Episode 2661 CWSA 11/16/24

oh I just realized I started this 10 minutes early but you're not going to mind are you I looked at my clock wrong but you don't mind at all no we're going to start early today because I've got a story to tell you while we're waiting for the rest of them so as some of you know I've had had a little trouble with my my back recently just you know muscle and sciatica and stuff any normal stuff and so I kept getting recommended to get an inversion table so the there's two parts to this story one part is if I ever told you that I have this weird history of curing people's medical problems right I've told you that before I cure a lot of people people's medical problems sometimes accidentally I mean here's one example uh I had a tennis partner I used to play with every week for years and one day he said oh I have terrible allergies blah blah blah and I said well do you try this uh over the counter stuff algra and he said what I said yeah you just try this algra stuff and takes care of your allergies he said are you kidding and he tried I think he tried the competitor to algra the other one and uh after decades and Decades of just complete suffering he said uh that worked so I so I cured somebody of one of their most vexing problems in their entire life just by saying oh if you tried alra so since that time and because I write books about how to do things I've uh I hear back from people that they've quit drinking probably hundreds of people have stopped drinking now because of something I said um maybe hundreds or even thousands of people have lost incredible amounts of weight because they used a system instead of a goal um I've helped cure people of spasmodic dysphonia the problem I had with my voice similar to what RFK Jr has because I informed people that there was one doctor at least that could cure it with surgery with which is why you can hear me now and uh also worked with shy bladder and a number of other things so you've heard most of the stories so by weird coincidence I have in fact cured people of oh even uh OCD I cured somebody with a reframe I've cured people of depression with reframes now none of this is plann it's not like I started my life and said you know what I would like to figure out how to cure a bunch of people in random ways but part of my story it's a two-parter is that I cured somebody I think of a back problem not just me here's how I did it I went to Amazon to buy one of those inversion tables the thing that turns you upside down so it stretches you back and uh I I hit the buy button and I realized oh I've got the wrong address on there and so I immediately cancel it because it was an address for a family member and I cancel it and I redo it to my correct address well too late I discovered that it initiated both sales so even though I had canceled it for reasons I don't quite understand they delivered it anyway to some other address so I get a call hey I've got this thing came to the wrong address must be yours and and and I thought well I could return it but you know it's somewhere in another part of the state maybe somebody needs it so I said do do you know anybody wants it and uh said person looked around and uh found that there was somebody in the network who had a back problem and was looking for one so I said ah could have it for I don't know 20 cents at a dollar or something so I uh gave them a inverter table now I put together my own because my own came to my house and sure enough really makes you your back feel better so it works so I've accidentally by pushing the wrong button on Amazon cured A stranger's back problem somebody will never meet because I know it works and you know it's kind of expensive it's like $500 I don't know if anybody would just sort of try it on their own but if you get one for $100 and somebody did so somebody's got a good back who may be thanking me in Southern California but here's the funny part so I get my own uh my own inverted table and I'm getting ready to assemble it and the first thing I realized is that there are many many parts to the assembly and it's all going to be this stuff that's awkward to hold and you need three hands you know like have to hold the thing while you're putting three screws in that don't go quite through the holes the right way and you know you need to you have to have at least six ends so I said to myself there's no way I'm going to assemble that without hurting my back and sure enough it's really hard on your back to assemble that freaking thing so by the time I was done I was like ah ah I I can't believe I have to twist myself in pretzels to put this thing together but I get it together now the other thing you need to know is that when I assemble anything or do any kind of Home Improvement I can usually get it done meaning that if I apply enough you know Brew force and mental power I you I can figure things out I don't like to so that's where people get me wrong it's not that I can't figure out how to do stuff around the house I just don't want to and one of the reasons I don't want to is that um I have one of these themes in life that when I do any kind of Home Improvement eventually I'm going to need a tourniquet or something to stop the bleeding so sure enough my part of my arm looks like Beirut now for a large part of the device fell on my hand and just or on my arm just the right way to rip the top layer of Flesh off and expose me to bleeding that lasted about a day so when I try to improve my health I tell you it's it's a struggle I know I'm going to need a tourniquet I knew I was going to hurt my back and I had to buy two of them to get one so that that's what it took however here's the good news I think it worked between not sleeping on my bed anymore I had to get rid of my bed I mean in terms of sleeping on it so I I spent 4 days sleeping on a massage table cuz it's firm so I just had a temporary massage table setup and uh between that and the the inversion table and this little back warmer I got on now I have never felt better after 30 years of back problems solved so this is a good news story the golden age has begun with my back feeling better than it's felt in probably 25 years so there's that I would like to read you the uh the wakeup quote of the day this is from zubie you shall all be following zubie on X I think you all many of you know zubie listen to this one sentence and see if this doesn't wake you up all right it can't be mere accident that schools and universities don't teach kids about nutrition and money ouch oh my God does that hit hard today it can't be an accident the schools and universities don't teach kids about nutrition and money holy because that's how they feed us garbage and it's how they steal your money if you understood money and nutrition nothing would look the way it looks your your health would be different your finances would be different I don't know this this s me like a ton of bricks that that that there might be a reason that they don't teach this now I don't think that they had a meeting and decided don't teach this I think that just the incentive system was subtly subtly against informing people how things work because there's you know trillions of dollars to be made as PE as long as the public doesn't understand how anything happens wow zubie with the win uh as an ex account called infographics notes that uh the researchers lately are really crushing it for example CNN's reporting that uh there's a new study that uh the more active you are it'll extend your life expectancy did anybody know that exercise is good for your health apparently it is exercise is good for your health and your longevity um and the not to be undone the bmj group did a study in said that uh the people over 40 would live five extra years if they were as active as the top 20% huh so not only is exercise good for you but the people who do more of it get more benefit for well I don't know how they would have known that without studying it or or you could have just asked Scott would have saved you a lot of money yes exercise still good for you nothing changed since the last time meanwhile University of Washington is developing these cool headphones using AI I guess to create what they call a sound bubble now this is like a way cooler idea than you think it is so right now you probably have um you probably have some noise cancelling headphones such as these but it cancels all the noise so if somebody wants to talk to you you can't hear them too well as well as the other noise and it's not perfect either but they've developed some kind of headphones where you could hear voice if the voice is close to you in other words if somebody wanted to walk up you while you're listening to your headphones and they just talk to you in a normal voice you would hear it in a normal voice is that cool it's like the smallest the smallest invention but you automatically you can see how it would change your experience it's like oh I hate taking my headphones off oh I hate not knowing if somebody can hear me but it will make things different in the gym do you know what is the greatest thing for Women's Health it's earbuds do you know why because then women can go to the gym and be in don't talk to me mode and it's harder for guys to approach them because if you have to go up and say Hey you signal them hey do you mind do you mind I'm a complete stranger I want to make conversation but maybe you could stop listening to whatever you're doing and take out your your earbuds or your your headphones like that's a hard one I've seen people do it by the way I've seen people strangers asking other people to take their headphones out so they can chat but it's harder it's much harder so headphones make women safe in gyms it's good for their health I'm glad you asked me did you know that stress can scramble your brain so badly it changes your memories according to study finds so so the more stress you have the less successful your memory is but not only does it not remember well it can actually give you a false memory now let's tie that into the headlines you ready for this yeah this is science that matters if fear makes uh makes your memory worse do you think that fear could also make you more likely to believe a hoax I suspect yes because if fear makes it difficult to accurately remember a real thing it wouldn't be a big stretch to imagine that fear could make you believe a hoax for example if I could make you really afraid of trump could I then easily make you believe that he said something positive about Hitler yes I could because I've scared you into a fake BAS basically a fake memory of what Trump is and what he's done so far if you can if I can get your fake memory about what he's done so far it's easy to introduce a new hoax because you'll say well that's exactly what I was expecting from somebody who did these things that didn't really happen so watch out for fear persuasion because it can change your memories as well I think I've been telling you for a long time that the most powerful technology in the future will be holes like literally just holes in the ground and you see it a little bit with the boring company you know maybe it's going to help Transportation by allowing you to use tunnels to get to places I don't know about that but I was always thinking geothermal but here's something I found out that is just another sign of the golden age I thought that geothermal power was really pretty much just drilling a deep hole until you got to some hot water and then once you got to some hot water you could turn it into energy because you can turn heat into energy or yeah basically heat into energy well heat is energy you know what I mean you can turn it into productive energy um but it turns out that according to article in nature there are a bunch of new and Innovative geothermal techniques that do not depend on finding hot water so you can just go down deep enough that it's hot with or without the water so you just have to go so down it's hot but you can even create I think I have this right a U-shaped tunnel or a U-shaped hole and if you if it's u-shaped you can pump your own water into it it becomes super heated because it's so far down in the earth and then when you pump it up the other side heated water so you get your energy for free even if you didn't have a source water at the bottom of it now that's one of them there's another one where they they drill more sideways than down and somehow that gives them some Advantage but the point is there are several now geothermal alternative methods one is like fracking so there's the standard there's the fracking there's a U-shaped at least one other and geothermal is almost unlimited so all we have to do is figure out sort of incrementally by trial and error which ones of these works better and tweak it a little bit and it could be that geothermal is the biggest energy of the future that would totally be possible because nuclear is always going to be dangerous you know with its own well it'll always feel dangerous and take a long time and be expensive uh Elon Musk says that solar will be the main source of energy in the future I say that's true if we get our battery storage right and our grid right all you'd have to do is put solar on every roof and you have energy everywhere you just need to be able to use it locally right now we don't have the grid to do that but it's getting there well speaking of U musk uh on CNBC Ron Baron who's a famous investor kind of guy was talking about Tesla stock and he says that the stock price now of Tesla is about the same as was three years ago and he says uh he thinks it's going to be worth $5 trillion in 10 years $5 trillion we we do have a few trillion dollar companies like one trillion just recently but five trillion in 10 years and then that's just the first part I'm not done yet right that's what the investor thinks he says Elon believes uh that uh that even longer term it could be 30 trillion he thinks the robot is going to be his biggest business ever and then Ron Baron ends with no way I'm selling Tesla now uh I own Tesla stock so that's my full disclosure so don't buy any stocks or do any Investments because of something you heard on this show right it might sound like a good idea but I assure you I'm not that good at investing that you should follow my lead I'll tell you what I'm doing because it's part of of disclosure and it's also part of how you think about it so if I tell you something it's because it's more about teaching you some concept of of investing for example I have a the the smaller part of my portfolio has some Bitcoin and some Nvidia and some Tesla stock because those are three things that could go through the solar system I mean that they could go so high it' be crazy but I wouldn't put 90% of my money in those things so so there's your there's your Finance lesson you want most of your money to be in things that you think are are Diversified and are going to be fine like the index index of the Fortune 500 for example and but you might want you might want a good solid 10 to 20% in a little basket of things that if any one of them went big it would go so big you couldn't even believe it you that's what Nvidia and Tesla and Bitcoin all have in common if they go if they go big and they're Aller already pretty big uh there's almost no limit it's just an almost an uncapped potential you don't see that that's not something you're going to see if you invest in cocacola or even Apple computer so yeah these are really really special kinds of things I also have a investment in a uh I think it's the nlr it's a index of nuclear power Technologies and companies that one I don't know how fast it'll grow but I like the idea of it um anyway again I don't recommend these stocks these are not recommendations these are lessons um let's see apparently major companies are returning to advertise on X so IBM Disney Comcast Warner Brothers Discovery and uh Elon is thank them all so apparently the the fact that X is just an excellent place to advertise compared to the Alternatives apparently because one assumes that they wouldn't be coming back unless advertising they're worked I think bang for the buck is probably among the best places to advertise I would guess I'm no expert but I'll bet that's true um now I told you that uh solar might be the new power of the future but only if you can store it in batteries and which means you probably need more lithium for your robots and your cars and all that well according to new Atlas there's some new research at Rice University where they can grab uh almost all of the lithium from geothermal sources oh geothermal again so apparently geothermal that has brine in it salt brine has has a a lot of lithium in it and they figured out some uh new technology to get it out of there oh it looks like they built a three-chambered reactor that has a newly developed lithium ion conducted glass ceramic membrane so it looks like they're using some kind of a filter to just sort of filter it down electronically and otherwise so these are small Technologies but if any one of these makes lithium really cheap Everything Changes imagine if the cost of lithium just went down 90% because somebody built a better filter to take it out of the take it out of the ground that's the sort of thing that could happen like just you wake up one day and lithium is 90% less Could Happen um scitech Del says there's some weight breakthrough they found some natural compound in your body if they give you a little bit more of it you're not hungry I guess fects how your brain registers hunger so Baylor College of Medicine the Stanford University School of Medicine and their collaborators came up with that will that work I don't know but but there's a there's a lot going on you know if the biggest health problem in the country is being overweight there's a lot going on that's going to help push that in the other direction and one of them might be this it would be be a competitor to OIC I guess but uh if it works great well here's a weird little story that doesn't make sense that in context so Russia is going to restrict enrich uranium exports to the United States now it's sort of a response to some restrictions that are being put on Russian trade uh but it's also not that big a deal so it's sort of like why are they even doing it it's not it's not going to hurt us that much it's not big a deal but it sounds like it's kind of important because it's you know it's uranium and they're one of the biggest sources we're not really going to run out of uranium but why why would Putin even throw this little uh little deal into the mix well I have a hypothesis and it goes like this I believe that everybody is waiting for jump and they're waiting for the big dog to settle all the little fights with little dogs the biggest fight is Ukraine and Russia um situation and if Putin is as smart as I think he is and he's definitely as smart as I think he is strategically he can play some chess you know what I mean like I I I've never heard a story of whether Vladimir Putin or yeah whether he plays chess or not but I assume he does and I just have a feeling he'd be good at it you know like strategically even if you think he's an evil monster he's pretty good strategically um here's why I think he's throwing this in the mix I don't think it's just a tit fortat that we do a little trade restriction so he does a little trade restriction I think it's smarter than that I think that both Trump and Putin are the two smart negotiators who could figure out the following thing if you make it just about the Ukraine Russia War you're idiots you're idiots all right let me say that again if if Putin and uh and Trump negotiate the end of the of course zinsky negotiate the end of the Ukraine war and they limit the discussion to the end of the Ukraine war they're idiots now you know what they're not not idiots here's the good news the good news is they're both really good at negotiating so you know what they're going to do they're going to throw in all this other stuff and they should that's how you get the deal the deal is you throw the extra stuff in there because you're like oh I don't know we don't we're not getting enough out of this Ukraine stopping fighting thing but wouldn't you guys like to have a better source of uranium because you're going to need it for all the AI and the nuclear power plants and we say you know we would actually we would like that then Russia would say you know what we'd like a little less tightening on some of this other trade over here and we'd say you know what we we'll give you that so if Trump and Putin figure out how to throw more stuff in it I think there'll be maybe a there could be a nuclear weapons testing treaty there could be um something about you know uh China I think that would be a long shot but I've noticed that uh Russia is playing the Joe Mansion um strategy so Joe Mansion he was one of those few Senators who could go either way and uh so because he could go with way he had all the power it seemed like because he could vote as a Democrat or he could vote with the Republicans and everything was so close that it would end up being well looks like it's down to Joe Mansion again so what Putin has done which I think again is clever is he's put himself right between the United States and China so Russia as a military or economic power is Tiny compared to other either the United States or China but if you Joe Mansion it and you go right in the middle you have all this weird power so that's what he's done he became the Joe Mansion of countries it's like well I I could agree with China on this what do you have to offer oh I could agree with you too so it's kind of brilliant where Putin's stationed himself so that also gives him something to negotiate so if Trump says to him in some form you know what we'd really like is we'd really like Russia to be more let's say friendly with the United States and less friendly with China that's something that Putin has to negotiate now he created an asset out of nothing that's that's Trump style Trump is the expert of creating an asset out of nothing so he can negotiate it away later like like Mexico is going to pay for the wall he just creates that out of nothing and it's something he can give up and it feels like he he met in the middle all right um there are still believe it or not some voting irregularities that are being looked into uh in Oregon there's a House of Representatives Tracy Cramer who was ahead by 500 votes and then there was a new dump of votes and guess what she lost by one vote she was AE by 500 and coincidentally the new batch of votes was exactly the right number to make her lose by one so clearly there's going to be some some challenges there now does that mean that it's rigged well there's no proof of that does it look exactly like it's rigged well yeah it looks exactly like it's rigged but that doesn't mean it is we're we're in a weird place where you have to you have to challenge everything um I would certainly challenge this one you know you you can't do something that looks this rigged and then just walk away I mean you're going to have to dig it look under the hood on this one uh meanwhile over in Bucks County according to bre bar news uh there are ballots missing and there's a lot of problems over in Bucks County so it does seem that uh there are at least three situations that are ongoing where the vote counting is in question it doesn't make you feel too comfortable does it well if you haven't seen the clip of Bill Maher dumping on Democrats that was produced I guess last night on his show oh you have to watch it because you know I always talk about Bill Mah being you know willing to criticize the Democrats as well as the Republicans and I do appreciate that that's good stuff he's got TDS of course but outside of the narrow cone of TDS he is very very good compared to most people in being able to see the whole field very rare for any of the public figures to even even be able to do that so here's what he said I'll just paraphrase a few things um he did suggest that Democrats thinking that Republicans are the dumb ones might be might be just the opposite so I I don't think it's true that either one is the dumb one but he's definitely going to debunk the idea that the Democrats are the Smart Ones and the Republicans are the dumb ones so he's definitely off that train right now and he's very off it like he's he's completely off Democrat smart Republicans dumb he he's abandoned that completely it's just not there's just no evidence for it and he's just watched Democrats be so dumb that you can't even believe it so he's he's abandoning Republicans dumb now that's kind of a big deal do you realize how big a deal that is because Republicans be dumb is pretty much The Stereotype that the country has been operating under you know the anti-republican part of the country and I think that bill isn't the only one who might be abandoning that idea anyway so he also said uh maybe Democrats would be better if they would maybe stop acting like the people that voters would want to punch in the face okay that's just a perfect line that is a perfect Line stop acting in a way that makes everybody want to punch you in the face now I of course am against violence but as a a humorous way to express things that fits when I watch MSNBC I have to actively curb my my feeling of punching the television cuz their faces all look punchable that and I talk about this all the time their their facial expression doesn't match what they say in such a you know uh uncanny valley kind of a way you don't even know what you're seeing are they lying are they crazy are they demented they have bad information and you're just trying to figure it out like why does the face not match the words and what am I watching so yes uh even Bill Maher has noticed that his side has the most punchable faces I I think that probably you know maybe that changes over time there may be times when the Republicans have more punchable faces but at the moment I think the Democrats have the uh I think they've got that locked up he Bill M also goes the Democrats he says the Democrats have an anti-common sense agenda yes yes yes how about maybe that's the whole story maybe that's the whole story that that the policies don't even look like they make sense it's not like you're choosing among well that's a good idea but you know that's a good idea too H which of these two good ideas is slightly better it's nothing like that there's one bad crazy and one that might work and it might not it's it's not like you're comparing you know equals um and he also criticized the Democrats for their quote shitty exclusionary attitudes yes um so so he's doing great and and I'm like yes bill go bill go Bill I'm like rooting for him I I'm feeling like he's really he's crossed into some like higher level of awareness which is you know it's what I say when people agree with me so since it's me talking I get to set the level of awareness in my own little subjective world so when I see him talk like this I'm like wow Bill you've you've you've you've commanded your TDS and you've recognized that the things that the Democrats say are not sensible in many many times and that they're they're lying to you and they're not the Smart Ones and then he ended by saying that uh he that the Democrats didn't even do much oh he ended by saying that because are so bad at their politics that the things he cares about the most that Democrats can protect the best are not being served so here are the two things after Bill M criticizes the Democrats for being idiots he says the two things he cares about the most were number one losing democracy and number two climate change okay Bill you just lost all of your credibility losing your democracy what who told you you going to lose some democracy the Democrats the people you said are idiots with the punchable faces just made up a thing that you're going to lose your democracy completely made up you know I mean they they look to January 6 but you know most of that's imaginary as well so they've got this madeup thing and after Bill M criticizes them about being idiots he tells you that he's really worried about losing his democracy because the country elected in a land Slide the person who would most protect their freedom of speech their gun rights and pretty much all their other rights yeah and that's what he's worried about losing his democracy and then he said climate change now as you know I don't know if climate change is caused by people or how much of it is caused by people a little bit I don't know if it's going to be dangerous or not dangerous what I'm sure of is that nobody else knows either that's the only part I'm sure of so after going through this whole thing about how dumb the Democrats are and even criticizing them specifically for being bad on science because he criticized them about the pandemic and about mask wearing two years later so he's very specifically saying the Democrat get science wrong and they says climate change is his biggest concern besides losing his democracy Now do you see it do you see that it looked like he was all the way out of his TDS but in fact he's all the way in the two things he cares about aren't even real they're not even real so anyway he's almost there here here my favorite dumb Democrat thing so um is it Eli or Ellie Mell who appears on MSNBC a lot and he said that uh so this is the Democrats figuring out what they did wrong and then correcting it all right so this is uh msnbc's one of their regulars figuring out what they did wrong and then here's his suggestion for correcting it he says liberal need to build their own Joe Rogan oh oh do you see any pattern here the pattern where the the anti-trump people don't know how anything works like anything now it's not so bad that they don't understand that a large complex model for predicting the temperature of the Earth in 80 years isn't real I can see how they'd be fooled by it because a lot of people are fooled by that but sometimes they're easy things like if you create a set of incentives that will cause people to move toward the incentive and somehow that part's invisible to Democrats but here's my favorite one how do you build a Joe Rogan I'm gonna I'm going to make a little uh confession if I knew how to be Joe Rogan I would have done it by now if anybody else in the whole Universe knew how to be Joe Rogan they would have done it by now now every now and then there's a superstar that emerges you know Megan Kelly good example um but she wasn't trying to be Joe Rogan do you know who she was trying to be Megan Kelly nailed it nailed it um and I could mention you know pbd pbd great production great guests great uh great show um you can't create that you can't build that these happen organically or they don't happen at all and here's the hard part does does anybody know why Joe Rogan is uh is popular well you know they he he does everything right so it's it's sort of everything but if I were to pick one thing it's that he has common sense and he's an ordinary person who's doesn't have any mental illness that is identifiable like he's just common sense so that's what makes him so appealing when when anybody watches it like you don't have to agree with his love of eating elk I don't I don't eat elk so I don't have to bond with him I don't do I don't have any hobbies in common with them I don't like Ice uh I don't want to do an ice plunge I don't want to go hunting I don't want to grill I don't want to do any UFC fighting but I love the fact that he loves it and that when he talks about it it's you know like a regular person and I learn things so you can't make a Joe Rogan a Joe Rogan is born and then a whole bunch of things have to happen just right and then bam you turn around one day and there's a Joe Rogan well I mean Joe Rogan works at it for 10 years before he's Joe Rogan but to imagine the the Democrats think they can just build one let's just build ourselves at Joe Rogan it's like not understanding how anything works in the actual real world it's just amazing well my uh relative Eric Adams Mayer of New York City no we're not actually related but we have the same last name um Eric Adams I keep having this love hate sort of reaction to him because he's he's a super Common Sense guy he's a Democrat so so I'm all ready to disagree with him on a bunch of stuff but then when he talks he starts making sense it's like oh the migration thing is out of control and I'm like well wait a minute you're a Democrat oh okay just common sense and so he's on The View and uh talking about what the Democrats got wrong and he said uh that when people talk to him they're talking about prices basically what they can afford he says quote they are not talking about Hiller they're talking about housing they're not asking me Eric tell me about fascism they're talking about finance and I'm thinking watching Eric Adams uh the a common sense kind of guy tell the Democrats that the whole stealing your democracy Hitler fascist thing doesn't connect with anybody because we're we're just not registering it as real if it were real it would definitely work but we don't really register as real it just sounds like something that weirdos are saying so let me do an Abrupt left turn here's one he didn't see coming okay so I just told you that you cannot make a Joe Rogan you can't just say hey I'll decide to make a Joe Rogan we need one of those the Democrats already have one if they can keep him out of jail Eric Adams would be a great podcaster right if Eric Adams get get out of politics and he's got some legal problems which could be you know bigger than I think but if he doesn't have if he gets out of his legal problem somehow and he gets on of politics could he have a podcast that would make you interested yes I would watch his podcast do you know why because like Joe Rogan he says Common Sense things which are on point makes sense to me and you know I can relate to them yes but here's the thing you could not create an Eric Adams Eric Adams had to create himself so he exists you could take the you could take the opportunity that he's created but the problem is he doesn't agree with all your Democrat so the Democrats can't use a common sense guy because it wouldn't agree with their policies but yes Eric Adams could have a huge podcast he he has all the tools he's great on camera uh love the way he thinks and he he has a way of talking that connects with people you know Everyday People same as Joe Rogen so they have one it's just that if if you want somebody who talks common sense like Joe Rogan it's not going to work out for your brand it doesn't work out well uh VI I'm saying something that many of us are thinking he said on a post on X it took a band of small government revolutionaries to start this country it'll take a band of small govern government revolutionaries to save it yes yes yes yes it's funny how much all of us felt this thing now I tried to come up with a phrase for it early on you've heard Greg use it as well Greg geld but uh number of people who used it the the pirate ship analogy that it seemed like Trump um has always been able to do this he you know he used to Trump used to be best friends with uh Michael Jackson Michael Jackson lived in his building they they would hang out like he he was a guy who could be friends with anybody so from any Walk of Life and uh he has that ability to just relate to everybody Mc.

Donald's garbage truck everything so it's no surprise that Trump could attract a pirate ship full of people but then I saw one of the actors from The Avengers say that he was assembling The Avengers and I said oh that's pretty good too I can feel that a whole bunch of completely different people with superpowers you know elon's got his superpower and V's got his superpower and JD Vance and you know basically bunch of Avengers uh but I also like the refounding idea that V is talking about here that weirdly these characters map so to the founders that it's it's just hard to ignore it just is the same energy and it makes you wonder if if there isn't some kind of natural balancing thing in our DNA or in our culture or in the world or in our simulation or in physics or something where we get to this point where the entire civilization looks like it's coming off the rails and then suddenly there's this feeling that's like a feeling that's like do we have a pirate ship that just formed did The Avengers just assemble did the founders just come back alive you know through reincarnation or something but whatever this is I can feel the hell out of it and I'm hearing a lot of other people say the same you can feel this whatever this is it's the right people at the right time doing the right stuff in in a big big way and wow it's incredible and now Senator Bernie Sanders announced that he'd work with Trump he would work with Trump on the credit card interest rate cap at 10% now I don't know for sure if capping it at 10% is the right answer some of you are going to say but but Scott if you cap the interest rate then there will be much less interest offered to the public because some credit card companies won't be able to make it so they'll close down and Etc to which I say and yeah but but fewer people would be able to get a credit card Scott and and where's the problem there if the only people who are not getting credit cards are the ones with bad credit are we worse off would this not uh create some discipline among the credit card companies themselves to either get in business or figure out how to operate where 10% is enough because 10% is enough everywhere else everywhere else 10% is enough now they might have to be much tougher about who they give credit to but isn't that good that there's not a bunch of why why am I paying for all those people with bad credit like why is that why is that for me to pay because somebody else has baded credit that's how it works right they've got to overcharge the people with good credit to pay for the bad people with bad credit so if you can put Bernie Sanders and Trump on the same pirate ship something's going right now uh let me say clearly I haven't looked into the price cap argument on both sides yet so there might be an argument against it I just haven't heard it um meanwhile the New York Post says that the world bank is fearing budget cuts from Trump uh and this is after reportedly the World Bank lost $24 billion that they don't know where it went and that they're quote running around like headless chickens okay once again do you see the pattern the the world is sorting itself out just because Trump was elected so people are making changes that they should have already made and they're they're like winding down the dumbest stuff just because he's close this is the most dad's coming home thing you've ever seen in your life it's like kids you better settle down because Dad's coming home in 10 minutes it's the he's coming home in 10 minutes solved 20% of the nation's problems like what the hell is he going to do when he gets an office if 20% of our problems just solve themselves he's got he's got Bernie joint joining aside meanwhile Stephen King says he's quitting X some people said he didn't quit yet but he claims there's an the atmosphere has just become too toxic breitbard news is reporting this now uh do you think that Stephen King had anything to do with the toxic nature of the conversations he was in he he he might literally be in the dictionary under toxic you like toxic let's see to to tox oh there's Stephen King um but don't you wonder if he was ever organic do do you wonder if Stephen King just made his own decisions about waiting into politics or or didn't it feel like he was just working for a paycheck now I'm not saying he was working for a paycheck it's just that if you observed he was somebody who was creating nothing good of value he was just making himself less Popular by making half the country hate hate his books because of his politics why was he even involved in the first place doesn't it feel like there was some external force that might have been behind it like I don't know what but it just doesn't feel organic and what about uh well some of the other some of the other prominent um voices I think you're going to see disappear too uh meanwhile according to the Daily wire Virginia crout is writing that uh Anna Navaro on The View uh called on Biden to give pardons preemptively to people like U Hunter Biden and um let's see who else she wants to preemptive pardon for vice president Harris why does she need a preemptive pardon so she's worried about lawfare right did conl Harris break a law that I don't know about has anybody alleged that KL Harris broke a law did I miss a story why why does Anna dvaro think that she would need a pardon did she do something we don't know about sort of raises a question doesn't it um now I know what she's trying to do to say that she thinks that Trump's going to go after all the his uh adversaries but KL Harris is not an adversary she is a thoroughly beaten irrelevant figure that the longer she's around the better it makes Trump look KL Harris has less to worry about from Trump than she does from I don't know mosquito bite or something the the last thing Trump's going to do is double down on dunking on the most defeated candidate in the history of defeated candidates so no he's safe um she also thinks the January 6 committee members oh here we go like Liz jany and Adam kininger and maybe even the special prosecutor Jack Smith should get preemptive pardons well I would tell you as others have said that that would make all of these people look super guilty if you give a preemptive pardon to anybody I'm going to assume they're guilty because otherwise why'd you need that um and I do think the January 6 committee have done um enough that the public can see looks sketchy and frankly illegal that to me that's the edge case um I don't want Trump to do anything that's just pure lawfare if he went after kamla Harris and I've not heard of any anything even an alleged crime but if he like started digging into some I wouldn't be in favor of that but if you talk about the j6 committee I think they destroyed the whole country for four years and I think they knew they did it I think they knew they were lying and I think that what they did was one of the greatest crimes I've ever seen committed in public and I think they need to answer for it I think there needs to be accountability now did they break a law I don't know if they didn't then I certainly don't want them to go to to jail or even be charged if there's no law that's even you know allegedly broken but yes there is something very very bad that was done by some very specific people right in front of us and I don't think we can Overlook that but again if there's no crime there's no crime got to walk away anyway uh Trump has appointed a new press secretary her name is Caroline lit or Lev I guess how would you pronounce l e a v i TT leave it or L it because this will matter to the joke I'm about to make I'm preparing a dad joke in my mind it's very amusing but it will depend on you telling me which way to pronounce your name because one way oh damn it some people are saying is levit damn it that's not going to be nearly as funny well can I can I give you a recreational joke that would have been a lot funnier if her pre if her last name were pronounced leave it she would be the press secretary for the uh the deporter in Chief the guy who ran for office promising to deport 20 million people and he would and he would have as his spokesperson somebody named L it now that would have been funny except her name is levit well that's no good come on simulation you're so close to having a good good match there I'm going to call her leave it yeah believe it that's what I say to Snickers well you've seen a bunch of uh Democrats complain about RFK Jr and all of the terrible terrible things he going to do when he gets power over our Pharma and medical situation um but have you noticed anything about the complaints have you noticed that the complaints about RFK Jr all have something in common what what is it that all the complaints about RFK Jr have in common let's see if you can spot it what what do all the criticisms about him for this job specific Al for this job what do they have in common they're all made up they're all imaginary like every one of them like not some not some every single one of them is made up I don't think I've ever seen anything like it he he's getting the full Trump treatment where they have to completely make up stuff and act like they're really trying to sell it with their faces so they they say stuff like uh he wants to stop vaccinations no he doesn't no he doesn't he wants better science so that we know whether we're doing a good job what who doesn't want better science they're saying he wants to end pesticides does he no but I'm sure he wants to study it and make sure that we know what's safe and what isn't and if that meant Banning some pesticides because we learned more and the science was solid we would be all very happy if he did that why is that a criticism he's not going to do it if there's no data uh he he says uh oh then then they criticize him for not being a doctor I don't really feel like that would have helped us do you think the doctors are the right people to get this done no I think somebody who has no fear whatsoever of anything physical or embarrassment or anything else and somebody who's been deeply into it um as he has for years is exactly the right person he wants more testing and more science so the guy who wants more science and is insisting on more science and and insisting on the good kind is being criticized by the Democrats for being anti-science you can't get further from the truth that the guy who wants the most science and better science is the guy who doesn't understand and doesn't want science it's literally opposite and it's all imaginary now this is one of those cases where the the Deep state is kind of useful I could be worried about RFK Jr if I thought he would be working alone and just making sitting in the room making his own decisions about stuff but that's not going to happen he he's going to have an army of scientists and experts who are trying to talk him out of it and pointing him at different studies and he's going to say stuff like I see your study but it's not good enough you know show me show me a good long-term study so I I think we're in good shape there um I saw Molly Hemingway do a great defense I think it was on Fox news of Matt Gates as a choice for um attorney general and this is a good a good case so her angle on it is that uh Gates would be the most effective at fighting information Ops and I thought you know that's true uh Matt Gates has been the one of the most effective best communicators and most aggressive going after all the the Ops such as the Russia collusion Ops the 51 people signing the laptop op you all the other Ops he's one of the top people going after him so I agree with that Molly Hemingway that uh having somebody who would fight against the misinformation structure that feels like something I want now I'm not completely talked down at the idea that maybe Matt Gates is not a um let's say maybe it's a plan a but that they have a plan B ready already in other words they might already have a plan B in case he can't get can't get through for one reason or another um but it sure would be fun if he did I I would sure like to watch it meanwhile over on MSNBC where everybody's a terrible racist uh they have this lawyer Maya W on who they put on to defame P Heth who was picked as uh defense secretary and she claims that he's got a white supremacist tattoos all over his body false 100% false and she sat there and said it between two white guys who just nodded they let they let her say that without any push back M MH MSNBC is such garbage um then she also said about him um uh he is also a person if he's in the job who'll be having the discussion with Donald Trump about sending the military into communities to police US citizens again just some madeup stuff will the military be useful in transporting um illegal migrants back to their place of origin yes transport they'll drive them basically they're chauffeur I mean not the kind they want because it's going to take them out of the country but no it'll be ice and the people the people who are hired to do the deportations will do it now there's no plan to use the military in to police the communities meanwhile uh Trump is looking at at least considering a fellow named Dr aim uh motra for a key Health Ro role in revising our nation's food policies hello so this would include if if this happens uh the doctor would be uh looking at basically our processed foods and looking at targeting them for either labeled as unhealthy um or you know decreased in our diet in some ways so they would introduce the cigarette style warning labels on packaging and apparently according to to the Daily Mail some of these kinds of measures were successful in the United Kingdom there was a 2018 sugar tax that led to a significant reduction in Sugar consumption and prompted manufacturing to reformulate their products then this is according to resist the mainstream that's a publication I guess um let me tell you how much I love about this everything everything do you remember when people said Trump's a fascist well my understanding of a fascist is somebody who works with um the big companies almost as if they're on the same team this is very much targeting the food industry in the United States and not in the way they like not in the way they like so this is exactly what I want my government to do now maybe maybe labeling is enough so that I still have choices you know they Label cigarettes but they're still legal alcohol is still legal so I don't know if they need to make any of this illegal but yeah when my when my government wants to keep me better informed and tell me that the you know the interest rate on this loan is the same as this one and you know what's in the food yeah I like all that so I could I could not be happier about that that that's that's pure Golden Age stuff you don't get that you don't get this without Trump and without RFK Jr.

I think meanwhile I saw a story Sam Sam J over in Twitchy is writing there's some democrat who is on the floor of the uh Congress I guess talking about uh openly organizing a shadow government so he actually had names of all the Democrats who would operate as a shadow government uh but it sounds worse than it is what he meant was that for every appointed person in the Trump Administration that there'd be somebody who would be their critic you know somebody whose job it was to make sure they didn't go too far and do bad things that's fine it basically he's just using a colorful way to say that they're going to be critical of things that Trump does so it sounds like a much more shadowy terrible thing but really it's just just they're going to make sure they have critics for everything Trump does um Brendan carer at the FCC is uh working against the big censorship cartel and um he notes that uh this is on a he notes that Facebook Google Apple Microsoft and others have played a central role in the censorship cartel as he calls it now if you don't know about News Guard my understanding is it's an external entity that the big tech companies used as their source of what's information and what's disinformation except News Guard is just a censorship organization that will politically censor anything they don't like in ever reason so um he says the orwellian named and News Guard along with the quote factchecking groups and ad agencies are enforcing the the one-sided ative in other words they're censoring one side of the political conversation and so he wants to dismantle this what he would call a cartel of these factchecking disinformation people um and he says that uh the big Tech's uh liability Shield that's called section 230 now section 230 lets them not be sued the big tech companies uh if all they're doing is passing along information so they're not the ones creating it but if you are using these fake News Guard or fake fact Checkers or working with advertisers to limit one kind of speech and promote another kind then you're just censors and uh he he's asking for more information so we can take a look at this and maybe dismantle it um Michael shellenberger of course is the Superstar reporter who who who helps us understand this whole news thing and Mike Benz of course one of the strong voices there by the way if you're not following Mike Benz B NZ and Michael shellenberger sounds just like it spells uh you're not really well informed and I'll say Glenn Greenwald as well so there there's some people you need to follow or you're just not going to know anything there there they're one layer below the reality that you can see on TV so if you can't get to that lower level of Base reality where everything's rigged and you know exactly how everything's confusing so you got to get to the shellenberger Ben's Greenwall level of understanding of the world and then everything starts making sense at the same time it's it's kind of wonderful couldn't do it with X all right uh David saaks points out another systemic problem we have you had a good monologue that was on X I saw uh that the executive branch is in charge of a whole ton of people who work for the government except that it can't fire them so so there's a whole bunch of the government that can't be fired for doing a bad job so of course things go wrong of course it's the wrong incentive again this is what democ rats are bad at spotting Republicans are better at looking at at the entire machine and the incentives that are driving it so that's why they're better system designers and uh so saaks points out this is a system design problem and there's there's no accountability for you just massive amounts of government employees um they have a like a local boss but it's just so hard to fire anybody at least at the highest level so hard just doesn't happen so so yeah that needs to be fixed imagine if America could create a government that actually was efficient because imagine the competitive advantage that would be because I don't think China's government is super efficient I don't think Russia's government is super efficient I don't think the European union members are super efficient maybe maybe maybe some are um sometimes I tell you that eston has it together I think it does actually I think there is one country Estonia that just sort of does a lot of things right just sort of quietly being smart and excellent every day but just imagine the competitive advantage and our survivability as a nation if we could make our government accountable and efficient it's a big big ask but all the right people are on it all the right people so we'll see all right and then so apparently zalinski has said out loud that he thinks the war will end faster under the Trump Administration and uh here's what here's the dog this isn't quite the dog now barking but it's the awesome thing that you didn't notice so here's the thing that's that I think you'll agree is true that this is not an exaggeration Trump has ended at least two nuclear confrontations just by being Trump let me explain do you remember how all the smart people are saying okay well I might like some of Trump's policies but oh oh his character oh oh let me tell you about his character his character well let me tell you what his character did his character took the risk of nuclear war between Ukraine and Russia to zero do you know why because both Russia and Ukraine think he's the big dog and that the big dog's going to come in and settle their problems what would be the odds of Russia launching a nuclear war before Trump gets into office none none at all they would have nothing to gain right Trump by his character remember the party you didn't like his character his character ended the risk of nuclear war in Ukraine and Russia admit it admit it you admit it that was his character it wasn't his policy it wasn't his height it wasn't his orange hair it was his character they saw his character coming and they took the risk of nuclear war off the table it's the second time North Korea same thing do you know do you remember when Trump comes into office and we're worried literally worried that North Korea was going to launch a nuclear attack do you know what took that completely off the table now something could happen accidentally but clearly we're not looking at an intentional nuclear war do you know what took it completely off the table his character his character because he went and he shook hands with Kim Jong-un which nobody else would have done and Kim Jong-un said oh well why would I nuke my friend why would he so Trump's fight character protected us from two nuclear possibilities already right and and we act like we act like that's the worst part of him it's not the worst part of him I don't know what's the worst part but it's the good part the character the character is what's getting everything done do you do you know why people are scrambling around uh in anticipation of him doing changes is because his character is I'm not going to quit there's the character if you know he's not going to quit you're going to make adjustments before he gets there because he's coming and he's not going to quit and you're not going to talk him man of it with your with your bureaucrats at this time and this time he brought a whole pirate ship full of people who don't quit do you know what Elon Musk does doesn't quit and you all know that he doesn't quit character right character is fight fight fight character is that no matter how far you got pushed down after that devastating loss in 2020 you get back up you do it again character now am I going to defend every sex Choice he ever made or every insult he ever made no and I'm not going to I'm not going to criticize it either because I don't care but the part of his character that I do care about just made me a whole lot safer from nuclear war right so I I feel like the reason I'm worked up about it is we're seeing the greatest display of character solving problems that you've ever seen what since who since who this is like a once ever you're not going to see this again in your lifetime you'll never see this his character is solving massive problems all over the place do you think anybody else could tear down the government with Elon Musk and get him to partner with him do you think anybody else would have Bernie Sanders saying you know what you're definitely right about this do you think anybody else would have um you the Democrats completely destroyed Trump hollowed out the Republican party and fixed it and then he defeated the Democrats and he's forcing them to fix themselves he's dismantling the entire uh censorship regime he probably will with Elon and VI's help uh figure out how to solve our financial death spiral he almost certainly will put us in a position where our energy and our AI stop is competitive and maybe better than that he almost singlehandedly will probably fix our International Trade situation I suspect he's going to do a lot on the border we've never seen anything like this and his character it's just if you focus on the wrong Parts the let's say it's the uh not the active ingredients that's the way to put it you know you look at a product as active ingredient a medication then it's a bunch of inactive ingredients well that's like Trump's character the inactive ingredients are he insults Rosie odonnell that's inactive it doesn't bother you the active part is he just stop two nuclear Wars that's the active part he'll fire somebody if he needs to Biden didn't fire anybody Trump will fire people that's the active part all right and he's doing great so the Golden Ages here uh Jonathan Turley writes about uh there were four Californians who had some kind of insurance scheme they had some uh some luxury vehicles that I guess they wanted to collect the insurance on instead of doing whatever else they would do with them so one of them dressed in a bear out outfit and pretended a wild bear was destroying all three cars and that it was on they made sure it was on security video so they took their security video to their insurance companies and said how about some insurance payments because look at this bear that destroy destroyed our luxury cars and the insurance company said you know that looks exactly like a person in a bear contest costume and sure enough sure enough one of them had purchased a bear costume it was dressed as a bear and uh do you know how they figured out it was a man in a bear costume instead of a bear it was it was simpler than You' think he didn't in the woods no he used the indoor plumbing and then they're like well no bears HIIT in the woods you're not a bear so that's how you tell so thank you to Jonathan Turley for that important story um ladies and gentlemen today is Saturday and it's time for us to have a great weekend uh the holidays are coming I'm sure already probably most of you have ordered your Dilbert calendars 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oh I just realized I started this 10

minutes

early but you're not going to mind are

you I looked at my clock

wrong but you don't mind at all no we're

going to start early

today because I've got a story to tell

you while we're waiting for the rest of

them so as some of you know I've had had

a little trouble with my my back

recently just you know muscle and

sciatica and stuff any normal stuff

and so I kept getting

recommended to get an inversion

table

so the there's two parts to this

story one part is if I ever told you

that I have this weird history of curing

people's medical

problems right I've told you that

before I cure a lot of people people's

medical problems sometimes accidentally

I mean here's one example uh I had a

tennis partner I used to play with every

week for years and one day he said oh I

have terrible allergies blah blah blah

and I said well do you try this uh over

the counter stuff

algra and he said what I said yeah you

just try this algra stuff and takes care

of your allergies he said are you

kidding and he tried I think he tried

the competitor to algra the other one

and uh after decades and Decades of just

complete suffering he said uh that

worked so I so I cured somebody of one

of their most vexing problems in their

entire life just by saying oh if you

tried

alra so since that time and because I

write books about how to do things I've

uh I hear back from people that they've

quit drinking probably hundreds of

people have stopped drinking now because

of something I said um maybe hundreds or

even thousands of people have lost

incredible amounts of weight because

they used a system instead of a goal um

I've helped cure people of spasmodic

dysphonia the problem I had with my

voice similar to what RFK Jr has because

I informed people that there was one

doctor at least that could cure it with

surgery with which is why you can hear

me now and uh also worked with shy

bladder and a number of other things so

you've heard most of the stories so by

weird

coincidence I have in fact cured people

of oh even uh OCD I cured

somebody with a

reframe I've cured people of depression

with reframes now none of this is plann

it's not like I started my life and said

you know what I would like to figure out

how to cure a bunch of people in random

ways but part of my story it's a

two-parter is that I cured somebody I

think of a back problem not just me

here's how I did it I went to Amazon to

buy one of those inversion tables the

thing that turns you upside down so it

stretches you back and uh I I hit the

buy button and I realized oh I've got

the wrong address on there

and so I immediately cancel it because

it was an address for a family member

and I cancel it and I redo it to my

correct address well too late I

discovered that it initiated both sales

so even though I had canceled it for

reasons I don't quite understand they

delivered it anyway to some other

address so I get a call hey I've got

this thing came to the wrong address

must be

yours and and and I thought well I could

return

it but you know it's somewhere in

another part of the state maybe somebody

needs it so I said do do you know

anybody wants

it and uh said person looked around and

uh found that there was somebody in the

network who had a back problem and was

looking for one so I said ah could have

it for I don't know 20 cents at a dollar

or something so I uh gave them a

inverter table now I put together my own

because my own came to my house and sure

enough really makes you your back feel

better so it works so I've accidentally

by pushing the wrong button on Amazon

cured A stranger's back problem somebody

will never

meet because I know it works and you

know it's kind of expensive it's like

$500 I don't know if anybody would just

sort of try it on their own but if you

get one for

$100 and somebody did so somebody's got

a good back who may be thanking me in

Southern California but here's the funny

part so I get my own uh my own inverted

table and I'm getting ready to assemble

it and the first thing I realized is

that there are many many parts to the

assembly and it's all going to be this

stuff that's awkward to hold and you

need three hands you know like have to

hold the thing while you're putting

three screws in that don't go quite

through the holes the right way and you

know you need to you have to have at

least six ends so I said to myself

there's no way I'm going to assemble

that without hurting my

back and sure enough it's really hard on

your back to assemble that freaking

thing so by the time I was done I was

like ah ah I I can't believe I have to

twist myself in pretzels to put this

thing together but I get it together now

the other thing you need to know is that

when I assemble anything or do any kind

of Home

Improvement I can usually get it done

meaning that if I apply enough you know

Brew force and mental power I you I can

figure things out I don't like to so

that's where people get me wrong it's

not that I can't figure out how to do

stuff around the house I just don't want

to and one of the reasons I don't want

to is that um I have one of these themes

in life that when I do any kind of Home

Improvement eventually I'm going to need

a tourniquet or something to stop the

bleeding so sure

enough my part of my arm looks like

Beirut now for a large part of the

device fell on my hand and just or on my

arm just the right way to rip the top

layer of Flesh off and expose me to

bleeding that lasted about a

day so when I try to improve my health I

tell you it's it's a struggle I know I'm

going to need a tourniquet I knew I was

going to hurt my back and I had to buy

two of them to get one so

that that's what it took however here's

the good

news I think it worked between not

sleeping on my bed anymore I had to get

rid of my bed I mean in terms of

sleeping on it so I I spent 4 days

sleeping on a massage table cuz it's

firm so I just had a temporary massage

table setup and uh between that and the

the inversion table and this little back

warmer I got on now I have never felt

better after 30 years of back problems

solved so this is a good news story the

golden age has begun with my back

feeling better than it's felt in

probably 25 years so there's that

I would like to read you the uh the

wakeup quote of the day this is from

zubie you shall all be following zubie

on X I think you all many of you know

zubie listen to this one sentence and

see if this doesn't wake you up all

right it can't be mere accident that

schools and universities don't teach

kids about nutrition and

money

ouch oh my God

does that hit hard today it can't be an

accident the schools and universities

don't teach kids about nutrition and

money holy because that's how they

feed us garbage and it's how they steal

your money if you understood money and

nutrition nothing would look the way it

looks your your health would be

different your finances would be

different I don't know this this s me

like a ton of bricks that that that

there might be a reason that they don't

teach

this now I don't think that they had a

meeting and decided don't teach this I

think that just the incentive system was

subtly

subtly against informing people how

things work because there's you know

trillions of dollars to be made as PE as

long as the public doesn't understand

how anything happens wow zubie with the

win uh as an ex account called

infographics notes that uh the

researchers lately are really crushing

it for example CNN's reporting that uh

there's a new study that uh the more

active you are it'll extend your life

expectancy did anybody know that

exercise is good for your

health apparently it is exercise is good

for your health and your

longevity um and the not to be undone

the bmj group did a study in said that

uh the people over 40 would live five

extra years if they were as active as

the top 20% huh so not only is exercise

good for you but the people who do more

of it get more benefit for well I don't

know how they would have known that

without studying it or or you could have

just asked Scott would have saved you a

lot of money yes exercise still good for

you nothing changed since the last

time meanwhile University of Washington

is developing these cool headphones

using AI I guess to create what they

call a sound

bubble now this is like a way cooler

idea than you think it is so right now

you probably have um you probably have

some noise cancelling headphones such as

these but it cancels all the noise so if

somebody wants to talk to you you can't

hear them too well

as well as the other noise and it's not

perfect either but they've developed

some kind of headphones where you could

hear voice if the voice is close to you

in other words if somebody wanted to

walk up you while you're listening to

your headphones and they just talk to

you in a normal voice you would hear it

in a normal voice is that cool it's like

the smallest the smallest

invention but you automatically you can

see how it would change your experience

it's like oh I hate taking my headphones

off oh I hate not knowing if somebody

can hear me

but it will make things different in the

gym do you know what is the greatest

thing for Women's Health it's earbuds do

you know why because then women can go

to the gym and be in don't talk to me

mode and it's harder for guys to

approach them because if you have to go

up and say Hey you signal them hey do

you mind do you mind I'm a complete

stranger I want to make conversation but

maybe you could stop listening to

whatever you're doing and take out your

your earbuds or your your headphones

like that's a hard one I've seen people

do it by the way I've seen people

strangers asking other people to take

their headphones out so they can chat

but it's harder it's much harder so

headphones make women safe in gyms it's

good for their health I'm glad you asked

me did you know that stress can scramble

your brain so badly it changes your

memories according to study finds so so

the more stress you have the less

successful your memory is but not only

does it not remember well it can

actually give you a false

memory now let's tie that into the

headlines you ready for this yeah this

is science that

matters if fear makes uh makes your

memory

worse do you think that fear could also

make you more likely to believe a hoax

I suspect yes because if fear makes it

difficult to accurately remember a real

thing it wouldn't be a big

stretch to imagine that fear could make

you believe a hoax for example if I

could make you really afraid of trump

could I then easily make you believe

that he said something positive about

Hitler yes I could because I've scared

you into a fake BAS basically a fake

memory of what Trump is and what he's

done so far if you can if I can get your

fake memory about what he's done so far

it's easy to introduce a new hoax

because you'll say well that's exactly

what I was expecting from somebody who

did these things that didn't really

happen so watch out for fear persuasion

because it can change your memories as

well I

think I've been telling you for a long

time that the most powerful technology

in the future will be

holes like literally just holes in the

ground and you see it a little bit with

the boring company you know maybe it's

going to help

Transportation by allowing you to use

tunnels to get to places I don't know

about that but I was always thinking

geothermal but here's something I found

out that is just another sign of the

golden age I thought that geothermal

power was really pretty much just

drilling a deep hole until you got to

some hot water

and then once you got to some hot water

you could turn it into energy because

you can turn heat into energy or yeah

basically heat into energy well heat is

energy you know what I mean you can turn

it into productive energy um but it

turns out that according to article in

nature there are a bunch of new and

Innovative geothermal techniques that do

not depend on finding hot water so you

can just go down deep enough that it's

hot with or without the water so you

just have to go so down it's hot but you

can even create I think I have this

right a U-shaped tunnel or a U-shaped

hole and if you if it's u-shaped you can

pump your own water into it it becomes

super heated because it's so far down in

the earth and then when you pump it up

the other side heated water so you get

your energy for free even if you didn't

have a source water at the bottom of it

now that's one of them there's another

one where they they drill more sideways

than down and somehow that gives them

some Advantage but the point is there

are several now geothermal alternative

methods one is like fracking so there's

the standard there's the fracking

there's a U-shaped at least one other

and geothermal is almost

unlimited so all we have to do is figure

out sort of incrementally by trial and

error which ones of these works better

and tweak it a little bit and it could

be that geothermal is the biggest energy

of the future that would totally be

possible because nuclear is always going

to be dangerous you know with its own

well it'll always feel dangerous and

take a long time and be

expensive uh Elon Musk says that solar

will be the main source of energy in the

future I say that's true if we get our

battery storage right and our grid right

all you'd have to do is put solar on

every roof and you have energy

everywhere you just need to be able to

use it locally right now we don't have

the grid to do that but it's getting

there well speaking of U musk uh on CNBC

Ron Baron who's a famous investor kind

of guy was talking about Tesla stock and

he says that the stock price now of

Tesla is about the same as was three

years

ago and he says uh he thinks it's going

to be worth $5 trillion in 10

years $5

trillion we we do have a few trillion

dollar companies like one trillion just

recently but five trillion in 10 years

and then that's just the first part I'm

not done yet right that's what the

investor thinks he says Elon believes uh

that uh that even longer term it could

be 30 trillion he thinks the robot is

going to be his biggest business ever

and then Ron Baron ends with no way I'm

selling

Tesla now uh I own Tesla

stock so that's my full disclosure so

don't buy any stocks or do any

Investments because of something you

heard on this show right it might sound

like a good idea but I assure you I'm

not that good at investing that you

should follow my lead I'll tell you what

I'm doing because it's part of of

disclosure and it's also part of how you

think about it so if I tell you

something it's because it's more about

teaching you some concept of of

investing for example I have a the the

smaller part of my portfolio has some

Bitcoin and some Nvidia and some Tesla

stock because those are three things

that could go through the solar system I

mean that they could go so high it' be

crazy but I wouldn't put 90% of my money

in those

things so so there's your there's your

Finance lesson you want most of your

money to be in things that you think are

are Diversified and are going to be fine

like the index index of the Fortune 500

for

example and but you might want you might

want a good solid 10 to 20% in a little

basket of things that if any one of them

went big it would go so big you couldn't

even believe it you that's what Nvidia

and Tesla and Bitcoin all have in common

if they go if they go big and they're

Aller already pretty big uh there's

almost no limit it's just an almost an

uncapped potential you don't see that

that's not something you're going to see

if you invest in cocacola or even Apple

computer so yeah these are really really

special kinds of things I also have a

investment in

a uh I think it's

the nlr it's a index of nuclear power

Technologies and companies that one I

don't know how fast it'll grow but I

like the idea of it um anyway again I

don't recommend these stocks these are

not recommendations these are

lessons

um let's see apparently major companies

are returning to advertise on X so IBM

Disney Comcast Warner Brothers Discovery

and uh Elon is thank them all so

apparently the the fact that X is just

an excellent place to advertise compared

to the Alternatives apparently because

one assumes that they wouldn't be coming

back unless advertising they're worked I

think bang for the buck is probably

among the best places to advertise I

would guess I'm no expert but I'll bet

that's

true

um now I told you that uh solar might be

the new power of the future but only if

you can store it in batteries and which

means you probably need more lithium for

your robots and your cars and all that

well according to new Atlas there's some

new research at Rice University where

they can grab uh almost all of the

lithium from geothermal sources oh

geothermal again so apparently

geothermal that has brine in it salt

brine has has a a lot of lithium in it

and they figured out some uh new

technology to get it out of there oh it

looks like they built a three-chambered

reactor that has a newly developed

lithium ion conducted glass ceramic

membrane so it looks like they're using

some kind of a filter to just sort of

filter it down electronically and

otherwise so these are small

Technologies but if any one of these

makes lithium really cheap Everything

Changes imagine if the cost of lithium

just went down 90% because somebody

built a better filter to take it out of

the take it out of the ground that's the

sort of thing that could happen like

just you wake up one day and lithium is

90% less Could

Happen

um scitech Del says there's some weight

breakthrough they found some natural

compound in your body if they give you a

little bit more of it you're not hungry

I guess fects how your brain registers

hunger so Baylor College of Medicine the

Stanford University School of Medicine

and their collaborators came up with

that will that work I don't

know but but there's a there's a lot

going on you know if the biggest health

problem in the country is being

overweight there's a lot going on that's

going to help push that in the other

direction and one of them might be this

it would be be a competitor to OIC I

guess but uh if it works

great well here's a weird little story

that doesn't make sense that in context

so Russia is going to restrict enrich

uranium exports to the United States now

it's sort of a response to some

restrictions that are being put on

Russian

trade uh but it's also not that big a

deal so it's sort of like why are they

even doing it it's not it's not going to

hurt us that much it's not big a deal

but it sounds like it's kind of

important because it's you know it's

uranium and they're one of the biggest

sources we're not really going to run

out of uranium but why why would Putin

even throw this little uh little deal

into the mix well I have a

hypothesis and it goes like this I

believe that everybody is waiting for

jump and they're waiting for the big dog

to settle all the little fights with

little dogs the biggest fight is Ukraine

and Russia um situation and if Putin is

as smart as I think he is and he's

definitely as smart as I think he is

strategically he can play some chess you

know what I mean like I I I've never

heard a story of whether Vladimir Putin

or yeah whether he plays chess or not

but I assume he does and I just have a

feeling he'd be good at it you know like

strategically even if you think he's an

evil monster he's pretty good

strategically um here's why I think he's

throwing this in the mix I don't think

it's just a tit fortat that we do a

little trade restriction so he does a

little trade restriction I think it's

smarter than that I think that both

Trump and Putin are the two smart

negotiators who could figure out the

following thing

if you make it just about the Ukraine

Russia War you're

idiots you're

idiots all

right let me say that again if if Putin

and uh and Trump negotiate the end of

the of course zinsky negotiate the end

of the Ukraine war and they limit the

discussion to the end of the Ukraine war

they're idiots now you know what they're

not not idiots here's the good news the

good news is they're both really good at

negotiating so you know what they're

going to do they're going to throw in

all this other stuff and they should

that's how you get the deal the deal is

you throw the extra stuff in there

because you're like oh I don't know we

don't we're not getting enough out of

this Ukraine stopping fighting thing

but wouldn't you guys like to have a

better source of

uranium because you're going to need it

for all the AI and the nuclear power

plants and we say you know we would

actually we would like that then Russia

would say you know what we'd like a

little less tightening on some of this

other trade over here and we'd say you

know what we we'll give you that so if

Trump and Putin figure out how to throw

more stuff in it I think there'll be

maybe a there could be a nuclear weapons

testing

treaty there could be um something about

you know uh China I think that would be

a long shot but I've noticed that uh

Russia is playing the Joe Mansion um

strategy so Joe Mansion he was one of

those few Senators who could go either

way and uh so because he could go with

way he had all the power it seemed like

because he could vote as a Democrat or

he could vote with the Republicans and

everything was so close that it would

end up being well looks like it's down

to Joe Mansion again so what Putin has

done which I think again is clever is

he's put himself right between the

United States and

China so Russia as a military or

economic power is Tiny compared to other

either the United States or China but if

you Joe Mansion it and you go right in

the

middle you have all this weird power so

that's what he's done he became the Joe

Mansion of countries it's like well I I

could agree with China on

this what do you have to offer oh I

could agree with you too so it's kind of

brilliant where Putin's stationed

himself so that also gives him something

to negotiate so if Trump says to him in

some form you know what we'd really like

is we'd really like Russia to be more

let's say friendly with the United

States and less friendly with China

that's something that Putin has to

negotiate now he created an asset out of

nothing that's that's Trump style Trump

is the expert of creating an asset out

of nothing so he can negotiate it away

later like like Mexico is going to pay

for the wall he just creates that out of

nothing and it's something he can give

up and it feels like he he met in the

middle all right

um there are still believe it or not

some voting irregularities that are

being looked into uh in Oregon there's a

House of Representatives Tracy Cramer

who was ahead by 500 votes and then

there was a new dump of votes and guess

what she lost by one

vote she was AE by 500 and

coincidentally the new batch of votes

was exactly the right number to make her

lose by one so clearly there's going to

be some some challenges there now does

that mean that it's

rigged well there's no proof of that

does it look exactly like it's

rigged well

yeah it looks exactly like it's rigged

but that doesn't mean it is we're we're

in a weird place where you have to you

have to challenge everything um I would

certainly challenge this one you know

you you can't do something that looks

this rigged and then just walk away I

mean you're going to have to dig it look

under the hood on this one uh meanwhile

over in Bucks County according to bre

bar news uh there are ballots missing

and there's a lot of problems over in

Bucks County so it does seem that uh

there are at least three situations that

are ongoing where the vote counting is

in question

it doesn't make you feel too comfortable

does

it well if you haven't seen the clip of

Bill Maher dumping on Democrats that was

produced I guess last night on his show

oh you have to watch it because you know

I always talk about Bill Mah being you

know willing to criticize the Democrats

as well as the Republicans and I do

appreciate that that's good stuff he's

got TDS of course but outside of the

narrow cone of TDS he is very very good

compared to most people in being able to

see the whole field very rare for any of

the public figures to even even be able

to do that

so here's what he said I'll just

paraphrase a few things um he did

suggest that Democrats thinking that

Republicans are the dumb ones might be

might be just the

opposite so I I don't think it's true

that either one is the dumb one

but he's definitely going to debunk the

idea that the Democrats are the Smart

Ones and the Republicans are the dumb

ones so he's definitely off that train

right now and he's very off it like he's

he's completely off Democrat smart

Republicans dumb he he's abandoned that

completely it's just not there's just no

evidence for it and he's just watched

Democrats be so dumb that you can't even

believe it so he's he's abandoning

Republicans dumb now that's kind of a

big deal do you realize how big a deal

that is because Republicans be dumb is

pretty much The Stereotype that the

country has been operating under you

know the anti-republican part of the

country and I think that bill isn't the

only one who might be abandoning that

idea anyway so he also said uh maybe

Democrats would be better if they would

maybe stop acting like the people that

voters would want to punch in the face

okay that's just a perfect line that is

a perfect Line stop acting in a way that

makes everybody want to punch you in the

face now I of course am against violence

but as a a humorous way to express

things that fits when I watch

MSNBC I have to actively curb my my

feeling of punching the television cuz

their faces all look punchable that and

I talk about this all the time their

their facial expression doesn't match

what they

say in such a you know uh uncanny valley

kind of a way you don't even know what

you're seeing are they lying are they

crazy are they demented they have bad

information and you're just trying to

figure it out like why does the face not

match the words and what am I watching

so yes uh even Bill Maher has noticed

that his side has the most punchable

faces I I think that

probably you know maybe that changes

over time there may be times when the

Republicans have more punchable faces

but at the moment I think the Democrats

have the uh I think they've got that

locked

up he Bill M also goes the Democrats he

says the Democrats have an anti-common

sense

agenda yes yes

yes how about maybe that's the whole

story maybe that's the whole story that

that the policies don't even look like

they make sense it's not like you're

choosing among well that's a good idea

but you know that's a good idea too H

which of these two good ideas is

slightly better it's nothing like that

there's one bad crazy and one that

might work and it might not it's it's

not like you're comparing you know

equals

um and he also criticized the Democrats

for their quote shitty exclusionary

attitudes

yes um so so he's doing great and and

I'm like yes bill go bill go Bill I'm

like rooting for him I I'm feeling like

he's really he's crossed into some like

higher level of awareness which is you

know it's what I say when people agree

with

me so since it's me talking I get to set

the level of awareness in my own little

subjective world so when I see him talk

like this I'm like wow Bill you've

you've you've you've commanded your TDS

and you've recognized that the things

that the Democrats say are not sensible

in many many times and that they're

they're lying to you and they're not the

Smart Ones and then he ended by saying

that uh he that the Democrats didn't

even do much oh he ended by saying that

because are so bad at their

politics that the things he cares about

the most that Democrats can protect the

best are not being served so here are

the two things after Bill M criticizes

the Democrats for being idiots he says

the two things he cares about the most

were number one losing democracy and

number two climate

change okay Bill you just lost all of

your credibility

losing your

democracy what who told you you going to

lose some democracy the Democrats the

people you said are idiots with the

punchable faces just made up a thing

that you're going to lose your democracy

completely made up you know I mean they

they look to January 6 but you know most

of that's imaginary as well so they've

got this madeup thing and after Bill M

criticizes them about being idiots

he tells you that he's really worried

about losing his

democracy because the country elected in

a land Slide the person who would most

protect their freedom of speech their

gun rights and pretty much all their

other

rights yeah and that's what he's worried

about losing his

democracy and then he said climate

change

now as you know I don't know if climate

change is caused by people or how much

of it is caused by people a little bit I

don't know if it's going to be dangerous

or not dangerous what I'm sure of is

that nobody else knows either that's the

only part I'm sure of so after going

through this whole thing about how dumb

the Democrats are and even criticizing

them specifically for being bad on

science because he criticized them about

the pandemic and about mask wearing two

years later so he's very specifically

saying the Democrat get science

wrong and they says climate change is

his biggest concern besides losing his

democracy Now do you see

it do you see that it looked like he was

all the way out of his TDS but in fact

he's all the way in the two things he

cares about aren't even real they're not

even

real so anyway he's almost

there here here my favorite dumb

Democrat thing so um is it Eli or Ellie

Mell who appears on MSNBC a lot and he

said that uh so this is the Democrats

figuring out what they did wrong and

then correcting it all right so this is

uh msnbc's one of their regulars

figuring out what they did wrong and

then here's his suggestion for

correcting

it he says liberal need to build their

own Joe

Rogan oh

oh do you see any pattern here the

pattern where the the anti-trump people

don't know how anything

works like anything now it's not so bad

that they don't understand that a large

complex model for predicting the

temperature of the Earth in 80 years

isn't real I can see how they'd be

fooled by it because a lot of people are

fooled by that

but sometimes they're easy things like

if you create a set of

incentives that will cause people to

move toward the incentive and

somehow that part's invisible to

Democrats but here's my favorite

one how do you build a Joe

Rogan I'm gonna I'm going to make a

little uh

confession if I knew how to be Joe

Rogan I would have done it by

now if anybody else in the whole

Universe knew how to be Joe

Rogan they would have done it by

now now every now and then there's a

superstar that emerges you know Megan

Kelly good example um but she wasn't

trying to be Joe Rogan do you know who

she was trying to be Megan Kelly nailed

it nailed it um and I could mention you

know pbd pbd great production great

guests great uh great show

um you can't create

that you can't build that these happen

organically or they don't happen at all

and here's the hard part does does

anybody know why Joe Rogan is uh is

popular well you know they he he does

everything right so it's it's sort of

everything but if I were to pick one

thing it's that he has common sense and

he's an ordinary person who's doesn't

have any mental illness that is

identifiable like he's just common sense

so that's what makes him so

appealing when when anybody watches it

like you don't have to agree with his

love of eating elk I don't I don't eat

elk so I don't have to bond with him I

don't do I don't have any hobbies in

common with them I don't like Ice uh I

don't want to do an ice plunge I don't

want to go hunting I don't want to

grill I don't want to do any UFC

fighting but I love the fact that he

loves it and that when he talks about it

it's you know like a regular person and

I learn things so you can't make a Joe

Rogan a Joe Rogan is

born and then a whole bunch of things

have to happen just right and then bam

you turn around one day and there's a

Joe Rogan well I mean Joe Rogan works at

it for 10 years before he's Joe Rogan

but to imagine the the Democrats think

they can just build

one let's just build ourselves at Joe

Rogan it's like not understanding how

anything works in the actual real world

it's just

amazing well my uh relative Eric Adams

Mayer of New York City no we're not

actually related but we have the same

last name um Eric Adams I keep having

this love hate sort of reaction to him

because he's he's a super Common Sense

guy he's a Democrat so so I'm all ready

to disagree with him on a bunch of stuff

but then when he talks he starts making

sense it's like oh the migration thing

is out of control and I'm like well wait

a minute you're a Democrat oh okay just

common sense and so he's on The View and

uh talking about what the Democrats got

wrong and he said uh that when people

talk to him they're talking about prices

basically what they can afford he says

quote they are not talking about Hiller

they're talking about

housing they're not asking me Eric tell

me about fascism they're talking about

finance and I'm

thinking watching Eric

Adams uh the a common sense kind of guy

tell the Democrats that the whole

stealing your democracy Hitler fascist

thing doesn't connect with anybody

because we're we're just not registering

it as real if it were real it would

definitely work but we don't really

register as real it just sounds like

something that weirdos are saying

so let me do an Abrupt left turn here's

one he didn't see coming okay so I just

told you that you cannot make a Joe

Rogan you can't just say hey I'll decide

to make a Joe Rogan we need one of

those the Democrats already have one if

they can keep him out of jail Eric Adams

would be a great

podcaster right if Eric Adams get get

out of politics and he's got some legal

problems which could be you know bigger

than I think but if he doesn't have if

he gets out of his legal problem somehow

and he gets on of politics could he have

a podcast that would make you interested

yes I would watch his podcast do you

know why because like Joe Rogan he says

Common Sense things which are on point

makes sense to me and you know I can

relate to

them yes but here's the thing you could

not create an Eric Adams Eric Adams had

to create himself so he exists you could

take the you could take the opportunity

that he's created but the problem is he

doesn't agree with all your Democrat

so the Democrats can't use a

common sense guy because it wouldn't

agree with their

policies but yes Eric Adams could have a

huge podcast he he has all the tools

he's great on

camera uh love the way he thinks and he

he has a way of talking that connects

with people you know Everyday People

same as Joe Rogen so they have one it's

just that if if you want somebody who

talks common sense like Joe Rogan it's

not going to work out for your

brand it doesn't work

out well uh VI I'm saying something that

many of us are thinking he said on a

post on X it took a band of small

government revolutionaries to start this

country it'll take a band of small

govern government revolutionaries to

save

it

yes yes yes

yes it's funny how much all of us felt

this thing now I tried to come up with a

phrase for it early on you've heard Greg

use it as well Greg geld but uh number

of people who used it the the pirate

ship analogy that it seemed like Trump

um has always been able to do this he

you know he used to Trump used to be

best friends with uh Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson lived in his building

they they would hang out like he he was

a guy who could be friends with anybody

so from any Walk of Life and uh he has

that ability to just relate to everybody

McDonald's garbage truck everything so

it's no surprise that Trump could

attract a pirate ship full of people but

then I saw one of the actors from The

Avengers say that he was assembling The

Avengers and I said oh that's pretty

good too I can feel that a whole bunch

of completely different people with

superpowers you know elon's got his

superpower and V's got his superpower

and JD Vance and you know basically

bunch of

Avengers uh but I also like the

refounding idea that V is talking about

here that weirdly these characters map

so to the founders that it's it's just

hard to ignore it just is the same

energy and it makes you wonder if if

there isn't some kind of natural

balancing thing in our DNA or in our

culture or in the world or in our

simulation or in physics or something

where we get to this point where the

entire civilization looks like it's

coming off the rails and then suddenly

there's this feeling

that's like a

feeling that's like do we have a pirate

ship that just formed did The Avengers

just

assemble did the founders just come back

alive you know through reincarnation or

something but whatever this is I can

feel the hell out of it and I'm hearing

a lot of other people say the same you

can feel this whatever this is it's the

right people at the right time doing the

right stuff

in in a big big way and wow it's

incredible and now Senator Bernie

Sanders announced that he'd work with

Trump he would work with Trump on the

credit card interest rate cap at 10% now

I don't know for sure if capping it at

10% is the right answer some of you are

going to say but but Scott if you cap

the interest rate then there will be

much less interest offered to the public

because some credit card companies won't

be able to make it so they'll close down

and Etc to which I say and yeah but but

fewer people would be able to get a

credit card

Scott

and

and where's the problem there if the

only people who are not getting credit

cards are the ones with bad credit are

we worse

off would this not uh create some

discipline among the credit card

companies themselves to either get in

business or figure out how to operate

where 10% is enough because 10% is

enough everywhere else everywhere else

10% is enough now they might have to be

much tougher about who they give credit

to but isn't that good that there's not

a bunch of why why am I paying for all

those people with bad credit like why is

that why is that for me to pay because

somebody else has baded credit that's

how it works right they've got to

overcharge the people with good credit

to pay for the bad people with bad

credit so if you can put Bernie Sanders

and Trump on the same pirate

ship something's going

right now uh let me say clearly I

haven't looked into the price cap

argument on both sides yet so there

might be an argument against it I just

haven't heard

it um meanwhile the New York Post says

that the world bank is fearing budget

cuts from Trump

uh and this is after reportedly the

World Bank lost $24 billion that they

don't know where it went and that

they're quote running around like

headless

chickens okay once again do you see the

pattern the the world is sorting itself

out just because Trump was

elected so people are making changes

that they should have already made and

they're they're like winding down the

dumbest stuff just because he's

close this is the most dad's coming home

thing you've ever seen in your life it's

like kids you better settle down because

Dad's coming home in 10 minutes it's the

he's coming home in 10 minutes solved

20% of the nation's problems like what

the hell is he going to do when he gets

an office if 20% of our problems just

solve themselves he's got he's got

Bernie joint joining

aside meanwhile Stephen King says he's

quitting X some people said he didn't

quit yet but he claims there's an the

atmosphere has just become too toxic

breitbard news is reporting this now uh

do you think that Stephen King had

anything to do with the toxic nature of

the conversations he was

in he he he might literally be in the

dictionary under toxic you like toxic

let's see to to tox oh there's Stephen

King um but don't you

wonder if he was ever

organic do do you wonder if Stephen King

just made his own decisions about

waiting into politics or or didn't it

feel like he was just working for a

paycheck now I'm not saying he was

working for a paycheck it's just that if

you observed

he was somebody who was creating nothing

good of value he was just making himself

less Popular by making half the country

hate hate his books because of his

politics why was he even involved in the

first place doesn't it feel like there

was some external force that might have

been behind it like I don't know what

but it just doesn't feel organic and

what about uh well some of the other

some of the other prominent um voices I

think you're going to see disappear

too uh meanwhile according to the Daily

wire Virginia crout is writing that uh

Anna Navaro on The

View uh called on Biden to give pardons

preemptively to people like U Hunter

Biden and um let's see who else she

wants to preemptive pardon for vice

president

Harris why does she need a preemptive

pardon so she's worried about lawfare

right did conl Harris break a law that I

don't know

about has anybody alleged that KL Harris

broke a

law did I miss a story why why does Anna

dvaro think that she would need a

pardon did she do something we don't

know about sort of raises a question

doesn't it um now I know what she's

trying to do to say that she thinks that

Trump's going to go after all the his uh

adversaries but KL Harris is not an

adversary she is a thoroughly beaten

irrelevant figure that the longer she's

around the better it makes Trump look KL

Harris has less to worry about from

Trump than she does from I don't know

mosquito bite or something the the last

thing Trump's going to do is double down

on dunking on the most defeated

candidate in the history of defeated

candidates so no he's

safe um she also thinks the January 6

committee members oh here we go like Liz

jany and Adam kininger and maybe even

the special prosecutor Jack Smith should

get preemptive pardons well I would tell

you as others have said that that would

make all of these people look super

guilty if you give a preemptive pardon

to anybody I'm going to assume they're

guilty because

otherwise why'd you need that

um and I do think the January 6

committee have

done um enough that the public can see

looks sketchy and frankly

illegal

that to me that's the edge

case um I don't want Trump to do

anything that's just pure lawfare if he

went after kamla Harris and I've not

heard of any anything even an alleged

crime but if he like started digging

into some I wouldn't be in favor of that

but if you talk about the j6 committee I

think they destroyed the whole

country for four years and I think they

knew they did it I think they knew they

were lying and I think that what they

did was one of the greatest crimes I've

ever seen committed in public and I

think they need to answer for it I think

there needs to be accountability now did

they break a law I don't know if they

didn't then I certainly don't want them

to go to to jail or even be charged if

there's no law that's even you know

allegedly broken but yes there is

something very very bad that was done by

some very specific people right in front

of us and I don't think we can Overlook

that but again if there's no crime

there's no crime got to walk

away anyway uh Trump has appointed a new

press secretary her name is Caroline lit

or Lev I guess how would you pronounce l

e a v i TT leave it or L

it because this will matter to the joke

I'm about to make I'm preparing a dad

joke in my mind it's very amusing but it

will depend on you telling me which way

to pronounce your name because one

way oh damn it some people are saying is

levit

damn it that's not going to be nearly as

funny well can I can I give you a

recreational joke that would have been a

lot funnier if her pre if her last name

were pronounced leave it she would be

the press secretary for

the uh the deporter in Chief the guy who

ran for office promising to deport 20

million people and he would and he would

have as his spokesperson

somebody named L

it now that would have been funny except

her name is

levit well that's no good come on

simulation you're so close to having a

good good match there I'm going to call

her leave

it yeah believe it that's what I say to

Snickers well you've seen a bunch of uh

Democrats complain about RFK Jr and all

of the terrible terrible things he going

to do when he gets power over our Pharma

and medical

situation um but have you noticed

anything about the

complaints have you noticed that the

complaints about RFK Jr all have

something in common what what is it that

all the complaints about RFK Jr have in

common let's see if you can spot it what

what do all the criticisms about him for

this job specific Al for this job what

do they have in

common they're all made

up they're all

imaginary like every one of them like

not some not some every single one of

them is made up I don't think I've ever

seen anything like it he he's getting

the full Trump treatment where they have

to completely make up stuff and act like

they're really trying to sell it with

their

faces so they they say stuff like uh he

wants to stop

vaccinations no he

doesn't no he doesn't he wants better

science so that we know whether we're

doing a good job what who doesn't want

better science they're saying he wants

to end

pesticides does

he no but I'm sure he wants to study it

and make sure that we know what's safe

and what isn't and if that meant Banning

some pesticides because we learned more

and the science was solid we would be

all very happy if he did that why is

that a

criticism he's not going to do it if

there's no

data uh he he says uh oh then then they

criticize him for not being a doctor I

don't really feel like that would have

helped us do you think the doctors are

the right people to get this done no I

think somebody who has no fear

whatsoever of anything physical or

embarrassment or anything else and

somebody who's been deeply into it um as

he has for years is exactly the right

person he wants more testing and more

science so the guy who wants more

science and is insisting on more science

and and insisting on the good

kind is being criticized by the

Democrats for being

anti-science you can't get further from

the truth that the guy who wants the

most science and better science is the

guy who doesn't understand and doesn't

want science it's literally opposite and

it's all

imaginary now this is one of those cases

where the the Deep state is kind of

useful I could be worried about RFK Jr

if I thought he would be working alone

and just making sitting in the room

making his own decisions about stuff but

that's not going to happen he he's going

to have an army of scientists and

experts who are trying to talk him out

of it and pointing him at different

studies and he's going to say stuff like

I see your study but it's not good

enough you know show me show me a good

long-term study

so I I think we're in good shape

there um I saw Molly Hemingway do a

great defense I think it was on Fox news

of Matt Gates as a choice for um

attorney

general and this is a good a good case

so her angle on it is that uh Gates

would be the most effective at fighting

information

Ops and I thought you know that's

true uh Matt Gates has been the one of

the most effective best communicators

and most aggressive going after all the

the Ops such as the Russia collusion Ops

the 51 people signing the laptop op you

all the other Ops he's one of the top

people going after him so I agree with

that Molly Hemingway that uh having

somebody who would fight against the

misinformation

structure that feels like something I

want now I'm not

completely talked down at the idea that

maybe Matt Gates is not

a um let's say maybe it's a plan a but

that they have a plan B

ready already in other words they might

already have a plan B in case he can't

get can't get through for one reason or

another um but it sure would be fun if

he did I I would sure like to watch

it meanwhile over on MSNBC where

everybody's a terrible racist uh they

have this lawyer Maya W on who they put

on to defame P Heth who was picked as uh

defense secretary

and she claims that he's got a white

supremacist tattoos all over his body

false

100% false and she sat there and said it

between two white guys who just

nodded they let they let her say that

without any push back M

MH MSNBC is such

garbage um then she also said about him

um uh he is also a person if he's in the

job who'll be having the discussion with

Donald Trump about sending the military

into communities to police US citizens

again just some madeup stuff will the

military be useful in

transporting um illegal migrants back to

their place of origin yes

transport they'll drive them basically

they're

chauffeur I mean not the kind they want

because it's going to take them out of

the country but no it'll be ice and the

people the people who are hired to do

the deportations will do it now there's

no plan to use the military in to police

the

communities

meanwhile uh Trump is looking at at

least considering a fellow named Dr aim

uh

motra for a key Health Ro role in

revising our nation's food

policies

hello so this would include if if this

happens uh the doctor would be uh

looking at basically our processed foods

and looking at targeting them for either

labeled as

unhealthy um or you know decreased in

our diet in some ways so they would

introduce the cigarette style warning

labels on

packaging and apparently according to to

the Daily Mail some of these kinds of

measures were successful in the United

Kingdom there was a 2018 sugar tax that

led to a significant reduction in Sugar

consumption and prompted manufacturing

to reformulate their products then this

is according to resist the

mainstream that's a publication I

guess um let me tell you how much I love

about

this everything

everything do you remember when people

said Trump's a fascist well my

understanding of a fascist is somebody

who works with um the big companies

almost as if they're on the same

team this is very much targeting the

food industry in the United States and

not in the way they like not in the way

they like so this is exactly what I want

my government to do now maybe maybe

labeling is enough so that I still have

choices you know they Label cigarettes

but they're still

legal alcohol is still legal so I don't

know if they need to make any of this

illegal but yeah when my when my

government wants to keep me better

informed and tell me that the you know

the interest rate on this loan is the

same as this one and you know what's in

the food yeah I like all that so I could

I could not be happier about that that

that's that's pure Golden Age stuff

you don't get that you don't get this

without Trump and without RFK Jr I

think meanwhile I saw a story Sam Sam J

over in Twitchy is writing there's some

democrat who is on the floor of the uh

Congress I guess talking about uh openly

organizing a shadow

government so he actually had names of

all the Democrats who would operate as a

shadow

government uh but it sounds worse than

it is what he meant was that for every

appointed person in the Trump

Administration that there'd be somebody

who would be their critic you know

somebody whose job it was to make sure

they didn't go too far and do bad things

that's fine it basically he's just using

a colorful way to say that they're going

to be critical of things that Trump does

so it sounds like a much more shadowy

terrible thing but really it's just just

they're going to make sure they have

critics for everything Trump

does um Brendan carer at the

FCC is

uh working against the big censorship

cartel and um he notes that uh this is

on a he notes that Facebook Google Apple

Microsoft and others have played a

central role in the censorship cartel as

he calls it now if you don't know about

News Guard my understanding is it's an

external entity that the big tech

companies used as their source of what's

information and what's disinformation

except News Guard is just a censorship

organization that will politically

censor anything they don't like in ever

reason so um he says the orwellian named

and News Guard along with the quote

factchecking groups and ad agencies are

enforcing the the one-sided ative in

other words they're censoring one side

of the political conversation and so he

wants to dismantle this what he would

call a cartel of these factchecking

disinformation people

um and he says that uh the big Tech's uh

liability Shield that's called section

230 now section 230 lets them not be

sued the big tech companies uh if all

they're doing is passing along

information so they're not the ones

creating it but if you are using these

fake News Guard or fake fact Checkers or

working with advertisers to limit one

kind of speech and promote another kind

then you're just

censors and uh he he's asking for more

information so we can take a look at

this and maybe dismantle it um Michael

shellenberger of course is the Superstar

reporter who who who helps us understand

this whole news thing and Mike Benz of

course one of the strong voices there by

the way if you're not following Mike

Benz B

NZ and Michael shellenberger sounds just

like it

spells uh you're not really well

informed and I'll say Glenn Greenwald as

well so there there's some people you

need to follow or you're just not going

to know anything there there they're one

layer below the reality that you can see

on TV so if you can't get to that lower

level of Base reality where everything's

rigged and you know exactly how

everything's confusing so you got to get

to the shellenberger

Ben's Greenwall level of understanding

of the world and then everything starts

making sense at the same time it's it's

kind of

wonderful couldn't do it with

X all right uh David saaks points out

another systemic problem we have you had

a good monologue that was on X I

saw uh that the executive branch is in

charge of a whole ton of people who work

for the government except that it can't

fire them so so there's a whole bunch of

the government that can't be fired for

doing a bad

job so of course things go wrong of

course it's the wrong incentive again

this is what democ rats are bad at

spotting Republicans are better at

looking at at the entire machine and the

incentives that are driving it so that's

why they're better system

designers and uh so saaks points out

this is a system design problem and

there's there's no accountability for

you just massive amounts of government

employees um they have a like a local

boss but it's just so hard to fire

anybody at least at the highest level so

hard just doesn't happen so so yeah that

needs to be

fixed imagine if America could create a

government that actually was

efficient because imagine the

competitive advantage that would be

because I don't think China's government

is super efficient I don't think

Russia's government is super efficient I

don't think the European union members

are super efficient maybe maybe maybe

some are um sometimes I tell you that

eston has it together I think it

does actually I think there is one

country Estonia that just sort of does a

lot of things right just sort of quietly

being smart and excellent every

day but just imagine the competitive

advantage and our survivability as a

nation if we could make our

government accountable and

efficient it's a big big ask but all the

right people are on it all the right

people so we'll

see all right and

then so apparently zalinski has said out

loud that he thinks the war will end

faster under the Trump

Administration and

uh here's

what here's the dog this isn't quite the

dog now barking but it's the awesome

thing that you didn't notice

so here's the thing that's that I think

you'll agree is true that this is not an

exaggeration Trump has

ended at least two nuclear

confrontations just by being

Trump let me explain do you remember how

all the smart people are saying okay

well I might like some of Trump's

policies but oh oh his character oh oh

let me tell you about his

character his

character well let me tell you what his

character

did his character took the risk of

nuclear war between Ukraine and Russia

to zero do you know why because both

Russia and Ukraine think he's the big

dog and that the big dog's going to come

in and settle their problems what would

be the odds of Russia launching a

nuclear war before Trump gets into

office none none at all they would have

nothing to gain right Trump by his

character remember the party you didn't

like his character his character ended

the risk of nuclear war in

Ukraine and Russia admit it admit it you

admit it that was his character

it wasn't his policy

it wasn't his height it wasn't his

orange hair it was his character

they saw his character coming and they

took the risk of nuclear war off

the

table it's the second time North Korea

same thing do you know do you remember

when Trump comes into office and we're

worried literally worried that North

Korea was going to launch a nuclear

attack do you know what took that

completely off the table now something

could happen accidentally but clearly

we're not looking at an intentional

nuclear war do you know what took it

completely off the

table his

character his

character because he went and he shook

hands with Kim Jong-un which nobody else

would have done and Kim Jong-un said oh

well why would I nuke my

friend why would he so Trump's fight

character protected us from two nuclear

possibilities already right and and we

act like we act like that's the worst

part of him it's not the worst part of

him I don't know what's the worst part

but it's the good part the character the

character is what's getting everything

done do you do you know why people are

scrambling around uh in anticipation of

him doing changes is because his

character is I'm not going to

quit there's the character if you know

he's not going to quit you're going to

make adjustments before he gets there

because he's coming and he's not going

to quit and you're not going to talk him

man of it with your with your

bureaucrats at this time and this time

he brought a whole pirate ship

full of people who don't quit do you

know what Elon Musk does doesn't quit

and you all know that he doesn't

quit

character right

character is fight fight

fight character is that no matter how

far you got pushed down after that

devastating loss in

2020 you get back up you do it

again

character now am I going to defend every

sex Choice he ever made or every insult

he ever made no and I'm not going to I'm

not going to criticize it either because

I don't care but the part of his

character that I do care about just made

me a whole lot safer from nuclear war

right

so I I feel like the reason I'm worked

up about it is we're seeing the greatest

display of

character solving

problems that you've ever seen what

since

who since who this is like a once ever

you're not going to see this again in

your lifetime you'll never see this his

character is solving massive problems

all over the place do you think anybody

else could tear down the government with

Elon Musk and get him to partner with

him do you think anybody else would have

Bernie Sanders saying you know what

you're definitely right about this do

you think anybody else would have um you

the Democrats completely destroyed Trump

hollowed out the Republican party and

fixed it and then he defeated the

Democrats and he's forcing them to fix

themselves he's dismantling the entire

uh censorship regime he probably will

with Elon and VI's help uh figure out

how to solve our financial death

spiral he almost certainly will put us

in a position where our energy and our

AI stop

is competitive and maybe better than

that he almost singlehandedly will

probably fix our International Trade

situation I suspect he's going to do a

lot on the

border we've never seen anything like

this and his

character it's just if you focus on the

wrong Parts

the let's say it's the uh not the active

ingredients that's the way to put it you

know you look at a product as active

ingredient

a medication then it's a bunch of

inactive ingredients well that's like

Trump's character the inactive

ingredients are he insults Rosie

odonnell that's inactive it doesn't

bother you the active part is he just

stop two nuclear

Wars that's the active

part he'll fire somebody if he needs to

Biden didn't fire anybody Trump will

fire people that's the active part

all right and he's doing

great so the Golden Ages here uh

Jonathan Turley writes about uh there

were four

Californians who had some kind of

insurance scheme they had some uh some

luxury vehicles that I guess they wanted

to collect the insurance on instead of

doing whatever else they would do with

them so one of them dressed in a bear

out outfit and pretended a wild bear was

destroying all three cars and that it

was on they made sure it was on security

video so they took their security video

to their insurance companies and said

how about some insurance payments

because look at this bear that destroy

destroyed our luxury cars and the

insurance company said you know that

looks exactly like a person in a bear

contest costume and sure enough sure

enough one of them had purchased a bear

costume it was dressed as a bear

and

uh do you know how they figured out it

was a man in a bear costume instead of a

bear it was it was simpler than You'

think he didn't in the woods no he

used the indoor plumbing and then

they're like

well no bears HIIT in the woods you're

not a bear so that's how you

tell so thank you to Jonathan Turley for

that important story

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