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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Deep Fakes | Allen Jackson Now | September 23, 2025

Good evening, and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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You don't have to look far to see the further away we drift
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From the truth of scripture, the easier it is to be deceived.
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It makes me think of bank tellers
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When they're trained to recognize
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What's an actual dollar bill and what's a fake.
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They don't spend time examining counterfeit money.
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They study the real dollar
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So they can recognize what it looks like.
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Then it's easy to spot what's fake.
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When we spend our time focusing on god's word and his truth,
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It's much easier to notice when something is off.
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Well, it's the same thing when it comes to technology.
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There's ai and there are deep fakes.
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There are gaming sites that pop up, pop up out of nowhere,
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Many of them looking for traffic and the money
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That comes with that.
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And they're launched with no sense of social responsibility
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As they capture our kids for hours at a time.
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So tonight, we brought in a guest who's an expert
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On this rising digital world and how to face it safely.
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He was a top executive at the new york stock exchange
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When the index fell, a record 22% in 1987.
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People were panicking.
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Rich dawns on him.
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Welcome to our show.
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Thank you for having me.
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I'm very pleased to be with you today.
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There's a lot to discuss.
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The tiktok deal,
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The good and the bad of ai,
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The growing number of what are called deep fakes.
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Let me. let's start with the tiktok deal.
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It's been a long time in the making, but the u.s.
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Investors have the majority share
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Now, and china has a minority stake.
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Listen to the president's reaction
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After he concluded the deal with china's leader.
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I had a great call with president xi
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And as you know, he approved the tiktok deal
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And we're in the process.
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We have some great investors, big as some of the biggest,
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In the world,
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American investors, great people.
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And we look forward to getting that deal closed.
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So i'm curious, can we now stop worrying about china
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Trying to control the minds of our children, that
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Now that the americans control the algorithm.
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A little bit?
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I think there's a really good first step forward, i think.
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But we always, always have to be
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Very conscious of what china is trying to do to our children.
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And our nation.
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They have not been,
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A good partner for many, many years.
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And, well, i think this is a great step
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Forward for the president, who have american control
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Of the technology and the algorithm and the data.
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There's still much more to do.
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Well, you came from the business world originally, and tiktok
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Has been vital to helping grow businesses, big and small.
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Do you expect this new tiktok ownership
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To provide the tools for better u.s.
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Business growth?
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I really do think so.
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Tiktok is a terrific
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Tool, particularly, attracting younger audiences.
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The president has said several times
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It helped him with the youth vote across america.
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And i think with americans now
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On the board and americans control the technology,
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I think this can grow into a vital force
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Like some of the other platforms that we're very familiar with,
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Like facebook and instagram and linkedin and others.
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But let's move to the deepfakes.
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Start by telling us what a deepfake is
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And how we can recognize one.
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Well, a deepfake is a fake, and it comes in three versions.
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It comes in audio,
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It comes in video, and it comes in photographs.
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This kind of started out a few years ago when it was,
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A picture of the pope in a puffy jacket that was a, a
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Photographic deepfake.
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But just a few weeks ago, you may recall that susie
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Wiles, the president's chief of staff,
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Had an audio deepfake where she was caught supposedly
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Calling, different executives and different senators.
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And it wasn't her voice.
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And a video deepfake is probably the most devastating,
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Where it's an actual video of what you think.
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Is somebody,
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Saying something, requesting something, doing something.
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This could have dramatic effects on financial markets.
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It can have dramatic effects upon reputation.
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It can have dramatic effects upon the company's morale.
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If the ceo or cfo or director
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Is seen, and what is considered a compromising position.
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These things happen very quickly today.
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They're driven by a.i..
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They have been a matter of minutes, not hours and days.
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And it's you have to really be trained to spot them.
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And and to see what's wrong and how you can address it
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Very, very quickly.
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Well, should we be concerned
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That deepfakes can try to steal my money
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Or be a problem for me or my family?
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Well, yeah, i think there.
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For individuals, deepfakes are important,
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But i think some of the more,
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Obvious things
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That we see coming across our email, for example,
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We should not be
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Clicking on things when we don't know the sender
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Or when the sender is coming from a suspicious,
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Url or an account.
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So we have to be mindful of our digital home today.
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We all live in a house or an apartment,
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And we do the things that are necessary to protect that.
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We have a burglar alarm.
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We have locks in our doors and windows.
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We have a dog who we may have a, a technical dog
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At the door that barks when someone approaches it.
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We may have leave lights on, from time to time to go
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On and off.
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We may even tell a neighbor or the local police
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When we're traveling.
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Those are all the things we do to protect our home.
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We need to do things today to protect our digital home.
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We should have our passwords.
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And i believe
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My personal view is you should have
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A different password for every, every, platform.
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And i know that's very hard for some people.
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I keep a book, of all my passwords for my company
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And for myself.
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I do not keep passwords on my computer.
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That's the most silly thing to do.
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So i know passwords needs to change, particularly for banks
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And financial institutions, about every six months.
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Some of the less obvious things are you have a password
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On your, entranceway for your wi-fi,
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Regardless of what company you use, that password
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Needs to be changed from time to time.
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Where possible, you
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Should put two passwords there because that protects your home,
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Your digital home from people coming in from the outside.
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I think that's such an important point.
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I want to take just a second with that.
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You know,
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Historically, i'm more familiar
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With having digital security
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In the workplace, you know, with firewalls
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And all the things that happen there.
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But i hear you saying it
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Is of paramount importance that now we take the time
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And effort to do digital security
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In our private lives, in our homes.
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You know, there's another dimension of this, too,
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If i may.
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We just had a situation a few months ago
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Where a major securities firm came to us because
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A ceo was being attacked.
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They knew where he was traveling and they knew where he was.
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His new car with his license plate number and his new home
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In the hamptons.
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And the security firm couldn't figure out
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Where all this information was coming from.
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So the head of the firm who i know called me.
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He said, rich, we're baffled by this.
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Could you have your team look at it?
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And we did.
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And we studied it for a couple of days.
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And what we found was that all the information
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Was coming from his wife and his teenage daughters
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On the internet, on facebook, on twitter, on instagram,
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Their new house, their new car, where they were
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Heading on vacation,
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Which created enormous security risk for him and his family.
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So it's not only the numbers that we have to be
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Careful about,
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But it's what we post on our someone very serious
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And we don't take them seriously enough.
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Various social media platforms.
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So it's going to take a heightened consciousness
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Of everybody in our orbits for us to stay safe.
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That's correct.
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Well, if we happen to come across
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A deepfake or something that we think is,
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What do we do with that?
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Well, first of all, they're not hard to fake.
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Not hard to, identify, but they're getting harder
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To identify.
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You'll see a mouth, not necessarily, on a video
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Matching the words.
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You may see a background which is off.
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You may see a face movement, which is off.
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Most people will not and come
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And encounter deep fakes in the next year.
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But most corporations, well, most business organizations
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Will.
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And i think this is one of the biggest threats
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Facing business organizations in the coming year
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That most of them are not aware of.
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It is a legal issue.
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It is an i.t issue.
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But these things happen in minutes and hours,
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Not days and weeks and months.
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So i.t and legal can address them.
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So defection are the biggest problem
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Yet for people individuals.
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But they are an enormous problem
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Coming at business organizations in the next 12 months.
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Rich, can you stay with us for another segment?
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Absolutely. good.
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Thank you.
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I'd like to discuss
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The potential and dangers of ai when we come back.
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And if those of you watching would like to jump in
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With your thoughts on the discussion,
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Log on to aj now.com and send us an email.
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I'll be right back.
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We're back now with rich zeno,
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The author of command the conversation how to engage,
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Influence, and inspire people in these days of ai.
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Well, i saw some disturbing and yet predictable online
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Postings in the wake of the shooting of charlie kirk,
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A simulator of assassinations
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That showed up on the children's gaming side, roblox.
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The company pulled it down when parents began to complain.
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But this is what our children are being fed every day.
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Are we solely dependent on the companies to police these sites?
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Well, first of all, that was disgusting
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At what happened, as well as some of the other commentary
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That we've seen on the internet these past days.
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But yeah, we are,
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We really have to have a set of ethics
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That and a set of standards, that, that companies follow.
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Unfortunately, the bigger companies
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Try to follow these things.
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The smaller companies are just trying to make a fast buck.
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And i think
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As anything with the internet or on screen or online,
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We have to be very mindful of what our children
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Are doing at all time and what content they're seeing.
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That doesn't change in a crisis, or in normal times.
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We have to be very mindful of that.
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And when these things do happen, we have to be loud
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And vigorous
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Against these companies and have them,
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Change their direction and pull these things down.
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Do you have some examples of where
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Ai is making life better for us,
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Or easier for those of us who aren't so tech savvy?
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Well, there's there's a number of examples of better and worse,
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Some of the better examples.
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Clearly, in the health care area,
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We're going to see surgeries more active.
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We're going to see our various scans
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And x-rays read in a much more proficient way.
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We're going to see our records and data,
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Much, much more effective in our doctor's office
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And letting them interface with hospitals and many,
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Many more things in health care.
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In manufacturing,
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We're seeing lowering the cost of manufacturing
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And more accurate manufacturing, better use of tools.
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In our personal life,
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We're going to see better use of data,
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Particularly in the financial arena.
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We're going to see financial analysts using data
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And using market data and financial data to better
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Analyze companies and provide that analysis
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To institutions and individuals who invest in the market.
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Well,
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They say that i is going to replace working people,
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But i wonder if i will
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Eventually create new jobs, especially for those
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Who know how to integrate it into their work.
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What do you think?
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I think you're right on both counts, alan.
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There's no question that ai is a disruptor
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And it is going to disrupt a lot of jobs.
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So if you think your job is going to be disrupted,
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What should you do?
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And what you should do
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Is look to it to an area where you can become an expert in ai
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And where there's a need for ai.
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Analysis and ai.
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People to look at all sorts of different things.
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As i just said,
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In some of those industries as well as other industries.
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But our lives, our jobs,
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Our personal lives, our workplace, our families,
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All of us
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Are going to be
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Dramatically affected with ai in the next couple of years,
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Much more than we can even imagine right now.
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Well, you came out of the
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Financial world as an executive at the new york stock exchange.
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Where are the markets heading as president trump puts
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More of his imprint on all sorts of financial issues?
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Well, there's usually three things i don't comment on.
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The best italian restaurant in new york, whether the yankees
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Will be in the series or where the markets might or not go.
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However, in saying that, let me say the following.
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Never sell america short.
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If you go back over the last 50 years, 25 years, ten years,
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And you see the disruptions we've had in the markets
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From the crash of 87 to the tech bubble
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To what we saw at the beginning of this year.
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Markets have always gone up.
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So if you're a long term investor
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And you're seeking professional advisors, you should.
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I think you'll do very well,
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Particularly as a young person right now.
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I think you should invest in u.s.
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Markets because they will be higher
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And bolder than they have ever been when you reach my age.
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But, you know, i'm in tennessee.
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I don't know much about italian
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Restaurants in new york and the yankees.
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I can read in the papers, but the giants are. oh and three.
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Are you holding out any hope there? no.
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Oh, they're doing much better.
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But, but, you know, i'm more of a yankees fan, so,
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I'll stick with that.
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Well, what.
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What? holding out hope they're going to be in this series.
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No, i've got time. i think, for one quick question.
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The debt, that $37 trillion that's sitting there,
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And i know that only represents a real portion of it.
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How urgent is that?
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And if you got any
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Ideas on what they can do to help us with that.
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Well, this is a huge problem for america.
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It's not a
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It's not a problem that's going to
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Bring america down right now, but it has to be addressed,
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In many different ways.
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I think some of the tariffs that we're getting into,
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The payments on the tariffs,
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Some of that should go and get against the debt.
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Just spending has to come down dramatically.
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I know there's going to be a lot of yelling
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And screaming about that, but you can't you know,
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We all as people have a checkbook.
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And when there's no money
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In the checkbook, you can't write a check.
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Unfortunately, the government has never function that way.
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They just print more money.
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And when they print more money, it creates inflation.
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Chaos creates disruption through everything that we do.
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So the debt is important.
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I think, the president and, the secretary of the treasury
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Are doing things to bring it down.
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More has to be done, and it has to be done fairly quickly.
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Otherwise we're going to have continuous problems on the debt.
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We're going to have continuous problems,
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And social security,
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And we're going to have continuous problems
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Throughout the nation.
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But i believe in the next
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Couple of years in the trump administration,
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We're going to see some focus on that.
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He has had to focus on some of the other issues
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That were more urgent, like the border and crime and so forth.
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But i think that the debt and and our economy is
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It is a real part of the focus going forward.
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Well, rich on oh, thank you for your time today.
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Stay in touch so we can have you back on.
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Thank you, alan, very much.
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Very good to be with you and good luck. thank you.
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Thank you. in a moment.
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Signs of hope.
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We can all see.
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We can all see.
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The digital world, with its emerging technologies
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Like i can be daunting, even frightening.
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Depending on the intent of the user,
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It can be harnessed for good or for evil.
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Yes, we should be concerned with the digital threats
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Targeting our loved ones.
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But i would suggest to you that a bigger threat
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Is an attempt by evil forces to influence our minds
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And our hearts with a worldview that's contrary to george,
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Judeo-christian values.
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You know, we can't afford to retreat.
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If we retreat, we make our children
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And our grandchildren less safe.
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We've got to be courageous enough
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To speak the truth that we know
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And to not be manipulated by fear.
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You know,
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I mean, people all the time who say to me,
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They don't agree with me, you know,
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They'll tell you to say to me, you know, they're agnostic.
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Something like, you know, i don't believe the bible is
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God's word, and i don't even believe there is a god.
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And i think churches are frauds.
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And you're a charlatan.
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It's not an unusual conversation for me.
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And i'll respond, well, you know. good.
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I'm happy for your opinion. my name is alan.
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We're entitled to have those opinions,
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And that individual should be safe and expressing that.
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Well, in the same way, we should be safe
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In expressing that we believe that there is a god.
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We shouldn't
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Be surprised
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That people don't like our worldview or intolerant,
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But that shouldn't make us afraid.
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It should make us more determined.
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Not angry, not hateful, not belligerent,
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And certainly not violent, but determined.
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When people treat us unfairly.
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Choose to forgive, choose to be kind.
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Perhaps the most touching moment during charlie kirk's memorial
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Was when charlie's wife,
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Erica, was speaking of the man who murdered her husband.
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She said, i forgive him
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Because it was what christ did and is what charlie would do.
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What a godly example that is for all of us,
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Even in the midst of unimaginable pain.
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She chose to respond with the love of christ.
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She chose light over darkness.
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Folks, we're not called to look
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Sophisticated as christ followers.
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We're called
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To be salt and light for him every time
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We have an opportunity to do so.
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If we'll do that, there's more reasons for hope than despair.
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I promise
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We'll be right back
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With your emails.
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With your emails.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes with us.
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Just a reminder,
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If you ever miss a live episode, you can go to aj now.com.
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There's a full archive there.
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It's easy to watch any program you want to do
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And even to share with the friend.
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The more the merrier.
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And thank you for your emails.
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They're always a highlight.
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Jane from michigan wrote i've heard
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You say that we need to go beyond the walls of the church.
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I love this idea.
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I used to think when i said
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In churches, why are we in four walls?
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Why don't we roll up one of the walls
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So that the neighborhoods and the people walking by
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Can hear the singing and the message?
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I appreciate your calm christian political viewpoints.
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Well, thank you, jim.
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I try to keep
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The politics out of it and talk about our culture.
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Not so much about parties or candidates,
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But i believe
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We have to use our voices as christians and churches
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To talk about what's happening in our culture.
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And speaking of rolling up the walls
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Every spring and every fall here
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In murfreesboro, we take church outside.
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We put up an outside stage, we do concerts.
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We have church outdoors with food trucks and activities
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For children.
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The neighbors can hear,
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Some of them are happy and some not so much.
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But we're going back outside in a couple of weeks,
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Dixie from texas wrote in.
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She said pastor allen, i've been shocked at news
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Reports from people, teachers and politicians
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Celebrating the death of charlie kirk.
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Some teachers in
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Some states have been fired or put on leave
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For their comments on social media.
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Then they claim their first amendment
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Rights from the constitution.
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They seem to forget these were charlie
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Kirk's rights as well as all american citizens.
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Dixie, i have been surprised right along with you.
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It has been unfortunate.
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The attitude that has been taken by many people in celebrating
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Charlie's death is assassination.
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The loss of a life of someone in that way is horrific.
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We should be praying for that family,
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Praying for turning point usa, and praying for our nation.
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We've got to be able to have a conversation
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With one another, even if we don't always agree
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On the topic or the scene,
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We've got to have the right to have the conversation.
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We can't surrender that. we shou
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David a from washington wrote am i wrong?
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Daily, i pray what a i pray before i sleep,
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I give blessings before every meal.
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I diligently read the bible.
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I watch numerous tbn broadcast, but i don't attend any church
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Services or assemble with religious organizations.
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My deep religious feelings are private, am i wrong?
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Well, david, in a word, yes, jesus ministry was public.
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He came to minister to people.
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He didn't come on a secret mission to die on the cross.
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The bible tells us not to forsake
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The assembling together of one another.
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I think we need community,
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Not so much a church, but we need a community
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Of like minded believers in order to finish the race.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes with me today.
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I'm alan jackson and i pray you have a wonderful evening.
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