Glenn Beck critiques the superficial Cruz-Sanders debate over Obamacare, arguing it masks a deeper capitalism versus Marxism conflict while warning that unchecked political correctness threatens traditional values and enables modern eugenics. He further explores dystopian risks of AI, gene-splicing, and self-driving cars creating a two-class society, linking these technological shifts to rising youth suicide rates and social isolation. Ultimately, Beck contends that shielding children from hardship and relying on digital solutions erodes resilience, urging a return to constitutional principles and entrepreneurial necessity over welfare dependency. [Automatically generated summary]
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Last night, we came close to something that I was hoping we would get in the election.
I really wanted to get beyond border walls, get beyond trade deals.
I wanted to get to the real debate that America should be having, and that is: look, are we going to follow Marxism and authoritarianism, or are we going to follow the Constitution?
Do we believe in capitalism or do we believe in a planned society and a planned economy?
Which one?
Let's don't have straw man arguments.
Let's actually hash it out.
The closest we came to that was last night with Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz.
It was on Obamacare.
Which direction do we go?
We start there right now.
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I will raise my voice.
I will hold your hand.
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I will be my drum.
I have made my choice.
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I have to tell you, there's something going on in Texas that is nasty.
We've all been hit by it.
Last week, I think there were like seven people out of the company last week.
Pat took a couple of days off, which I've never seen him do.
I've known him since 1989.
I've never seen him take a day off unless it was surgery.
And he took two days off.
I got sick like four weeks ago, and I still can't shake this thing.
Yeah.
I don't know what it is that's going around.
I don't know if it's going around the rest of the country, but Texas has been hit by something that is nasty.
Really nasty.
I know there's a school in Arlington, Texas, right now that's struggling with dirty sock syndrome.
So I mean, perhaps this building has that.
What is dirty socks in it?
It's a foul, moldy odor that comes from AC vents.
So, I mean, it's possible this building could have dirty sock syndrome.
Yikes.
Okay.
Thank you for that.
Hey, everybody.
Let's get going on the dirty socks.
All right.
We want to talk a little bit about what happened yesterday with Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders.
Now, I really want to have a debate.
And, you know, I think we need to get into the area now where it's no strawmen.
We all know why, you know, Hannity and Colms, we know why Colms was put in, right?
I mean, literally, Roger Ailes said, I'm looking for the ugliest damn bastard that can go on television.
And, you know, so you win every time just by the looks of Colms.
No, no offense.
I think Alan knows that.
I think I've even heard Alan joke that way.
But it's true.
Capitalism Makes Steve Uncomfortable00:09:10
We all know that.
So we know it because it's making Steve very uncomfortable.
I don't heard you say it.
I've never heard anyone else.
Right.
So anyway, the idea, and we've gone into this knowingly, that we build strawmen and it allows us to not talk about the real issue by building the straw man of, you know, so-and-so is, so-and-so is just evil.
And we personalize it and make it about them.
It allows you to not have to talk about the idea.
And that's where we need to be.
And we should be uncomfortable in that.
I don't want to know the outcome before we start to have the debate.
I want to be challenged.
I want somebody to come in and make a case for Marxism that makes me go, huh?
Oh, wait a minute.
Well, that's a good point.
Now, I don't know if you can do that.
If you've ever read Das Kapital, has anybody ever read Das Kapital?
No.
Oh, you have to.
You have to.
Just download it.
I think it's for free.
You have to read it.
Isn't it really poorly written?
Oh, my gosh.
It makes you read it.
And so many times I read it and was like, how can anybody believe this?
This is just insanity.
It doesn't make any sense.
So I'd like somebody to be able to defend Marxism where you look at that and those reasons and you're like, okay, now let me hear the defense of capitalism.
And let's really decide.
Yesterday they ate again around the edges and it was about Obamacare.
But what is the Obamacare debate?
Are we going to have a plan?
Big government versus small government.
A planned economy where central planners in the government sit around an office and say, look, we know better than the free market.
And so this is how we're going to fix this.
Or do we believe in the free market that somebody somewhere is going to have a better idea and it might start in their garage?
But when there's pain, there is always somebody thinking of a way to get out of that pain.
And even sometimes it comes just from a financial motivation.
You know, if we can solve this problem, we'll be rich.
I don't care if that's what somebody's intention is on curing cancer.
I want the people who want to cure cancer because they're driven by it.
But I don't mind people who are driven by the money saying, if I can come up with a cure for cancer, I'll be the richest man in the world because everybody will buy the cure from me.
I'm okay with that too, as long as it's clean and not corrupt.
So that's what they're really discussing here.
Planned society, central planning, Marxism versus capitalism.
Let's give you a couple of the highlights.
Insurance company profits have doubled under Obamacare.
That was the result.
This thing didn't work at all.
I find myself in agreement with Ted.
He's right.
Let's work together on a Medicare for all single-payer program.
So we're finally going to get insurance companies, private insurance companies, out of our lives.
When government takes over health care, every example on earth, the result is rationing and waiting periods and you, the citizens, being told, no, you can't have the health care you want and deserve.
And in America, we do rationing in a different way, Ted.
The way we do rationing is if you are very rich, you can get the best health care in the world, I believe.
But if you are working class, you're going to be having a very difficult time affording the outrageous cost.
So maybe you and I could agree on a common sense reform of allowing La Ronda to purchase health insurance of any of the 50 states.
That creates a 50-state national marketplace.
It drives down costs.
It increases choices.
Ted, let me ask you a question.
Sure.
Is every American entitled, and I underlined that word, to health care as a right?
So what is a right is access to health care.
What is a right is choosing your own doctor.
Access to what?
You want to buy one of Donald Trump's mansions?
You have access to do that as well.
Access doesn't mean a damn thing.
Did you bark that last one?
Yeah, so that was the debate in 90 seconds.
They also have a, it's an interesting thing because obviously they're going to go back and that's the, I believe the CNN version of that.
So they're giving each other little points here and there.
The reaction seemed to be that Cruz did very well in this particular debate.
Of course, right?
This is not a surprise.
You know, that's like, you know, putting, you know, Leonardo da Vinci in a painting contest with me.
Of course.
Of course, Ted Cruz is going to win.
Do we have the next clip?
Yep.
I don't know if the cameras can see this, but in 70% of the counties in America on Obamacare exchanges, you have a choice of one or two health insurance plans.
That's it.
70% of the counties in America.
It's interesting.
You look at this map.
This also very much looks like the electoral map that elected Donald Trump.
It's really quite striking that the communities that have been hammered by this disaster of a law said enough already.
Now, Bernie likes talking about a public option.
That's another way of saying government control of your health care.
It's socialized medicine, and what does it mean?
Every country where it's been applied, you've seen rationing, you've seen government deciding, especially seniors.
Seniors, you don't get the health care you need.
Now, Bernie mentions Canada quite a bit.
I know quite a bit about Canadian health care.
I was born there.
You know, Bernie, that may be the best argument against your position is, you know, look, look what it could do.
It's a good line.
I will tell you, I don't think we've ever talked about this with Michael Bouble and his son, who is very, very sick.
Do you know this?
I've seen the stories about it.
So his son is very, very sick.
He's Canadian, obviously.
And they were at home in Canada, and they thought his son had the mumps.
He takes his son to America and says, is this the mumps?
And they haven't revealed what kind of cancer it is, but it's not the mumps.
And so his firstborn child, Michael has stopped all touring, all recording, everything.
And he and his wife are just super serving their son right now.
Don't know how things are going, but it's apparently pretty significant and pretty severe.
And my family, because we know Michael and we have been watching this story.
But the reason why I bring it up is they were in Canada.
They thought he had the mumps.
They bring him across the border to go see an American hospital and an American doctor.
Yes.
Can everybody do that?
No.
But it is exactly the same thing as, can everybody afford Pat's 4K 900-foot television?
No.
When I first got a high-definition television, Pat and everybody came over.
It was my 40th birthday.
That was 13 years ago.
It was my 40th birthday, and my wife got me a flat screen, which was brand new, high-definition Sony, which was still the best.
I don't even know how big that is, 50 inches?
Something like that?
It was $10,000.
I still have it.
Think of that.
$10,000.
It wasn't a smart TV.
It was just a flat panel, high-definition.
There's no apps on that, right?
You can't get Netflix or anything.
Nothing.
It is such an outdated television now.
It cost me $10,000.
Today, you could go get that television for about $400 at Costco.
That's the idea.
And that's what's happening.
That exact procedure is happening with the United States and healthcare and the rest of the world.
The United States is you with the $10,000 TVs.
And the rest of the world is all of us schlubs who wake up.
A little while while people like you are buying the $10,000 TV.
And now we get $198 TVs that are better than your TV at Walmart.
Because what happened?
Financing the $10,000 TVs00:04:04
We're financing.
We're financing.
That's why our healthcare costs more.
That's why our costs are costing more.
That's why our drugs cost more.
Right.
Because the rich, and you have to remember, we're the top 10% of the world.
Can't have it both ways.
The poorest among us are still part of the wealthiest in the world.
And so we are financing all of the research, all of everything to be able to drive the cost lower so they can go in and buy a television for $400 that nobody had 10 years ago except the very wealthy.
That's the way capitalism works.
Now, for the first time, I have seen something, somebody change this model and it works, but it still is working through capitalism.
And that's Google.
Google decided they wanted to do some stuff.
And so they decided they want to design and be the leader in our artificial intelligence.
So what did they do?
Capitalism, when it is at its best, is charitable.
Capitalism, it doesn't have to be their point.
But when capitalism is at its best, it's when somebody is saying, how can I serve people?
How can I make their life better?
How can I make their life easier?
Can I help them do the things they want to do in different ways cheaply?
Google knew we needed a way to search for facts and for internet we needed to be able to find things quickly and find answers quickly.
You'll notice you don't.
You've never paid.
The rich have never paid for Google, or did they?
The rich got together And they sat and listened to the guys at Google and said, we can do AI.
We can make artificial intelligence, build robots, build self-driving cars.
We can do all those things.
But we need you to invest in us.
Well, how are you going to do it?
We're going to provide people with what they want.
And what they are going to need is information.
So we're just going to map the human brain by being a search engine.
And we'll know everything.
In 15 years, we'll have all of the information we need to be able to see how people think.
That's why you have the free service of Google.
Now, they just did it again.
For the first time in my life, you can have what only the wealthy has.
And that is somebody who is around you all the time taking notes, somebody who is doing your shopping for you, somebody who's taking care of things.
Would somebody turn the TV on?
You know, would somebody find that, what was that song that I wanted to hear?
You just find that and play that for me?
It's called Google Home.
The average person, it's not starting out at $1,000.
It's starting out at $100.
For $100, you can have an assistant.
Now, how did that happen?
Through Marxism or capitalism?
By hating the rich or going and selling to the rich, we have an idea.
And it's going to make you even richer.
But it's going to change people's lives.
That's how it works.
Why is it we can't get people to understand that?
And it answers the question, why they work so hard to get you to hate the rich.
Tired of Tom Brady Winning00:03:41
Look at Tom Brady.
I have never heard America hate a guy for seemingly no reason as much as Tom Brady.
I mean, if you take out the cheating asset.
Take out the cheating asset.
If you take out the fact that he cheated at the thing he's known for.
But you know what?
Wait, wait, wait.
But wait.
They hated him before that.
Yeah, they did.
Here's a guy who's successful, who has a model wife, is good looking, has a good family.
Again, I'm not against Tom Burr.
I think he's the best quarterback of all time.
But also his model wife came out of him leaving his pregnant, his last wife while she was pregnant, right?
Okay, that part I get.
Tom is not crystal.
Exactly.
Is that the reason why people hate him?
Or do they hate him?
I think they hate his success.
I think they hate his success.
They get tired of the fact that he's won five Super Bowls and he's got a bad one.
And one of them was against the Philadelphia Eagles.
And how many times?
Every bit of it.
And how many times do you hear people say, I'm just tired of him winning?
All the time.
Oh, yeah.
All the time.
I'm just tired of him winning.
Yeah.
Since when?
As long as it's fair, that's the problem.
There's a question whether it's fair.
Multiple times.
Right.
I know that.
I know that.
But that's not what they mean when they say, I'm tired of him winning.
It's a different argument to say, I think the guy's a cheat.
Yeah.
But that's not what people are saying.
Well, I'm tired of this guy winning.
I want somebody else to win.
Well, it gets boring, right?
I mean, it gets boring.
You watch this every year and the existing.
Were we bored by Babe Ruth?
I mean, Jeffy would be the only one who could answer that.
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Voter ID and System Ownership00:14:13
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This is the Glenn Veck program.
Hello and welcome to the program.
So glad that you're here.
I have a lot to talk to you about today.
There's a lot of stuff.
I really want to spend some time on generating the ideas that we want to talk about.
For instance, I really want to find the two best people, no strawmen, no politicians, the two best people in the country that can defend Marxism and defend capitalism and let them go.
Let's listen.
I want to find those things that, you know, I want the best atheist and the best Christian to debate.
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Let's go back to the Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders debate, which was a debate about healthcare.
I really want the debate on capitalism or socialism because that's what they're eating around the edges.
And that's the real question.
Do we believe in the free market anymore?
Do we even have the free market anymore?
Do we want to go further down this road of Marxism?
Does it work?
Can it work?
We're seeing the results of Obamacare.
And of course, the Marxists are saying just because we didn't do enough, we didn't do it right.
That's always the excuse.
We just didn't do enough.
So last night they had the debate, and you're looking at the fact check.
Anything big come out of the fact check that one of them was wrong on?
You know, there's a ton of the stuff that you can nitpick.
One of the things I did like was one thing that Cruz said that was rated true was Cruz's, Rand Paul said this as well.
About 14 point, most of the Obamacare people are actually covered by Medicaid.
14.5 million of the 20 million who gained coverage were under Medicaid or CHIP, which is the children's healthcare version of it.
But somewhere between a quarter and a half of that 14.5 million were already eligible for Medicaid even before Obamacare took effect.
So these numbers that they're taking credit for, first of all, a lot of it's Medicaid and not the standard Obamacare that we always talk about.
And secondly, a decent amount of those people were already eligible for programs that already existed, just weren't on them.
That's a pretty significant thing.
That's huge.
So that number of 20 million goes down to about 3 million very quickly.
Yeah.
And so everybody, you lost your doctor for 3 million people.
Yeah.
Why didn't we just design something like 3 million people?
Right.
And that's a lot of the Republican plans are trying to do now.
And 5 to 7 million people did lose their health care that they liked.
That was another one they fact-checked.
So Cruz said 6 million people had their insurance policy canceled because of Obamacare.
CNN, or excuse me, PolitiFact is the one doing this.
They are saying that independent researchers estimate it was only 2.6 million.
And then only 1 million ended up with no coverage at all.
Of course, that wasn't the standard at all.
The standard was, well, do you lose your coverage?
Right.
So they're saying, but even like the fact check on it is saying only 3 million people were actually told they were going to lose their insurance.
I went to the doctor yesterday for the first time.
I had to pay a $45 copay.
Our copays used to be free.
Then they were $10.
Then it was $20.
Then it was $20.
Then now it's $45.
Why?
Something more than that, depending on where you're at.
Right.
Because of Obamacare, because they changed this and the insurance companies no longer even provide the insurance that I want to provide for the staff.
And we went from no deductible to deductibles.
Right.
So don't tell me that it was only 7 million or 3 million that lost their coverage.
We are all covered, but we're all covered in ways that are much more expensive and not as good.
Yeah.
And premiums have risen by an average.
And this is in the fact check.
Cruz said they're skyrocketing.
Premiums have risen by an average, an average of 25% across the states that use the federal exchange.
Imagine.
Highest increases in Arizona, 116%.
Oh, my God.
Oklahoma, 69%.
But like, I love this little disclaimer they put at the end, but it's important to note that 81% of consumers qualified for subsidies to help blunt the cost of their care.
The rest of us are paying for it.
The rest of us are paying for it.
It still costs a lot more.
It's just that now you have other people who are footing the bill for it.
That doesn't mean you cost money.
It costs a lot more and your taxes will have to go up or our debt goes up because somebody has to pay for that.
That's crazy.
It's absolutely crazy.
And this is one of the things I always, I'm always stunned by when we get to the Obamacare debate and this debate is the typical Republican thing that they always say is, and Cruz said it in one of the clips we played earlier.
Well, look, just make it open so we can have a national competition.
Cruz said in the debate, 70% of the countries in America, 70%, excuse me, of the counties in America on Obamacare exchanges, you have a choice of only one or two in health insurance plans, one or two.
So basically, either no competition purely or almost no competition to lower cost.
Liberals always fight this because obviously the goal is something like a single payer healthcare program.
But it's like this is so obvious and basic to be able to buy a health insurance plan from some other state is so like the fact that that is what is the argument, right?
What is the argument?
It's the argument is you think it might work and then you don't need all the solutions.
I know that, but what is the real argument?
I contend that there are so many Democrats who are no longer listening, just like us.
We're not listening to certain things.
We've made up our mind.
We don't want to listen to anybody.
And, you know, it's this old trap.
It's amazing to me.
This is why that Thomas Jefferson quote, question with boldness, even the very existence of God, changed my life so much.
Because I had grown up in a world where if you questioned, that was Satan making you question.
God must surely rather honest questioning over blindfolded fear.
This is the same thing.
If you question anything, well, you're just on the other side.
You're trying to help the other side.
You're being sucked in by, no, this is what the church did in the dark ages.
We're doing it to ourselves.
And I think there's a ton of people.
I had lunch with a guy, very, very smart, but a guy who says, you know what, I should just run.
I should just run.
So we're having lunch.
And he said, you know, they're just simple things, Glenn, that I don't understand why we can't get past.
Okay, like what?
I mean, voter ID.
Okay.
I'm anxious to hear your perspective, Mr. Democrat liberal, on voter ID.
I mean, why can't we just have a driver's license?
Excuse me?
He had no idea.
He had just heard voter ID, voter ID, voter ID.
He thought we were the ones that stood against a driver's license, that we wanted something extra, some extra hurdle.
The last thing we want is an extra freaking ID card.
And I said, yeah.
And I said, of course we don't want more national IDs.
We just think a driver's license, something with your picture on it.
He said, well, that's crazy.
We're the ones fighting against that.
Yeah.
Yes.
But the thing is, almost all Democrats agree with us on that issue.
I know.
I am convinced that they think their side is on the right side.
I think that's true.
They don't have any ID or any idea.
And I think that's what happens when you say, go across state lines.
Nobody has a good answer against that that I've ever heard.
What is the answer?
What's the argument?
Why wouldn't you open it up to competition?
Why wouldn't you?
Notice nobody's really ever talking about that.
You don't ever debate that.
It's an electric fence because I believe they know that the average person would say, of course, open it up to everybody.
Everybody should have that.
Right.
At least that's that's I mean, that's the that's where I'm going.
I just don't think that they know.
I mean, this the poll that came out today, there's a story on the blaze about it.
Um, 35% of all people that were polled, 35%, not just like one group or some, 35% said they didn't know that Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act were the same thing.
Well, and how many times have we seen that on Jimmy Kimmel?
And that's where, yeah, kind of the source of that.
Would you rather have Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act?
They don't know.
And now, 72% of Republicans said they knew Obama and AK.
So go ahead, go ahead.
We're the same.
72% of Republicans.
Okay.
So now I go back to people saying, they'll never change.
They'll never change.
We got to destroy them.
Hit them back twice as hard.
Okay, we could do that.
But isn't that why?
Isn't that why we're not making any, quote, progress?
Because we're only attacking on both sides.
We're attacking the people.
We're isolating and polarizing, like Solinsky said.
And I've heard people on our own side say, well, maybe it's time we play Sololinsky.
Sololinsky's tactics stop you from talking to one another.
If I wasn't having lunch with this guy last week and had opened myself, I've known him for two years.
We don't talk politics.
But because I seem vulnerable to him now and I seem like, okay, well, I could have a real conversation with him.
Maybe he will understand.
He'll listen to my side of my point of view.
That's why he said, okay, so let me ask you this.
Because I had said to him, I understand your concern, right?
The world's gone crazy.
I don't understand how people on my side are supporting fascists and people on your side are supporting the Occupy Wall Street people.
He said, well, that's not true.
We're not.
And I said, great, I'll recognize that.
Will you recognize that all the people that you think are fascist are not fascists?
That there is a small group?
Because I'll say that about Democrats if you'll say that about Republicans.
Yeah, I'll say that.
But let me ask you, Glenn, I mean, you guys stand for crazy things.
I mean, easy stuff, voter ID.
Yeah.
That's how we got there.
And you told him that we want blacks to have three different forms of ID.
Yeah.
Interpretation.
I said we have a wheel tax.
I said, I don't mind it as long as we can actually take your iris out and scan it on a fax machine.
That's reasonable, though, right?
Totally reasonable.
That's reasonable.
His whole world was upside down.
Wow.
Now, giving the Republicans the benefit of the doubt, which I don't think they deserve, listen to Kham because we're just calling him Kham on the air.
Charles Krauthammer.
Charles Krauthammer.
I like to call him Kham.
I do like the name Kham.
It's pretty solid.
So Charles Krauthammer is saying the biggest betrayal of the conservative voter could happen.
Listen.
Not getting it done is a catastrophe because you ran against it for seven years.
Obamacare.
And you promised you would do it.
And that would be the ultimate betrayal of the electorate.
One of the reasons of the rise of Donald Trump is because so many conservatives, so many Republicans said that they had been betrayed by their leaders.
This would be the ultimate one.
So it has to get done.
The problem is that if you get it done, you own the entire system of American medicine.
Obamacare is 2,000 pages.
It's not one reform.
It's a thousand reforms whose interactions are complex, contradictory, and unpredictable.
And that's what we're stuck with now.
And it's collapsing.
But if you replace, you are going to have to redo all of American medicine all over again.
And then you become responsible.
And politically, the danger is that you own the system.
So if something goes wrong in anybody's life, denied coverage, lousy coverage, no available doctor, et cetera, premiums increasing, whatever it is, whether or not it's the cause of the replacement bill, you will be responsible for it and blamed.
I mean, he's totally right there, but you have to take that chance, right?
I mean, yes, they're always going to be able to dig up somebody that didn't get coverage and everything's terrible.
Or you just make it a single pair and you lock it in because who's held responsible for what happens to the vets?
Nobody.
It's just the way the system is.
And that's why when they started saying seven years ago, they said repeal.
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I'm going to repeal it.
After that first election, they said repeal and replace.
And we were like, replace with what?
What are you talking about?
Replace.
Repeal it.
Repeal and replace.
I knew at that point there's no way they're going to get rid of this thing.
They're just not.
I mean, even their replacement plans, many of them keep large chunks.
And some of the biggest problems for the insurance companies, which is guaranteed X, Y, and Z.
And that no longer makes it insurance.
That's why some of those things maybe should be covered by the government if you want that safety net and you have to make a compromise like that, but free absolutely everything else up.
But that, so you know, that means that you, the taxpayer, are going to be holding the bag.
And it's so much easier to say, well, I want the insurance company, those evil rich insurance companies to do it.
Well, okay, well, then you're going to be paying it on that side then.
You're going to pay it one way or another.
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Yeah.
Katie is doing something called, is it the gender revolution?
Yeah, her documentary is gender revolution.
Gender revolution.
So this is in preparation for the documentary she's doing.
And in the context of that, she's talking to Ellen DeGeneres about how a female fetus feels a certain way.
It's really astounding stuff.
It is astounding and really good.
Great conversation to have.
Really great conversation to have.
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America is way out of step with the rest of the world.
When it comes to this, quote, Muslim ban that is not a ban, it's a pause.
When it comes to that, we are way out of step with the rest of the world.
We are more accepting of refugees from terror-prone nations by far than all of Europe.
We've been told forever we need to be more like Europe.
We need to be more like Europe.
Europe is saying we need to be more like America.
An amazing couple of polls that have just come out that you're not going to see in the mainstream media coming up in just a second.
Also, a conversation between Ellen DeGeneres and Katie Couric that is truly fascinating, especially if you are somebody who is for abortion rights, to be able to abort your kids.
How is the left going to thread this needle?
We begin there right now.
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Hello, America.
Welcome to the program.
Glad you're here.
Let's start with Katie Couric.
Katie Couric is doing a documentary on gender and the gender revolution that is happening right now.
And she was speaking to Ellen DeGeneres.
I want you to listen to what she's saying and forget about gender.
Let's talk about abortion.
Listen to this.
Operate on a child and tell that child you're a certain gender.
That doesn't necessarily coincide with who that person feels he or she actually is.
It doesn't correlate with what is in your head.
In the later stages of development, it's when your brain is wired.
And sometimes the surge of testosterone can make a male, a female fetus feel as if that baby is male or that female baby and the opposite if there's not enough testosterone.
Excuse me?
Interesting.
On many levels.
Fascinating.
That's Katie Courig saying that, first of all, a female fetus baby, which goes a little beyond the whole tissue thing, doesn't it?
Yes.
And it's like, okay, that's not Brussels sprouts growing inside the woman.
That's a baby growing inside a woman.
Secondly, if the baby is to the point where the baby can feel either male or female, what are you doing aborting it?
If that's the case, haven't you stumbled onto something there?
Then maybe you shouldn't be destroying this female, this transgendered baby.
I mean, maybe that's how we attack this now from a transgendered point of view.
How many transgendered people are you going to abort?
You look at that.
I mean, what is it?
It's got to be, I mean, between in the LGBTQIA community.
Seriously, is IA a new two new levels?
Yeah, Jeffy.
Jeffrey knows.
No, I don't trust Jeffy.
Oh, I wouldn't trust Jeffrey either, but on this topic, he's a.
Seriously, they've added two new intersex and asexual.
Asexual.
Oh my gosh, it's the lesbian.
No.
They've added IA.
It's the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning, intersex, asexual.
What is intersex?
I mean, are we going to include the entire alphabet all the time?
That's what I said last week.
I thought you were joking.
Why don't we just say ABCD E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-M-O-P-Q-R-S-D-D?
I mean, why not just repeat the alphabet?
What is intersexual?
Intersex is a general term used for a variety of conditions, which I am not comfortable with this language.
I want to make sure I'm reading this from the intersex society of North America.
Apparently, those hate mongers are comfortable calling it a condition.
I am not.
I want to make sure that is clear right now.
Intersex is a general term used for a variety of conditions in which the person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn't seem to fit the typical definitions of male or female.
Okay, so that would be like a Maphrodite?
Well, that's an outdated and inaccurate term that's been used to describe intersex people in the past.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Honestly, thank you.
How many people are affected by that?
300 million.
I'm guessing.
Am I the only one that suffers from the condition of heterosexuality?
Outdated term, cisgender.
Is that what you're looking for?
No, I'm looking for heterosexual.
There's no such thing as that.
There's no such thing, though.
And what was the other one?
Asexual.
Asexual.
Okay, let's see.
Asexual is a person.
Well, asexual is somebody who doesn't have sex.
To have any desire to be anything and have sex.
Welcome to 1950.
Thank you for that definition.
Without, no, I don't think that's right.
I don't know.
That's what it is.
Not involve.
Let's see.
That's what I thought Michael Jackson was.
Asexual.
Yeah.
Deliberate abstention from sexual activity.
which again I thought it was about I get very confused with these things because the last one was talking seemingly about body parts asexion or intersex correct Correct.
Right.
However, the other things were sexual preferences, right?
So why would I say that?
Well, no, they're not sexual preferences because we were taught that you were born a certain way.
That's right.
And that's an outdated term, too.
You don't have a preference.
That's who you are, which kind of makes me wonder about questioning or bisexual.
Questioning maybe because you're like growing up in this horrible system that is teaching you that you're either a male or a female.
So you're questioning whether or not you are, but that's not how you're born.
You're not born questioning.
You're questioning male.
You're born with all the answers, right?
You're born with everyone.
Well, kids know things that their parents don't.
That's right.
So I don't know.
But again, that is an interesting thing.
How many, if you go through the LGBTQIA, that entire group, combine them together, how many in that group has been aborted?
Millions, probably, right?
I mean, we're at 20%.
Easily millions.
Here's where we're 352 million overall.
We are headed towards a, we're headed towards a very spooky place, and nobody is willing to go there except apparently the right when the right doesn't have power and the left when the left doesn't have power.
I would think that the left would be the first to agree right now that we could absolutely head towards a totalitarian state where your sexual preference or your anything that makes you a liberal can be deleted.
We can change that gene.
We can abort you.
There could come a time when we have a fascist dictator that says, hey, here's the map of the gene.
Delete those.
And that could get out of control, especially with somebody like Donald Trump.
the right would say, especially with somebody like Barack Obama, but they won't agree that, you know, when you take politics out of it or their guy is in control, they will never agree that that's even a possibility.
But that's what I'm afraid of.
That's what I, I shouldn't say afraid, that's what I'm concerned about.
This is so easy to fix.
But when you have somebody on top that is saying you will live a certain way, that's why that's that's why the founders went and testified on behalf of people that were being persecuted that were not them.
They would go and testify in states where their own faith, their own church, were persecuting people for not being a part of that church.
And so they would say, which one of you guys is, I don't know, you know, a let's just make it neutral.
Which one of you guys is a Mormon?
Because that future state of Utah is going to persecute all the people who aren't Mormons.
They would find the Mormon guy and he would go out and testify and say, Mormons, this is wrong.
That's why we have to say, I stand up for the most vile speech.
I don't stand up for violence, but I will stand up for the most vile speech.
I will stand up for the person most unlike me.
And if we lose that, we are in grave danger because why can't I weed somebody out?
If you could, I mean, you know, everybody says, well, you can't find that homosexual gene.
You notice we mapped the entire DNA.
Can't find the gay gene now, can you?
I'm glad we can't.
I'm really glad we can't because I really truly believe in some parts of the world, and God forbid here in America, we would start deleting that gay gene.
I'm concerned that everybody is so convinced that every bit of struggle and strife is bad and should be eliminated, that we're just going to start eliminating those people or those things that make you who you are.
That's an abomination.
Look, I don't want to have cancer and I want to eliminate cancer.
But there are some things that, you know, are in your DNA and we have to have that discussion.
If you could take out the cancer gene in every baby, would you do it?
Yes.
So would I. If you could go in and take that out, but you couldn't take that out, but you knew 100% that person will get cancer, but we can't take it out of their gene sequence, would you abort that child?
No.
There will be those that will make a very strong case.
We can't afford that.
We can't let them procreate.
Well, they already do it with, you know, with certain syndrome.
Right.
For instance, right.
So if we have cancer and we want to eradicate cancer, I can't cure cancer, but I can identify the gene.
And the way to get rid of it is don't let those people with that gene procreate.
Would you sterilize people?
No, no.
I will guarantee.
These arguments being made in country after country.
This is already coming.
And that was without the information.
I mean, that was when it was real pseudoscience where they had no idea if these things were real eugenics and things like that.
This will happen.
The only difference between us and the Nazi doctors, us in the future, is the fact that it will not be messy, that we're not injecting blue dye in to see if we can change people's eyes blue.
We just know we can do it.
Oh, you want a blue-eyed baby?
Okay, yeah, I can just flip that switch and you have a blue-eyed baby.
So do we have a problem with eugenics because it was messy or because it was wrong?
I had a problem with it because it was wrong.
I don't think we're having that discussion.
We don't recognize that we're in the eugenics business right now.
Do we have a problem with abortions because we don't know who that kid would be?
I contend that's, yes, a lot of people do because a lot of people will say, look, when my daughter was pregnant, she was told something by a doctor that wasn't true.
You know, hey, here's some problems that may happen.
It turned out it wasn't true.
So for three days, she had the worry that her child was going to be, you know, have some grand complication.
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And I said to her, so what do you do?
She said, what do you mean?
And I said, do you have the baby?
She started crying.
She's like, of course.
How many people don't?
It's your daughter.
Huh?
Did you say it was your daughter?
Yeah.
How many times have you made her?
You make her cry a lot.
All your stories end in her cry.
I didn't make her cry.
She was concerned.
I mean, how many women go through this when they're pregnant?
That they're told by their doctor, hey, we have to have this test because there's a chance it could be this.
Well, and I think so many people struggle with whether they want the test at all.
Correct.
Because, I mean, I don't want to know.
Right.
Right.
And then if it does, you know, in that period where you have the test and you're waiting for the results, people are tortured by that because they think, because they know it would be difficult and there would be strains on themselves and they would be tempted to do something horrific.
Correct.
Right.
And they don't want to be tempted by that.
And if the result comes.
That's interesting.
I don't want to be tempted by something you know is murder.
I don't want to be tempted by it.
Murder.
Rather not have the information.
Which, of course, there's plenty of benefit of having the information.
How many times?
How many times?
How many times have you had a really bad argument where you just want the person on the other end just to go away?
You could kill them.
Have you ever thought to yourself, it's a good thing I don't have a gun on me because I don't have the temptation.
All right.
Think about that.
I've had many conversations with Jeffy.
Yes.
Think about, Pat, think about what you went through with your mother, your mother-in-law.
And the compassion, just a little push of a little too much would kill her.
And the compassion, you weren't tempted to do that.
You had the medicine there to kill her.
You didn't.
Right.
But it's because we can't see the baby.
That's it.
We can't see the baby.
And so you're told that it might have this.
Okay.
And that's why we've seen a recent left-wing push against ultrasounds.
They are now targeting ultrasounds as this bad thing that women don't need and they get, and it's just a tool of the patriarchy to try to convince you to have this kid that you don't shouldn't have.
I mean, that's a what a, again, more information is the enemy in this situation.
And that's what I'm saying.
More information is never the enemy.
Your information is never wrong.
Your argument for sterilization might that might come soon too, because I read an article not long ago where they're advancing toward motherless babies.
So there's your science, baby.
You don't need to be sterile.
We'll just make you one.
Correct.
Want a kid?
Yeah, we'll build you the perfect baby and it won't have any of these diseases and it'll help and they'll make the case.
Look, we're not going to be able to drive our car in 10 to 15 years.
You will not be allowed to drive your car.
In fact, if you have a child today, when your child is 17, they will look at you and say, they allowed you to drive that car?
They allowed you to drive one of these things?
That must have been crazy.
That'll happen in our lifetime.
And why they'll do it is because we spend too much money, too many lives are lost, too much pain, too much suffering, can't afford it.
What happens here with the baby?
You can go ahead and procreate, but that baby is going to be riddled with disease.
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We'll mix one up for you.
We'll gene splice.
We'll make sure that that baby isn't messy at all.
They just let you guys have sex with each other?
And that's how you made babies?
It's Russian roulette.
Really, the documentary Demolition Man covered some of this.
Yeah, I believe so.
Yeah, it was really interesting.
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We're just going down the, going down the road here that I really think people need to consider.
I mean, I want you to remember this.
You remember when I first said everything's going to be turned upside down?
You won't recognize your country 10 years from now.
Well, that was about 10, 12 years ago that I said that, maybe a little longer.
And do you?
Is this the same?
If I described what's happening in the world today to you back in 2005, would you have said, oh yeah, okay, I could see that happening?
You have said I was insane.
Everybody did.
Let me say this to you.
By 2030, you won't recognize humanity.
We are crossing into territory that no one is willing to talk about the possible dark side of.
Why would anyone, and I want you to think of this in future terms, virtual reality is going to let you feel the hot breath on the back of your neck.
You'll feel every touch.
You will feel like you're in whatever scene you're in.
Now let's play this out.
And let's play this out for the next generation.
Where does it end?
What does the world look like 2030, 2035?
That's right around the corner.
We're closer to that than we are to September 11th.
So what does that look like in 2030?
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Here's one of the reasons why I am so intent now on talking about bigger ideas than making them so small about a person, the president.
Look how much energy and time we wasted talking about Barack Obama.
And would we be better off if we had just solely spent our time talking about the Constitution and balance of power?
If that was our target and we were consistent over George Bush and Barack Obama and we got here, I think we would be right now, the entire country would be saying, time for the Constitutional Convention.
It's time to rebalance this power.
But because we made it about people or events, we lost that opportunity.
And that's one of the reasons why I want to ratchet this down and not make this about people.
If there's one thing I could take back from the last 18 months, it'd be the Cheeto moment.
Only because that's just a stupid roadblock in front of.
There's no bad moment that exists with Cheetos.
I know.
They're too delicious.
But anyway, just not funny.
But anyway yeah, I know we've done a million things.
Some of them are funny, some of them are not.
That just wasn't and unfortunately, that has just been used as a roadblock.
Get to be the arbiter of that, but thank you for your opinion.
Okay so anyway so anyway um, I am so intent on on trying to disarm because there are much bigger problems that we have to face Now, let me give you a scenario.
We were just talking about what Ellen DeGeneres and Katie Couric are talking about in this new gender revolution documentary, that the babies can feel in utero, in the womb, a shot of testosterone, and that can confuse them on their gender.
How do you know that for one thing?
Right.
How do you know that that female baby is now feeling like a male baby because they had a surge of testosterone?
They don't even know what it means, but I don't think that's how they mean feel.
Bizarre.
Yeah.
I mean, but why argue feelings?
You can't argue feelings.
You can only argue facts.
For instance, there are people who lost their limb in the war and they have what's called phantom limb syndrome.
They believe they have their arm is still there.
They can feel the fingers.
They can describe it.
They feel like it's moving while they're talking.
So we should treat them as if they have two arms.
No.
We should say.
We should say, hey, pick it up.
You've got another arm there.
I understand how you feel, but you don't have another arm.
But I understand how you feel.
And I am not diminishing what you're feeling.
Yeah, but we don't treat it that way with this gender thing.
We don't treat at all.
We don't treat any fact that way.
Not anymore.
We don't treat any fact that way.
So let me just play out a scenario because we're making progress.
And this is why, and everything I'm about to tell you didn't come from me.
This is not some Glenn Beck dystopian.
This is from people in Silicon Valley.
This is from people like Stephen Hawking.
We are entering a time in the next 15 years where you're not going to be able to drive your car.
Telling you, you're not.
That seems crazy now, but self-driving cars are going to take off like nobody's business.
Unless and less crazy by the day.
By the day.
I mean, when you first said that, I mean, there was zero cars really even capable of.
I said that.
I said that before anybody even had the, even anybody even had the auto assist drive, not the self-driving, just the auto-assist.
And I said by 2030, and I remember feeling like that's crazy.
That's going to happen.
It's going to happen.
I mean, it's going to, yeah.
It's going to happen.
Because you're not only going to get the technology to get there and people spending the money on it, you're also going to get governments stepping in and saying you can no longer do the old program.
And the insurance companies will say the same thing.
I don't want people driving.
It's much safer.
You're going to have everybody saying it.
And you're going to be incentivized because you'll be able to make money with your car because it will be an Uber.
You know, as we talked the other day, the number one job in most states is truck driver.
That truck driving job is gone.
This is the last generation of truck drivers.
Now, let's take this about the babies.
And be careful what you wish for.
Because if you couple this with big government and authoritarianism, they will tell you what the right mix is.
But let me just take you 10 years in the future, 15 years in the future, which is closer, by the way, than 9-11.
People aren't really having sex because it's messy.
Just put the suit on, put the visor on.
That person that you're engaging in sex, it will feel like the greatest sex ever.
You will be able to design it the way you want it to be.
It'll never be a mistake.
You'll never have to worry about her.
Be no embarrassment.
Yeah, you don't have to please her.
She's there to please you.
Great.
Turn her off.
Afterwards, bink, you're off.
The ball game is on.
All right.
90% of the people, 90% of the people, men and women, when this becomes reality, they will want it.
Okay.
Which then makes your drive more like the Japanese sex drive.
Not interested.
But we have to procreate.
At the same time we're doing this.
We're also knowing how to get rid of disease, how to get rid of defects, how to boost your intelligence.
We can map this all out.
We can make sure your baby is perfect.
Oh, you want blonde hair, blue eyes?
Oh, you don't like blonde hair, blue eyes?
That's fine.
Whatever.
Beautiful, intelligent, healthy children.
Now, you can go ahead and do it the old way, but if you do, I mean, I can't get you insurance.
That's the way this will happen.
You won't be able to get health insurance.
Then the argument will also be: you're going to create a baby who's not genetically enhanced.
Are you kidding me?
They'll never be able to compete.
You can't live in this building either.
We don't want your kids hanging around with this.
When I talk to Ray Kurzweil about this, because he's saying you're going to be able to upload, read about it in Al Gore's book, Transhumanism.
They tout this as a good thing.
Transhumanism is when man begins to merge with machine.
Ray Kurzweil says by 2030, at the latest, 2030, you'll be able to upload.
You need to speak Italian because you're going on a business trip or a vacation.
Great, just upload it.
Now I can speak Italian.
I don't have to actually learn anything.
That'd be awesome.
It sure would.
That'd be awesome.
It sure would, except you won't really retain anything.
Oh, you can retain it all.
Right.
It's not real, right?
It's not real.
But you'll be able to do the thing you want to do.
Correct.
So now, I want to be me, though.
I don't want that upgrade.
Okay, though, that's fine.
You don't have to have it.
But everyone at the table is going to have it.
You're going to look like a dummy drooling in your cup.
Yeah, you'll feel like the town Jeffy.
So now you have two separate classes.
You have two classes of people.
The natural people who are going to look like they're Amish and dumb.
And those people who are willing to go through all of this.
And why wouldn't you just have the baby people come and just mix up a baby for you?
Because I don't want to have sex with her.
You know, it's like, oh my gosh.
What happens to our human relationships?
What happens when babies are products?
This used to be when Gattaca first came out.
When all of these shows, when 1984 was written, you didn't have the telescreen.
You do now.
You carry it in your pocket.
Okay.
Whenever you heard, you know, if you've ever watched 1984, the telescreen goes off and there's an alert.
Boop, boop, boop.
And then Big Brother talks to you.
Attention.
This is happening.
We've just had this.
Be aware of this.
Well, gosh, the first time I saw everybody's phone go off for an Amber alert while we were at a party, you're at a gathering and all of a sudden, boop, boop, boop.
It's good.
But they can control everybody's phone.
And I mean, even it's a little bit different, but I mean, you're talking about at 7.03 a.m. this morning, the president set the news agenda when he decided to tweet first, right?
And so, I mean, while obviously presidents have always done things at 7.03 in the morning, it's never been like this.
This is a totally different thing.
Every day, he wakes up and sets the agenda for the news every day on Twitter.
Every day.
Him, personally.
Yeah, by himself.
So it is truly amazing, truly, truly amazing that we are talking about such little things like who the president of the United States is.
Yeah.
When everything, this is the last generation of it, guys.
I'm convinced the next effective president is either going to be an authoritarian or he's going to be a young guy who just understands all this technology, understands everything and can explain it to the American people and say, look, guys, this is what we're dealing with.
And it's all good, but you need to understand this is where we're headed.
And it goes fast too.
I remember you're talking about going back to Gattaca.
I remember doing a show with you many years ago, but not that many.
I mean, it seems like the mid-2000s, maybe late 2000s, where we were talking about the possibility of you would walk into a grocery store and you just pick up all the stuff you want and just walk out.
And it would know what you bought.
Yesterday on Pat Stew, we played the video of the place in Seattle run by Amazon where that's exactly what happens.
You walk in, you use your phone to just get through the door.
Once you're in the door, you do nothing.
You put the stuff in your car.
You put your products into your bag or your car cart and you just walk out the store.
It knows everything you bought, just charges to your car.
It brings it all up right on your phone.
You see the total at the end.
And that's what you're doing.
Who would eternity against that?
Oh, it's awesome.
Why would you be against that?
Labor unions.
Right?
Right.
Yeah.
Because two people work at the store.
Yeah.
Two people.
Now, imagine those trucks are self-driving.
Those trucks then have auto-they're already skewed.
And so everything comes on a pallet and it's already skewed.
And an unautomated truck or forklift comes in, takes it off, reads the skew, puts it there.
Automation takes it, puts it on the shelf.
There's nobody around.
Right.
Now, that leads you again.
And this is something that we have to talk about.
We have to understand.
We have to get to a place to where we can be on the air and talk about things that we vehemently disagree with, but we explore.
For instance, I am not for minimum income.
Mincome.
Mincome.
I am not for it.
I think it is the death of the human spirit.
But when you start having stores that you don't need humans to work at, what are people going to do?
I was at this thing last week where it was all venture capitalist.
I saw wireless electricity happen.
For the first time ever, I saw wireless electricity.
Guy who got up and spoke, he's one of the biggest venture capitalists in the world.
And he talked about the future and everything else.
And he said, look, we have to have serious discussions about the min about mincome.
He said, because very soon, the majority of people will not work, nor will they have to work.
And the biggest problem will not be how do we provide things for them.
Robotics and artificial intelligence is going to be able to drive you everywhere, take care of everything, deliver it to your front door.
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You're going to be able to communicate with anybody in the world.
It's all that stuff that took care of your life is over.
But all those jobs are over too.
So the problem is not MinCome.
In his head, MinCome was a done deal.
He said, but once that happens, what gives people a feeling of accomplishment and being alive?
We have to have those conversations.
Twitter is going to be really annoying when that happens.
Well, I mean, it'll be protesters.
Just have a robot read it.
Okay.
And you don't have to worry about it.
That'll be helpful.
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Simon Senek, a friend of mine, is in.
He is the why guy, finding your purpose for life.
I want to talk to him a little bit about technology and kind of the things that we were talking about here on how do you find your purpose.
If we would go to a country or a world where artificial intelligence is providing everything, what is your purpose in life?
How do you find that?
We'll do that coming up also.
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Are we in step or out of step with the rest of the world?
We are massively out of step with the other side of the world or the rest of the world, except not in the way the media would have you believe.
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The rest of the world says yes.
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You know, my motto, my personal motto for the show this year is small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas.
So, this hour, let's talk about the idea.
What is the idea of America?
What is the idea about you?
What rules your life?
Who are you, really?
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Welcome to the program.
All right.
Glad you're here.
Simon Senek is joining us.
He's got a new book out called Together is Better.
He is the only author who has ever said to me, Not did you read my book, did you smell my book?
And strangely, the answer was yes.
It smells like success.
Well, it smells like optimism.
Yeah, that's right.
Optimism.
You are a huge optimist.
I am.
And right now, half of the country, well, the entire country has switched chairs in this bizarre game of musical chairs.
Now, I'm hearing from the left, you know, the economy, we could, the entire global economy could go down.
Maybe I should have a fallout shelter.
We were just talking today with DeVos getting in.
People are actually saying on the left now, maybe we should start homeschooling.
Maybe we should pull our kids out of the system.
Everybody has switched chairs except for a very few.
You were optimistic over the last eight years.
Are you optimistic today?
I am.
And the reason is I try and, and it's not been easy.
I mean, it's only been like less than three weeks.
And look what's already, I mean, the country seems to be in upheaval with everything.
But I try and focus on the future.
I try and focus on the very distant future to see what happens.
And our country has gone through very difficult things before.
And the thing that I love about this nation is we have a thing, and you and I have talked about this multiple times, we have a thing called the Declaration of Independence, which grounds us.
And just like people go to their origin story, people go to church, people go to what grounds them.
They go to that place where it's all sort of written down for them.
For me, it's the Declaration of Independence that reminds us.
Not a lot of people even care about the Declaration of Independence.
I know, I know.
But what you see is, what you see, so when we hear something like a travel ban be announced and the way it was announced, and he didn't consult with DHS before the executive order was, you know, whether you're for or against the executive order, no one can argue the way it was implemented could have been a lot better.
Yeah, even the administration is now saying, yes, we wish we had done it differently.
Like, let's consult with the guy who has to enforce it before we maybe sign the thing.
Right.
And it's, I mean, what's crazy is he called it a ban, but it's not even a ban.
It's like it wasn't even, maybe he thinks it's going to turn into a ban, which we would be strongly against, but this is a pause.
Let's look into it.
He He calls it a ban.
The media jumps on that, that it is a ban.
And so it's not only how it was rolled out, it was the argument that we're having now isn't even real.
But the thing that you, so about the optimism, the thing that sort of inspires me is when this thing is announced and it goes into effect, the number of people who are left and right and Republicans and Democrats and black and white and Asian and Muslim and Jewish and Christian,
they're watching the news and their instinct was to get in a taxi, get in their car and go to the airport and to stand in solidarity with the people who, for example, that first guy who couldn't get in, who was an Iraqi translator, who stood with our soldiers and our Marines, airmen and sailors, who risked his life on a daily basis, who is now given the opportunity to come and start a new life in America.
And they went to support him.
That, to me, is what America is about.
It's that we stand with each other for each other.
And I love that.
I absolutely love that.
So I agree with you because we are dead set against a ban.
This is not a ban, but it could turn into one.
But we're dead set.
When he said this on the campaign trail, we were like, that's absolutely un-American.
You don't do that.
And we'll stand with anybody who is having a problem with that.
But let's go back a way because we've known each other for a long time.
When we first met each other, you didn't really understand the Tea Party because you really hadn't been around necessarily at the time, a lot of Tea Party people.
And the impression was that you guys are kind of blowing some things out of proportion, et cetera, et cetera.
And this is towards the end of it where it was starting to mutate and become part of the Republican machine and everything else.
But people felt like they weren't being listened to.
And then it did kind of turn into a party politic kind of thing.
Just knowing what you know that what caused Donald Trump, I think, is an administration that, and not necessarily just the administration, but all of the culture and government started to mock and not listen and reject.
Okay.
And then co-opt.
I am so concerned that we have switched roles on both sides.
And there are people that are going to mock and reject and not listen to.
But there's also, you know, some of those things were not as spontaneous as you would like to believe.
How does that play out, Simon, where it's a repeat of the last four or eight years?
I think the criticism for the left is the same criticism for the right.
You know, like you said, everything's flopped.
And the criticisms are even the same too.
Which is the election of Donald Trump is not an election for the Republicans.
It was an election anti-everything else.
It was against the system that had left a lot of people out.
If you were left, it left out minorities and gays.
If you were right, it left out your average working American.
It's a vote against incumbency, which also explains the rise of Bernie Sanders.
It's a vote against incumbency.
That's what this is.
And my fear is that for the past eight years, Republicans were completely focused against Obama, yet it was hard to discern what the party stood for over the course of 50 or 100 years.
It was about two, four, and six-year cycles, and nobody was talking about why we need a Republican Party.
Now it's flopped.
And by the way, that still stands.
But now it flops, where the Democrats are starting to organize against Trump, and yet the question still that I would ask is what does the party stand for, not in two, four, or six-year cycles, but for 50 or 100 years.
And I think both parties need to answer that question.
When they defend themselves or explain themselves, they talk in policy.
They tell you their opinion on this, that, or the other, which is like trying to discern the difference between an apple and a micro and a Dell by talking about memory or screen size.
Its features and benefits.
Some of it I like, some of it I don't.
Some of it I agree with and some of it I don't agree with.
And by the way, all that stuff changes anyway.
But I want to know why the parties exist in the first place.
But do they, should they even be that?
Philosophically.
Should they be that, though?
I mean, look how much time we have wasted in politics.
Politics should be the government, according to the Declaration of Independence, is instituted among men just to protect rights.
So we have the time to go out and do the things that we believe in.
We've reversed that.
It's almost like men have been instituted by government.
Well, you're talking about something that we probably both agree on, and probably everybody in Congress disagrees with us, Republican or Democrat, which is I do not believe our founding fathers ever intended that we would have professional politicians.
You'd work on your farm, you'd work in your law firm, you'd come serve the government for a few years, and you'd go back to your farm or your law firm.
That fact that we have people in office for 30, 35, 40 years, and they're literally professional politicians.
That's what they do.
What is your profession?
I am a politician.
I don't think was the intention.
Let's get into a couple of things because you just gave a really good assessment of the problem of millennials, the problem with millennials, and how, I shouldn't say it that way.
That's how it's phrased to me.
I had an answer because every time I spoke anywhere, someone would invariably raise their hand and say, so we're having problems leading our millennials, or can you address the millennial problem?
You and I, in fact, everybody in this room, we totally agree with you.
There's not a problem with millennials.
There's not a problem with millennials.
Right.
You want to explain?
Yeah.
So I got the question all the time, so I had to fashion an answer.
So as is my nature, I sort of talked to a lot of people and made some observations and tried to share what I observed and broke it down into four basic observations.
Parenting, technology, impatience, and environment.
And really quickly, I won't do the whole thing, but basically parents themselves, this is not like me judging parents, but if you go look at the data, it's not psychologists, it's parents themselves who, as their kids got older, looked back and said, I think we did some things wrong.
I think we screwed this up a little bit.
And there's an excessive amount of coddling, purelling the heck out of anything, figuratively and literally.
And what happens is a generation grows up overly coddled with a lack of independence.
So you can argue that to some degree, parents bear some responsibility, which I think is not unfair.
The other one is technology, which is a hard one because no one can argue against the fact that technology has been a huge benefit to us in our lives and made certain things a lot easier.
However, everything comes at a cost.
And the cost of excessive amounts of technology are multiple, a multifaceted.
One, there are addictive qualities to technology, social media and cell phones specifically.
There's a chemical called dopamine that's released when our phones go bing or buzz or flash.
That's the same chemical that's released when we drink, when we smoke, when we gamble.
Almost all addictions are dopamine-based addictions.
In other words, it's addictive.
And like all addictions, in time you will waste time, waste resources, and most importantly, destroy relationships.
And that's exactly what we seem to be seeing.
I talked to a lot of young people, and they freely admitted that their friendships are superficial, that though they have fun with their friends, they wouldn't turn to their friends in hard times.
They freely admitted that there's a sense of loneliness and isolation that they struggle with and that they struggle to ask for help.
They all sound tough.
Like, you know, this is a Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat world.
We're good at curating our lives, you know, filtering everything to show the world how we want it to be seen.
But there's a distinct lack of social skills to literally ask for help.
And millennials often say we want feedback.
What they want is positive affirmation.
They're not very good with negative feedback.
That's so true.
And one of the big criticisms that was lodged against that answer was, you know, how can I generalize and categorize an entire generation?
Because at some point you have to.
Well, the fact of the matter is one can make generalizations, otherwise you wouldn't have disciplines like psychology or sociology.
But also, every generation is impacted by whatever's going on during their formative years.
If you grew up during the Depression and the Second World War during rations, probably you're a little miserly.
You know, we made fun of our grandparents.
Until our grandparents died, it made such an impact on them.
It's just that they grew up, they came of age in a time where that's what they learned.
And so it lasted the rest of their life.
It's a generalization based on what they went through.
If you came of age during the 1960s and 70s during the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon, you're a little cynical about authority and government.
These are fair generalizations.
So we have to consider that there are things that are happening in the formative years of this generation, largely technological.
So how does that have an impact?
How does this generation turn out?
Let me take a pause.
You think about that.
What does that mean now for the coming generation?
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In fact, it's the greatest deal.
This is a quote.
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Really?
Huh.
Because I thought part of that had to do with the $4 trillion that the Fed printed and then gave to the people that are investing at the highest levels in the stock market.
But maybe it's just me.
So if those people in the stock market and Wall Street and CNBC, if they're wrong, what happens?
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Simon Senek is with us.
He's the author of a new book, Together is Better, a little book of inspiration.
He is the author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last.
If you have not read those books, you need to read those books.
Truly a guy who can get down to your core on who you are and why you're driven to do the things that you are.
The good things, when you find those things, you're going to be totally transformed and life becomes so much easier.
Simon, we were talking about millennials, and I guess we only got through half of the points on what's affecting millennials.
It might be too long.
Maybe people should just go and check out the whole thing because it's worth it.
It's what is it, 15 minutes?
15.
Really, really good.
Tell us where you think, what does this mean?
What does the generation, the millennial generation, look like in 20 years?
So the statistics, the trends are already kind of alarming.
And I think we need to take note of the trends, which is we see suicide on the right amongst this generation, addiction to prescription drugs on the rise.
You know, people who criticize this talk say, yes, suicides on the rise amongst other generations too.
Yes, but let's, you know, we want to see it decline in a younger generation, not increase.
I'll give you a perfect example.
A friend of mine, she's working with me over at my apartment.
She's 27, 28 years old.
And about three o'clock in the afternoon, she opens up her bag and pops a pill.
So I say to her, what's up?
You know, she goes, I'm just taking an Adderall.
I said, why?
She goes, I'm having trouble concentrating.
I said, that's because it's 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Like, everybody has trouble concentrating at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
But for some reason, the intense pressure that I think her generation has on her, both to be individuals but also to perform, there's a sense that she literally believed that a dip in her concentration in the afternoon, there was something broken in her brain.
And so she's medicating with these Adderall to keep her focus intense.
That's impossible.
Really bad.
It's really bad.
So my fear is that the trend data is alarming.
And if we don't intervene, it's only going to get worse.
School shootings is another one.
There was one school shooting in the 60s, 27 in the 80s, 58 in the 90s, over 120 in the past decade, 70% of them perpetrated by kids born after the year 1980.
These school shootings are done by kids.
And it's an antisocial behavior like suicide.
I know you're going to disagree with this, but it's not the gun.
It is a sign.
It's a cry for help.
There is something wrong.
And they're feeling lonely and isolated, which is exaggerated by things like technology, because you can have an entire friendship and social life online without ever having to go outside and meet other people.
And I'm hearing some of the struggles that parents are having.
A 14-year-old, people I met who have a 14-year-old who struggles to answer the front door because there's a person there.
Or I make a joke that this young generation, when they're using their phones to Google maps to get from A to B, walking through a city and their phones die, that they will spend more time looking for a charger than simply asking someone for directions.
And sort of a fear or a lack of skills to ask for help or admit that they need help.
And so what that creates is isolation and loneliness.
Which is really not good.
Now, here's a scary, scary statistic.
Guess which demographic has the highest rate increase for suicide in America right now?
Not absolute number, but highest rate of increase.
Girls 10 to 14.
It's doubled.
It has doubled.
Amongst men, it's baby boomers that have the highest rate of increase, but number two is boys 10 to 14.
Hold on.
So let's go there next.
Why?
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Girls 10 to 14.
10 to 14.
Yeah, highest rate of suicide increase.
Why?
So, I mean, look, I wish I knew enough to say why.
I can only, it's only conjecture.
But the suicide rate has doubled.
Doubled.
The suicide rate amongst 10 to 14-year-old girls has doubled.
In what time period?
10 years.
So I think part of it is that we talked about this in the break, part of it is when you and I were kids and we tripped over in the cafeteria and got covered in food, everybody laughed at us, we got very embarrassed, and maybe they made fun of us for a week.
Now somebody records it on their cell phone and that is now kept permanently around on YouTube.
There's no escaping humiliation.
There is cyberbullying.
I mean we don't have to go into it now.
I mean we know it's an epidemic.
And quite honestly, one of the greatest gifts God gave man is the softening of our memory of pain and coping mechanism.
It's a coping mechanism.
And now we cannot cope.
Right.
We cannot cope with you.
Because it never lets you forget.
It never lets you forget.
And I also think that the addictive qualities of cell phones and social media make it more difficult for children and us.
I mean, this is everybody, but these are children.
We're supposed to take responsibility for children.
It makes it more difficult for them to build trusting, loving relationships where they can learn during these formative years to rely on their friends in times of pain and anguish.
It's really amazing that stat you gave us that most millennials will say, I won't turn to my friends.
Well, I don't know about most, but I've talked to a bunch and I was surprised at the number.
I'm comfortable saying that.
I'm surprised at the number of people who said that they- So who do they turn to?
They either turn to no one or they Google something.
online support groups.
Remember that kid who asked the question, ask for help on Facebook.
Yeah, I mean, that kid who shut up UC.
Or they post things.
They post their pain, you know, on in these cathartic experiences on YouTube or Facebook or Instagram or whatever it is.
And which is not the same as talking to a friend, you know?
But there was that kid who shot up UC Santa Barbara, who's a 20-something-year-old virgin, and he was embarrassed and shamed by this and sought solace on an online support group for older virgins.
And you can't find solace on an online support group, right?
You have to find it with friends, with real people who sit there and be like, I got you, man, you're awesome.
It doesn't work.
And he ended up attacking the pretty sorority who he blamed for his feelings of inadequacy.
But I think the important thing is two parts.
One, I think we have to label these things as addictions.
There's nothing wrong with social media or cell phones, but we have age restrictions on gambling, alcohol, and nicotine, and we have no such age restrictions on social media and cell phones.
So I think number one is we have to label it addictive and put some restriction on it.
Now, government restriction is probably impossible to enforce and probably not necessary, but I think parents need to take more control in how these devices are used at home.
For example, here are some of the stories I've heard.
A family that was struggling with their teenagers and their excessive use of, they couldn't get the kids off the phone.
I mean, they're young teenagers, like 12, 13, 14.
And the parents are like, I don't know what to do.
I'm like, they're 12, 13, and 14.
Like, take the phones away.
But anyway, so what they did was, here was their solution.
They went on a family vacation and they, every, the whole family, no one brought a phone except one person.
One of the parents brought their phone in case of emergencies and normal usage.
They brought one phone.
For the first few days of the vacation, it was awful.
They were at each other's throats.
They were grumpy.
They were angry.
And then after about three or four days, they started to bond and they said it was the best vacation they ever had.
We did the same thing.
We have, you know, a cabin up in the woods.
We have a ranch.
And you don't bring devices.
People, the family, it's withdrawals.
You go for withdrawals.
You go through withdrawals.
You don't know what to do.
And you're constantly looking for something, but you don't know exactly what you're looking for.
You're looking for your phone or your device.
And everybody's on each other.
And then after that, you go back to somebody my age, the time you remember when you were a kid, where you're just out.
The kids were out just playing.
Hiking and buying and be like, yeah, exactly.
Just playing with rocks.
So for parents who are struggling with whether to buy their teenagers, their young teenagers, a smartphone, one thing, Delaney Rustin was the one who told me about this, but I've heard other people doing it, which I think is brilliant, which is if you're going to get a kid a smartphone, that they sign a contract.
You sit down and you do a contract with your kids.
We say, here are the rules.
If you get a smartphone, you may never use it in your bedroom.
You may never have it at a dinner table.
If your friends come over, all the friends, including you, put your phones in a basket and you may not access your phones until the friends leave.
Like your friends come over and play.
Credit code.
And if you violate, if you violate this contract, we take your phone away for a week.
And both parents and kid sign the contract.
And those are the conditions.
In other words, it's those are the conditions on you having a smartphone.
But some of the things I've read, also, parents are a lot to blame.
There have been some schools that have attempted to ban cell phones in the classroom, and it's the parents who complained.
How am I going to get a hold of my phone?
How am I going to have a phone in case of emergency?
Nobody's using it in case of emergency.
We're putting our kids into school.
They've been homeschooled.
So we're putting them into schools.
We're going through schools.
Not one school bans cell phones.
Not one.
And some have tried, but it's the parents who resisted.
That was the excuse from the school, from the administrators was, well, you know, the kids have to be picked up after school.
And well, yeah, so was I.
And my parents before I left for school said, at three o'clock, I'll pick you up.
And if the parents desperately needed to get hold of the kid, they called the office and somebody came and gave the kid a note.
The system worked.
It's not like we're smoked.
I love technology.
Innovation is the application of an idea or a technology to solve a real human problem.
But what human problem were we solving here?
Entrepreneurship Without Jobs00:07:55
So last week I was out at a venture capitalist convention and it's called the Upfront Summit and the innovators that were there was phenomenal.
And one of the biggest venture capitalists in the world was there and he spoke and he said, you know, look, here are the things that are on the horizon.
Here's what's going to happen.
And at the end he said, we have to talk about a mincome.
We have to talk about basic minimum income, which I am in principle against.
And I'm against for a couple of reasons.
But the main reason he brought up, he said, look, there's such an upheaval of jobs that are just no longer going to be done that the majority of people will not have to work anymore.
They won't have a job that they can do anymore.
And we're talking on a global scale.
He said, so, you know, we have to think about ways to have people have a minimum income that they can live.
But, and this is what I want to address with you.
He said the secret will be not how do we pay for it, but if we do find a way to eliminate so many jobs and there's no work for people, what gives them self-respect and self-esteem?
A sense of accomplishment.
Have you delved into this thought at all?
So I met a guy at IRS who, I met a guy at IRS who is saying to me, when we digitize taxes, you know, like we don't have people who receive your tax returns anymore and sit there and read them anymore.
We used to.
And we've digitized taxes.
He said, do you know what the net savings to the United States government is?
Net zero.
Because yes, we did away with all the people and accountants who read your tax returns, but we had to hire an entire IT department to make sure that the system works.
So it's a net zero savings.
So think about how many jobs that exist today that didn't exist 20 or 30 years ago.
They just didn't exist.
There was no such thing.
So although I agree that robotics and technology will replace a lot of human jobs, it will also create new jobs that we cannot imagine right now.
There are people, though, in some ways.
But the question is, is it a net zero?
I mean, you look at the number one job in most states is truck drivers.
Those jobs are gone very soon.
And retraining truck drivers for something else in jobs that may not exist right now.
I mean, you do have transition years at least.
Unfortunately, here's where my mind goes.
And I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
This is where my mind goes.
So I went to Mumbai in India, and I visited a slum called Daravi, which is one of the largest slums in Mumbai.
Just to give you some sense of scale, I live on the island of Manhattan, and the island of Manhattan in New York City has 1.5 million residents.
That's just the people who live on 26 square miles, right?
That island of 26 square miles.
Darvey is about one square mile and has 750,000 people.
Oh my gosh.
Okay, conservatively.
They don't really know how many people, but they think it's about 750,000 in the long square mile.
It's really dense, right?
And it's filthy, and there's like live electricity wires hanging.
I mean, it's really a dangerous place.
You can understand why disease spreads like crazy.
But here's what I found absolutely fascinating about Daravy, right?
They have 0% unemployment.
Zero.
Because unlike in the United States, which is if you don't work or anywhere in the West, we have sophisticated welfare systems that can pick you up, or you have churches or families.
In other words, if you're out of work in America, you won't die.
You know, like death is not the immediate.
Where in India, because the country is so large and you couldn't afford a welfare system, that if you don't have a job, you will actually die.
And so what ends up happening is this huge influx of entrepreneurialism, entrepreneurship.
So for example, some guy without a job who's come from a farm, who's come to the big city, right?
He's got to figure out a job.
There are no jobs, so he's got to figure something out.
So he goes into downtown and dumps all the garbage out and takes all the plastic.
He thinks brings the plastic back to Daravy and sells it to somebody who will sort the plastic, who then sorts the plastic, who then sells it to somebody who will melt the plastic down and turn it into pellets, who will then sell it to somebody who sells it back into industry.
So there's this unbelievably sophisticated recycling program.
It could never be central planned.
It could never be central planned.
It's all micro entrepreneurship.
And the genius behind it.
So the guy who works in the plastic sorting factory now has enough scale he can hire a few people.
So he hires a couple people.
Now, what does he do?
He lets them sleep upstairs in the factory.
So he never has problems with people showing up to work late.
They show up on time and they leave when they're done because they live upstairs.
He has no problems with people breaking in and stealing from him because he's got people living upstairs.
This is the 1800s America.
And I was astonished, the quality of entrepreneurism in Daravi.
So I guess maybe, I can't blame you.
I think I'm going to sound like you in a minute.
I heard this from the beginning.
You had me at hello and I'm like, this is going to end.
Maybe.
Poorly procited.
Yes, yes, yes.
But the problem is we live in the West.
No, no, no.
And we're wealthy.
That's the difference.
The difference is in the West, we're wealthy.
And when you have wealth, go ahead and say what you're going to say.
He's excusing you.
I'm not excusing.
I'm simply thinking the argument through.
But the question is, why do we have wealth in the West?
That's what you got to explain.
Because of the wealth.
Yes, we have freedom and the liberty and the opportunity here that's created because of the Declaration of Independence, which you look at.
And you're not going to have to be a free institution.
And fewer mouths to feed.
It doesn't matter mouths to feed.
You give us a billion people.
We'll feed you.
The question, though, is how do we do that?
We throw out enough food that we could feed a billion people.
Because I contend, now there is something to be said for the mixing of the two.
I don't like, I mean, when we got past the point in the 1930s where you didn't have to live above the store, you could go.
You could go for your own home.
But what we've done is we've created a system where living above the store, working like that, is, how dare you?
That's beneath me.
So we threw the baby out with the bathwater.
Yes, we want to take care of some people that just can't do it themselves.
And we do want people to excel and not be trapped in squalor.
But there is something also to be said for that freedom, that responsibility that comes with freedom.
So this is an interesting thought, which is the quality of entrepreneurship, right?
Because if you look at so many entrepreneurial ventures today, it's an app or a software, and the person who's developing it, although they say they're trying to save the world, because that's sort of what you say when you work in Silicon Valley, you know, really what they're trying to do is develop an exit strategy and be the next Mark Zuckerberg.
Right.
Right.
That's really what's going through their head, which what's my exit strategy?
And, you know, as we said before, you know, good entrepreneurship, good innovation is where you apply engineering technology and idea to solve a real human problem.
And the question is, most of the apps being developed aren't solving any problems.
We have many, many problems to solve.
And yet the entrepreneurship seems to be a little bit indulgent.
So why not really good old-fashioned entrepreneurship where somebody's setting out to solve a problem that they or someone close to them has actually suffered?
Because that does happen.
Shared Suffering Builds Trust00:02:33
Of course it does.
But it only happens in strife.
And we live, usually, and we live in a world right now where everyone is trying to take away strife.
Why did the parents baby their kids?
Because they don't want to hurt their kids.
Pain is not something to look forward to, but the complete removal of pain allows you to put your hand on the stove and burn it over and over and over again because you never learned.
You know, one of the things that shared suffering produces is oxytocin and shared suffering makes us trust each other and come together and love each other.
Look at the greatest generation of World War II.
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I just want to leave with this Benjamin Franklin quote, one of the most generous men ever.
I'm doing good to the poor, but I think the very best way of doing good to the poor is by not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
I've observed the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves and of course became poorer.
And on the contrary, the less that was done for them, the more they did for themselves and they became richer.
Benjamin Franklin.
It's human nature.
It absolutely is.
But we are so black and white, it's one or the other.