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Patrick Wood: Pros & Cons With Elon Musk, Starlink, SpaceX, Humanoid Robots · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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  Hi, friends. Welcome. Today we're going to talk about Elon Musk. The good and the,
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  should we be concerned? SpaceX, Starlink, we'll talk about the FAA. We're going to talk about
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  humanoid robots, all that and more with Patrick Wood of Tech Nocracy News. That's next.
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  Welcome to World View Matters, discussing controversial issues,
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  discerning current events, defending biblical Christianity, no topic off-limits.
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  And now, here's your host, David Firazo.
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  Welcome and thank you so much for watching, listening, sharing the podcast. Our guest today,
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  Patrick Wood is an author and his website is TechNocracy.News. He brings us up to speed on so much
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  of what's happening when it comes to trends, technocracy, the evil twins of technocracy and
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  transhumanism. And again, the website, technocracy.News. Before I bring him in, I want to make sure you
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  are aware of his previous podcast he did with us last year. It's called Technopopulism and AI.
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  Why we should be concerned. Of course, we were talking about the Trump administration,
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  technopopulism and AI, and why we should be concerned. Patrick Wood, welcome back to World
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  View Matters. Good to see you, brother. You bet. Thank you. Thanks for your time. There's so much
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  great information on your website about this very unique topic that now you're the go-to guy now,
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  like decades ago, people were going, what? Technocracy. But now we see all these new advancements and
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  we see Elon Musk. Now that's what we're going to talk about, who we're going to be talking about
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  a lot and what he's involved with. So overall, your concerns, the article we're going to focus on
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  primarily is Musk Deploy's Starlink to upgrade FAA national airspace system. And we're going to
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  talk about the money in just a minute. But I want to bring up the other picture, Jeff, the look at
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  the Starlink system. That's, is that live? Yes. Okay, it's moving. Yeah, I see blinking.
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  So Patrick, explain to people. There's a lot of people that are looking at this go,
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  what in the world? Please walk us through what this is. Well, Musk has been busy, obviously,
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  launching satellites for several years now. This is what this is a picture of what's happened
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  to Planet Earth. He's basically covered the entire planet with satellites. And now is in the
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  process of linking up not only internet, but also voice communications that will bypass,
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  potentially bypass all of the cell towers that we have on our land right now.
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  And this is, this is obviously a huge, huge thing. He can use it for, for instance,
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  well, for emergency victims, like the hurricane and that sort of thing. Then also, remember,
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  Ukraine had no cell service at all and internet service until Musk decided to give them access
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  to this satellite network. Wow. And it's stunning. Absolutely stunning. Yes. It's, that's a lot of power
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  for one man. And that's one of the things we talked a little bit about last time you were on
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  the show with us about the concerns about that. And now, of course, the, what he's doing, by the way,
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  I love what he's doing with Doge and what the Trump administration is trying to root out and look
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  and go through all the fraud and abuse, the corruption and the waste and of our taxpayer dollars.
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  So there's a lot of good that they're doing. But you have some concerns about when it comes to the
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  national air space over America and the FAA, there's a lot of money going into this, for example,
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  where, where is it? Well, let's just go back to SpaceX has received 14.6 billion from NASA
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  for various projects. And by the way, that image we're looking at that life, that was just a satellite,
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  active satellite that wasn't just the Starlink system Elon Musk and Starlink for more to understand.
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  So go ahead and share with us just some of the money and what's already been in the works even before
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  Donald Trump won reelection. Well, exactly. And certainly Elon Musk with his space ex company,
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  he's received so many contracts from the government, stunning amounts of money as well,
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  like 14.6 billion from NASA. At this point, NASA is basically turning over rocket launches to
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  SpaceX. That's the bottom line. So NASA and the sense has been taken over by Elon Musk
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  and the SpaceX. The government's still there with not NASA, but nevertheless the rockets they're
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  launching, they blocked SpaceX, right? We also see that SpaceX has been helping the militaries,
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  especially. They've had at least $5.6 billion in last few years. And basically,
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  can we say they're everywhere? He's everywhere at this point? Yeah, he's sucking money away from
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  the government for sure. This is all tax payer money, by the way. Well, now this is not like a hidden,
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  these are not hidden contracts, right? I mean, the Department of Defense,
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  they awarded SpaceX $5.6 billion. These are contracts from the DOD.
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  And so this is not a surprise, not like the hidden, almost like a money laundering scheme
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  from the left and some radicals that the doge is uncovering an abuse of our taxpayer dollars.
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  This is something that whether it's national defense or whether it's the military or SpaceX or
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  satellites, this is something else that we're talking about, right? Exactly. And the question
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  is, of course, should one person be in charge of all this stuff? This is central to national security,
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  obviously. The whole business of the spy satellites and the communications satellites,
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  and then you look at the military, his involvement there, you look at NASA, you look at his
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  involvement there, and there's other things that we have invention that when you take a whole thing
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  together, the question is, should one person really control this whole thing, even if he's benevolent
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  at this point? I want to read a quote from the article over on your website. Bloomberg reported
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  that Elon Musk's SpaceX subsidiary, Starlink, is preparing to deploy terminals nationwide to
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  upgrade the federal aviation administration's national airspace system. Musk responded to the report
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  on X, indicating that the current ground-based internet managed by Verizon is not working,
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  and so is putting air travelers at serious risk. Patrick, your thoughts about that? We've had
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  some amazing, of course, some airline, I don't want to say disasters, but crashes may be attributed
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  to DEI and hiring policies and the FAA and air traffic control, but here he's saying Verizon,
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  what they're doing is it's putting travelers, air travelers at serious risk. So your thoughts on
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  the FAA now in this article? Maybe that's true. I don't know. Verizon has been a big, a big
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  purveyor of cell traffic for sure, they have fiber optic all over the place as well.
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  Maybe Musk is just taking a shot at Verizon to justify his inclusion of all his terminals
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  around the country, but apparently they're going to work side by side with whatever Verizon has
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  in place right now. And of course, the idea is that AI will assist the controllers and the
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  towers to keep everything separate. Now Verizon doesn't have that at this point, it's either
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  standard. So AI, everything that Musk does at this point, I have to say that everything he does
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  is based on AI, including Tesla. He said himself that we're not an auto company, we make robots,
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  and he looks at all of Tesla's cars on the road, basically as robots with intelligence built into
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  them, right? AI. He's been doing that for a long time now. So, you know, everything everywhere he
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  goes is his AI goes with him. So I want to mention, this is very interesting, an FAA spokesperson
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  confirmed Bloomberg's report stating that the agency is testing one terminal in Atlantic City
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  and two in Alaska, and the military has also used Starlink terminals at remote bases for the past
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  couple of years. So it's not exactly a brand new, you know, cutting edge system or idea here,
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  this has been in the works. And so President Trump urged Congress to modernize the nation's
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  aging air traffic control system, especially right after last month's Black Hawk helicopter
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  collision with the airliner at the Ronald Reagan National Airport, they killed 67 people.
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  Now, you know, there's been talk that DEI had something to do with that with one of the
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  women that was in the Black Hawk, but so, but that's for another podcast. We talked about that
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  with Pete Garcia, and we've done that on other shows. So this is about technocracy, this is about AI,
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  this is about Starlink and SpaceX Patrick before we take a brief pause in a couple minutes for those
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  that are listening or watching that maybe their eyes are a little big right now, and they're
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  trying to catch up with all this, and it's potentially overwhelming for the Christian
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  to see what's going on. What should we be watching for, and what are other concerns maybe you can share?
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  Remember Bob Dylan, right? The times are they are changing.
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  Right now, you'll be humming that for the rest of the day. I'm sure you should.
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  But what's going on today is basically things are changing all over the world, not just in America,
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  and we need to be ready for it. As Christians, we need to be ready for anything that comes.
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  This is the system of the world. You have to remember, is under the control of the devil.
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  Satan himself. God is still the owner of everything and all the physical stuff in the world,
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  but he's temporarily given the world, the system of the world, over to the devil to run, right?
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  So we shouldn't be surprised what we see in the world today, but however, because most Christians
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  still kind of have an affinity for the world, like for jobs and entertainment, it's that you name it,
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  most Christians find one foot is in the kingdom, another foot is in the world, and that's where
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  that's where the trouble's got to start. Fact check true. I mean, those are, I was going to say
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  hard words to hear, but it's true. We are not to conform to the world, but be transformed
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  by the renewing of our minds, and that's not through transhumanism or AI. That's just in the
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  word of God to be clarified how to renew our minds. But Patrick, there's an interesting paragraph
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  for a sentence or two in this article. Why would the Biden Harris regime banish
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  Starlink from rural federal programs to connect America? Because I guess they didn't like musk,
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  and now all of a sudden Starlink has rolled out, like you said, across Ukraine, for cellular
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  service, they helped the hurricane victims. What can you tell us about the Biden Harris or the
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  left of the Democrats resisting this? They hated musk when he bought Twitter and fired all the leftists.
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  That was it for for musk, you know, forget, I mean, this obvious to me that they hated them from
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  that point forward, and they were going to punish him anyway, they could. Well, that's all done
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  by at this point. They still hate him, I'm sure, but there's other reasons for the left to hate
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  like Trump at this point, all the stuff he's doing to, you know, release DEI from the federal
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  agencies, et cetera. So it's funny that you say that. I'm thinking, can it be that simple that,
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  you know, by the way, I mean, that that was not to get off topic here, but when he took over
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  X Twitter X and free speech was for the most part allowed back on the platform. That was a
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  vehicle for Trump and for current service and for Christians even that previously we got censored
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  when we wanted to talk about certain topics. No wonder he was on the left radar or he was a bullseye.
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  We've got to take a brief pause with Patrick Wood, technocracy.news. When we come back, friends,
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  we're going to also be talking about humanoid robots, the pros and the cons on worldview matters.
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  So thank you and Lord, let's keep it going. Patrick Wood, transition now, it's, I was going to say
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  a clumsy transition but not really because it's the same topic and it still involves Elon Musk.
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  You've got an article about humanoid robots building more humanoid robots and I want to just
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  quote you and let's you elaborate a little bit. You say Elon Musk foresees a multi trillion dollar
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  market for his humanoid robot optimists by 2030. Another entry in the market is Apollo by
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  app tronic. Others will follow the combination of crazy smart AI plus improved dexterity and
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  mobility means the replacement of human labor in manufacturing. Worse robots will soon be making
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  and repairing themselves. Look for mass production by the end of 2025 and quote, Patrick Wood,
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  I know you're not a prophet, but you put that out there pretty confidently. We're in 2025.
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  We hear a lot about 2030, but we're in 2025. Tell us more about this. We can see a lot of good
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  things where human beings wouldn't have to do certain things. Robots can help with certain services,
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  but we see a lot of people losing jobs, perhaps go ahead. Let's walk through this one now.
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  Well, this is a tough one because there would be a lot of jobs lost, especially in manufacturing,
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  where humans are necessary at this point. That's the bulk of human labor, I think, in our country,
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  somehow, somehow related to manufacturing. Of course, distribution and you look at all the
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  the waiters and restaurants and other things that like the warehouse staff all across the country,
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  like for instance, Amazon warehouses now are fully automated with robots. You have to see this
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  in person to believe what they've done, but yeah. So on assembly lines in Amazon warehouses,
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  you're saying it's automation. It really is at this point. Now, they still have some,
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  they do have some, the humans left, but if I would say probably at this point, Amazon has made it
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  about 90% robots and 10% of humans in the warehouses. Wow. That's right. In the warehouses.
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  In manufacturing, don't give it wrong here. When these human-based images, they said that they're
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  called humanoid. They're not human at all, right? But nevertheless, they can have dexterity in
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  their hands like I'm doing right here, and they can walk. They can see with their cameras embedded
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  in their bodies. They have intelligent AI to assist everything they do. And at this point,
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  they can even have conversations with you as you work alongside them. So this is something that
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  people don't have any visibility until the first wave of these robots are unleashed on society.
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  Elon Musk right now says he's going to release 10,000 of his optimist robots, the latest model
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  by the end of 25. And other companies might upstage him possibly, but nevertheless,
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  he's going to do this. And for 2026, he's planning on manufacturing hundreds of thousands of robots
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  to roll across the country. After that, it's Katie Barr the door. Because once they got the assembly line
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  configured, it's just like building Tesla cars at that point. You just turn it, crank up the energy
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  and crank up the assembly line and let all the robots make themselves at that point.
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  Right. One of the sentences in the article, it says measuring five foot eight inches tall,
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  Apollo can handle payloads of up to 55 pounds and operate for four hours on a single charge.
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  It is currently built as being capable of rudimentary tasks like loading cargo and moving
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  cases around warehouses. What about the military, Patrick? That's where I see
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  without looking at all the possibilities. I see a benefit to having
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  saving human lives. I'm sure there's more to it, but that's just at the top of my head that came
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  to mind. What are your thoughts about that? Well, there's no doubt in my mind that the next war
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  is going to be a robot war. It won't involve people necessarily like you did in like World War II
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  in the first World War War. It's going to be basically a technology war based on AI and robots
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  and killing machines, whatever. If people get in the middle of that, it's going to be ugly.
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  You can watch some dystopian movies on TV. I'm sure the theater that just explained exactly
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  that where you're dodging the machines, firing with each other. But the military, I have to say
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  the military has been so keen on this technology for decades now. A lot of these companies had
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  their startup funds provided by organizations like DARPA, for instance, associated with what
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  that's kind of the R&D version of the military. They've been keen to make not only robots in general,
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  but also superhuman soldiers that are enhanced by technology. That's kind of scary. Wow.
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  Fascinating. I have read a lot on just different types of warfare now with drones. Again,
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  saving human lives. It's already happened in the Middle East and other places. But if you go
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  down in the article, it says Unitries G1 is priced at $16,000. Is that like for one of them?
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  Is that what I understand? That's right. Exactly right. And Elon Musk is going to price,
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  he says at this point, he's going to price his own robot about $20,000, $20,000, $30,000. That's
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  nothing. That's less than a car, basically. If you had a small business or if you just wanted
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  a servant around a house, wouldn't you rather pay for that instead of having a big fancy car that
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  does nothing is just in your driveway and consumed space? It's going to be a no-brainer for a lot of
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  people. Wow. I'm not saying that's a good thing, by the way. This is their targeting in particular
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  elder care industry at this point. I mean, just think about it. All the people who are imported
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  into our country to take care of elderly people and the homes and the nursing homes,
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  stuff like that. All these people can be replaced at this point with robots who can motivate,
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  can sort out medications, help them play games and talk to them and et cetera. And you're going
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  to see this is going to permeate so many different areas in society. It's going to stun people.
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  On the surface, the first thought of people in nursing homes having all this help with robots
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  or whatever, you think, well, they don't have enough help now and elders do not get the right
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  care. So I can see that as a big benefit, but then they're going to start. Humans are going to
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  lose jobs there. So, wow, there's always, there's a pro and there's a con. Most of this, isn't there?
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  It really is. I'll tell you what, when I get old, I'm not old now. You understand?
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  But when I get old, I don't want a robot taking care of me. I'm sorry. I just, I want a human
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  connection at that point in my life. Yes. I really do. Well, we are souls. We do need that compassion,
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  that human touch. I think God intended it that way. So from a biblical perspective now that I bring
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  God into this, he's not up there surprised. He's not scratching his head going, oh my goodness,
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  they've got some brainiacs down there coming up with things I never dreamed of. So Patrick,
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  along those lines, God knows just like Bible prophecy. God knows the end from the beginning. He
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  knows how this advancement is going to go. Your final thoughts in the last couple of minutes here on
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  God's perspective saying, you know, this is just where we're at in history. And these are some of
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  things that are probably going to maybe not end well. What are your thoughts on that? Yes.
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  Yes. Yeah. Well, you remember the Tower of Babel. He was right. He was there, right? He watched
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  it all happen right before his eyes. And he finally said, I'm going to destroy this whole thing
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  because those silly humans, they they're going to do anything in their mind at this point. So I'm
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  going to scramble their language. Wouldn't it be wonderful if God somehow scrambled the computer
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  language all over the world and everything just went up and smoke. I don't think that's going to
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  happen. I'm not making a prediction here. But you know, at this point, this is like a lot,
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  it's a lot like the Tower of Babel in many ways. It's based on technology. Tower of Babel was
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  based on building technology in particular because all of a sudden they had cut stones and
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  you they used tar to stick them together. That was very modern at that point. And it fooled all
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  the people into thinking they can build this huge tower reaching into space. Well, it didn't happen
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  obviously. But today we have this this illusion being put honest that the technology can do
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  anything in the world. We can reach to the stars. We could go to Mars. We could colonize the moon
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  or any other planet we want. And you know, this is this is the futile thinking of man.
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  The the Bible is very clear on this. How futile are the are the thoughts and plans of man.
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  Yeah. Yeah. So here we are seeing some of this lived out and played out. It's going to be fascinating
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  though for those of us that are trying to keep up with as much as we can, but then just, you know,
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  with discernment, watching understanding the times, watching we're in the last days, watching
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  what's going on, whether that be government, that be the culture, whether that be globalism
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  or the Middle East or Israel, we didn't talk about Israel. But this fast and they are talking about
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  a high tech country who leads the charge in a lot of advancements. Oh, yeah. Your final thoughts,
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  Patrick, 30 seconds. No, I don't have anything anything else to say, but I'll tell you what,
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  this is the time to pray. Yes, you can leave us with that. And that's it can be pretty heavy looking
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  at some of this. And by the way, I love your website, but friends just know when you go there,
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  you're going to read about stuff that you probably hadn't thought a lot about maybe because it's not
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  typically something you hear in the news or uncertain reports or on your favorite conservative outlets.
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  But there's a lot of great information at technocracy.news and including the articles we talked about
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  today. Patrick, good. Thanks for your time, brother. Lord willing, we'll do it again. My pleasure.
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  Friends, thanks for sharing the podcast, getting us out there. God bless you. And as always,
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  keep speaking the truth about things that matter.