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ig families and the family is your support structure, you know, more so than even the government. So if you get this big extended family, one of the advantages is you're more mobile. Because for example when I moved to California I probably would not have except my brother was already here. So if you have a family member who's already in America for example, it's a lot easier to move to America, r…

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the horse has left the barn. Meaning people just don't want to be married in large numbers. They just don't want it. And I kind of understand. Yeah, I tried it a few times. Like I get it. I get it.

But here's some indications that all of society is falling apart. Teens who meet up with their friends, I saw this. Rex Woodbury tweeted it. Teens who meet up with their friends almost every day is down from 50 percent in the 90s to 25 percent today. That's a crisis. Half of teens used to hang out with friends every day. Now it's only 25 percent. Human contact keeps us healthy. This is a health crisis. And then you add the mental health crisis, the fentanyl crisis. Your kids have more than ever, I think. And of course this effect happened at the same time that smartphones were introduced, of course. And then the other things that smartphones have caused.

I want to see if this is a gender, say is this a gender reality or a gender, sexism, sexism, a reality. Here's your am I sexist or reality. True or false. If a husband texts his wife and she does not respond for a few hours, he might not like it but it wouldn't be a problem. Am I right? You wouldn't like it but it wouldn't be a problem. If the wife texts the husband and he doesn't respond in 15 minutes, is it a fight? Probably. See, even the most basic interactions of male and female, now some of you are disagreeing but it's sort of a thing. I think we've all noticed even the basic interactions between men and women is being ruined by phones.

I can't walk into another room without my phone without worrying that somebody's going to call in an emergency. I don't know what kind of calls you get but if I get a call it's somebody who's standing in line somewhere and they need an immediate answer because they're actually in line and if they get to the front of the line and it's only two people they can't do the thing that they wanted to do and you'll be sorry. Like all of my calls are an emergency. I've got somebody standing here right now and I can't do the thing or your roof is leaking. I mean it's all emergencies. So I never can get a minute away from my phone. But I don't think it works the other way.

I'm going to give you a different filter on the World Economic Forum that I call the Dilbert filter. There's a filter which is the World Economic Forum wants to change the great reset and change everything. And let's say that that's a valid theory. Let's say that's a theory. I'm going to offer you a second explanation and I want you to compare it to your current thinking about the WEF master plan to change the economy and take away all your stuff. So this comes from Naomi Klein and it was in The Intercept in 2020. I hadn't seen it until now. But she says, I'll just read one of her sentences. "Great Reset is not a serious effort to actually solve the crises it describes. On the contrary, it is an attempt to create a plausible impression that the huge winners in this system, in other words rich people, are on the verge of voluntarily setting greed aside to get serious about solving the raging crises that are radically destabilizing our world."

I'm sorry, I don't care what any of you believe about the World Economic Forum. Once you see this frame it's so obvious that's what's happening. No, of course they don't mean any of this stuff. Of course they don't. The whole thing is to make you think they mean it. They don't do anything. All they do is bring all the rich people together and say, you kno

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w, these rich people don't even want to make money. They don't even care about money. Let me tell you, the rich people in this room, these are the ones who want to solve climate change for you no matter how much it costs them. Even if they have to give up their Maseratis, they're going to work for your benefit by joining a meeting and talking. And you might say, but what have they changed? To whic…

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