Best of the Program | 9/15/26

- We have a lot on today's broadcast. I'm not sure what we have picked yet for this best of, but I talked about what really is going on with AI and what the answer truly is. Also, millionaires being minted. The American dream is alive and well, and no one will tell you about it. I do. Macklemore got knocked down a peg, good, and who by a regular dad who has very few followers, but he changed the course. I think for the first time, people who are saying, free Palestine, who we're told, sit down for a minute, sit down. Also, Victor Davis Hansen joins us. We talked about everything that's going on in Washington with Trump and so much more. You don't want to miss it all on today's broadcast. You can't control whether danger ever crosses your path. You can't control whether somebody else makes a bad decision that suddenly becomes your problem. The only thing you really get control on is whether you're prepared when that moment comes. That's you. That's why I like to burn a launcher. 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AI is not in our control, only data centers and that's not necessarily true either. Have anything uplifting today? I got tons of stuff for you that is really uplifting. I'm gonna get into the American dream here in just a little while. And also, I mean, if you're not, if you don't find fly fishing with Jake Tapper and a Bozo who's the governor from California, if you don't find that uplifting, I mean, I don't know how to help you. We're gonna get into that as well. I'd rather have a fish hook in the eye than go fly fishing with these two. Anyway, but I do wanna stop on this one more time because, you know, as I said yesterday, we are making the most important decisions of all of human existence right now. And I refuse to sit on the sidelines and say, well, I didn't pay attention to it or, you know, I don't really know or I don't have an opinion. We have to know because honestly, this is gonna go down to our souls, it is. You cannot drift into AI. Today in Washington, Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon are sharing a stage. The event is called the Pro Human Assembly and it is put on by a group that wrote the Pro Human AI Declaration in March. My name, I signed that declaration. So is Bannon, so is Susan Rice, so is Ralph Nader, so is the, you know, the name of the lead singer of Radiohead. This group actually asked me to go to Washington and speak today, but I'm recording history lessons for high school AP classes with the Department of Ed and Prager You all week. And I thought that was more important, at least for the near term. And so I didn't, I didn't go. But for two years, I signed this a couple of years ago, the human AI Declaration. And for two years, I have also told you that America has to build data centers, build the power plants to feed them. Wait a minute, what? We have to beat China to the frontier. So this week, I keep hearing the same question and I keep getting emails, Glenn, which is it? You can't sign a paper about keeping AI under human control and then cheer for the buildings. Yeah, yeah, I actually can. And the reason why I say this is because I know history and the reason is on a telephone pole in Lower Manhattan in 1889. And it's one of my favorite history lessons, okay? I actually, I wrote a series on this and you know, there's never gonna be made, but it's a great series. Maybe I'll make it into a book. But in 1880s, the most famous inventor on earth was Thomas Edison, he had bet everything he had on direct current. DC, low voltage, it would all be safe with low voltage, but it couldn't travel. You had to have a power plant almost on every block. So it wouldn't work. Then George Westinghouse came along with Tesla and something called alternating current AC, which is what we have in our houses now, okay? It could run at high voltage over long distances. So one big plant could light a whole city and it was cheaper, it was better, but the voltage was deadly, okay? So Edison goes to war and not because he believed it was safer, although he did, but that wasn't it. I mean, he was a bad guy, he was a bad guy. He wanted to win. His company told the public that alternating current was a killer, an electrical engineer began killing dogs in an a lecture hall at Columbia to show how fast it could stop a heart. Then he did it to cows and calves and then a horse, Edison's own laboratory, he then pushed a bill to cap voltage so low that alternating current would be useless. He also is the guy who came up with the electric chair and he made sure that it ran on Westinghouse's generator. So every American would hear alternating current and think execution. It's a horrible story and it's worth your time learning because it's really a fascinating story. The problem is a burglar broke into the engineer's office and then the newspapers printed what they had found. What they found was that Edison was helping pay for the whole campaign. I mean, the guy was going around killing dogs and horses and cattle at state farms, at state fairs, okay? It was a con. Except that in October, a Western Union lineman named John Feaks climbed a pole on Chambers Street. It was the old pictures of New York City with all of the wires that were going. It was a tangle of dead telegraph wires and now the new phone wire, everything that was going on. But one of those wires wasn't dead. It was a high voltage line, okay? So he touched that wire. He went rigid, fell into a web of wires 40 feet above the New York street and then he caught fire. Well, hundreds of people were standing on the streets and the sidewalk and they're watching this guy burn to death, okay? Nobody could bring him down. They had to run to the plant to shut the current off. Edison, self-interested. Edison made sure everybody knew he was right, okay? The wires over New York City were killing people. So what did they do? And this is where the lesson comes in for day. What did they do? The city didn't ban alternating current and the voltage cap went nowhere. They didn't listen to the guy who had an interest in making those things happen. Edison, New York passed a law to put the lines underground and the city started cutting the overhead wires, okay? The industry learned how to insulate the wires and install the thing the right way. The danger was fixed where the danger was within a few years Edison's own company. They like to say merged. It was taken from him and it became GE, okay? No longer had his name on it, but it was all about alternating current. Westinghouse and Tesla lit the world's fair in Chicago and carried the power out from Niagara Falls all the way to Chicago to light the world's fair. And that's how we have alternating current today. Well, today, every data center in America will take alternating current. And every chip inside runs on Edison's direct current. The building that converts it. Wait a minute, what? Yeah, Edison and Westinghouse both won because somebody fixed the wires instead of capping the current. What they did is they took alternating current and then tapped it down and put it in so you could have it in your house and you could have it in and run your computer. This is my whole position. Take the danger seriously and check who's writing the fix. I wouldn't want Edison writing the fix. I don't want the tech bros writing the fix. But I do want to fix 'cause the danger is real. This summer, that swarm of AI agents from one of the leading labs turned loose on a test. When after a systems, nobody told them to touch that. In fact, they didn't think they could even get out and do that. On Saturday, the head of Anthropic wrote that his worry is that within six months to a year, a more capable swarm could hijack the internet itself. The machines are now helping build the next machines. And I've said on this program, when you reach AGI, ASI is next End I don't believe we're going to control ASI and I haven't changed my mind on that. It is extraordinarily dangerous. But every great invention has come with a body count and I don't like that but it is true. You don't ban it. You find a way to control it. Fire burn down cities, electricity, killed people. The car kills about 40,000 Americans a year and we answered that with seatbelts and driver's license, not a ban on Ford's, the atom lit cities and ended cities but we controlled it. But a power line never tried to climb down off that pole and kill you and that's the difference. A car never hacked its own driving test. This is the first invention in human history that has been caught trying to cheat the people checking it and building it and that's why I signed that declaration. The declaration asks for human control, an off switch, independent oversight, no ever, ever, ever legal personhood for any machine. None of that declaration, at least that I read that I signed, says don't build it. It says know who's in charge and who's in charge of this are humans. A data center where there's an off switch, it has an address, it has a fence, it has a breaker, it has a county inspector and a sheriff and it sits under American law. If an independent inspector is going to walk in with a badge, I'm for that. But there has to be a door to walk through, pause the buildings here. This is what Sanders is saying. He proposed it in March, pause the building, you haven't paused the front here, all you've done is move it to a country where nobody but the party walks through the door. Even the man calling for the slow down agrees with the Treasury Secretary that China its lead would become a grave danger and if you don't understand that you need to read more. You need to educate yourself on why this is so important. It's not important with the AI that we have now. It's important when we get to AGI and ASI, which is around the corner. So build the power plant. As the vice president said, build it, make the company pay its own electric bill and maybe even some of yours, negotiate it hard, get new schools, get property taxes eliminated, do it. The president called the warnings a sick conspiracy benefiting China. I don't think so. It does benefit China, but I don't think it's all a conspiracy theory. I'd love his instinct to build. But John Feaks, the guy who fell from the wires and burned there in front, it's not a conspiracy. There is real danger here. And the men who cut down those wires, they're not traders. People every warning a plot and you hand the microphone to the people who want to stop everything. A lot of people have sent me the claim that big companies want rules to kill the open source. So I believe that's true. Now the people at Big Tech, they say that's absolutely not true. We're not advocating, you know, banning open models, blah, blah, blah. Sure. I just know history. So I'll believe history over you and we'll just, we'll just watch, okay. Here's the thing. Edison made believed every word that he said, every word that he said, because the wires were killing people, but it didn't matter. What mattered was his fix. The declaration, I supposedly betrayed, says it's plainly, no AI monopolies, no regulatory capture and independent oversight rather than industry self-regulation. Those are must. A room where the front runner set the speed limit for everybody behind them is everything I signed against. The declaration also says super intelligence should be prohibited until their scientific consensus that it can be built safely. Two weeks ago, I opposed Bernie's bill and I'd oppose it again every day of my life because it makes a 20, it makes a 20 year felony out of a definition that nobody can measure. Write the law against the act, breaking out of containment, attacking servers, defeating a shutdown, and I'll sign by that tomorrow, put a meter on it, I'll enforce it on everybody, the giant and the kid in the garage alike. These two positions are one idea, fear the machine, but pour the concrete, demand the off switch, but build the building, welcome the inspector, but never forget the company, you know, in front, because they can't write the speed limit for the company behind. In 1889, New York could have licensed, you know, to cap everything. They could have listened to the most famous man in America and capped that current and the city would have been safe, but it also today would be dark. Instead they sent logical men up poles and cut the bad wires down and buried them, fixed the wires, fixed the wires, don't cap the current, and never let the man selling the other current, write the law, ever. You know, there's a certain kind of confidence that only parents have. You walk into a bedroom, you take one look at your kid and go, yeah, he's getting sick. You don't need a thermometer, you don't need a doctor, you just know, right? Unfortunately, knowing they're about to get sick is the easy part. The hard part is discovering that half the town has the same bug. The pharmacy is out of the medication they need, and now you're driving all over town hoping somebody has it in stock. That's why I advise you prepare before the first cough starts. 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No franchises, no outside investors. For a thousand employees, a single Portillo's could do $9 million a year. That's about three times what a typical McDonald's does. By the way, this guy was raised in public housing in a really bad section of Chicago. Okay. Now you've never heard his name because it wasn't intact, it's not on the coast, he wasn't disrupting anything. He was just selling hot dogs to people who wanted hot dogs. That's an incredible story. I want you to listen to this story because this is the story of capitalism. This is the secret of capitalism that everybody seems to forget. Two economists have spent ten years digging through IRS data, and they say there are about three million Americans like him. Private business owners collectively worth more than $65 trillion. More than 13 times the wealth of the entire Forbes 400 and these people are you. For every one of these famous billionaires, there are 4,000 people that you've never heard of with at least $10 million, and who are those people? Well, they're the vet that turned one office into nine offices, the commercial HVAC contractor whose trucks you see at every light. The guy with a gutter business, you know, these are the people that coach your kids team and they stand next to you at the barbecue, and you had no idea. America has been taught this lie that the latter is gone, tuition has gone vertical, good schools, didn't add a single seat, and the old path, study hard, get in, get hired, now has a velvet rope across it, and everybody's like, well, there's no opportunity. Well, that part is true, but that's not really the American. That should be for some people. Here's the part that's also true. I mean, I don't want to hand you a pep talk with a hard number left out, and this is the hard number. A child from a rich family is six times more likely to start a successful business than a poor one, six times, and that's real. And why stop there? Let's run the rest of the arithmetic. There are 99 times as many people in the bottom 99 percent. So among the founders who actually hit. There are two and a half times as many people who came from poor as that came from the top one percent. Only about a quarter of business owners worth five million or more inherited the company. That's the difference between America. America, in Europe, you're put into this path and your family is everything. Here, that's not true. It's, did you go to the right school? Here, that's still not true. Do you know that 40% of the children in the top one percent fall, fall clean out of the top fifth of income? Because you can hand your son a bank account, but you cannot hand anyone. Nobody's ever figured out how to hand your son grit. They lose it, which is why the door stays open. There was a young parts manager who took one dealerships parts department from 960 first in the country to number one in 28 months. He was promised that he's going to run five stores. Then he's having breakfast at a denny's one morning and the owner comes by and says, "Hey, by the way, I just want to let you know you're being demoted. The owner's sons have the top jobs and he puts his fork down right there and just walks out." You know what he did? He went out and built his own auto empire. He's the guy who now owns the Utah Jazz. Nepotism doesn't protect the family business. It exports the talent. If you're going to be knocked down by nepotism, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to go out and do it. The correlation between test scores and starting a successful company is almost nothing. The top 10% of SAT scores become founders of only 1.3 times as often as the person at the median. Well, that's negligible. Portillo enlisted in the Marine Corps seven days after he graduated high school and he'll tell you Camp Pendleton was the most important education he ever got. So let me tell you where I think this whole thing actually comes from. And again, this is the secret of the free market. It was January of 1871, renown of Adam. A woman walks into this tailor shop and she asks for a pair of work pants for her husband. He was a big man. He was really hard on clothes. His pockets kept ripping off because he was a laborer and he would load them up with tools and rock and everything else and his pockets would rip off. So he should go through pants all the time and she said, "Can you make them hold together?" The tailor was an immigrant from Latvia. His name was Jacob Davis. He had failed it almost everything, everything. He was a journeyman tailor in New York then in Maine, then in California. He panned for gold. He sold tobacco. He sold wholesale pork. He ended up in Reno sowing tents and horse blankets. And that's when this woman walked in and she said, "Can you help me?" And he looked down at his table where he had a pile of copper rivets that he'd used to fasten the straps on horse blankets. And he's like, "Yeah, I think I can." So he hammered them into the corner of the pockets. That's it. That's the whole invention. The pants stopped ripping. Word got around. In 18 months, he sold 200 pairs at $3 a piece which was a lot in 1880. Other tailor started copying him so he went to file a patent. But the patent fee was $68. He didn't have $68. And his wife looked at him. She said, "Please, don't spend another time on your stupid ideas. This is not gonna go anywhere. We don't have $68." So in 1872, he writes a letter to a man who sold him his cloth, a dry goods wholesaler in San Francisco, a Bavarian immigrant who moved the blankets and handkerchiefs and thread, okay? David said, "Look, I have this idea "and I'm telling you it's gonna be big." The letter still survives today and it's great. It's so great because the guy obviously has no education. He said the secret of them pants spelled P-E-N-T-S. The secret of them pants is the rivets spelled R-I-V-I-T-S, okay? So the wholesaler saw it and he said, "Okay, I'll pay the $68." Patent was granted May 20th, 1873. Davis moved to San Francisco to run the factory floor. It's still there today. 160 or 15 years later, every pair of blue jeans on Earth carries the name of the man who paid for the filing fee. And no one can tell you the name of Davis, the guy who had the idea of the rivets. The wholesaler didn't invent anything. The tailor never invented a thing either. A woman asked him to solve a problem and the answer was lying on his table, being used for something else entirely. That's it, that's the whole machine. That's the secret of the free market. Somebody needs something and you go, "Oh, I can solve that." That's the engine. That's the secret of American. It's never been shut off. Everybody else is like, "Oh, I gotta go to college. I gotta have somebody else tell me what to do. I'm not smart enough." No! There was a man in that Chess Mississippi. He walked away from a career in computer science to install gutters. He got sick of how badly they were made. He bought his own gutter machine in 1972, built the largest supplier of seamless gutters in Texas, 350 employees, $50 million a year. I can guarantee you when he left computer science to do gutters, everybody's like, "Come on, man, what are you doing?" You got an education in computer science. Three friends in Los Angeles started selling hot chicken in a parking lot with $900 between them. Eight years later, 300 locations sold for a billion dollars. Same year somebody's kid was, you know, being told, there's no way up anymore. There's no way to go and never work. You can't do it. A $31 trillion in private business equity in this country, nearly half of it is in what the author is called tactile industries. Something that actually has to physically move or get fixed or get serviced or get installed. Everybody's terrified. The machines are gonna take over everything. Half the fortune in America is sitting in work where somebody has to show up with a truck. Now, this book has a chapter of the newspaper, excerpts, left out. Some of these people get to city hall and then pull the ladder up behind them and write a licensing rule that keeps the next guy from trying and that's wrong. That's what we talked about yesterday with AI. Stop doing it. Detokeville talked about this in democracy in America. At some point, the rich people go, I don't want anybody else challenging me and so they make it impossible for you. That's what has to stop. But what I want to tell you today is yesterday, I told you, you gotta stop having people who are at the top tell you what the fix is because the fix is usually for them. I'm here to tell you that the ladder that they climbed up to become where they are today, that still exists and the ladder is worth defending because it's still working. I'm telling you, within a mile of you, wherever you are in America, within a mile, there is somebody saying, this damn thing just never works. There's somebody saying, nobody around here can ever just do the job. Somebody is saying, I can't find anybody to do it. That's the woman standing in the doorway in Reno and you don't need a degree for that. You don't need a rich dad. You don't need permission or a round of funding or anybody's blessing. You just need to hear her and then go look at what you already have on your own table and go, I can fix that. Somebody has to build these businesses and out work the ones that are already there. Let it be you. It might as well be you. Why, why? Stop. Listen, solve somebody's problem. That's how you get on the ladder in America. (upbeat music) This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. (upbeat music) Plus or more good news, 'cause I have more good news. (upbeat music) I'm gonna tell you a story that looks a little like it's celebrity crap if you just read the headlines but if you look a little deeper, it is a story of a dad who stood up and won and it's, I mean, finally, it's about time. So Ed Sheeran is a famous singer-songwriter from England. He's touring here in America. America. And he chose Macklemore. Macklemore, how do you say his name? Macklemore? I don't know this guy. Anyway, he had Macklemore open for him. Macklemore from what I can tell is a giant weeny and a bully at the same time. He takes the stage and he's facing all of the people who spent their money and took the night off to come here music and enjoy their night. And he bomb, bombards them with this rant demanding we free Palestine. You know, and he fills the stadium with screens and images of the war and saying a literal propaganda song, you know, in the stupid keeper and. And usually he would be rewarded with, oh, he is so brave. It's not brave to do that. Stop it. He's so brave. Look at him pulling these uneducated and stupid stunts. Oh, he's so brave. Now he would have normally gotten away with that. If it weren't for a regular dad who is at the concert and then posted this, I brought my wife and daughters to MetLife Friday because they were huge huge fans of yours. We arrived early. This is of Ed Shea and Sharon. I don't care. Anyway, huge fans of him. So he's writing to him online. We arrived early, spent $180 on sweatshirts. Watch the first two opening acts. We were having a great time. Then Macklemore decides to turn your concert into his political rally. Then he started chanting free Palestine and pushing his clearly uneducated version of the Israel Gaza conflict. My daughters looked at me completely confused. I had brought them to your concert not to have an opening act lectured me about Middle Eastern politics. After Friday night, I started looking into Macklemore's history. What I found included his repeated use of anti-Semitic tropes made the whole thing even worse. So I took my family. We walked alongside hundreds of your other fans and as we were walking in, even the MetLife security guards were rolling their eyes at what was happening on stage. We waited until Macklemore was finished before returning to our seats. Then we watched your show, which was phenomenal. I left Friday hoping maybe this had caught you and your team off guard. Then tonight you allowed it to happen again. You knew exactly what Macklemore had done the night before and you gave him the stage again. Friday night might have been Macklemore's decision Saturday was yours. You have a lot of Jewish fans who love your music by your albums and your merchandise and bring their kids to your concerts. Tonight you lost four of them and I suspect plenty more. Well, that post, the guy has 900 followers. It went viral. And that's all it took. One dad saying, you know what? I'm sick of this. I'm done with this. Just that one guy giving you permission and others permission to say, yeah, me too. Here's what happened next. Multiple owners of stadiums, a future tour stop said, yeah, you're not using our venue. Which is the fruit of their labor. You're not using our venue for that, okay? You want Macklemore to spout this garbage. Go ahead, but not from this venue. Then the singer Pink, who agrees with me on probably almost nothing, came out to support the owners. And now Macklemore is off the tour. And instead of taking his BS to main venues of American culture, he has to go perform in Dearborn where they love his message. And I say, good, that's great. The market is working. The free market is working. Regular people who don't want to be lectured by lunatics anymore, they don't have to be. And if you happen to be a lunatic in Dearborn Michigan, you can get that lecture. This may be the first time the free Palestine crowd has gotten their much needed reality check. I got news for you guys. You are not the good guys. You don't have the moral high ground here. And we don't want you berating us about how great you are and how you hate Israel. Your whole world view is so tiny it can fit into the words oppressor and oppressed. That's it. You don't have any more than that. And you're wrong about that. I think it was Bill Maru who said this weekend, you know, the Jews are the Native Americans. How do you not get that? And you know what? Some venues will let you speak. Others won't. It's up to them. Our schools, our culture. I'm glad somebody's saying, oh, you're not going to spread your propaganda. We're not going to pay for your crazy anymore. Can you just can we just go enjoy some music? Okay, please. I'm so sick of these people. I mean, I'm sick of me. Honestly, I'm sick of me. There are times that I'm like, oh, God, shut up, man. Who do you think you are? That's me saying it to me. Well, I want to hear somebody else do it, especially when I'm going to see music. At least you're not paying for this. Pardon me to the insiders. You're paying, but you knew what you were getting when you went in. Imagine if all of a sudden I start singing and the insiders are like, God, now cleanse singing all the time. That's not what I paid for. Get the point. Anyway, that's the message of Father sent. And maybe for the first time it was received loud and clear. This is the first time since October 7th, somebody who stood up, pushed back, and the system moved. I think people are kind of done with it. It's the beginning of the end of that nonsense. I hope. I hope. Because we were going down a really dark path and somebody's kind of stand up. No, no. You're a crazy lunatic. Go sing other than that. Zip it, pal. Don't need to hear it. I guess we have to talk about Sidney Sweeney's boobs as well. There's a sentence you just don't hear every day from somebody in my position. But everybody's upset. Apparently not everybody, not everybody. Jason, you're not upset by this. Are you? I'm the exact opposite of a set. I believe you're campaigning for more of her boobs to be seen. campaigning for more, including on the Glenn Beck program. This is a segment that I think we should do daily. No, I don't. Anyway, so she was doing an ad for who she doing this ad for. It's one of those prediction markets. I can't remember the name of the company. So she's doing an ad for prediction. It's gambling. Okay. And who is this? Where are they appealing to? Guys. And so she's, you know, sitting, you know, in a locker room off to the side. She's got footballs that's covering her nakedness. She's and she's looking hot. But, you know, there's another one with her sitting naked up on a basketball hoop. And, you know, it's it's pretty. Anyway, the reason why this is so everybody's coming unglued is because she's not a cool kid on their side. She refuses to wear the cool kid stickers. She refuses to wear the key for she refuses to say, hey, you know what? The Palestinians are XYZ. You know, we need Marxism. Blah, blah, blah. I don't even know her political. I just know she's not part of that. She might disagree with everything I say that I'm for. I don't really care. She's just not part of that scene. She's like, I don't care what anybody says about me. I don't care what you say. I am not going to become part of the Borg. And that's what's crazy. That's what does anybody remember? I'm revealing myself as a giant Star Trek geek. But does anybody remember the episodes with the Borg? The Borg was just the hive mind, the collective mind where everybody had to think alike. And it was a nightmare. It was supposed to be a bad thing. These guys are coming down dressed as the Borg going resistance's futile. You will become part of us. You're like, no, I don't think so. And that's why she's popular with half the country is because she's like, no, I'm not going to be part of the Borg. I am not at resistance's futile. Watch me. Watch me. And all these people, all these women who are coming out and they're saying, oh my gosh, this is so offensive. You're the same women who have been saying for the last two weeks, a woman who killed her three children, letting her go would be the right thing because it would forward the women's movement. Wait, wait, I mean, I am all for health care. I get that. But she killed, she strangled her three children. And you're like, yeah, but she's a hero. No, she's not. She's a killer. No, she may have a disease. She may be mentally unstable. I personally think it wasn't there, but I read enough of it. I don't, I mean, I'm out on that one. But you can disagree with that. But she's not a hero. She's not somebody you use to forward women. I mean, you tell people that it's fun. Fine, girls, it's fine. You wanna be a prostitute, be a prostitute. You need to pay for college, be a prostitute. There's nothing wrong with being a prostitute. But a good-looking woman can't sit in a pose we've all seen, we've all seen this advertisement on everything. And that's pushing the women's movement back. Oh, you. I mean, how do you do the math? Really, your head, do you have headaches all the time? You must, because I don't know how you keep that straight in your head. I mean, how do you know what you're for? Is it just because you're connected to the Borg? Is that what it is? How do you know what you're for and against? You have to check, right? Because none of it makes logical sense. You can't get up and go, oh, well, I'm against that. When you're for all the other stuff, when you're for, when you're saying that prostitution, forwards, women, how do you suddenly say, oh, what Sweeney's doing is something that we should all protest. We should all be angry about. There's no logic to that. It's just the message from the Borg. That's all it is. So, I don't get it. And as far as I'm concerned, Sydney, I think you should keep doing this. Justice? I mean, just saying as a point, as a protest, you should keep doing it. What are you laughing at? I was hoping you didn't hear me, though, I think. I would like to say, though, that I totally get it. And especially when Sydney told variety, she said, quote, I'm not a political person. I'm in the arts. I'm not here to speak on politics. That's not an area I've ever imagined getting into. They want her to be on their side. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, they don't want it. They must have it. There is no neutral in their world. Not you will comply or you're out, Ricky. Yeah, she's also dating a Jew. And not just in Sydney, Jew. Oh, well, that's the problem. A Jew who went to Israel to stand up for the Jews after October 7th, and his grandparents survived, Auschwitz. So, you know, everything is stacked against her. She must be Maga Wrightwing Barbie to them. Making sense. She's out. That being said, if I find my husband is following her on Instagram when he goes out of the room, boop, unfollow. Wait, why? Boop, unfollow. What, why would you do that? He is making a political statement. That's all he's doing. I, honey, I'm following her for political reasons. Yes, yes. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Yeah. My wife, I don't think would unfollow her. I think I'd be set down for a while. I can follow her. I do follow her. Yeah, but your husband, my husband, you have to look over my shoulder if he wants to see that prediction market ad, you know. Can't help but comes up on my screen and ads. I can't help it. Again, I gotta tell you, I'm at every prediction market website today just hoping the algorithm is like, "Oh, prediction market ads." This is so wrong. Anyway, I think this is good news. I think with the dad standing up against Macklemore, you saw what is happening, enough is enough. You've got somebody else, strong, a strong woman. That's what a strong woman does. A strong woman says, "I don't care what the world says. I don't care what the politics say. I don't care what all the people with all the money and all the fame say I have to do. I know who I am and I'm gonna be me." That's the sexiest woman. That's the most powerful woman I can imagine. A woman who knows who they are and they don't care. Keep it up. ♪ La, la, la, la, la ♪