WEBVTT - Lessons from Venezuela 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:02.800 My news rounds up information overload hour. Here is our 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:04.559 toll free telephone number if you want to be a 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:06.360 part of the program. It's eight hundred and ninety four 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:09.120 to one Sean if you want to join us. Really 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:14.320 fascinating comments and a bit of a history lesson shockingly 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:18.480 from Bill Maher. I mean, really rooted in truth, history 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:22.640 and understanding of reality. I mean it sounds great. Everything 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:26.320 is going to be free, Everything's free, free, free, free, free. 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:30.720 And so he delivered this really profound in my view 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:37.080 warning about Mamdani and how Democrats must recognize as Zora 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.320 Mamdani is the future of the party. Unfortunately it's the 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:42.879 Republican Party. And I said when he got elected, he 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.160 will be the face of the Democratic Party. AOC now 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.559 is exerting the power that I've been telling you for 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.360 years that she really had within Democratic Party ranks. It's 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.760 very real. Pelosi was speaker in name only. Now Hakeem 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:00.840 Jeffries is leader in name only. Chucky Schumer's leader in 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.640 name only in his career is all but finished. His 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:09.360 announcement today that in fact, a Mamdannie ally has filed 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:13.319 paperwork to run against the House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.120 and Kathy Hokeel had to admit the Governor of New 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.840 York that uh she, oh yeah, I think these mam 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.679 donnie ideas are really good. If she wants any shot 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.240 every election, He's basically going to have to ballot the 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:32.160 altar of Mamdani because he knows that Mamdani will have 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.880 enough power to wipe out any chances she has of 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.399 even being the nominee, never mind winning. Wouldn't even be 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.480 surprised if he ran against her and said, you know what, 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.200 I can't do it as New York mayor. I really 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.720 need to be the governor, and that would be a 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.200 you know, that would be the end of New York 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.440 as we know it. But let's listen to what Bill 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:51.280 Maher had to say. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.640 Democrats must recognize that Zeran mam Donnie is the future 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:59.760 of the party. Unfortunately it's the Republican Party. We've run 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:03.800 this experiment many times and the results are always obvious. 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.720 In nineteen ninety Venezuela was wealthier than Poland, but then 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.400 Poland finally free of Soviet style economics when all in 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.400 on capitalism, and now their economy is as big as Japan, 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:22.520 and people there have high wages, low inflation, cars, vacations, homes. Meanwhile, 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.840 Venezuela traded capitalism for Hugo Schevez's socialism for the twenty 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.480 first century, which turned out to be like socialism in 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:35.840 the last century or any century, a mess. It turned 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.920 one of Latin America's richest countries into one of its poorest. 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:44.480 Low wages, high inflation, shortages, outages, eight million people fleeing. 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.959 If you think New York can somehow reinvent this wheel, 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.680 you're in for a rude awokening, a rude awokening. 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.399 That's actually that was not a mistake on his part. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.280 He said it purposefully and he's just not wrong. Daniel B. 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.040 Martino is a fellow with them, in a half institute 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.239 immigrant from Venezuela. I mean, think about Venezuela. You go 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:09.080 Shavez and socialism. Venezuela was the richest country in Latin America. 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.480 Now it's the poorest. I'll never forget it was Jorge 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:16.799 Ramos that actually went to Venezuela. Remember that video that 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.079 he showed of people eating out of garbage cans. They 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.919 have so much in terms of natural resources, they were 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.760 so wealthy. They lost and estimated eight million people that 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.720 fled that country, and the idea that somehow this is 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.840 this is going to be a game changer. And again, 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:38.080 what is the goal of of Grandpa Bernie AOC, the squad, 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:42.640 the New Green Deal Democrats, Socialist Marxist Democrats. They want 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.080 to implement all of these policies that have been tried 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.040 and that have failed every time they have been tried, 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.840 and every time you get the same predictable results. You know, 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.040 I wrote that chapter the History of socialism, a history 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:01.200 of failures. You know, whatever name, whatever form, whatever manifestation 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.560 it takes on, it always ends the same way, and 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.880 that is unfulfilled promises. People end up being poorer than 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.920 when they started. And it also ends in a loss 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.560 of freedom that people give up in the name of 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.840 false security. And you are empowering government to be your 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.720 savior instead of living with truth, liberty and freedom and 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:27.159 capitalism which keeps everybody honest and brings out the best 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.320 and everybody ideally. And what's so fascinating to me is 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:35.400 we keep going back to dumb and dumber and stupid. Anyway, Daniel, 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:36.800 welcome to the program, Glad you're here. 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:37.600 Thank you for having me. 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.160 Sean and I remember actually that interview that you referred 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:44.080 to with Heramos and Maduro, And I also remember how 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.880 Heramos a month ago interviewed Mam Danny and asked him 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.360 if he thought Maduro was electedtor and then Mam Danny 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:51.760 didn't say that he was. 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:52.320 He refused to. 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.839 Oh he didn't. Now what was life for you in 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:56.520 Venezuela and when did you flee? 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.800 I left in twenty sixteen, And look, it's I think 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.719 my story is really not remarkable in that it's just 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.960 a story of a normal middle class men as well 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:08.480 and family that in the early two thousands we made 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.080 maybe two thousand and three thousand dollars a month, and 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.800 by twenty sixteen, when I left and then my family did, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.400 we were making one hundred dollars a month. That is 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:17.640 what they did to us. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.320 Yeah, well, I mean for the people, your friends maybe 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.760 family that still remain in Venezuela, what's like for them? 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:29.000 And what was like life like before Hugo shavas well? 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.560 What it's like is, you know, you go from having 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:37.000 a car, going to school, you know, having water, a home, 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.480 a normal life like even most people in the United 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:44.039 States used to have in that time, and then suddenly 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:47.440 there is no electricity for a day. Certainly there is 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.120 no water for maybe a week, and then you have 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.400 to carry jocks of water up the stairs to your apartment. 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.080 And then suddenly there are no teachers in high school 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.120 because the teachers are living in the country, and so 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:03.360 classes dismiss or you have to line up for food sometimes, 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.520 and then you have to line up every day, and 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.200 life just becomes like going from the first world to 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:08.920 the third world. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.760 Yeah, I mean, and you lived that out, and you 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:12.839 came here in what year. 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.160 Twenty sixteen? And yes, I finished high school in Venezuela. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.320 I was seventeen years old when I came. I remember, 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.320 you know, I even have a picture of myself holding 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.120 a huge pack of cash, and that was the price 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:28.359 of a movie ticket. People began my dad too. We 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.520 began wearing backpacks and the backpacks will be full of 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.360 cash because of the hyperinflation, kind of like German in 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:35.359 the nineteen twenties. 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.720 It's pretty remarkable. And when you got to the United States, 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.560 tell me about your life today, because you've been here 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.479 now nine years. How has your life changed? And tell 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.120 me what you're doing with your life. I mean, you're 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.880 at the Manhattan Institute. Obviously you're well educated, and obviously 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:51.719 you're very smart. 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:52.800 Well, thank you. 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:57.880 Hope hopefully they think so. Look what I did is 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.880 I first went to Indie, and I had never been 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.280 to the Midwest. I had come to the US before 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.840 as a tourist, but then I moved to Indiana and 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.480 it was a wonderful time. I mean, the biggest change 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.520 immediately was just the safety right, but as well as 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.120 a very dangerous country, and just being able to walk 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.880 in the street without the fear of being kidnapped or 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.960 robbed or even just killed was a big quality of 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.320 life upgrade. The other upgrade was just how much money 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.680 money was worth. I remember my first job. I was 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.920 a receptionist on my college campus, and I was making 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.160 eleven dollars an hours on This was twenty sixteen, and 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.840 I thought I was a multi millionaire because that was 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.360 so difficult to make in Venezuela. And I remember the 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.920 first time I would drew some cash from my checking 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:48.280 account and I was just flabagasted. Now, obviously I make 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.920 much more than that, but you know, I have a 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.760 different appreciation for things, just the basic things of life 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.120 that I think a lot of Americans stack for granted, 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.240 and that's why they end up supporting the policies that 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.800 lead us into the disaster that I fled from. 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.960 Were you able to become a citizen at this point, 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:06.560 I assume yes, No, not yet. 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:08.400 I'm on my permanent residency. 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.160 Well, I hope people hear you loud and clear. I 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.640 hope people understand it because I can write it down 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.280 in a book and I can communicate it on radio 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.920 and TV all I want. However, it's stories like yours 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.040 that really bring it home because you lived it. We 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:27.440 really appreciate your time. Daniel de Martino, Thank you, my friend. 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:28.680 Of course, Thanks San. 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.320 You know, if you listen very closely, Daniel lived it. 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.080 I've met many people in my life that have lived it. 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.599 The Mamdani's, the squad, the aocs, the Katie Wilson's, the 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:44.520 New Seattle mayor. You know. This is where they want 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.040 to take the country, regardless of its history of failure. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.720 Here's AOC claiming Trump voters are pulling her aside, claiming 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:53.920 they want to join this. I don't think so. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:58.360 I want to say this right now. I fully welcome 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:04.400 Trump voters into our coalition. And I know that sounds 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.880 crazy to some people, but just hear me out. I 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:09.199 cannot tell you it. 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:10.600 Just happened to me, like two weeks ago. 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.920 I can't tell you how many times someone has pulled 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:18.120 me aside and said either I was once a big 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.800 Trump voter and a Trump supporter, and I watched Fox 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.160 News every day. But then I started to kind of 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:28.280 expand my world and where I got information. And now 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:33.040 I've learned, and now I've changed, and I'm with you 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:34.280 and I learned from you. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.720 Let's get to our busy phones. Jordan is in Texas. 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.280 God bless Texas. Jordan. How are you glad you called? 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:43.000 Thanks for checking in, sir. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:44.559 Yes, sir. How are you doing today, Sean? 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:45.760 I'm good? What's going on? 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:46.840 Yes, sir? 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.600 So, first of all, love your interview. Do with JD 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:53.079 events around ways of working and AI and everything else. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.880 And I would say that I agree with you that 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:57.920 we need to get back to the office, but I 0:09:57.960 --> 0:09:59.880 want to propose a challenge if you don't mind, sir, 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:01.120 and that show. 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.640 Go right ahead. By the way, I'm not I think 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.200 for government workers it's important, but I can tell you 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.800 in my business with my workers and people that work 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.480 on this show, my team. I know who's working and 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:17.080 not working just based on what I see every day, 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.480 don't I don't have to see it, I know it correct. 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.199 And I'm in the consulting business as well, so I'm 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.280 right there with you here. Here's what I would say 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.640 about going back to the office. It's one thing to 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.679 go back to the office and do meetings all day. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.160 It's another to be a more of a production society. 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.959 And here's what I mean by that. You rightly point 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.880 out that AI is here, it's coming. My challenge to 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.800 everyone in corporate America who you know goes to the 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.520 office or is working from home right now, think about 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:49.560 ways that you can bring insights and strategy to your 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:54.199 organization because with agentic AI coming, I'm seeing a lot 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:58.440 of accounting, finance, back office jobs where edgentic AI can 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.640 you know, do accounts tayable pretty well? Right? It can 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.520 book travel for you and kind of be an assistant. 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.880 So my challenge to vice president of Vance when he 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.199 mentioned how you know there's gonna be a lot of 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.920 high paying jobs come out of this, I do agree, 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:19.200 but people need to start thinking about learning AI, learning 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:22.959 about how to improve your current processes and current ways 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.920 of working today. And if you are in the office 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.880 doing that, I'm all for it. But if we're going 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.560 back to the office just to be sitting on teams, 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.960 meetings and zoom calls all day and writing emails and 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.920 doing monotonous work, what's the point? And I think the 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.160 point is well, Number one, if you're not in the office, 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.719 that's a great way for your employer to say, are 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:46.800 you actually providing the value you need? You have probably gone. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.080 Two is when you're in there, what are you actually 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.839 doing and what value are bringing the organization? What have 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:53.640 your thoughts on that? 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.880 Listen, I want to put it this way because this 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.520 is how profound a time we're living in. I want 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:04.720 people to view this is the we just discovered electricity moment. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.480 Now that may sound insane to people at this moment, 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.720 to hear that I am telling you, I am not wrong. 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.760 I am telling you you've got to prepare for it. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.839 I am telling young people they're going to be and 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.440 people that are in jobs, a lot of jobs are 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.839 going to be replaced. The interesting part is I'm very 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:27.600 close friends with one of Elan's best friends. He believes 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.800 in the end, the net gain of jobs is going 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.320 to be phenomenal, but it's got to be the right jobs. 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.440 So it's going to be a transitional economy in the 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.280 next decade. And I just care too much about all 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:44.160 of you in this audience that you be ready and 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:48.160 you be prepared, and frankly, I don't care what industry, 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.679 what business you're in, you better be adopting AI as 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:53.720 part of your daily routine and part of what you 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.040 do every day because it'll make you better and more efficient. Anyway, Look, 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.440 there are stories about people that are doing three full 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:04.800 time jobs from home and they use AI to expedite 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.439 all of their work, and they do it all successfully 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.520 and their employers have no idea what they're doing. I mean, 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.200 that's how efficient they have and how sophisticated they've got 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.679 at it. Now they have three full time paying jobs 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.920 that they're able to accomplish their tasks. Loved employees great 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.679 at what they do. But in part they're getting all 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.840 of this assistance because of new technology. I mean, I 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.160 give them a plus plus for being creative, don't you. 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.600 I completely agree. You probably don't want a name drop 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.280 them when the irs may be hearing it and they may 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:36.960 be come knock on the. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:38.400 Door and no, no, no, no, I'm not saying they're not 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.840 paying their taxes. I'm just telling you fair. It is 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:45.320 not telling you know, other employee their employer that they're 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:46.840 doing two other full time jobs. 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.800 No, I completely agree with you. I completely agree. But no. 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:53.240 I So the point I'm making is exactly what you're making, 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:58.360 which is whatever profession you're in, document what you do. 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:02.080 Document the process of what your job is from start 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.200 to finish. Don't just be siloed sitting behind a keyboard 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:08.240 looking at a spreadsheet all day. Zoom out, think about 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:12.040 the business solistically, think about how you're getting information from 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:16.080 your different peers, and start putting together a strategy for 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.200 how you're going to bring AI to your organization. But 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.720 don't stop. There be the person that is going to say, hey, 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.960 not only did I think this through, not only did 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.160 I document this. Not only am I bringing this to 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.760 the organization, but I'm going to lead it because I 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.040 took the training, I went the extra mile, I did 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.000 night school, I did whatever, and I know everything there 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.160 is to know about this agent to AI, and I'm 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.400 going to lead the charge in my department of my 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.280 organization to adopt this. 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:48.520 Dude. Like, but the sooner you adopt and absorb it, 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:50.680 the better off you're going to be, and you'll have 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.560 a competitive advantage. Just amount of time, though, I've got 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.200 to run great points, great calls that we're We're going 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.560 to have a lot more conversations on this in the 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.600 days and weeks ahead, I promise, and next year leading 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.520 into the midterms. Anyway, appreciate you call my friend eight 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.280 hundred nine to FOURT one show is on a number 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.560 more of your calls coming up straight ahead. How much 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.480 time are you spending on artificial intelligence? 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.800 I mean, I hate it, but more than I care to. 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:18.360 What do you mean you hate it? Why do you 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:18.800 hate it? 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:20.400 Well? 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.640 I feel like what I'd love to do is get 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.760 people out of their phones, out of their screens, out 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.080 of all the things. You know, it's not being used 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.920 in the way it was intended. It's making people dumber. 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:36.200 People are having conversations with their phones, are having conversations 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.080 with screens instead of having conversations with each other. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.360 They're having virtual boyfriends and girlfriends. 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.800 You know what I'm saying. Like it's a whole new 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.000 it takes a blow up doll to a whole new level. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:47.880 It's just I don't know. It's not my thing. 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.520 Oh, there are virtual relationships that people actually think is real. 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:52.520 It's so bizarre to me. 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:54.840 But like, you know, I saw this thing the other day. 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.040 It was a commercial for chat GBT. And don't get 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.320 me wrong, I've taken things I've written and run it 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:00.920 through there and thought, oh, I guess I could say 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.280 it that way. But I don't like cut and paste it. 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.240 Then I like rework it and take ideas from it. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.480 But there's this girl and she can't figure out how 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:13.040 to get her schedule right for school right, and this, 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.840 she asked chat chat GPT, how can I find time 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.680 to breathe and center while I'm studying? 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:20.400 Shut up? 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.640 You're at school, read a book, drink a cup of 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.400 coffee the way we did it. You know, it's ridiculous. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:30.280 You're you are You're like one of these stubborn, very 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.840 old people stuck in their ways. You got to get 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:34.080 stuck in my waist. 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:34.440 You are. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.840 Listen, my grandma, when you said you said that, Yes, 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:40.480 I don't mind. 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:44.040 I don't mind. I don't mind. Acclimating. Acclamation is fine, 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:48.160 Integration is fine. A complete and utter takeover, where it's 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.720 you and a bot I'm out. I'm not about it. 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:53.680 So like, you're not going to be dating or having 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:58.680 a relationship on this happily married You're not. You don't 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.520 want to do it old school relationship with a bot. 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.000 I want to meet new friends because I was at 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.119 a party, because I was at a bar, because I 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.080 had was at a soccer game for my kids, or 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.160 a football game for the kids, or whatever. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.720 What normost Listen, I am telling you you're going to 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:17.800 be the reluctant resistant grandma and everybody's life. And everyone's 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.160 going to roll their eyes. Oh man, she's. 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.040 Stuck to the I'm all in. Then I'll take I'll 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.800 take up crocheting. I'll be the best crocheting grandma you 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:26.320 ever met. 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:31.160 I'm all in, the greatest crocheting grandma of all time. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.320 That's that's a great way to you know, you're a 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.560 very young person. But if that's how you're looking at 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:43.000 I am going to adjust, adapt, embrace technology, and I'm 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.119 going to do it with enthusiasm for the sake of 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.560 our audience. Now, I will tell you one one one 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:53.760 consequence of this is there will be a desire, an 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.240 innate desire of people to want to return to certain 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:02.240 things like crocheting and doing puzzles and just turning off 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.879 their devices and getting away from all of that. I 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.040 think that's called balance that you know, at some point 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.000 we're gonna have to, you know, have that discussion. Let's 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:12.800 get to our phones. Eight hundred and ninety four one, 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:14.560 Shawn our number if you want to be a part 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:16.719 of the program. David in Florida. David, how are you 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:17.640 glad you called? Sir? 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:18.119 Well? 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:19.800 Hither Sean, how are you doing today? 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:21.520 I'm good? What's going on? 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.040 Well? I wanted to tell you about the elephant in 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.639 the room. I represent a tool shop that we have 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:31.399 apprentices with the Department of Labor and it's been seventy 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.800 five years ago we started at you know, we talk 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.199 about the billionaires and the politicians and all that that 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:43.320 I have taken in tenth graders, sophomres, both male and 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:47.000 female through a different business every week with the parents 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.920 because that take the parents along with me and they 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:55.280 see skilled trades businesses that require like locational schools, trade 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:59.480 schools and things like that, and then the other employees 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:03.639 helped team those kids in the apprenticeship program. Any company 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:06.439 can start an apprenticeship program with the Department of Labor. 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.280 They can handwrite what it is they're going to offer 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:12.760 those people to learn in four years, and in four 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:14.160 years they become a journeyman. 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:15.520 And I work. 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.840 We're mostly in tool shops. You're mostly on union that 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:21.800 I worked with a good friend that was in the 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:26.200 carpenters union, and they talked about building houses and all 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.400 these young people and their parents went through to learn 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.199 about what that takes to do that. And you know, 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.320 these young people are tenth graders and then they go 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.440 to vocational school in the eleventh and twelfth grade. Then 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.400 they normally they come in and work part time with us. 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:46.080 And the parents are amazed at the wages that these 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.359 kids can learn, because if you compare that to a 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:52.080 college education. A college education, you tell me how much 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.159 you spend four years getting a bachelor's degree, and with 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:57.600 these kids make fifty thousand dollars a year for four 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:00.400 years in a row, plus we pay for an associate degree. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.920 Now I think at the age of twenty two, there's 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:06.640 a half a million dollars difference in where these two 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:11.000 people are. And the parents are also very impressed because 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.520 they've been told all along, if you don't go to college, 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:17.400 you'll never amount to anything. Businesses are willing to invest 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.479 a huge amount of money to train people so that 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.919 they're going to be competitive when we bring all these 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:27.680 companies from overseas and even the companies we have. Now 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:31.240 we're a shortage of housing right now. Who's going to 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:34.639 build those houses? And that the Carpenters Union is really 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:36.520 great about adress. 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:37.840