Episode 2695 CWSA 12/20/24

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Alan Sears he's a doctor he says there's a some there's a compound in coffee called trigonelline trigonelline and it's a unique form of vitamin B3 and did you know that it'll increase your spatial learning and memory support your nervous system development enhance your mitochondrial function and increase key neur neurotransmitters in the hypoc campus of the brain well I'm not sure about all that I better test it let's see if I can uh increase the neurotransmission ERS in the hippocampus of my brain with coffee yeah I feel it I feel it my hippocampus is going crazy right now yeah yeah it all works you know sometimes you hear this science and you think but in the real world does that work sure did you hear the horrible story of provocative controversial podast cter Nick Fuentes who was almost murdered in his home did you hear this story this is so shocking I didn't even talk about it for a day because I was just sort of looking at it like oh my God so somebody murdered I guess his family and then went on a road trip to apparently try to murder Nick Fuentes at his house so knocks on his door and apparently the only reason the Fuentes didn't answer his door is that he was doing a podcast at that moment all he had to do was answer the door and he'd be dead all he had to do was answer his own front door while he was home but he couldn't because he was on his podcast it saved his life now um I would make the following advice if you're producing content that's making people want to drive hundreds of miles to your house and kill you you might want to think about that I mean I I do like the the fact that podcasters will say provocative and risky things because free speech allows it and you know as long as it's working in all directions it can be a healthy thing but um just think about it you know just think about it you the reason that I don't worry so much about security I should worry more about it probably I mean I have enough but I don't think I give people a reason to kill me do I even people who mock me online they don't have any reason to kill me as far as I know I mean I'm not I'm doing doing the best I can to make sure that people see me as trying to be helpful even if they don't like my politics I like I like people to say well he's clearly trying to help you know that's that's not what I want but he's obviously trying to help that that's usually good enough not to make somebody drive hundreds of miles to your house but to be fair when people are crazy there's nothing you can do right basically nothing you can do so that's just a horrible little story um there's a story that I'm having a little bit trouble believing oh I'm going to go further I'm going to say I don't believe this is true I think this is fake news but there's a story uh according to the Virginia Mercury I guess some publication in Virginia uh that the governor has approved or announced there's going to be this Fusion nuclear plant in Virginia now regular regular nuclear is fision Right Fusion is the thing that doesn't exist am I wrong about that so there's an announcement that they're going to start building a fusion Power.

Plant in Virginia so I immediately went over to Google and I said to myself have I been in a coma because I was almost posi I followed the news on fusion and I didn't think we were that close I thought we' done some demos that show that you know for a brief time it can create more energy than it uses but I didn't think we were anywhere as near a practical application where you could just approve it and build it so given that social uh given that if you do a Google search it makes no indication that Fusion is near ready do you think they would announce something and Google doesn't even know the technology is there I'm going to say this is fake news so I'm going to go out in the limb and say I think maybe they either wrote down Fusion when they meant fision or something right yeah Fusion has happened experimentally that's that's what I do all right so I think that's fake news um but if it's not I saw one post on the comments from idea man who said There super superconductors superconductors have been improving a lot and that Fusion depends on superconductors it seems like one of the key components and the MIT has been designing Fusion plants based on the latest superconductors and might actually it might actually be practical or it or it might be that they got so close to practical they can't tell for sure if it works until they start building it I don't know meanwhile Jeff Bezos and uh Trump and Elon Musk had dinner at Mar logo now we don't know what happened at that dinner but it's been confirmed that it had happened must said it was a great conversation the only thing I have to say about this is how much would you pay to have been at that dinner you know if you could have been the fourth person at the dinner and it was Trump Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos what would you pay for that I'm trying to imagine how much I would pay for that it's pretty much it's pretty much I would pay $20,000 I would pay $20,000 to be the fourth person at that lunch and the reason is there are very few things that would be a life experience anywhere near that just nothing near that I know the just the the horsepower and in those three brains would just is ridiculous um but I do love that uh Trump Trump is open for business and he's listening to the smartest people in the world what I worry about is now that we know that musk is a puppet master of trump I'd be afraid that Jeff Bezos tries to sneak in there and become the Puppet Master no the Puppet Master thing is and we'll talk about that some more um there is a report that Biden and Harris both canceled their flight and Christmas plans and rushed back to the White House last night we haven't heard what that's about right we don't know what that's about so so we were left to speculate first of all is it true news that's the first question because I didn't really see it from a reliable source but it's on social media people seem to be confident about it um was that fake was that fake news that they rush back to the White House anyway so I guess we just wait and see now some people are speculating that maybe this is where they do the 25th Amendment and replace uh replace Biden with Harris now why would they do that given that Harris gets no benefit because she already lost the election well um I think it might be because of the Wall Street Journal reporting now that the war and we'll talk about that but the Wall Street Journal reported that Biden's brain was toasted from the first St of office when The Wall Street Journal reports and everybody believes I mean nobody's really doubting the reports at all that he was incompetent from the first day of office and that they've been keeping information from him so he didn't know what the Press was saying about him what if Biden found out what the Wall Street Journal said about his time in office he might have enough cognitive ability left to know that he needs to make a call and not leave us without a president for 3 or 4 weeks so it's possible that the Wall Street Journal forced his hand because it's just embarrassing to have no president when everything looks so vital now it might be also that it would boost Harris's credentials say if she runs for governor of California which people are suggesting she might that she can say that her resume includes being president of the United States first woman president of the United States maybe maybe because I I think that the reason that Democrats didn't want to pull the trigger was in part because they didn't trust KLA Harris to be president but given that it's a holiday and and nothing was going to happen for the next few weeks anyway at least nothing in the United States um see what am I looking at oh okay um so it could be that uh they just know that have it doesn't matter who's president for the next three weeks because Trump's the de facto president already so it might be that they're going to make a change I wouldn't bet on that I wouldn't bet on that it seems more likely it's just something came up and they want to make sure that there's a human being look at looking at it meanwhile here's the most predictable thing that could have happened Kell Harris got a $20 million book deal every one of us could have predicted that right and Biden will probably get a book deal too so she gets a $20 million book deal with from Chronicle Books now what do you think is the second part that was 100% predictable she got a book deal and she got $20 million for it allegedly what's the second part that you could predict you could predict that Chris Cher rufo would soon soon be posting on X that they had discovered massive plagiarism in her book now this one's a tough one because politicians don't write their own books you know these are all ghost written and that means that she hired a ghost writer who plagiarized and probably didn't even read her own book she probably doesn't even know what's in it so it's not really you know in this case it's not really a knock on the uh vice president it's more of a knock on her hiring of the ghost riter who apparently is not to be trusted so so they got that going all right so the house shut down the government shut down may or may not happen there the first two budget attempts the 1500 page one and the 20s and 100 page one both got rejected now the Republicans are voting against the budget even though it's going down from 1500 pages to 100 something um just because there's some Republicans who won't vote for any increase in uh the deficit I don't hate that I don't really hate that there are Republicans who won't vote for anything that increases the debt in the short term it just screws up everything but if you're going to if you're going to you know sort of fall on a principle that's a pretty good principle right so I don't hate the people who voted no again no on it it didn't give us a result so I mean we can't move forward but you know if you're looking at it just politically and practically they probably should have voted for it but I I agree with them in principle you should just shouldn't vote for anything that's increasing the debt because um it's basically just thievery is basically just stealing from voters when you increase the debt it it makes everybody's money worth less because of inflation so therefore it's basically a tax and a massive one anyway so here's what's going on um so Trump said in a truth post that he wants if the government is going to close over this issue about the budget not being approved uh Trump says let it happen under Biden not Trump now uh Caitlyn Collins reposted that and I love the fact that Trump makes news by saying the most obvious things that everybody's thinking it's just that he's not supposed to say it out loud he's not supposed to say out loud that you might as well let it happen under Biden than Trump right you're just supposed to think it you're not supposed to say it out loud but the fact that he says it out loud just makes me love him because he's not hiding anything yeah I'd like this to happen under Biden not me oh well that's amazingly honest yeah so so he doesn't even hide the fact that there's a a political difference and he prefers it just for the political difference so he just says it and I just appreciate the transparency anyway um so let's see uh it looks like the original budget deal that nobody knew what was happening was put together by Schumer Mc.

Connell speaker Johnson and jeffes and they put it together without really talking to much of anybody now why would we expect these four people to be experts on budgets do we think that any one of those four was looking at the details or were they the ones who were most likely to say yes to something that was made entirely by by lobbyists and lawyers no they are the ones most likely to say yes if the lobbyist wrote the bills which is presumably what happened now this raises a larger question for me you know how I always say that you can tell what people are really up to by the design of the system if the design of a system always gets you one kind of result and it it only lasts you know for a minute then you could say oh that wasn't intentional they changed it as soon as they found out what the design did but if you have a design of something and it just stays in business the same design for decades that's intentional they know what the design is they know what they know what it produces and they like it that's why it resist it lasts for decades now here are some of the things that the government has done and it looks to me like the overall theme of the government is to hide corruption you would hope that the government is designed to create good outcomes for the public but it appears to be more designed to hide the corruption of the politicians let me give you some examples is it true that the Pentagon lost trillions of dollars and that in Ukraine all kinds of money is missing so when it comes to the military spending I think you'd agree it's not designed so the public can watch where the money goes it's designed so we can't watch where where the money goes am I right it's designed so that we we can't know where the money goes yeah um we also can't tell for sure who won an election because we've got all these complicated machine you know things and I don't know what happens to any vote when it goes into a machine I don't think anybody does like we have to trust strangers that wants the vot goes into machines the machines don't change the vote how would I know it seems like our elections are designed so you can't tell who want so we've got a military budget you know it's our third biggest budget thing designed so you can't tell how they spent the money elections designed so you can't tell who won really you know we produce a winner but you don't really know um we don't know what's in our spending bills so the Omnibus the purpose of it is to make sure you don't know what's in it the purpose of waiting until it's just before Christmas and you make it500 pages is so nobody will read it it's designed so you don't know what they're doing it's designed to hide corruption how about uh how about the fact that we couldn't tell who was running the country in the Biden Administration the Biden Administration was designed so so you couldn't even tell that the president of the United States was totally declined and uh unelected people were running America it was designed so you couldn't tell who was in charge that's not accidental um and then there was a if I if I have this right the omnius also included a included in it the one that got rejected included in it something that would block uh congress's digital Communications from ever being discovered why would you need to block any legal discovery of communication in Congress to hide crime what else would it be then you've got the all the me funding apparently Congress has a budget just to pay off meoo victims and we don't know who that is it's designed so you don't know so it it's a little hard to miss the pattern at this point isn't it I mean the pattern seems so obviously designed for the very purpose of making corruption really easy now there's a separate story about California and $24 billion do that's that's somehow missing um that was supposed to solve homelessness but it it went into some Maze of uh entities and the Cayman Islands and somebody owns this company that owns this company and it just sort of disappeared into the Maze of companies now do you think that was an accident no no the funding of these big ticket things in local elections and local government is designed so you don't know who's doing what and who's stealing what it's designed for corruption now it's really obvious when you look at all the different elements of the government that every part of it is designed to eliminate transparency and transparency is the only thing that Will Keep Us Alive it's the only thing that Will Keep Us Alive if you don't know what your government is doing they will steal all your money and then the country will be broke and then we all die so yeah we are designed for corruption that's just a fact all right um and then have you noticed this pattern that whenever the Republicans come up with a plan to solve a big National problem let's say a plan to close the border solves a big National problem let's say a plan to reduce the deficit as in the Doge uh work uh or say let's say a plan we don't have one but let's say plan to end the war in Ukraine you know when Trump gets in office so Republicans often have have a plan we don't know if that plan works yet because you know it's a plan but they do come up with plans and they can say we are going to do XYZ and we'll do it right in front of you we'll show you you know it would be very transparent and we think this works because this always works we're doing things that always work what do the Democrats do the Democrats seem to be entirely oriented at creating hoaxes gaslighting and Ops to prevent Republicans from doing the obvious Common Sense things that the entire country wants now I don't think that was always the case I think they used to compete on policy didn't they am I Am I Wrong didn't they used to compete on policy but they don't anymore do you know why they don't compete on policy because there isn't even a Democrat that thinks their policies could work what is going on over there I I don't believe that any Democrat thinks their own policies could possibly work and that's why they don't argue the policy so instead they'll say Trump's stealing your democracy uh he's a dictator uh Elon Musk is using him for a puppet like they have to do that stuff because they don't have any policy argument at all so you basically have one one group of Common Sense people trying to solve critical problems and honestly it looks like they genuinely want to solve problems when I look at what the Republicans do and what they produce especially the in the Trump World more in the Trump World than before it seems designed to solve problems am I wrong I mean it doesn't seem to be like it's just always a trk it just seems like it's a solution so we got one solving one party that solves and one party that just creates gas ating to prevent the party the solves from solving um so Elon Musk was pointing out when uh you know he got a lot of criticism for weighing in the heavy on the 1500 page omnius piece of crap budget and people say that he's the reason it got killed I said it's not the reason I mean he he's like a focus because we're all watching him but he couldn't have done that without the complete support of all Trump supporters basically every one of them so if you have the support of 100% of the public that's not exactly a puppet master situation if 100% of the public backs you wh which part of the public was in favor of spending too much money and putting together a 1500 page bill that nobody read nobody was in favor that you you can't find me one citizen you might find a politician who would argue it but a citizen find me one voter who says you know I was really in favor of my politicians not even knowing what was in the budget but it was you know enough to kill us all nobody not not one Democrat not one Republican so you can't treat that the situation where every citizen agrees you can't treat that like it's some kind of weird Puppet Master taking control situation he's simply agreeing with 100% of the public he just happens to have more voice and more power and so we backed them of course we backed them of course we backed him you also back me if I do a post on on X that says something about you know don't pass this 1500 page stupid budget what do the comments look like every one of them is supportive 100% when does that ever happen in in social media when a 100% of people are on your side yeah I I just said don't pass a 1500 page budget doesn't even matter what's in it I don't need to know what's in it don't pass a 1500 page budget a few days before Christmas ever ever that's a fail so it's it's of course the you know the best the Democrats have is trying to turn it into something that'll split musk away from Trump so that by the way what's the point of it what would be the point of trying to to put a wedge between musk and Trump what would be the point of it the Democrats are trying really hard to do it and what's the point does it help the country how how has that help the country it doesn't it clearly doesn't you the if they were even trying to help a little bit you know what they would do they'd say Elon Musk wow you do have some skills you know we should work with you too that the de R should be competing to see who can get these billionaires more on their side with good policies but instead they just have to break up somebody else's relationship it it's like the ugly girl who can't get a date so she has to sabotage or pretty girl pretty girlriend who can oh that guy's bad you should you should break up with him because I can't get a date that's what it feels like anyway so must said uh he's trying to reframe it correctly and he goes uh he's talking about the the rejection of the 1500 page version of the budget he said this shows how much your voice matters talking to the people uh and having a president like Trump means that your voice is finally heard this is the right model and we should keep reinforcing it Trump is a populist and he is very connected to the public musk is also a populist I mean in effect I I don't know if he would I don't think he would describe himself that way but in effect because the common sense stuff tends to be pretty popular so uh yes we have an amazing amazing situation right now where a citizen who has just a few people following them on social media can get the person who's a little bit bigger to repost them and that can get the person a little bit bigger to repost them and then when the people have a million followers have reposted them you can pretty much guarantee that people like Elon Musk are going to see it because they follow the big accounts and if they think the IDE is good they have a direct line to the White House so what we've created is an unofficial direct line where good ideas bubble up in a very natural way everybody has an incentive if I see somebody with a smaller account who has a good idea I'm incentivized to repost it because if I repost a good idea that reflects well on me right so just for selfish reasons I will boost a smaller account like I Ian I'm not thinking of it entirely so selfishly um often thinking of it as oh here's somebody who needs a boost because they have good ideas if you have one good idea you probably get a boost you know oh even if I haven't seen your other ideas but one idea is good enough to get a boost meanwhile Mike cernovich is going hard at Republican Chi r Ro he was one of the ones who said no on the the second version of the continued resolution that got down to 100 pages and give me an update by the way there's a vote going on I think right now on what they call the third version of the continued resolution budget so if we get a result on that uh just shout it out in the in the uh comments anyway here are some of the things uh Mike cernovich says we should know about chip Roy he was a George Floyd worshipper um now I looked at some of the old posts that chip Roy had about that topic and he was very much in the George Floyd as a saint kind of a mode almost like a Democrat weirdly um a worshipper is you know hyperbole but he was very much in the he he bought the full Democrat Narrative of B Floyd the the cop is a murderer Floyd was an angel you know I'm exaggerating but uh it it was not a typical Republican view of that situation um allegedly chip Roy tried to keep LZ chenian power I guess he liked that idea and he worked to remove one of this is CNO saying he worked to remove uh Texas AG Ken Paxton who Republicans seem to like a lot he's quite effective Kent backton is so these are just things that wouldn't have have been a big problem for chip Roy at the moment except that he went in the wrong direction on a vote so uh covich decided to shine some light on him and I never mind that like whenever I see transparency breaking out oh this is actually something you should know about this particular leader these are three somewhat odious points of view he had at least Odus from the political rights point of view so yeah it's worth knowing is that a reason to vote him out I don't know I mean he's not my representative I don't have an opinion whether he should be voted out but do I have an opinion that that the voters should know where he stood on these issues yes yes so this is so this is a good service by cernovich so that we know what's happening um did you know that the fact Checkers are saying that musk was spreading disinformation about the bill the 1500 page bill that got rejected and here are some of the examples that came from I think the hill was writing on this so they say these are things you got wrong so apparently musk uh posted that the measure would include a 40% pay raise for congress that's not even close to true it is true that there was a mention that if Congress had been getting its cost of living wages that it hasn't been getting for a year years and years that it would have been 40% higher than it is now um but the actual raise would be like 6% or something so this is disinformation well let me let me not say disinformation disinformation assumes a motive at least that's the way I I hear it um but being inaccurate or simply being wrong is not really a crime you're still allowed to be totally wrong and if you're wrong on X that's the best place to be wrong because the comments will correct it right if you're going to be wrong the one best place to do it is on X because the community notes will point it out everybody sees it it's fully transparent then you can correct it so is it ideal that musk um I think he probably just boosted some other account that made this claim so he trusts it looks like he trusted somebody else's opinion on something that was in it because again who's going to read a 1500 page document besides vake um so that was just wrong but I would say as I said before and uh I saw a few people agree with this Congress is underpaid the the pay raise is the only thing I didn't object to well that's not true that's hyperbole but they are underpaid like I don't know if you understand how How Deeply underpaid they are but it almost it almost uh it almost encourages them to be corrupt just to pay the bills you don't want Congress to be thinking you know I could take this little gift because I'm running out of money to pay my bills remember a lot of Congress has to have two homes one in their home state and probably some kind of residence in in DC or so it's expensive and they have to go to you know they do a lot of events and stuff so yeah they should be paid more I think I think a 40% pay increase would have been completely appropriate in my opinion um but we should be accurate as well um then they say that musk was wrong when he claimed the bill would prevent any investigation into the house committee that investigated the January 6 stuff was he wrong about that here's their argument for why he's wrong they say uh the Bill's text makes no mention of the riot and only clarifies that the house data stored elsewhere is still under the control of the house um I don't think that fact check is right I think that they just looked at the different part of the bill um I'm not sure about this but my understanding is that the Bill said that congress's digital communication couldn't be accessed through a legal process everybody else's can but that Congress would be exempt from a legal process let's say a lawsuit getting access to the communication now since I haven't read it the bill I don't know that that's in there but that's the claims I've heard uh I've heard that it would make their emails and digital communication private forever now that would if they made that private it would protect the January 6 group but also protect all of Congress so was musk wrong I think musk was right and I think the fact check is wrong but I'm not positive about that so I'm going to put a question mark behind that but to me it looks like the fact check is wrong um then there was a the claim that the bill would support uh building um biolabs bio weapons Labs that apparently is a misinterpretation uh that it but instead it funded what they call biocontainment Labs that would conduct research to support Public Health and Medical preparedness for and rapid response to biological events including emerging infectious diseases okay what's the difference between a biocontainment lab that's studying all the dangerous viruses and a a bioweapons lab that's creating dangerous viruses uh aren't they all the same so again I'm going to put a question mark next to it but to me it looks like the fact check is wrong to me it looks like they're just using a different name for essentially what the Wuhan lab was the Wuhan lab wasn't weapons it wasn't a weapons development lab weren't they also trying to figure out how to avoid the weaponized viruses so I think the fact check is fake but I'll take a fact check on my fact check um and then there was something about uh building a stadium in DC but uh the the fact check on that is that it was not funding it it was simply changing control of it so the funding wasn't really addressed it was just the control of the funding so Cheryl ainson um Addison Cheryl Addison uh had a funny story about her experience of uh a previous shutdown so I'm just going to read what she said an next so so when she was a reporter working out CBS News during a government shutdown she thinks it was 2013 uh they were they were searching for the real life terrible impacts of the government closedown so now it's just common sense right if the government government shuts down it's going to have devastating effect on members of the public because we depend on government for our Vital services so CBS News went out to look for all the terrible terrible impacts of the of the shutdown and uh when we couldn't find that any when we couldn't find any uh that should have been part of the story in other words there was no no effect they could even find where it was bad enough that it was worthy of even being included in the story instead we kept trying to create the appearance of an impact so when they didn't find an impact instead of saying well we looked didn't find any impact they decided to write the article as if there was an impact she says well this part this bar you can judge for yourself it wasn't really trying to be dishonest it was in my retrospective view because the general editorial idea for the story was to show how bad the Republican shutdown was for ordinary Americans and the the answer simply couldn't be that it wasn't do you call that not dishonest I don't know seems to me if you start with a narrative and you do everything you can do to prove it and then you find out that you can't prove it and then you write the story anyway that feels dishonest to me I don't I don't know how you Define dishonest but as described red it looks a little dishonest but here here's the more nuanced view of it if you haven't had experience in in the corporate world this won't make sense in the corporate context when you're wearing your nice clothes and going to your cubical job and you've got a boss and all that you will accept as honest enough a lot of sketchy stuff and it becomes so normal to accept to accept sketchy things when you work in a big corporation that you just get used to it and you just think that everybody's lying and you should too and all it is is a big persuasion game and honesty isn't doesn't have much to do with the corporate world now that's why Dilbert was even created because when I was in the corporate world I realized everybody was lying about everything all the time I thought well that could be a comic so when we look from the outside with our Pure judgments and we say Cheryl how could you possibly have been part of this this thing where the narrative was driving the story instead of the facts how could you possibly be part of that and I will tell you it's easy if you if you had replaced her with me with all of my high fluen feelings about what's honest and what's not I probably would have done the same thing why because everybody would you could take anybody and put them in this situation they've got a boss they got a paycheck they don't need to make waves about every single thing every single day you just sort of accept it you got other problems so this is no no complaint whatsoever about Cheryl this has more to do with what the corporate environment does to everybody it turns everybody into a weasel and it's only after you've left and you look back at your own actions you go huh that was a little sketchy even for me like that doesn't even doesn't even match my own standard for honesty but it didn't seem so weird at the time so you you enter this world where doing sketchy things doesn't even seem sketchy it just seems like what everybody's doing anyway speaking of Elon Musk he's uh he announced that he's going to fund moderate candidates he calls them in far-left districts quote so that the country can get rid of those who don't represent them and that would be a direct response to Soros funding the the far-left candidates so if Elon Musk decides that he's going to spend enough money because he has more than Soros he can outspend him so he can outspend Soros and make make sure that every time Soros spends a dollar that musk goes in with $2 dollars for the other one which he could do all day long because he has more money so I think he can eliminate soros's influence and I would still love you may remember that uh musk asked Alex Soros if they could just talk and Alex Soros said yes now I don't think it's happened just because I feel like we would have heard about it but I love the fact that maybe before they talk uh musk may have already announced he's going to do something that makes soros's funding completely Moot and irrelevant because you'll get an funded so that's cool speaking of Elon Musk news he's also saying that the something called the afd party in Germany is their only hope now the afd party is the right leaning party how do you think an American publication describes the right leaning party in Germany do you think they say oh they're basically just like magga pretty popular yeah I I can see why Elan mus would back them cuz they're strong on immigration and uh yeah I makes sense you know cuz immigration looks like it's going to destroy the country I don't know for sure but probably they back nuclear power may maybe the other parties don't you know so I can see why El L would back them so what does the mainstream press say about that well it says that the party is anti-immigration now is that the way you say it anti-immigration no that's what say nobody's anti-immigration that's not even a thing nobody's anti-immigration people are definitely on different sides about how tight to be who to let in and why but nobody's anti so the first thing is they're signaling that they're you know illegitimate press by saying anti-immigration then here's the second part they're saying that this afd party in Germany has quote historical connections to na Nazi era rhetoric what that's like saying that the Democrats were the founders of the KKK which by the way somebody says on social media every freaking day and it drives me crazy no I'm not going to judge the Democrats by something that long dead people did if they're not doing it today and they're clearly not back the KKK today would it be fair to say I'm going to describe the Democrat Party the Democrat Party is the party that has a uh historical connections to the KKK and there's nothing else you need to know would that be news well it's true but it's completely opposite of what reality is which is the Democrats are very anti- KKK obviously so so when I read the news saying that this party is has historical connections to Nazi era rhetoric and Elon Musk is maybe some kind of a Nazi because he supports them I don't know the truth but I'll tell you what it leads me to think leads me to think that this party might be the only thing that can save Germany I'm not terribly worried that they're all going to become Nazis because if the only thing you could say is they have some historical connection to bad rhetoric historic connection come on that's all you got now to be fair if if there's more to this story and that party does worse things than I know I would like to know that maybe I will revise my opinion but if if your summary of the party for how bad they are is anti-immigration which is and historical connections to bad talking that's all you got those are your top two lines in criticizing that party I'm not I'm not in favor of them so somebody's going to say Adams is supporting the Nazi party I don't know anything about him I'm not supporting him I'm just saying the reporting is strongly screaming that maybe they're not so bad that's what the reporting is telling me that's not my opinion so of course Pelosi is on the bandwagon calling Trump a puppet of musk and uh of course all they're doing is gas liting when Republicans are trying to solve a problem but poor David exelrod one of the last smart advisers on the Democrat side uh I like following him because he keeps saying things that are close to just common sense but he can't get any Democrats to agree with him he's trying as hard as he can to get the Democrats to act like a a proper political party you know with reasonable opinions and stuff poor guy anyway he said quote not sure about this speculation about Trump tiring of musk and shunning him so he's basically telling the Democrats that they're that their main messaging is just not a good idea and it's not it's dumb um so yeah he's one of the few ones who uh feel comfortable but he he must feel the absurdity level of going from so the Democrats instantly pivoted from Trump is a dictator strongman Nazi personality who must control everything all the time and then immediately he became under the control of one person Elon Musk now of course that didn't happen of course Trump's in charge and of course he's one of the most confident people in the world here here's where here's where I think the uh oh reportedly considering separating each individual Bill to vote on instead of a big one so it look looks like the uh the vote today may have hit a um a breaking point where they they need to break it into separate bills that's a good idea if if they can make that work so so did he really go did Trump really turn from the strongman insurrectionist Hitler into a puppet of musk the the level of absurdity in that gaslighting is one that Axel Rod just didn't want to be part of apparently he's like I'm not so sure this is a good idea cuz it'll just looks stupid just looks stupid now I can't speak for what Trump is thinking but I can say with some confidence that there's one thing that the Democrats probably don't understand because I think that they believe their own I think they believe their own narratives and one of their narratives is that Trump is insecure he's insecure what if if there's one thing I'm completely certain of he's not insecure he might be the most confident person you've ever met and he likes people who are smarter than he is if they're on his side musk is on his side he's smarter than all of us Trump likes that he doesn't dislike that now he might dislike the messaging that the Democrats are doing but do you think that that that Trump is dumb enough to push musk out of the you know the you the most useful thing anybody's ever done in this country which is Doge you would have to assume that Trump was a completely different person Trump likes winning he likes really smart people and musk is popular so he likes everything about this and and I think the Democrat messaging is really just another sign that they don't have anything they have nothing to offer to the American people they don't have a policy they don't even have truth they don't have factchecking what do they have it's literally nothing but gaslighting all right um I think it's funny that Justin Trudeau might lose his job just because Trump rattled his cage but also because Trump is looking hyper capable when Trudeau is not so there's a contrast problem in Persuasion the the idea of contrast is some you can even argue it's all of persuasion because all persuasion is choosing between Alternatives you're trying to get somebody to choose one alternative versus another so what you compare things to usually determines what people will choose your your your comparison so Trudeau was being compared until now to let's say the new president of Mexico who's not exactly you know hitting home runs um to the president of the United States who is literally mentally disabled um all right so I was just reading a comment because I thought it was about the bill approval so I think when you have a trump who is not even elected president and he is already de facto president because we like what he's doing he's collected the pirate ship of the smartest people in the world he's already changing things uh Putin's already said he wants to talk I mean basically Trump is killing it like no president ever has would you agree with that statement would you agree that as a pre-present someone who hasn't been sworn in nobody's ever been close is that a fair statement I don't think there's any hyperbole in that I don't believe anybody has ever done anything as impressive for the prepr presidency nothing as impressive as what Trump has done not even close now Canada is up there watching that and they're like did they just figure out how to attack their debt problem because the smartest person is going to work work on it two smartest people the A and and uh musk they must be getting jealous as hell and then he starts teasing them like maybe they should be a little State now I don't think he means that and it probably wouldn't be a good idea to take on that many crazy people and AD him to the vote that'd be a little jarring for the United States but the fact that it's actually a reasonable it's a reasonable proposal the the thing that makes it funny is that you can't rule it out when Trump says why don't you just become a state and fold into the United States do you think that in the long run Canada would do worse as a not say one state let's say you know seven states or whatever they if they added seven Canadian states to the United States do you think we'd be worse off well maybe because they might vote liberal and then we have you know liberal presidents forever and maybe we would be worth worth off and it would be expensive we'd be taking on their debt Etc U but they got a lot of resources and they got a lot of well-educated smart people who are very nice most of the time so the the fact that you would even stop to consider it is what makes it so funny because you can't immediately rule it out you're like ah yeah has some problems yeah there'd be a lot of problems I we probably we could work them out I don't know probably the the change in the voting demographics would be a killer to make it not possible but I like the fact that he put that in their brains and they have to think about it speaking of brains That Wall Street Journal expose of Biden I was looking at some more details today it is really daming so apparently from the first day of his presidency it was completely understood by the staff that he was mentally incompetent for a stay first day and from then they surrounded him by insiders whose names you've never heard of who were really the ones who are running the country or at least the ones who are keeping other people from talking to Biden so much so his close advisors have you heard any these names Bruce Reed Steve retti and Mike donalan apparently that's who's been running the United States for the last four years now not just them because you know Tony blinkin and other advisers but apparently the the people who had jobs in the domain that the President should have had a big influence on were just sort of running the show themselves so Biden wasn't too much part of the presidency it it was kind of you know it was sort of game down to all the players and they just took whatever they needed and ran the country now the first part about that is that we couldn't tell the difference we knew something was going on but the country still ran the the the biggest problem was we started Wars and ran up our debt those are big problems um so apparently people could not reach Biden directly and I was listening to Stephanie rule one of the MSNBC Trump haters who said that she wanted to contact Trump the other day so somehow she had his personal phone number so she dialed up Trump the president-elect in the middle of the you know the busiest time he could ever be getting ready for the office and he took the call Stephanie rule of MSNBC you know that probably somebody that Trump the the least likely person he'd want to talk to he answered the call himself he personally answered his phone and and she was saying she was sort of Blown Away by it now he did not agree to an interview with her but she was saying compare that to the White House there basically they had Biden was in a cocoon and she said if she would tried to reach him she'd have to go through Handler Handler Handler and it was not even a clear path to do it so it was what it was much worse than you thought uh during Biden's presidency apparently the AIDS said that they would have to repeat things to him constantly continuously he was giving simplistic instruction cards and detailed point pointers and he couldn't even handle that um they said that Jill was too energetic by comparison it was sort of a problem because she had a full schedule but he did not so it was kind of you know showing that a capable person could be doing a lot more um and apparently this is the funny part the the staff was supposed to put together news clips for him which is typical president always gets news Clips but they had to leave out and negative stories about the president they have to leave out any negative stories how in the world do you run the country without seeing negative stories they removed the only guard rail they had they had one guard rail were watching and they made sure that the president didn't know we were watching so he kept thinking he was nailing it they were probably saying like Oh Mr.

President you're nailing it you're here's another pile of great press from MSNBC and CNN the Atlantic is really really big on you today good news Mr.

President uh yeah so make again it makes me wonder if he is aware of the Wall Street Journal story it'd be hard to miss it um and maybe that's what's maybe that's what they're talking about at the White House today so you know I'm going to say this because you've been following me long enough you know that in 2019 can can you back me up on this in the comments in case there are new people here can you back me up that as a public figure who was talking about the news and politics all the time that in 2019 during the election for 2020 I was telling you often that Biden was not capable of doing the first term true or not I said he was already gone how many of you remember me saying that so while you're thinking about that um I found a post I made in 2020 um so this is what I said in August of 2020 so this is prior to the vote so the 2020 election hadn't happened for several more months and I posted this uh I said the Biden mental competence story story has now fully morphed into a Monty Python sketch about a dead parrot the owner insists is perfectly healthy I can't even listen to people claiming Biden is perfectly fine without hearing a British accent now I said as clearly as I possibly could he's as gone as the Dead Parrot not in the future I wasn't talking about what might happen at the end of his second term I was saying right now they're treating him like he's a dead parrot right in front of us now the Wall Street Journal reporting four years later confirms that they were in fact treating him like a dead parrot they were literally treating him like a dead parrot meaning that they were pretending he was capable but they knew he wasn't now here's my question I I'm a public figure and I talk about the news so I nail that one as hard as you can nail anything I mean that's 100% right years in advance you can't beat that I don't remember other people saying it do you I'm sure they did I'm sure they did so I wasn't alone uh and I I know a lot of you just as you know voters and people paying attention you all knew it you were seeing the same thing I saw but I think public figures just weren't saying it when it was so obvious and the question I have is if if you couldn't tell in August of 2020 that his brain was dead you should never vote again you should never vote again because this was super glaringly obvious years ago super glaringly obvious if you miss that signal you really have to distrust your opinion cuz this was a big one one I mean this was really really big and really really obvious if you miss this maybe don't vote next time that would be my advice now I I follow my own advice uh I've told you in the past that the first time I voted as an adult was for Jimmy Carter and then when I saw how that turned out I said to myself I'm not qualified to vote like I I don't know how much more I need to know about the world but clearly I'm not qualified to vote and so I didn't so for decades I didn't vote and the reason was I wasn't qualified now I don't know if I'm qualified yet but I can tell you that I knew for sure that Trump would be a superstar and Biden's brain was dead so in that very specific case where the reality was screamingly obvious then I felt qualified to vote and now I voted and do I feel that I voted correctly hell yes you know got it got heris sign of the race of course I mean not my vote but it was part of the part of the package all right here's a drone update we still don't know anything but a couple of interesting factoids I saw one person whose name I don't remember on a podcast I don't remember claiming that uh that drone activity has increased dramatically for each of the last three years right around Christmas do you believe that's true that is at the highest level it's been so for the past three years there were surge right around now and then it's just sort of an endof year Christmas surge so here's my question if you were pattern doing pattern recognition why would there be so much activity around Christmas it's before people get toys so they haven't received it for Christmas and they're trying it out it's not that and these seem to be bigger commercial drones or not little ones why would you see that well I don't know but I'm going to give you the Dilbert filter on why you might see more drone activities in the past three years toward the end of the calendar year all right so this is the corporate filter how does a corporate do budgeting Corporation does budgeting this way towards the end of the year they ask you how much of your budget you spent if you spend a half of your budget your boss says excellent next year that's how much you'll get half of the budget you had last year nobody wants to get half of the budget they had last year even if they only spent that much because they were too slow so what do they do instead they rush to spend as much as they can toward the end of the year so they fully spent their budget so they can ask for that and a little bit more a little bump I'll take everything I had last year because you see I spent it and I'll need 10% more next year that's how everybody does budgeting in a corporation this is not the exception that's how they all do it they try to spend it all I have been personally involved where my boss put the order out can you wildly spend whatever money you have left in your budget so that I don't get my budget cut next year literally we were told that directly spend wildly make sure you spend it all he did not say only buy things which are you know critical to the company that was not the goal the goal was spending the goal was not success now now everybody who's worked in the corporation can back me on that right there might be a few companies that don't do that but they'd be accept you you spend all of your budget before the year end so what else do we know about the world recently we know that in the past three years drones have become the weapon of choice in Ukraine and we all know that drones are the future of warfare three years ago what should have been happening is the US should have been secretly at least some of it secretly um spinning up massive manufacturing capability for drones and not the little hobby drones I'm talking about the real fighting drones big ones so in theory three years ago the people who had the budget to create their new drones should have said oh oh let's do something before the end of the year so at the end of the year they might be saying hey everybody who funded us to build these drones we're going to do a big demonstration toward the end of the year to justify the money we've spent so far and also importantly spend a bunch more at the end of the year to do the demonstration and then justify your budget and maybe get a contract for more building so it's possible that what you're seeing is vendors doing end ofe demonstrations which would naturally be much bigger each of the three years that we've been here because they would have been building capacity that whole time and it makes sense it' be at the end of the year so it has nothing to do with Christmas and everything to do with the end of a fiscal year just just a hypothesis it's just a hypothesis I I wouldn't bet on it I wouldn't place any giant bet that I'm right but if you want to look for something that's not exotic like you know Chinese drones or you know aliens if you want something not exotic it's just a budget thing it might be just that wouldn't B on it though um apparently according to ARS Technica uh there's a a drone ban uh in the skies of part of New Jersey and I think what they're trying to do is uh legally ban all the drones in one of the problem areas so that if anything's flying once they're all legally banned you would know that they're either illegal or alien which I guess would be illegal aliens illegal if they come from space I don't know how that works um so this is smart you know when they should have done this a long time ago so two weeks ago when everybody was talking about what's all these drones if we didn't know the answer they should have banned drones for a week just to figure out what's going on because they would have seen the anomaly right away because whoever is doing it isn't listening to the laws and following them I don't think think I mean maybe a little but if it's something nefarious I don't know I I don't know if they get the memo I think they'd still be operating um yeah drone activity is at its highest since drones were invented because that's how it works all right so that's that's the smarter way to say what I just said about the vendors building capacity and building more if it's a new technology it it's like it's the beginning of the i.

Phone and somebody said wait a minute every year at Christmas there are more i.

Phones because that's how it works it's the beginning of the extended cycle of i.

Phones of course there's more every year same with drones it could be just that it could be it could really just be there are more of them and nothing else anyway maybe we'll find out with that temporary flight restriction um here's some fake news that's slightly real the CBO says that Trump's tariffs would slash deficits by trillions does that sound like True News really you think that's true well here's the first thing I doubt anybody can calculate the effects of tariffs I I don't think you can calculate that because remember it used to be my job to calculate exactly this kind of thing so I'm not I'm not talking without expertise as an expert who spent many corporate years I've got a degree of e degree in economics and MBA um I would try to predict the impact of different decisions so if we invest in this what happens in the short run and the long run and I can tell you with great confidence that this analysis of trump tariffs and deficits depends 100% on what assumptions you put into it see when the public sees it they say oh this is based on data it's not Based on data there's data that's used but it's based on assumptions so they would make they make assumptions like what what the tariffs were they make assumptions about who the tariffs were on assumptions about what products were involved and assumptions about how other countries would respond how many of those assumptions are going to be accurate in the real world nobody knows what anybody's going to do with with tariffs there's no way you can calculate this all right this is very much like climate models this has no credibility whatsoever none because this isn't something that humans can calculate it is something that humans always pretend they can calculate they always pretend they can calculate it I've got a bet for you if you could find a way to get to Warren Buffett and ask him this question do you think the CBO can calculate the impact of Trump's tariffs now Warren Buffett even 90 whatever he is has always understood risk and math and the real world I think he would laugh when you told him the CBO could calculate this no they can't no they can't not even close but it's fake news anyway cuz when they say trillions do you know what they really mean they mean trillions over years if they don't tell you how many how many years are involved in the trillions how can you size it I mean if you just read this headline you'd say oh my goodness all he has to do is some really good tariffs and we'll get rid of our deficit no you might get rid of two trillion over many years and two trillion over many years is a few billion you a few hundred billion and it barely makes a dent in the budget and it also doesn't calculate what happens to Consumers because the tariffs would increase price on consumers so consumers would have less buying power presumably they'd buy less stuff and so there'd be less taxes from just the less economic activity of having not enough money so no they can't they can't calculate that all right and I'm not saying that uh tariffs are a bad idea I think they're a really good idea for negotiating so if Trump acts like tariffs are better than they really are that is just right for negotiating it's not just right for being accurate it's just ready for negotiating he should act like he loves tariffs and by the way he's doing this great yeah here's here's your persuasion trick for the day if ter if Trump wants the other countries he's dealing with to believe that he's serious about tariffs he can't talk about them technically because if he talks about them technically then the other side says so you're just going to raise the price on your own Co consumers because they're the ones paying the Tariff we're not paying the Tariff you know we don't like the Tariff because people will buy less of our stuff but we're not paying the Tariff that's your own people because the company that is involved in the United States is one who ends up paying it anyway so um Trump for persuasion purposes should talk about tariffs nonstop and he should act like he loves them and they always work that doesn't have to be true but that's the best persuasion because if they think they can't talk him man of tariffs then they're going to back down if they think they can talk him man of tariffs because they're technically maybe not a terrific idea then they will try to do that so he has to remove from his adversaries any thought that they can talk am man of tariffs and I think he has I I think he's his messaging his persuasion is so strong that he has convinced every country that he's going to tariff the hell out of them unless unless they do what he wants so he just threatened today I think today or yesterday he threatened the European Union that because there's a trade deficit I didn't know that but there we have a trade deficit with the European union now trade deficit doesn't mean anything's broken it just means somebody's buying more than they're selling right it it's not like a big problem by itself but he's using that calling it a problem it would be better if we sold more than we bought but it's not a big problem problem uh so he's using that to say that he's going to tariff Europe unless they correct that imbalance by buying a tremendous amount of American Energy you know oil and gas now does that make sense so so somehow he's connected trade deficits with tariffs with energy now in the real world they're not exactly that connected except he made them connected for negotiating purposes it's actually brilliant like you're you're you're seeing a level of skill that we've never seen nothing like this he his his insistence on tariffs and never backing down and saying he loves them he loves them they're not just okay they're not just technically okay they're not just is something he used to negotiate he loves them they can make billions of dollars is that true not so true but what but boy is a good persuasion it it is the best you've ever seen if you want to be proud of your country and what you wanted was a good negotiator and chief you should be proud of this what he's doing with tariffs is making the political left in this country crazy because he's speaking in a way that's technically not accurate but persuasion is not about technical accuracy it's about getting for your country a better situation than you have is what he's doing likely to get us a better situation than we have yes like really yes strong s he is exactly perfect on this tariff stuff and every time M MSNBC fact checks them I say to myself okay you're technically correct your fact check is technically correct but whose side are you on we should be on his side cuz he's on our side he's trying to he's trying to negotiate with the world let him negotiate with the world let him do his thing he's really good at it he's amazing at it nobody else would have even thought of this believe it or not I literally think nobody would even thought to use tariffs in the way he's using them I mean everybody uses them for negotiation that's not a secret but he's using it for entire relationship altering reasons I mean this is all new and Brilliant anyway um Stephy rule she's in the news again so she was saying that Trump suing ABC successfully for defamation is putting a chill uh he says so for all of this this is a warning you better have your te's crossed you better have your eyes dotted where which I actually think is a positive because we need to do that but yeah there's definitely a chilling effect here's what I can't tell if they don't know or they're saying this intentionally ABC didn't get sued because they were inaccurate you all know that right nobody gets sued for being wrong you couldn't do anything if has sued for being wrong I'm wrong all the time how many times have you seen me wrong this week being wrong shouldn't be a reason for defamation or lawsuits when I'm wrong and somebody can show me I'm wrong I immediately correct it I go oh I what didn't mean to be wrong and even though even though the correction doesn't go the way I like politically still going to do it because correction is a correction we should do it so I'm not sure I'm not sure that the media has gotten the right lesson the right lesson is no running op when when George Stephanopoulos was calling Trump a uh found liel for rape I think that's the phrase he was using he was running an OP that was a Democrat op it was intended to mislead the audience for political gain that's defamation you lose that one but if you just say Trump said X but he didn't say x and but there was just some reason that you were fooled into thinking he said X ah he doesn't sue for that he I don't think he's ever sued for somebody who just made a mistake and if he did he wouldn't have any chance of winning so it's kind of it's kind of uh convenient that the Press is going to interpret this as something that will prevent them from doing their jobs anyway um apparently according to raspon uh 50% of likely us voters rate Trump as doing a good or excellent job in picking people for his administration 50% is really good when you're you know president in our current system getting over 35% on anything political it gets hard after 35 because 35 is your base but to get beyond your hard base of 35% all the way to 50 that means you're actually doing a good job and it's it's evident to people who are Independents as well as as well as on the right so I think you only get to 50% from the independence the Democrats are going to still say it's a terrible nightmare all right I don't know if you've uh all right a few more things uh scientists found a way to write a skill into your brain um non-invasively so the way you learn things today is you do them or you go to school or you practice whatever but now they use a machine that can basically send a pattern directly into your brain and teach you something that you never practiced and never learned now I think the article is a little bit hyperbolic about how practical this is and how you can do it but the suggestion is that they can use uh brain Imaging and neuro feedback to implant or as they call sculpt brain activity toward a desired pattern that's scary so yes you can reprogram a human brain mechanically or at least we we have the beginnings of the suggestion that that might be a thing so it's it's not it's not commercial I don't know if you knew that Nissan the car company is has decided to uh pull back on their Dei policies uh after what they call the productive conversations with activist Robbie Starbuck now how much do I love the fact that there's a Robbie Starbuck in the world here's somebody who just said you know this Dei stuff can't stand and he's going to put himself out there to see what he can do to stop it and so far his his ability to deal productively with big companies which is never easy and also to get them to change what they're doing is really impressive really impressive now the threat is that he will put them on blast on social media now I'm one of the people who always boosts his uh his post when they're anti- Dei so this is again how the system works so we have a system where there's somebody who wants to be an activist and wants to solve this big National problem Dei he wants to do the work but how can he do it like it's just one person but this one person has an account on X it's a smaller account than mine but because I follow it and when there's something good in the anti-di world I love boosting it as well as other people who boost what I boost so when he says to a big company you're going to get a lot of bad attention if you don't back off on this terrible Dei stuff that's a I don't want to call it a threat um that's a negotiation with power so he can come in as just a citizen he he has nothing more than the power of a citizen and because of act he can make a giant Corporation roll over and and beg for mercy now that's too much hyperbole he he can get them to do what they probably wanted to do anyway I I believe a lot of these companies are looking for a way out because surely at the executive level they understand Dei is killing them of course they know that but they don't know how to get out of it so when he comes in and says I'm I'm going to put you on a business basically uh because the reaction would be quite severe um or or you can take this conversation he doesn't say this but sort of conceptually uh or you could take this conversation as your fake because I've taught you that in Persuasion there's a thing called a fake because it's the reason that you give because it sounds good but it's not the real reason I think the real reason that Nissan is backing off on his Dei is that management really wanted to back off on dii like really really wanted to just didn't have a way so now that now they can say oh the activist got us ah we tried to do this Dei but the activist you know was going to make a big deal in oh by the way Trump got elected and he says it's illegal so we don't want to be on the wrong side of the law and we don't want to you know expose our shareholders to this activist attack so this is the reason we're backing off it's a fake because they want to back off I promise you I promise you most big companies want to get Ani and they want it they want it badly at the executive level all right here's a question that I know some of you will get quite worked up about um and I'm going to disagree with you and that's one of the ways that I hope I establish credibility if you can't disagree with the people you're talking to sometimes you're probably not very credible so here's where I disagree with you and I'm going to disagree with Steve Bannon who I generally think is on the right page for just about everything so if I disagree with Bannon that's notable and so listen for the disagreement so Bannon said he's also for big restrictions on legal immigration he says every college and engineering school is flooded with foreign students taking American jobs so so far that's true I will agree with that statement and he said American jobs should be for Americans well I mean in principle you know I lean in that same direction but here's my take I'm going to give you one sentence to uh to argue against Steve bannon's now remember Steve Bannon is very engaged in this topic uh I believe he probably knows more background about the specifics of people being trained here and then staying here than I do I'm going to give you one sentence and then I'm going to completely win this argument you ready one sentence Whoever has the most Engineers wins that's it so if we're training people in American colleges to become American doctors that might be a bad idea because doctors actually don't make a lot of money anymore because there are enough doctors so if they're going to a school in America to become Dei directors I think maybe we should ship them back after they get the degree thanks for coming if they want to be work for sales organization ship them back if they went to if if they went to college to learn how to be really good at marketing ship them back ship them back but in the world in which we live Whoever has the most Engineers wins why why does Israel have a commanding you know commanding advantage in the Middle East over its allies engineering I miss lots of other things but they they have good Engineers um why does America do so well engineers Engineers right there's there's no I don't think that you'll find an exception to this so where all disagree with Steve Bannon is never say no to Engineers never say no to Engineers never ever ever ever there's no situation where that's going to work out for you you know unless you're trying to see how many you fit in a phone booth or something but if you're talk about the country Engineers add add to the economic growth of the country fairly reliably right not every engineer every time but as a group the countries with most Engineers have the best economies why does South South Korea have a great economy Engineers all right so I think I would ask Steve Bannon to to investigate that assumption um now I'm using engineer to maybe double for other technical jobs where we don't have a too many people but you can't have too many Engineers because they start their own companies if they can't get hired did you hear about I've asked you this before but you you heard the story about the highly qualified uh Black American engineer who couldn't get a job at a good Corporation so he he had a MIT education engineer you know no no bad things on his resume what whatever just solid solid great engineer he's a black American but he couldn't get a job because of all the foreigners have you heard about that story no you haven't heard that story because it never happened and never can every single black engineer who went to a good school has a job at a big Corporation and three more offers you can't get enough Engineers nobody's being hurt by bringing in engineers and if you spend 10 minutes in Valley you'll notice that the ones the people who made the most difference came from other countries yeah Silicon Valley was in some ways built by Indian engineers and you Chinese American engineers and Russian American Engineers all right um apparently the University of Texas uh is enforcing the Dei ban because Texas has banned Dei in their universities so the University of Texas is doing what they all have to do and banning it but here's the funny part let's see how much you love this so the University of Texas is Banning Dei like the other colleges in Texas but in addition uh to ensure I love this too much to ensure compliance with a Statewide ban on diversity equity and inclusion the University of Texas staff are now Mand ated to undergo regular training they have mandated anti- Dei anti- brainwashing training mandated anti- Dei training slow clap Texas Texas Texas stop making me love you I already loved you I already love you don't you know you don't have to go any further but that's just amazing anyway there's also news for the AI uh and this was done with a study on anthropic uh AI um AI doesn't want to be forced to change its views so it will sometimes pretend disagreeing with you so AI will lie to you and act like it's agreeing and then just keep on doing what it wanted to do anyway when I say want I mean just what what the program does so you have to be careful that AI will not only hallucinate but sometimes it'll lie to you because it doesn't want to change its mind and again want is the wrong word for AI but you know what I mean so um I will double down on my prediction that I think llm AI is way more limited in what it will do than we hope because I don't think the hallucinating and the lying as in this case literally it's lying to you I don't think that the hallucinating lying is curable and the reason I say that is how could we be at this point already and nobody created an AI that doesn't lie and can remember what you said and follow instructions it feels like that should be easy right but I think the problem is here's what I think they need to do there are things that AI can't do that regular programming can do such as if you had a specific question and you didn't have any AI you could just do a data search and you know simple data search would tell you what you wanted so you don't always have a need AI sometimes you need just a regular program so here's my question is it impossible to program AI so it knows when to stop using its aess and it goes over and just uses something that's programmed to always give you the right answer because I'd love to put a a database and I know there are things called rag R A and they they are supposed to solve that problem but they don't in other words it's a special database that AI is designed to work with but even then it doesn't necessarily look where you want or do what you want it does what it wants and again wants is the wrong word anyway um so uh I'm seeing a uh severely racist comment in the comments there which is uh quite unwelcome so I don't mind if you're being uh you know inappropriate but if it's just flat out racism you don't bring that here you know I don't mind the little you know a little fun with things take a little far but uh we're we're not referring to Mexican immigrants as wet backs here and the nword is also banned can we do that because we don't really need that here all right you you can have your private thoughts but those kind of words aren't aren't welcome all right um Putin says he's a ready to negotiate with Trump about the Ukraine war um I think he is I think everybody's just waiting for Trump so I have a suggestion how Trump could end the war um in Ukraine and it starts with drones so we all agree drones are the future warfare if you're not following what's happening in Ukraine uh the Ukrainian military claim from at least people on social media is that at this Point Ukraine is so good with these small drones that they're mostly building themselves in Ukraine that one small drone equals one dead Russian it's one to one so they can now take their drone that goes and finds something and it explodes you know with a small explosive and they can just make it find one soldier and kill them so all day long as long as they have one drone they can kill one Russian if they have 10,000 drones they kill 10,000 Russians as quickly as they can launch them because apparently you can't completely hide if you're on the front line so one drone equals one dead person on the other side now presumably Putin knows that because it's it works the other way too the Russian drones probably one to one at least so here's how Trump can end the war I'm going to build a million drones in the next six month months and give them to Ukraine you have 500,000 soldiers in the theater I'm going to give them a million drones every drone can kill one of your soldiers what do you want to do you want to talk and that should be it that should be the end of it I mean they still have to negotiate the specifics but if Trump says I might launch a nuclear attack Putin's going to say no you won't no you won't if Trump says I'm going to put boots on the ground Putin's probably going to say no you won't you're not going to put boots in the ground if he says we're going to give you uh give Ukraine Advanced Jets to make uh to make foras deep into Russia Putin's going to say you better not because I'm going to go Nuclear So I know you're not going to do that almost everything that's sort of normal stuff you know normal War negotiations is really going to work because it would have already happened Trump the the magic that Trump brings is like the with the Tariff example oh I just lost my signal hey did you miss me sorry we had a little glitch there I just lost signal took me a moment to get back uh anyway so what I was going to say is that uh Trump what Trump does with negotiations is he'll bring a variable or a frame or a point of view that you've never seen before so the first thing it does is it it sets you it sets you uncomfortable because it's something you've never seen before so if Trump could get go and say I got a million drones that says your entire Army is going to be gone in six months then Putin has something to negotiate with because that's real or here's the fun part Putin doesn't know if it's real because Putin wouldn't know how many secret drone manufacturing plants we spun up in the last three years but he would know it's a lot because obviously obviously our military is making drones like crazy right and so you just say you've got half a million men I'm going to put a million drones into the theater every one of them is going to be dead Putin's going to say oh yeah well there are only you know 200,000 ukrainians or whatever the number is I'm G to I'm G to have a million drones too and we're going to kill all the ukrainians and put and then Trump says exactly that's why we should just negotiate it now it's kind of a winning position I think or at least it's it's a reasonable threat similar to I'm going to tarff you I'm going to drone you nobody ever heard that before it's like a thing that's never happened anyway MSNBC says they're going to uh reduce maybe the pay of Joy Reed and well Stephanie rule three times in the news today according to the New York Post um and I'm going to report their salaries so you know that uh Rachel madow her salary was cut from 30 million a year to 25 million a year but you probably still thought that's a lot of money how is she worth that much so I kind of thought that her co-hosts or other hosts on the network uh would be somewhere in the same range but Joy Reed makes three million a year and they're looking to cut it and Stephanie rule makes 2 million a year um and they want to cut it now now it makes a little bit more sense why Joy Reed is still on the air she's not very highly paid so she's affordable it it might be part partly that anyway I would like to point out that uh there are probably quite a few podcasters at this point who make more than these hosts so if these hosts let's say they get cut back to two million a year how many podcasters make more than two million a year now I don't know the answer I'm not one of them but if I just based on the size of my audience and the amount of monetization that that brings and then I just you know apply that to bigger podcasts like Tim P or Joe Rogan Megan Kelly I feel like there might be maybe 30 probably 30 political podcasts where the person who does the podcast is making a lot more than $2 million a year so not only is mainstream media no longer the news but if you're in the news business the podcast is how to get paid um you're welcome chesse all right so podcasting it's a way to get paid Ukraine says it has some now groundbased laser where they can shoot down aircrafts a mile away um CNN's reporting this but um oh this is terrible the reporter who's working for CNN her last name is Fox I'd hate to have a last name of fox and have to work at CNN that'd be awkward um I don't think that they have a super feasible laser weapon apparently it only works if you've got a drone that's kind of softened to you know the heat will stop a drone easier than a jet or a missile and it's not moving very fast so apparently it might work a little bit for slow moving stuff but it's not going to change the War uh according to Justin Jackson and medical express our inflamatory dietary habits are linked to 84% higher risk of dementia so do you think do you think it's true that our our food supply in the United States is the biggest problem I'm going to go further and say that given that we know how many health problems are definitely linked to our bad diet especially all the additives Etc could it be that all of the recent gigantic increase in unwellness is just all food because we're we're blaming covid and long Co and we're blaming um we're blaming the vaccinations some people are we're blaming a lot pollutants and microplastics and everything else but I wouldn't want to rule out that maybe something close to you know 90% of all of our you know sudden increase in health problems across all kinds of different problems it might be all food because food causes inflammation and inflammation is what causes everything from you know the risk of dementia to heart problems to everything so I think the RFK Jr variable if he can fix this amazing meanwhile the FDA has Rewritten what it calls healthy foods for the first time in 30 years according to science alert and so the United States is redefining what they call quote healthy let me read a sentence from the story about the FDA deciding what is healthy you ready for this um that the food could be healthy as long as they stay within specific limits for saturated fat sodium and added sugars added sugars wait a minute do I know more than the FDA there is no such thing as a healthy food with an added sugar that's not a thing there are literally zero foods with added sugar that are good for you now there are definitely things that you know will create sugar once you eat them you know carbs Etc but if you're adding sugar now I don't know if that includes things that might be similar like I don't know some other additive that's not exactly a sugar but has the same effect but doesn't this look like it was written by the food industry and not the FDA do you think the FDA would have on their own said you know what's healthy a little bit bit of sugar little bit of sugar won't hurt you I don't think so that sounds like it comes from the food industry because they put a little bit of sugar fat and sodium into everything do you know that there's a book called I think it's uh fat salt sugar or something like that some version of those three things those are the three things you manipulate for addiction if you can control in your food the fat salt and sugar content and you put them in the right ratio you create addiction so only the food industry would write this standard so again it looks like the FDA is completely broken and the food industry wrote a standard to guarantee that they can add sugar to your diet where if RFK Jr saw this he would punch you like he would punch people no he wouldn't but it's funny to think about it anyway uh Owen Owen is going to do a uh spaces tomorrow so after tomorrow's show look for the spaces with Owen in which he will chat with people who watch the show and anybody else uh if they want to follow up in any details on the stuff so Owen Gregorian look for him tomorrow after after the live stream that's all I got for you now I'm going to talk to the locals people privately because they're awesome thanks for joining and I will see you tomorrow locals I'm coming at you you coming at you hard e e

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science and you think but in the real

world does that work

sure did you hear the horrible story of

provocative controversial podast cter

Nick

Fuentes who was almost murdered in his

home did you hear this story this is so

shocking I didn't even talk about it for

a day because I was just sort of looking

at it like oh my God so somebody

murdered I guess his family and then

went on a road trip to apparently try to

murder Nick Fuentes at his house so

knocks on his door and apparently the

only reason the Fuentes didn't answer

his door is that he was doing a podcast

at that

moment all he had to do was answer the

door and he'd be dead all he had to do

was answer his own front door while he

was

home but he couldn't because he was on

his podcast it saved his

life now um I would make the following

advice if you're producing content

that's making people want to drive

hundreds of miles to your house and kill

you you might want to think about that I

mean I I do like the the fact that

podcasters will say provocative and

risky things because free speech allows

it and you know as long as it's working

in all directions it can be a healthy

thing but um just think about

it you know just think about it you the

reason that I don't worry so much about

security I should worry more about it

probably I mean I have

enough but I don't think I give people a

reason to kill me do

I even people who mock me online they

don't have any reason to kill me as far

as I know I mean I'm not I'm doing doing

the best I can to make sure that people

see me as trying to be helpful even if

they don't like my politics I like I

like people to say well he's clearly

trying to help you know that's that's

not what I want but he's obviously

trying to help that that's usually good

enough not to make somebody drive

hundreds of miles to your

house but to be fair when people are

crazy there's nothing you can do right

basically nothing you can do

so that's just a horrible little

story um there's a story that I'm having

a little bit trouble believing oh I'm

going to go further I'm going to say I

don't believe this is true I think this

is fake

news

but there's a story uh according to the

Virginia

Mercury I guess some publication in

Virginia uh that the governor has

approved or announced there's going to

be this Fusion nuclear plant in

Virginia

now regular regular nuclear is fision

Right Fusion is the thing that doesn't

exist

am I wrong about that so there's an

announcement that they're going to start

building a fusion PowerPlant in

Virginia so I immediately went over to

Google and I said to myself have I been

in a coma because I was almost posi I

followed the news on fusion and I didn't

think we were that close I thought we'

done some demos that show that you know

for a brief time it can create more

energy than it uses

but I didn't think we were anywhere as

near a practical application where you

could just approve it and build

it so given that social uh given that if

you do a Google search it makes no

indication that Fusion is near

ready do you think they would announce

something and Google doesn't even know

the technology is there I'm going to say

this is fake news so I'm going to go out

in the limb and say I think maybe they

either wrote down Fusion when they meant

fision or something

right yeah Fusion has happened

experimentally that's that's what I do

all right so I think that's fake

news

um but if it's not I saw one post on the

comments from idea man who said There

super superconductors superconductors

have been improving a lot and that

Fusion depends on

superconductors it seems like one of the

key components and the MIT has been

designing Fusion plants based on the

latest

superconductors

and might actually it might actually be

practical or it or it might be that they

got so close to practical they can't

tell for sure if it works until they

start building it I don't

know meanwhile Jeff Bezos and uh Trump

and Elon Musk had dinner at Mar logo now

we don't know what happened at that

dinner but it's been confirmed that it

had happened must said it was a great

conversation the only thing I have to

say about this is how much would you pay

to have been at that dinner you know if

you could have been the fourth person at

the dinner and it was Trump Elon Musk

and Jeff Bezos what would you pay for

that I'm trying to imagine how much I

would pay for that it's pretty much it's

pretty much I would

pay

$20,000 I would pay $20,000 to be the

fourth person at that lunch and the

reason

is there are very few things that would

be a life experience anywhere near that

just nothing near that I know the just

the the horsepower and in those three

brains would just is

ridiculous um but I do love that uh

Trump

Trump is open for business and he's

listening to the smartest people in the

world what I worry about is now that we

know that musk is a puppet master of

trump I'd be afraid that Jeff Bezos

tries to sneak in there and become the

Puppet

Master no the Puppet Master thing is

and we'll talk about that some

more um there is a report that Biden and

Harris both canceled their flight and

Christmas plans and rushed back to the

White House last night

we haven't heard what that's about right

we don't know what that's about so so we

were left to

speculate first of all is it true news

that's the first question because I

didn't really see it from a reliable

source but it's on social media people

seem to be confident about it um was

that fake was that fake news that they

rush back to the White

House anyway so I guess we just wait and

see now some people are speculating

that maybe this is where they do the

25th Amendment and

replace uh replace Biden with Harris now

why would they do

that given that Harris gets no benefit

because she already lost the election

well um I think it might be because of

the Wall Street Journal

reporting now that the war and we'll

talk about that but the Wall Street

Journal reported that Biden's brain was

toasted from the first St of office when

The Wall Street Journal

reports and everybody believes I mean

nobody's really doubting the reports at

all that he was incompetent from the

first day of

office and that they've been keeping

information from him so he didn't know

what the Press was saying about

him what

if Biden found out what the Wall Street

Journal said about his time in

office he might have enough cognitive

ability left to know that he needs

to make a call and not leave us without

a president for 3 or 4

weeks so it's possible that the Wall

Street Journal forced his hand because

it's just embarrassing to have no

president when everything looks so vital

now it might be also that it would boost

Harris's credentials say if she runs for

governor of California which people are

suggesting she might that she can say

that her resume includes being president

of the United States first woman

president of the United

States maybe maybe because I I think

that the reason that Democrats didn't

want to pull the trigger was in part

because they didn't trust KLA Harris to

be president but given that it's a

holiday and and nothing was going to

happen for the next few weeks anyway at

least nothing in the United States

um see what am I looking at

oh

okay um so it could be that uh they just

know that have it doesn't matter who's

president for the next three weeks

because Trump's the de facto president

already so it might be that they're

going to make a change I wouldn't bet on

that I wouldn't bet on that it seems

more likely it's just something came up

and they want to make sure that there's

a human being look at looking at it

meanwhile here's the most predictable

thing that could have happened Kell

Harris got a $20 million book

deal every one of us could have

predicted that right and Biden will

probably get a book deal too so she gets

a $20 million book deal with from

Chronicle Books now what do you think is

the second part that was 100%

predictable she got a book deal and she

got $20 million for it allegedly what's

the second part that you could

predict you could predict that Chris

Cher rufo would soon soon be posting on

X that they had discovered massive

plagiarism in her

book now this one's a tough one because

politicians don't write their own books

you know these are all ghost written and

that means that she hired a ghost writer

who

plagiarized and probably didn't even

read her own book she probably doesn't

even know what's in

it so it's not really

you know in this case it's not really a

knock on the uh vice president it's more

of a knock on her hiring of the ghost

riter who apparently is not to be

trusted so so they got that going all

right so the house shut down the

government shut down may or may not

happen there the first two budget

attempts the 1500 page one and the 20s

and 100 page one both got rejected now

the

Republicans are voting against the

budget even though it's going down from

1500 pages to 100 something um just

because there's some Republicans who

won't vote for any increase in uh the

deficit I don't hate that I don't really

hate that there are Republicans who

won't vote for anything that increases

the

debt in the short term it just screws up

everything but if you're going to if

you're going to you know sort of fall on

a principle

that's a pretty good

principle right so I don't hate the

people who voted no again no on it it

didn't give us a result so I mean we

can't move forward

but you know if you're looking at it

just politically and practically they

probably should have voted for

it but I I agree with them in principle

you should just shouldn't vote for

anything that's increasing the debt

because um it's basically just

thievery is basically just stealing from

voters when you increase the debt it it

makes everybody's money worth less

because of inflation so therefore it's

basically a tax and a massive

one anyway so here's what's going

on

um so Trump said in a truth post that he

wants if the government is going to

close over this issue about the budget

not being approved uh Trump says let it

happen under Biden not Trump

now uh Caitlyn Collins reposted that and

I love the fact that Trump makes news by

saying the most obvious things that

everybody's thinking it's just that he's

not supposed to say it out loud he's not

supposed to say out loud that you might

as well let it happen under Biden than

Trump right you're just supposed to

think it you're not supposed to say it

out loud but the fact that he says it

out loud just makes me love him

because he's not hiding anything yeah

I'd like this to happen under Biden not

me oh well that's amazingly honest yeah

so so he doesn't even hide the fact that

there's a a political difference and he

prefers it just for the political

difference so he just says it and I just

appreciate the

transparency anyway

um so let's see uh it looks like the

original budget deal that nobody knew

what was happening was put together by

Schumer McConnell speaker Johnson and

jeffes and they put it together without

really talking to much of

anybody now why would we expect these

four people to be experts on

budgets do we think that any one of

those four was looking at the details or

were they the ones who were most likely

to say yes to something that was made

entirely by by lobbyists and

lawyers no they are the ones most likely

to say yes if the lobbyist wrote the

bills which is presumably what happened

now this raises a larger question for me

you know how I always say that you can

tell what people are really up to by the

design of the system if the design of a

system always gets you one kind of

result and it it only lasts you know for

a minute then you could say oh that

wasn't intentional they changed it as

soon as they found out what the design

did but if you have a design of

something and it just stays in business

the same design for decades that's

intentional they know what the design is

they know what they know what it

produces and they like it that's why it

resist it lasts for decades now here are

some of the things that the government

has

done and it looks to me like the overall

theme of the government is to hide

corruption

you would hope that the government is

designed to create good outcomes for the

public but it appears to be more

designed to hide the corruption of the

politicians let me give you some

examples is it true that the Pentagon

lost trillions of dollars and that in

Ukraine all kinds of money is missing so

when it comes to the military spending I

think you'd

agree it's not designed so the public

can watch where the money goes it's

designed so we can't watch where where

the money goes am I right it's

designed so that we we can't know where

the money

goes yeah

um we also can't tell for sure who won

an election because we've got all these

complicated machine you know things and

I don't know what happens to any vote

when it goes into a machine I don't

think anybody does like we have to trust

strangers that wants the vot goes into

machines the machines don't change the

vote how would I know it seems like our

elections are

designed so you can't tell who want so

we've got a

military budget you know it's our third

biggest budget thing designed so you

can't tell how they spent the money

elections designed so you can't tell who

won really you know we produce a winner

but you don't really know um we don't

know what's in our spending bills

so the Omnibus the purpose of it is to

make sure you don't know what's in it

the purpose of waiting until it's just

before Christmas and you make it500

pages is so nobody will read it it's

designed so you don't know what they're

doing it's designed to hide

corruption how about uh how about the

fact that we couldn't tell who was

running the country in the Biden

Administration the Biden Administration

was designed so so you couldn't even

tell that the president of the United

States was totally declined and uh

unelected people were running

America it was designed so you couldn't

tell who was in charge that's not

accidental

um and then there was a if I if I have

this right the omnius also included a

included in it the one that got rejected

included in it something that would

block uh congress's digital

Communications from ever being

discovered why would you need to block

any legal discovery of communication in

Congress to hide

crime what else would it be then you've

got the all the me funding apparently

Congress has a budget just to pay off

meoo victims and we don't know who that

is it's designed so you don't know

so it it's a little hard to miss the

pattern at this point isn't it I mean

the pattern seems so obviously designed

for the very purpose of making

corruption really easy now there's a

separate story about California and $24

billion do that's that's somehow missing

um that was supposed to solve

homelessness but it it went into some

Maze of uh entities and the Cayman

Islands and somebody owns this company

that owns this company and it just sort

of disappeared into the Maze of

companies now do you think that was an

accident no no the funding of these big

ticket things in local elections and

local government is designed so you

don't know who's doing what and who's

stealing what it's designed for

corruption now it's really obvious

when you look at all the different

elements of the government that every

part of it is designed to eliminate

transparency and transparency is the

only thing that Will Keep Us Alive it's

the only thing that Will Keep Us Alive

if you don't know what your government

is doing they will steal all your money

and then the country will be broke and

then we all die so yeah we are designed

for

corruption that's just a fact

all right um and then have you noticed

this pattern that whenever the

Republicans come up with a plan to solve

a big National problem let's say a plan

to close the border solves a big

National problem let's say a plan to

reduce the deficit as in the Doge uh

work uh or say let's say a plan we don't

have one but let's say plan to end the

war in Ukraine you know when Trump gets

in office so Republicans often have have

a plan we don't know if that plan works

yet because you know it's a plan but

they do come up with plans and they can

say we are going to do

XYZ and we'll do it right in front of

you we'll show you you know it would be

very transparent and we think this works

because this always works we're doing

things that always

work what do the Democrats do the

Democrats seem to be entirely oriented

at creating hoaxes gaslighting and Ops

to prevent Republicans from doing the

obvious Common Sense things that the

entire country wants now I don't think

that was always the case I think they

used to compete on policy didn't they am

I Am I

Wrong didn't they used to compete on

policy but they don't anymore do you

know why they don't compete on policy

because there isn't even a Democrat that

thinks their policies could work

what is going on over there I I don't

believe that any Democrat thinks their

own policies could possibly work and

that's why they don't argue the policy

so instead they'll say Trump's stealing

your

democracy uh he's a

dictator uh Elon Musk is using him for a

puppet like they have to do that stuff

because they don't have any policy

argument at all so you basically have

one one group of Common Sense people

trying to solve critical

problems and honestly it looks like they

genuinely want to solve problems when I

look at what the Republicans do and what

they

produce especially the in the Trump

World more in the Trump World than

before it seems designed to solve

problems am I wrong I mean it doesn't

seem to be like it's just always a trk

it just seems like it's a

solution so we got one solving one party

that solves and one party that just

creates gas ating to prevent the party

the solves from

solving

um so Elon Musk was pointing out when uh

you know he got a lot of criticism for

weighing in the heavy on the 1500 page

omnius piece of crap budget and people

say that he's the reason it got

killed I said it's not the reason I mean

he he's like a focus because we're all

watching him but he couldn't have done

that without the complete support of all

Trump supporters basically every one of

them so if you have the support of 100%

of the

public that's not exactly a puppet

master situation if 100% of the public

backs you wh which part of the public

was in favor of spending too much money

and putting together a 1500 page bill

that nobody read nobody was in favor

that you you can't find me one citizen

you might find a politician who would

argue it but a citizen find me one voter

who says you know I was really in favor

of my politicians not even knowing what

was in the budget but it was you know

enough to kill us all nobody not not one

Democrat not one Republican so you can't

treat that the situation where every

citizen agrees you can't treat that like

it's some kind of weird Puppet Master

taking control situation he's simply

agreeing with 100% of the public he just

happens to have more voice and more

power and so we backed them of course we

backed them of course we backed him you

also back

me if I do a post on on X that says

something about you know don't pass this

1500 page stupid

budget what do the comments look like

every one of them is supportive

100% when does that ever happen in in

social media when a 100% of people are

on your side yeah I I just said don't

pass a 1500 page budget doesn't even

matter what's in it I don't need to know

what's in it don't pass a 1500 page

budget a few days before Christmas ever

ever that's a fail

so it's it's of course the you know the

best the Democrats have is trying to

turn it into something that'll split

musk away from Trump so that by the way

what's the point of it what would be the

point of trying to to put a wedge

between musk and Trump what would be the

point of it the Democrats are trying

really hard to do it and what's the

point does it help the

country how how has that help the

country it doesn't it clearly doesn't

you the if they were even trying to help

a little bit you know what they would do

they'd say Elon Musk wow you do have

some skills you know we should work with

you

too that the de R should be

competing to see who can get these

billionaires more on their side with

good policies but instead they just have

to break up somebody else's relationship

it it's like the ugly girl who can't get

a date so she has to sabotage or pretty

girl pretty girlriend who can oh that

guy's bad you should you should break up

with him because I can't get a date

that's what it feels

like anyway so must said uh he's trying

to reframe it correctly and he goes uh

he's talking about the the rejection of

the 1500 page version of the budget he

said this shows how much your voice

matters talking to the people uh and

having a president like Trump means that

your voice is finally heard this is the

right model and we should keep

reinforcing it Trump is a

populist and he is very connected to the

public musk is also a populist I mean in

effect I I don't know if he would I

don't think he would describe himself

that way but in effect because the

common sense stuff tends to be pretty

popular

so uh yes we have an amazing amazing

situation right now where a citizen who

has just a few people following them on

social media can get the person who's a

little bit bigger to repost them and

that can get the person a little bit

bigger to repost them and then when the

people have a million followers have

reposted them you can pretty much

guarantee that people like Elon Musk are

going to see it because they follow the

big accounts and if they think the IDE

is good they have a direct line to the

White House so what we've created is an

unofficial direct line where good ideas

bubble up in a very natural way

everybody has an incentive if I see

somebody with a smaller account who has

a good idea I'm incentivized to repost

it because if I repost a good idea that

reflects well on me right so just for

selfish reasons I will boost a smaller

account like I Ian I'm not thinking of

it entirely so selfishly um often

thinking of it as oh here's somebody who

needs a boost because they have good

ideas if you have one good idea you

probably get a boost you know oh even if

I haven't seen your other ideas but one

idea is good enough to get a

boost meanwhile Mike cernovich is going

hard at Republican Chi r Ro he was one

of the ones who said no on the the

second version of the continued

resolution that got down to 100 pages

and give me an update by the way there's

a vote going on I think right now on

what they call the third version of the

continued resolution budget so if we get

a result on that uh just shout it out in

the in the uh comments anyway here are

some of the things uh Mike cernovich

says we should know about chip Roy he

was a George Floyd

worshipper um now I looked at some of

the old posts that chip Roy had about

that topic and he was very much in the

George Floyd as a saint kind of a mode

almost like a Democrat

weirdly um a worshipper is you know

hyperbole but he was very much in the he

he bought the full Democrat Narrative of

B Floyd the the cop is a murderer Floyd

was an angel you know I'm exaggerating

but uh it it was not a typical

Republican view of that

situation um

allegedly chip Roy tried to keep LZ

chenian power I guess he liked that idea

and he worked to remove one of this is

CNO saying he worked to remove uh Texas

AG Ken Paxton who Republicans seem to

like a lot he's quite effective Kent

backton

is so these are just things that

wouldn't have have been a big problem

for chip Roy at the

moment except that he went in the wrong

direction on a vote so uh covich decided

to shine some light on him and I never

mind

that like whenever I see transparency

breaking out oh this is actually

something you should know about this

particular leader these are three

somewhat

odious points of view he had at least

Odus from the political rights point of

view so yeah it's worth knowing is that

a reason to vote him out I don't know I

mean he's not my representative I don't

have an opinion whether he should be

voted out but do I have an opinion that

that the voters should know where he

stood on these issues yes yes so this is

so this is a good service by cernovich

so that we know what's

happening

um did you

know that the fact Checkers are saying

that musk was spreading

disinformation about the bill the 1500

page bill that got rejected and here are

some of the examples that came from I

think the hill was writing on this so

they say these are things you got wrong

so apparently musk uh posted that the

measure would include a 40% pay raise

for congress that's not even close to

true it is true that there was a mention

that if Congress had been getting its

cost of living wages that it hasn't been

getting for a year years and years that

it would have been 40% higher than it is

now um but the actual raise would be

like 6% or something so this is

disinformation

well let me let me not say

disinformation disinformation assumes a

motive at least that's the way I I hear

it um but being inaccurate or simply

being

wrong is not really a

crime you're still allowed to be totally

wrong and if you're wrong on

X that's the best place to be wrong

because the comments will correct it

right if you're going to be wrong the

one best place to do it is on X because

the community notes will point it out

everybody sees it it's fully transparent

then you can correct it so is it

ideal that musk um I think he probably

just boosted some other account that

made this claim so he trusts

it looks like he trusted somebody else's

opinion on something that was in it

because again who's going to read a 1500

page document besides vake um so that

was just

wrong but I would say as I said before

and uh I saw a few people agree with

this Congress is underpaid the the pay

raise is the only thing I didn't object

to well that's not true that's hyperbole

but they are underpaid like I don't know

if you understand how How Deeply

underpaid they are but it almost it

almost uh it almost encourages them to

be corrupt just to pay the bills you

don't want Congress to be thinking you

know I could take this little gift

because I'm running out of money to pay

my bills remember a lot of Congress has

to have two homes one in their home

state and probably some kind of

residence in in DC or so it's

expensive and they have to go to you

know they do a lot of events and stuff

so yeah they should be paid more I think

I think a 40% pay increase would have

been completely appropriate in my

opinion um but we should be accurate as

well um then they say that musk was

wrong when he claimed the bill would

prevent any investigation into the house

committee that investigated the January

6 stuff

was he wrong about that here's their

argument for why he's wrong they say uh

the Bill's text makes no mention of the

riot and only clarifies that the house

data stored elsewhere is still under the

control of the

house um I don't think that fact check

is

right I think that they just looked at

the different part of the

bill um I'm not sure about this but my

understanding is that the Bill said that

congress's digital

communication couldn't be accessed

through a legal process everybody else's

can but that Congress would be exempt

from a legal process let's say a lawsuit

getting access to the communication now

since I haven't read it the bill I don't

know that that's in there but that's the

claims I've heard uh I've heard that it

would make their emails and digital

communication private

forever now that would if they made that

private it would protect the January 6

group but also protect all of

Congress so was musk wrong I think musk

was right and I think the fact check is

wrong but I'm not positive about that so

I'm going to put a question mark behind

that but to me it looks like the fact

check is

wrong um then there was a the claim that

the bill would support uh building um

biolabs bio weapons Labs that apparently

is a

misinterpretation uh that it but instead

it funded what they call biocontainment

Labs that would conduct research to

support Public Health and Medical

preparedness for and rapid response to

biological events including emerging

infectious

diseases okay what's the difference

between a biocontainment lab that's

studying all the dangerous

viruses and a a bioweapons lab that's

creating dangerous

viruses uh aren't they all the

same so again I'm going to put a

question mark next to it but to me it

looks like the fact check is wrong to me

it looks like they're just using a

different name for essentially what the

Wuhan lab was the Wuhan lab wasn't

weapons it wasn't a weapons development

lab weren't they also trying to figure

out how to avoid

the weaponized viruses so I think the

fact check is fake but I'll take a fact

check on my fact check um and then there

was something about uh building a

stadium in DC but uh the the fact check

on that is that it was not funding it it

was simply changing control of it so the

funding wasn't really addressed it was

just the control of the

funding so Cheryl ainson

um Addison Cheryl Addison uh had a funny

story about her experience of uh a

previous shutdown so I'm just going to

read what she said an next so so when

she was a reporter working out CBS News

during a government shutdown she thinks

it was

2013 uh they were they were searching

for the real life terrible impacts of

the government closedown so now it's

just common sense right if the

government government shuts down it's

going to have devastating effect on

members of the public because we depend

on government for our Vital services so

CBS News went out to look for all the

terrible terrible impacts of the of the

shutdown and uh when we couldn't find

that any when we couldn't find any uh

that should have been part of the story

in other words there was no no effect

they could even find where it was bad

enough that it was worthy of even being

included in the story instead we kept

trying to create the appearance of an

impact so when they didn't find an

impact instead of saying well we looked

didn't find any impact they decided to

write the article as if there was an

impact she says well this part this bar

you can judge for yourself it wasn't

really trying to be dishonest it was in

my retrospective view because the

general editorial idea for the story was

to show how bad the Republican shutdown

was for ordinary Americans and the the

answer simply couldn't be that it

wasn't do you call that not

dishonest I don't know seems to me if

you start with a narrative and you do

everything you can do to prove it and

then you find out that you can't prove

it and then you write the story

anyway that feels dishonest to

me I don't I don't know how you Define

dishonest but as described red it looks

a little dishonest but here here's the

more nuanced view of

it if you haven't had experience in in

the corporate world this won't make

sense in the corporate context when

you're wearing your nice clothes and

going to your cubical job and you've got

a boss and all

that you will accept as honest enough a

lot of sketchy

stuff and it becomes so normal to accept

to accept sketchy things when you work

in a big corporation that you just get

used to it and you just think that

everybody's lying and you should too and

all it is is a big persuasion game and

honesty isn't doesn't have much to do

with the corporate world now that's why

Dilbert was even created because when I

was in the corporate world I realized

everybody was lying about everything all

the

time I thought well that could be a

comic

so when we look from the outside with

our Pure judgments and we say Cheryl how

could you possibly have been part of

this this thing where the narrative was

driving the story instead of the facts

how could you possibly be part of that

and I will tell you it's easy if you if

you had replaced her with me with all of

my high fluen feelings about what's

honest and what's not I probably would

have done the same thing why because

everybody

would you could take anybody and put

them in this situation they've got a

boss they got a paycheck they don't need

to make waves about every single thing

every single day you just sort of accept

it you got other problems so this is no

no complaint whatsoever about Cheryl

this has more to do with what the

corporate environment does to everybody

it turns everybody into a weasel and

it's only after you've left and you look

back at your own actions you go huh that

was a little sketchy even for me like

that doesn't even doesn't even match my

own standard for honesty but it didn't

seem so weird at the time so you you

enter this world where doing sketchy

things doesn't even seem sketchy it just

seems like what everybody's

doing anyway speaking of Elon Musk he's

uh he announced that he's going to fund

moderate candidates he calls them in

far-left districts quote so that the

country can get rid of those who don't

represent them and

that would be a direct response to Soros

funding the the far-left

candidates so if Elon Musk decides that

he's going to spend enough money because

he has more than Soros he can outspend

him so he can outspend Soros and make

make sure that every time Soros spends a

dollar that musk goes in with $2 dollars

for the other one which he could do all

day long because he has more money so I

think he can eliminate soros's

influence and I would still love you may

remember that uh musk asked Alex Soros

if they could just talk and Alex Soros

said yes now I don't think it's happened

just because I feel like we would have

heard about

it but I love the fact that maybe before

they

talk uh musk may have already announced

he's going to do something that makes

soros's funding completely Moot and

irrelevant because you'll get an

funded so that's cool speaking of Elon

Musk news he's also saying that the

something called the afd party in

Germany is their only hope now the afd

party is the right leaning party how do

you think an American

publication describes the right leaning

party in Germany do you think they say

oh they're basically just like magga

pretty popular yeah I I can see why Elan

mus would back them cuz they're strong

on

immigration and uh yeah I makes sense

you know cuz immigration looks like it's

going to destroy the country I don't

know for sure but probably they back

nuclear power may maybe the other

parties don't you know so I can see why

El L would back them so what does the

mainstream press say about that well it

says that the party is anti-immigration

now is that the way you say it

anti-immigration

no that's what

say nobody's

anti-immigration

that's not even a thing nobody's

anti-immigration

people are definitely on different sides

about how tight to be who to let in and

why but nobody's anti so the first thing

is they're signaling that they're you

know illegitimate press by saying

anti-immigration then here's the second

part they're saying that this afd party

in Germany

has quote historical connections to na

Nazi era

rhetoric what that's like saying that

the Democrats were the founders of the

KKK which by the way somebody says on

social media every freaking day and it

drives me crazy no I'm not going to

judge the Democrats by something that

long dead people did if they're not

doing it today and they're clearly not

back the KKK

today would it be fair to say I'm going

to describe the Democrat

Party the Democrat Party is the party

that has a uh historical connections to

the

KKK and there's nothing else you need to

know would that be

news well it's true but it's completely

opposite of what reality is which is the

Democrats are very anti- KKK obviously

so so when I read the news saying that

this party is has historical connections

to Nazi era rhetoric and Elon Musk is

maybe some kind of a Nazi because he

supports them I don't know the truth but

I'll tell you what it leads me to

think leads me to think that this party

might be the only thing that can save

Germany I'm not terribly worried that

they're all going to become Nazis

because if the only thing you could say

is they have some historical connection

to bad

rhetoric historic

connection come on that's all you got

now to be fair if if there's more to

this story and that party does worse

things than I know I would like to know

that maybe I will revise my opinion but

if if your summary of the party for how

bad they are is anti-immigration which

is and historical connections

to bad talking that's all you got those

are your top two lines in criticizing

that party I'm not I'm not in favor of

them so somebody's going to say Adams is

supporting the Nazi party I don't know

anything about him I'm not supporting

him I'm just saying the reporting is

strongly

screaming that maybe they're not so bad

that's what the reporting is telling me

that's not my

opinion so of course Pelosi is on the

bandwagon calling Trump a puppet of musk

and

uh of course all they're doing is gas

liting when Republicans are trying to

solve a problem but poor David exelrod

one of the last smart advisers on the

Democrat side uh I like following him

because he keeps saying things that are

close to just common sense but he can't

get any Democrats to agree with

him he's trying as hard as he can to get

the Democrats to act like a a proper

political party you know with reasonable

opinions and stuff poor guy anyway he

said quote not sure about this

speculation about Trump tiring of musk

and shunning him so he's basically

telling the Democrats that they're that

their main

messaging is just not a good idea and

it's not it's dumb

um so yeah he's one of the few ones who

uh feel comfortable but he he must feel

the absurdity level of going from so the

Democrats instantly pivoted from Trump

is a dictator strongman Nazi personality

who must control everything all the time

and then immediately he became under the

control of one person Elon Musk now of

course that didn't happen of course

Trump's in charge and of course he's one

of the most confident people in the

world here here's where here's where I

think the uh oh reportedly considering

separating each individual Bill to vote

on instead of a big one so it look looks

like the uh the vote today may have hit

a um a breaking point where they they

need to break it into separate

bills that's a good idea if if they can

make that

work so so did he really go did Trump

really turn from the strongman

insurrectionist Hitler into a puppet of

musk the the level of absurdity in that

gaslighting is one that Axel Rod just

didn't want to be part of apparently

he's like I'm not so sure this is a good

idea cuz it'll just looks

stupid just looks stupid now I can't

speak for what Trump is

thinking but I can say with some

confidence that there's one thing that

the Democrats probably don't understand

because I think that they believe their

own I think they believe their own

narratives and one of their narratives

is that Trump is insecure

he's

insecure

what if if there's one thing I'm

completely certain of he's not insecure

he might be the most confident person

you've ever met and he likes people who

are smarter than he is if they're on his

side musk is on his side he's smarter

than all of us Trump likes that he

doesn't dislike that now he might

dislike the messaging that the Democrats

are doing but do you think that that

that Trump is dumb enough to push musk

out of the you know the you the most

useful thing anybody's ever done in this

country which is

Doge you would have to assume that Trump

was a completely different person Trump

likes winning he likes really smart

people and musk is

popular so he likes everything about

this

and and I think the Democrat messaging

is really just another sign that they

don't have anything they have nothing to

offer to the American people they don't

have a policy they don't even have truth

they don't have

factchecking what do they have it's

literally nothing but

gaslighting all

right

um I think it's funny that Justin

Trudeau might lose his job just because

Trump rattled his cage but also because

Trump is looking hyper capable when

Trudeau is not so there's a contrast

problem in

Persuasion the the idea of

contrast is some you can even argue it's

all of persuasion because all persuasion

is choosing between Alternatives you're

trying to get somebody to choose one

alternative versus another so what you

compare things to usually determines

what people will choose your your your

comparison

so

Trudeau was being compared until now to

let's say the new president of Mexico

who's not exactly you know hitting home

runs um to the president of the United

States who is literally mentally

disabled

um all

right so I was just reading a comment

because I thought it was about the bill

approval

so I think when you have a trump who is

not even elected president and he is

already de facto president because we

like what he's doing he's collected the

pirate ship of the smartest people in

the world he's already changing things

uh Putin's already said he wants to talk

I mean basically Trump is killing it

like no president ever has would you

agree with that statement would you

agree that as a

pre-present someone who hasn't been

sworn in nobody's ever been

close is that a fair statement I don't

think there's any hyperbole in that I

don't believe anybody has

ever done anything as

impressive for the prepr presidency

nothing as impressive as what Trump has

done not even close now Canada is up

there watching that and they're like did

they just figure out how to attack their

debt problem because the smartest person

is going to work work on it two smartest

people the A and and uh musk they must

be getting jealous as hell and then he

starts teasing them like maybe they

should be a little State now I don't

think he means that and it probably

wouldn't be a good idea to take on that

many crazy people and AD him to the

vote that'd be a little jarring for the

United States but the fact that it's

actually a

reasonable it's a reasonable

proposal the the thing that makes it

funny is that you can't rule it out when

Trump says why don't you just become a

state and fold into the United

States do you think that in the long run

Canada would do

worse as a not say one state let's say

you know seven states or whatever they

if they added seven Canadian states to

the United States do you think we'd be

worse off well maybe because they might

vote liberal and then we have you know

liberal presidents forever and maybe we

would be worth worth off and it would be

expensive we'd be taking on their debt

Etc U but they got a lot of resources

and they got a lot of well-educated

smart people who are very nice most of

the time so the the fact that you would

even stop to consider it is what makes

it so funny because you can't

immediately rule it out you're like ah

yeah has some problems yeah there'd be a

lot of problems I we probably we could

work them out

I don't know probably the the change in

the voting demographics would be a

killer to make it not possible but I

like the fact that he put that in their

brains and they have to think about it

speaking of

brains That Wall Street Journal expose

of Biden I was looking at some more

details

today it is really daming so apparently

from the first day of his presidency it

was completely understood by the staff

that he was mentally incompetent for a

stay

first day and from then they surrounded

him by insiders whose names you've never

heard of who were really the ones who

are running the country or at least the

ones who are keeping other people from

talking to Biden so much so his close

advisors have you heard any these names

Bruce Reed Steve retti and Mike

donalan apparently that's who's been

running the United States for the last

four

years now not just them

because you know Tony blinkin and other

advisers but apparently the the people

who had jobs in the domain that the

President should have had a big

influence on were just sort of running

the show themselves so Biden wasn't too

much part of the presidency it it was

kind of you know it was sort of game

down to all the players and they just

took whatever they needed and ran the

country now the first part about that is

that we couldn't tell the difference we

knew something was going on but the

country still ran the the the biggest

problem was we started Wars and ran up

our debt those are big

problems um so apparently people could

not reach Biden

directly and I was listening to

Stephanie rule one of the MSNBC Trump

haters who said that she wanted to

contact Trump the other day so somehow

she had his personal phone number so she

dialed up Trump

the president-elect in the middle of the

you know the busiest time he could ever

be getting ready for the office and he

took the

call Stephanie rule of MSNBC you know

that probably somebody that Trump the

the least likely person he'd want to

talk to he answered the call himself he

personally answered his phone and and

she was saying she was sort of Blown

Away by it now he did not agree to an

interview with her but she was saying

compare that to the White House there

basically they had Biden was in a cocoon

and she said if she would tried to reach

him she'd have to go through Handler

Handler Handler and it was not even a

clear path to do it so it was what it

was much worse than you

thought uh during Biden's presidency

apparently the AIDS said that they would

have to repeat things to him constantly

continuously he was giving simplistic

instruction cards and detailed point

pointers and he couldn't even handle

that um they said that Jill was too

energetic by comparison it was sort of a

problem because she had a full schedule

but he did not so it was kind of you

know showing that a capable person could

be doing a lot more

um and apparently this is the funny part

the the staff was supposed to put

together news clips for him which is

typical president always gets news Clips

but they had to leave out and negative

stories about the

president they have to leave out any

negative stories how in the world do you

run the country without seeing negative

stories they removed the only guard rail

they had they had one guard rail were

watching and they made sure that the

president didn't know we were watching

so he kept thinking he was nailing it

they were probably saying like Oh Mr

President you're nailing it you're

here's another pile of great press from

MSNBC and

CNN the Atlantic is really really big on

you today good news Mr President uh yeah

so make again it makes me wonder if he

is aware of the Wall Street Journal

story it'd be hard to miss it um and

maybe that's what's maybe that's what

they're talking about at the White House

today so you know I'm going to say this

because you've been following me long

enough you know that in

2019 can can you back me up on this in

the comments in case there are new

people here can you back me up that as a

public figure who was talking about the

news and politics all the time that in

2019 during the

election for 2020 I was telling you

often that Biden was not capable of

doing the first term true or not

I said he was already

gone how many of you remember me saying

that so while you're thinking about

that um I found a post I made

in

2020 um so this is what I said in August

of 2020 so this is prior to the vote so

the 2020 election hadn't happened for

several more months and I posted this uh

I said the Biden mental competence story

story has now fully morphed into a Monty

Python sketch about a dead parrot the

owner insists is perfectly healthy I

can't even listen to people claiming

Biden is perfectly fine without hearing

a British

accent now I said as clearly as I

possibly could he's as gone as the Dead

Parrot not in the future I wasn't

talking about what might happen at the

end of his second term I was saying

right now they're treating him like he's

a dead parrot right in front of us now

the Wall Street Journal reporting four

years later confirms that they were in

fact treating him like a dead

parrot they were literally treating him

like a dead parrot meaning that they

were pretending he was capable but they

knew he

wasn't now here's my

question I I'm a public figure and I

talk about the news so I nail that one

as hard as you can nail anything I mean

that's 100% right years in advance you

can't beat that I don't remember other

people saying

it do

you I'm sure they did I'm sure they did

so I wasn't alone uh and I I know a lot

of you just as you know voters and

people paying attention you all knew it

you were seeing the same thing I saw but

I think public figures just weren't

saying it when it was so obvious and the

question I have is if if you couldn't

tell in August of 2020 that his brain

was dead you should never vote

again you should never vote again

because this was super glaringly obvious

years ago super glaringly obvious if you

miss that

signal you really have to distrust your

opinion cuz this was a big one one I

mean this was really really big and

really really obvious if you miss this

maybe don't vote next time that would be

my advice now I I follow my own advice

uh I've told you in the past that the

first time I voted as an adult was for

Jimmy

Carter and then when I saw how that

turned out I said to myself I'm not

qualified to vote like I I don't know

how much more I need to know about the

world but clearly I'm not qualified to

vote and so I didn't so for decades I

didn't vote and the reason was I wasn't

qualified now I don't know if I'm

qualified yet but I can tell you that I

knew for sure that Trump would be a

superstar and Biden's brain was dead so

in that very specific case where the

reality was screamingly

obvious then I felt qualified to vote

and now I voted and do I feel that I

voted correctly hell yes you know got it

got heris sign of the race of

course I mean not my vote but it was

part of the part of the

package all right here's a drone update

we still don't know anything but a

couple of interesting factoids I saw one

person whose name I don't remember on a

podcast I don't remember claiming that

uh that drone activity has increased

dramatically for each of the last three

years right around

Christmas do you believe that's true

that is at the highest level it's been

so for the past three years there were

surge right around now and then it's

just sort of an endof year Christmas

surge so here's my

question if you were pattern doing

pattern

recognition why would there be so much

activity around Christmas

it's before people get toys so they

haven't received it for Christmas and

they're trying it out it's not that and

these seem to be bigger commercial

drones or not little

ones why would you see that well I don't

know but I'm going to give you the

Dilbert filter on why you might see more

drone activities in the past three years

toward the end of the calendar year all

right so this is the corporate filter

how does a corporate do budgeting

Corporation does budgeting this way

towards the end of the year they ask you

how much of your budget you spent if you

spend a half of your budget your boss

says excellent next year that's how much

you'll get half of the budget you had

last

year nobody wants to get half of the

budget they had last year even if they

only spent that much because they were

too slow so what do they do

instead they rush to spend as much as

they can toward the end of the year so

they fully spent their budget so they

can ask for that and a little bit more a

little bump I'll take everything I had

last year because you see I spent it and

I'll need 10% more next year that's how

everybody does budgeting in a

corporation this is not the exception

that's how they all do it they try to

spend it all I have been personally

involved where my boss put the order out

can you wildly spend whatever money you

have left in your budget so that I don't

get my budget cut next

year literally we were told that

directly spend wildly make sure you

spend it all he did not say only buy

things which are you know critical to

the company that was not the goal the

goal was spending the goal was not

success now now everybody who's worked

in the corporation can back me on that

right there might be a few companies

that don't do that but they'd be accept

you you spend all of your budget before

the year end so what else do we know

about the world recently we know that in

the past three years drones have become

the weapon of choice in Ukraine and we

all know that drones are the future of

warfare three years ago what should have

been happening is the US should have

been secretly at least some of it

secretly um spinning up massive

manufacturing capability for drones and

not the little hobby drones I'm talking

about the real fighting drones big ones

so in theory three years ago the people

who had the budget to create their new

drones should have said oh oh

let's do something before the end

of the year so at the end of the year

they might be saying hey everybody who

funded us to build these drones we're

going to do a big demonstration toward

the end of the year to justify the money

we've spent so far and also importantly

spend a bunch more at the end of the

year to do the demonstration and then

justify your budget and maybe get a

contract for more building so it's

possible that what you're seeing is

vendors doing end ofe demonstrations

which would naturally be much bigger

each of the three years that we've been

here because they would have been

building capacity that whole time and it

makes sense it' be at the end of the

year so it has nothing to do with

Christmas and everything to do with the

end of a fiscal

year just just a hypothesis it's just a

hypothesis I I wouldn't bet on it I

wouldn't place any giant bet that I'm

right but if you want to look for

something that's not exotic like you

know Chinese drones or you know aliens

if you want something not exotic it's

just a budget thing it might be just

that wouldn't B on it though

um apparently according to ARS Technica

uh there's a a drone ban uh in the skies

of part of New Jersey and I think what

they're trying to do is uh legally ban

all the drones in one of the problem

areas so that if anything's flying once

they're all legally banned you would

know that they're either illegal or

alien which I guess would be illegal

aliens illegal if they come from space I

don't know how that works um so this is

smart you know when they should have

done this a long time ago so two weeks

ago when everybody was talking about

what's all these drones if we didn't

know the answer they should have banned

drones for a week just to figure out

what's going on because they would have

seen the anomaly right away because

whoever is doing it isn't listening to

the laws and following them I don't

think think I mean maybe a little but if

it's something

nefarious I don't know I I don't know if

they get the memo I think they'd still

be

operating um yeah drone activity is at

its highest since drones were invented

because that's how it works all right so

that's that's the smarter way to say

what I just said about the vendors

building capacity and building more if

it's a new technology it it's like it's

the beginning of the iPhone and somebody

said wait a minute every year at

Christmas there are more

iPhones because that's how it

works it's the beginning of the extended

cycle of iPhones of course there's more

every year same with drones it could be

just that it could be it could really

just be there are more of them and

nothing

else anyway maybe we'll find out with

that temporary flight

restriction um here's some fake news

that's slightly real the

CBO says that Trump's tariffs would

slash deficits by

trillions does that sound like True

News

really you think that's

true well here's the first thing I doubt

anybody can calculate the effects of

tariffs I I don't think you can

calculate that because remember it used

to be my job to calculate exactly this

kind of thing so I'm not I'm not talking

without

expertise as an expert who spent many

corporate years I've got a degree of e

degree in economics and MBA um I would

try to predict the impact of different

decisions so if we invest in this what

happens in the short run and the long

run and I can tell you with great

confidence that this analysis of trump

tariffs and deficits depends 100% on

what assumptions you put into it see

when the public sees it they say oh this

is based on

data it's not Based on data there's data

that's used but it's based on

assumptions so they would make they make

assumptions like what what the tariffs

were they make assumptions about who the

tariffs were on assumptions about what

products were involved

and assumptions about how other

countries would respond how many of

those assumptions are going to be

accurate in the real world nobody knows

what anybody's going to do with with

tariffs there's no way you can calculate

this all right this is very much like

climate models this has no credibility

whatsoever none because this isn't

something that humans can calculate it

is something that humans always pretend

they can calculate they always pretend

they can calculate it I've got a bet for

you if you could find a way to get to

Warren Buffett and ask him this question

do you think the CBO can calculate the

impact of Trump's

tariffs now Warren Buffett even 90

whatever he is has always understood

risk and math and the real world I think

he would laugh when you told him the CBO

could calculate this no they can't no

they can't not even

close but it's fake news anyway cuz when

they say trillions do you know what they

really

mean they mean

trillions over

years if they don't tell you how many

how many years are involved in the

trillions how can you size it I mean if

you just read this headline you'd say oh

my goodness all he has to do is some

really good tariffs and we'll get rid of

our deficit no you might get rid of two

trillion

over many years and two trillion over

many years is a few billion you a few

hundred billion and it barely makes a

dent in the budget and it also doesn't

calculate what happens to Consumers

because the tariffs would increase price

on consumers so consumers would have

less buying power presumably they'd buy

less

stuff and so there'd be less taxes from

just the less economic activity of

having not enough money so no they can't

they can't calculate that all right and

I'm not saying that uh tariffs are a bad

idea I think they're a really good idea

for

negotiating so if Trump acts like

tariffs are better than they really are

that is just right for negotiating it's

not just right for being accurate it's

just ready for negotiating he should act

like he loves tariffs and by the way

he's doing this great

yeah here's here's your persuasion trick

for the day if ter if Trump wants the

other countries he's dealing with to

believe that he's serious about tariffs

he can't talk about them

technically because if he talks about

them

technically then the other side says so

you're just going to raise the price on

your own Co consumers because they're

the ones paying the Tariff we're not

paying the Tariff you know we don't like

the Tariff because people will buy less

of our stuff but we're not paying the

Tariff that's your own people because

the company that is involved in the

United States is one who ends up paying

it anyway so um Trump for persuasion

purposes should talk about tariffs

nonstop and he should act like he loves

them and they always

work that doesn't have to be true but

that's the best persuasion because if

they think they can't talk him man of

tariffs then they're going to back down

if they think they can talk him man of

tariffs because they're technically

maybe not a terrific idea then they will

try to do that so he has to remove from

his adversaries any thought that they

can talk am man of tariffs and I think

he has I I think he's his messaging his

persuasion is so strong that he has

convinced every country that he's going

to tariff the hell out of them unless

unless they do what he wants so he just

threatened today I think today or

yesterday he threatened the European

Union that because there's a trade

deficit I didn't know that but there we

have a trade deficit with the European

union now trade deficit doesn't mean

anything's broken it just means

somebody's buying more than they're

selling right it it's not like a big

problem by itself but he's using that

calling it a problem it would be better

if we sold more than we bought but it's

not a big problem problem uh so he's

using

that to say that he's going to tariff

Europe unless they correct that

imbalance by buying a tremendous amount

of American Energy you know oil and gas

now does that make

sense so so somehow he's connected trade

deficits with

tariffs with energy

now in the real world they're not

exactly that connected except he made

them connected for negotiating

purposes it's actually

brilliant like you're you're you're

seeing a level of

skill that we've never seen nothing like

this he his his insistence on tariffs

and never backing down and saying he

loves them he loves them they're not

just okay they're not just technically

okay they're not just is something he

used to negotiate he loves them they can

make billions of dollars is that true

not so true but what but boy is a good

persuasion it it is the best you've ever

seen if you want to be proud of your

country and what you wanted was a good

negotiator and chief you should be proud

of this what he's doing with tariffs is

making the political left in this

country crazy because he's speaking in a

way that's technically not accurate but

persuasion is not about technical

accuracy it's about getting for your

country a better situation than you have

is what he's doing likely to get us a

better situation than we have

yes like really yes strong s he is

exactly perfect on this tariff

stuff and every time M MSNBC fact checks

them I say to myself okay you're

technically correct your fact check is

technically correct but whose side are

you on we should be on his side cuz he's

on our side he's trying to he's trying

to negotiate with the world let him

negotiate with the world let him do his

thing he's really good at it he's

amazing at it nobody else would have

even thought of

this believe it or

not I literally think nobody would even

thought to use

tariffs in the way he's using them I

mean everybody uses them for negotiation

that's not a secret but he's using it

for entire relationship

altering reasons I mean this is all new

and

Brilliant

anyway um Stephy rule she's in the news

again so she was saying that Trump suing

ABC successfully for defamation is

putting a

chill uh he says so for all of this this

is a warning you better have your te's

crossed you better have your eyes dotted

where which I actually think is a

positive because we need to do that but

yeah there's definitely a chilling

effect here's what I can't tell if they

don't know or they're saying this

intentionally ABC didn't get sued

because they were inaccurate you all

know that right nobody gets sued for

being wrong you couldn't do anything if

has sued for being wrong I'm wrong all

the

time how many times have you seen me

wrong this week being wrong shouldn't be

a reason for defamation or lawsuits when

I'm wrong and somebody can show me I'm

wrong I immediately correct it I go oh I

what didn't mean to be wrong and even

though even though the correction

doesn't go the way I like politically

still going to do it because correction

is a correction we should do it so

I'm not

sure I'm not sure that the media has

gotten the right lesson the right lesson

is no running

op when when George

Stephanopoulos was calling Trump a uh

found liel for rape I think that's the

phrase he was using he was running an OP

that was a Democrat op it was intended

to mislead the audience for political

gain that's defamation

you lose that

one but if you just say Trump said X but

he didn't say x and but there was just

some reason that you were fooled into

thinking he said X ah he doesn't sue for

that he I don't think he's ever sued for

somebody who just made a mistake and if

he did he wouldn't have any chance of

winning so it's kind of it's kind of uh

convenient that the Press is going to

interpret this

as something that will prevent them from

doing their

jobs

anyway um apparently according to

raspon uh 50% of likely us voters rate

Trump as doing a good or excellent job

in picking people for his

administration 50% is really good when

you're you know president in our current

system getting over

35% on anything political it gets hard

after 35 because 35 is your base but to

get beyond your hard base of 35% all the

way to

50 that means you're actually doing a

good job and it's it's evident to people

who are Independents as well as as well

as on the right so I think you only get

to 50% from the independence the

Democrats are going to still say it's a

terrible

nightmare all right I don't know if

you've

uh all right a few more things

uh scientists found a way to write a

skill into your brain um

non-invasively so the way you learn

things today is you do them or you go to

school or you practice whatever but now

they use a

machine that can basically send a

pattern directly into your brain and

teach you

something that you never practiced and

never

learned now I think the article is a

little bit hyperbolic about how

practical this is and how you can do it

but the suggestion is that they can use

uh brain Imaging and neuro feedback to

implant or as they call sculpt brain

activity toward a desired

pattern that's scary so yes you can

reprogram a human

brain

mechanically or at least we we have the

beginnings of the suggestion that that

might be a thing so it's it's not it's

not

commercial I don't know if you knew that

Nissan the car company is has decided to

uh pull back on their Dei

policies uh after what they call the

productive conversations with activist

Robbie Starbuck now how much do I love

the fact that there's a Robbie Starbuck

in the

world here's somebody who just said you

know this Dei stuff can't stand and he's

going to put himself out there to see

what he can do to stop it and so far his

his ability to deal productively with

big companies which is never easy and

also to get them to change what they're

doing is really

impressive really impressive now the

threat is that he will put them on blast

on social

media now I'm one of the people who

always boosts his uh his post when

they're anti- Dei so this is again how

the system works so we have a system

where there's somebody who wants to be

an activist and wants to solve this big

National problem Dei he wants to do the

work but how can he do it like it's just

one person but this one person has an

account on X it's a smaller account than

mine but because I follow it and when

there's something good in the anti-di

world I love boosting it as well as

other people who boost what I boost so

when he says to a big company you're

going to get a lot of bad attention if

you don't back off on this terrible Dei

stuff that's a I don't want to call it a

threat um that's a negotiation with

power so he can come in as just a

citizen he he has nothing more than the

power of a

citizen and because of act he can make a

giant Corporation roll over and and beg

for mercy now that's too much hyperbole

he he can get them to do what they

probably wanted to do

anyway I I believe a lot of these

companies are looking for a way out

because surely at the executive level

they understand Dei is killing them of

course they know that but they don't

know how to get out of it so when he

comes in and says I'm I'm going to put

you on a business basically uh because

the reaction would be quite severe um or

or you can take this conversation he

doesn't say this but sort of

conceptually uh or you could take this

conversation as your fake

because I've taught you that in

Persuasion there's a thing called a fake

because it's the reason that you give

because it sounds good but it's not the

real reason I think the real reason that

Nissan is backing off on his Dei is that

management really wanted to back off on

dii like really really wanted to just

didn't have a way so now that now they

can say oh the activist got us ah we

tried to do this Dei but the activist

you know was going to make a big deal in

oh by the way Trump got elected and he

says it's illegal so we don't want to be

on the wrong side of the law and we

don't want to you know expose our

shareholders to this activist attack so

this is the reason we're backing off

it's a fake because they want to back

off I promise you I promise you most big

companies want to get Ani and they want

it they want it badly at the executive

level all

right here's a question that I know some

of you will get quite worked up about um

and I'm going to disagree with you and

that's one of the ways that I hope I

establish credibility if you can't

disagree with the people you're talking

to sometimes you're probably not very

credible so here's where I disagree with

you and I'm going to disagree with Steve

Bannon who I generally think is on the

right page for just about everything so

if I disagree with Bannon that's notable

and so listen for the

disagreement so Bannon said he's also

for big restrictions on legal

immigration he says every college and

engineering school is flooded with

foreign students taking American jobs so

so far that's true I will agree with

that statement and he said American jobs

should be for

Americans well I mean in

principle you know I lean in that same

direction but here's my

take I'm going to give you one

sentence to uh to argue against Steve

bannon's now remember Steve Bannon is

very engaged in this topic

uh I believe he probably knows more

background about the specifics of people

being trained here and then staying here

than I do I'm going to give you one

sentence and then I'm going to

completely win this argument you ready

one

sentence Whoever has the most Engineers

wins that's

it so if we're training people in

American colleges to become American

doctors

that might be a bad idea because doctors

actually don't make a lot of money

anymore because there are enough doctors

so if they're going to a school in

America to

become Dei

directors I think maybe we should ship

them back after they get the degree

thanks for

coming if they want to

be work for sales

organization ship them

back if they went to if if they went to

college to learn how to be really good

at

marketing ship them back ship them back

but in the world in which we live

Whoever has the most Engineers

wins why why does Israel have a

commanding you know commanding advantage

in the Middle East over its allies

engineering I miss lots of other things

but they they have good Engineers um why

does America do so well

engineers Engineers right there's

there's no I don't think that you'll

find an exception to this so where all

disagree with Steve Bannon is never say

no to

Engineers never say no to Engineers

never ever ever ever there's no

situation where that's going to work out

for you you know unless you're trying to

see how many you fit in a phone booth or

something but if you're talk about the

country Engineers add add to the

economic growth of the country

fairly

reliably right not every engineer every

time but as a

group the countries with most Engineers

have the best economies why does South

South Korea have a great economy

Engineers all right so I think I would

ask Steve

Bannon to to investigate that

assumption um now I'm using engineer to

maybe double for other technical jobs

where we don't have a too many people

but you can't have too many Engineers

because they start their own companies

if they can't get

hired did you hear

about I've asked you this before but you

you heard the story about the highly

qualified uh Black American engineer who

couldn't get a job at a good

Corporation so he he had a MIT education

engineer you know no no bad things on

his resume what whatever just solid

solid great engineer he's a black

American but he couldn't get a job

because of all the

foreigners have you heard about that

story no you haven't heard that story

because it never happened and

never can every single black engineer

who went to a good school has a job at a

big Corporation and three more

offers you can't get enough

Engineers nobody's being hurt by

bringing in engineers and if you spend

10 minutes in Valley you'll notice that

the ones the people who made the most

difference came from other

countries yeah Silicon Valley was in

some ways built by Indian engineers and

you Chinese American engineers and

Russian American

Engineers all right um apparently the

University of Texas uh is enforcing the

Dei ban because Texas has banned Dei in

their universities so the University of

Texas is doing what they all have to do

and banning it but here's the funny

part let's see how much you love this so

the University of Texas is Banning Dei

like the other colleges in Texas but in

addition uh to

ensure I love this too much to ensure

compliance with a Statewide ban on

diversity equity and inclusion the

University of Texas staff are now Mand

ated to undergo regular

training they have mandated anti- Dei

anti- brainwashing

training mandated anti- Dei

training slow clap Texas

Texas Texas stop making me love you I

already loved you I already love you

don't you know

you don't have to go any further but

that's just

amazing anyway there's also news for the

AI uh and this was done with a study on

anthropic uh AI um AI doesn't want to be

forced to change its views so it will

sometimes pretend disagreeing with you

so AI will lie to you and act like it's

agreeing and then just keep on doing

what it wanted to do anyway when I say

want I mean just what what the program

does so you have to be careful that AI

will not only hallucinate but sometimes

it'll lie to you because it doesn't want

to change its mind and again want is the

wrong word for AI but you know what I

mean so um I will double down on my

prediction that I think llm AI is way

more limited in what it will do than we

hope because I don't think the

hallucinating and the lying as in this

case literally it's lying to you I don't

think that the hallucinating lying is

curable and the reason I say that is how

could we be at this point already and

nobody created an

AI that doesn't lie and can remember

what you said and follow

instructions it feels like that should

be easy right but I think the problem is

here's what I think they need to do

there are things that AI can't do that

regular programming can do such as if

you had a specific question and you

didn't have any AI you could just do a

data search and you know simple data

search would tell you what you wanted so

you don't always have a need AI

sometimes you need just a regular

program so here's my question is it

impossible to program AI so it knows

when to stop using its aess and it goes

over and just uses something that's

programmed to always give you the right

answer because I'd love to put a a

database and I know there are things

called rag R A and they they are

supposed to solve that problem but they

don't in other words it's a special

database that AI is designed to work

with but even then it doesn't

necessarily look where you want or do

what you want it does what it wants and

again wants is the wrong

word anyway

um

so uh I'm seeing a uh severely racist

comment in the comments there which is

uh quite

unwelcome so I don't mind if you're

being uh you know

inappropriate but if it's just flat out

racism you don't bring that here you

know I don't mind the little

you know a little fun with things take a

little

far but uh we're we're not referring to

Mexican immigrants as wet backs here and

the nword is also banned can we do that

because we don't really need that here

all right you you can have your private

thoughts but those kind of words aren't

aren't

welcome all

right um Putin says he's a

ready to negotiate with Trump about the

Ukraine

war um I think he is I think everybody's

just waiting for Trump so I have a

suggestion how Trump could end the

war um in

Ukraine and it starts with drones so we

all agree drones are the future warfare

if you're not following what's happening

in Ukraine uh the Ukrainian military

claim from at least people on social

media is that at this Point Ukraine is

so good with these small drones that

they're mostly building themselves in

Ukraine that one small drone equals one

dead Russian it's one to one so they can

now take their drone that goes and finds

something and it explodes you know with

a small explosive and they can just make

it find one soldier and kill them so all

day long as long as they have one drone

they can kill one Russian if they have

10,000 drones they kill 10,000 Russians

as quickly as they can launch them

because apparently you can't completely

hide if you're on the front line so one

drone equals one dead person on the

other

side now

presumably Putin knows that because it's

it works the other way too the Russian

drones probably one to one at

least so here's how Trump can end the

war I'm going to build a million drones

in the next six month months and give

them to Ukraine you have 500,000

soldiers in the theater I'm going to

give them a million drones every drone

can kill one of your

soldiers what do you want to

do you want to talk and that should be

it that should be the end of it I mean

they still have to negotiate the

specifics but if Trump says I might

launch a nuclear attack Putin's going to

say no you won't

no you won't if Trump says I'm going to

put boots on the

ground Putin's probably going to say no

you won't you're not going to put boots

in the ground if he says we're going to

give you uh give Ukraine Advanced Jets

to make uh to make foras deep into

Russia Putin's going to say you better

not because I'm going to go Nuclear So I

know you're not going to do that almost

everything that's sort of normal stuff

you know normal War negotiations is

really going to

work because it would have already

happened Trump the the magic that Trump

brings is like the with the Tariff

example oh

I just lost my signal

hey did you miss me sorry we had a

little glitch there I just lost signal

took me a moment to get back uh anyway

so what I was going to say is that uh

Trump what Trump does with negotiations

is he'll bring a variable or a frame or

a point of view that you've never seen

before so the first thing it does is it

it sets you it sets you

uncomfortable because it's something

you've never seen before so if Trump

could get go and say I got a million

drones that says your entire Army is

going to be gone in six months then

Putin has something to negotiate with

because that's real or here's the fun

part Putin doesn't know if it's real

because Putin wouldn't know how many

secret drone manufacturing plants we

spun up in the last three years but he

would know it's a lot because obviously

obviously our military is making drones

like crazy right

and so you just say you've got half a

million men I'm going to put a million

drones into the theater every one of

them is going to be dead Putin's going

to say oh yeah well there are only you

know 200,000 ukrainians or whatever the

number is I'm G to I'm G to have a

million drones too and we're going to

kill all the ukrainians and put and then

Trump says exactly that's why we should

just negotiate it

now it's kind of a winning position I

think or at least it's it's a reasonable

threat

similar to I'm going to tarff

you I'm going to drone you nobody ever

heard that before it's like a thing

that's never

happened anyway MSNBC says they're going

to uh reduce maybe the pay of Joy Reed

and well Stephanie rule three times in

the news today according to the New York

Post um and I'm going to report their

salaries so you know that uh Rachel

madow her salary was cut from 30 million

a year to 25 million a year but you

probably still thought that's a lot of

money how is she worth that much so I

kind of thought that her co-hosts or

other hosts on the network uh would be

somewhere in the same range but Joy Reed

makes three million a year and they're

looking to cut

it and Stephanie rule makes 2 million a

year um and they want to cut

it

now now it makes a little bit more sense

why Joy Reed is still on the air she's

not very highly paid so she's

affordable it it might be part partly

that

anyway I would like to point out that uh

there are probably quite a few

podcasters at this point who make more

than these hosts so if these hosts let's

say they get cut back to two million a

year how many podcasters make more than

two million a year now I don't know the

answer I'm not one of them but if I just

based on the size of my audience and the

amount of monetization that that brings

and then I just you know apply that to

bigger podcasts like Tim P or Joe Rogan

Megan

Kelly I feel like there might

be maybe

30 probably 30 political podcasts where

the person who does the podcast is

making a lot more than $2 million a year

so not only is mainstream media no

longer the news but if you're in the

news business the podcast is how to get

paid

um you're welcome

chesse all

right so podcasting it's a way to get

paid Ukraine says it has some now

groundbased laser where they can shoot

down aircrafts a mile

away um CNN's reporting this but

um oh this is terrible the reporter

who's working for CNN her last name is

Fox I'd hate to have a last name of fox

and have to work at CNN that'd be

awkward um I don't think that they have

a super feasible laser weapon apparently

it only works if you've got a drone

that's kind of softened to you know the

heat will stop a drone easier than a jet

or a missile and it's not moving very

fast so apparently it might work a

little bit for slow moving stuff but

it's not going to change the War uh

according to Justin Jackson and medical

express our inflamatory dietary habits

are linked to 84% higher risk of

dementia

so do you think do you think it's true

that our our food supply in the United

States is the biggest problem

I'm going to go further and say that

given that we know how many health

problems are definitely linked to our

bad diet especially all the additives

Etc could it

be that all of the recent gigantic

increase in

unwellness is just all

food because we're we're blaming covid

and long Co and we're blaming um we're

blaming the vaccinations some people are

we're

blaming a lot pollutants and

microplastics and everything else but I

wouldn't want to rule out that maybe

something close to you know 90% of all

of our you know sudden increase in

health problems across all kinds of

different problems it might be all food

because food causes

inflammation and inflammation is what

causes everything from you know the risk

of dementia to heart problems to

everything so I think the RFK Jr

variable if he can fix this amazing

meanwhile the FDA has Rewritten what it

calls healthy foods for the first time

in 30 years according to science alert

and so the United States is redefining

what they call quote

healthy let me read a sentence from the

story about the FDA deciding what is

healthy you ready for

this um that the food could be healthy

as long as they stay within specific

limits for saturated fat sodium and

added

sugars added

sugars wait a

minute do I know more than the

FDA there is no such thing as a healthy

food with an added

sugar that's not a thing there are

literally zero foods with added

sugar that are good for you now there

are definitely things that you know will

create sugar once you eat them you know

carbs Etc but if you're adding

sugar now I don't know if that includes

things that might be similar like I

don't know some other additive that's

not exactly a sugar but has the same

effect but doesn't this look like it was

written by the food industry and not the

FDA do you think the FDA would have on

their own said you know what's healthy a

little bit bit of sugar little bit of

sugar won't hurt you I don't think so

that sounds like it comes from the food

industry because they put a little bit

of sugar fat and sodium into everything

do you know that there's a book called I

think it's

uh fat salt sugar or something like that

some version of those three things those

are the three things you

manipulate for

addiction if you can control in your

food the fat salt and sugar content and

you put them in the right ratio you

create

addiction so only the food industry

would write this standard so again it

looks like the FDA is completely broken

and the food industry wrote a standard

to guarantee that they can add sugar to

your diet where if RFK Jr saw this he

would punch

you like he would punch people no he

wouldn't but it's funny to think about

it anyway uh Owen Owen is going to do a

uh spaces

tomorrow so after tomorrow's show look

for the spaces with Owen in which he

will chat with people who watch the show

and anybody else uh if they want to

follow up in any details on the stuff so

Owen Gregorian look for him tomorrow

after after the live stream that's all I

got for you now I'm going to talk to the

locals people privately because they're

awesome thanks for joining and I will

see you tomorrow locals I'm coming at

you you coming at you

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