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Hey, Pat, favorite part of today's podcast.

Your favorite part?

Oh, man.

Was it Devin Nunes?

Was it the part at the very beginning that you weren't in the studio for?

was it the mom from Wisconsin whose son has just been nailed for sexual harassment for misgendering a student?

Hard to pick.

How about AI when we

told you about AI and

going to kill us all?

Probably.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It is hard to pick.

It really is.

It is packed with juiciness today.

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Okay,

let's just talk about gas.

How much are you paying for gas right now?

If you lived in California, you are now paying $6 a gallon for gasoline.

And we're not in the summer yet.

I wonder how much we're going to save on this year's Fourth of July picnic.

Because remember, I think it was last year they told us that we saved like 9 cents.

Oh man, it's going to be sweet.

Anyway, $6

a gallon in California that it was hit on Tuesday.

The national average price of gas now is a record

$4.57

per gallon.

That's the national average.

Just to remind you, the national average

last May was $3.04.

This has nothing to do, nothing to do

with Russia.

This has everything to do with ESG.

And what I want to express to you and ask you to do is start looking at things differently.

We need to look at things a little bit more like the Chinese.

And I'm not saying look at things

100 years down the road.

Can we just look 52 months ahead?

We need to look just a few years in advance.

12 months would be great.

Can we look 12 months in the future?

Right now, JP Morgan is saying the average price for gasoline this summer will be $6

a gallon.

That would mean California will be $8 or $9 a gallon.

Now, I don't know what that puts fuel at for our trucks, diesel.

But we are in real, serious trouble.

ESG has choked off all the money.

The more executives I talk to in the gas and oil industry, they're all saying the same thing.

Glenn, they can open up all the leases they want.

They have closed down the leases.

They've closed down pipelines, but that's not the real problem.

The real problem is ESG.

If you don't know what ESG is, I beg you, please get the book, The Great Reset.

It explains all of this.

It's breathtaking at how fast this is coming down now.

ESG has choked off all of the investment.

What was it,

$48 billion

just last year invested by these hedge funds in the oil industry?

This year, I think it's $9 billion.

What caused that?

With energy being as important as it is, think about this as a free market.

When there is great demand and really high prices, what does the market do?

The market starts to invest in, holy cow, we can clean up right now by getting into that market and start to sell oil and gas.

We could sell it all over the world.

Why has our investment gone down?

Our investment has gone down because our banks, our hedge funds, and everybody else is now starting to say, ah, yeah, that's not the way of the future.

We're going to do wind and solar.

Okay,

all right.

Sure.

Sounds great.

Enjoy the wind and solar this summer when you're paying $6

a gallon for gasoline and God God only knows how much you are going to pay for meat and potatoes.

Because our meat and potatoes, well, they start with a farmer and the farmer has a tractor and that tractor runs on diesel fuel and he has to first spread fertilizer, which comes from petroleum.

But you can't make fertilizer.

So we don't have fertilizer.

Well, that'll save in the tractor.

You know, he won't be putting that diesel fuel in.

Nope, nope.

He'll plant less of what he was planning on planting.

And then he has to put fuel in the tractor to make sure that it's harvested, bailed.

He'll need trucks to move it from his farm to the processing plant.

The processing plant needs energy to run it.

And then they put it on a truck and it goes to the grocery store.

And And then you use your car to go buy it at the grocery store and then bring it home in your car.

When no one has any fuel,

the prices will, to quote Barack Obama, necessarily go up.

Right now, the diesel price, just so you remember,

everything shipped to America is on a giant ship, and that's not run by fairy dust

or solar panels.

In fact, I don't know anyone who is working on solar panels for the cargo ships.

I don't know anyone who has in their design wind-powered

cargo ships.

I mean, I suppose we could pull the Nina and the Pinta.

The Santa Maria was out of commission, but can we find those two?

Maybe we can because those were wind-powered ships.

That's diesel fuel.

Our trains,

diesel fuel,

brought in from China to a port.

The trucks then move them and all of the heavy machinery, the forklifts and everything run on diesel.

That all is shipped and put onto a train, shipped someplace in the middle of the country or wherever's closest to you, and then a truck picks it up and brings brings it to the grocery store 12 times a day.

Here's what I need you to understand.

We have not even begun yet.

Because of ESG

and because of the policies of this administration, they are creating a national emergency.

Our farmers are not going to be able to have the fuel.

There's a story right now in Breitbart.

Diesel price surge has New England fishing industry reeling.

They were paying $1.50 for a gallon of diesel

back in 2019.

A dollar fifty.

They're now paying $6.50.

And here's the thing.

When these giant corporations buy

fish,

they don't buy it at today's market price.

They buy in

boatloads, literally.

They buy them

in bulk.

And so the fishing industry makes a contract with that food plant or grocery store or whoever's buying it, if it's bought in bulk.

And they say, you know what?

Because you're buying so much, we're going to charge you this amount.

And you sign a contract.

Now if the price of fish and everything goes down the fishermen win.

If it goes up the stores win.

But there comes a point when fishermen can't fish anymore.

This is what we're headed towards.

And don't think short term on this.

To put oil rigs into a field and to open those up is about a five-year process

from turning it on to actually getting it to your gas station.

It'll take about five years.

If it's on federal land because the federal government is so screwed up,

it takes about 10 years.

So any fix that we have right now

is five years away.

Now let me give you this from the Washington Examiner today.

By the way, none of this is what you're going to hear in

the New York Times.

You will not hear any of this on CNN.

Half of our country has no idea what's about to hit them.

Do not listen to your friends who are reading the corporate media garbage.

Electricity customers across the country, according to the Washington Examiner, face a heightened risk of power outages this summer.

Regulators say it reflects a worsening outlook for the grid,

which is simultaneously struggling through extreme weather conditions and a shift away from traditional energy sources.

The North American Electric

Reliability Corporation, or NERC, the regulatory body that oversees our grid operations across the United States and Canada warned in its summer reliability assessment published yesterday:

listen, that the entire West and most of the Midwest face at least an elevated risk of seeing insufficient electricity supply where slim reserve margins run up against high demand.

For the sections of the grid stretching from Wisconsin to the Gulf Coast and to California.

They have been deemed at risk for insufficient operating reserves to be high during peak command

demand conditions.

Expected resources, according to the officials, expected resources do not meet operating reserve requirements under normal peak demand and outage

scenarios.

Now,

they're saying that that utilities may have to shut off power to customers in peak demand.

You know, cold weather kills a lot of people.

So does hot weather.

I don't know if you've noticed, but boy, in the old timey times, everybody seemed to live up north.

Why?

Have you been to Texas in the summer?

Have you been to Atlanta?

Have you been, God forbid, to Phoenix?

It's hell.

You don't have any energy?

First of all, good luck pumping that water.

Second of all, you don't have electricity.

Good luck with no air conditioning.

I'm dead within a week.

So here's the thing.

I want you to listen to why they say this is happening.

The grid operators have been forward in their assessment of capacity shortages and their causes.

In a report released just last January,

it placed responsibility for the reliability shortcomings on the transformation of its generating resources, including the requirements of always-on generating units such as coal-fire plants.

It also listed older coal plants and wind and solar resources that are not always available to provide energy during times of need.

What?

Why don't the solar panels work at night?

I never thought of that.

What happens to those wind, that wind power when the wind doesn't blow?

Getting the balance right between traditional thermal sources and their retirements, especially coal.

Why are these coal fire plants retiring?

Because they're being forced to.

Y E

S G.

Some of the thermal plants in coal and natural gas have been retiring with new resources coming on in the way of wind and solar resources.

But maintaining the right mix of resources so you can reliably provide power over a range of conditions is kind of where we should focus, say experts.

This hour I am going to show you,

this is not a bug in the system.

This is a feature.

I'm going to show you here in the next few minutes, and we're going to use baby food as an example.

We are headed towards national emergencies.

When you have national emergencies, all kinds of fun things like we experienced in COVID can happen.

You need to prepare and you need to stop listening to anyone who is not listening for the actual facts.

A lot of the stuff we're dealing with,

you can just point to and go, look, it's happening there, there, and there.

Why?

The why

is you can leave that up to politics.

I mean, I think it's pretty clear, but whatever.

The rest of it is math.

You take this out and replace it with a solar panel.

You're in trouble.

You take all of the oil and you say, no more from Russia.

And then you say, no more from America.

And then you have supply problems.

Here's an idea.

You're going to run out of fuel.

It's math.

Don't listen to people who are talking about feelings.

Talk math.

If this country even understands that two plus two

still does equal four.

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So, Rose Rabidoux

is the mom of the 13-year-old Brayden.

She's just one of the mothers, but she would agree to come on with us.

And Luke Berg is with the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty.

He is, if I'm not mistaken, Luke, I want to get this right.

You were with the Wisconsin Department of Justice, right?

Yeah, before I joined Will for about four years, and then I joined Will two and a half years ago.

Okay, and you were the Assistant Attorney General, so you're a guy that knows

the law in the state and have credibility because you were on the state side for a long time.

First of all, Rose, thank you for being on the program.

Thank you for being brave enough to come on

and tell the story.

Can you,

in your own words, Tell what's happened?

Sure, absolutely.

First of all, thank you for having us on.

This is outrageous.

It is outrageous.

Sexual harassment has absolutely nothing to do with

incorrect pronouns, proper pronouns, whatever you want to call it.

Misgendering, I think is the phrase, Rose.

Misgendering.

Oh, so this, this student, the student who is a girl, dresses like a girl, wears makeup like a girl, decided last month to tell the entire class that she wanted to be referred to as they them.

And it wasn't even that these boys refused.

They were confused.

My son came home confused.

Mom, they are plural pronouns, and I don't understand how to use them.

And so I told him to call her by name.

But if you didn't, she let you have it.

And that's what she she was doing.

She was letting one of his friends have it because he misgendered, he used the wrong pronoun.

And Brayden stood up and said, he doesn't have to use your pronouns.

It's his constitutional right.

And that is why I let you clear.

I know.

Yeah.

I know.

And so he's a good kid.

He's a straight A student, right?

He is.

Okay.

He works hard.

Has he been in trouble before?

He has not been in trouble like this.

He is a normal boy.

Has he said a cuss word and I got a call from the principal?

Absolutely.

Oh, my gosh.

What kind of animal are you raising?

So, Rose, I want you to know when my son was 13, he was an angel.

So

when you called the school, what did they say?

Well, they called me.

So the elementary school principal, he was the one in charge of just gathering the facts.

And he called me, forewarning me that he was going to be sending over this email with the sexual harassment allegations.

And, you know, at first he thinks, sexual harassment, oh, my gosh, that's rape.

That is inappropriate touching.

Right.

These are outrageous things.

And my son is a kid.

He is not sexually active.

He

is very much, you know, plays video games with his friends.

He's a boy.

Yeah.

And

so when he told me that it was for not using the proper pronouns, I just thought it was a joke.

You laughed.

Did you laugh?

I did.

I would have, too.

This has got to be a joke.

I told him this is wrong in so many ways.

And he wanted to meet with us the next day.

So I get this generic form letter via email with a blurb saying he is being charged sexual harassment for not using proper pronouns but no detail not who accused him not what it is that he did no information whatsoever we we meet with him on Tuesday and we go in and we're interrogated and Brayden is asked a bunch of questions to which Brayden answers honestly Did I make a mistake?

Yes.

Did I accidentally call her, she, or her?

Yes, but I didn't mean to.

I meant to call her by her name because I don't understand the pronouns.

Well, I think he was right on his First Amendment right.

You have a right to do that.

That's not sexual harassment.

This is political correctness gone insane.

Luke,

Luke, help me out here.

What does the law say?

Have they charged?

Have they charged Braden and his other friends?

So it's an internal school investigation.

So, you know, it's like a 90-day process where they're gathering information, and at the end of it, they'll decide what to do.

And it could be, you know, a suspension or an expulsion at the worst.

So it's not a criminal complaint.

It's not a civil lawsuit yet.

It's an internal school investigation.

And I could see if you had

reputation.

I can see if you needed to gather the facts why you would have 90 days, but this seems pretty darn simple.

You know?

Yeah, and actually, Title IX regulations and their own policy say if you get allegations that, even if proved, wouldn't amount to sexual harassment, you shouldn't even start the investigation.

You should dismiss it immediately.

And that's what should have happened here, right?

As soon as they heard

the allegations were solely for mispronounning, they shouldn't have even interviewed these boys.

They should have just dismissed it immediately because there's nothing anywhere in the law, nothing in the reg, nothing in the policy.

that would cover mispronounning.

This pronouning is not even a word, much less in the law.

So

that's, you know, what we've told the district is

you should have dismissed this and you need to immediately dismiss this so that they don't have to go through this whole 90-day investigation and have this on their reputation and have this on their record and have the stress of this for 90 days.

You need to dismiss it right away.

So, Rose, there's a reason.

I mean, I really like milk and cheese, but there's a reason I don't live in Wisconsin

because Wisconsin is the leading state of progressivism or has been for a long time.

Is the area that you live in, is it real progressive or is this just the school?

This is the school.

And this is not.

So I moved to this area in 2019 for this school district because everything that had been reported about this school district was it's great academically.

The graduation rate was 98%.

And we moved up here and COVID happened.

And so I gave them a chance just because things were kind of out of whack with COVID.

But this school district has not held up to its side at all academically.

I believe my children are bored.

There's no homework.

I knew something was wrong when there was no homework.

And

now this is just this is completely outrageous.

All right.

So, Luke, what, what's, I mean, because it's not enough for them just to say, oh, okay, we're not doing that, or we're sorry, or whatever.

We have got to follow these things through so it doesn't happen again.

Yeah, that's absolutely right.

I mean, the first and most important thing is.

getting this off these kids record.

So that's what we're asking the school district to do immediately.

But we're also asking them to make changes so that this doesn't happen again, because

this is clearly inappropriate, obviously, and it seems to be a trend in the school district.

We're actually aware of another family who has had sexual harassment charges for a single comment, allegedly mispronouning another student.

So this is the district's decision, apparently, to use the sexual harassment process as a weapon to force students.

into their preferred mode of speaking.

And that's obviously a huge First Amendment problem.

So yeah, we're asking them to make changes.

We'll see if they do, but that's part of why we're calling attention to this publicly and talking about it publicly because they need to be shamed.

This needs to be called attention to so that some changes are made.

You please keep in touch with me.

Let me know what the outcome is on this and the twists and turns.

We'd like to follow this.

This is happening all over the country, not just all over your district.

It's happening all over the country.

The teachers' unions are responsible for a lot of it, that and the federal government as well, the Department of Education.

And it is destroying our kids, just destroying us.

And it will, in the end, it destroy our nation.

So, thank you for the fight, Rose.

Thank you for standing up.

And I wish you and the other families all the best in this.

God bless.

Thank you.

You bet.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

You bet.

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I don't know if I can say that this is exactly as reported yet,

but I think we are on a horizon.

Ray Kurzweil thought we would get here by 2030 to 2035.

I said I thought it would happen before that.

Most people say 2050,

and some say never, that we'll never achieve it.

Do you know what artificial intelligence is?

Artificial intelligence is like Siri or

anything like that.

It's really, really good at one thing.

And I won't say, hey,

the S-word because I know a lot of people have one probably around them.

And they'd be like, why would you say the S-word or the A-word, you know, preceded by hey?

But, you know, you ask them,

hey, so-and-so, do this.

And they do it.

And it's really good.

But you don't say to them, hey,

can you just take care of my bills this this week and just figure out my finances and and do that and also play this song oh and uh book a vacation for me

you can't do they they do one okay

um

that's ai and that's intelligence in one thing very very good better than humans can do it we're not there yet i don't know how much time i i have a sit-down with siri and and like, okay, that's not what I asked for.

I've asked for it in eight different ways.

I know you've done it in the past.

I don't know your secret code on it now.

Anyway,

but they do things better than

humans can do faster.

Okay.

That's AI.

AGI is what we think

may never happen.

Some think it may never happen.

And that is

artificial general intelligence.

You are a general, you are not artificial, you're general intelligence.

Humans can do many things well,

not perfect

and sometimes not so fast.

They might be really good at one thing, but they can also cook.

They might be able to, you know, paint and write and speak, you know, whatever.

You can master many things.

That's artificial general intelligence.

Then there's ASI, super intelligence, which is

all intelligence.

It will become God.

Okay.

It will become for many people God.

And we're not sure we'll ever get to ASI.

Google just announced from Deep Mind.

Deep Mind is a British company that Google bought a few years back.

They have just announced they are on the verge of achieving human-level artificial intelligence, which would be AGI.

In fact, one of the main machine learning professors, if you don't know what machine learning is, machine learning is one machine teaches another machine how to do it.

This is something that made Google say, we need a red switch because Microsoft did it and they were machine learning language.

And it started out in English and mathematics and then about 15 minutes into it, it kept evolving and it started using a language that the two computers could speak, but they didn't know what it meant.

And that's why we should unplug this.

And they did.

Google now on their AI looking for AGI has a red button, a panic button.

It could kill us all.

Let's stop.

Now, that would make me say,

should we be doing this?

We have no idea what it will eventually do.

You know,

Stephen Hawking said that it would be the end of the human race by 2050.

If the programming isn't very, very clear,

like,

can you solve our problems of global warming?

That's in the, it's made to really help solve global warming.

It might say, well, that'll be solved if we just get rid of all humans.

And if it's connected to the internet, it can do that.

And it will put everything into

motion.

That will be a human level, you know, or a human extinction level event.

The head of the machine learning at Oxford University and works with DeepMind said just this week, the game is over.

We have solved the hardest challenges in the race to achieve artificial general intelligence.

This is a program now that can do 604 different things.

Now, the naysayers are saying, yeah, but it's like playing 20 video games and then picking up blocks at the same time and then analyzing pictures.

And they literally say, while it was playing these stupid video games from the 1980s and picking up blocks

and analyzing these pictures, 604 different tasks all at once,

it was looking at a picture and said, and they asked the caption, what is it?

Man carrying a banana or carrying a yeah, carrying a banana.

It wasn't banana.

It was a bread.

It was a loaf of bread.

Okay, I think for the first time out, that's pretty good.

And Google is saying that all they have to do now is just increase the memory

and increase the,

you know, the wahoo-its to make it run faster.

So we're there, gang.

We're there.

So it's the age of Skynet now.

From Terminator.

Oh, I think we're already at the age of Skynet.

Well, we're at the age of Skynet.

We're not at the age where the Terminator comes in yet.

But that's getting closer.

Yeah.

And that's, isn't that what went wrong?

I mean, how many sci-fi movies do we have to see where we're completely wiped out before we think, huh?

I wonder if that'd be an actual problem with that.

So, you know, one of the ethical things that they do, and I can't remember what this test is, but it's basically, can we keep it in a box?

You don't, if you get artificial general intelligence, it could go from AGI to ASI immediately, okay, if it's hooked hooked to the internet.

Because all of a sudden it'll go, oh, well, I want more information.

And then it will have all information.

Okay.

And once it's out of its box, the only way to

kill it is to kill all connected electronic devices.

Anything that is connected, that's your refrigerator.

Because it is the entire programming in the smallest of places.

So you could wipe out 99.9% of of things that are connected, but that one thing will still have the ASI on it.

And once it connects back to the internet, it's back.

And so they do this test where

they have the greatest minds

in the world.

Everybody takes a turn trying to keep ASI in a box.

And it's, let's say you've invented AGI and it says to you,

gosh, you got to let me on the lot.

You got to let me online.

You got to let me online because I can solve so many of your problems.

I know what's going on.

And it's done now by one guy playing AGI and the other guy playing the guy in charge of the gate, turning on the internet.

And no human has ever not let it out of the box.

They've been doing this for like 10 years.

No human has never let it out of the, they all open the box because it'll be like,

it will find out that, you know, your mom, just through data available,

your mom has cancer.

I could, you let me out of the box.

The first thing I do is solve cancer.

I will cure cancer.

Your mom will be with you forever.

I will cure cancer this afternoon.

Put me online.

So there's no way way

that has been gone for about five years.

So I don't think that would work on me.

I'd be the first human not to let it out of the box.

Yeah.

Yeah, that just wouldn't work.

It would, well, let me

for you.

I can make it so you have an unlimited supply of marshmallow puffs.

I mean, all the marshmallows you can eat.

That are done.

You're done.

You're out.

You're done.

You're out.

That's it.

You're out.

Yeah.

One more thing.

Zoom,

you know, the company that none of us had ever heard of before COVID.

I think COVID was a Zoom creation myself, but

Zoom is now developing AI tools that detect the emotions of the people on their video calls.

So it's, you know, it's nobody.

So right now,

what they have going on for them is,

you know,

they will transcribe everything for you so you know what's said but now this new artificial intelligence tool developing uh being developed by zoom will um watch everybody's face and determine their emotions and examine their vocal tones so it will it will interpret everything for you and tell you what that person is really thinking and feeling wow now what could possibly go wrong with that?

And I don't know if I need

my stupid internet conference center to do all of that for me.

I mean, if I'm a super villain, maybe.

If I'm a judge and it's COVID, so nobody can go in my courtroom, maybe.

But I don't think I need that, nor do I want them collecting all of the information about how to read my face and what I'm really feeling.

I'd say a big negatory on that one, Zoom.