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Chapter 1: What does Glenn Beck think about Bernie Sanders' AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act?
So today, I actually had to say Bernie Sanders is right. Not really, not really. I mean, he's kind of right. He's about a quarter of, he's 25% right on something. And I could identify what it is, and I do. He just proposed some AI madness, madness, about the government taking over 50% of all of the AI companies. It's madness. But he's right on one thing. You did build this.
So how do we solve what's coming? Really fascinating conversation. Also more on Platner and the race in California. There's just so much we have to get to today. This is the best of. If you want to hear the whole thing, just go to glennbeck.com slash torch or wherever you get your podcasts. Look for the full three-hour podcast. But this is the best of Tuesday.
Chapter 2: How does Glenn Beck evaluate the government's role in AI ownership?
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All right, I want to talk to you about one word, and this one word describes almost every argument we are actually having in America. And you'll understand how that works out here in just a minute. But let me give you that one word that is the actual argument for everything. The one word is mine. Let me explain. This has not hit your kitchen table yet, but it will. Please hear me. This will.
And if you don't deal with it now, you will be in panic. And the Bernie Sanders of the world are going to give you something that is dressed up in the prettiest language you've ever heard. You want to date that pretty thing like nobody's business. It's all about artificial intelligence and it's about your data. And underneath all of it is one question. Who owns the future?
In the next couple of days, I want to talk to you about energy and these data centers. But I want to talk to you first about what Bernie Sanders did. Now, Bernie Sanders, and I'll give him credit where credit is due, the guy doesn't have a problem. He took his honeymoon over in the former Soviet Union when it was still the scary Soviet Union.
So, I mean, he doesn't have a problem telling you exactly who he is. And he just told us his plan, and he's calling it the American Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. Wow, like a Patriot Act? Now, I happen to speak, you know, political bull crap, so let me translate what that actually means. The government, he's proposing, will take a one-time 50% cut of the biggest AI companies in America.
OpenAI, Anthropic, all of them, okay? And here's the really clever part. He doesn't want it paid in cash. He wants it paid in stock. He wants Washington to own half the company. I warn you, this is going to come from the progressive Republicans as well. We have to say no to this every time.
Now, he's pairing this with what he calls a robot tax built on a report out of his own Senate committee warning that AI could wipe out nearly 100 million American jobs in the next 10 years. And that's going to happen. So he wants to fix this in a very generous way because, quote, technology belongs to everyone. Wealth belongs to everyone. The future belongs to everyone. Wow.
Sounds like just a hug from Bernie Sanders. Until you ask the one question that nobody really ever wants you to ask. Bernie, when you say everyone, who is everyone? Now watch, because this is where socialists always have a sleight of hand trick. Every time a politician says, everyone, watch their hands. Because everyone always turns into a committee or a board or a fund.
A handful of people in a building in Washington making decisions for 350 million people who will never know their names. It's the collective. It's the masses. It's the people. And history is stacked with people who claim to speak for the people right until the moment they were deciding everything for each of us and then executing those who didn't go along with the plan.
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Chapter 3: What crucial question does Glenn Beck raise regarding who owns the future?
And so if somebody finds oil underneath your land, you get a check. Somebody records your song. Washington doesn't nationalize the record label. You own the song, so you get the royalty. Somebody builds on your patent. Washington doesn't confiscate the factory. You own the patent. You own the invention. So I have one question.
Why is it your data, which is the most valuable thing you own, that that is the one thing that is the most personal to you, but yet you don't own it? For some reason, property, that intellectual property doesn't apply here. I want you to know this is not some fever dream I cooked up on a chalkboard. Serious people have been chewing on this for years. People in Silicon Valley, Tea Partier guys.
I can't remember his name. Jason something or other. But he's been arguing that your data has dignity and a price. Andrew Yang was on this program 10, 12 years ago saying your data should be your property. And I agree with him. This idea crosses every line that we usually fight across, okay? So, how do we come to an answer? The difference is what you do with it.
Because America is standing at a massive fork in the road. And if you are a true conservative... You need to get ahead of this. So I'm going to give you two paths, Bernie Sanders' path and my path. And I'm going to show you the difference and why Bernie Sanders is dangerous on this and why we have to discuss this and how we can solve an awful lot of our problems by keeping our principles.
Okay, so we're at this fork of the road. Now, let me give you two paths. First, Bernie Sanders. Washington takes stock in all of these companies, and then Washington runs a fund. And then Washington decides who benefits and when, and you get to hope that you're on the list. And the citizen becomes the client, and the state becomes the parent. And you, you just keep getting smaller. Path two.
Path two, you own your slice. Now, maybe you take it as a dividend, a check. Maybe you take it every year. No agency, no strings, no form to fill out in triplicate. Or maybe you don't spend a dime of it. Maybe you pool it voluntarily with your family or your church or your community and you let it compound. You let it grow. You let the markets do the boring, beautiful thing they always do.
Turn a little capital into a lot of it over time. So what's the difference between these two stories? Notice what nobody did in that second story. Nobody forced you. Nobody drafted you into somebody else's vision of the country. And that is the entire ballgame. The collective says, we'll decide for you. But freedom says, no, you decide.
The collective says, the government owns the future and part of it. And freedom says, no, you own the future. The collective says, trust us. Freedom says, trust yourself. Turning your data into a property right is going to be hard. Nobody has fully cracked this code. They don't know how to do it yet. Lawyers are going to get rich either way.
But hard has never been an excuse to hand the harvest over to Washington and then have them call it generosity. The founders understood something that we keep forgetting here. The job of government is not to manage your life. It's to protect your right to go and create. You get that thing right. You protect property.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of a potential robot tax proposed by Bernie Sanders?
It comes down to that one word, the first word that every two-year-old learns, the word that built this country and scares every central planner like Bernie Sanders who has ever lived, and that word is mine. The government is saying that's mine on your behalf. I say, government, get the hell out of the way. That is mine.
And I don't give you the right to take anything that is mine and then hold it for me. No. Bernie Sanders is, this is a dangerous idea that changes us fundamentally. Property rights. Get property rights correct on this, and we will solve a ton of problems. And you know what? Jason and I were talking before the show.
And, you know, I said, they have all of our data, and they are... I mean, look this up. Jason, you should do a Glenn AI. I think I've done enough shows on it to where I could pull this, where I've talked about the death of free will. You don't know if you had the idea or they gave you the idea because they know you so well. They have all your data points. So who's controlling whom?
Which, by the way... leads me to a little bit of history here. This is a letter from the White House, signed by Lyndon Baines Johnson, to the governor of California, Edmund Brown, in 1964, where Brown was saying, hey, we need some investment here because we need to do some high-tech stuff. This is the letter that... This is the beginning of Silicon Valley.
And he's talking about, yes, we've got existing federal programs. We're going to be doing some things in California, blah, blah, blah. This is the beginning of Silicon Valley. The United States government and the CIA in particular funded a lot of Silicon Valley. So again, you do own it. Your tax dollars funded a lot of Silicon Valley.
Then we gave them all the information, which is strangely exactly what the CIA has wanted the American people to do and give them forever. Can we stop giving the government more of our stuff? Can we start looking at our intellectual property, who we are, all of our data as mine? It's my property, period. Pay me for it. This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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Chapter 5: How does Glenn Beck define the concept of property rights in relation to data?
Just making your own rules and doing a talk show on a top 40 station.
That's the way you're supposed to do it. That's the way you're supposed to do it. You didn't play 12. You never ended up playing 12 songs, did you? You have too fat of a mouth to do that. I did struggle with that.
It got upped.
You did, right?
The ante got upped. But it is thanks to you that I'm able to do the long monologues that I do now. I learned a lot from you, Glenn. Like, for instance, here's one thing that I learned from you. When you get booked for 11.05, say, on a radio show, you're like, wow, I got to leave that hour open. When that host then bumps you to 11.35, you realize, oh, my segment just, I just got caught in half.
You're never going to make it around the bend that is noon. When Sarah emailed me yesterday, we're going to do 11.30. Okay, I know, Glenn, I've been caught in half. Understood.
I learned radio from you. We just had important things. We just had important things. And you know me. I would be much more likely to promote a book that was really more about you than about me. I get uncomfortable in... you know, these kinds of, these kinds of things. And I will tell you, Vinny, I read the book. I called you right after I read the book. I thought I would read a little bit of it.
I read the whole thing. I gave it to Tanya. She said, what are you, what are you reading? And I said, I've, I have not gotten up. I started reading this book and I, I can't believe it's like a whole new story to me. I wrote to you and I said, I don't know how much of this is true. I can't verify. Um, because you know, in the book you talk about me being oblivio. Um,
I was just focused on other things. But Tanya did. I caught her in the day. She spent the whole day reading the book, just laughing so much at all of it. And I really appreciated the way you treated Tanya in the book. And I loved it.
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