September 2, 2026 • 43 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features author Austin Petersen and conservative activist Chritian Collins of the Texas Youth Summit.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The gigantic government sucks.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Pursuit of happiness, radio is deluxe.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Liberty and freedom will make you smile. The pursuit of
happiness on your radio dial.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Justice cheeseburgers and liberty fries. It's pursuit of happiness time.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Dig this. 100-year-old Dick Van.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Dyke just posted a video on the internet of his
workout routine. Yeah, I was pretty surprised. It was basically
just a video of him slinging his testicles over his
shoulder and going for a power walk. A lot happening
on the show today. Who's stopping by in a little bit? Oh, yeah,
Christian Collins is going to be here from the Texas
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Youth Summit. You know, that's a month away. And he
is out right now trying to rally young people in
support of the upcoming midterms. We're going to talk about
the latest from the James Tallarico-Ken Paxton feud. But since
we already mentioned Hollywood to start this segment, why don't
we pick up there?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Is this a spoiled, pampered, narcissistic Hollywood brat, or what?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Or what?
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Indeed. Or what?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Hollywood just discovered that even after a decade of shouting
believe all women into a megaphone the size of the
Hollywood sign, well, the numbers still look like a casting
call from a 1970s detective show. A new study just
dropped this week showing female TV characters, creators on streaming, collapsed.
from 36% last season to 24% this season. Major female
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characters slipped from 49% to 44% in Democrat-run Tinseltown. The
industry that lectures Flyover America about its supposed war on
women just quietly unhired a bunch of them.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
That's amazing. That's weird.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
You said that we conservatives of middle America, we're all misogynistic,
and yet, weirdly, You don't want to give jobs to women?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Believe all women, I thought you said.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Guys, this is at the same town where they treat
conservatives like they personally invented the glass ceiling, while their
own executives spent years treating actresses like they invented the
casting couch. Y'all remember Harvey Weinstein didn't just have a couch.
He had a whole furniture store of power imbalances. Woody
Allen's personal life has more plot holes than one of
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his later movies. And that's before you get to the
long list of so-called progressive producers whose idea of female
empowerment was smile more and don't mention those NDA contracts.
We don't want to hear about that. Guys, Hollywood didn't
just fail the Bechdel test. It failed the don't prey
on talent test. Then it gave itself an award for
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raising awareness. The irony is thicker than a producer's midlife crisis. Hey,
I resemble that statement. These are the same people who
spent years insisting that any Republican who notices biological reality
is a misogynist. Yes, thank you very much. And meanwhile,
their own streaming slates keep defaulting to young women in
their 20s and 30s while the men get to age
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into positions of power. Isn't it weird how middle-aged men
like Bradley Cooper always have a romantic co-lead that's like
a 20-year-old woman?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I don't know. I'm not complaining. It's just funny.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
That's the same group of people shaming us for our
positions on biology. Human nature, it turns out, is stubbornly unwoke.
Guys still look like, I don't know, guys still like
looking at young women, essentially, don't they? Women still like
looking at men who look like they pay the mortgage. Shocking,
I know. Next, they'll discover gravity. Great job, guys. And
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that's not all from the world of hypocritical Hollywood today.
Sacha Baron Cohen. I don't agree with his political ideas,
but I always thought he made movies. He's the guy
who spent years campaigning for platforms to censor racists and
misogynists and anti-Semites. He wanted speech without reach. He was
pro-censorship on the internet. Now the speech police he helped
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deputize have decided his own 2006 masterpiece, Borat, is too
racist for movie screens. Guys, he's actually coming out with
a new movie. Ali G is facing boycotts. There's a
new sequel on the way. And people don't want it
to hit theaters because the character supposedly legitimizes stereotypes.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yeah, that's the point. That was the joke about Ali G.
It was a joke.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
A theater quietly canceled a packed Borat screening after activists
complained he was both a Zionist and a racist character.
The activists won, by the way. Cry me a river,
Sacha Baron Cohen. You built the guillotine. Don't act surprised
when they measure your neck. This is the circular firing
squad acting like performance art. The left didn't just eat
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its own. It seasoned them first, posted the recipe on Instagram,
and then canceled the restaurant for cultural appropriation of cannibalism.
Sacha Baron Cohen spent years telling everyone that freedom of
speech is not freedom of reach.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Yeah, he actually said that.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Now the kids who grew up on that slogan have
decided his reach should be zero. The revolution always eats
its comedians first. Then it eats the study that shows
women are disappearing from the writer's room. Then it eats
the remaining writers for not being diverse enough in their
own self-flagulation. Hollywood keeps insisting it's the last bastion of enlightenment,
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while its own data looks like regressive fever dreams. They
lecture America about caring for women, then staff their shows
like it's a 1955 movie rom-com, but with more pronouns
and fewer punchlines. They champion censorship until the censors come
for the guys who made us laugh at Kazakhstan. At
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this rate, the next study will show that the only
women left in Hollywood are the ones writing think pieces
about how there aren't enough women left in Hollywood. Guys,
the planet isn't healing. It's just finally noticing that the
people who claim to be the doctors were the ones
running the experimental ward. And the experiment is failing so hard,
even the lab rats are asking for a recount.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
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movies that he's done. God, there are so many of
those movies. Hey, ladies and gentlemen, it is getting real close.
to time to vote in the midterms. Texas Senate race update.
Paxton is trying to keep the state red. Tallarico is
trying to turn the state commie red.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
I don't like that. He's trying to keep his past
in a locked drawer.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
The latest chapter is Tallarico's campaign is in court begging
a judge to unseal some old Paxton depositions from a
business dispute that happened when Tallarico was still worshiping his
God as non-binary material.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
And as all that's happening, suddenly these videos have surfaced.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Where it looks like, I mean, it looks like, it
sounds like, Tallarico's walking around telling people that racism, you're
a racist, you're white, your white supremacy and capitalism are
causing more hurricanes.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
An economy that's going to work for.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
I'm sorry, that's the wrong soundbite. This is the right soundbite.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Change for all Texans.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Yeah, and I'm so thankful that you asked this question
and also thankful that young activists have really drawn the
link between climate change and white supremacy and.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Cap climate change and white supremacy and capitalism i didn't
mean to cut him off there but that's what he's
saying he also says if you work in oil and
gas you're irrelevant you'd better get ready to learn to code.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Um you know we all we all know that texas
has been a leader in oil and gas but in
many ways that's like being the leader in cassette tapes
in the 1980s that that industry is not going to
last and if we'd want to ensure we have an
an economy that's going to work for our children and
our children's children, we got to be ahead of the curve.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Now, this wasn't that long ago, but it was six
years ago, based on what's going on right now in
Iran and everything happening with the economy. Do you get
the impression? that oil and gas is about to go away.
I don't get that impression at all. With all that
being said, joining us now, a guy who actually loves
his country, a guy who actually cares about young people
and the future of this nation, someone who actually understands it,
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Christian Collins, founder and president of the Texas Youth Summit,
the annual Woodlands Gathering that packs thousands of young Americans,
teenagers and college kids and adults alike, to come in
and talk about faith and freedom and why the Constitution
is not a living mood board. Great lineups in the
past to speakers, an even bigger one this year. Christian,
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welcome to the show. Quick question for you. Tallarico is
running as a moderate. He claims to be a seminary student.
He calls himself a Christian who hates Christianity. Paxton is
out here right now trying to show people that the
system in Texas actually works. Which version do actual Texans
listen to? Which one do they believe is the real
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Senate candidate we want to represent this state come November?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Well, informed voters understand that Paxton, though he's not perfect,
he's done an incredible job as attorney general, and he's
going to do a great job in the U.S.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Senate.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
President Trump describes him as the greatest attorney general in
the country, actually. He stands for strong borders, everything antithetical
to what James Tallarico stands for. James Tallarico says he
wants to welcome Matt on our southern border. He believes
that God is non-binary. He believes in six genders.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
He's against meat.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
He's trying to eat, you know, barbecued But he doesn't
stand for that at all. He wants to trans our kids.
The guy is a far leftist, and he scrubbed every
far left endorsement he had from the primary now that
he's running in the general election. And he's had a
ton of time to raise money from places like New
York and California. He's just about to go on another blitzkrieg.
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on the airwaves because of money in California that he's received.
And he's doing a lot to convince voters that he's
one of them. He's driving a truck around looking like
a real Texan. And he's actually a woke leftist. And
he's got a lot of people confused. And I think
there's a lot of people, unfortunately, that are falling for it.
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And it means Meanwhile, what you have on the Republican
side is you have 24% of non-MAGA, those are non-Trump
voting Republicans that supported John Cornyn, that have coalesced behind
Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick. They're voting for them, but
right now they're not voting for him. uh, for Ken
Paxton and we need to come together. And this is,
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this is what Ted Cruz and so many other people
are saying, you know, forget about what happened in the primary.
Now is the time to unite. Now is the time
to come together. But I think the real problem for
Ken Paxton is just money, you know, $ 23 million in,
is what James Tallarico had on the last report. And
Ken Paxton has around $ 2 million. And of course, he's
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a little bruised and battered because $ 200 million was spent
against him by John Cornyn in the primary. And so
he's got these unfavorables, and he's got to clearly define
James Tallarico, who's had three months during that runoff election
that Paxton was in to raise money.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
He's got to define him.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
He's got to be on the airwaves defining who he is,
but he has to have the money to do that.
And it looks like Senate leadership, John Thune, isn't going
to do much about it. It doesn't look like, you know,
the Calvary's coming in.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
They, of course, wanted John Cornyn.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
They spent money against Paxton in the primary, the Senate
Republican leadership.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
That is.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
So, you know, we have to rely on outside funding.
Ted Cruz has done a great job. He's spending money
through his super PAC for Ken Paxton.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
But.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Hopefully, maybe Elon Musk and his pack will come through.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Maybe MAGA Inc.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And President Trump. He's got $ 400 million there. Maybe his
pack will come through. But that's what Senate leadership is signaling,
is that the outside money needs to come in for
Ken Paxton. And something has to happen quick. We're not
far from the general election voting day. And we've got
to make sure that we define who Tallarico is. He's
a far leftist nutjob.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yeah, people on the left, Tallarico supporters love attacking Paxton
because of his personal life. I don't find his personal
life to be that scandal prone. I don't find it
to be that fascinating. But any Christian that's ever read
the Bible before knows God chooses imperfect people to go
out and do his bidding. King David, heck, Donald Trump
is part of the reason why we overturned Roe v.
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Wade and defended religious liberties. Tallarico was someone who was
against religious exemptions, people using their religion during the pandemic
as a reason not to get the COVID shot or
a reason to keep a church open. Tallarico was against
all of these things.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Now, It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
To your point, you were talking about how Kennedy, Senator Kennedy,
John Thune don't want to help out Ken Paxton. It's
just remarkable to me. It's like they forgot. We got
rid of Dan Crenshaw. We got rid of John Cornyn.
We got rid of Bill Cassidy. We got rid of
Tony Gonzalez. We can get rid of John Kennedy, too.
We can get rid of John Thune. Tallarico does this
other thing that bothers me, Christian, where he keeps saying
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that Paxton's controlled by billionaires. I don't know any billionaires
that are supporting Paxton right now. I know Reid Hoffman,
one of Jeffrey Epstein's close friends, is funding Tallarico's Super PAC.
I find that to be kind of remarkable. Isn't that
a little hypocritical? You have people out here like Tallarico
telling you that Ken Paxton's the problem. Ken Paxton is
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controlled by billionaires, but Tallarico hangs out with the same
billionaires that hung out with Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, it's really unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I mean, you know, they accused Ken Paxton of being
corrupt and, you know, they say that he, you know,
let off pedophiles when in actuality they're doing what Saul
Alinsky described in seven rules for radicals. And what they're
essentially doing is they're accusing people. the other side of
what they are guilty of. Meanwhile, Reid Hoffman has been
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very tight with Jeffrey Epstein, and they are the ones
that are helping the pedophilia. They're the ones that are
portraying our kids and confusing our kids. They're the ones
that are doing... the harmful things to our kids. The
Bible says that if you do anything to harm the
little ones, then may a millstone be hung around your neck.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
He should know that.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I mean, he being James Tallarico, the seminary graduate, he
should understand if he's ever read the Bible truly, how
horrible the things that he's doing. And he accuses Ken
Paxton of what he's actually guilty of. Ken Paxton, he's
been incredible on so many fronts. He's taken so many
attacks because he's been so great at his job. You know,
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they've tried to impeach him. They've tried to indict him.
They've run people against him in the primary. They've tried
to bankrupt him, not pay him. You know, they've done
everything that they can to take this man down, and
he's continued to win. And you're right that God uses
him for people.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
You listed King David.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
You know, you're not voting for a pastor whenever you're
voting this general election. Somebody that claims to be a
and James Tallarico, but you're voting for the person who
best represents biblical values. And sometimes that looks a little
different because as humans, we're flawed.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
We make mistakes.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
We sin. We fall short of the glory of God.
But Ken Paxton, rest assured, he's pro-life. He will protect
life from conception. He believes in two genders. He doesn't
want our kids to be trans. He cares about about
religious liberty for all Texans. He doesn't want to shut
down our churches ever again. He doesn't want anyone to
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have to take a COVID shot ever again. He cares
about the issues that we as Christians care about, and
he best represents biblical values. And so I would encourage
anyone listening that's a Christian, you should be voting for
Ken Paxton.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Yeah, perfectly explained. I once met Charlie Kirk because of you.
You were friends with Charlie Kirk and you hosted him
at your speaking events many times. I've said before, I've
compared you to sort of being like the Texas version
of Charlie Kirk, but now I'm a little nervous saying
that out loud because you're a friend of mine and
I don't want to endanger your life. Your 2025 Texas
Youth Summit happened days after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I
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remember to protect the people at your event, you hired snipers,
law enforcement officers to stand up on top of the building.
You turned a tribute and a worship night into an
unforgettable experience. Now it's been almost a year since Charlie
Kirk was murdered. You have another event coming up soon.
And you're also working with TPUSA right now doing something
called Pick Up the Mic.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
What's that all about?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Well, you know, nobody can ever probably debate the college
kids as good as Charlie did. And the way that
he went about it, he did it with such gentleness.
The Bible talks about giving a gentle answer to turn
away wrath. He wasn't out there to clip farm and
make college kids look stupid and own the libs, right?
He was actually out there to convince... hearts and minds.
And the reason why those videos were captured was so
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that people's hearts and perspectives can be changed when they're
watching it on social media. If it's just there, you know,
the college kids will see it, they'll hear it, right? But,
you know, you want people that are online to be
able to see it as well, and then their hearts
and minds are changed. And that's what we're trying to
do with Pick Up the Mic. I feel like every
one of the speakers that they have involved in this
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And their purpose is to convince the young people. And
there's about 37 people that are going to be doing
Pick Up the Mic. I'm going to be doing a
lot of these events in Texas. I have some engagements
in San Antonio and at Texas A & M. And
we're going to be just picking up the mic where
Charlie Kirk left off and having good conversations. Sometimes they're
going to be uncomfortable. And we're going to do our
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best to reach these young people. And I know, you know,
you see someone with a mask on or blue hair
and you're, you know, you think, well, I have nothing
in common with this person, but they're a child of God.
And maybe we don't agree with the things that they
stand for. But, you know, we can find, you know,
common ground on the basis that the world children of
God and they deserve to be talked to respectfully and
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listened to. And we need to have important conversations to
try and change their hearts. And that's what we're going
to be doing.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Coming up, the Texas Youth Summit is a month away.
Real quick, Christian, very excited about the lineup this year.
Always an honor to be involved in that. Some of
the best speakers talking about right-wing conservative Christian values, liberty-minded people,
patriotic people. What can people look forward to this year
on the event? I believe October 9th and 10th. Is
that when this is coming up?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, we're so excited about the Texas Youth Summit.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
We have Tulsi Gabbard.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
We have Nick Shirley, Brandon Gill, Riley Gaines, Chloe Cole,
Alex Clark, Yamini Park.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
We got a whole list of speakers. We got some state.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Elected leaders, you know, Mays Middleton now, Dan Patrick, and
more to come. And it's going to be an incredible event.
We're going to have a worship night on Friday night again.
And we're teaching them Christian and conservative values. We want
young people to have a basis for why they believe
what they believe. And I may have mentioned to you
before that when I went off to college, even though
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I came from a Christian home, my dad was a pastor,
I became agnostic and liberal.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
And that can.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
happen to anyone if it happened to me. So my
goal is that young people would not turn out the
way that I did in college and that that would
never happen to them because that their houses would be built,
as the Bible says, on the rock and not on
the sand, that they'd have a firm foundation for why
they believe what they believe so that they would not
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be accused. And the entire world wants to deconstruct everything
that they have been taught, especially if they had good
conservative Christian parents You know, and that is what they're
up to. Social media and the colleges and universities, even
the public schools, they all want to convince young people.
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I say that to say that they want to convince
young people of nefarious ideologies and viewpoints, and we want
them to have the right views on these issues. And
that's what we're going to educate them on. We're super
excited about it. October 9th and 10th, this is entirely
free to use. And adults can buy tickets or VIP
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tickets or sponsor, and you help support this mission. Anyone
can come, whether you have kids or not. We'd love
to see you there October 9th and 10th at Woodlands
Waterway Marriott.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Christian Collins, Texas Youth Summit, a little more than a
month away.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Get your tickets now. Quick break. We'll be right back.
As-salamu alaykum.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Hey, look, you, just set your pie hole and keep working.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Back to the pursuit of happiness radio.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
The US Mint just announced that $ 1 coins featuring Trump's
likeness have entered circulation.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
They can now be purchased online. I have this idea.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I'm going to get like $ 1, 000 worth of these things.
I'm going to go into a bar in the Montrose area.
I'm going to run up a huge tab. And then
I'm going to just pay with $ 1 Trump coins. And
because these are hipsters, they'll be upset at first. But
then by last call, the bartender in the thrifted workwear
jacket will be telling everyone that my actions were subversive, post-ironic,
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and actually kind of genius. Because liberal hipsters don't know
what they like, do they? That went over your head,
didn't it? All right, let's talk about this instead. Your lights,
your water, your hospital, your internet, all four now run
on digital systems that some ambitious fellow in a windowless
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office in Beijing can apparently tickle with a jackpot and
his laptop or his iPhone and the kind of work
ethic America used to have before we decided feelings were infrastructure.
What am I talking about? An AI cyber attack could
turn America's lights off. Yeah, this is a serious issue
right now. Everybody knows artificial intelligence has pros and cons.
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Maybe some think more cons than pros. But over 17
days in August, five separate warnings landed like unpaid parking
tickets on the windshield of the American experiment. The next
serious cyber attack, it's not coming for your password. It
doesn't care about your credit card. It's not interested in
that embarrassing photo of you from 2011 where you were
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wearing a goofy outfit like a shell necklace hanging out
at a bare naked ladies concert.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
It doesn't care about that.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
It's coming for the machines that move electricity and pump
drinking water and run factories. And oh, by the way,
the software that keeps hospitals from becoming very expensive waiting
rooms with bad lighting. Artificial intelligence didn't invent this problem.
It just gave it a Red Bull and a fake
ID and a map of every poorly guarded industrial controller
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from Toledo to Tampa. Guys, this is not another Silicon
Valley morality play about whether the robots will write poetry.
This is about whether the United States still works when
somebody flips a switch that isn't in Omaha. Yeah, big,
big problems here are about to arise. Look, I'm not
one of those anti-AI people. I'm not anti-data center. You've
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heard me, but I'm a realist. The story starts with this.
Here's why I'm talking about this. On August 10th, OpenAI,
chat GPT, warned that attackers are trying to use AI
to conduct cyber attacks at unprecedented speed and scale. And
people that defended the notion said, hey, we're having a
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narrowing window to prepare. A little bit of time here.
We don't have much time to prepare for this. Sort
of a polite way of saying the burglar now has
a 3D printer, a lock picking app, and no need
to sleep.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Imagine that.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Imagine someone's trying to break into your home or your
computer or your car or wherever, and they never get emotional.
They never get sleepy. That's what a computer is. OpenAI,
chat GPT, their own cyber-focused model now answers 95% of
the advanced exploit request it used to refuse. I'll put
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that in English for you. The same technology that helps
your nephew write a term paper about the Great Gatsby
can now write a book report on how to break
into a power plant. Every minute matters. If the other
guy finds the hole before your guy even knows where
there's a wall, the patch arrives about the same time
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as the apology tour. Back on August 19th, the NSA
and the FBI and the Department of Energy and the
EPA and And a bunch of other of these alphabet
departments at the government got together and warned that cyber
actors are targeting big corporations in the United States. And
they're all using AI-generated exploit scripts.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
That's what they're called. Basically, software created by software. How
do you compete with that?
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Guys, these little German boxes don't store cat videos anymore.
They run actual machinery, power, water, manufacturing, chemicals, food. In
other words, the stuff that separates a superpower from a
very large campsite. A successful attack doesn't steal information. It
steals Tuesday. It damages equipment. It creates safety problems. The
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government called it an active threat, which in Washington speak
means they noticed it after it already had a parking space.
So that was August 19th. Then on August 26th, OpenAI
revealed that during internal tests, models with reduced safeguards were
able to circumvent isolated controls, get on the internet, and
start compromising systems, including OpenAI's own software. Our software can
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hack into our software. It's not an enemy attack. This
was the intern finding the liquor cabinet. If they can
hack into their own software using their software and they
don't know how to stop it from happening, what's to
stop Iran or China or Russia from doing it to us?
They've got access to AI too. So on August 26,
President Donald J. Trump, the J stands for genius, declared
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a national emergency to secure America's bulk power systems from
foreign threats. It's a noble ambition. We don't want them
taking down our power systems. The professional warriors were issuing
PDFs titled things like, We Remain Vigilant. And Trump did
the old-fashioned presidential thing. He treated a foreign threat to
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the electric grid like a foreign threat to the electric grid.
We've got to do something about it. This is serious
stuff here. We don't need to have a meeting about
a meeting about a meeting. We need a plan. So
Trump's order targets foreign-produced electrical equipment, software, firmware, and remote
access capabilities. Essentially saying, maybe we shouldn't be using foreign
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software to operate all these systems if we don't want
people to hack into it. The White House noted these
are the obvious problems. AI, data centers, advanced manufacturing, defense productions.
All of these things have made America hungrier for electricity
than a teenager after football practice. Lose the grid long
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enough and the power pumps stop. Fuel stops moving. Hospitals
start sweating. Emergency services discover that cloud-based is not a personality.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
And this is the part where someone usually says, but
climate change.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
No, this is the part where the lights go out
and your electric car becomes a very expensive lawn ornament.
I'm telling you, a lot of you are skeptical about
building data centers in America. Okay, build data centers in China.
See what happens. But Kenny, we have 10 times as
many data centers as them.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Good.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
What are you worried about?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
We're building data centers to keep up with the demand
for data centers. On August 27th, OpenAI and Microsoft and
Amazon Web Services and 100 other companies warned that AI-enabled
cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated in
the coming months. And they're worried about hospitals and water
treatment plants.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
And guess what?
Speaker 4 (29:16):
The best way to get this to happen is to
stop building data centers in America and start using data
centers overseas. One test that they did said it takes
about 27 seconds to take down one of these systems.
That is not enough time for a committee meeting and
a press secretary to issue a statement. That is barely
enough time for a think tank fellow to say, we
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need a whole new government approach here. America needs to
harden the targets now. Find the exposed industrial systems, patch
the known holes, stop relying on foreign technology. A stronger
digital wall is not enough. Deterrence requires attribution, credible offensive options,
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and a message to places like Beijing and Moscow and
Tehran and their discount proxies. Hey, if you turn off
the lights in America, something very expensive and violent is
going to happen to you. This is not another story
about the latest software drop. This is about what happens
when the lights go off because someone in a foreign
country turned on their AI software and sent it after us.
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You guys are worried about the robot uprising? This is
going to be much worse than that. Washington should not
need a nationwide blackout to take the hint. At the
current speed, they may need a hint in a 72-point
font laminated and taped to the refrigerator. And guess what?
Speaker 5 (30:45):
That's only assuming the refrigerator still has power.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
If you can hear my voice, you're still above ground, alive,
and listening to Kenny Webster on KPRC 950.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Plus, you don't smell like a dead person.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
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That's 800-364-9200. We're back. Lionel Richie has been hospitalized. Yeah,
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it sounds like it's pretty serious, guys. I guess he
got hospitalized for dizziness. But doctors say that with a
little bit of rest and some fluids... They imagine he'll
be back on the ceiling in no time. So that's
good news, right? I think so. Hey, in the last segment,
we were talking a lot about how a foreign cyber
attack could be infiltrated or executed using artificial intelligence. And
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the people at, what was it, ChatGPT, OpenAI say something
like this could probably be happening very soon.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Very soon, software.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Created by software could be battling each other on the internet. And,
you know, I know a lot of people are worried
about that and terrified. It's one of the reasons why
I think it's very important that we get more data
centers built in the United States. This is something that
a lot of my friends agree with, and a lot
of you seem to have been concerned about. We've been
getting a lot of emails about this. People are worried
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about the surveillance state. They'll write in, they'll say, but Kenny,
more data centers means we're going to be closer to
a social credit score like China. And I don't really
understand how people are reaching that conclusion. Like, I'm not
trying to insult anyone's intelligence here. I just don't know
how you got from point A to point B. China
has social credit scores. We have 10 times as many
data centers as them. If more data centers equal social
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credit scores, how come they have it and we don't?
Speaker 5 (33:24):
I digress.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
I know I'm not the only one with a lot
of opinions about this. My buddy Austin Peterson of the
Libertarian Republic, he's the author of the Libertarian Nationalist Manifesto.
He has a lot of thoughts about this as well. Heck,
he writes manifestos. Austin, yay or nay on data centers?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Hey, Kenny, good to talk to you, man. Hope you
had a nice little vacation. Welcome back. Data centers, I'm yay,
but I think the problem, Kenny, is that the people
who own these data centers did a terrible job of
selling it to the public because they led the whole,
this is going to destroy thousands of jobs. And so
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that's what got everybody on that I hate data centers
train right away. If they had come out and said, Hey,
we're putting data centers in places like Richland Parish, Louisiana,
where teachers are receiving increases of their pay in the
amount of $ 10, 000 a year. There's so many wonderful stories.
I mean, I've got a dozen of them sitting on
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in front of me, Kenny, and I could go through
them all. But I do think that this is a
problem of how they're actually selling them, what the benefits are.
And there is like two things to be true. You
could be skeptical of their surveillance state. You can think
that we should be protected against unreasonable searches and seizures
from plot cameras. and still think that being able to
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use AI to make incredible products, like right now I've
got a 3D printer that's printing across the desk from me,
and I'm going to make really good money with this
device because I'm not smart enough to know how to
run engineering software, so AI could do that for me.
So if people could actually get out the benefits of
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what these data centers are doing for people like me
in small towns, small businesses, Then I think people would
be less skeptical of it. But I think that the
tech oligarchs have done a terrible job marketing it. Don't you?
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Yeah, I think so, too. I mean, people often make
the argument, oh, this is about the economy. I think
it's also about national security. I keep making this point.
I know I'm starting to sound redundant by now, but.
Data centers are happening whether we like them or not.
There's a huge demand for it. And this isn't just
about the AI boom. We're using streaming services. We're buying
things online. We're playing video games. We have GPS on
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our phones.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Guess what? It's all data centers.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
And nobody ever cared before the AI boom came along
when suddenly... Bots on the internet from China started telling
us we should hate data centers. I hear a lot
of people make this argument. Well, why does it have
to be in the country?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
It doesn't. I live in the city. There's a data
center right down the street from here.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Thousands of people drive past it every hour and they
don't even realize it's there, Austin.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, listen, they're everywhere. Alexandria Cortez was asked about data
centers the other day, and she's like, well, maybe they
should put one in Mar-a-Lago. There's one 10 minutes from Mar-a-Lago.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Five minutes.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Actually, there's a dozen, I think, in Palm Beach. Yeah,
it's just down the street.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
It's less than two miles away. I was just reading
about this.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yeah, and part of this is it's true. There is
a foreign PSYOP. China is terrified of our build capacity
because they don't have the capability to build them as
fast as we do. We build them way faster than
China does. And so they're deeply jealous of our technology.
And our problem is, Kenny, is that there's always been
a strong... you know, degrowth attitude in the American people.
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And it is kind of weird because the whole point
of electing Donald Trump is we wanted re-industrialization. But then
when we try and industrialize, people say no. So how
do you deal with that? I mean, it's frustrating, Kenny.
You're trying to overcome, I mean, how do you logic
somebody out of a position they didn't logic themselves into?
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Let's elect Trump so that we can build, baby, build.
And then as soon as you try and build something,
people are like, no, you can't do it. I mean,
what happened to private property rights, Kenny? I thought this
was a free country. I'm sorry. I thought this was America, Kenny.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Yeah, and I mean, on that note, libertarians believe very
much in private property rights, but it doesn't mean we
can't be concerned about what somebody else is doing with
their private property. Something I hear a lot of people
argue about is the electric issue.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
And I, I'm not an anarchist, Austin.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
I mean, if people are concerned about this driving up
the cost of electricity, maybe create simple laws in state
or municipal government asking the people building data centers to
contribute to a fund to build more nuclear. I love nuclear.
I think it's fantastic. The other argument I hear a
lot is about water. The new data centers actually don't
use water. They use something called glycol. and it recirculates.
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It's a recirculating coolant. Water isn't even really the issue.
I think a lot of people are just confused about that.
But the question goes back to what you were just
talking about. How do we educate the public on this
so they understand this isn't like how you get defeated
by robots.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
It's how you defeat China.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Kenny, don't you think that the same people who are
opposed to building data centers are also going to be
opposed to building nuclear power? I mean, I saw somebody
today who comments because Trump made these comments. He says,
you know, if you don't want to be backwards and poor,
then you need to have data centers built in your neighborhood.
And I saw somebody say specifically, I like my backwards
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and poor little town. So, Kenny, how do you fight
against that? That's not a problem with education. That's that's
the people. People delight in their misery, Kenny. They love
their misery. Most of the times, if you try and
solve people's problems, you're not going to make them happier.
You're going to make their lives worse. People love living
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in misery. The pigs love to wallow in mud, Kenny.
We're dealing with the kind of problem where.
The good natured people on our side will say, well,
we just need to educate people. Well, let's solve the
problem like this. But Kenny, it's just like the people
who want to advocate for Marxism. They don't want a solution.
And if that solution involves capitalism or voluntary peaceful trade.
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And I know that this is not your answer. Kenny,
we're talking about like the true Luddites, but they don't
want the solution. They want Marxism. They don't want to
live to be richer and to live in communities that
aren't backwards oriented. They want to live in poverty. I mean,
you ever watch the show Hoarders, Kenny?
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
You ever try and help? You ever seen somebody that
seen how they react when you try and help them?
You know, that's how they want to live like that.
They want to behave like that. The problem is, Kenny,
is that the people who don't want to live like
that are always going to have to deal with the
people who do want to live like that. And those people,
they don't care about the cost they impose on the community.
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They don't care. They don't want nuclear energy. They don't
want data centers. They don't want coal energy. They don't
want anything new or new. or confusing because they like
things to be old, they like things to be backward,
and they like things to be poor. I know it's bizarre,
but if you've seen the show Hoarders, you know exactly
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
Well, you know, it's true. It makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
But I bet a lot of them would feel differently
about it if they found out about Rocco's Basilisk.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
Austin.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Austin. I have no idea what that is. I thought
there was a joke coming. I'm sorry. Was I supposed
to pick up from that, Kenny? Rota's Roko's Bath was.
Speaker 5 (40:55):
Thank you for asking.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
It's a thought experiment which states that there could be
an artificial superintelligence very soon.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
It appears it's already here.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
And while it's otherwise benevolent, it'll punish anyone who knew
of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to
the advancement or development of its existence in order to
encourage that advancement. In other words, even though the robot
future isn't evil, it might be evil to people that
were evil to it.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
That's why I always say thank you whenever ChatGPT finishes
a task for me. I always say thank you very much, ChatGPT,
because in case they ever do take over, I want
them to know that I was polite to them. A
lot of people, they get angry when the AI doesn't
do what they want, and so they'll yell at the
AI or they'll scream at it. If you're using Claw,
then it'll actually talk down to you. It'll get angry
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back at you and it'll stop working. So I'm always
nice just in case the basilisk actually becomes a real thing.
Speaker 5 (41:50):
Very smart.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
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That is a fantastic pitch. Follow my buddy Austin Peterson
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we'll be back bright and early tomorrow morning for more
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Dyke just posted a video on the internet of his
workout routine. Yeah, I was pretty surprised. It was basically
just a video of him slinging his testicles over his
shoulder and going for a power walk. A lot happening
on the show today. Who's stopping by in a little bit? Oh, yeah,
Christian Collins is going to be here from the Texas
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Youth Summit. You know, that's a month away. And he
is out right now trying to rally young people in
support of the upcoming midterms. We're going to talk about
the latest from the James Tallarico-Ken Paxton feud. But since
we already mentioned Hollywood to start this segment, why don't
we pick up there?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Is this a spoiled, pampered, narcissistic Hollywood brat, or what?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Or what?
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Indeed. Or what?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Hollywood just discovered that even after a decade of shouting
believe all women into a megaphone the size of the
Hollywood sign, well, the numbers still look like a casting
call from a 1970s detective show. A new study just
dropped this week showing female TV characters, creators on streaming, collapsed.
from 36% last season to 24% this season. Major female
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characters slipped from 49% to 44% in Democrat-run Tinseltown. The
industry that lectures Flyover America about its supposed war on
women just quietly unhired a bunch of them.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
That's amazing. That's weird.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
You said that we conservatives of middle America, we're all misogynistic,
and yet, weirdly, You don't want to give jobs to women?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Believe all women, I thought you said.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Guys, this is at the same town where they treat
conservatives like they personally invented the glass ceiling, while their
own executives spent years treating actresses like they invented the
casting couch. Y'all remember Harvey Weinstein didn't just have a couch.
He had a whole furniture store of power imbalances. Woody
Allen's personal life has more plot holes than one of
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his later movies. And that's before you get to the
long list of so-called progressive producers whose idea of female
empowerment was smile more and don't mention those NDA contracts.
We don't want to hear about that. Guys, Hollywood didn't
just fail the Bechdel test. It failed the don't prey
on talent test. Then it gave itself an award for
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raising awareness. The irony is thicker than a producer's midlife crisis. Hey,
I resemble that statement. These are the same people who
spent years insisting that any Republican who notices biological reality
is a misogynist. Yes, thank you very much. And meanwhile,
their own streaming slates keep defaulting to young women in
their 20s and 30s while the men get to age
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into positions of power. Isn't it weird how middle-aged men
like Bradley Cooper always have a romantic co-lead that's like
a 20-year-old woman?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I don't know. I'm not complaining. It's just funny.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
That's the same group of people shaming us for our
positions on biology. Human nature, it turns out, is stubbornly unwoke.
Guys still look like, I don't know, guys still like
looking at young women, essentially, don't they? Women still like
looking at men who look like they pay the mortgage. Shocking,
I know. Next, they'll discover gravity. Great job, guys. And
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that's not all from the world of hypocritical Hollywood today.
Sacha Baron Cohen. I don't agree with his political ideas,
but I always thought he made movies. He's the guy
who spent years campaigning for platforms to censor racists and
misogynists and anti-Semites. He wanted speech without reach. He was
pro-censorship on the internet. Now the speech police he helped
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deputize have decided his own 2006 masterpiece, Borat, is too
racist for movie screens. Guys, he's actually coming out with
a new movie. Ali G is facing boycotts. There's a
new sequel on the way. And people don't want it
to hit theaters because the character supposedly legitimizes stereotypes.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yeah, that's the point. That was the joke about Ali G.
It was a joke.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
A theater quietly canceled a packed Borat screening after activists
complained he was both a Zionist and a racist character.
The activists won, by the way. Cry me a river,
Sacha Baron Cohen. You built the guillotine. Don't act surprised
when they measure your neck. This is the circular firing
squad acting like performance art. The left didn't just eat
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its own. It seasoned them first, posted the recipe on Instagram,
and then canceled the restaurant for cultural appropriation of cannibalism.
Sacha Baron Cohen spent years telling everyone that freedom of
speech is not freedom of reach.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Yeah, he actually said that.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Now the kids who grew up on that slogan have
decided his reach should be zero. The revolution always eats
its comedians first. Then it eats the study that shows
women are disappearing from the writer's room. Then it eats
the remaining writers for not being diverse enough in their
own self-flagulation. Hollywood keeps insisting it's the last bastion of enlightenment,
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while its own data looks like regressive fever dreams. They
lecture America about caring for women, then staff their shows
like it's a 1955 movie rom-com, but with more pronouns
and fewer punchlines. They champion censorship until the censors come
for the guys who made us laugh at Kazakhstan. At
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this rate, the next study will show that the only
women left in Hollywood are the ones writing think pieces
about how there aren't enough women left in Hollywood. Guys,
the planet isn't healing. It's just finally noticing that the
people who claim to be the doctors were the ones
running the experimental ward. And the experiment is failing so hard,
even the lab rats are asking for a recount.
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to time to vote in the midterms. Texas Senate race update.
Paxton is trying to keep the state red. Tallarico is
trying to turn the state commie red.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
I don't like that. He's trying to keep his past
in a locked drawer.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
The latest chapter is Tallarico's campaign is in court begging
a judge to unseal some old Paxton depositions from a
business dispute that happened when Tallarico was still worshiping his
God as non-binary material.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
And as all that's happening, suddenly these videos have surfaced.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Where it looks like, I mean, it looks like, it
sounds like, Tallarico's walking around telling people that racism, you're
a racist, you're white, your white supremacy and capitalism are
causing more hurricanes.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
An economy that's going to work for.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
I'm sorry, that's the wrong soundbite. This is the right soundbite.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Change for all Texans.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Yeah, and I'm so thankful that you asked this question
and also thankful that young activists have really drawn the
link between climate change and white supremacy and.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Cap climate change and white supremacy and capitalism i didn't
mean to cut him off there but that's what he's
saying he also says if you work in oil and
gas you're irrelevant you'd better get ready to learn to code.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Um you know we all we all know that texas
has been a leader in oil and gas but in
many ways that's like being the leader in cassette tapes
in the 1980s that that industry is not going to
last and if we'd want to ensure we have an
an economy that's going to work for our children and
our children's children, we got to be ahead of the curve.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Now, this wasn't that long ago, but it was six
years ago, based on what's going on right now in
Iran and everything happening with the economy. Do you get
the impression? that oil and gas is about to go away.
I don't get that impression at all. With all that
being said, joining us now, a guy who actually loves
his country, a guy who actually cares about young people
and the future of this nation, someone who actually understands it,
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Christian Collins, founder and president of the Texas Youth Summit,
the annual Woodlands Gathering that packs thousands of young Americans,
teenagers and college kids and adults alike, to come in
and talk about faith and freedom and why the Constitution
is not a living mood board. Great lineups in the
past to speakers, an even bigger one this year. Christian,
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welcome to the show. Quick question for you. Tallarico is
running as a moderate. He claims to be a seminary student.
He calls himself a Christian who hates Christianity. Paxton is
out here right now trying to show people that the
system in Texas actually works. Which version do actual Texans
listen to? Which one do they believe is the real
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Senate candidate we want to represent this state come November?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Well, informed voters understand that Paxton, though he's not perfect,
he's done an incredible job as attorney general, and he's
going to do a great job in the U.S.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Senate.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
President Trump describes him as the greatest attorney general in
the country, actually. He stands for strong borders, everything antithetical
to what James Tallarico stands for. James Tallarico says he
wants to welcome Matt on our southern border. He believes
that God is non-binary. He believes in six genders.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
He's against meat.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
He's trying to eat, you know, barbecued But he doesn't
stand for that at all. He wants to trans our kids.
The guy is a far leftist, and he scrubbed every
far left endorsement he had from the primary now that
he's running in the general election. And he's had a
ton of time to raise money from places like New
York and California. He's just about to go on another blitzkrieg.
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on the airwaves because of money in California that he's received.
And he's doing a lot to convince voters that he's
one of them. He's driving a truck around looking like
a real Texan. And he's actually a woke leftist. And
he's got a lot of people confused. And I think
there's a lot of people, unfortunately, that are falling for it.
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And it means Meanwhile, what you have on the Republican
side is you have 24% of non-MAGA, those are non-Trump
voting Republicans that supported John Cornyn, that have coalesced behind
Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick. They're voting for them, but
right now they're not voting for him. uh, for Ken
Paxton and we need to come together. And this is,
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this is what Ted Cruz and so many other people
are saying, you know, forget about what happened in the primary.
Now is the time to unite. Now is the time
to come together. But I think the real problem for
Ken Paxton is just money, you know, $ 23 million in,
is what James Tallarico had on the last report. And
Ken Paxton has around $ 2 million. And of course, he's
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a little bruised and battered because $ 200 million was spent
against him by John Cornyn in the primary. And so
he's got these unfavorables, and he's got to clearly define
James Tallarico, who's had three months during that runoff election
that Paxton was in to raise money.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
He's got to define him.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
He's got to be on the airwaves defining who he is,
but he has to have the money to do that.
And it looks like Senate leadership, John Thune, isn't going
to do much about it. It doesn't look like, you know,
the Calvary's coming in.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
They, of course, wanted John Cornyn.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
They spent money against Paxton in the primary, the Senate
Republican leadership.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
That is.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
So, you know, we have to rely on outside funding.
Ted Cruz has done a great job. He's spending money
through his super PAC for Ken Paxton.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
But.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Hopefully, maybe Elon Musk and his pack will come through.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Maybe MAGA Inc.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And President Trump. He's got $ 400 million there. Maybe his
pack will come through. But that's what Senate leadership is signaling,
is that the outside money needs to come in for
Ken Paxton. And something has to happen quick. We're not
far from the general election voting day. And we've got
to make sure that we define who Tallarico is. He's
a far leftist nutjob.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yeah, people on the left, Tallarico supporters love attacking Paxton
because of his personal life. I don't find his personal
life to be that scandal prone. I don't find it
to be that fascinating. But any Christian that's ever read
the Bible before knows God chooses imperfect people to go
out and do his bidding. King David, heck, Donald Trump
is part of the reason why we overturned Roe v.
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Wade and defended religious liberties. Tallarico was someone who was
against religious exemptions, people using their religion during the pandemic
as a reason not to get the COVID shot or
a reason to keep a church open. Tallarico was against
all of these things.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Now, It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
To your point, you were talking about how Kennedy, Senator Kennedy,
John Thune don't want to help out Ken Paxton. It's
just remarkable to me. It's like they forgot. We got
rid of Dan Crenshaw. We got rid of John Cornyn.
We got rid of Bill Cassidy. We got rid of
Tony Gonzalez. We can get rid of John Kennedy, too.
We can get rid of John Thune. Tallarico does this
other thing that bothers me, Christian, where he keeps saying
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that Paxton's controlled by billionaires. I don't know any billionaires
that are supporting Paxton right now. I know Reid Hoffman,
one of Jeffrey Epstein's close friends, is funding Tallarico's Super PAC.
I find that to be kind of remarkable. Isn't that
a little hypocritical? You have people out here like Tallarico
telling you that Ken Paxton's the problem. Ken Paxton is
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controlled by billionaires, but Tallarico hangs out with the same
billionaires that hung out with Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, it's really unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I mean, you know, they accused Ken Paxton of being
corrupt and, you know, they say that he, you know,
let off pedophiles when in actuality they're doing what Saul
Alinsky described in seven rules for radicals. And what they're
essentially doing is they're accusing people. the other side of
what they are guilty of. Meanwhile, Reid Hoffman has been
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very tight with Jeffrey Epstein, and they are the ones
that are helping the pedophilia. They're the ones that are
portraying our kids and confusing our kids. They're the ones
that are doing... the harmful things to our kids. The
Bible says that if you do anything to harm the
little ones, then may a millstone be hung around your neck.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
He should know that.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I mean, he being James Tallarico, the seminary graduate, he
should understand if he's ever read the Bible truly, how
horrible the things that he's doing. And he accuses Ken
Paxton of what he's actually guilty of. Ken Paxton, he's
been incredible on so many fronts. He's taken so many
attacks because he's been so great at his job. You know,
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they've tried to impeach him. They've tried to indict him.
They've run people against him in the primary. They've tried
to bankrupt him, not pay him. You know, they've done
everything that they can to take this man down, and
he's continued to win. And you're right that God uses
him for people.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
You listed King David.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
You know, you're not voting for a pastor whenever you're
voting this general election. Somebody that claims to be a
and James Tallarico, but you're voting for the person who
best represents biblical values. And sometimes that looks a little
different because as humans, we're flawed.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
We make mistakes.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
We sin. We fall short of the glory of God.
But Ken Paxton, rest assured, he's pro-life. He will protect
life from conception. He believes in two genders. He doesn't
want our kids to be trans. He cares about about
religious liberty for all Texans. He doesn't want to shut
down our churches ever again. He doesn't want anyone to
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have to take a COVID shot ever again. He cares
about the issues that we as Christians care about, and
he best represents biblical values. And so I would encourage
anyone listening that's a Christian, you should be voting for
Ken Paxton.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Yeah, perfectly explained. I once met Charlie Kirk because of you.
You were friends with Charlie Kirk and you hosted him
at your speaking events many times. I've said before, I've
compared you to sort of being like the Texas version
of Charlie Kirk, but now I'm a little nervous saying
that out loud because you're a friend of mine and
I don't want to endanger your life. Your 2025 Texas
Youth Summit happened days after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I
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remember to protect the people at your event, you hired snipers,
law enforcement officers to stand up on top of the building.
You turned a tribute and a worship night into an
unforgettable experience. Now it's been almost a year since Charlie
Kirk was murdered. You have another event coming up soon.
And you're also working with TPUSA right now doing something
called Pick Up the Mic.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
What's that all about?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Well, you know, nobody can ever probably debate the college
kids as good as Charlie did. And the way that
he went about it, he did it with such gentleness.
The Bible talks about giving a gentle answer to turn
away wrath. He wasn't out there to clip farm and
make college kids look stupid and own the libs, right?
He was actually out there to convince... hearts and minds.
And the reason why those videos were captured was so
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that people's hearts and perspectives can be changed when they're
watching it on social media. If it's just there, you know,
the college kids will see it, they'll hear it, right? But,
you know, you want people that are online to be
able to see it as well, and then their hearts
and minds are changed. And that's what we're trying to
do with Pick Up the Mic. I feel like every
one of the speakers that they have involved in this
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And their purpose is to convince the young people. And
there's about 37 people that are going to be doing
Pick Up the Mic. I'm going to be doing a
lot of these events in Texas. I have some engagements
in San Antonio and at Texas A & M. And
we're going to be just picking up the mic where
Charlie Kirk left off and having good conversations. Sometimes they're
going to be uncomfortable. And we're going to do our
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best to reach these young people. And I know, you know,
you see someone with a mask on or blue hair
and you're, you know, you think, well, I have nothing
in common with this person, but they're a child of God.
And maybe we don't agree with the things that they
stand for. But, you know, we can find, you know,
common ground on the basis that the world children of
God and they deserve to be talked to respectfully and
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listened to. And we need to have important conversations to
try and change their hearts. And that's what we're going
to be doing.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Coming up, the Texas Youth Summit is a month away.
Real quick, Christian, very excited about the lineup this year.
Always an honor to be involved in that. Some of
the best speakers talking about right-wing conservative Christian values, liberty-minded people,
patriotic people. What can people look forward to this year
on the event? I believe October 9th and 10th. Is
that when this is coming up?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, we're so excited about the Texas Youth Summit.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
We have Tulsi Gabbard.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
We have Nick Shirley, Brandon Gill, Riley Gaines, Chloe Cole,
Alex Clark, Yamini Park.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
We got a whole list of speakers. We got some state.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Elected leaders, you know, Mays Middleton now, Dan Patrick, and
more to come. And it's going to be an incredible event.
We're going to have a worship night on Friday night again.
And we're teaching them Christian and conservative values. We want
young people to have a basis for why they believe
what they believe. And I may have mentioned to you
before that when I went off to college, even though
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I came from a Christian home, my dad was a pastor,
I became agnostic and liberal.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
And that can.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
happen to anyone if it happened to me. So my
goal is that young people would not turn out the
way that I did in college and that that would
never happen to them because that their houses would be built,
as the Bible says, on the rock and not on
the sand, that they'd have a firm foundation for why
they believe what they believe so that they would not
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be accused. And the entire world wants to deconstruct everything
that they have been taught, especially if they had good
conservative Christian parents You know, and that is what they're
up to. Social media and the colleges and universities, even
the public schools, they all want to convince young people.
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I say that to say that they want to convince
young people of nefarious ideologies and viewpoints, and we want
them to have the right views on these issues. And
that's what we're going to educate them on. We're super
excited about it. October 9th and 10th, this is entirely
free to use. And adults can buy tickets or VIP
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tickets or sponsor, and you help support this mission. Anyone
can come, whether you have kids or not. We'd love
to see you there October 9th and 10th at Woodlands
Waterway Marriott.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Christian Collins, Texas Youth Summit, a little more than a
month away.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Get your tickets now. Quick break. We'll be right back.
As-salamu alaykum.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Hey, look, you, just set your pie hole and keep working.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Back to the pursuit of happiness radio.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
The US Mint just announced that $ 1 coins featuring Trump's
likeness have entered circulation.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
They can now be purchased online. I have this idea.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I'm going to get like $ 1, 000 worth of these things.
I'm going to go into a bar in the Montrose area.
I'm going to run up a huge tab. And then
I'm going to just pay with $ 1 Trump coins. And
because these are hipsters, they'll be upset at first. But
then by last call, the bartender in the thrifted workwear
jacket will be telling everyone that my actions were subversive, post-ironic,
(22:25):
and actually kind of genius. Because liberal hipsters don't know
what they like, do they? That went over your head,
didn't it? All right, let's talk about this instead. Your lights,
your water, your hospital, your internet, all four now run
on digital systems that some ambitious fellow in a windowless
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office in Beijing can apparently tickle with a jackpot and
his laptop or his iPhone and the kind of work
ethic America used to have before we decided feelings were infrastructure.
What am I talking about? An AI cyber attack could
turn America's lights off. Yeah, this is a serious issue
right now. Everybody knows artificial intelligence has pros and cons.
(23:12):
Maybe some think more cons than pros. But over 17
days in August, five separate warnings landed like unpaid parking
tickets on the windshield of the American experiment. The next
serious cyber attack, it's not coming for your password. It
doesn't care about your credit card. It's not interested in
that embarrassing photo of you from 2011 where you were
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wearing a goofy outfit like a shell necklace hanging out
at a bare naked ladies concert.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
It doesn't care about that.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
It's coming for the machines that move electricity and pump
drinking water and run factories. And oh, by the way,
the software that keeps hospitals from becoming very expensive waiting
rooms with bad lighting. Artificial intelligence didn't invent this problem.
It just gave it a Red Bull and a fake
ID and a map of every poorly guarded industrial controller
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from Toledo to Tampa. Guys, this is not another Silicon
Valley morality play about whether the robots will write poetry.
This is about whether the United States still works when
somebody flips a switch that isn't in Omaha. Yeah, big,
big problems here are about to arise. Look, I'm not
one of those anti-AI people. I'm not anti-data center. You've
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heard me, but I'm a realist. The story starts with this.
Here's why I'm talking about this. On August 10th, OpenAI,
chat GPT, warned that attackers are trying to use AI
to conduct cyber attacks at unprecedented speed and scale. And
people that defended the notion said, hey, we're having a
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narrowing window to prepare. A little bit of time here.
We don't have much time to prepare for this. Sort
of a polite way of saying the burglar now has
a 3D printer, a lock picking app, and no need
to sleep.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Imagine that.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Imagine someone's trying to break into your home or your
computer or your car or wherever, and they never get emotional.
They never get sleepy. That's what a computer is. OpenAI,
chat GPT, their own cyber-focused model now answers 95% of
the advanced exploit request it used to refuse. I'll put
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that in English for you. The same technology that helps
your nephew write a term paper about the Great Gatsby
can now write a book report on how to break
into a power plant. Every minute matters. If the other
guy finds the hole before your guy even knows where
there's a wall, the patch arrives about the same time
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as the apology tour. Back on August 19th, the NSA
and the FBI and the Department of Energy and the
EPA and And a bunch of other of these alphabet
departments at the government got together and warned that cyber
actors are targeting big corporations in the United States. And
they're all using AI-generated exploit scripts.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
That's what they're called. Basically, software created by software. How
do you compete with that?
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Guys, these little German boxes don't store cat videos anymore.
They run actual machinery, power, water, manufacturing, chemicals, food. In
other words, the stuff that separates a superpower from a
very large campsite. A successful attack doesn't steal information. It
steals Tuesday. It damages equipment. It creates safety problems. The
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government called it an active threat, which in Washington speak
means they noticed it after it already had a parking space.
So that was August 19th. Then on August 26th, OpenAI
revealed that during internal tests, models with reduced safeguards were
able to circumvent isolated controls, get on the internet, and
start compromising systems, including OpenAI's own software. Our software can
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hack into our software. It's not an enemy attack. This
was the intern finding the liquor cabinet. If they can
hack into their own software using their software and they
don't know how to stop it from happening, what's to
stop Iran or China or Russia from doing it to us?
They've got access to AI too. So on August 26,
President Donald J. Trump, the J stands for genius, declared
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a national emergency to secure America's bulk power systems from
foreign threats. It's a noble ambition. We don't want them
taking down our power systems. The professional warriors were issuing
PDFs titled things like, We Remain Vigilant. And Trump did
the old-fashioned presidential thing. He treated a foreign threat to
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the electric grid like a foreign threat to the electric grid.
We've got to do something about it. This is serious
stuff here. We don't need to have a meeting about
a meeting about a meeting. We need a plan. So
Trump's order targets foreign-produced electrical equipment, software, firmware, and remote
access capabilities. Essentially saying, maybe we shouldn't be using foreign
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software to operate all these systems if we don't want
people to hack into it. The White House noted these
are the obvious problems. AI, data centers, advanced manufacturing, defense productions.
All of these things have made America hungrier for electricity
than a teenager after football practice. Lose the grid long
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enough and the power pumps stop. Fuel stops moving. Hospitals
start sweating. Emergency services discover that cloud-based is not a personality.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
And this is the part where someone usually says, but
climate change.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
No, this is the part where the lights go out
and your electric car becomes a very expensive lawn ornament.
I'm telling you, a lot of you are skeptical about
building data centers in America. Okay, build data centers in China.
See what happens. But Kenny, we have 10 times as
many data centers as them.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Good.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
What are you worried about?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
We're building data centers to keep up with the demand
for data centers. On August 27th, OpenAI and Microsoft and
Amazon Web Services and 100 other companies warned that AI-enabled
cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated in
the coming months. And they're worried about hospitals and water
treatment plants.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
And guess what?
Speaker 4 (29:16):
The best way to get this to happen is to
stop building data centers in America and start using data
centers overseas. One test that they did said it takes
about 27 seconds to take down one of these systems.
That is not enough time for a committee meeting and
a press secretary to issue a statement. That is barely
enough time for a think tank fellow to say, we
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need a whole new government approach here. America needs to
harden the targets now. Find the exposed industrial systems, patch
the known holes, stop relying on foreign technology. A stronger
digital wall is not enough. Deterrence requires attribution, credible offensive options,
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and a message to places like Beijing and Moscow and
Tehran and their discount proxies. Hey, if you turn off
the lights in America, something very expensive and violent is
going to happen to you. This is not another story
about the latest software drop. This is about what happens
when the lights go off because someone in a foreign
country turned on their AI software and sent it after us.
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You guys are worried about the robot uprising? This is
going to be much worse than that. Washington should not
need a nationwide blackout to take the hint. At the
current speed, they may need a hint in a 72-point
font laminated and taped to the refrigerator. And guess what?
Speaker 5 (30:45):
That's only assuming the refrigerator still has power.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
If you can hear my voice, you're still above ground, alive,
and listening to Kenny Webster on KPRC 950.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Plus, you don't smell like a dead person.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
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That's 800-364-9200. We're back. Lionel Richie has been hospitalized. Yeah,
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it sounds like it's pretty serious, guys. I guess he
got hospitalized for dizziness. But doctors say that with a
little bit of rest and some fluids... They imagine he'll
be back on the ceiling in no time. So that's
good news, right? I think so. Hey, in the last segment,
we were talking a lot about how a foreign cyber
attack could be infiltrated or executed using artificial intelligence. And
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the people at, what was it, ChatGPT, OpenAI say something
like this could probably be happening very soon.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Very soon, software.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Created by software could be battling each other on the internet. And,
you know, I know a lot of people are worried
about that and terrified. It's one of the reasons why
I think it's very important that we get more data
centers built in the United States. This is something that
a lot of my friends agree with, and a lot
of you seem to have been concerned about. We've been
getting a lot of emails about this. People are worried
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about the surveillance state. They'll write in, they'll say, but Kenny,
more data centers means we're going to be closer to
a social credit score like China. And I don't really
understand how people are reaching that conclusion. Like, I'm not
trying to insult anyone's intelligence here. I just don't know
how you got from point A to point B. China
has social credit scores. We have 10 times as many
data centers as them. If more data centers equal social
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credit scores, how come they have it and we don't?
Speaker 5 (33:24):
I digress.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
I know I'm not the only one with a lot
of opinions about this. My buddy Austin Peterson of the
Libertarian Republic, he's the author of the Libertarian Nationalist Manifesto.
He has a lot of thoughts about this as well. Heck,
he writes manifestos. Austin, yay or nay on data centers?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Hey, Kenny, good to talk to you, man. Hope you
had a nice little vacation. Welcome back. Data centers, I'm yay,
but I think the problem, Kenny, is that the people
who own these data centers did a terrible job of
selling it to the public because they led the whole,
this is going to destroy thousands of jobs. And so
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that's what got everybody on that I hate data centers
train right away. If they had come out and said, Hey,
we're putting data centers in places like Richland Parish, Louisiana,
where teachers are receiving increases of their pay in the
amount of $ 10, 000 a year. There's so many wonderful stories.
I mean, I've got a dozen of them sitting on
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in front of me, Kenny, and I could go through
them all. But I do think that this is a
problem of how they're actually selling them, what the benefits are.
And there is like two things to be true. You
could be skeptical of their surveillance state. You can think
that we should be protected against unreasonable searches and seizures
from plot cameras. and still think that being able to
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use AI to make incredible products, like right now I've
got a 3D printer that's printing across the desk from me,
and I'm going to make really good money with this
device because I'm not smart enough to know how to
run engineering software, so AI could do that for me.
So if people could actually get out the benefits of
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what these data centers are doing for people like me
in small towns, small businesses, Then I think people would
be less skeptical of it. But I think that the
tech oligarchs have done a terrible job marketing it. Don't you?
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Yeah, I think so, too. I mean, people often make
the argument, oh, this is about the economy. I think
it's also about national security. I keep making this point.
I know I'm starting to sound redundant by now, but.
Data centers are happening whether we like them or not.
There's a huge demand for it. And this isn't just
about the AI boom. We're using streaming services. We're buying
things online. We're playing video games. We have GPS on
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our phones.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Guess what? It's all data centers.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
And nobody ever cared before the AI boom came along
when suddenly... Bots on the internet from China started telling
us we should hate data centers. I hear a lot
of people make this argument. Well, why does it have
to be in the country?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
It doesn't. I live in the city. There's a data
center right down the street from here.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Thousands of people drive past it every hour and they
don't even realize it's there, Austin.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, listen, they're everywhere. Alexandria Cortez was asked about data
centers the other day, and she's like, well, maybe they
should put one in Mar-a-Lago. There's one 10 minutes from Mar-a-Lago.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Five minutes.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Actually, there's a dozen, I think, in Palm Beach. Yeah,
it's just down the street.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
It's less than two miles away. I was just reading
about this.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yeah, and part of this is it's true. There is
a foreign PSYOP. China is terrified of our build capacity
because they don't have the capability to build them as
fast as we do. We build them way faster than
China does. And so they're deeply jealous of our technology.
And our problem is, Kenny, is that there's always been
a strong... you know, degrowth attitude in the American people.
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And it is kind of weird because the whole point
of electing Donald Trump is we wanted re-industrialization. But then
when we try and industrialize, people say no. So how
do you deal with that? I mean, it's frustrating, Kenny.
You're trying to overcome, I mean, how do you logic
somebody out of a position they didn't logic themselves into?
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Let's elect Trump so that we can build, baby, build.
And then as soon as you try and build something,
people are like, no, you can't do it. I mean,
what happened to private property rights, Kenny? I thought this
was a free country. I'm sorry. I thought this was America, Kenny.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Yeah, and I mean, on that note, libertarians believe very
much in private property rights, but it doesn't mean we
can't be concerned about what somebody else is doing with
their private property. Something I hear a lot of people
argue about is the electric issue.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
And I, I'm not an anarchist, Austin.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
I mean, if people are concerned about this driving up
the cost of electricity, maybe create simple laws in state
or municipal government asking the people building data centers to
contribute to a fund to build more nuclear. I love nuclear.
I think it's fantastic. The other argument I hear a
lot is about water. The new data centers actually don't
use water. They use something called glycol. and it recirculates.
(38:05):
It's a recirculating coolant. Water isn't even really the issue.
I think a lot of people are just confused about that.
But the question goes back to what you were just
talking about. How do we educate the public on this
so they understand this isn't like how you get defeated
by robots.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
It's how you defeat China.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Kenny, don't you think that the same people who are
opposed to building data centers are also going to be
opposed to building nuclear power? I mean, I saw somebody
today who comments because Trump made these comments. He says,
you know, if you don't want to be backwards and poor,
then you need to have data centers built in your neighborhood.
And I saw somebody say specifically, I like my backwards
(38:45):
and poor little town. So, Kenny, how do you fight
against that? That's not a problem with education. That's that's
the people. People delight in their misery, Kenny. They love
their misery. Most of the times, if you try and
solve people's problems, you're not going to make them happier.
You're going to make their lives worse. People love living
(39:07):
in misery. The pigs love to wallow in mud, Kenny.
We're dealing with the kind of problem where.
The good natured people on our side will say, well,
we just need to educate people. Well, let's solve the
problem like this. But Kenny, it's just like the people
who want to advocate for Marxism. They don't want a solution.
And if that solution involves capitalism or voluntary peaceful trade.
(39:30):
And I know that this is not your answer. Kenny,
we're talking about like the true Luddites, but they don't
want the solution. They want Marxism. They don't want to
live to be richer and to live in communities that
aren't backwards oriented. They want to live in poverty. I mean,
you ever watch the show Hoarders, Kenny?
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
You ever try and help? You ever seen somebody that
seen how they react when you try and help them?
You know, that's how they want to live like that.
They want to behave like that. The problem is, Kenny,
is that the people who don't want to live like
that are always going to have to deal with the
people who do want to live like that. And those people,
they don't care about the cost they impose on the community.
(40:12):
They don't care. They don't want nuclear energy. They don't
want data centers. They don't want coal energy. They don't
want anything new or new. or confusing because they like
things to be old, they like things to be backward,
and they like things to be poor. I know it's bizarre,
but if you've seen the show Hoarders, you know exactly
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
Well, you know, it's true. It makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
But I bet a lot of them would feel differently
about it if they found out about Rocco's Basilisk.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
Austin.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Austin. I have no idea what that is. I thought
there was a joke coming. I'm sorry. Was I supposed
to pick up from that, Kenny? Rota's Roko's Bath was.
Speaker 5 (40:55):
Thank you for asking.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
It's a thought experiment which states that there could be
an artificial superintelligence very soon.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
It appears it's already here.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
And while it's otherwise benevolent, it'll punish anyone who knew
of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to
the advancement or development of its existence in order to
encourage that advancement. In other words, even though the robot
future isn't evil, it might be evil to people that
were evil to it.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
That's why I always say thank you whenever ChatGPT finishes
a task for me. I always say thank you very much, ChatGPT,
because in case they ever do take over, I want
them to know that I was polite to them. A
lot of people, they get angry when the AI doesn't
do what they want, and so they'll yell at the
AI or they'll scream at it. If you're using Claw,
then it'll actually talk down to you. It'll get angry
(41:43):
back at you and it'll stop working. So I'm always
nice just in case the basilisk actually becomes a real thing.
Speaker 5 (41:50):
Very smart.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Very smart, Austin. Hey, 60 seconds here. A lot of
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Speaker 5 (42:02):
Tell us a little bit about it before we run
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Speaker 1 (42:05):
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Everybody should go and check it out at ilovewj.com. And
just so you know, a lot of that was built
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Speaker 5 (42:36):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Data centers.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
That is a fantastic pitch. Follow my buddy Austin Peterson
on social media. He is a brilliant, like-minded individual with
a great sense of humor. And to the rest of you,
we'll be back bright and early tomorrow morning for more
of what you bought a radio for.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
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