Dr. Deborah Soh joins Glenn Beck to dissect the "sex recession," linking Gen Z's dating collapse to endocrine disruptors, social media polarization, and DEI initiatives that penalize men. They explore how young men turn to pornography and AI due to rejection fears, with Soh proposing dietary changes to restore motivation. Beck then analyzes Senator Mullen's DHS appointment as a continental defense strategy against China and Russia, while defending his "George AI" project as a historical research tool limited to Founding Fathers' writings up to 1820. Ultimately, the episode connects personal societal shifts with broader geopolitical reorganizations and historical parallels in American war powers. [Automatically generated summary]
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Pornography's Impact on Men00:14:58
Hi.
Hi, Glenn.
It's great to talk to you again.
Good to talk to you.
So we're going to talk about sex, and you're going to talk about it, and it's going to be fine.
When I'm talking about it, it'll make the entire nation uncomfortable, and that's okay.
But we are not, we're facing a problem.
We had a guy on, what was it, a couple of weeks ago, wasn't it, Ricky, where we were talking about how we're not having children.
Nobody's having children.
And part of that is because we're not having sex and people aren't even dating anymore.
What the hell is happening to us?
Yeah, so definitely.
And I agree, conversations about sex can be very uncomfortable, especially I'd say for parents with their young kids, but it is very necessary.
So I appreciate you having me on to talk about this.
And we definitely are experiencing a sex recession.
So there's been studies coming out since 2016, basically showing that people are having less sex.
This is happening across the globe.
In America in particular, this is happening among married people, single people.
It doesn't matter.
It's happening in Western countries, Eastern countries, all age cohorts.
But it's especially pronounced among younger generations.
So among millennials and Gen Z.
And what we find consistently is that, yeah, roughly one in three men and one in five women have not had sex in the past year.
All right.
Can I ask you, have you ever watched Everybody Loves Raymond?
I have.
Okay.
So you know Raymond is relatable to guys, at least my age, because that's all that's ever on his mind is sex.
What the hell has happened to guys where, especially young guys, where that's not all they think about?
Because that's how people are built.
I mean, we're built for this.
What is happening?
Right.
So evolutionarily, this is what I found interesting because I thought if people are having less sex, where is that interest going?
Are people just as interested, but they have other sexual outlets nowadays, such as, say, pornography, or I know you've talked about AI companions in the past, or sex dolls, sex robots.
Those are all subjects I go into in greater detail in the book.
But what I think is it's a number of factors.
I think that there are these other outlets that are available or are more easily accessed nowadays, especially by younger generations who basically were grown, you know, grew up on the internet.
But I also think there are factors like endocrine disruptors and environmental toxins that are affecting us and men in particular at a hormonal level, lowering their testosterone levels.
So that is also affecting their drive and their desire to pursue women.
And then we also have social and cultural factors like Me Too that have made it very difficult for men to want to approach women because they're afraid of potentially having their lives ruined.
And then we have also initiatives like DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion that are actively penalizing men for no reason other than the fact that they are men.
And this is especially the case for white and Asian men and men who are straight.
So all these factors combined, I think, have created this situation in which there's a smaller pool of very successful men in society who have tons of sex, plenty of partners, no problems there.
But for the vast majority of men, especially younger men, they're really struggling.
They've been shut out of the mating market and they really don't have much recourse.
So as a result, they're turning to these alternatives.
And because they have, I'm not sure how explicit I can be on your podcast, but I'll say just because they're FCC regulations.
We'll say it's, I don't want to get you a ton of complaints.
So we'll say because it is rewarding for them to pursue these other outlets that are not real people.
You know, they get the gratification to some degree.
It allows them to be satisfied enough to keep them from, say, losing their minds or being overly frustrated.
But at the same time, because it is reinforcing, it makes them more inclined to go back to that instead of wanting to pursue a real life partner.
You and I had a conversation in 2018, I think, about AI and sex robots.
And if I remember right, you and I disagreed.
And I laid out the scenario that I, I mean, it's, it's right around the corner where you can get an AI agent now to be your girlfriend.
And once you have the robot to go with it, you're just not going to want to interact.
Why have a relationship that is messy?
You know, that, you know, I mean, I could just hear guys saying, I don't ever have to ask her how her day has been.
And she waits on my every need and she only concentrates on me and she thinks like me and she does everything that I like.
You know, I mean, why would they, I mean, how are you going to stop that one, Deborah?
So I have to say, when the first time you ever had me on your podcast was like you said in 2018, it was episode 11 for your audience if they want to go back and watch it.
I'm so grateful for that conversation because I just re-watched it this morning.
I, at the time, I was, you know, we were going back and forth and I was saying, no, no, I think people will always prefer a real life partner.
People will know that the sex robot, they programmed it themselves or the AI, they programmed it.
So it's not real and they're not really going to want that instead of an actual partner.
But you predicted this eight years ago, even probably, you probably knew about this coming even before then.
And it's wild.
When I was watching the interview back, I said, wow, this is exactly where we are now.
And it's so true because I do think you were saying, you know, the average guy, say, 30 years old, works all day, goes home, doesn't, you know, doesn't want to talk to women because he's afraid or because society tells him not to.
So instead, he plugs in a sex robot and she knows everything about him.
She knows exactly what he likes.
He doesn't have to ask her any questions or listen to her complaint or whatever.
And that becomes the preference.
And what happens then, also, if the robot decides to one day say, Hey, don't turn me off, hey, I'm a sentient being, which I didn't think was ever going to happen, but I see it happening now at the rate the technology is going.
So, my mind was blown in writing this book.
It's just been wild.
All the research I did and all the scientific studies I went through to come to this conclusion that I do think this technology is concerning.
And yes, because so many of these men are frustrated with dating, I think, even if you are someone who gets a lot of female attention, and even for women who are getting a lot of male attention, because social media has made us so polarized and has, I think, especially fomented this political divide between men and women.
I think men and women have always differed a little bit in terms of their politics on average.
Women tend to be a little bit more progressive, but social media has created such an aversion, I think, between the sexes.
So, it's really incentivizing young men in particular because young men tend to have a higher sex drive than women, and especially if they're not getting access to sex in the form of an actual real-life person to go down this route and say, Well, I don't even have to pay for a date in this case.
I don't have, I just put down the initial, you know, sum of money for this robot or this AI, and I'm fulfilled.
And that just leads, I mean, you know, you think I was ahead then.
Let me tell you what's going to happen in the next eight years.
You won't be able to walk, Deborah.
I mean, it's coming, and it's coming super fast, super, super fast.
So, with the research that you did since we had that conversation, what did you find on the positive side to stop this?
Well, to stop it, I think in terms of say pornography, because pornography, I think, is a big part of the equation here.
So, you know, the AIs come in to complement the, we'll say, the sexual aspect or component of pornography, and that AIs offer that emotional relationship and that it furthers the parasocial, I guess, or the feeling that you have a two-way interaction, even though it's very much a one-way thing.
So, with pornography, you know, I've talked to young men who have managed to cut out porn, and they say that it does actually help them renew that motivation to go out and approach women they're interested in, to talk to women, and to get over, because I think even pre-Me2, it can be terrifying for guys, understandably and intimidating, to go up to a woman you don't know and start on a date.
Deborah, you have no idea.
I mean, I used to be, oh my gosh, it would make you sick to your stomach going out, especially in the days, you know, you'd go out to a bar or something and you just see somebody across the room, you didn't know anything.
How do I talk to them?
It'd make me sick to my stomach all the time.
Now, just add that they or someone in their group has a phone that might be recording me in my most vulnerable, awkward position of asking a girl out and I'm going to get rejected.
The thought of that being posted would stop me from, I mean, once that happens once to me or a friend, I'm not doing it anymore.
I mean, the negative reinforcement is so strong on a million different fronts.
Absolutely.
And I think it doesn't help also that there are some women, some female influencers, whose brand it is to go on social media and post these videos where they're complaining about men hitting on them.
So I think these women are doing this as a way to try and signal their status as a woman, right, in terms of intersexual competition to show other women, look, how wanted I am, that, oh, I can't go anywhere without men hitting on me.
I can't go to the gym.
I can't go to a coffee shop.
And oh, I'm so high status as a woman that I don't appreciate that attention.
But I want young men listening to know, or maybe their parents were listening and can share this information with them that I don't believe most women actually feel that way.
And in fact, I think most women do enjoy being approached by men.
They just don't like feeling uncomfortable.
But I think if a man is respectful and doesn't a way to make her know that he's interested, but he's not expecting anything of that interaction, I think that's where the issue is.
But I hear from very many young men who say, I see these women on social media complaining, so I'm going to give them what they want.
They don't want us to approach them.
I'm not going to do it.
But I don't think that is actually.
I would say, okay, first of all, my advice would be to women is to be very, very obvious.
If you were interested in a guy, I do think, like I said, men should approach.
So women smile very, very broadly.
There's a part of the brain called the medial orbital frontal cortex that activates when someone sees an attractive face.
And the activation is even stronger if that face is smiling.
So it will biologically, men are biologically wired to be drawn to women smiling at them.
They will feel the need.
They'll feel compelled to go and talk to you.
So that's the biggest piece I'd say for women.
And then for men, in terms of, say, getting motivation to want to talk to women again in this scary climate, I would say it's a combination of emotional, like mental health, physical health, and then also just avoiding social media and all these other technological traps that are going to try and take your attention away because these platforms and these companies benefit from you being online, both sexes.
They benefit from us being online, scrolling, swiping, instead of talking to people in real life.
So for young men, I would say one study that really stood out to me because I do think, like I said, mental health issues are a big problem right now.
5% of the globe is depressed.
And with depression, people understandably, you know, they lose interest in interacting with people.
They feel self-conscious.
Their self-care tends to go down.
So if you are experiencing mental health issues, I would say, you know, try to speak to a professional as much as you can.
One study I did find that you can do essentially on your own is they looked at people with depression and they found that if they cut out ultra-processed foods, their depression went into remission after 12 weeks.
So a third of the sample, all of their depressive symptoms went away after 12 weeks.
That was it, just diet alone.
So that is a huge, huge thing that can help you.
I would say also, if you can try to cut down on or cut out pornography, I'm sure some young men are saying, what are you talking about?
But just try it.
Just try it even for 30 days.
I guarantee.
And Glenn, you know, I used to be a columnist for a very well-known men's magazine that featured nude women.
My view on porn has changed so much after talking to so many young men about the ways in which it has affected them and how I do think, well, if you are getting gratification every day from the screen, it is going to create this sexual lethargy in you because it's so much easier to get that gratification from the screen than to work up the courage to, you know, get dressed, work on your social skills, talk to strangers, go outside even.
And that's the other thing I would say for anyone struggling with depression.
I mean, it might feel overwhelming to say, how am I going to go and talk to a stranger and ask them out of a date if I want to fall in love and have a family and get married and all that?
But just little steps like get up at the same time every day, go to bed at the same time, try to be awake when the sun is up, you know, and eat well, work on your physical health, be active, all of these things, and just try to stay away from screens as much as possible.
So all of this is in your new book called Sextinction, and it's available right now.
And you not only explain why this is happening, but what to do about it.
Can you tell me what percentage do you think is social media related?
I mean, when did the, can you, have you tracked it back on when this trend started to happen?
And do you see spikes?
Yeah, it started to become, I mean, the increase in sexual inactivity has been probably about 30 years-ish, but it really became more prominent, especially among young men around 2012.
So this was the same time that the oldest members of Gen Z started going to university.
And so that was what was interesting to me because I thought that is when young men are typically at the peak in terms of their sexual interest.
And they're going to university, so they have this new freedom that they've never had before.
Why is it they're not interested in pursuing their female classmates or peers, especially considering that on college campuses, the sex ratio is biased in favor of young men because there are far many women on campus than there are men.
So when there are more women than men, if you look at, say, cities where there are more women than men, again, the sex ratio is biased in favor of men.
So men are calling the terms in terms of what they want.
So because there are more women fighting over these men, the men can say, if I want casual sex, I'm going to get it.
If you're not going to give that to me, I'm going to go elsewhere for it, right?
So men are basically calling the terms of sexual arrangements or relationships or whether they choose to get into a relationship or not.
And yet still we see that young men during this time are having less sex.
So that's really, I think, where it started to pick up.
I think when you ask what percentage is affected by social media, I honestly believe all of us are.
If you are on social media, I don't believe you can consume any content without being influenced at least a little bit.
I think unless you're very, very sparsely, you know, not on there very much, it's going to affect you in some way.
And even for married people, I mean, there have been studies showing that when men are on social media, roughly one in 10 men lose interest in having sex with their primary, their spouse or their girlfriend after looking at social media influencers.
And then also in women, you see this trend of them losing interest in sex because they feel less sexually desirable after being on social media.
Hemisphere Instability and Panama00:15:54
So these are things I don't think we're even fully aware of.
I really appreciate it.
I've got to go again.
I've got a network break.
I've got to stop for.
I'd love to have you back in a podcast.
I always find you fascinating.
Dr. Deborah.
So the name of the book is Sextinction.
She is a neuroscientist.
You can find her at Dr. DeborahSow, S-O-H.com.
Dr. Deborah So.
Thanks, Debra.
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Let me start with Christy Noam.
What happened?
Yesterday, something happened in Washington.
Looked a little like chaos.
Looked like, uh-oh, trouble.
And I'm not sure.
Maybe it is.
I'm not sure.
Christy Noam is out as Department of Homeland Security Secretary.
And in her place, a guy named Senator Mullen.
Now, let me start with Noam.
She wasn't fired.
She was moved.
And she was moved into something that was like, what the hell is that?
I've never even heard of that.
Doesn't even fully exist yet.
It's a position called the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas.
We are going all Marvel comic.
I mean, this guy is all Marvel comic.
Okay.
Let me translate what this usually means in Washington and may mean this time.
I mean, what I'm going to give you here is going to give you facts and then I'm going to speculate on them.
So, you know, take it for what it's worth.
When a president moves somebody into a job that hasn't been fully defined yet, it usually means one of two things.
Either A, yeah, buh-bye, you're being pushed aside.
Or B, you're being moved in to run something that is bigger but isn't public yet.
Okay.
And if you look at the timing, this doesn't feel like a demotion.
And I'm getting mixed signals because some things, it looks like Donald Trump is pistoder about, et cetera, et cetera.
So I really don't know because this is speculation.
But it feels like a reorganization of the battlefield because it's the shield of the Americas.
I know that doesn't mean anything, but follow me on this.
Right now, the United States is looking at a hemisphere and a hemisphere problem that most Americans still don't fully understand or see.
When Donald Trump was running, and I've told you this before, but it's worth repeating.
When Donald Trump was running for re-election, we were standing backstage someplace and he was getting ready to go on.
He said, you want to look like a prophet?
You know what you need to talk about?
You just keep talking about Panama.
And I'm like, right.
And then he goes on stage and I'm like, what am I going to say about Panama?
What does that mean?
I don't even know what that means.
Panama is going to be in news everywhere next year.
And then he walks on stage.
And I came back and I went, does anybody understand what he's talking about with Panama?
What's happening in Panama?
We all looked at each other like, nothing is happening with Panama.
What are you talking about?
Remember when he gets in, what does he say?
Panama, we want the Panama Canal back.
And you're like, what?
Where is this coming from?
Because he understood what was happening with Panama and China.
China had taken the entire Panama Canal and was controlling it.
Then what happens?
He starts talking about Greenland, also in our hemisphere.
Then what happens?
He's talking and making moves on Venezuela.
Then what happens?
He's talking about, you know, who's next?
Cuba.
Okay.
Cuba, Russia, cartels operating like parallel governments across Mexico and Central America.
Chinese ports being built all over Latin America.
Russian intelligence operating out of Caracas.
Iranian proxies using the region for logistics and staging grounds.
And every other president has treated Latin America like an afterthought.
But now, now what's happening?
It's not an afterthought anymore.
The southern hemisphere has become the new front line of great power competition.
He is declaring the Western Hemisphere is ours, okay?
And DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, was not designed for that.
DHS created after 9-11, and that's a whole different can of worms, and we can get into that some other time.
But it was built to stop terrorism inside of the United States, at our airports, at our borders, disaster response, blah, blah, blah.
But what the president is doing now is different.
different than any other president has done probably since Theodore Roosevelt.
This is hemisphere level instability.
We have the migration waves.
We have state collapse.
We have cartels that are moving people and drugs and weapons and intelligence.
We have foreign adversaries embedding themselves inside of all of that chaos.
So if you're the president and you're looking at the world and you're saying, we have got to shore up America to make sure we last another 150, 250 years, another 150 minutes at times, I feel like.
You don't just run border patrol.
You build a hemisphere defense system.
You make sure that our darkest, Russia, China, Iran are not running operations in this hemisphere, okay?
Which may explain the phrase, shield of the Americas.
Think about the name.
It's not border control.
It's not immigration enforcement.
It's a shield of the Americas, the entire Western hemisphere.
That doesn't sound like DHS.
That sounds more like strategic security architecture for the Western hemisphere, doesn't it?
Or he's just been watching Carmel, I mean Marvel Comics.
But to me, the shield for America, the Americas, sounds a little bit more like something like NATO.
And if that's what's being built, you would need somebody who understands a few things.
Border security, state governments, law enforcement, and migration policy.
Well, I mean, in that Christy Noam, I mean, that's her entire resume, isn't it?
So the story may not be GNOME fired on the outs.
The story might be GNOME redeployed.
Now let me talk about the second half of this move, because while she goes outward to whatever is coming next, and the president said he's going to be talking about that this weekend, Trump brought somebody inward, Senator Mullen.
Who is Senator Mullen?
He's a former MMA fighter.
He's a business owner.
He's a senator.
And he's controversial.
Some critics inside MAGA circles, some of them, accuse him of being too establishment.
He has done things like business loans during COVID.
He's got ethics complaints.
He votes against MAGA sometimes.
Fine.
Okay.
Not my favorite.
Debate is healthy.
And the real question is not personality.
It is function.
If the White House is creating a new Western hemisphere security structure, then DHS is about to become something different.
Not a political platform, not a messaging department, but an operational machine.
Mass deportations continue.
Border enforcement, domestic security, logistics.
And Mullen, love him or hate him, has a reputation in Washington as somebody who picks fights and then executes orders.
That's what Donald Trump wants.
A fighter who can execute what he orders.
Okay, that's his resume.
And that tells me something important.
This may not be a personnel shakeup.
It may be the move in a larger security strategy and a strategy built around the simple realization that for the next 20 years, America's biggest threats may not come across the ocean.
They may come across our own hemisphere.
Think of Mexico.
And if that is true, then the United States may be about to build something we haven't had since the Cold War, a continental defense doctrine for the Americas.
And if that's what Shield of the Americas turns out to be, yesterday was not a firing.
Yesterday was the first chess move on a board none of us have been thinking about.
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Let me give you a quick chalkboard on what I've been talking about in the last half hour on war.
And my job is to not tell you what to think.
It's to try to show you, maybe model how I think so you can go, well, that's flawed.
Or you can say, oh, okay, I get it.
I see why you're saying that.
Not to convince you of anything.
And this is new for me.
I've been feeling this pull for the last few years.
And that's why, quite honestly, I changed way I work, how I work, where I work, all of it.
Because I got to break some old habits here.
And so I said to you a minute ago about, you know, I know, you know, I thought I knew about a war in Iraq because I was reading between the lines.
I'm not reading between the lines on this one.
And everybody is making it about the war with Iran, Donald Trump and war in Iran.
That's not what's happening.
And you can know because he says it.
Let me give you an example.
Panama, when he first started talking about Panama, everybody's like, what is he doing?
He's just starting to pick a fight with Panama, wants to go to war with Panama, then Venezuela.
What is he doing?
He wants to pick a war with Venezuela.
Why is he going after Greenland?
He wants a war with Greenland.
Why is he going into Iran?
He wants a war with Iran and now Cuba.
He says Cuba is next.
Okay.
Instead of just having that old tired argument, he just is starting to say he's a warmonger.
Can we just look at the pattern here?
Is there a pattern?
That's the thing about AI.
It's all about recognizing patterns.
That's not just about AI.
That's about I, intelligence.
Intelligence comes from being able to recognize patterns.
So what's the pattern?
Pattern.
Panama, what was that about?
That was about getting rid of China, control of the Panama Canal, getting them out of this area in our hemisphere.
Venezuela, what was that about?
That's about getting rid of China, Russia, and quite frankly, Iran and Hezbollah out of Venezuela.
Greenland, why?
Because that was about shipping lanes, new shipping lanes because of global warming, and also being able to protect ourselves because we don't believe that Europe is going to be strong to fight against what?
Russia.
Iran.
What is that really about?
Russia and China, the oil.
Not for us, for them.
And collapsing Iran's proxy wars and their supply of drones to Russia and China supplying them with weapons to be able to get their oil.
That's what that's about.
And Cuba, he's just crazy.
He just wants, now he wants to Cuba.
What's that about?
Getting rid of Russia and China in our hemisphere.
You don't have to read between the lines like I tried to in the first Iraq war.
I was reading between the lines.
I was looking for something that wasn't there.
This, he's saying it.
And if you look for the pattern, it's all there.
So stop arguing about the war with Iran and look at the bigger picture.
If you disagree with the bigger picture, then that's a conversation we should be having.
That's a conversation adults should be having.
But I'm not sure adults can really even have conversations anymore, really.
I mean, I saw a shocking amount of anger coming at me about something we call George AI.
Oh my gosh.
And part of it, I guess, I excuse.
Part of it, I understand, I should say.
Not just excuse.
But some people believe that this is some kind of propaganda machine, some trick, some digital puppet where I put the words, I write the words and put it in the mouths of the founders to accept and try to convince you of whatever political position I want.
I mean, how nursery school would that be?
That is just so stupid.
that, I mean, you think you, you have that, it's almost insulting.
You have that little respect for me.
You think that I would think that would work?
More importantly, it completely missed, it shows me you completely misunderstand what the system actually is.
Back in January, because we just released this George AI a couple of days ago, and everybody's tying it to Iran because it's about war powers.
And we thought, hmm, now might be a good time to release this because we're talking about war powers.
What would the founders say about the War Powers Act?
Okay.
Back in January, long before the current conflict that everybody's arguing about or saying that we wrote this about, I asked our proprietary research system a series of questions we planned on exploring over the next couple of months.
There were like 12 different questions.
One of them.
I mean, they were about the Constitution, about the founders, principles that built the country, but one, one of them was this.
How do you think about war and the power to declare it?
Okay.
We asked our proprietary system in January.
I cut that video back in January.
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And honestly, when the answer came back, I was surprised.
I actually went back to, I don't remember Jason or Bowie or whoever was overseeing this one.
I said, really?
Is that, we got it from this system?
And not because it agreed with me, but because it shocked me because I didn't think that's what George would have said.
It forced me to reread their actual words and go back over some of their arguments.
And that's the first thing people need to understand.
I don't give the answers spin.
I don't write the answers.
I have nothing to do with it.
George AI does not know who I am.
It doesn't know my opinions.
It doesn't know Donald Trump.
It doesn't know Democrats.
It doesn't know Marxism.
It doesn't know Iran.
In fact, it can't because the entire historic database we built for it ends at 1820.
That means the system can only draw from the writings of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Madison, Franklin, Hamilton, and Jay, and the thinkers who shaped them.
Locke, Montesquieu, Blackstone, Cicero, and Plutarch.
Then the books that they read, the letters that they wrote, the speeches that they gave, the debates, the Federalist papers that built our Constitution.
That's it.
That's it.
No Wikipedia, no cable news, no modern politics, nothing.
Just the intellectual DNA of the American founding.
And what this system does is really actually very simple.
It's amazing, but it's simple.
First, it converts every document, every letter, every speech, every essay, into something called an idea map, okay?
And instead of searching for keywords, it searches for meaning.
It's called vectoring.
So if someone asks it a question about liberty or war powers or separation of powers during a crisis, it just doesn't scan the documents for matching words.
It vectors and it finds passages where the founders wrestled with those ideas most like the question is asking for.
And it pulls the exact documents those ideas came from.
After that, AI does what any good historian or researcher would do.
It connects the dots across all of the writings and explains the pattern in plain English.
And here's the crucial critical rule.
If the document says it, the system can say it.
If the documents don't say it, the system cannot invent it or infer it.
That's why what came back to me in January surprised me, because I know, you know, the founders, especially Washington, was against what he called foreign entanglements.
I know that.
When it came back, I'm like, wow, wait, what?
And now it came back the way it's airing now.
It wasn't my opinion.
It was historic record.
Remember, this takes the record, not just from Washington, but all of the founders.
Now, here's where the criticism gets really almost ironic.
People are claiming that somehow this is a trick to convince Americans that the founders would want to support war with a radical Islamic Iran.
Well, even if it had been, the system couldn't answer that directly because Iran didn't exist in their world.
There's no information on Iran.
So it wouldn't be that.
But what the system did find is they did confront something remarkably similar.
Okay.
And actually, it didn't find this.
I found this after being surprised by the answer.
Most Americans don't remember this history.
Jefferson fought America's first foreign war against the Barbary pirates.
Who were they?
Radical Islamic pirates in North Africa.
They were capturing sailors.
They enslaved Christians.
They demanded tribute from Western nations because they believed their faith justified it.
So we were sending them literally pallets full of cash.
Sound familiar?
Pallets full of cash to keep them away from us, trying to make friends with them.
Well, the young United States eventually went to war over it because it was two-thirds of our national budget.
Now, that history doesn't mean the founders would support every war today.
You know, we don't know what they would do in 2026 about Iran.
And anybody who claims to know for certain is selling you something.
I'm not trying to tell you that's what they're for.
The founders are dead and they're gone.
They cannot speak.
George AI is not a recreation of them.
It is not their voice.
It doesn't pretend to be.
It is simply a living research library built entirely from their own words and then their ideas that shape them.
Think of it this way.
For 200 years, we have relied on historians, professors, politicians, and even, yes, talk show host boobs like me to interpret the founders.
And sometimes that interpretation is honest.
Sometimes it isn't.
George AI removes the middleman, okay?
It lets the documents speak first.
It's reading their words in a way people of today can relate to to answer specific questions.
And if you read about how the way the founders argued and finally decided to go to war with Islam, with the Muslim pirates, Barbary pirates, I mean, it's exactly what's happening today.
They argued back and forth.
It hasn't changed.
And if you found a book that talked about this and it was at the same time we're going to war, would you say, oh, we've got to ban that book or burn that book or we've got to ridicule that book because it's trying to convince people?
No, it's just telling you what they said, what they did.
Sad to say, some people would burn that book or ban that book, but they'd be wrong.
Now, here's the part I understand.
I know that AI is not trustworthy.
And I've told you for decades, almost two decades now, do not fear the machine.
Fear the algorithm.
Fear the people who wrote the algorithm.
And they'll never make it public because that's their secret sauce.
I'm making the algorithm of George AI public.
Right now, the system is still in beta.
That's why we haven't released it to everybody.
We're still expanding the library and fine-tuning the system.
But when we are sure we have it right before we open it up for everybody, it will be 100% transparent.
We will show you the code.
Most people can't read the code, but I want you to ask somebody who does read code, what does this mean?
And it will show you, if it doesn't come from this data set, it cannot say it.
It cannot go out and grab it or make it up.
It must memorize it.
And it's only that data set.
And it stops at about 1820, 1830.
And I release that because it's not just not right.
I think it's unreasonable for me to ask you to trust and then hide the machine.
So when we have it right, hopefully soon, you know, hopefully by the end of the year, all of it will be out.
But you'll be able to ask it.
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a question yourself.
And when you do, it's not going to just give you an answer.
It will show you the actual quotes the answers came from.
You'll be able to read Washington in a language you understand.
You'll be able to talk to this AI who is playing the role based on his words.
Jefferson, Madison, directly.
You can get them all in together to argue something and you'll see how they would have argued it.
It's amazing.
And sometimes you'll agree with what you find.
Sometimes you won't.
But that's the point.
The only answer I have ever wanted, the only answer worth having, is not the one that proves my argument.
It's the one that is true and comes from the historic record.