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AI and Creative Destruction - Big Picture with Jack Atherton · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: It's seven oh six. I think about kr CD talk
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  Speaker 1: station Brian Thomas right here wishing everyone a very happy Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Try to make it so anyway, And I always admit
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  Speaker 1: when I do stand on the shoulder of giants, most
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  Speaker 1: all cylinders. God bless folks who've been calling in and
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  Speaker 1: at this moment in time, we get the blessings of
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  Speaker 1: Jack Advid and something we call the big picture. Jack
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  Speaker 1: Addan and my friend welcome back. Thank you for being
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  Speaker 1: on the show again today.
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  Speaker 2: My friends, I could never match what they used to
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  Speaker 2: call your intestinal fortitude, and that's exactly what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess I don't days like today. Man, You'll
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  Speaker 1: you know what did I say today? I can't remember
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  Speaker 1: a thing that I said five minutes ago, let alone
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  Speaker 1: what just came out of my mouth. I'm just swimming
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  Speaker 1: in this weird sea of confusion brought to you by chemotherapy,
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  Speaker 1: so I appreciate it. Man, I don't feel like I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing well. That's why I keep apologizing for myself. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to labor the point. It's just that you know,
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  Speaker 1: what the hell's wrong with Thomas today? Always think that
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  Speaker 1: maybe going through people's minds. But I got people like you,
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  Speaker 1: the giants upon which I can stand and kick back
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  Speaker 1: and enjoy your brilliant commentary.
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  Speaker 2: Man, goodness, thank you well. Also, man, I mentioned did
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  Speaker 2: our hearts go out to Joe Strecker Ainsley and I
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  Speaker 2: are going to be his dance visitation this evening. I
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  Speaker 2: will see you there, okay, all right. Meantime, the biggest
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  Speaker 2: naval blockade, the Cuban Missile crisis, is now underway. JFK
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  Speaker 2: did not get regime change, so they'll died in his
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  Speaker 2: bed fifty four years later. But Cuba never got nuclear weapons,
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  Speaker 2: so we'll see how things work out and the run. Meantime,
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  Speaker 2: let's take a break from the war this week and
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  Speaker 2: focus instead of a different kind of destruction, creative destruction.
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  Speaker 2: That oxymoron is in the news because everybody is afraid
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be thrown out of work by AI
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  Speaker 2: artificial intelligence. Well, democrats are not worried. They're always going
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  Speaker 2: to have do nothing government jobs and scams. But everybody
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  Speaker 2: who actually works for a living worries about what economists
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  Speaker 2: call creative destruction, meaning new technology making old jobs obsolete.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get a joke about this a little bit, because
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  Speaker 2: we've got a light in the mood. No, creative destruction
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  Speaker 2: is painful. Long ago my family lost our business a
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  Speaker 2: summer resort ray of dirty dancing to your changes in
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  Speaker 2: the way families take vacations. I wrote a comic nowuple
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  Speaker 2: about that, called the Summer We've Skipped Woodstock. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and creative destruction. Yeah you enjoyed it?
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  Speaker 1: No, yeah, good. Amazon search for Jack Adi and he's
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  Speaker 1: written several books. Jackie, do a good job man. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Creative destruction has been going on a lot longer than that.
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  Speaker 2: The key has always been not trying to halt progress
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  Speaker 2: like the English weavers did two hundred years ago when
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  Speaker 2: so called blood eyes destroyed textile machines so they could
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  Speaker 2: stay in their cottages and sew. The key, I think
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  Speaker 2: is trying to anticipate where new jobs may be and
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  Speaker 2: training for them. If you can. Our kids and grandkids
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  Speaker 2: certainly can if they make the right choices. Creative destruction
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  Speaker 2: started at least six thousand years ago in Sumeria, which
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  Speaker 2: AOC would tell you was in South America south of
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  Speaker 2: the equator, but Samaria was actually histories first civilization in
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  Speaker 2: what we now call Iraq. Back in ancient sumer imagine,
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  Speaker 2: there was a peasant named lu Dari is a made
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  Speaker 2: up guy, but it means eternal man. Ludari was ambitious.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't want to keep his family harming the popular
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  Speaker 2: crop for Sumerian peasants, onions, not even with help from
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  Speaker 2: the new irrigation system. Instead, Ludari wanted a job that
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  Speaker 2: would boost him up the social ladder, carrying the king's litter.
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  Speaker 2: We're not talking about cat litter. This litter was a
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  Speaker 2: chair perched on two long rods, hoisted by four musclemen.
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  Speaker 2: In those days, carrying a litter was a high class job.
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  Speaker 2: Ti Ludari worked out he stopped eating onions so as
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  Speaker 2: not to offend the kick. Sure enough, he got hired,
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  Speaker 2: and he made a great living lugging the king around
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  Speaker 2: until and the heyword here is going to be until
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  Speaker 2: some other guy in invented the wheel. This was around
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  Speaker 2: four thousand VC, suddenly the whole royal family wanted one
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  Speaker 2: of the new carts with wheels drawn by donkeys. That
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  Speaker 2: meant Ludari's family had to learn about donkeys. Wish your general,
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  Speaker 2: But as any four age kid will tell you, stubborn
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  Speaker 2: donkeys won't budge an inch shift they're frightened. So donkey
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  Speaker 2: carts created a lot of traffic jams. Eventually, around two
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  Speaker 2: thousand DC, somebody imported horses from Central Asia and Ludari's
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  Speaker 2: great great great great grandson learning to drive a horse
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  Speaker 2: drawn chariot. By the way, if we're leading ladies out
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  Speaker 2: of this story, it's because for most of history women
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  Speaker 2: were not allowed to do anything except for raise onions
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  Speaker 2: and kids. Okay, jumping way ahead now to the early
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  Speaker 2: twentieth century. Ludari's descendants hit the jackpot when they were
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  Speaker 2: allowed to immigrate legally to America, but only Brian Because
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  Speaker 2: they passed health examinations and because they were highly trained
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  Speaker 2: coach bakers and could make a living year, they would
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  Speaker 2: not be a burden on taxpayers demanding welfare, like saying
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  Speaker 2: more than eighty percent of Somali's in Minnesota. The Ludari
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  Speaker 2: family did well in America until it was a very
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  Speaker 2: unlucky family. Henry Ford convinced everyone to drive not horse
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  Speaker 2: drawn carriages, but automobiles. So always up for a challenge,
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  Speaker 2: the Ludaris moved to Detroit. They learned to build engines,
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  Speaker 2: joined a union, and collectively bargained for good wages and
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  Speaker 2: benefits until Democrats and establishment Republicans found that auto company
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  Speaker 2: owners who funded their political campaigns could make cars a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot cheaper. In Canada and Mexico, the politicians they
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  Speaker 2: backed voting for so called free trade deals so those
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  Speaker 2: foreign made cars would not face terrors in America. Meantime,
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  Speaker 2: Democrats and rhinos also cut trade deals that in Europe
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  Speaker 2: and Japan flap killer terraffs on American made cars, effectively
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  Speaker 2: banning them from foreign markets. And it gets works, folks.
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  Speaker 2: Multinational corporations were also delighted to let communists China manufacture
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of goods, from sneakers to computers at starvation
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  Speaker 2: wages with stolen technology. Yet when President Donald J. Trump
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  Speaker 2: for the first time insist that the Chinese tariffs be reciprocal,
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  Speaker 2: Democrats and the Rhinos Wall Street Journal branded Trump a protectionist.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about this many times before. Ryan. The point
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  Speaker 2: now is that you cannot have a growing economy here
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  Speaker 2: in America, an economy that generates cutting edge, high pain
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  Speaker 2: jobs if you don't allow the true leaf free market
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  Speaker 2: to engage in creative destruction. Trying to stop progress is
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  Speaker 2: as futile as another ancient king, King Canute, ordering the
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  Speaker 2: ocean to stop pounding his shore. Because if American private
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  Speaker 2: industry does not lead the way, some rival country will,
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  Speaker 2: and in any event it's not necessary. New technology leads
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  Speaker 2: to new jobs, better jobs. Steve Jobs Steve challenged mob
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  Speaker 2: Bell with his new fangled iPhones. Landlines plummeted from ninety
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  Speaker 2: percent usage to twenty nine percent, yet AT and T
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  Speaker 2: is still going strong with cell phones. Steve Jobs also
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  Speaker 2: challenged IBM Mainframes, which is Macintosh personal computers. Yet IBM
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  Speaker 2: remains on Cloud nine computing on the cloud. This year,
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  Speaker 2: when we're celebrating the American Revolution, friends, accept the fact
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  Speaker 2: that revolutionary change is constantly changing the world, from the
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  Speaker 2: invention of the wheel to artificial intelligence. Our job is
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  Speaker 2: not to break machines or deprive them of power, but
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  Speaker 2: to master them and invent new ones that are even
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  Speaker 2: better and will provide people after some pain, with astonishing
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  Speaker 2: new jobs. Thomas Edison, one last example, with his motion
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  Speaker 2: picture camera, eventually made Star Trek and Star Wars possible.
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  Speaker 2: Now Elon Musk is making science fiction a reality. Challenge
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  Speaker 2: your kids and yourself to meet the eternal challenge of change,
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  Speaker 2: or as Captain Jean lup Picard would say, make it so, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: Make it so, you know, Jack, I in reverse order,
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  Speaker 1: as you were talking about, you know, the evolution of technology,
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  Speaker 1: competition kicks in businesses evolve and end up surviving because
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  Speaker 1: they don't remain in a st mode. How is it
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  Speaker 1: that we can't get reforms at the US Post Office?
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  Speaker 2: Jack?
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  Speaker 1: You know, the world's evolved around them. You've got multiple
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  Speaker 1: competition with you know, the likes of Amazon delivering their
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  Speaker 1: own packages, and you've got obviously DHS and you know,
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  Speaker 1: fat X and the US Post Office they're in static mode.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe that's because they have some form of monopolistic
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  Speaker 1: protection that they enjoy and can go billions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: in the hole each and every year and yet do
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  Speaker 1: nothing to modify their business environment. I think that speaks
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  Speaker 1: volumes of the reality of the Post Office. But then
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  Speaker 1: backing up the whole idea of immigration. You mentioned that
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  Speaker 1: we did screening for health and ability. Ellis Island wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just an immediate pass into the country, but there wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a social welfare safety net at the time, which means,
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to take that perilous journey, and it
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  Speaker 1: was to come to the shores of the United States
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  Speaker 1: to try to make a better life for yourself, you
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  Speaker 1: better damn well have a great set of skills that
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  Speaker 1: you're bringing with you or you're going to starve. So
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  Speaker 1: no social welfare safety that people point to that all
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  Speaker 1: the time, Oh look at what we used to do. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't have a welfare safety that everybody gets hooked
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  Speaker 1: up to. And then finally, the first point I wrote
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  Speaker 1: down going reverse order, did John F. Kennedy get an
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  Speaker 1: authorization for you some military force or declaration of war
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  Speaker 1: when he launched the Bay of Pigs?
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  Speaker 2: Nobody did? Nobody. But this is you know, you've been
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  Speaker 2: a conduit for the debate I've been having with Thomas
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  Speaker 2: Massey and some of your other regular guests, the colonel
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  Speaker 2: and also the judge. But yeah, look, getting back to
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  Speaker 2: creative destruction and AI by the way. I had a
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  Speaker 2: great uncle who was sent back from Ellis Island because
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  Speaker 2: he had conjuncted by this, So all of this hits
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  Speaker 2: close to home. Critics, the AI is different from inventing
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  Speaker 2: the wheel because meels cannot think for themselves unless it's
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  Speaker 2: that old TV show My Mother and the Car if
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  Speaker 2: you remember that years old Bion. But Brian, I think
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  Speaker 2: the real danger is not that machines are getting smarter,
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  Speaker 2: is that we're getting dumber. Yes, the danger is that Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: in their quest for an electorate stupid enough to elect them,
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  Speaker 2: will keep schools from raising standards till the graduates are
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  Speaker 2: smart enough to be the next Steve Jobs. Kids from
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  Speaker 2: other countries will make up the difference. We may not
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  Speaker 2: have respect for people on other continents, but we should
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  Speaker 2: because those kids are already making up the difference. Elon
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  Speaker 2: Musk was educated, really educated in South Africa and then
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  Speaker 2: Canada before he dropped out of Stanford after two days
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  Speaker 2: of classes because Elon knew he could learn more on
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  Speaker 2: the job starting his own internet company. And Elon Musk
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  Speaker 2: at this number, at this time, has how many employees
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  Speaker 2: would you imagine? You always know all this trivia?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred and forty five thousand employees in his various companies,
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  Speaker 2: from Tesla to Space and all the rest. Yeah, Trump
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  Speaker 2: and some Republican governors are challenging universities now to raise
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  Speaker 2: standards to once again become meritocracies. We've talked about that too. Meantime, friends,
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  Speaker 2: don't be afraid of computers. Don't be afraid of AI,
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  Speaker 2: be afraid of the geniuses. Johnny interviews on the street
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  Speaker 2: for the Jesse Waters Show. We can only hope they
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  Speaker 2: don't vote.
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  Speaker 1: Will leave it on that comedic get sad point. Jack added,
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  Speaker 1: and my friend can't thank you enough for spending time
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  Speaker 1: my listeners and me every Wednesday beginning at seven oh
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  Speaker 1: five for the Big Picture. I will obviously be looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to next Wednesday in another discussion. And I'll see
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  Speaker 1: you tonight at Conrad Strekers of Visitation this evening. And
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  Speaker 1: God bless him rest his soul. Jack, thank you very much,
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. Seven nineteen now fifty five KRSED talk
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