we can't present
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them a context for something being sacred, something
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being set apart, something being holy, something perhaps
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being ordained by by God to be special.
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Um we can't because God is gone and
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things are no longer deemed to be special
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by him.
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Oh, we could you we could take this
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conversation places.
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You know we could.
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We we we could we we could absolutely
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We could absolutely go there.
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go there.
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This is a problem.
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This is a problem.
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It's a big problem in education.
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It's a big problem in education.
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Uh having our our moral compass removed, having
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Uh having our our moral compass removed, having
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that foundation just eradicated, destroyed as it were.
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that foundation just eradicated, destroyed, as it were.
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Now, uh I this this sounds gloomy.
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Now, uh I this this sounds gloomy.
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This sounds like we have we have zero
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This sounds like we have we have zero
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hope for the future.
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hope for the future, like these kids in
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Like these kids in Arizona, uh booing Schmidt,
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Arizona, uh a booing sh.
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whatever his name is, is it Schmidt?
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I don't know.
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Yeah, Schmidt booing him because they're fearful about
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what they're stepping into.
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Look, this there are uh let's let's end
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this segment on a on a hopeful note.
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There are schools that are cropping up all
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over the place, and they're rooted in the
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classics, and they are providing an actual education
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for young people.
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I lead one.
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Uh they that there are institutions that care
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about the future.
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They care about the future of young people
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and they care about the future of this
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country, and they are going to educate them
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and educate them well.
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Uh, and as American citizens, we should be
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behind this movement.
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We should be behind the classical education movement.
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We should be behind it verbally, we should
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get behind it financially.
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We should support it on every single front
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that we are able to support it.
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There is hope, my friends.
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We can turn this thing around.
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All right.
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I uh I kind of hijacked my own
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conversation here.
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That's fine.
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We will pick it up on the other
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side of this break.
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So here's Schmidt.
26:53
He's he's at this commencement ceremony in Arizona.
26:57
And he starts talking about the glories, the
26:59
glories of AI.
27:02
The kids start booing him.
27:03
They're like, we don't we don't want to
27:04
hear about this.
27:05
We're we're not we're not interested.
27:08
Um concerns about the environmental impact.
27:12
Now not only that the job market, not
27:14
only are these kids concerned about the job
27:16
market, but I mean they've been told they've
27:19
grown up in a time and an age
27:21
where you know the world's gonna be gone
27:24
in 10 years because of climate change.
27:27
And yes, they have concerns about the environmental
27:29
impact of the technology.
27:32
In addition to the outsourcing of jobs to
27:36
artificial intelligence, uh many of them are disillusioned.
27:39
Um many of them as they enter into
27:42
the workforce, they are disillusioned.
27:45
And this uh Schmidt stepped into it.
27:47
I don't know if he realized he was
27:49
about to step into it.
27:50
I mean, don't you have to you need
27:53
to have the ability, I would think, to
27:55
read the room to understand your audience.
27:58
And and he didn't.
28:00
Uh and so he he then made an
28:00
Uh and so he he then made an
28:02
attempt to to pivot.
28:03
attempt to to pivot attempted to pivot by
28:05
Attempted to pivot by encouraging the graduating class
28:07
encouraging the graduating class uh and telling them
28:08
uh and telling them that they have the
28:10
that they have the power to shape how
28:12
power to shape how AI develops.
28:14
AI develops an assertion which was met by
28:15
An assertion which was met by voiced disapproval.
28:17
voiced disapproval.
28:20
The booze again, cascading down upon him.
28:20
The booze again cascading down upon him.
28:26
You have the power to shape AI, and
28:26
You have the power to shape AI, and
28:27
they're like, really?
28:27
they're like, really?
28:29
Do we?
28:29
Do we?
28:30
I mean, the the cat's out of the
28:32
bag here.
28:34
All right, Pandora's box is open.
28:36
We you're you're telling us that we have
28:37
the power to shape it.
28:39
We don't.
28:41
It's being shaped already.
28:43
And and you know, we have to we
28:45
have to deal with it.
28:47
Thanks to you, Schmidt.
28:50
The former tech CEO urged the students to
28:53
embrace engagement with artificial intelligence and be willing
28:56
to have open discussions with those on opposite
29:00
sides of the topic.
29:04
He said, if you'd let me make this
29:06
point, please, amid the boos of the crowd,
29:09
please let me make my point.
29:11
Stop booing me.
29:13
I'm Schmidt for crying out loud.
29:16
I'm the former CEO of Google.
29:18
Please stop booing me.
29:20
The point I'd like to make is, and
29:22
he again, he's trying to do this over
29:23
the crowd.
29:25
Choose a diversity of perspectives.
29:28
I in his mind he's thinking, okay, I
29:30
gotta, I gotta find some buzzwords, I've got
29:31
to find some signal.
29:33
I got one diversity.
29:34
Yes.
29:35
These kids love diversity.
29:36
I'm gonna drop diversity and see if I
29:39
can bring this crowd back around.
29:42
Uh choose a diversity of perspectives, including the
29:44
perspective of the immigrant.
29:47
Oh, and then he went to immigration.
29:53
Schmidt.
29:54
Oh, out here killing it, trying to bring
29:57
the crowd back around, drops the word diversity,
30:00
and then drops the word immigrant.
30:04
Oh, this will get them.
30:06
This will bring these these young skulls full
30:09
of mush back to my uh back into
30:12
my camp.
30:15
That this will do it right here.
30:18
The point I'd like to make is choose
30:20
a diversity of perspectives, including the perspective of
30:23
the immigrant, who has so often been the
30:25
person who came to this country and made
30:28
it better.
30:31
America is at its best when we are
30:33
the country that ambitious people want to come
30:34
to.
30:36
Let us not lose that.
30:39
This is what AI is gonna do for
30:40
us.
30:41
AI's gonna make us that place where ambitious
30:43
people want to come to.
30:46
Let's let's all gather around that campfire and
30:47
seeing Kumbaya.
30:51
Oh, I mean, it's just funny.
30:55
It really is.
30:56
It's funny.
30:57
This is I mean, the man had lost
30:59
his audience.
31:01
The students are booing him.
31:03
They don't want to be lectured on the
31:07
beauties of AI while in their minds they're
31:10
entering a workforce that's being dominated by AI.
31:14
And so Schmidt, in whatever way he can
31:17
to bring the crowd back around.
31:20
He drops the the he drops diversity on
31:23
them, choose a diversity of perspectives, and then
31:26
asks them to to think about the immigrant.
31:30
Think about the immigrant who's gonna come and
31:31
steal your jobs.
31:33
I mean, think about that.
31:35
I mean, that that probably didn't help matters
31:36
any.
31:39
Matter of fact, it might have made things
31:40
worse.
31:41
It might have might have made the crowd
31:43
even more angry.
31:44
He's gonna he's gonna create a mob mentality
31:47
here if he's not careful.
31:49
Uh, not only is AI stealing their jobs,
31:53
but we're being overrun at the border by
31:56
an immigration policy out of control.
32:00
Of course, we're not now.
32:01
I mean, Trump has stepped in and he
32:03
has shut that thing down.
32:06
But before the arrival of Trump, I mean,
32:07
how many?
32:09
I don't think they know.
32:10
Man, we've heard figures of 11 million, 20
32:12
million.
32:14
Uh, you know, I'm sure it's more than
32:18
that, where our our population has been uh
32:22
I'm not gonna use the word saturated, but
32:25
it's definitely um uh infiltrated.
32:29
That's probably uh a great word, and many
32:32
of the job markets have been infiltrated.
32:36
Uh so these, you know, Schmidt's not helping
32:38
himself here.
32:40
He's not enduring, he's not endearing himself, endearing
32:43
himself to the crowd.
32:46
Just not doing it.
32:47
I don't I don't know that he's got
32:48
what it takes here.
32:49
Uh a similar scene took place at the
32:52
University of Central Florida.
32:55
There, graduates booed Gloria Caulfield, who's Gloria Caulfield,
32:58
you ask.
33:01
She's vice president of Strategic Alliance at the
33:04
Orlando-based Tavistock Development Company.
33:09
And here's what Caulfield said during her May
33:12
8th commencement speech before being drowned out by
33:15
a cacophony of booze from the graduates.
33:19
The rise of artificial intelligence is the next
33:21
industrial revolution.
33:24
And then booze just boo, just people are
33:26
just boo.
33:30
Uh she acknowledged that her words struck a
33:33
chord, and then you know, she had to
33:35
ask the crowd, may I finish?
33:38
Please, may I finish?
33:40
Just let me make my point.
33:42
It's like Schmidt over here.
33:43
Can I could I just make my point?
33:44
Can you guys just let me talk?
33:46
Come on, let me talk.
33:47
Stop booing me and let me talk.
33:50
She said only a few years ago, AI
33:52
was not a factor in our lives.
33:55
Uh, which when she said that, it was
33:56
met with cheers and fist pumps from the
33:58
crowd.
34:00
Uh, you know, yes, we I AI was
34:02
not a factor in our lives, and we
34:04
liked that.
34:06
We want to go back to that.
34:07
That's what the kids are thinking here.
34:11
Uh Caulfield acknowledged that it was a bipolar
34:14
topic.
34:16
It's what she called it.
34:17
This is a bipolar topic.
34:19
And um, she pressed on with her comments
34:22
about the capabilities of artificial intelligence.
34:26
Um, you're at a uh I don't know,
34:28
you're at a commencement speech, you're giving a
34:31
commencement speech.
34:35
Don't you want to fill the the crowd,
34:38
fill the room, fill the auditorium, fill the
34:40
the field wherever you're at.
34:43
Don't you want to fill it with hope?
34:45
Don't you want to fill it with inspiration?
34:48
Don't you want to fill it with motivation?
34:50
Don't you want to take this moment and
34:52
inspire the young people?
34:55
Wouldn't you want to inspire them?
34:59
Wouldn't you want to say to them, hey
35:00
To say to them, hey kids, here here's
35:01
kids, here's what uh here's what the future
35:03
what uh here's what the future looks like.
35:04
looks like.
35:07
I mean, it's it's gonna be bright.
35:07
I mean, it's it's gonna be bright, but
35:09
But instead, you go in, you talk about
35:09
instead you go in, you talk about artificial
35:11
artificial intelligence, and none of them feel like
35:12
intelligence, and none of them feel like a
35:14
a future full of artificial intelligence is going
35:14
future full of artificial intelligence is going to
35:17
to be bright.
35:17
be bright.
35:20
None of them feel this way.
35:20
None of them feel this way.
35:21
They don't.
35:21
They don't.
35:22
They feel like they're being inundated, they're being
35:22
They feel like they're being inundated, they're being
35:24
pushed out of a job market, we're being
35:24
pushed out of a job market, we're being
35:25
overrun, and according to Schmidt, the machines are
35:26
overrun, and according to Schmidt, the machines are
35:27
taking over.
35:27
taking over.
35:30
It's what they feel like.
35:31
They feel like the machines are taking over,
35:33
but you're gonna show up at their commencement
35:36
ceremony, and then you're going to ask them
35:38
to pay attention to you.
35:42
I would think as you're preparing your your
35:45
address, you would think, okay, what can I
35:47
say that's going to inspire them?
35:49
What can I say that's going to motivate
35:50
them?
35:51
What can I say that's going to encourage
35:52
them?
35:53
I don't know.
35:54
Maybe tell a story.
35:56
Maybe.
35:58
But you know, don't go in and realize
36:00
that you're talking about a bipolar topic, and
36:02
then carry on with it.
36:06
Uh, all of you that are giving commencement
36:08
addresses this spring, take note here from Caulfield
36:11
and Schmidt on what not to talk about
36:14
at your commencement address.
36:17
Or here's what I mean, just please, please
36:19
take note about what you should.
36:21
You should not be uh, you know, trying
36:24
to encourage these young people along with certainly
36:28
artificial intelligence.
36:32
It's not the topic of choice.
36:34
They don't want to hear it, they're not
36:36
interested in it.
36:37
Just like uh I don't know.
36:40
I I mean, don't you pay attention to
36:42
what's happening in the country?
36:45
Don't you go to the podium and consider
36:47
data centers are popping up all over the
36:49
place, and in these communities, people aren't happy
36:52
about it, and it's it's not a political
36:54
perspective.
36:57
It isn't.
36:57
I I know Schmidt uh in his comments,
37:00
he talked about um, you know, he's telling
37:03
the kids that yes, there's fear, there's fear
37:05
in your generation that the future has already
37:08
been written, that the machines are coming, that
37:11
the jobs are evaporating, that the climate is
37:14
breaking, that politics are fractured, but this isn't
37:16
a political thing.
37:20
This isn't down the line of of blue
37:23
and red or or democrat or republican.
37:26
This is one of those topics where your
37:31
political persuasion doesn't matter.
37:36
It doesn't matter if you voted Democrat in
37:38
the last cycle or Republican.
37:40
People, a majority, an overwhelming majority of people
37:44
don't want these data centers coming into their
37:47
neighborhoods, into their communities.
37:50
They don't want to be overrun by AI.
37:54
This is not a this isn't a political
37:55
topic.
37:58
This is a a topic centered around humanity.
38:02
And it's it's one of those topics that
38:04
I don't know if you're if you're giving
38:06
a commencement speech.
38:08
I mean, don't you have to be paying
38:09
attention to this?
38:10
I I would think so.
38:14
Since we're on the top, there's a piece
38:16
that I had planned to get into.
38:19
Uh I didn't plan to get into it
38:21
today, but I think we're gonna dive into
38:22
it today.
38:23
I was gonna save it for for later
38:25
in the month.
38:26
It's a great piece by uh Jeff Minick,
38:29
our friend over at the Epoch Times.
38:32
It's called Dear Graduates.
38:34
These four choices make a rich life.
38:38
His subtitle, there are a few daily habits
38:41
that call us to live fully, love deeply,
38:43
and take the chances that truly matter.
38:47
Four choices that make a rich life.
38:49
Now, this is I don't know.
38:52
This to me, I would think would be
38:54
a great topic for somebody giving a commencement
38:56
address.
38:58
I mean, isn't this what you want to
39:00
go to the podium with?
39:02
Isn't this what you want to uh isn't
39:04
this what you want to lead with?
39:06
Four choices that are gonna make your life
39:08
rich, not hey kids, we're gonna we're gonna
39:10
talk about AI today, and it's I know
39:12
all of you think it's a destructive force
39:14
and it's gonna take over the job market,
39:16
it's gonna destroy the climate.
39:18
And while all those things may be true,
39:20
we're we're gonna we're gonna tell you to
39:22
wrap your your brains around it.
39:24
You got to get behind it.
39:25
You gotta support it.
39:27
You got to get out there and sub
39:28
and and support it.
39:30
What do you what are you doing, you
39:31
lazy Mary is over here on your on
39:33
your on your hineies.
39:34
You get off your hineys and you get
39:36
over there and support AI.
39:38
I mean, that's that's what it's like.
39:40
That's it's kind of what we're what we're
39:41
hearing.
39:42
It's kind of what we're witnessing.
39:44
But Minnick shows up here at the epoch
39:47
times, and he says, Dear graduates, there are
39:49
four choices that if you make them today,
39:52
they are going to change your life forever
39:55
for the better.
39:59
And this to me is this is commencement
40:00
worthy.
40:01
This is commencement material.
40:03
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Again, this is taking this from Jeff Minick's
43:27
piece in the uh Epoch Times entitled Dear
43:30
Graduates.
43:32
These four choices make a rich life.
43:36
Minick uh starts out by uh visiting Eleanor
43:38
H.
43:41
Porter's Pollyanna from 1913.
43:43
He takes us back in time.
43:45
Pollyanna, published indeed in 1913.
43:49
Uh, whether you've read the novel or not,
43:51
you've you've heard the term because today, when
43:54
you call someone a Pollyanna, it's generally an
43:57
insult, describing an excessively optimistic person who can't
44:00
face reality.
44:03
Yet, when the book was published, uh, it
44:08
had a completely different uh reception.
44:13
Uh the the book uh hit the the
44:15
market uh with a fire storm, it was
44:18
a smash hit.
44:20
It resonated, the message resonated with adults and
44:23
young people alike.
44:26
The orphaned Pollyanna plays the glad game, which
44:29
means that she's always looking for something to
44:32
be thankful for when things go south.
44:36
These acts of gratitude draw her away from
44:38
her troubles, allowing her to see the good
44:41
in the world.
44:44
As I said, the book became a smash
44:45
hit.
44:47
Glad game clubs were founded all over the
44:49
country.
44:51
Parker brothers even introduced a popular board game
44:54
that sold for over 50 years.
44:58
Yet what changed?
45:00
Calling someone a Pollyanna today is not it's
45:02
not a compliment.
45:05
Two years after Pollyanna appeared on the market.
45:09
Um T.S.
45:11
Elliot wrote the love song of J.
45:14
Alfred Proofock.
45:16
Uh and in Prufock, we we don't find
45:18
a glad game.
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Instead, we we only find self-obsession and despair.
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Proof Oc, proofrock is wrapped up in egotism.
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His energies are directed inward.
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He's always focused on number one.
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According to Minnick, he is the dreary forerunner
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of our own sad age of anxiety, discontent,
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and self-absorption.
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Minick says that in many ways we stand
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in this moment on the threshold, you and
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I, on a spectrum of extremes between Pollyanna
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and Proofrock.
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If you'd like to step a little closer
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to the Glad Girl and avoid the proofrock
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virus, Minnick says, here are four ways to
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help you make the move.
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Number one, make gratitude an intentional choice.
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Minnick says that for 40 years of his
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adult life, he neglected intentional gratitude and the
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advantages it bestows.
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Uh he he claims he wasn't a narcissist,
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and I believe he, but rather his focus
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was always on school, then on work, then
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on marriage, and then on family, and then
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even on even more work.
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Like millions of others, he he was always
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so zeroed in on the day-to-day living that
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gratitude found little room in his thinking.
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He says that only in the past 15
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years or so has he started each morning
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with a cup of coffee and a simple
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prayer.
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Lord, thank you for another day.
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Let me make the most of it.
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It's a simple routine, he notes.
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Takes less than 10 seconds, and it sets
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the tone for the entire day.
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So he urges us in his commencement address
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to take his example as negative as it
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is.
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Don't wait until your middle ages to adopt
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an attitude of intentional gratitude.
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Start today, start now.
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You'll discover that gratitude is not the child
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of happiness, rather, it's the opposite.
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If you're looking for happiness, you'll find that
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gratitude is its mother.
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That's point one.
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Be intentional with gratitude.
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Point two.
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He says, make your days extraordinary.
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Shortly after he turned 40.
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Uh he woke one morning to a thought
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that came out of nowhere.
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Today is going to be an adventure, he
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thought.
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That's strange.
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Uninvited thought reappeared the next morning.
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And then the next, and then the night,
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and it just kept reoccurring and reappearing.
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Today it's going to be an adventure.
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And he says it changed the way he
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looked at the world.
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Making today is going to be an adventure.
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Your second morning mantra and repeating it as
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needed throughout the day can transform how you
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view the ordinary.
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The faces of the people you love take
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on a special glow.
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Workplace hassles become challenges to be solved.
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Sunsets, the rainy afternoons, books you read, and
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a friend's conversation all become more meaningful and
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yes, more beautiful.
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You'll walk with a bit more bounce in
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your step and hold your head a little
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higher, ready to meet and tackle whatever comes
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your way.
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He says, try it for a week.
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See whether today is going to be an
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adventure.
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Add some sparkle to your routine.
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After all, what have you got to lose?
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All right, let's recap.
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Point one.
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He begins his day with a simple statement.
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With a simple statement.
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Um Lord, thank you for another day.
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Um Lord, thank you for another day.
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Let me make the most of it.
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Let me make the most of it.
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And when that is done, he says, today
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And when that is done, he says, today
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is going to be an adventure.
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is going to be an adventure.
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Gratitude and making your days extraordinary.
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Gratitude and making your days extraordinary.
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Point three, he says, stay awake.
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Point three, he says, stay awake.
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2025 actress and educational activist, Sophie Winkleman, spoke
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2025 actress and educational activist Sophie Winkleman spoke
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at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Conference in
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at the Alliance for a
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London.
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We saw this clip.
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It went viral.
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Um her topic was entitled The Damage Done
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to Young People in the Classroom by Screens
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Digital Learning.
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She began her talk with this story.
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She says it was early evening.
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I was on a Pac-19 bus in London,
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standing over a young man and a young
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woman.
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They were sitting beside each other, both gazing
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at their smartphones.
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They were both attractive, smartly dressed, professional looking,
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around the same age.
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Willfully invading their privacy, she says, I subtly
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angled myself to see what they were up
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to on their phones.
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They were each on dating apps, reading the
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profiles of men and women who presented as
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extremely similar to the two of them.
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Completely true, she said, amidst the laughter of
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the audience.
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Our bus reached Piccadilly Circus and both happened
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to alight at this stop.
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I watched the two of them as they
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walked away from each other.
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They were side by side, both seeking companionship
50:37
or love, but they didn't even register each
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other's existence.
50:43
The moral here is don't let your screen
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make you a sleepwalker.
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The real world is teeming with possibilities.
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No phone can ever match.
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Point number three, stay awake.
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So let's recap.
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We've got gratitude.
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Begin your day with gratitude.
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Begin your day with with the mantra that
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it's going to be extraordinary and stay awake
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throughout the day.
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Be alert.
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Keep your head on a swivel, as we
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say.
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And number four, throw caution to the wind.
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Minick says here's a tale with a happier
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ending.
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In 1976, I was living on a shoestring
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budget in the back side of Boston's Beacon
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Hill.
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The neighborhood then was rough and run down.
51:29
A neighborhood of addicts, prostitutes, people of all
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sexual proclivities, thieves, and at least one witch.
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I'd never lived anywhere remotely like it, he
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says.
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Sometimes late in the evening, uh, he'd walk
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to Harvard Gardens, a bar and grill nowhere
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near Harvard, whose garden constituted wilted potted plants.
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This particular evening in March, I sat with
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a friend, Jim, who was already a bit
52:15
drunk when I arrived, nursing the single beer
52:18
I had allotted myself when three nurses from
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nearby Massachusetts General happened to walk in to
52:23
the bar.
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When I commented that one was cute, my
52:29
friend sent drinks to their table and they
52:31
invited us to join them.
52:33
For half an hour or so, the five
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of us talked.
52:36
Then they rose to leave.
52:38
Later, the nurse who'd caught my eye told
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me that she'd heard my friend saying, Don't
52:43
let her get away, don't let her get
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away, as they walked to the door.
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And so, throwing away my usual inhibitions, I
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tumbled onto Cambridge Street, caught up with the
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three nurses.
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Her two friends stepped away to give us
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some space.
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I said, I don't usually do this.
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In truth, I had never done it.
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But could I have your phone number and
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call you?
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She gave me a look, then dug out
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a pen and a piece of paper from
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her purse.
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I don't usually do this either, she said.
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But yes, you can call me.
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As she was writing her number, an old
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man appeared out of nowhere behind us and
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wrapped his arms around our shoulders.
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Give the guy a chance.
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He mumbled, give the guy a chance.
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He then disappeared down the sidewalk, vanishing into
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the night.
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Long story short, Minnick says, Chris gave me
53:38
a chance.
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We fell in love, we married, we went
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through good times and bad, and yet we
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kept loving each other.
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All because I took a chance, and she
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took a chance.
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And we were fortunate enough to have a
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pushy drunk and a guardian angel help us
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get together.
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Risk always comes with the possibility of failure.
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And we should, when possible, weigh consequences before
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leaping into the unknown.
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After all, prudence is one of the classic
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virtues.
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But it's also true.
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If you want a guarantee by a toaster,
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as Clint Eastwood said in The Rookie.
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Making risk aversion, a life philosophy, as some
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do today, has its own risks, such as
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not marrying a woman you were meant to
54:25
be with and having four children and 24
54:28
grandchildren and another making an entrance this July.
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Congratulations, Minnick, by the way, to that fact.
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Practice gratitude, he says.
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Infuse your day with the spirit of adventure,
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he says.
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Stay awake to possibility, he says, and roll
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the dice every once in a while.
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Do these things and you'll lead a life
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richer than you've ever imagined.
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Bum bum bum.
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Now, isn't that a great commencement speech?
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And I'm sure he wasn't.
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I mean, he he's writing it here for
55:03
the Epoch Times.
55:05
He's not giving it as a commencement speech,
55:06
but it is.
55:08
It's a beautiful commencement speech.
55:10
Instead of walking to the to the podium
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to the stage and um creating turmoil by
55:17
by convincing the students to embrace AI.
55:22
How about how about we convince them to
55:24
embrace gratitude?
55:26
How about we invince them, uh and vince
55:29
them, convince them to embrace the idea that
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this day is going to be exceptional, and
55:35
that your life is exceptional because you live
55:38
in a country that's exceptional.
55:41
And how about how about you you go
55:44
through this day that's going to be exceptional
55:46
with your eyes wide open, looking around and
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observing and enjoying and taking in all the
55:51
beauty that exists?
55:54
How about that?
55:55
And then how about occasionally we roll the
55:56
dice?
55:58
We throw caution to the wind and we
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just go after it.
56:00
We just go after it.
56:02
We embrace a dream and we go after
56:02
We embrace a dream and we go after
56:03
it.
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it.
56:05
We embrace a relationship and we go after
56:05
We embrace a relationship and we go after
56:06
it.
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it.
56:08
We embrace a career and and and desires
56:08
We embrace a career and desires and longings
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and longings, and we go after it.
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and we go after it.
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How about that?
56:13
How about that?
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That, my friend, that is a commencement speech
56:15
That, my friend, that is a commencement speech
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right there.
56:17
right there.
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Uh, and it's probably, I'm sure it's being
56:19
Uh, and it's probably, I'm sure it's being
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given in stadiums all over the country this
56:21
given in stadiums all over the country this
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time of the year.
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time of the year.
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And it should be.
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And it should be.
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It absolutely should be.
56:27
It absolutely should be.
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All right.
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All right, my friends, that's it.
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My
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That's all the time we have for today.
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Thank you for joining us.
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And a special thanks to Jeff Minick for
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that commencement address.
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My friends, encourage your friends and family to
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get on the dean's list.
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Let's unite to renovate pH.