Transcript [00:00] Great story. Been I've been researching [00:01] this for a couple of days and I love [00:04] this story because everything right now [00:06] that is happening feels I don't know out [00:09] of control some sometimes improvised. [00:13] You know yesterday the president was [00:15] reacting about this AI stuff. A [00:17] billionaire is posting about a tech [00:19] company is you know telling us we're all [00:21] going to die and they're shipping stuff [00:23] that none of us asked for honestly. [00:28] And it has the texture of a thing being [00:30] made up as it goes, but it isn't made up [00:33] as it goes. [00:36] Somebody actually wrote this down. [00:39] And he wrote it down before the Wright [00:40] brothers. [00:43] I'm going to tell you a story about a [00:45] librarian in Moscow. This is an [00:47] incredible story. And almost nobody has [00:51] heard his name. Nikolai Federov. [00:55] He worked at uh a museum in the great [00:59] library of Moscow. And we're talking [01:01] about the 1880s. [01:03] He slept in a trunk. Uh he gave most of [01:07] his salary away. He refused to let [01:09] anybody photograph him. And he taught [01:13] and he taught and he taught and he would [01:15] taught any any he would teach anyone who [01:18] would sit still and listen. And what he [01:21] taught was that every religion and every [01:23] philosophy had gotten the assignment [01:25] wrong. [01:28] He thought death was not a fact of [01:31] nature to be made peace with. He said [01:35] death was the enemy and the entire human [01:39] race unite. It needed to be united using [01:42] science and they had one job. Stop [01:46] death. [01:49] He called this the common task, stop [01:52] dying. [01:54] And then [01:56] he said that we should all go gather [02:00] uh scattered atoms of every human being [02:04] who had ever died and bring them back. [02:07] All of them. No exceptions. Because the [02:10] resurrection uh the resurrection was [02:12] real in his mind and we needed to [02:15] resurrect all generations. [02:18] Somebody's playing God here. And because [02:20] that resurrection, people would need [02:22] place to stand. Now, this is in 1880. We [02:25] needed to colonize space. [02:30] Toltoy sat at this man's feet. Dossi [02:34] read him, wrote back that he agreed [02:36] essentially with everything he said. And [02:39] the key is a poor deaf teenager came to [02:42] that library every day because he had [02:45] been thrown out of school when he lost [02:46] his hearing. And that librarian took him [02:49] in and fed him and taught him himself. [02:54] That boy grew up to write the rocket [02:58] equation. He's the father of Soviet [03:01] rocketry. Every Soviet cosminaut, [03:04] Sputnik, the space race that put us on [03:06] the moon, all of that traces back [03:09] through that kid and to the old man in [03:12] the library whose reason for wanting [03:14] rockets was that he needed somewhere to [03:16] put all the resurrected dead. [03:20] Look this story up. It's incredible. [03:22] Now, they needed a word for what they [03:24] were doing. [03:26] And they got it. They got it in 1920 in [03:29] Paris. It was from a circle that [03:31] included a Jesuit, a Jesuit [03:34] paleontologist. [03:36] His name was uh Tailhard Desardan. [03:45] A Russian geocchemist had come to [03:47] lecture at the Sorbon [03:50] and the word they came up with was [03:53] noosephere. [03:55] Noose is Greek for mind. We have the [03:58] rock sphere. We have a life sphere and [04:01] now they said we had a mind sphere and [04:04] it was a layer of thought that wrapped [04:07] the planet and it was the next stage of [04:09] human evolution. This is the 1920s. [04:12] Tehard took it the furthest. He said all [04:15] human consciousness needed to converge [04:18] into one. And he called this the point [04:21] of omega. Now he was a Jesuit priest. [04:25] Rome thought he was out of his mind and [04:27] said, "No, no, no, no, no. They're not [04:28] publishing that, but he wrote it. That [04:32] book came out after he died. Now, here's [04:35] some of the footnotes that you can look [04:36] up tonight cuz I'm guarantee you the [04:38] this story is crazier than you thought. [04:41] The man who wrote the introduction to [04:43] the English edition of that book was [04:47] Julian Huxley. Who's Julian Huxley? [04:51] Julian Huxley gave the movement its [04:54] name. His phrase was man remaining man [04:59] but transcending himself. [05:02] Huxley was the president of the British [05:05] Eugenics Society. [05:08] He also was the director general of [05:10] UNESCO. [05:12] Now I want to be really careful here [05:13] because this is where people get sloppy. [05:16] And the sloppy version is uh that UNESCO [05:19] adopted his founding pamphlet and blah [05:21] blah blah. It's not true. They didn't. [05:23] They read it. He gave it to them. they [05:25] declined it. Um, he had to publish it [05:27] under his own name. So, nobody can say [05:29] the United Nations was founded as a [05:31] transhumanist project. [05:33] But [05:36] they can't say that the man who wrote it [05:40] down wasn't running their agency for two [05:43] years. Okay? Wasn't the founding guy. [05:46] All right? [05:47] He also happened to be the brother of [05:50] the other Huxley who wrote Brave New [05:52] World. [05:54] So that's the chain. Now follow this. [05:57] The chain is a Moscow librarian who [06:00] said, "Nobody should die. We should [06:02] resurrect everybody. We have to beat [06:03] death." And he passed it on to a kid who [06:07] became the rocket scientist for the [06:09] Soviet space program. Because he [06:11] believed that there should be [06:13] resurrection of the dead. We have to do [06:15] it through science and then we're going [06:16] to need space for all these people. So [06:18] we should go colonize space. [06:22] The whole program was given a scientific [06:24] vocabulary in Paris by a priest [06:28] and walked into the permanent [06:30] architecture of the post-war world by a [06:32] eugenist who had a famous last name. Now [06:35] there's these guys didn't all meet in a [06:37] smoke filled room. There's no conspiracy [06:39] here. It's just books, students, and [06:42] time. [06:45] So why am I telling you this story? [06:49] Because you can't understand the men [06:51] currently shaping our life until you [06:55] understand what they are fighting over [06:59] as an inheritance. [07:01] Not conspiring together, what they're [07:04] fighting over. 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It's an it's a crazy [08:56] story. [08:57] Now, Moscow claims Fedorov, that's the [09:01] old guy in the library. Their [09:04] intellectuals will tell you that the [09:06] common task belongs to Russia. This is [09:10] where you get Alexander Dugan and [09:12] everything else. Orthodox, spiritual, [09:15] that's theirs. And they hate Silicon [09:18] Valley for stealing it. Six years ago, a [09:21] Russian think tank close to the Kremlin [09:23] put out an entire journal issue arguing [09:26] that Western transhumanism is a [09:29] counterfeit of Russian cosmism. cos [09:34] cosmism. I don't I don't I have to look [09:36] that one up. They named Elon Musk as one [09:39] of the guys that they were arguing [09:41] against. Their own writers say western [09:44] transhumanism seeks a sinister [09:46] transmutation of the human condition [09:49] circuits instead of flesh. I kind of [09:52] agree with that to a degree. I mean I [09:54] don't think we should be you know I [09:55] don't want to merge with a machine. [09:57] However, that's not where they start. [10:00] Remember, they also believe in Fedorov. [10:04] So, he's believing that there needs to [10:06] be something that brings consciousness [10:07] together and then they're going to [10:08] they're going to defy death. Okay. [10:13] Silicon Valley also claims Federof. [10:18] Musk says out loud that what is coming [10:21] is closer to a merger of biological [10:23] intelligence and digital intelligence [10:26] and Mars is not for the population of [10:29] those we resurrect. It's for a backup [10:32] for all human beings for the species. [10:34] Okay. [10:39] He also wants to put a brain implant in [10:42] all of us. That's almost word for word [10:45] for the rocket guy, not Elon Musk, the [10:49] other rocket guy. [10:51] And then there's Peter Teal. Now, Peter [10:54] Teal has been giving speeches. He spent [10:56] the last uh year, last fall, giving four [10:59] private lectures on the Antichrist. And [11:01] you think, Peter Teal, you're not a [11:03] religious guy. What are you talking [11:05] about? You should listen to them. Uh I'm [11:08] not saying that he's right. I'm saying [11:11] this is his overall point and I think he [11:13] has a point on this. Although I wouldn't [11:16] listen to any of these guys, okay? I [11:18] wouldn't take I wouldn't go be a [11:19] follower of any of these guys. [11:22] He uses a word that most Christians have [11:25] never even heard of. And it's how do you [11:27] say it, Jason? Is it cat kion [11:30] kachon? [11:31] >> Katachone. Okay. It's from Paul's second [11:35] letter to the Thessalonians. And it [11:37] means the restrainer. That's the thing [11:40] that holds back the lawlessness, the [11:42] lawless one and uh delays the end. Okay, [11:47] that's something that they talk about a [11:49] lot in Russia as well. They think they [11:51] are the ones that hold back the lawless [11:54] one. Teal's argument is that a single [11:57] world government is the antichrist [12:00] shape. He believes that a single world [12:03] government, I agree with him on that, [12:05] coupled with AI is going to be either [12:09] used or will be the antichrist. And he [12:12] says the natural candidate to hold back [12:15] that lawless one is the United States of [12:18] America. He says that's the restrainer [12:21] strong enough to hold it back. However, [12:24] he warns anything strong enough to hold [12:26] back, quote, "the antichrist is strong [12:29] enough to become the antichrist." [12:33] So, he's not building the new sphere. [12:37] He says he's holding it off, [12:40] which is exactly my point here. Line all [12:42] of them up. the Kremlin's philosopher, [12:45] the Kremlin itself, the man building the [12:47] implants, the man warning about the [12:49] Antichrist, [12:50] they all just want four different [12:53] mornings after. But every single one of [12:56] them is arguing inside the same sentence [12:59] that history has a destination and we [13:02] are near this destination. It's just a [13:05] question who steers it. Now, I haven't [13:07] put in what I think the real destination [13:10] is, which is there is an antichrist. At [13:14] some point, the antichrist does come and [13:16] then Christ comes and redeems us all and [13:20] resurrects the dead. [13:22] These guys are rejecting those things. [13:26] Remember, Peter Teal is not a Christian. [13:30] So, all of these things are being [13:32] rejected. That's that's the destination [13:35] for humanity. [13:36] There's a phrase for what they believe [13:38] and I can't pronounce it, but it means [13:40] dragging heaven down into history and [13:43] building it here with tools on a [13:45] schedule. And once a man believes the [13:47] end is near, he'll help it along. And [13:50] there's no argument you could make that [13:52] would outrank this. This is what the [13:54] 12vers believe. That's why they say, [13:55] "Oh, Allah, give me the strength to [13:57] hasten the return of the promised one." [13:59] And nothing stops that. Not a [14:00] constitution, not a neighbor, not a war, [14:02] not nothing. Nothing. because it's their [14:05] duty. [14:08] Okay, [14:10] I have to tell you, we do that as well. [14:12] I I I usually bring that up about the um [14:16] 12vers, but we do that, too. We have an [14:17] old a version of it ourselves. When we [14:20] set a date, when we read a headline as a [14:23] countdown, we treat the election like [14:25] it's the last one it's ever going to be. [14:26] We're running the same operating system [14:28] with different clothes. Okay? Once a man [14:31] is certain he's living in the final [14:33] chapter, he'll do things that he won't [14:35] ordinarily do. That's not a left-wing [14:38] disease. That's not a tech disease. We [14:40] all have it. It's human. [14:43] So, what is the strongest argument [14:46] against everything I just told you? [14:49] It's a good one. And here it is. [14:53] Fedorov was not evil. [14:56] He was a man who could not accept that [14:58] his father was not ever coming back. [15:02] Tehard was a priest who wanted the [15:05] universe to be going somewhere and he [15:07] didn't believe in, you know, he was a [15:09] Jesuit. [15:11] Huxley wanted a world that had just [15:13] burned itself down to have a reason to [15:16] stay together and figure out a better [15:18] way. And he thought managing and [15:20] medically altering people was the way to [15:23] go. [15:24] All of them wanted death defeated. [15:28] So do I in a way kind of. I mean that's [15:31] medicine [15:34] to some degree. [15:37] The failure isn't wanting that. The [15:40] failure is in who you decide gets to [15:43] deliver it. The only one to deliver life [15:46] to me after death is Christ. [15:50] And if you pick a human to do it, you're [15:52] going to hand him all kinds of stuff to [15:54] do it with. So here's a test, and it's [15:57] the only thing I want you to carry out [15:59] of this, okay? When a man tells you [16:01] where history is going, ask him one [16:03] question. What happens to the person who [16:06] doesn't want to go with you down that [16:07] path? Feder's plan, no room for that [16:11] guy. The common task is common, all of [16:14] us. No one's left out. No one's allowed [16:16] to stay behind. Tealhard's omega. No [16:19] room for that guy either. Convergence [16:21] means the thing that separate that uh [16:24] the uh that's that separates us and [16:28] stops us from being separate. And every [16:31] movement downstream of that library in [16:34] every language on both sides of the [16:36] ocean eventually runs into the same man [16:38] standing on the same road saying, "No, [16:40] thank you. I' I'd rather stay myself." [16:44] That's the point of all of this. What do [16:46] you do with him? That's the whole story. [16:48] It always has been. I'm not afraid of a [16:51] man who wants to cure death. I'm afraid [16:53] of a man who has already decided what to [16:56] do with me if I decline his cure. [17:03] Go look up Go look up Fedorov, the boy [17:06] in the library, the priest in Paris, the [17:08] biologist, you know, at the UN. [17:12] It'll take one evening. And this is so [17:14] easy to find. None of it is hidden. And [17:18] and then and then and then go find [17:19] somebody who thinks you're a lunatic for [17:21] worrying about any of this stuff with AI [17:23] and tell them the story about the [17:24] librarian instead of an argument about [17:27] how crazy these billionaires are. They [17:29] just think differently. And I don't like [17:32] the way they're thinking, but the story [17:34] is true. It's better than any conspiracy [17:36] theory. [17:37] And honestly, once you go down this [17:39] road, it'll be the only thing you're [17:41] thinking about on Tuesday or Wednesday [17:43] once you finish your uh research on it. [17:46] Okay, so let me bring it back into the [17:48] real world on the conversation of AI. [17:52] There is there's a big conference going [17:55] on in Washington today and I need to [17:57] address this because my name's been [17:59] roped into this unfairly I think in some [18:02] way. 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One of our [19:33] own insider Lacy just said, "Hey Glenn, [19:36] my son Alden turned 16 today." Yes, he's [19:40] named after our pilgrim ancestor John [19:42] Alden. That's so cool. Uh he's a big fan [19:44] of Chasing Embers and would love a shout [19:47] out. Uh Alden, happy birthday. Happy 16. [19:51] Get in that car, drive around, and go [19:54] chase some girls. Happy happy birthday. [19:56] Um, Chasing Embers. I'll have to get [19:58] Michaela Hedrickk, uh, the writer for [20:00] Chasing Embers, to give another shout [20:02] out. Michaela, if you're listening, uh, [20:04] give, uh, insider Lacy and Alden a shout [20:07] out today. One of your big fans, [20:08] Michaela. Um, I wanted to show you this, [20:11] uh, if you're a Torch, uh, Torch [20:13] subscriber. Um, we now have, a lot of [20:16] you have probably noticed a, uh, a few [20:18] new features on the community tab and [20:21] ways to connect, and I don't understand [20:23] them. I I don't do the uh the tech stuff [20:26] at all. I'm a tech dork. Uh but not in a [20:29] good way. Uh so we did a little a little [20:32] article to explain some of those new [20:34] features that are out right now. Um yes, [20:36] thank you, Matt. Uh more ways to connect [20:38] on the torch. It talks about the new [20:40] follow feature, how to follow uh other [20:43] insiders or staff, and uh how to accept [20:46] follow requests. Um we've added in uh [20:50] how to search for specific insiders. Uh, [20:52] I guess you can add them. Um, and how [20:55] you can add a bio now to your uh to your [20:58] profile. And uh this is a there's a I [21:01] guess you can keep track of your there's [21:02] a ton of stuff on here. You can read all [21:04] the way through it. I'll put this uh [21:05] copy it into it's it's at uh the torch [21:07] right now so you can just navigate and [21:09] find it, but I'm going to put it just [21:10] for for easiness. Put it in the uh [21:13] insider chat. There it is right there. [21:15] Um so you can go and read about it. It [21:17] also kind of hints at the at the very [21:18] bottom of it that uh there's a lot more [21:21] coming as well on this. These are kind [21:24] of the this is the the beginning of a [21:28] much larger system that's going in and [21:30] this it's it's being slow uh rolled out [21:32] you know little by little as they get [21:34] things approved and and and implemented. [21:37] Uh but this is just the beginning. So a [21:39] lot more cool stuff uh are coming your [21:42] way very very soon on the torch. You can [21:44] go to Glenbeck do uh glenbeck.com/torch [21:47] or torch250. Either one uh will take you [21:49] to the landing page and uh you can [21:52] subscribe if that's something that you [21:54] want to do. Come check out some of our [21:55] other content. Um, I want to get down [21:57] into some of your contents comments [21:59] right now, but uh, it just kind of it [22:03] it's it's it's poked my funny bone a [22:06] little bit how some of these people [22:09] mostly I'm seeing on the left now are [22:11] all about uh, all of a sudden they're [22:13] like, you know, huge AI experts and [22:16] they're weighing in on how the [22:18] government, you know, should really step [22:20] in and seize control or who was it? was [22:22] at Daario that said, you know, the right [22:24] combination of government, the right [22:27] combination of governments should step [22:29] in here. And this is a post from Kla [22:32] Harris. [22:34] Yeah. Truly the experts are all coming [22:37] to the yard on this. Kla Harris, she [22:40] just really wants you to know how, you [22:41] know, AI should be slowed down. These [22:44] frontier AI development uh companies, so [22:47] you know, are getting out of a little [22:48] out of control and uh, you know, it's [22:50] it's a bandwagon thing. So now we we [22:52] all, you know, maybe we should just all [22:54] endorse Bernie Sanders's, you know, uh, [22:57] proposed bill right now and just, you [22:59] know, make sure that, you know, the [23:01] government's fully in place, you know, [23:03] to to manage this because the government [23:05] is the experts in all this stuff. We [23:07] know this. Every time the government [23:08] steps in, it always turns out better, [23:11] doesn't it? Yeah. Um here is uh I think [23:15] a couple of years ago this [23:18] huge titan of a AI theorist [23:23] um and just a wonderful explainer of all [23:26] things difficult Kla Harris on AI. Here [23:30] she is. [23:31] >> AI is kind of a fancy thing. It's first [23:33] of all it's two letters. [23:34] >> Two letters. [23:34] >> It means artificial intelligence. Oh [23:37] >> but [23:38] >> ultimately what it is is it's about [23:40] machine learning. Ah [23:42] >> and so the machine is taught [23:45] >> it's taught [23:46] >> and part of the issue here is what [23:49] information is going into the machine [23:52] that will then determine and and we can [23:55] predict then if we think about what [23:58] machine what information is going in [23:59] >> because it's two letters [24:00] >> what then [24:01] >> will be produced in terms of decisions [24:03] and opinions um that may be made through [24:06] that process [24:07] >> the people that want to regulate AI and [24:09] tell us all about about it and they just [24:11] have our best interests involved. [24:12] Remember everyone, it's AI is two [24:15] letters [24:17] and it stands for artificial [24:19] intelligence. [24:23] I [24:24] debate settled. Nothing else to say [24:27] here. Heading off into some of your [24:29] comments right now. David 2422 uh said, [24:32] "This is the kind of story that when I [24:34] retell it, it bores my wife to sleep. I [24:36] don't tell it as well as Glenn." I've [24:38] tried the same thing, David. exact same [24:40] thing. I'll show up to a party, I've got [24:42] I'm loaded up with Glenn's stories that [24:44] I heard that the the previous week and [24:46] I'm just gonna nail it and everyone, you [24:49] know, I get maybe a quarter of the way [24:50] into it and everyone's off chasing [24:52] squirrels. I just can't do it. I I need [24:54] to learn better. Uh, Coach Hamilton [24:56] said, "I wish I had the time to research [24:58] history like Glenn Beck does." Hey, you [25:00] know, Coach Hamilton, you don't know the [25:02] half of it. I'll come in on a Monday [25:04] after the weekend and I'll be like, [25:05] "Glenn, so I, you know, I went to [25:07] 7-Eleven and and Glenn's like, "Let me [25:09] stop you right there. Jason, we've been [25:10] here before." I'm like, "Bro, I was just [25:13] talking about a trip to 7-Eleven." And [25:15] Glenn will be like, "Yes, but you do you [25:17] know the story behind that." [25:20] Yeah, it's fun. Uh, second half, hour [25:23] one coming up right now. [25:49] Hey Glenn, uh after Charlie's memorial [25:51] and 9/11, uh can we get a break today [25:54] from all of the doom? Absolutely. Uh AI [25:57] is not in our control, only data [25:59] centers. And that's not necessarily true [26:00] either. Have anything uplifting today? I [26:03] got tons of stuff for you that is really [26:05] uplifting. I'm getting into the American [26:07] dream uh here in just a little while. Uh [26:10] and also, I mean, [26:13] if you're not if you don't find, you [26:15] know, fly fishing with Jake Tapper and A [26:18] Bozo, who's the governor from [26:20] California, if you don't find that [26:22] uplifting, I I mean, I don't know how to [26:23] help you. We're going to get into that [26:24] as well. I'd rather have a fish hook in [26:26] the eye than go fly fishing with these [26:28] two. Um anyway, um but I do want to I [26:31] want to stop on this one more time. Um [26:34] because uh you know, as I said [26:37] yesterday, [26:39] we are making the most important [26:41] decisions of all of human existence [26:45] right now. And I refuse to sit on the [26:48] sidelines and say, well, I didn't pay [26:49] attention to it or you know, I don't [26:51] really know or I don't have an opinion. [26:52] We have to know because honestly this [26:56] this is going to go down to our souls. [26:58] It is. You cannot drift into AI. [27:01] Today in Washington, Bernie Sanders and [27:04] Steve Bannon are sharing a stage. The [27:06] event is called the pro-human assembly [27:09] and it is put on by a group that wrote [27:11] the prohuman AI declaration in March. My [27:15] name I signed that declaration. So is [27:18] Bannon. So is su Susan Rice. So is Ralph [27:20] Nater. So is the, you know, the name of [27:23] the lead singer of Radio Head. [27:26] Uh, this group actually asked me to go [27:27] to Washington and speak today, but I'm [27:29] recording history lessons for uh, high [27:31] school AP classes with the Department of [27:33] Ed and Prageru all week. And I thought [27:35] that was more important uh, at least for [27:37] the ne near-term. And uh, so I didn't I [27:40] didn't go. But for two years, I signed [27:42] this a couple of years ago, the human AI [27:44] declaration. And for two years, I have [27:47] also told you that America has to build [27:49] data centers. build the power plants to [27:51] feed them. Wait a minute. What? We have [27:53] to beat China to the frontier. So, this [27:57] week I keep hearing the same question [27:59] and I keep getting emails, Glenn, which [28:01] is it? You can't sign a paper about [28:03] keeping AI under human control and then [28:05] cheer for the buildings. Yeah. Yeah, I [28:07] actually can. And the reason why I say [28:09] this is because I know history. And the [28:12] reason is on a telephone poll in lower [28:15] Manhattan in 1889. And it's one of my [28:18] favorite history lessons. Okay, I [28:22] actually I wrote a series on this uh uh [28:25] and you know it's never going to be [28:27] made, but it's a great series. Maybe [28:28] I'll make it into a book. But in 1880s, [28:31] the most famous inventor on earth was [28:34] Thomas Edison. He had bet everything he [28:38] had on direct current, DC, low voltage. [28:42] It would all be safe if low voltage, but [28:44] it couldn't travel. You had to have a [28:45] power plant almost on every block. So, [28:48] it wouldn't work. Then George [28:50] Westinghouse came along with Tesla and [28:54] something called alternating current AC, [28:56] which is what we have in our houses now. [28:58] Okay? It could run at high voltage over [29:01] long distances. So, one big plant could [29:04] light a whole city. And it was cheaper, [29:06] it was better, but the voltage was [29:08] deadly. Okay? So Edison goes to war and [29:12] not because he believed it was safer, [29:14] although he did, but that wasn't it. I [29:16] mean, he was a bad guy. He was a bad [29:18] guy. He wanted to win. His company told [29:21] the public that alternating current was [29:24] a killer. An electrical engineer began [29:26] killing dogs [29:28] uh in in a lecture hall at Colombia to [29:32] show how fast it could stop a heart. [29:34] Then he did it to cows and calves and [29:36] then a horse. Edison's own laboratory. [29:39] He then pushed a bill to cap voltage so [29:43] low that alternating current would be [29:44] useless. [29:47] He also is the guy who came up with the [29:49] electric chair and he made sure that it [29:52] ran on Westinghouse's generator so every [29:54] American would hear alternator [29:56] alternating current and think execution. [29:58] It's a horrible story and it's worth [30:01] your time learning because it's really a [30:03] fascinating story. The problem is a [30:06] burglar broke into the engineers's [30:08] office and then the newspapers printed [30:11] what they had found. What they found was [30:12] that Edison was helping pay for the [30:15] whole campaign. I mean, the guy was [30:17] going around killing dogs and horses and [30:19] cattle at state farm at state uh fairs. [30:23] Okay, it was a con [30:25] except that in October a Western Union [30:28] lineman named John FeS climbed a pole on [30:32] Chambers Street. It was um the old [30:35] pictures of of New York City with all of [30:38] the wires that were going. It was a [30:40] tangle of dead telegraph wires and and [30:43] now the new phone wire, everything that [30:45] was going on. But one of those wires [30:48] wasn't dead. It was a high voltage line. [30:51] Okay. So, he touched that wire. He went [30:54] rigid. Fell into a web of wires 40 feet [30:57] above the New York street. And then he [30:59] caught fire. Well, hundreds of people [31:01] were standing on the streets in the [31:03] sidewalk and they're watching this guy [31:04] burn to death. Okay. Nobody could bring [31:07] him down. They had to run to the plant [31:09] to shut the current off. Edison [31:12] self-interested. [31:14] Edison made sure everybody knew he was [31:16] right. Okay. The wires over New York [31:20] City were killing people. So, what did [31:22] they do? And this is where the lesson [31:24] comes in for today. What did they do? [31:26] The city didn't ban alternating current [31:29] and the voltage cap went nowhere. They [31:32] didn't listen to the guy who had an [31:35] interest in making those things happen. [31:37] Edison New York passed a law to put the [31:40] lines underground and the city started [31:43] cutting the overhead wires. Okay. The [31:45] industry learned how to insulate the [31:47] wires and install the thing the right [31:48] way. The danger was fixed where the [31:51] danger was. Within a few years, Edison's [31:54] own company, [31:56] they like to say, merged. It was taken [31:58] from him and it became GE. Okay? No [32:01] longer had his name on it. Uh, but it [32:03] was all about alternating current. [32:06] Westinghouse and Tesla lit the World's [32:09] Fair in Chicago and carried the power [32:11] out from Niagara Falls all the way to [32:14] Chicago to light the World's Fair. And [32:16] that's how we have alternating current [32:17] today. Well, today every data center in [32:21] America will take alternating current [32:24] and every chip inside runs on Edison's [32:28] direct current, [32:30] the building that converts it. [32:34] Wait a minute. What? Yeah. Edison and [32:37] Westinghouse both won because somebody [32:40] fixed the wires instead of capping the [32:42] current. What they did is they took [32:45] alternating current and then tapped it [32:47] down and put it in so you could have it [32:49] in your house and you could have it in [32:51] and run your computer. [32:54] This is my whole position. Take the [32:56] danger seriously [32:59] and check who's writing the fix. I [33:02] wouldn't want Edison writing the fix. I [33:05] don't want the tech bros writing the [33:06] fix. But I do want a fix because the [33:09] danger is real. This summer, that swarm [33:11] of AI agents from one of the leading [33:14] labs turned loose on a test went after [33:17] systems. Nobody's told them to touch [33:19] that. In fact, they didn't think they [33:20] could even get out and do that. [33:24] On Saturday, the um the head of [33:27] Anthropic wrote that his worry is that [33:29] within 6 months to a year, a more [33:31] capable swarm could hijack the internet [33:34] it itself. The machines are now helping [33:38] build the next machines. And I've said [33:40] on this program, when you reach AGI, ASI [33:44] is next. And I don't believe we're going [33:47] to control AI ASI. And I haven't changed [33:50] my mind on that. It is extraordinarily [33:52] dangerous. Okay? [33:55] But every great invention has come with [33:57] a body count. And I don't like that, but [33:59] it is true. You don't ban it. You find a [34:03] way to control it. Fire burned down [34:05] cities. Electricity killed people. The [34:08] car kills about 40,000 Americans a year. [34:12] And we answered that with seat belts and [34:14] driver's license, not a ban on Fords. [34:18] The atom lit cities and ended cities, [34:22] but we controlled it. [34:25] But a power line [34:28] never tried to climb down off that pole [34:31] and kill you. And that's the difference. [34:32] A car never hacked its own driving test. [34:36] This is the first invention in human [34:38] history that has been caught trying to [34:41] cheat the people checking it and [34:43] building it. And that's why I signed [34:46] that declaration. The declaration asks [34:48] for human control, an off switch, [34:52] independent oversight, no ever ever [34:56] legal personhood personhood for any [34:59] machine. [35:00] None of that declaration at least that I [35:02] read that I signed says don't build it. [35:05] It says know who's in charge. And who's [35:08] in charge of this are humans. [35:12] A data center where there's an off [35:15] switch. [35:16] It has an address. It has a fence. It [35:18] has a breaker. It has a county inspector [35:21] and a sheriff. And it sits under [35:23] American law. If an independent [35:25] inspector is going to walk in with a [35:27] badge, I'm for that. [35:30] But there has to be a door to walk [35:32] through. [35:34] Pause the buildings here. This is what [35:37] Sanders is saying. He proposed it in [35:39] March. Pause the building. You haven't [35:42] pause the frontier. All you've done is [35:44] moved it to a country where nobody but [35:46] the party walks through the door. Even [35:48] the man calling for the slowdown, agrees [35:51] with the Treasury Secretary that China, [35:53] its lead, would become a grave danger. [35:56] And if you don't understand that, you [35:57] need to read more. You need to ed [36:00] educate yourself on why this is so [36:02] important. It's not important with the [36:04] AI that we have now. It's important when [36:06] we get to AGI and ASI, which is around [36:09] the corner. [36:11] So, build the power plant. [36:14] As the vice president said, build it. [36:17] Make the company pay its own electric [36:19] bill and maybe even some of yours. [36:21] Negotiate it hard. Get new schools. Get [36:23] property taxes eliminated. Do it. [36:27] The president called the warnings a sick [36:29] conspiracy benefiting China. I don't [36:31] think so. It does benefit China, but I [36:33] don't think it's all a conspiracy [36:34] theory. I'd love his instinct to build, [36:37] but John Fees, the guy who fell from the [36:40] wires and burned there in front, it's [36:42] not a conspiracy. There is real danger [36:45] here. And the the men who cut down those [36:48] wires, they're not traitors. [36:51] call every warning a plot and you hand [36:54] the microphone to the people who want to [36:56] stop everything. [37:00] A lot of people have sent me the claim [37:02] that big companies want rules to kill [37:05] the open source. [37:08] So [37:10] I happen to be that I believe that's [37:12] true. [37:14] Now the people at big tech they say [37:16] that's absolutely not true. We're we're [37:19] ad we're not advocating, you know, [37:21] banning open models, blah blah blah. [37:23] Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Sure. I just know [37:25] history. So, I'll believe history over [37:28] you and we'll just we'll just watch. [37:30] Okay. Here's the thing. [37:34] Edison made believed every word that he [37:37] said. Every word that he said because [37:39] the wires were killing people. But it [37:40] didn't matter. What mattered was his [37:42] fix. [37:44] The declaration I supposedly betrayed [37:47] says it's plainly no AI monopolies, no [37:50] regulatory capture and independent [37:52] oversight rather than industry [37:54] self-regulation. Those are must a room [37:57] where the front runners set the speed [37:59] limit for everybody behind them is [38:02] everything I signed against. A [38:04] declaration also says super intelligence [38:06] should be prohibited until there's [38:08] scientific consensus that it can be [38:10] built safely. [38:12] Two weeks ago, I opposed Bernie's bill, [38:14] and I'd oppose it again every day of my [38:16] life because it makes a 21 It makes a [38:18] 20-year felony out of a definition that [38:21] nobody can measure, [38:23] write the law against the act, breaking [38:26] out of containment, attacking servers, [38:28] defeating a shutdown. And I'll stand by [38:30] that tomorrow. Put a meter on it. I'll [38:32] enforce it on everybody, the giant and [38:35] the kid in the garage, in the garage [38:36] alike. [38:39] These two positions are one idea. Fear [38:41] the machine, [38:43] but pour the concrete. Demand the off [38:47] switch, but build the building. Welcome [38:50] the inspector, but never forget the [38:53] company, you know, in front [38:59] because they can't write the speed limit [39:01] for the company behind. [39:05] In 1889, New York could have licensed uh [39:10] you know to cap everything. They could [39:12] have listened to the most famous man in [39:14] America and cap that current and the [39:18] city would have been safe. But it also [39:20] today would be dark. [39:23] Instead, they sent logical men up poles [39:26] and cut the bad wires down and buried [39:29] them. Fix the wires. Fix the wires. [39:32] Don't cap the current. and never let the [39:35] man selling the other current write the [39:39] law ever. [39:42] Okay, off this for the day. Let's move [39:43] on. More in a second. Let me tell you [39:45] about Simply Safe. There is a huge [39:47] difference between knowing something [39:49] happened and then having somebody uh [39:52] there while it is happening. The problem [39:54] I have with the old idea of home [39:56] security is the alarm goes off after [39:59] somebody breaks the window. The camera [40:01] records him after he's on your property. [40:03] Great. Now you have the evidence. I'd [40:06] rather interrupt the plan. 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Now, you don't have to have [40:52] you don't have to have all of that. [40:54] Simplysafe does it for you. Go to [40:55] simplysafe.com/back. [40:57] simplysafe.com/beck. [40:59] Get 50% off. And when you order, write [41:02] in, you know, with a how did you hear [41:04] about us? Make sure you let them know [41:05] Glen Beck sent you. There is no safe [41:08] like Simply Safe. [41:10] You show up, you work hard, you speak [41:13] the truth. Even when it ain't popular, [41:17] that still counts for something. Back. [41:20] We'll be right back. [41:35] And we are back. Welcome back to the [41:37] Torch Insider Show. Getting ready for [41:38] the top of hour two of the Glen Beck [41:40] program. I'm going to get to some of [41:42] your comments before we get to the top [41:43] of the insider segment uh uh hour [41:46] because I'm going to go through uh some [41:48] Texas politics stuff, some Torico stuff, [41:50] actually look at Maine as well. I don't [41:51] think Linds have time to get to some of [41:53] that today. So, we're going to go [41:54] through that. Um, and just some stuff [41:56] that as a Texan I'm noticing, especially [41:58] with GOP spending, which has happened in [42:00] some battleground states. Um, so we'll [42:02] do that top of the hour. Um, yes, [42:05] speaking of comments, yesterday we were [42:07] all on Mitch McConnell watch uh making [42:11] seeing if he would make an appearance at [42:12] all. A lot of you were asking if anyone [42:14] had seen him or heard from him. There's [42:16] any news at all. Yesterday, uh, after I [42:19] got home, I saw that there was a flurry. [42:22] A lot of people uh were had cameras out [42:24] and they were staking Mitch McConnell's [42:26] house to see if there was any sides of [42:28] life whatsoever and Nick Sorder got some [42:31] video. Uh there were police cars [42:34] swarming uh at a certain point. The [42:36] Senate had already convened. They were [42:38] already I think voting on stuff. Um [42:40] Mitch was not there yet. So he I guess [42:42] eventually got there later. But this was [42:44] the uh this was the scene outside Mitch [42:47] McConnell's house. [42:48] >> Senator McConnell, how you feeling? [42:49] Senator McConnell. [42:51] stand the sidewalk. [42:52] >> I mean, look at this swarm for one. [42:58] >> And they're there to protect because [43:00] there are so many people that just want [43:01] to know if he's still alive or [43:06] functioning, I guess. [43:08] How ridiculous is it that it's He [43:10] actually did give a thumbs up right [43:11] there. This was uh Let me take that off [43:14] for just one second, Matt. This was uh [43:17] just one of the videos. This one might [43:19] be the worst, actually. Watch this. [43:22] >> Are you feeling good, Mitch? [43:24] >> Looks good. [43:25] >> I don't know if anything's [43:29] I don't know if anyone's home. Really? [43:32] >> Are you feeling good, Mitch? [43:34] >> Looks good. [43:35] >> This is sad. It It really is sad. We [43:38] need term limits and we need them right [43:40] now. We needed them yesterday. uh the [43:42] fact that he's still [43:45] >> pretending I guess is the best way to [43:47] put it maybe. I I don't know how he's [43:49] doing his dayto-day, but it doesn't look [43:51] like it could be much. But we have [43:55] people like this in government that [43:57] really should not be in government. And [43:59] I obviously I don't agree with a lot of [44:02] what Mitch McConnell does even when he [44:03] could still do it. Um but this has [44:05] nothing to do with that. Has nothing to [44:07] do with that. He should not be there. [44:08] whoever's making him stay there and it's [44:10] really a system. Gosh, this is a much [44:12] deeper conversation because we do not [44:15] have term limits. They can continue to [44:17] run and run and run and run. Then they [44:18] acrew all this power once they get into [44:21] either the Senate or the House and they [44:23] get on committees. They, you know, [44:25] there's a there's a time and grade [44:27] system where, you know, they can be the [44:29] chairman of whatever committee or [44:31] whatever they're they're working on and [44:33] they don't want to give that up. So even [44:35] if the person, you know, can't [44:37] physically do the job because the way [44:39] the system is right now, they're [44:41] incentivized to go well into their, you [44:45] know, 200s, however old Mitch McConnell [44:48] is, and continue just to show up and go [44:50] through the motions of actually [44:52] governing and doing the will of the [44:54] people that put him there. It's just [44:56] Yeah, it's sad. And [44:59] yeah, we'll continue to look to see if [45:01] there's anything else uh from Mitch [45:02] today. kind of doubt it, but um but [45:05] yeah, that's that's that's that's how it [45:07] is. Um Zoro said uh all of these things [45:10] are those people trying to play God. Um [45:14] yeah, that and this is goes back to [45:16] Glenn's monologue uh during the first [45:18] half hour and just everyone that's [45:21] terrified, absolutely terrified of [45:23] death. How sad it must be to not have [45:27] God in your life. How sad. Back to Glen. [45:46] So, I have good news on the economy. Uh, [45:48] the American dream is alive and well, [45:50] and I'll prove it to you coming up in [45:52] just a second. Also on the economy, why [45:54] AI is so important. Here's what Elon [45:56] Musk said yesterday. I think AI will [45:59] probably [46:01] increase the global [46:03] economy by 20 to 30%. That's my rough [46:07] rough estimate. Um meaning on the order [46:09] of 20 to30 trillion per year. [46:12] Um and and AI will be able to do [46:15] anything digital, anything that does not [46:16] require shaping of atoms by hand um [46:20] probably by the end of next year. So uh [46:23] at some point next year is my [46:26] prediction. uh software will be so good [46:28] AI software will be so good that it will [46:30] be Stockfish level good meaning that it [46:32] is impossible for a human to compete um [46:34] in writing software uh with AI but like [46:38] a AI will just crush all humans at [46:40] software [46:42] that's why the president is so [46:45] apoplelectic over all this because if [46:48] you don't have the AI economy [46:52] what exactly is our economy what will [46:55] grow us out of this debt. What do we do? [46:59] What's the next idea? Because this is [47:02] the idea that dominates the entire [47:04] global economy. [47:19] >> Welcome back. Welcome back uh to the [47:22] Glen uh to the Torch Inside Show. Sorry, [47:24] I you made me lose my train of thought. [47:26] I blamed Jen, Florida girl 63 cuz I was [47:30] just looking to see what you were [47:31] talking about and she posted something [47:33] that just made my heart uh leap. Um [47:37] said, "Hi, Glenn and Jason. I just [47:38] wanted to let you know that my grandson [47:40] Kaden, who is 21 months today, loves to [47:43] dance to the opening song. He stops [47:45] everything he is doing just to dance." I [47:48] love that. You made my day, Jen. Florida [47:50] girl. But I gotta say, I'm we're going [47:52] to need some kind of proof of this. G [47:55] just to make all of our hearts jump. [47:57] We're we're gonna need to see uh little [48:00] Caden dancing to the intro song. That's [48:02] your homework assignment. I can't wait [48:04] to see this. I will play it uh tomorrow [48:07] if if you send it in tomorrow. Uh if you [48:09] can get him dancing. Uh I'm going to [48:12] play that. So that's your homework [48:14] assignment. Jen, Florida girl. Love to [48:16] see that. Great comment. uh catching up [48:18] a few of your comments before we uh [48:20] transition into a little nasty politics [48:22] talk. We got to do it. We got to do it. [48:24] Um I don't think Lens and I have time to [48:26] do it today. We've got a big guest [48:28] coming up in hour three. So, you're [48:30] going to want to check that out. We have [48:31] Victor Victor David Hansen and it's [48:33] going to be a banger of a conversation. [48:35] Pretty much all of our three is going to [48:37] be Glenn and uh Victor back and forth. [48:39] It's going to be great. Uh so, you don't [48:41] want to miss that. Uh right at uh the [48:44] top of hour three going through most of [48:46] the hour, I believe. Um, you got a few [48:48] more minutes left. I just want to say [48:49] this obligatory, you know, shout out to [48:52] uh the people that are not subscribed to [48:53] the torch. If you want access to the [48:55] insider show, even if you don't like me [48:57] or the insider show, it's perfectly [48:58] fine. Go to click.com uh/torch or torch [49:02] 250 and it'll take you to the same [49:04] landing page and you can uh consider [49:06] subscribing because we have a ton of [49:07] other content that's up at the website. [49:09] Um, podcasts, uh, Glen TV specials, [49:13] afterhour specials, we have that other [49:14] one coming up tomorrow. Uh after the [49:17] radio program, Glenn's going to talk [49:18] about his trip to Israel, what he saw in [49:22] Jerusalem that chilled him to the bone. [49:24] And also some other well, let's just say [49:27] Indiana Jones fans will uh will think [49:29] this is a very interesting uh I don't [49:33] know what they call a revelation, but [49:35] possible discovery, [49:38] something like that. It's hard to [49:39] describe without giving it away. Um but [49:41] Glenn's going to be going into that [49:43] tomorrow, but that's going to be after [49:44] the radio show. So, if you subscribe now [49:47] uh or later today, you'll get access to [49:49] that tomorrow. Uh and that's going to be [49:51] a good one. Another banger. Um let's a [49:54] couple of uh comments and then let's get [49:57] into um into some nasty politics talk, [50:00] shall we? Um Houston Torchy said, "There [50:03] was a lot of truth in that. Anything [50:05] large enough to hold back the antichrist [50:07] is big enough to become it." It's [50:09] interesting you say that, Houston [50:10] Torchy, because when Glenn was reading [50:11] that to me before the radio show today, [50:13] I was hung up on that as well. Um, it [50:16] almost reminded me of a quote from it. I [50:19] was watching a podcast between um I [50:22] think it was a couple of AI people and [50:24] they were just talking about how quickly [50:27] uh you know the development was going [50:28] and this was months ago maybe even a [50:30] year ago and uh they were talking about [50:33] the you know the idea that you know if [50:35] AI could be dangerous and uh one one of [50:39] the guys on the podcast said that the [50:42] people that are leading the the charge [50:44] to develop these uh these platforms [50:46] these models that they also have that [50:49] fear and they're not exactly sure, but [50:52] they have that fear and they figure that [50:54] if it's going to happen and it's going [50:56] to go badly, I think the way the the way [50:59] they described it is if it's going to [51:00] set the world on fire, they want to be [51:03] the ones that light the match. [51:08] Take from that what you will,
