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So, how do we pull ourselves out of following the path that Europe is heading towards right now and the rest of the West is?

And where is the drive and the willpower to get things done?

You know, we talk a little bit about Boeing.

Yeah, Boeing, where's your willpower?

I mean, we won World War II faster than you say you can build the two presidential airplanes.

There seems to be a problem.

And Justin Haskins joins us to talk about AI, the EU, and what's coming next, all on today's podcast.

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So, you know, I've been watching Europe for a while now.

We've talked about Europe and the

race to death that they seem to be in.

And right now,

you have the Prime Minister of England, Starmer, you have the President of France, and you have the Chancellor of Germany all meeting, taking time on a train, not to do Coke.

I mean, maybe, but I don't think so.

But to actually

talk about things.

And what were they talking about?

A new treaty aimed at resetting British relations with the European Union.

Okay, I mean,

I guess that's, you know,

great.

But did they hear what the Swedish prime minister has just come out and said?

This is the prime minister of Sweden.

Quote,

we do not have control over the wave of violence, and that is quite obvious.

Yeah,

their prisons are overcrowded.

They've got...

They've been overrun with refugees that are not assimilating.

And you're about to lose Sweden.

And when Sweden Sweden falls, Brussels falls.

When Brussels falls, France falls.

When France falls, England falls.

Germany falls.

That's what's coming in our lifetime.

And probably not too far in our lifetime.

You know, they say history doesn't repeat itself, but I'm telling you, it does rhyme.

Okay?

And as you watch Europe, not as a tourist watches a cathedral crumble, but as a man on shore watches a wave growing on the horizon going, I think that's coming towards us and it's getting bigger, Not fast, but undeniable.

It's not just about England or France or Sweden.

It's not about immigration or economics or even culture.

It's about something much deeper.

A civilization that has forgotten what made it strong in the first place, what made it free.

And we are down that same path.

And we have a chance to change that.

And there are a lot of people that are awake, but there's far too many that are not.

And

they're living in this dream world that we can have it all, that America can just keep going on the way it's been going on.

And if they don't believe that, there's another category of people, and that category is the people who are like, oh, it's just going to be civil war.

Well, bring it on.

No, no.

Have you seen Haiti?

That's what happens with countries that go into civil war.

You don't want that.

Now, Ayan Hersi Alli, Alli, somebody I really, really respect, she's a woman who stood against actual darkness, against radicalism, censorship, the silencing of truth, you name it.

She has been through it.

She just said recently an answer to the question: what is your biggest fear that keeps you up at night?

And she said that Europe will collapse.

She said that's very real and it's happening.

Not that it will decay, not that it will decline, but it will collapse into violence.

You know, Europe is not just a continent.

It's a cultural mirror.

Because America was born out of its legacy of Athens, of Rome, of Jerusalem, and even London.

If Europe falls into chaos, it's not some far-off event.

It is a warning shot across the Atlantic, and we are no longer insulated because of this global nightmare.

Remember when they said the banks are too big to fail.

We've got to bail them out.

Why did they say that?

Because all of the banks were connected to one another.

So when one fails, it's catastrophic failure across the entire system.

That's why Europe matters.

It's why America matters.

Western Europe is going through massive

internal pressure.

The people know it, but

their leaders are on a train, you know, talking talking about how can we bring Brexit, you know, to its knees.

The real problem here is our problems are spiritual.

The old guard that actually believed in liberty and faith and sovereignty, they've been replaced by technocrats and bureaucrats and a generation that has been raised to believe that nothing is sacred, that borders are immoral, that the past is shameful and the future belongs to anyone but them.

You don't have a society.

You don't have a civilization if that's what the next generation believes.

Now you layer in all of the stuff that makes us fragile, a fragile economy, aging populations,

dependency on foreign energy, millions of migrants, most of them not actually refugees.

and certainly most of them have not assimilated.

Many of them, especially the young men, men, alienated, angry, and they see the host country not as refuge, but as weak, ripe, ready.

You know, when I say the host countries for these refugees, you know, there's another way to use the word host,

and that is for a parasite.

It needs a host,

and it burrows itself in, and it just will consume that host body until it kills it, and then it'll find another host.

Well,

killing it to this parasite, killing it is a good thing.

Killing the West is a very good thing.

And this, by the way, is not conjecture.

Riots in Paris, stabbings in London, whole neighborhoods where police dare not enter.

All of the things that you were told were just rumors, they were lies, they were conspiracy theories.

Political leaders afraid to even name the threat because now the truth is hate speech.

If you think America is divided, Europe is fractured.

So what happens when the pressure becomes too much and things finally break, when governments lose control?

Like the prime minister in Sweden just said,

we can no longer control

the wave of violence.

Well, when you can't control that, you certainly civil services are shut down.

What happens happens when you're not sending out checks?

What happens when nationalism to the extreme, not the good kind of nationalism, the very dangerous nationalism returns?

Not with pride, but with rage.

I mean, I think we've seen this in Europe a couple of times before in the last century.

It never ends peaceful, not with peaceful elections and orderly debates.

No, it usually ends up with some short little guy.

That's how it ends traditionally in Europe.

So what does that mean for us?

This is what I want you to understand.

Whenever you see anything happening in Europe, I want you to understand how close it is.

Do you remember that feeling we all had after September 11th when those planes crashed in to the towers and then they crashed in the field in Pennsylvania and then crashed into the Pentagon and we were like,

we are under attack.

And we all realized that day how fragile our freedom in our country really was, that it could be taken from us overnight.

We seem to forget that and we go into this dream world that it'll always be this way.

But I want you to understand

when Europe collapses, the American markets collapse, banks probably collapse, prices through the roof, supply chain completely breaks, you're looking at a different world.

And then you get the refugees because there will be millions of desperate people that are actually going to be refugees because the violence is so horrid in their European countries, they'll have to get out and they will flood people's borders.

They will come across the ocean.

And then what do we do?

Then what do we do?

And when Europe falls, who fills the void?

Russia, China, Iran?

Don't think they haven't been thinking about this.

Don't think they aren't watching and waiting.

Because

we're too busy with our drag shows and

are debating our pronouns.

And they're studying war.

They're preparing for what they see is inevitable in every other instance of every other civilization.

You hit these markers and you collapse.

So

then what?

So what does that even mean?

What do you do there?

We have so much work to do to really be self-reliant.

Can you read a map anymore?

You think your kids can read a map?

Not a chance.

Can they read a map?

Do they know how to read a compass?

Do they know how to chart their course with the sun and stars?

Not a prayer.

My kids, if they get down to the stars, if I get down to the stars and the sun, forget it.

We're not going anywhere.

But these are some of the foundational things that we have to, we need to educate ourselves.

And we don't have to start there.

We should get there, but we don't have to start there.

And it's not on current events.

We have got to stop getting our news from social media.

If social media is all that you read,

And the way you get your news, you're a danger to yourself and everyone around you.

because you will be convinced that you know what's going on.

I see a social media.

I'm on my feet all the time.

How do I know?

You have no idea.

You're a danger.

We need to study about Weimar Republic, about the Balkans, about the collapse of Rome.

Because history is not just history.

It's not just a story.

It's a user's manual.

And when you see history, you're like, ah, don't do that.

And then you can build up resistance, resilience, not just food and water,

but emotional resilience, spiritual clarity.

How many of us could face a massive storm, lose everything you have,

everything you have, not know what the future holds, and you still have your spiritual clarity.

A lot of people will say, oh, I will.

But, you know, as I talk to special forces friends who, you know, have been tortured, they all say the ones who said, oh, I wouldn't, I wouldn't give up a thing.

They all say they're the first to break because they're arrogant.

They haven't really thought it through.

Well, you have, what do you have to do right now to have spiritual clarity, moral grounding?

Because chaos isn't going to just take your house or your job.

It takes the sense of who you are and puts you into a place where you're like, I'll do anything to survive.

But would you, should you do anything to survive

the third thing we have to do is after we learn and after we prepare ourselves then we have to start standing for truth because the world has been hollowed out by lies some soft lies some cruel lies but they all rot the soul and the soul of of who we are as a nation as a as a civilization And when truth becomes dangerous and saying it becomes a revolutionary act,

you're in trouble.

You have to be willing to speak, even when it costs you.

And more and more people are, and that's the good thing.

You know, the West isn't going to fall this time when the bombs drop.

It falls when the people

who know better stop defending it.

Because they're too comfortable.

They're distracted.

They're too entertained.

They don't think it could happen to them.

Did you see the latest poll coming out of England?

Most young people have no desire to ever put on a uniform of their country to defend their country if it were under attack.

Now, I can't believe that's true, but that's what, that's how they're responding in polls.

And why is that?

Because they don't know.

They don't know what anything means anymore.

You know, when the cathedrals, do you know in Europe, the cathedrals

are all being repurposed if they're not being bombed.

They burn them down almost one a day now.

And they're all being repurposed.

And in many cases, they're literally being handed over to other gods.

And yet, too many of us are still just shrugging it off.

You know, what happens in Brussels or Berlin or Birmingham?

We'll never touch Boise.

But rot always reaches its root.

The difference, the only difference, is time.

And we have some time.

So we should use it wisely.

Look, I hope what the president is doing is going to work.

But do you know it will work?

Because if you really understand how deep our problems go, I'm not sure it will work.

Think of what we're facing.

We're facing debt that no country has ever turned around on.

We are facing a cultural rot that no country has ever turned around on.

We have birth rates that no civilization has ever turned around on.

Now, I don't say that to depress you.

I say that to inspire you to say, okay, so what are you going to do about it?

Because you could either give up or you can do something about it.

We first have to decide what is worth saving.

We have to teach this to our kids.

What's worth saving?

What is good about this society, about this civilization?

What's beautiful?

I mean, you wouldn't think anybody would understand beauty and art when we've got...

I was at a museum over someplace in Europe, in Italy, just the other day, and it was

rebar.

It was rebar that they had rusty rebar, that's what took the time, wrapped around a cement pole, and that was was sitting next to a Greek statue as art.

I'm sorry, one of those things will be found in the dust and rubble of a civilization, and they'll go, my gosh, look at this civilization.

The other will go, that's dust and rubble.

Throw it away.

It says nothing about us,

except that we are a society that no longer even recognizes beauty.

We are being told what's beautiful.

Have you ever gone into a museum and you see things and you're like, what the hell is that?

Now, I go into museums and I see stuff all the time that I don't like.

I wouldn't want to hang in my wall, but I can appreciate it.

But I'm sorry, the cement post with a rebar wrapped around it.

You know what that is?

That's a scam.

That is the elite probably being scammed by the artist.

You know, like, you know, it really is the meaning behind that one.

Or.

The museum going, yeah, well, it's meaningless and that's where you find beauty is in meaningless.

Meaninglessness.

well no you don't you don't everything

has meaning

and if it doesn't you should stop doing it

we all have to find the meaning in our life that's why our kids are killing ourselves they don't think there's meaning in anything well why would they

There's no meaning in social media.

There's no meaning in their friends.

There's no meaning in the likes.

There's no meaning in anything anymore.

That is what we have to repair.

We have to find the things that have meaning and bolster them and bring them closer in our lives with courage and conviction, not fear, but resolve.

And the time is growing shorter and shorter every day.

History is watching what we will do right now.

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Well, hello, Justin.

How are you?

I'm doing great.

I'm doing really well.

It's great to be back here.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you for flying in.

I wanted to talk to you about AI.

I know you've been doing some research on, you know, polling, and there's some good news and,

you know, some, I guess, some inevitable news as well.

But let me ask you, how are you feeling generally about the state of where we are in AI?

This is something

in Dark Future, we really talked about, we even talked about in the Great Reset and Propaganda Wars, but

this is something I have been talking about for 30 years, 35 years, and it's here now.

How are you feeling about where things are going?

Oh, I'm terrified.

I'm terrified.

Stu's going to, you know, he's the odd man out of this conversation.

Are you

not terrified?

I don't know.

Are you terrified?

I think he's deeply concerned.

You're not terrified.

I mean, of what part?

It going wrong.

Yeah, I mean, I definitely am concerned of the impacts it's going to have.

Yeah, I'm not.

I'm not, I mean, you guys can hit levels of being terrified over things that I can't.

This is why he's a great partner for me.

It's because when I'm like, we're all going to die, he's like, relax.

We're just going to be maimed.

Relax.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, no, I'm very terrified.

And the reason why is because the things that we've been talking about for a long time, you especially, are happening in real time.

They are no longer, oh, and, you know, maybe 10 years, this could, no, it's happening now.

It's here.

Correct.

You know, I keep saying this.

I mean,

it's 2025.

2028.

Look at what AI has done in the last 12 months.

Can you even imagine what life is going to be like in 2028?

The answer is no,

because it's going to be radically different by 2028, by 2030, radically different.

That's right.

Yeah.

And so the polling that I recently conducted, partnered with the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports to do these polls, it illustrates, I think, for the first time that people really are genuinely starting to get.

how serious the issue is.

Really?

Which is great.

I mean, that's great.

So we asked if people were concerned about AI.

And essentially, a little over 70% of of likely voters say yes across the board pretty much everyone's concerned about it I really haven't seen too many polls that show that so that's huge we also

know the learning curve on this is almost straight up with the American people one 100 we also asked

we said do you believe that over the next decade AI will be used more to empower individuals or to control them

and 33 percent said empower yeah 42 said control so people believe

I don't know.

Yeah, and the rest are, I don't know.

And so I think that, I think that's the good.

How would you answer that?

How would you answer that?

Because I think in the next, would you say next five years?

10.

Next 10 years.

I know what you'd say.

The next five, what would I say?

You would say control.

Come on.

No, I would actually say for the first three years in power, like crazy.

Yes.

And then as we get further away from that, control like nuts.

Yes.

Now, I I have even better news before I get to the bad news.

This is rare.

I usually have no good news.

So I'm very excited about it.

We asked people, would you support a law?

Let's see if Stu will support this law.

Will you support a law that

at the state or federal level that would require developers and technology companies to design AI so that it protects human rights contained in the Constitution, such as freedom of speech and freedom of religious expression.

So, in other words, AI companies have to design AI with Bill of Rights in mind.

I mean, the Bill of Rights is already the law of the land, right?

Not for the AI company.

Not for AI companies.

AI company is a

private company.

Do you think private companies have to live by the law?

Yeah, no, but they don't have to design.

You're saying

they would have to design and allow free speech.

No, no, no.

It would have to be designed to make sure it helps enforce or can never violate free speech.

It could never say, nope, we're just going to shut all of you people down.

It has to be trained on the Bill of Rights as one of its

foundational principles.

That's right.

Yeah.

Conceptually, obviously, I like the idea of that happening.

I'm not sure if that's the right approach.

Right.

But I'd have to put more thought into it.

Totally understand.

He asked voters.

I don't know.

He's wishy-washy.

I know.

By the time he decides to actually carefully consider your question instead of just jumping to a conclusion.

78%, Stu's in the minority on this one.

78% of likely voters, Democrats, Republicans, all age groups, 78% say yes.

So even more, even more good news.

Yes.

Stu's in the minority.

I now work with a minority.

There you go.

You're diverting.

It's a diverse kind of staff.

We're going to get all kinds of tax breaks.

I'm not going anywhere near that way.

Okay, so the bad news.

Yeah.

All right.

So there is some bad news in this.

There are things that at least I'm concerned about.

Okay.

Yeah.

All right.

So we asked, would you support allowing AI systems to have access to health records,

financial data,

and other personal data?

No.

If, hold on, there's an if, okay.

If it meant that AI would have a better chance at curing diseases and solving other social and economic problems.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Underline, no.

Capital letters.

Exclamation points.

No.

Stu's going to have a nuanced answer.

Well, I mean,

how are they getting access to this?

If we gave it to them.

That's the whole premise of it.

Would you support allowing AI systems to have access to it?

So do you have to?

Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Wait, wait, wait.

Allow them to have access so I could opt out?

Yeah, but the question is really for you.

So would you want to give them access to

them?

No, would you allow them to have access?

not for everybody?

He doesn't say that necessarily.

No.

I hopefully enough, I mean, because there would be benefits to this, right?

Massive ones if enough people gave them health data, right?

Massive.

So I would hope enough people did.

But if enough people do it, then they have all of it.

Once they have the data on you, you're done.

What does that happen?

Like, what happens with that when it comes to your insurance rates?

Yeah, right.

Yeah.

There will be no insurance.

There will be no insurance.

It's not just health records, financial data and other personal data.

Way all of that.

I would not be supplying mine.

Okay.

Though we could acknowledge here, because like this is what, was it Denmark that does this with health data?

They had the best studies that come out of Denmark.

Denmark.

They're incredible because the government forces all of their data to go into the studies.

Right.

Right.

So like, there's part of me that likes the fact that we learn about that.

If you take it and erase all of the information so it's not tracked.

to you, it's never, you can never sort through it, but you can now.

But again, I wouldn't, I would like to say no.

I would hope that Justin would be nice enough to give his data so we can research on him.

Yeah, of course.

That's what Stu wants.

So 51% said yes.

51% said yes, and then 34% said either somewhat oppose or strongly oppose, and 15% said not sure.

So people seem very willing to allow this.

Because, you know, let me ask you something.

I was talking to somebody yesterday and they said, what is happening to Utah?

I mean, mean, the reddest red counties are in Utah and they're just going crazy.

They're starting to really go left.

And I said, it's because

too many people just think, oh, well, you know, it's all, it's always fine because it's always been fine here and it's going to be great.

And so they're not paying attention.

And they're just, it's just slipping away from them like crazy.

The other thing is, why do you think the NSA built the entire, you know, listening compound in Utah?

Now, I'll tell you why the NSA said they did.

Okay.

They said they did because it takes enormous amounts of water to cool those systems.

And Utah had such a huge supply of water.

They're like, it's the desert.

It's kind of dry, isn't it?

It's the desert, dude.

We know that's not right.

It's the desert.

I think they did it because people in Utah are compliant.

They want to get along.

They want to be good Americans.

They want to do the patriotic thing.

And they just, they go along to get along.

And Lance cheap, too.

That's trouble.

Yeah, that's true.

I agree with that.

I think there's definitely a lot of people who are in the world.

At some point, it's trouble.

So then another thing, kind of more, more bad news, worse news in some ways.

Last question we asked was, many economists believe the AI will eliminate millions of jobs over the next decade.

If that happens, would you support a government program that taxes big tech companies and then uses the funds to provide every American with an income large enough to pay for basic necessities like housing, clothing, and food?

So we're talking universal basic income, essentially, paid for by big tech because AI took a lot of jobs.

You want my nuanced answer on this?

Yeah, sure.

No.

That is so amazing.

That is so amazing.

No.

It's so amazing.

May I give the nuanced answer on this one?

Yes, give the nuanced answer.

What is your choice?

I said this.

I've been talking about this forever.

Remember, Stu, how many times?

And in our books, we have talked about universal basic income for decades now.

And I kept saying, it's going to happen.

You have to have another plan.

What's the alternative?

Yep.

And we're now at this place where, again, I say, what's the alternative?

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So our in-studio producer, Sarah, Sarah Sullivan, been working with me for 25 years, almost.

Just about 25 years.

And

I love talking to her because she's, I mean, she drinks a lot because, you know, she has to listen to this every day.

And we got into the break.

And what did you just say to me?

I said that you can say it's not depressing all you want, but it's depressing.

And that is, you know, that is, that, that was me trying to explain to you what

the truth is.

And sometimes the truth can be depressing.

You're right.

However,

let me rephrase the optimistic part.

Why

is Boeing,

why did we order two 747s?

in 2018

and now Boeing is saying they could come at 2028, which is a 10-year period, two planes, but it may not be out until 2035 or 36.

How is that possible?

How is that possible?

I'll tell you how.

They have forgotten who they are.

That's all that is required.

You know, and I don't think the workers have, because I look, my family, much of my family worked at Boeing, still does.

They're working every day at Boeing, and they love Boeing.

They don't like what it's become because they know what it used to be like because of their parents or our grandparents.

And they know what Boeing is capable of.

The reason why it takes this from Boeing, and we're accepting it, is because all of us have become like this.

We have become a society where no one says,

yes, we can.

We can do that.

Yes, we can.

Nobody says that, except if it's used by a politician to use as a slogan to promote dependency on a government

because what they're really selling you is, no, you really can't.

But with the government, you can.

That is not America.

It's not America.

We have to remember who we are and what the secret is.

And the secret is remembering the principles that got us here in the first place.

And then saying, Yeah, I can do that.

I can do that.

I can do anything.

You've been convinced that you can't or you're not allowed to.

What are you talking about?

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Boeing, shame on you.

Shame on you.

Every employee should be going in and saying to the management, shame on you for shaming us.

Shame on you.

You've become so much about, I don't even know what, the numbers, corruption, DEI, I don't even know what your problem is, Boeing, but it didn't start with the workers.

It started in the home office.

It starts on the floor where all the elites are gathering.

You've made it about something else other than building airplanes.

And you know, people will think that they have no way to change things.

Imagine what it was like in World War II.

In World War II,

you're just the head of a company and

you can't turn things around.

Yesterday,

I

bought something.

I traded, I collect watches, and I traded almost all of them in for one watch because this watch is so important historically.

And I'm wearing it today.

And it's called the POW watch

because it comes from POWs.

Back in World War II,

the president of Rolex didn't know what to do.

Didn't know how he could help.

And he's reading about all the prisoners that are in POW camps in Germany.

And he wants to do something.

So

he sends the head guy, the head POW.

of the camp like a box of watches.

And it's like, you give them out to whoever you think deserves them or needs them and you know and don't worry about paying don't worry about paying us back.

Well, he's doing it as a gift.

But what happens?

These are some of the first

like Daytonas.

This is before the Daytona was ever made, the chronograph on the front.

So the guy gets it and he's like,

wait a minute, now we have a precision way to time things.

We can time the changing of the guards.

We can time how long it takes for them to come around and we can find the averages.

We now know time because we have a precision timepiece.

The guy at Rolex, he had no idea what he was doing.

If you've ever watched the movie The Great Escape, that's a true story.

We have many of the pieces over at the museum.

We have a piece of the pedestal that the old Franklin stove sat on that they had to move as they were digging.

We have a ton of the stuff that they used.

But one of the most important things they used was a watch.

Just like this one, a POW watch.

There's only a handful of them left.

Why are they important?

Because it was the watch that helped them escape.

Helped them escape.

It didn't do the work for them.

The first thing they had to remember is they're not POWs.

They're not, they are British and American and French soldiers, and they are meant to be free, and they're meant to get out of there.

Now, there were people who were like, no, let's not do that.

It'll just cause so much trouble.

Thank God, the most of them said, yes, we can.

We're going to do it.

Now, Boeing, let me just give you this stat.

As you're sitting there thinking, we can't complete this airplane, Glenn.

It's really complex.

Let me just give you a couple of stats.

There were three escapes.

What were they?

Tom, Dick, and Harry?

I think that's what they were called.

Three different escapes.

Okay.

Let me just give you the stats on one of them.

They dug a two by two foot hole.

I mean, this gives me claustrophobia thinking about it.

They dug a two by two foot hole underneath the floorboards of one of the one of the,

you know,

barracks.

They had to hide all of that

and they dig a two by two foot hole.

They first have to dig that

30 feet down.

Two by two foot hole, 30 feet down.

Then, and by the way, they don't have shovels.

They don't have any of that stuff.

They're making whatever it is they use.

Then, in that two by two foot hole, then they have to start digging 336 feet horizontally so they can get out from under the wire and arrive at the other side.

Okay?

336, two by two.

Just think about removing the dirt.

How do they remove that much dirt without getting caught?

And it might be easier when you're pushing dirt up from

the hole for the first 30 feet.

But what happens when you're going 300 and what was it?

336 feet horizontally?

How do you get that dirt out?

They had to design almost a train track that was bringing that dirt out.

For every inch they did, every inch of dirt had to be removed.

And they couldn't just take it out in, you know, wheelbarrows and dump it someplace.

How could they move that much dirt without anyone knowing

that they were removing that much dirt?

They devised a system in their in their pants to where each of them could put a little bit of dirt in their pants.

And then when they got out to the yard and they would walk around, they would slowly let that dirt fall onto their shoes and onto the ground as they walked.

And then they just kind of kick it into place.

Do you know how much dirt that was?

And they never got caught?

Shame on you, Boeing.

Oh, you can't finish a couple of planes.

Huh.

You know how long it took them to do that?

With no tools, no electricity, no lights, can't get caught, covering it all up

10 months.

10 months.

It's called the great escape.

That's a really cute uplifting story.

But did you know AI is going to be able to tell us what our pets are saying?

Okay.

All right.

I want you to know that what Sarah says is right.

Nobody's ever come back from this.

But no one had ever escaped from Stalag 13.

No one had ever done it.

No one had ever crossed the Rocky Mountains.

Nobody had ever gone to space.

No one had ever gone to the moon.

We are a nation of...

That's never been done before.

That's what we do.

That's who we are.

Europe, that's not you, but that is us.

Because every single one of us, someplace in our family history, somebody, if you've been here, you know, prior to what, maybe 1920,

if your family was here prior to 1920, you came over on a boat.

Do you know what that was like?

I don't want to go on a boat back then.

Especially if I was, you know, in the chattel class.

You know, my family, they came over here in the 1800s, and I can guarantee you, none of them were up on the top deck of the boat.

They were all down, you you know, shoveling poop out the window.

I don't know what they were doing, but it wasn't pretty.

And now I'm going to piss this away when they worked so hard to get us here to have these.

See,

that again is the problem.

Once you forget why people came here in the first place, once you forget and are told, no, you can't.

You can't.

Yes, you can if the government will help you, but you can't do it on your own.

Once you're taught that and you forget who you actually are, this is why family heritage is so important.

Read about your family.

Figure out who your family is.

Do your family tree.

There's somebody in there.

In my family, when I got my family tree back,

this is what the person said to me.

I would like to tell you that there's somebody famous or great in your family, but we went back generations.

It's littered with nobodies.

However, I found two heroes in my my family.

Two.

And they're not heroes by anybody else's standard, but they are mine.

I had two, I had a great-great-grandfather and a great-great-uncle that fought in the Civil War, and they were on the right side.

Now, because they're my relation, they were caught like the first week.

And they were put into Andersonville, the worst, most notorious.

I mean, you want to talk about Auschwitz.

That was Auschwitz of the South.

They were put there where thousands of people died.

It was horrific.

One of them died.

The other one survived and according to his wife was never the same from it.

I can imagine.

But they fought on the right side and one of them survived.

And nobody survived Andersonville, but he did.

You have to find your strength.

Someplace.

You have to find who you really are.

You have to find, and you'll find it usually when you find God, who you really are and the strength that you actually have inside of you.

And then if you happen to be part of a group, Boeing,

you need to look at each other and go, come on, man, is this us?

For the love of Pete, maybe it's because I grew up in Seattle.

You're Boeing.

You're Boeing.

That's what you want the world to think of you?

Boeing used to lead the way.

You're either going to lead the way or get the hell out of the way give us our money back for those planes and we'll find some company that will build them here in america what are you doing either do it right or get out of the way

that's the message that should be heard from boeing employees to their bosses like now

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