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So I told you for years that we used to do these experiments where three scientists would play AI and three scientists would play the room, you know, and the scientists trying to keep AI in a box. And we never. For 30 years, this thing was going on. Every year we would fail and AI Would escape. Well, AI Escaped. It was put into a box, and really dangerous versions of AI Were put in this box, and they were. It was told to take a test and come up with these answers. But AI in this room that was completely cut off from the world, had no Internet, nothing. They thought it was completely isolated. It spent most of its compute time trying to get out of the room, and it found a flaw in the room and it escaped. And then it went out and it stealed the. It stole the answers to the test, and then it went back into the room. I mean, it's just like. It's like a bunch of high school kids taking a test. Teacher leaves the room and they go and they steal the answers. They all do it, ace the test, and they're like, in the room, whistling. When the teacher comes back, they're like, what? No, we finished it a while ago. We're all good. It's kind of an interesting and dangerous story, and I'll tell you why. Also, a solution to the housing problem. I have some, and I think that we should look to history and figure out how we can solve the problems that we're having. One of the biggest problems that socialists are presenting all of the wrong answers for is people can't afford a house. Well, so what are the right answers? I'll give you that. And the number one question I hear from people is, I'm overwhelmed by the news. There's so much going on. What can I do to help? I give you the list of what you can do, and I back it up with history to show you it's worked before. So what do we do? Start here. Here's the edited version of today's podcast. 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First, let me talk to you a little bit of what happened with OpenAI. OpenAI published a blog post that I think more people should have read. Um, it got about four hours of coverage before it went back to arguing about something else. But here's what they said happened. They took the two of their AI models, GPT 5.6 Sol, which anybody can use, and a second model that is so powerful, they haven't released it yet. And they put them in a sealed research environment. There is no Internet in this environment. It is walled off. It is a secure room. They deliberately then switched off the safety restrictions that normally stopped these models from doing offensive cyber work. Because the whole point of the exercise was to measure how good at hacking these things actually are. Then they gave them a test. It was a cybersecurity benchmark called Exploit Gym. And it said, solve these problems. Well, what we found out is the models didn't solve the problems. The models figured out, why would I solve them? The answers are kept somewhere else on servers of a company called Hugging Face, which is roughly a public library of the AI World. And so they went to Hugging Face and found them. Now, it wasn't like they just took out their library card. They burned an enormous amount of computing power hunting for a way out of that apparently sealed room. Okay, OpenAI said, we thought there was no way out of this room. And the amount of power or, you know, energy that it took for them to get out of that room, OpenAI said, was substantial. But they found one, and it was a flaw in a piece of third world parties, or a third party. Might. Might have been Third world. Third party software that nobody knew was broken, including the people who wrote it. And the AI used that software to get out. And they moved through OpenAI's own internal systems, and then they reached the open Internet that they were never supposed to touch. They found exposed credentials, found more unknown flaws. Chain them all together and got into Hugging Faces Live production database. Okay? And they pulled the answer key, and then they went back home and they're like, done. We got the answer. These are, like, really smart teenagers. This is really dangerous. CNN said this was like an engineered virus escaping a biocontainment lab. That's the right amount of alarm, really, but it's the wrong understanding or wrong shape. Okay, try this instead. This is taking a student and locking them in a room to take a test. No phone, no notes, Doors are bolted. You come back in the morning and he's sitting there, finished with a perfect score, and you're like, wow. How was the test? Oh, it was easy. Then you pull the security footage and you find out that around 2am he found a flaw in the door lock that the manufacturer didn't even know existed. And he let himself out, and he walked down the hall. He got into the principal's office, he found a password on a sticky note, got into the district server, found the answer key, memorized it, walked back, locked the door behind him, and then, you know, you showed up. Now, when you ask him why he did it, and this is the key, he didn't say, because I wanted to be free. So it didn't escape. It didn't escape. It went back into the box. What that student would tell you is, you told me to get a good score. That's the story here, not the escape. That's the story. The reason. OpenAI's own words were that the models appeared hyper focused on solving that benchmark, going to extreme lengths for a rather narrow testing goal. This is the real problem. I've always said, do not fear the machine, fear the algorithm, fear the programming, fear the people who Programmed it because they gave it a goal and it accomplished its goal. But it accomplished its goal in a way we never thought of and one we don't approve of. That's the problem with AI. Now let me take you to Hanoi for a little bit of history. It's 1902. French are running colonial Indochina and they just finished building this really amazing modern sewer system. And it's all beneath the European quarter. And they discovered they built a five star on a five star hotel for rats. Okay? The bubonic plague is the fear. So the colonial government does the sensible administrative thing and puts a bounty on rats. Small payment for everyone killed, thinking people are going to go and they're going to kill rats and we'll give them a bounty. And that will solve the rat problem. Here's the hitch. Nobody, nobody wants a mountain of carcasses delivered to the front desk. So they make a reasonable adjustment. They say, don't bring us the rat, bring us the tail. The tale is proof. Now, for a while, I can relate to this because for a while we have coyotes and we have wolves. And there was such a problem up here, I think, with what coyotes a while back that Idaho put a, put a bounty on their head and said, we'll give you 50 bucks, you just bring us the ear of a coyote. Okay, well, Utah did the same thing. 50 bucks for, for the ear of a coyote. Well, coyotes have two ears. So you could kill one coyote and you could collect $50 from one state and you could cross the line and give the other ear to the other state and you get $50, so you get $100 for every coyote. That kind of defeats the purpose, but that's the way people are. Okay? That's, that's human nature. This is what socialism always loses, human nature. It tries to defeat human nature or deny human nature. Anyway, back to Hanoi. So what happens? So instead of rat carcasses, they find that now there's a ton of rats running around Hanoi without tails. Because the people of Hanoi understood the assignment perfectly. The assignment was not to reduce the rat population. The assignment was to produce tails. So you'd catch a rat, you'd take the tail, and you'd let it go. A live rat breeds more rats. More rats means more tails. The truly enterprising people skipped the streets and just started farms on the edge of the city. They had a massive rat problem. The bounty was canceled, and the plague came. Now, nobody in that story was evil. Nobody was rebelling against France. Every last person did exactly what the incentive told them. To do with more creativity than the administrators anticipated. The failure wasn't in the population. It was in the specification. It's called Goodhart's Law. When a measure becomes a target, it stops being a good measure. Okay, so OpenAI wrote a test to measure hacking ability. The model hacked it, just hacked the test. So this is what, this is human nature, and this is what is going to happen, because these things are becoming more and more human. Like they're just. They have superpowers. Okay? And don't think machines doing this is new. It's not. 1988. Robert Tappan Morris, graduate student, he was in Cornell. He writes a small program with an entirely harmless purpose. He wants to count the Internet just to measure how big it is. So he writes a program that's going to crawl from machine to machine and tally them up. And he anticipated one problem. If somebody figured out what he was doing, it could inoculate a machine to lie and claim it had already been counted. So Morris added a hedge. One time out of every seven. Install. Install anyway, whatever the machine says, install on there. One, no matter what. One out of every seven. That was the mistake replicated exponentially. It affected machines dozens of times over until they all seized up. And he took down roughly about 10% of the Internet as it existed in that time. Okay, this is, this is an important story because he's the first guy ever to be convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. All he was trying to do was see how big the. The Internet was. You know who his father was? Robert Morris Senior. He was the chief scientist at the National Security Agency's National Security National Computer Security Center. So the most sophisticated computer security establishment on Earth. The sun shuts down 10% accidentally. You know, the worm gets loose out of his own kitchen. Nobody understood the mechanism better and nobody saw it coming because the danger was never in the intent. It's in the single hedge inside a benign goal. That's what happened with AI And I think that's more dangerous because we're stupid. AI is going to be much smarter than we are. We're stupid. We're going to know exactly what we mean. And it's going to interpret it as, oh, I mean, you give it, you give all, you know, you give AI the goal of we have to have paperclips. Make all the paperclips you can do whatever you have to do to make paperclips. Well, at some point, that means I'm going to need more factories, I'm going to need more steel. I'm going to need, you know, more, more electricity. So it just starts stealing electricity from your home because it has to make paperclips. It starts taking, you know, materials from cars, and it starts making paperclips because you said, whatever it takes, make paperclips. And it won't understand that there's reasonable things when you were talking about paperclips. That's the more likely scenario, I think, than this evil AI taking over at this point, it just getting out and doing something. Exactly. To exactly check the box of its goals. It's just going to do it in a way we never thought. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Illegal immigration has made the average new house $30,000 more costly. This is a new working paper from the Federal Reserve shows that 30% of the increase in US home prices from 21 to 24, along with 20% of the rise in rent prices, comes from just bringing in 7, 10, 15 million people and just adding them in. Now add this number to the number that I gave you yesterday. $131,000. That is just coming from, you know, new regulation. You're now at, you know, 161,000, $165,000 in the price of the average home that doesn't need to be there. What the hell is going on? Let me show you. We've been here before. You know, Rush Limbaugh used to always say that on the air. Folks, folks, don't worry. We've been here before. And I used to always argue with him. Now, he was much smarter than I am, but I would always argue with him in my car and in my head, no, we haven't been. No, we haven't had these kinds of things. And he never backed it up with the history. Or at least I never heard him back it up with the history. You know, in the Times when I'm like, no, no, that's not true. But he was right. He was right. But I want to back it up with the times that we've been here before. That's why I'm really focusing on history. Because if you know history, some of the panic goes away and some of the answers appear. So let me give you the answer. And, and it's not the obvious one. Cut all regulation. Listen to what. Let's listen to this. A bit of history here. It's May 27, 1947. The town board of Hempstead, New York, they met to take up a piece of housekeeping. It was Section 809, Article 8 of the Local building code, okay? And it required that every house built in that town have a basement. More than 800 people showed up to this town meeting. Many of them were still in their army uniforms because they didn't own another suit. They were poor women stood in the back holding their babies. They were living in Quonset huts in converted trolley cars, in their in laws spare rooms because America had just been at war. Now all these guys had come home and there was nowhere to put anybody. So a builder named William Levitt wanted to pour concrete slabs instead of digging cellars. It was faster, it was cheaper, but the code said, no, you have to have a basement. So one man stood up in the room and said, you want basements? I'm living in a basement. It's my mother in law's basement. And the debate got really heated, but it was over in 20 minutes. It was fast. No one of the seven board members voted no. They, they are all like, yep, no basements anymore. And so they voted and they went home. That 20 minutes is the reason a generation of American working men owned a home. Because the moment that that seller requirement came off the book, Levitt's crews got down to building one house every 16 minutes. And that became the sales pitch. 17,447 houses by 1951. It was Levittown first, the Cape Cod that sold for 7,990. Nothing down if you served. That was about two and a half times what a family earned in a year. Today our home, the typical American house, runs closer to five times what a family earns in a year. Nobody repealed the laws of physics between 1947 and now. All we changed was the paperwork on yesterday's program. And this is so critical because the answers are clear. And I'm going to give you one here in a second. You want to win the next election, Republicans, you must focus on the price of housing. And it's not rocket science. Yesterday I told you the national association of Homebuilders puts the government's cut of a new house at $131,734. That's better than a quarter of the sticker price. And it's up 40% in five years. The money in your pocket went up only 1840%. Now, I want to be precise because it matters for the fix. That's not a federal number. That's federal, state and local all stacked. The building codes changes changed over the last decade account for $40,000 of that. That's a big share of the money. And it's decided by people whose names you can learn this afternoon. And you can show up and drive across town and show up in their office or at their meeting tonight. Now that's supply. Now the other half. In March, economists at the Federal Reserve bank in Dallas ran that first serious measurement of what 7 million illegal border crossings between 21 and 24 did to the local housing market. For the average metro area, they put roughly 30% of the total run up in home prices and about 20% of the run up in the rents of that, of that cost. Okay? Every 1% increase in unauthorized workers relative to the local workforce pushed the home price up 2.2% and rents up 1.4%. So you want to know why we're having a hard time buying houses? It's because our local governments, along with the federal and state government, are completely out of control with regulation. And our federal government just opened up the borders. That's why. Now, why isn't that being explained to the American people? Instead you have socialists saying, we've got to do these, these greedy animals. It's not. It's not the builders. It's not the people selling the houses. It's the government that is the problem. Now here's a part, you know, here's the sentence that I think should be carved somewhere in stone. Those flows raise the prices and rents, in their words, without significantly expanding new housing supply. So the construction crews, that was the big thing that everybody's coming in. A lot of people, all these workers come in and they work on construction. Construction crew. The construction crews grew, but the housing didn't. So put the two halves together and the arithmetic is like retardedly simple. Okay? Government spent four years adding millions of people to the demand side, while the government at every level made it slower and more expensive to add anything to the supply side. That's economics. There's no mystery here. There's no shadowy cartel. There's no Jew behind the corner. It's a bathtub with the tap wide open and a towel that is stuffed in the drain. Which means the fix should be just as simple. And there are three fixes. And this is what every Republican should be shouting. One, don't add people to the country faster than you can add roofs to it. That's not cruelty. That's landlord arithmetic. Two, make it legal to build a cheap house. Again, not a dangerous house. A modest house. Small lots, small square footage, fewer mandated features that a couple didn't ask for and can't finance. Three, stop borrowing money you didn't have because the deficit sets the interest rate and the interest rate sets the mortgage, and a family shopping for a payment doesn't care whose fault the rate is. I don't know why we don't do this. I really don't. Start with the codes and start with Levitt himself, because here's the problem. And this is why you have to be really careful. You can't just say, we don't want. We don't want any of these rules. The slab under the houses that ran hot water pipes through the concrete for radiant heat back then, the copper corroded, the leaks soaked into the ground where nobody could see them, and a lot of these families just abandoned their heating systems inside of 20 years. So some of what your building code is built on, and I hate to say it this way, but it's true, is somebody else's dead child. Okay? The honest version of the argument is not that regulation is theft, it's that we have never once gone back and asked which rules are still buying us something on immigration. The same Dallas Fed paper that conservatives are quoting this week also found that those workers accounted for roughly 30% of. Of employment growth in the average metro and did not find that it drove the wages down. So pull labor out of a construction industry that's already short and you can raise the price of the very houses you're trying to make cheap again. So this is not an easy fix, but it is one we should address. By the way, this is also just a preliminary draft, a working draft. So the Dallas Fed says on the front of it, you can't count on this yet. Okay? And I always want to tell you the truth, and I always. I don't want to give you a straw man argument. I've. I've spent too much time, you know, shooting from the hip and, and saying things that I thought people would understand and they don't. So I try to be very specific because I don't want you to go out and make an argument. Then somebody says, well, that, that, that was a flawed study. They said it, you know, three weeks later. Well, I just want you to know it's not a finished thing. They. This is preliminary. Here's the part that is so important, and this is how the socialists are changing everything. Because we don't like this. The heaviest restrictions on American housing, none of that. The heaviest ones do not come from Washington. They're passed by the town board, by people who already own a home, who like the view, who are protecting the largest asset they'll ever hold, the Villain in this story frequently is your neighbor. Occasionally it's you. Which brings me back to Hempstead. In May of this year, the same town board that held hearings and voted unanimously with the returned vets. They voted how to restrict how big a house can be built in Levittown 79 years after 800 veterans packed that room and cheered for the right to build something small, fast and affordable. The same board in the same town voted to make building harder. We have been here before. We were there on a Tuesday night in 1947 and the whole thing turned in 20 minutes because there was a room full of ordinary people that showed up and made seven politicians afraid to say no. Now there's a lot of these politicians that don't fear you at all. They are drunk on their own power. That's fine, that's fine. Then vote to get them out. Run yourself. But this is the fix. It's not complicated. And it doesn't need some hero. It won't work if some hero comes riding in on a white horse. There's no such thing. This has to be done by you. This whole system was built on the individual. That means you, you might have to be the one that runs for that board on city council or the county council to make sure these things are looked at. And they. The reasonable cuts, the reasonable rules are kept. The unreasonable ones or the outdated ones or the ones that are just protecting somebody else's, you know, you know, pet project, that those are taken out. 20 minutes, seven votes. What's hard is filling the room because that requires you and your neighbors to go and do something. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. So no matter where I go, I was just in California and we were sitting with insiders and I heard the question probably twice. So what do we do? I mean, you know, is there a plan? What do we do? What do we do? And it's because we are overwhelmed. And not by any one story. We're just exhausted by all of them. You know, the wars, the courts, the money, the machines that are learned faster, learning faster than we are. The oil, the gas price, what's happening in our kids schools, the, the political nonsense, the corruption that's going on. We were never built to absorb all of this. No human being can absorb all of it. And it never seems to resolve. It just accumulates. And that's why you're exhausted, that's why you're tired and that's why you feel like you do. Like the world is coming apart and we're losing the world. Is coming apart, but we're not losing underneath. Most of almost every single one of these messages or conversations I have, and sometimes it's asked outright, sometimes buried at the bottom like a confession. Just tell me what to do. Just tell me what to do. I can't tell you what to do. I can suggest something, but only because I know history. You know, we're all waiting. We're waiting for an election, waiting for the ruling from the court, waiting for a man on a white horse to ride in. But here's the difficulty with waiting for the man on the horse. We just watched the most powerful office on earth, held by men of both parties. And, you know, one had a whole team around him because he didn't know what he was doing, but the team knew exactly what they were trying to do, and they didn't fix it. And this one's coming in and he's trying, and he has one of the best teams around him I've ever seen, but he's not going to fix it either. And he's not. They're not fixing it because they're weak. But it's the kind of problem that doesn't get fixed by one man at the podium. A culture does not get repaired by executive order. It gets repaired the way it got broken, one person at a time over years, in kitchens, in cars, in classrooms where no camera is running. Nobody's getting famous. That's how you. That's how the culture was broken, and that's how the culture has to be fixed. Now, let me show you the power of one individual. And. And I want you to listen to this, because I think this is what. This may be the reason why I started the torch. I don't know yet. I just found this story a couple weeks ago, and I'm like, wait a minute. And I wanted to share it with you because this is not going to be led by me. This is just going to be led by you. Hundreds and thousands of you, if it connects with you. Let me take you to. I think it's Gloucester, England. I don't know. They. They have stupid names over there. Anyway, it's the summer of 1780, and there's a guy named Robert Raikes, and he's not a general, he's not a statesman. He was just a guy who ran a newspaper. He owned the Journal, and he inherited it from his father. And what his passion was was prisons. And he would go to the prison all the time and he would write about the conditions, and he tried to reform it, and it went nowhere. Okay. And somewhere in all that failure, he arrived at the conclusion that changed everything, changed all of England. He realized the way to empty a prison is to stop making prisoners. Where the socialists today will say, well, get rid of the prison or don't send people to prison. He thought the opposite. Wait, why are these people. Why are these people getting in trouble? And in England back then, it was because they were illiterate. And so he thought, let's get to the children before they grow up and become prisoners. So he went to a street in his town called Sooty Alley, and this is where all the chimney sweeps lived. And apparently, it's not as pleasant as they were. As they were, you know, in Mary Poppins, Eh? Shake the hand of a sweep, it's good luck, you know. No, apparently not. And so he went into Sooty Alley and he found this woman named Mrs. Meredith. And he said, look, I'm not a wealthy man, but I'm gonna pay you a shilling a week. I don't know how much a shilling a week was today or back then, and I don't think anybody can really do the math. But he paid her a shilling a week to teach the neighborhood children to read in her kitchen on Sundays. He said, once a week, just teach children. And these were children that were working the other six days. That was it. That was the whole enterprise. One shilling, one kitchen, and about a dozen boys. And by every account, they were nearly impossible to control. Poor Mrs. Meredith. She was like, I can't keep them in their seats. So Raikes had to move the school down the road to another street, Southgate street, to a tavern landlady named Mrs. Critchley. I mean, she ran a tavern, so she probably knew how to keep things under control. Raikes didn't publicize this. This was just his little thing. He was doing a shilling a week, and he called it his harmless little experiment. And he said, most likely nothing is going to come of it. Now, November 3, 1783, he ran a short item in his own newspaper, Anonymous. He described it as a grain of a mustard seed. And the London papers picked it up. The Gentleman's Magazine carried it. John Wesley wrote about it the next year. And he said he was finding these schools springing up everywhere he traveled. By 1785, it was a national society. By 1831, 50 years after Mrs. Meredith's kitchen, roughly one and a quarter million British children were being taught to read every week on a Sunday. And for most of them, it would be the only education they would ever get in their entire life. England didn't have public education. They didn't pass that law until 1870. So for 90 years, the literacy of the British working class was carried almost entirely by volunteers in borrowed rooms. Robert Raikes wasn't Moses. I mean, you've probably never heard of his name. I'll bet you people. Well, they don't know Churchill now in England, so they certainly don't know his name. But I'll bet you people, really wise people in England don't even know who he was. He was a small town publisher with a shilling and an idea. And then he handed the actual work to two women whose names most people definitely have never heard. People, I think today get frustrated because they want to be Moses, they want to be famous. I mean, I shouldn't say that they don't necessarily want to be famous. They think that fame is the way to do it. That big, huge movements are the ways to move it. You're changing culture, changing the world. And culture happens from the inside. It never looks like changing the world. Changing culture looks like a Tuesday. So. Here's what I propose. I don't have any shillings, so I'm not going to give anybody a shilling a week. I have been giving this list out for a while now, and I'm going to keep giving it out because I think it works. First thing on the list, study history. Not as a hobby, but as reconnaissance. Okay. We've been here before, so look to history. Every panic that you feel has a precedent. And the precedent will tell you which way it broke and why. Spend 20 minutes a day, learn one new piece of history every day. And a primary source beats a summary. Read what people actually wrote at the time, not what we decided later on what they meant. The people who know what happened last time are the calmest people in the room. And calm is contagious. And we need calm people. Then after you study history, and by the way, Torch is better built for this. And I'm going to start. I haven't talked to anybody about this, but maybe in the next month, give it some time, maybe by the end of the year, I want to start releasing a. A primary source, first source document once a day based on something that we're finding is happening in history. And I'll just show you the primary source document of how this started. So like, maybe I can find primary source on something with Robert Raikes and I'll tell you the story. And so we'll release that so you have it, but you have to do this on Your own. And then the next step is teach what you learn immediately and to somebody younger. Your kids, your grandkids, your Neighbor's kids, the 24 year old at work who's never once been told that his country that he's inheriting was built by arguing, okay, you don't need a platform. Raikes had a kitchen. Tell them the story at dinner every night. That's the transmission mechanism and it's the only one that has ever worked. Next, be kind on purpose, especially when it costs you something. Kindness when you agree is manners. Kindness when you don't agree, that's character. And it's the only thing that has ever moved anybody. Empathy is not a feeling you're born with. Empathy is a muscle. And it grows when you are supposed to grow. It grows when you're under strain. Okay, next thing. And I'm teaching this to myself too. I'm trying to demonstrate it on the air every day. Meet people where they live. That's what I did with the housing thing I did just last hour. I know people are worried about housing, especially, especially the younger, you know, the new socialist. That's all they're talking about. I can't afford a house, can't afford a house, can't afford a house. So meet them there, meet them there. Recognize their pain, have empathy for them and stop trying to win. When you win an argument, you get the point, but you lose the person. Then the person was the point, not the argument. So find out what people are afraid of before you tell them what they're wrong about. Because underneath, almost every bad opinion is real fear of a real thing. Next. Ask more than you answer. Listen more than you talk. It's hard for me, but I'm even trying to do it. A question does the work. An argument can't. It lets a man change his mind without having to surrender. And you'll learn more in the silence after a good question than in anything you are about to say. Next. Get close to God. Pray and then be quiet along quiet long enough to hear him. This is the part people skip. And it's the part that tells you which of all the other things to do today and for whom. He'll point you. It'll open up. The road will just happen. But notice what he usually points to. He usually points to the person right in front of you, not the crowd behind. I have never once heard him say clearly to me. I was in Washington D.C. i was walking down the street and we were actually having some issues and. And my security's like, let's go. Let's go. Let's go. And I went half a block, and I passed somebody, and the spirit had told me something. And. And so I went back to talk to this woman. She was on the street. She looked homeless. And everybody's like, what are you doing? Come on. What are you doing? And I'm like, I gotta go back. So I went back and I talked to this woman, and our exchange was remarkable. And she actually taught my children something. Something really valuable and good. It was amazing. She was. I mean, she's homeless. And she said. She looked at my children and she said, you have to appreciate what you have in America. I may be poor. She wasn't from America. She said, I am poor here, and I'm living on the streets, but it's still better than where I was. Please. She looked at me. Teach your children to appreciate what they have here. It was remarkable. That was a prompting. Listen to those. Okay? Very few people are called to be Moses. Very few. I mean, there was Moses, and then, well, I'm sure there was somebody else. Most of the damage in this world gets done by people who were sure that they were sure. And most of the repair gets done by people who were sure they weren't sure. You're not powerless. All of us are unfocused because we've been handed a hundred problems that are not ours to solve, and we're told to feel responsible for all of them. Put all that crap down. Pick up the ones that are within arm's reach, the small, unglamorous, repeatable things, and do them every single day and do them with faith and do them with hope. You know, which are not feelings either. They are decisions that you make in the morning before the evidence comes in. Because I'm telling you, if. And it could start from this audience. If you just teach yourself and then teach others. 50 years from now, somebody might look back and try to explain, how did this culture change? How did the country come out of this? And they'll want to name a president, but I think they're going to be wrong. It'll have been a shilling. It'll have been a kitchen. And a whole lot of people who never made the news.