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0:11Helping to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. This is The Constitution Study on the American Outlaw Network with your host, Paul Engel. People left, right, and center complain about political polarization. Do we take the time to examine our contributions to it? Hello there, everyday Americans, Paul Engel here with The Constitution Study, where we read instead of the Constitution. Teacher action generation be free. Glad you could join me today. Polarization, I mean, it's it's something that's been well, it's been part of our lives mostly most of my life, although it seems to be a lot sharper lately, especially since uh, well, Donald Trump and COVID.

1:01It seems like those two things, maybe going back to Barack Obama, but it seems like there's been this inflection point and and this it's kind of been ratcheted up to 11. So I want to take some time and take a look at some of the contributing factors, some of the ways that we the people contribute both directly and through our representatives to this political polarization. As I said, Biden had a lot to do with this. It you know, as like I said, it went up uh uh a bit under Clinton and Bush and uh and and again Obama and and Trump and Biden and Trump. It just seems like it keeps getting ratcheted higher and higher.

1:49Because of his testimony before different uh kangaroo courts in Congress. Yes, these are kangaroo courts. Congress does not have an oversight authority, there's nothing in the Constitution that delegates to Congress the authority to oversee the rest of the government. Now they can decide whether or not to fund the rest of the government, but this, you know, oh, we're gonna do these investigations and then pass it along to the Department of Justice is again, it's more of a political showmanship than anything else. And the the Jack Smith uh um uh hearings really has been pretty much the same, but there has been some very interesting things that have come out of it. For example, are you one of the almost 4,800 Americans who uh uh uh had their checks examined because they donated to Trump or Republican entities between 2019 and 2023? Do you really think that's the role uh of a special counsel is to um check into your donations? Shouldn't that be private information? Now, of course, this is this is held up well, you know, we were doing an investigation in the Trump and and we had to investigate did

3:03any of those investigations have to do with uh illegal contributions? And it's really in some cases people who gave as little as a dollar to the president or some of his groups, they had their uh the their checks, they got the Smith uh team got copies of the checks, even for making small dollar donations, most of them were small dollar donations, all to focus on what happened on January 6th. Uh I'm sorry, did donating to a presidential candidate suddenly make you uh uh a suspect in the January 6th the criminal activities, because not all January 6th was the criminal. The criminal activities in January 6th. Or was this more political polarization of we'll just you know the the we'll go the enemy of my enemy is is somebody I need to invest or the friend of my enemy is somebody I need to investigate. Is that really uh is that really how things are supposed to work in this country? Uh then again, uh is the are the investigations that are now going into uh Mr. Smith, um, are they the the the congressional investigations are they the way things are supposed to remember Congress writes the law, the executive branch execute

4:16the law. So if there's an allegation or even a possibility that Mr. Smith broke the law, it's not up to Congress to discover it, it's up to the executive branch. But then again, executive branch becomes so polarized, we have to make uh uh we have to wonder would anything actually be found out, or would it simply be just more political finger pointing? I mean, the Democrats did it when they were in power. Remember the the prime time show trial of allegedly investigating January 6th?

4:48Now we have the well, not prime time, but certainly show trials of both the Senate and House looking into Jack Smith's activities. And again, uh I think the House, when they looked at it, they referred Mr. Smith to the Department of Justice. They didn't do anything except, well, play partisan politics, and that's kind of how things go. Um, I I find it why did uh Mr. Smith not investigate anybody who donated to the the the Biden uh uh campaign or or other groups? No, it's partisan, kind of the same way that uh Jack Smith went after um only reporters with a well well I'm I'm assuming a certain uh political uh preference.

5:35I mean investigators claim to have found communication that nearly 50 journalists of 50 journalists were collected by the Jack Smith and his team um from more than a dozen media outlets. Isn't that interesting? Now, the one thing I will say is this does seem to be a more bipartisan list of of uh news outlets that were investigated. I mean, you have everybody from 60 Minutes and Bloomberg to Fox News and Mark Levin. So uh at least he seems to be a bit more of an equal opportunity investigator into people for apparently the crime of reporting the news. Or is it just because they reported the new news that um Mr. Levin, Mr.

6:22Smith's uh master was not real thrilled with? That could be. I mean, how again they're he's looking at the communications from members of the media based on what? How did he get these the warrants to actually do this? Now, of course, uh it's immediately described as a massive First Amendment breach by by this uh federal prosecutor, but uh again, that depends. I mean, if he got a warrant to collect this data, then and if that warrant was valid, meaning he had probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly described the data to be collected and seized, well, then it's more of a Fourth Amendment violation than a First Amendment violation. But then again, we're dealing with uh politicians, most of them went to law school. My guess is they probably didn't study the actual language of the Constitution. Uh, but uh again, was this a partisan hit job now being investigated by another partisan organization?

7:21So we had Mr. Smith, Jack Smith collecting data on donors, uh, everyday Americans on the news media. Oh, by the way, yeah, lawmakers. And big surprise, it was basically Republican lawmakers. Um now, Mr. Mr. Smith justified this saying, well, it was centrally relevant into his investigation um into charges, uh the alleged charges against Donald Trump that were dropped, um in his uh alleged attempt to overturn the results of 2020 presidential elections. Um he said, well, listen, all we gathered were were uh records of of calls that were made and how long they were. And and we did find out that that he contacted uh um uh a couple of the the uh a couple of member uh lawmakers that uh actually may have tried to attempted to delay the certification of the election. See, so that means he he did it. Really? You needed the records of members of Congress to do this? Again, not the records of Donald Trump, but the cell phone records of members of Congress.

8:36What was the probable cause that these members of Congress were hmm? Now, Senator Kennedy, during his uh questioning, um well, he asked some interesting questions. You saw just the records of the Republicans, and you knew that violated the speech and debate cause, didn't you? That is incorrect. We sought to comply with Did you take con law? I'm sorry, Senator. Were you in the quad playing Frisbee during the con law at Harvard Law School? I did take constitutional law, yes. Yeah, but then you had to know it violated the speech and debate clause. Now again, I don't know. I'm assuming Kennedy took con law. I'm kind of guessing that he didn't actually study the constitution because uh seeking phone records does not violate the speech and debate clause. The speech and debate clause says, uh, this is Article 1, uh Section 6, Clause 1, that says senators and representatives shall, among other things, uh, for any speech or debate in either house, they shall not be questioned in any other place. That doesn't say anything about other communications. It has to be a speech or a debate made on the floor of the House or the Senate.

9:59Your private conversations are not quite covered under the speech, but then again, uh uh, you know, Mr. Kennedy doesn't seem to be too concerned about that. Uh, and in his own inimitable fashion, uh, he has his own opinion about uh Mr. Smith. You make me want to throw up in my mouth. That again was in response to his statement about the speech in debate clause, which again, Mr. Kennedy has wrong. Now, um, in again, being questioned about a something you say on the floor is one thing.

10:32Investigating the what phone calls you make does not violate the speech in debate clause. It's one of the things where Mr. Smith got, but again, this shows a political polarization. Kennedy is a Republican, Smith represented a Democratic president, and apparently was going after Republican members of Congress, which pisses off Mr. Kennedy. Not saying I'm surprised or even shocked, or but again, this is um this is kind of what I've become to expect. It's more political polarization than actual than as much an investigation into wrongdoing, because again, Congress can do nothing. There's nothing Congress can do to Mr. Smith.

11:16They can't well, I suppose they could technically impeach him, which means he could never serve in the federal government again, but that's really about it. But I wonder how many Americans look at these kangaroo courts, these show trials done by both political parties, and they're just you know they're just salivating over the the red meat that's nothing more but more than than political showmanry. The Democrats did it, I called out, the Republicans are doing it, I'm calling it out. And this is not the first time, but it shows the polarization, it shows the frightful despotism that uh uh George Washington warned us about in his uh in his farewell address, right? When he said that the alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural party session, which in different ages and countries have perpetuated the most hardy normaties, is itself a frightful despotism. This is what we're living through, folks. And do you know why these political partisans are salivating over the attacks on their political opponents?

12:27Because we've taught them that that's how you win elections. The American people have taught their representatives that it's more important to protect the party than it is to actually do your job. Therefore, that's what where that's where they go after the red beats. Why the Democrats did it, it's why the Republicans do it. There's not a single Republican there that I guess is concerned about losing their job because they're not fulfilling their oath of office. Because they are exercising powers not delegated to Congress by the Constitution.

13:00So they're more worried about um, again, who the political party of the that will control the the House and Senate than in a cut in a few months. Not so much about their actual oath of office, and that's because that's how we the people have taught them how they get elected. We're more worried about uh uh uh uh donkeys and elephants than we are about the actual character of the men and women we hire to represent us. So you want to know why polarization is so great in this country? Because that's what we the people feed on. That's what we've trained them. We've taught the politicians, we've taught the pundits, we've taught the media.

13:43This is how you get attention, this is how you get donations, this is how you get uh uh eyeballs so you can charge advertising is by red meat. It's by political partisanship. And then we're shocked, shocked to find that political partisans that we've taught this is how you get elected, are actual political partisans. You know, it it to me it's it's interesting. We act as if we have nothing to do with this. We're the people who've trained them. This is how you there are two ways you get elected political partisanship and bribery. And then we're shocked to find out that, well, our representatives are political partisans that love handing out bribes to us.

14:25Now, it's interesting because you know part of the way of dealing with partisans with with this political polarization is recognizing that not everybody's gonna agree with us, and they maybe, just maybe, have a point. I have a guest coming up, a Barbara Blackman. She and her husband wrote a book that we were gonna talk about. Now, I will admit, uh, I don't probably don't agree with Ms. Blackman on a lot of things, but I do agree on one thing, and that is the only way that polarization comes down, the the level of polarization is if we listen to the other side, we give them the opportunity to speak their mind, and we we give we with a with a fair hearing, you know.

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21:02it's it's become such a part of our society now that it's almost people think there's nothing you can do. But you and your husband have written a book that well has a suggestion. Tell us a little bit about you, your background of you and your husband, and what led to this book. Well, I'm a graduate of Jackson State University. I'm a graduate of the University of Alabama. I received an MBA there. I received my law degree from the University of Mississippi Law School. I received an LLM in taxation from New York University.

21:41I'm a member of the Mississippi State Bar as well as the New York State Bar. My husband is also an attorney. He attended Tougalou College and the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Mississippi State Bar as well as the DC Bar. My husband spent 41 years in the House of Representatives in Mississippi, and I spent 20 years in the state Senate. So we both have unique perspectives from both sides as to politics. I also became in 2003 the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor. This was the first time since Reconstruction, a black person, and less known a black woman, was able to become the nominee of a major party.

22:53But you're an attorney, and there's a question I ask every attorney I meet. When you were in law school, did you study the actual language of the constitution or did you study constitutional law with the classes you were taught in law school? I studied constitutional law, but studying constitutional law, you went by those sections. So yes, we studied constitutional law. And the most important one to me was the obviously the 13th and 14th amendment. Yep, I under the I asked because again, constitutional law is the opinion of judges. And I'm amazed as a lay person, I never went to law school, that you can get an advanced degree in American law without studying the actual supreme law of the land. But that's that's why I ask. I've got this kind of running poll, and I've had one person so far in the last 10, 12 years tell me they actually studied the constitutional law school.

24:04Um, but you know, I also find it interesting, you're involved in state government. And one of the things I always point to here is we spend way too much time focusing on Washington, D.C. The people have much more power and influence over state and local governments. You get you can find time with your representative of the state center, you can you can talk with them, you get so much more engaged, and they're just as able to infringe on our rights as Washington is. So you and your husband obviously have been um engaged in what we talk about here at The Constitution Study. Now, you and your husband have written this book, Two Minds, One Rhythm.

24:42Um, what's the basis of the book? What's this about? Well, the book is about our shared experiences, our individual experiences, our growing up, especially my husband doing Jim Crow and him having gone to jail at 16, put on the back of a chicken truck, taken to jail because he was protesting. And in Mississippi, if two black people were together, then you were guilty of a protest. You could if you could not be together unless you had a permit. But what this book is about, it's not for black people, it's not for brown people, it's for all people.

25:42It's us sharing lessons about what is happening in the United States today, and we believe that all of those things that are occurring in the United States, they were first begun in Mississippi. Um voting rights that's being challenged right now. We know that Mississippi, we had to pay poll taxes. We had to rely upon the civil rights laws in order for us to vote. We know that what ICE is doing right now to immigrants, they did that under color of law in Mississippi. Sheriffs, deputies, police, Mississippi Highway Patrolmen, they were enforcing laws against us, just as what is occurring across the country right now. I know that you remember just a couple of days ago where the US Supreme Court has allowed Donald Trump to be able to look at people's social security information to be able to see, quote unquote, whether they are illegal citizens for voting.

27:24We've experienced that all of our lives where we would go to vote and they're looking to see if your name is on the voting list, and somehow your name doesn't appear. What that Supreme Court did was an abomination to this country because voting is the most precious right that we have, and when you place obstacles to voting, then you're placing obstacles to people's lives. You're saying that their lives are devalued, you're saying that what our four fathers fought for, that was insignificant. We broke away from England because of taxation without representation, and now everything that we broke away from, Donald J. Trump is instituting in the United States of America.

28:40And we as Americans have got to come together to ensure that our democracy continues to exist because that's what we fought for when we broke away was for democracy. That's why that US Constitution was established so that we would have more rights than what we had under the British. Well, you know, I find it interesting because every state constitution I've checked requires a person to be a citizen of the United States in order to vote. Now, that isn't a requirement established by the federal constitution, but of every state I've ever checked, which is about a half of them at this point, they all require a person to be a citizen. Now, I I agree, I have issues with the enhanced uh was the the not the SAVE act that's in Congress, but this uh voter thing, because again, Social Security numbers were never meant to be ID numbers. Like that that the law that created them. But um as I understand the the leg the the original legislation before the executive order, it was a place for uh government agencies, state, local, federal, to validate the citizenship of somebody for something that required citizenship, like registering to vote.

30:13Is it the problem with that, or is there the problem with accessing social security numbers? Well, that constitution says that if you are born in the United States, you are a citizen of the United States. Except, ma'am, it doesn't say that. It says if you're born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Thereof, that is correct. It says And the gentleman who proposed that language in the Senate to add that to the joint resolution that became the 14th Amendment, said it would, you know, he understood that to be the natural law that it would not include foreigners, aliens, or children of foreign dignitaries. So um the under the the recognition of citizenship is not simply, were you born here? You had to be born here and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Um, you go back to the case Wang Kim Arc, the Supreme Court literally said, well, he was born to parents that were subject to the Emperor of China, but ignoring the language of the Constitution, ignoring the language of federal law, they said, but he's a citizen anyway.

31:29Um the Supreme Law of the land is not the Supreme Court. Subject to the laws of the United States. Now, if you really it does not say subject to the laws of the United States, it says subject to the United States. Okay, but if you really want to know the purpose for the creation of the birthright citizenship, if you were recall, it was because slaves, former slaves, were not entitled to vote. And that was created so that slaves, former slaves would have the right to vote. Yes. And that's and and um that that was an injustice done. But again, the gentleman who said that the who added the language and subject to the jurisdiction thereof said that would not include foreigners and or aliens. It would not allow someone to simply show up on our shores and become a citizen. Now, I agree that everybody who is a citizen of the United States should have it should have be their election should be free, fair, and transparent. It needs to be open, it needs to be public. And uh uh and I agree that I've seen what ICE has done, is gone, has violated the Constitution. I've seen uh again, I don't believe this. The the nowhere does

32:52a president say, hey, we're gonna change the rules for state registrations, state voter registrations. So I do see those issues. Um I I've got a few minutes left, but I want to make sure. Tell us a little bit uh more about what's in the book and uh let us know where people can find out more. Thank you, Paul. In the book, you will find out that both I told you I shared with your audience about Edward and my education. We focus on education because people prey on ignorance. And we have to make certain that education is a priority again in the United States.

33:42We wouldn't even be having this discussion if people would read the Constitution for themselves and educate themselves. But in this era of TikTok and Instagram and Snapchat and 24-hour news cycles, you don't know what is actually real and what is not. The only way you can get that is educating yourself. Our parents stressed education was the way out. Education was opportunity. And if Americans would go back to those basics that we learned when we were growing up and focus on education, then we could heal this fractured nation because all of us have individual talents, but all of us share common interest in that we want to live in a democratic society.

35:04We want economic opportunities for our children, and if we can focus on those things, then we could heal this nation. But if we continue to allow them to divide us, then this democracy would is going to be doomed. Well, Barbara, thank you for your time. Uh, interesting discussion, and uh maybe we'll have you on again sometime. Thank you so very much, Paul. And again, thank your listening audience. And please go to two mindsone rhythm.com and you'll read more about the book, and you can see where you can order the book. So, again, uh I'm sure after the discussion, uh, there are a lot of things that Ms. Blackman and I disagree on. Mrs. Blackman, and that's okay.

36:04I need to hear the, we all need to hear the other side. We all need to have our assumptions questioned so that we can examine them. And I'm sure there's a lot we we agree with as well. That's why I hope you enjoyed the the conversation that we had. And I hope you'll take some of her ideas to heart. Maybe there's there's a truth in there that uh uh you hadn't thought of before. Now, I want to remind you, Ms. Blackman came on because someone asked, they contacted me through the website and they asked if I would be interested in having her on the program. You can ask a question, you can ask as I'd interview somebody, you can have a you have a question about the constitution or or uh something constitutional, something we do here at The Constitution Study. There's two ways to do it. You can go to the website, constitutionstudy.com slash questions, fill out the form and ask your question, or you can email me at questions at constitutionstudy.com. Either way works, either way gets you to the same place. Me.

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41:13And 47% are not sure whether or not to blame uh President Trump or President Biden. Now, asked whether or not the Republican, Trump and the Republicans have done a uh bet their best job on the economy. 51% said no, 44% said yes. And uh if they said if prices on everyday items plummeted, 53% say we'd be more likely to vote Republicans, and 43% said no. So what am I seeing? Um again, I'm seeing this political polarization. It starts with the question.

41:46Remember, surveys, polls, it's not just the answers, it's how the questions are stated that have a huge impact on the answers and how you interpret the answers. So let's start with this. Trust. Now, first of all, most people I talk to don't understand inflation, they believe inflation is the increase of prices, not realizing that the increase of prices is the consequence of inflation, but inflation is not the only reason for the increase in prices. And a perfect example has shown up recently. So everyone I know is complaining about the high price of gasoline. As I said before, I recently drove a truck from upstate New York down to Tennessee where I live. I was collecting some of my stuff my father had in storage.

42:35I thought I would never be glad to see $4 a gallon gasoline. It was incredibly expensive. And that's something people see every day. However, the increase in gasoline prices is not inflation. All right. It was an increase of price due to foreign policy. We attacked Iran. Iran disrupted uh one of the main oil choke points, the Strait of Hormuz, where a lot of of oil and dissillates travel through. This decreased the supply, which drove up prices. That, ladies and gentlemen, not inflation. Inflation is when your money is worth less, not when something is more expensive because of some other factor.

43:20But again, this lack of understanding now, there people are blaming Republicans for high prices. Well, when it comes to fuel, yes, the Republicans are blamed for high prices. Why? Because they decided now is the time to attack Iran. Now is the time to say enough is enough. Um, whether they did it because of the the fear of them getting a nuclear weapon or the fact that uh they declared war on us, what, 50 years ago? Um who knows? But they did, and that drove up the president. Other other prices are not as much as responsible to Republicans.

43:57Now, again, you know, food's going up, a lot of things are going up because of transportation costs. But again, if you look at the history, why would you trust Democrats to reduce prices, especially recent history under the Biden administration? I don't know, but this is people's sentiments, right? Um, when it comes to better on the economy, it's interesting. We have low unemployment. Um, we had low inflation until um uh, well, we had low inflation until prices went up, and again, which is not truly inflation, that's a whole nother thing. Yeah, we the prices were better. Unemployment is down, uh, underemployment is still pretty high, but still being worked on. But I find it interesting why people say, well, the Democrats will do it better when you look at their history. Now, not everybody disagrees with me. And again, I don't care that it's Republicans versus Democrats, it's the policies they've put in place.

44:53Um, both sides like to regulate things, both sides like to spend money that would make a drunken sailor blush. Um, you know, both sides do this. I ag I agree, which is why I don't support parties. But I find it interesting that not only the the poll, but the analysis of the poll is is all about this political polarization, this party polarization between donkeys and elephants, as if that is the only factor that has led to higher prices and uh uh other things that are driving people crazy today. Again, the Republican that we're still dealing with trillion dollar, multi-trillion dollar, two was it, two trillion dollars expected this year? Those are deficits. This is a Republican in the in the White House with Republicans in control of the House and the Senate, barely agreed, but the Republicans are in charge and it's still happening.

45:50So why is it uh um being so polarized? Another area of polarization is this mental disease known as transgenderism. Now, I'm sure someone out there screamed, see, Paul, you just polarized this by calling it a mental disease. No, I I may be polarizing, but sadly, sometimes the truth is polarizing. See, truth is either true or not true, right? There's a simple fact, there's certain things that come down to true or not true. They are truly a binary decision.

46:19For example, no one was assigned a sex at birth, not a single human being was assigned a sex at birth. The closest you could get, you could say, well, Adam was assigned to sex because God created him and created a man. And then he created Eve and said, Well, you got man, you got woman. They were the only ones who had their sex is assigned. Sex is a function not of birth, but of conception. High school biology says sex is a question of of of conception, and you're with with extremely rare exceptions. It is defined at birth, it is defined genetically, and it is blatantly obvious in the physical manifestation of sex, which we also call gender. Now, I also find that interesting because when I look gender up in a dictionary, languages are gendered, humans have sex. But again, so we have people that pretend that a boy can become a girl and a girl can become a boy simply because they think so, because they want so, as if wanting and wishing made things true. Now, probably for most of human history, there have been people who were confused, they had that mental disorder. In fact, it was it was the diagnostic manual called it a

47:39mental disorder to for a man to think he's a woman, a woman to think he's a man. He was born in the wrong body. And for thousands of years, there have been a small number of people who had this problem, and well, they they hit it for the most part. But now we have a group of people that say, hey, we're gonna take this mental disorder and we're gonna pretend it's a physical disorder, and we're not only gonna start treating adults with this disorder, we're gonna start treating children. And of course, that took the polarization, turned it up to 11. Because now you have families and families that recognize that this is a mental thing, and that something like 95-99% of teens who think they're on the wrong body grow out of it. It's puberty, right?

48:26Puberty is confusing. They think maybe I got this wrong, and that's being reinforced by governments, being reinforced by schools, it's being reinforced by child welfare policies. This is a this polar is growing. But I think part of the reason that it's growing is when uh uh parents or others say, Well, we have to do this because this is real. We treat it as if they're true. We forget that sometimes polarization is a good thing. Again, true or false. Jumping off a building, is it a good thing or a bad thing?

49:04If you jump off of a 20-story building, I most people consider that a bad thing. You're going to die. Unless something strange miraculous happens, you're gonna die. It's a binary choice. And when we pretend that boys can become girls and we allow other people to be harmed by these this delusion, well, that's a good polarization. That's something we should polarize. Now, I bring this up because a a bill that was introduced by uh by uh Senator Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt um claims to prevent uh child welfare agencies from treating parents who refuse to affirm a child's transgender identity as child abuse. Now, there's a problem with this, though.

49:55You see, this is Congress claiming a thor authority under the law that Congress doesn't have. Now, at best, what they could say is, well, we're defending a parent's liberty to raise their children as they see fit under the 14th Amendment that prevents states from doing this. But again, um there are limits to what Congress doesn't control child productive services. That's not a power delegated to the United States. So they're really kind of pushing the the envelope here. And really, the only punishment I see is again the federal bribe. Will they re- will the state receive federal funds if their child family services defines opposition to transgenderism as a as child abuse, right? Again, it's the it's the federal bribe.

50:43Again, I agree that uh it is that telling the truth to a child who's confused about their sexuality is not child abuse. And I agree that the states go too far when they infringe on that right, they violate the 14th Amendment. I'm just looking at where Congress gets the authority to uh redefine this, and I find it only in the fact that they can they've they're using their ill-gotten gains to bribe the American people uh and the and the states into complying with their wishes. So I I'm kind of I like the idea. I just don't I just don't like the implementation.

51:22Here's another thing polarization, artificial intelligence, which by the way, uh you know, Donald Trump says no, no, no, from now on it should be called super intelligence, which takes an oxymoron and makes it super stupid, right? Because it's not really artificial intelligence, it's imitation intelligence. Right? These these AIs they don't think they're imitating intelligence. In fact, the the premier AI test, the Turing test, is whether or not a machine can imitate a human being well enough for another human being not to be able to tell the difference. It's imitation. Now, I agree.

51:56There are concerns with artificial intelligence, mainly because humans think it's in real intelligence. True humans act as if what it says is true and cannot be wrong. Now, I want you to consider this with uh uh Department of Health and Human Services Secretary uh Robert Kennedy, who touted AI uh for doctors. Uh he was at a Maha summit uh in Washington, and he taught he talked about meeting uh OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Uh, and he said today, I think it was Altman said today it would be malpractice for a doctor to make a diagnosis or a prescription without at least checking AI.

52:39Really? Suddenly now a doctor can't think for himself, a doctor can't reason for himself. What's the logic of this? Well, um, Kennedy said, you may have a medical record that's a thousand pages long, you have six minutes with a doctor today, he's going, he's not going to be able to review it, but the AI can. Okay, let's stop for that for a second. So the problem he sees is that do you have a a a thousand page long medical record? Maybe you do, maybe don't. To me, I see the problem as wait a second, why do you only have six minutes with your doctor?

53:15Why do you have a doctor that has to review your medical records completely within that six minutes before they meet you? What happened to a good old family doctor that knew you? That that knew your background, that knew most of what was going on. They only had to review the latest changes to it. And you're going, we're gonna let AI review. Well, well, how do you know that AI has got the analysis when they distill those records? How do you know the AI got it right? Are you gonna put that decision?

53:42You know, you come in and say, Okay, hey, I am AI, perfect example. AI, uh, I want you to do this analysis of say my wife's records. And uh the AI does the analysis and says, okay, um, based on that, here's the summary of it. And oh, by the way, AI leaves out the fact that she has a serious allergy. She's allergic to certain medications. If the doctor just says, Oh, okay, well, let me uh um let me give you a a medication that is a type of medication she's likely allergic to. You're gonna trust AI for that? Again, I have no problem with AI doing things, I have no problem with AI doing an analysis. But if a doctor is going to trust in AI, then a doctor is no longer thinking. A doctor now becomes an automaton behind an artificial intelligence. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a problem. And I think that leads to a lot of the polarization when it comes to artificial intelligence.

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