Episode 2793 CWSA 03/29/25
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View segment →rsity, it's funny that they even tested this. A robot dog can inspire emergent leadership in humans, meaning that if you have a robot dog and you tell the robot dog to act like one of the humans as the leader, the other humans will just go along with it. So you can literally have a robot dog choose…
View segment →u can do most of it, that would be pretty impressive. So it's all drones. You can have your 3D-printed drone, which is great for terrorists. So if any of you are terrorists, a 3D-printed drone is coming. And there's also going to be all these drone killers now. They've got all these anti-drone syst…
View segment →s like the military. The military always has a plan to attack anybody that looks like we might ever want to attack them. So yeah, of course they should definitely plan for what happens if Biden dropped dead during office. So I think there's no controversy there. That's just them doing a good job, I…
View segment →nk you could drive the DEI out of Berkeley? That would be the ultimate test. I feel like the Berkeley-ites would die before they gave up on their entire woke agenda. So we'll see. And Pam Bondi, AG, says that the goal is clear: to end illegal discrimination and to restore merit. So good. And of cou…
View segment →sses that way. So we'll see. Good luck, Mississippi. Here's one of the least surprising stories of the day. According to Roger Stone, who knows a lot about the JFK assassination because he wrote a book about it, so he's done a bunch of research, knows exactly what he's talking about. Joe Hoft is wr…
View segment →5 billion less 12 billion in debt. So here's the fun part. The AI will now have access to train itself on the entire body of X content. Isn't that going to make Elon Musk's AI the best AI like right away? Because I don't know if the other AIs trained on it would be illegal if they did, I suppose, w…
View segment →l, how about now you all just shut up. How about you just shut up? Because it turns out that worked out. So do you have anything else that Elon Musk can't do? Would you like to give me a list of the things he can't do? Oh, he'll never send a rocket up that you can reuse. He'll never build a car com…
View segment →To which I say, you mean common sense? Apparently all it takes to lean right in today's world is common sense. Who exactly is against free market capitalism? Only the craziest leftists. I mean, otherwise Democrats and Republicans are pretty much in agreement that free market capitalism should be th…
View segment →g it is possible, but it would reproduce it so inefficiently that you'd have to, you know, almost better if you started over from scratch, I think. But then I say, are you telling me that AI can't identify inefficient code and then replace it? Because I would think that it could do that easily if i…
View segment →ce detention and removal. Now, I got to say that that makes sense to me because whatever it was that the Biden administration was up to with flying in half a million people, they never really explained that to us, did they? Did the Biden administration ever say, oh, these are the special people who…
View segment →wanted. We've seen other countries, you know, I guess April 2nd will be the real test. That's when a whole bunch of tariffs go into effect. But I feel like Trump's totally out-of-the-box approach to the whole tariff situation, I feel like it's starting to come into focus. And that even if he's not,…
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View segment →laims of DOGE because I feel like the DOGE claims, if there's like a really good anecdote that somebody can understand, there is a tendency for them to believe it. And probably a lot of these cases are not as clean as that. So remember the first time you heard that there was a billion dollars a year…
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Well, after the show today, Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces on X. That's the audio-only service, and that'll be a few minutes after I'm done this morning. So if you want a little extra on a Saturday, and who doesn't want extra? You all want extra. That's where you'll get it.
Let's see what else is going on. According to the Daily Mail, scientists have discovered that intermittent fasting could boost bedroom performance, especially for older men. So intermittent fasting could boost bedroom performance. Now, coincidentally, I haven't had anything to eat in about 18 hours, so if I suddenly need to take a break, you'll know why. Because of science.
According to Reichman University, it's funny that they even tested this. A robot dog can inspire emergent leadership in humans, meaning that if you have a robot dog and you tell the robot dog to act like one of the humans as the leader, the other humans will just go along with it. So you can literally have a robot dog choose the human leader in a group, and everybody else will be like, well, seems reasonable to me. If the robot dog's okay with it, I'm okay with it.
But I think the larger risk is robot persuasion. Do you know how influential a robot's going to be if a robot dog can determine which human is in charge? And apparently they've tested it in a lab. What else can the robot dog do? I mean, next thing I know I'm going to be peeing on fire hydrants if the robot dog tells me to.
Speaking of robots, there's now a tiny little robot that they can put in your body, according to the University of Leeds. It's a tiny magnetic robot, and it can take 3D scans of things like tumors and stuff like that. So the one they have now is for colorectal cancer. So I'm going to say it was only a matter of time before somebody shoved a robot up your ass. It's here. The robot that goes up your ass. I'm sure it does good work up there, but I just knew it would come to this.
Hey Scott, do you think there will be so many robots that eventually one of them will be shoved up your ass? I would have said, you know, now that you make me think about it, I think yes. Well, it's here.
Well, the US Army, according to Next Gen Defense, has a high-speed 3D-printed kamikaze drone. So now you can use 3D printing to make a drone, but they don't say which parts. I can't imagine you can print the metallic parts. I mean, you can print metal, but I don't really think you can print the entire drone. Doesn't seem like it. But if you can do most of it, that would be pretty impressive.
So it's all drones. You can have your 3D-printed drone, which is great for terrorists. So if any of you are terrorists, a 3D-printed drone is coming. And there's also going to be all these drone killers now. They've got all these anti-drone systems with missiles and stuff, so you can have drones fighting drones before they even get to us.
Well, according to Variety, they had an idea for making movie theaters more inviting because I guess not enough people are going to movies. And their idea is to allow pot smoking and texting in the movie theater. John Nolte at Breitbart is writing about this, and I have the following question. How high would you have to be in order to enjoy watching Snow White or Wicked or any of the new movies?
I've experimented with it at home, and personally I can tell you that there's no level. It's impossible to get high enough to enjoy Snow White or Wicked. I've experimented with it so you don't have to. Now, there's this, you know, in theory there would be this tiny window where you'd start enjoying the movie but you wouldn't be so high that you would fall asleep. Snow White doesn't have a window. You can get as high as you want and you won't enjoy the movie until you fall asleep. That's it. There's no window in which that movie is good.
And I love the fact that the movie industry has given up on making better movies. So somehow they think the problem is not the quality of the movie. They think it's something about the movie theater experience. No, it's the movies. The movies are terrible. You can't get people in the theater for terrible stuff.
But I like the thinking of Variety, and I wonder how you can extend that because it seems to me that almost everything would be better if you could be really high while you're doing it. Like, do you know how high I would have to be to go visit the pyramids and have a good time? If I were not, you know how long is the airline flight from here to the pyramids? You know it's going to be like spend all day on an airplane and getting to the airplane and getting off the airplane and getting a cab and going to the pyramids. And then when I stand there, I'm pretty sure my entire impression would be, yeah, I thought it would be big. It's very big. It's made out of rocks, and very big ones. Very big rocks. And it's shaped like a pyramid. And I would immediately have the impression that I'd watched enough television shows about pyramids that I didn't really need to see it in person. So I don't know how high I'd have to be to see a pyramid, but I don't think it's possible.
The New York Post, coincidentally, was talking about the same thing, and apparently there's some movie theaters that they're experimenting with pickleball in the lobby. Can you think of a worse idea than having the sound of pickleball in the lobby of your movie theater? You know, I assume there's only like one court that they can fit in there, but pickleball is the most obnoxiously loud-sounding game. That's the last thing you want to hear when you're going into a movie.
Now they're putting a bar in there, and some of them they're experimenting with sing-alongs so that you can get over how bad the movie is because the sing-along would be the thing. And they're looking at live events like boxing matches and stuff like that. That's actually a really good idea. And allowing texting. Allowing texting. Have any of you ever been to a movie with a woman? Don't all women text during movies? You tell me in the comments if you've ever been to a movie with a woman, maybe below a certain age. Don't they all text during the movie? I've never seen an exception. No, just the ones I know. All right, well, I won't make that generalization. Maybe it's just the ones I know.
Apparently the Democrats during Biden's administration had a plan for what would happen if he died in office. There's a new book that says they planned for what would happen if he died. Now, to me that's not much of a story because wouldn't it be weird if they didn't have a plan? I mean, it's like the military. The military always has a plan to attack anybody that looks like we might ever want to attack them. So yeah, of course they should definitely plan for what happens if Biden dropped dead during office. So I think there's no controversy there. That's just them doing a good job, I think.
Meanwhile, Secretary Rollins was talking about how she's done a good job. She was on Fox Business saying what a good job she did bringing down egg prices. So egg prices are way down, and she said under Joe Biden egg prices increased 237 percent. But we almost immediately saw the market react to their five-point plan. What was the five-point plan? Part of it was getting eggs from other countries, so that seemed like a good idea.
But as somebody said in the comments when I saw this on X, didn't we all know the egg prices were going to come down just about now? Well, isn't that just if you just figure out when all the chickens were killed because of the fear of bird flu or whatever it was? All you have to do is say, all right, how long does it take a chicken to grow until it can have its own eggs? And then you could just look on the calendar and say, well, looks like this would be the time that the egg prices would come down, and it would be around now, right?
So one of the great things about being in power, whatever administration is in power, whoever was going to be in power for the next four years was definitely going to see the egg prices go down. That was just a free pass. You just had to be in power and your egg prices would come down. Now, I do think that they were more active than just waiting for them to come down, but I do give them credit for that. The getting the eggs from Turkey and South Korea and wherever else, that seemed to have worked. So good job on that, Trump administration.
So the Trump administration is cracking down more on the colleges and universities doing DEI. Now they're looking at Stanford and some of the UC schools like UC Berkeley and UCLA and UC Irvine. Apparently they still have alleged race-based admission practices. Do you think you could drive the DEI out of Berkeley? That would be the ultimate test. I feel like the Berkeley-ites would die before they gave up on their entire woke agenda. So we'll see.
And Pam Bondi, AG, says that the goal is clear: to end illegal discrimination and to restore merit. So good. And of course, you know, there was a lot of pressure on Columbia for I think it was not just DEI but making sure that they were not anti-Semitic in effect. And now the Columbia University interim president just stepped down. So the regular president stepped down, too much pressure, and now the interim president just stepped down. I'll tell you, being the president of Columbia doesn't seem like a good deal. Nobody wants the job there. A lot of stepping down.
All right. According to the state of Mississippi, they've got a plan to go to zero income tax in Mississippi. But you know what was left out of the story? How are they going to pay the bills if they get rid of the income tax? Now, it wasn't that high. It was like 4 percent compared to where I live, it's over 11 percent. But they're going to replace it, according to Grok.
So I don't know if you've had this experience yet, but I'm using Grok five times a day. It's always the same. It's always about context. So there are a lot of the news stories that lack context. So if I see a story that says Mississippi wants to get rid of its income tax, the first thing I look for is what are you going to replace it with? Because it's not like they're going to do without money. So according to Grok, they're going to replace it with a patchwork of higher gas taxes, sales taxes, lottery, something with more lotteries. But some of it they hope will be through growth because once they're a zero income tax state, they think they'll get a lot of businesses moving in. They might be right about that.
So if your income tax is 4 percent and you think you can phase it out, maybe it might be a really smart free market thing to do to just bring in businesses that way. So we'll see. Good luck, Mississippi.
Here's one of the least surprising stories of the day. According to Roger Stone, who knows a lot about the JFK assassination because he wrote a book about it, so he's done a bunch of research, knows exactly what he's talking about. Joe Hoft is writing about this. So Stone says that he knows that there are some documents that have not been released because there are documents he's seen. So he knows they're not released. I don't know how he saw them or maybe he just knows of them.
So he said, for example, where is the full FBI document of Carlos Marcello where he said that he knew of JFK's assassination before it occurred? He knew before it happened. That would certainly suggest something's up. So did you really expect that the JFK files would be complete? My prediction was if there was anything good in there, like really mind-blowing, that we'd never see it, but that we'd sort of move on because we'd think, okay, they sure released a lot of stuff, nothing new. And then we would just act like somehow we'd been satisfied with the truth. Of course there was no chance we would see all the documents. So I'm even surprised there are any documents that would be damning in any way. So maybe that's already destroyed.
Well, interestingly for you business nerds, Elon Musk announced that he merged his two companies. The AI company called xAI and that has acquired X, the platform. So it's an all-stock transaction. It's more of a merger, and the combination will value the AI part at 80 billion and the X part at 33 billion, which is 45 billion less 12 billion in debt.
So here's the fun part. The AI will now have access to train itself on the entire body of X content. Isn't that going to make Elon Musk's AI the best AI like right away? Because I don't know if the other AIs trained on it would be illegal if they did, I suppose, without permission. But if there's an AI that's learned everything that's on social media or could, that's going to be really, really killer. So we'll see. He's got 600 million users on X. And as you've learned, the regular news is lagging X. So if you had an AI that could just read everything on X, it's going to know a lot about a lot of people.
You know what else it could do? It would know if you wrote something. It could catch anonymous people because once they learned how you send a tweet and what your writing style is, it could probably identify you just by your writing. So that's coming.
But what's fun about this is the value of the combined entity would suggest that Elon Musk, when everybody laughed that he overpaid for it, not only did he not overpay because now it seems to be fully valued about what he paid for it, but he also changed the world. He changed free speech. He is directly responsible for Trump getting elected, and that allowed him to do DOGE, and DOGE is the only thing that could possibly save America from its own debt crisis.
So if you look at the level of importance of his decision to buy X, what turned out to be we thought it was an inflated price, but he's so good at this business stuff that he turned it into an asset, you know, like a growing, valuable business asset. Now, one of the things that the anti-DOGE people were fond of saying is like, well, why are you saying he's so smart when he bought Twitter and lost all those billions of dollars? Well, how about now you all just shut up. How about you just shut up? Because it turns out that worked out.
So do you have anything else that Elon Musk can't do? Would you like to give me a list of the things he can't do? Oh, he'll never send a rocket up that you can reuse. He'll never build a car company. He'll never make X pay for itself and be an asset. How many times does he have to do it? Maybe you'll just shut up now. See if he can make DOGE work.
All right. And also there's talk about, remember Vine? Vine was that little six-second video thing that Twitter had for a while and didn't really quite make it. But I saw a post that suggested that Elon was open to having that revived. Now, I don't think if he does get revived, I don't know if it would get revived as a six-second video or maybe longer. Longer might make sense to compete with TikTok. But that would be a huge money maker, seems to me.
In other AI news, ChatGPT is allegedly, according to a post, Vladimir Hedr writing about this. ChatGPT used to be sort of left-leaning in its opinions, if you can call it opinion, in its responses. Let's say sort of left-leaning, left to center. And now they say the newest version is starting to lean right, at least a little bit.
And I gave an example of what that means to lean right because as soon as I hear that the AI is leaning right, I say to myself you're going to need to give me an example. What exactly does it mean for an AI to lean right? But here's what it said. It prioritizes free market capitalism, property rights, and minimal government intervention in the economy. To which I say, you mean common sense?
Apparently all it takes to lean right in today's world is common sense. Who exactly is against free market capitalism? Only the craziest leftists. I mean, otherwise Democrats and Republicans are pretty much in agreement that free market capitalism should be the basis of the country. How about property rights? Again, you'd have to be completely insane to be against property rights, but you know some leftists are. And what about minimal government intervention in the economy? Again, common sense. You want the fewest number of rules and government blocking, I guess.
So I think it's hilarious that what is called conservative stuff is just the thing that basically everybody who's not crazy is already in favor of. Just pure common sense stuff.
According to Wired Magazine, M. Kelly is writing about this. DOGE has a plan to rebuild the whole Social Security Administration codebase, so all the programs that run the Social Security program. And of course the headline is "risking benefits on system collapse." Really? Is it risking benefits and system collapse, or is it possible that they would be testing the thing until they knew it worked? Because you're not going to get rid of the old one until you know the new one works, right?
Now there'll be lots of edge cases, a lot of special cases. So probably there'll be some people who thought they were going to get something and don't get it right away, but that's all fixable. That would be the normal thing that would happen if you did a massive codebase changeover. Nobody thinks that that works on the first try. But what's the alternative? To keep a COBOL-based archaic system forever?
So when they say stuff like "is risking benefits and system collapse," the real risk is not doing it. Not doing it is a much bigger risk, you know, because we've reached that point where it's just so decrepit and crawling along.
But I asked this question. I said, can't AI just look at COBOL code and rewrite it in a modern form in minutes? You know, I keep reading all these stories about people say, my God, I'm a programmer and I used AI and I didn't even have to do any coding and it made an app that runs on Apple and it totally worked. And given the AI knows how to write in every language, why wouldn't you be able to just tell AI to look at the COBOL code, all you know, gazillion lines of it, and take your time and then just say, can you write that more efficiently in a modern language? And you tell it which language, of course.
And an expert who says that he works in that domain, so he's spent enough time to call himself an expert, says nope, that wouldn't work. So once again the critics of AI who keep saying things like well it's good for a demo but it doesn't really do any of the things it's supposed to do, like have an agent, you know, little AI agent that can answer questions. Even that doesn't work, but that's the most basic thing you'd want your AI to do, answer questions. It just still hallucinates, so you can't even use it for that.
But I thought the one thing it could definitely do, just definitely, was write code like a mofo. I thought you could just show it any code and say, well, we'd like this to be a little more efficient, so look for inefficiencies and fix that for me. Apparently, according to the one gentleman who says he's an expert and he wasn't guessing, said no, that doesn't work. You would have massive inefficiencies. So it could reproduce it. Reproducing it is possible, but it would reproduce it so inefficiently that you'd have to, you know, almost better if you started over from scratch, I think.
But then I say, are you telling me that AI can't identify inefficient code and then replace it? Because I would think that it could do that easily if it knows how to write code. Does it really not know how to identify inefficient code and then know how to replace it with the efficient code even if you gave it the right prompts? So I think this will be a real good test. It probably borders on almost impossible to get this rewritten unless AI is helping a lot. I think it borders on impossible. But I'll bet you the DOGE people, being on the leading edge of a lot of AI and programming stuff, I'll bet they're going to make this work.
But remember, if you're thinking that the new code will work perfectly, not on the first try. And nothing works like that. Nothing works on the first try. So probably there'll be a little bit of a bump in the system. But maybe before the end of the year you'd see a whole new rewritten system, and what they learn from that could be something they can take to the rest of the government systems because they have just these unlimited number of IT systems that don't talk to each other. We'll see if that's fixable. I don't know.
Well, according to America First Legal, the Trump administration has revoked the legal status of 530,000 illegal aliens. These are the ones that Biden flew in. So they're not the ones who walked across the border. They were flown in intentionally by the Biden administration. Over half a million of them from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. And now they must self-deport or face detention and removal.
Now, I got to say that that makes sense to me because whatever it was that the Biden administration was up to with flying in half a million people, they never really explained that to us, did they? Did the Biden administration ever say, oh, these are the special people who need asylum? Not really. It just seemed like they were using every trick they could to bring in as many immigrants as they can. And I like the fact that Trump is going to say, how about we make this not our problem? How about we make this the problem of the migrants who came in? I like that. It should be their problem, not ours. So yeah, I'm in favor of that.
Well, here's what I call the least surprising story of the day. Here's the one that every one of you could have predicted. You ready? According to Zero Hedge, Vladimir Zelensky, when he got the first draft of the deal for minerals, remember that Scott Bessent said there would be this, I don't know, 100-page document that would explain the deal they had already agreed to that would be some kind of mineral deal with Ukraine and the United States. And Zelensky says that Kyiv received a draft of the new mineral deal and says it's entirely different. It's an entirely different document than previous framework. He says Ukraine can't accept any deal that threatens its EU integration.
So don't you think you could have predicted that Zelensky was going to reject the deal? Now, everything that we heard from Scott Bessent and even the indications that Trump was making is that, oh yeah, we're talking to Ukraine, we're working on a deal. Apparently we just slapped together a deal and tried to shove it down their craws. But Zelensky is like, nope, haven't even seen this kind of a deal. So that is the least surprising thing of the day. You absolutely could have predicted that that deal wasn't going to happen. And I'm going to predict it probably won't ever happen. I've got to say there will be no, well, as long as Zelensky is in charge. Zelensky very much doesn't want a solution that isn't military, and this would have given some argument that well, you don't need boots on the ground because you'll have this economic interest. But there's no way that Zelensky wants any of this to work. I don't know what he wants, but he doesn't want to give away land for peace. So there's nothing that can be done.
Putin has decided to call for the removal of Zelensky, which is weird because I think he's always wanted the removal of Zelensky. And he says that he can finish off the Ukrainian troops, according to The Defense Post. And Putin says he wants a transitional administration to be put in place in Ukraine and vowed that his army would finish off Ukrainian troops, blah blah blah.
Now that's fair because Zelensky has said that he thinks Putin will die soon and then the war will end. But I saw somebody on social media on X saying that if I remember the numbers, Putin's father lived to 88 and his grandfather lived to 86 or something. So I think Putin is 72. So is Zelensky really going to wait 15 years or something? That's his plan, to just keep fighting for 15 years until Putin dies? Or does he have some inside information that Putin's sick and he's going to die soon? I don't know. I wouldn't bet on him dying soon.
Well, the United Auto Workers president, who had previously had bad things to say about Trump, you know, all the usual bad things, according to the Wall Street Journal, now he loves what Trump is doing with the tariffs. The 25 percent tariffs on automobiles from other countries, because that would be awesome for US automakers. So suddenly Trump has switched the United Auto Workers. That's pretty good. You flipped them, at least the president, which is probably all you need to do.
So those tariffs, how do you feel about tariffs today compared to how you felt just a few months ago? Does it feel to you like Trump has, first of all, educated us about what you can do with tariffs, but also that it looks like it's working? I think it's way too early to say it is working, but it looks like it is because we've got big companies already deciding to move their operations to the United States. That's what we wanted. We've seen some countries get flexible faster than you'd expect. That's what we wanted. We've seen other countries, you know, I guess April 2nd will be the real test. That's when a whole bunch of tariffs go into effect.
But I feel like Trump's totally out-of-the-box approach to the whole tariff situation, I feel like it's starting to come into focus. And that even if he's not, let's say, technically right about everything that is true about tariffs, I feel like he's going to make it work because he's using it like a club and like a tool. And it looks like he's capable of doing exactly that, just use it as a tool to get what he wants. We'll see.
There's a report that Pete Hegseth brought his wife to some sensitive meetings. I don't know how sensitive they were, but who brings their wife to a defense meeting in another country? Is that real? Doesn't sound real, does it? Like I wonder if he did bring his wife but it wasn't for something terribly sensitive. You know, maybe she was just in the area and it was a sort of a just-meeting-people kind of meeting. But I'd hate to think that it was a highly secure, sensitive, classified information military meeting with other countries and he just brought his wife. So I'm going to say I have a little skepticism on that story. Doesn't sound perfectly right.
Meanwhile, JD Vance is in Greenland. He made his case. Here's what he said. I like how good he is at summarizing and wording stuff. So JD Vance said in Greenland, yes, the people of Greenland are going to have self-determination. So that's good to say that first because it sounds like Trump wants to conquer them, but we don't want to conquer them. We want them to say they think it's a good idea to join with the US. He says we hope that they choose to partner with the US. Now he's calling it partnering. That's good framing because we're the only nation on Earth that will respect their sovereignty and respect their security. Now that might be true. Well, Canada might, I suppose. But it's a good opening argument.
But I don't think you're going to convince the Greenlanders, the 56,000 locals, unless you say directly you're going to make money. You will be richer if you do this. How much richer? Maybe 20 or 30 percent. And then you could probably get them in. So Denmark does do economic support for Greenland, not totally, but they put a lot of money into it. All we'd have to do is say that we're going to do more than that or that we're going to do some kind of productive business with them, you know, like do some mining and split the difference with them. I think you could bribe them, and when I say bribe I don't mean in a bad way. I mean they get something, we get something. But I don't think anything is going to cause Greenland to want to partner with the US unless we can say directly and with some level of certainty that they're all going to make more money. So without that, I'm not expecting any self-determination to want to partner with us. They're going to want to make money in the real world.
Well, remember that story about DOGE found that billion-dollar annual expense that was only to make a dumb little survey that looked like a high school student made it? And it was used as one of the best examples of how easy it is to find fraud and how gigantic the fraud is and how ridiculous the expenses are. Everybody remember that story? It was from yesterday. Well, according to Jessica Tarlov, I saw on The Five, it's not true. It's just not true that there's any billion-dollar expense for nothing but a survey. There I think the organization exists and the funding is real, but that it's not just for that one thing, that it was for something larger.
I think going forward my take is that I'm not going to believe any of the claims of DOGE because I feel like the DOGE claims, if there's like a really good anecdote that somebody can understand, there is a tendency for them to believe it. And probably a lot of these cases are not as clean as that. So remember the first time you heard that there was a billion dollars a year for nothing but a little survey that looks like you could have done it in 10 minutes, what was your first impression? Oh my God, I can't believe it, right? Oh my God, I can't believe that that's happening. And what is usually true when you have that reaction to a story? What's usually true is that it's not true. Because the real world, as wacky as it is, probably isn't that wacky. That somebody was getting a billion dollars a year to do a survey that nobody wanted? Probably not.
So I'm going to say that without knowing the details, I think Jessica Tarlov, she might be right on this one. So I'm not going to use any more DOGE anecdotes. I do have great confidence that they're doing all the right stuff and that they're finding real fraud and waste and abuse and that everything's moving in the right direction. But I'm just not going to believe any more anecdotes. I'm out. You know, I've been fooled now. Is that the second or third time that I've said something in public about some anecdote and then it turned out, well, that's not exactly true? So no, I'm not going to fall for that again.
Well, the Iranians, the military posted, according to John Hayward of Breitbart, a video showing they have these vast underground missile cities. So gigantic underground facilities somewhere in a mountain or something that has just gazillion high-end missiles. And apparently it's like the third time they've done a video to say, oh yeah, if you come for us, we got a lot of missiles that are going to come for you. And so they've done it before. But it would not surprise you that this was done right before Iran also had indicated to America that they're willing to talk but only indirectly.
So Iran is not willing to meet with an American and talk about anything, but they're willing to have indirect talks. And that's the way they say it. They say would be willing to negotiate indirectly. And I guess they're unwilling to talk directly as long as sanctions are on. So they've got a condition to even talk, which is drop the sanctions. And I can see why they would have that point of view. But I'm not expecting anything good to come out of this. I just don't see any possibility that they're going to negotiate away anything. I think they'd rather take a chance of getting bombed. So if they didn't build all those missile cities, you know, underground facilities because they want to give it away, I think they're in for the long term. So now I don't expect anything to happen with Iran at all.
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Gen defense has a high-speed 3D printed kamakazi drone so now you can use 3D printing to make a drone but it they don't say which parts I can't imagine you can print the metallic parts I mean you you can print metal but I don't really think you can print the entire drone doesn't seem like it but if you can do most of it that would be pretty impressive so it's all drones you can have you can have a your 3D printed drone which is great for terrorists so if any of you are terrorists a 3D printed drone it's coming and uh there there's also going to be all these uh drone Killers now they've got all these anti-d drones with missiles and stuff so you can have drones fighting drones before they even get to us well according to variety um they had an idea for making movie theater more inviting because I guess not enough people are going to movies uh and their idea is to allow pot smoking and texting in the movie John Noti at breit Parts writing about this and uh I have the following question how high would you have to be in order to enjoy watching Snow White or Wicked or any of the new movies um I've experimented with with it at home and personally I can tell you that there's no level of it's impossible to get high enough to enjoy Snow White or Wicked I've experimented with it so you don't have to no there's this you know in theory there would be this tiny window where you'd start enjoying the movie but you wouldn't be so high that you would fall asleep Snow White doesn't have a window you can get as high as you want and you won't enjoy the movie until you fall asleep that's it there's no window where in which that movie is good and I love the fact that the movie industry has given up on making better movies so so somehow they think the problem is not the quality of the movie they think it's something about the movie theater experience no it's the movies the movies are terrible you can't get people in the theater for terrible stuff um but I I like I like the thinking of variety and I wonder how you can extend that because it seems to me that almost everything would be better if you could be really high while you're doing it like do you know how high I would have to be to go visit the pyramids and have a good time if I were not I'd be you know how long is the airline flight from here to the pyramids you know it's going to be like spend all day on an airplane and get to the airplane and getting off the airplane and getting a cab and going to the pyramids and then when I stand there I'm pretty sure my entire impression would be yeah I thought I thought it would be big it's uh very big it's made out of rocks and very big ones very big rocks and it's shaped like a pyramid h and I would immediately have the impression that I'd watched enough television shows about pyramids that I didn't really need to see it in person so I don't know how I i' have to be to see a pyramid but I don't think it's possible the New York Post coincidentally was talking about the same thing and apparently there's some movie theaters that they're experimenting with pickle ball in the lobby uh can you think of a worse idea than having the the sound of pickle ball in the lobby of your movie theater you know I assume there's only like one qut that they can fit in there but pickle ball is the most obnoxiously loud sounding game that's the last thing you want to see when you're go into a movie now they're putting a bar in there and some of them uh they're experimenting with singalongs so so that you you can can get over how bad the movie is but because the sing along would be the thing and they're looking at Live Events like boxing matches and stuff like that that's actually really good idea uh and allowing texting allowing texting have any of you ever been to a movie with a woman don't all women text during movies you tell me in the comments uh if you ever been to a movie with a woman maybe below a certain age uh don't they all text during the movie i' I've never seen an exception no just the ones I know all right well I I won't make that generalization maybe it's just the ones I know um apparently the Democrats during Biden's administration had a plan for what would happen if he died in office there's a new book that says they they plan for what would happen if he died now to me that's not much of a story because wouldn't it be weird if they didn't have a plan I mean it's like the military the military always has a plan to attack you know anybody that looks like we might ever want to attack him so yeah of course they should definitely plan for what happens if uh Biden dropped dead during office so I think that's there's no uh no controversy there that's just them doing a good job I think meanwhile um secretary Rollins was talking about how she's done a good job she was on Fox Business uh saying what a good job she did bringing down egg prices so egg prices are way down and she said the under Joe Biden egg prices increased 237 per but we almost immediately um saw the market react to their fivepoint plan what was the fivepoint plan um part of it was getting eggs from other countries so that seemed like a good idea but as somebody said in the comments when I saw this on X didn't we all know the egg prices were going to come down just about now well isn't that just if you just figure out when all the chck were were killed because of the fear of bird flu or whatever it was all you have to do is say all right how long does it take a chicken to grow until it can have its own eggs and then you could just look on the calendar and say well looks like this would be the time that the egg prices would come down and it would be around now right so one of the great things about being in power you whatever Administration is in power whoever was going to be in power for the next four years was definitely going to see the egg prices go down that was just a free free pass you just had to be in power and your egg prices would come down now I do think that they they were more active than just waiting for them to come down but uh I do give them credit for that the the getting the eggs from turkey and South Korea and wherever else that seemed to have worked so good job on that Trump Administration so so Trump Administration is cracking down more on the colleges and universities doing Dei now they're looking at Stanford um and some of the UC schools like UC Berkeley and UCLA and UC Irvine apparently they have uh still have alleged race-based admission practices do you think you could drive the Dei and of Berkeley that would be the ultimate test I I feel like the the berele cites would die before they gave up on their you know entire woke agenda so we'll see um and uh Pam Bondi AG says that the goal is clear to end illegal discrimination and to restore Merit so good uh and of course you know there was a lot of pressure on Colombia um for I think it was not just eii but making sure that they were were not anti-semitic in effect and now the Columbia University interim president just stepped down so the regular president stepped down too much pressure and now the interim president just stepped down I'll tell you being the president of Columbia doesn't seem like a good deal nobody wants the job there a lot of stepping down all right according to the state of Mississippi they've got a plan to go to zero income tax in Mississippi um but you know what was left out of the story how are they going to pay the bills if they get rid of the income tax now it wasn't that high it was like 4% compared to you know where I live it's over 11% um but they're going to replace it according to grock so uh I don't know if you've had this experience yet but I'm using grock five times a day it's always the same it's always about context so there a lot of the news stories lack context so if I see a story that says Mississippi wants to get rid of its income tax the first thing I look for is what are you going to replace it with because it's not like they're going to do without money so according to grock they're going to replace it with a patchwork of higher gas taxes um sales taxes Lottery something with more lotteries uh but some of it they hope will be through growth because once they're a zero income tax state they think they'll get a lot of businesses moving in they might be right about that so if you're if you're income tax is 4% and you think you can phase it out maybe might might be a really smart you know free market thing to do to just bring in businesses that way so we'll see good luck Mississippi uh here's one of the least surprising stories of the day uh according to Roger Stone who knows a lot about the JFK assassination because he wrote a book about it so he's done a bunch of research knows exactly what he's talking about Joe hoften is writing about this so Stone says that he knows that there are some documents that have not been released because there documents he's seen so so he knows they're not released I don't know how he saw them or maybe he just knows of them um so he said for example where is the full FBI document of Carlos Marcelo where he said that he knew of JFK's assassination before it occurred uh he knew before it happened that would certainly suggest something's up so did you really expect that the JFK files would be complete my prediction was if there was anything good in there like really mind-blowing that we'd never see it but that we'd sort of move on because we'd think okay they sure released a lot of stuff nothing new and then we would just act like like somehow we'd been satisfied with the truth of course there was no chance we would see all the documents so I'm I'm even surprised there are any documents that would be damning in any anyway so maybe that's already destroyed well interestingly for you business nerds uh Elon Musk announced that he merged his two companies the AI company called X aai and that is acquired X the platform so it's an all stock transaction it's more of a merger and the combination will value the AI part at 80 billion and the X part at 33 billion which is 45 billion less 12 billion in debt so here's the fun part um the AI will now have access to train itself on the entire body of X um content isn't that going to make Elon musk's AI the best AI like right away because I don't know if the other AI trained on it would be illegal if they did I suppose without permission but if there's an AI That's learned everything that's on social media or could that's going to be really really killer so so we'll see he's got 600 million users on X um and as you've learned the regular news is lagging X so if you had a I that could just you know read everything on X it's going to know a lot about a lot of people you know what else it could do it would know if you wrote something it it could catch Anonymous people because once they learned how you send a tweet and what your writing style is it could probably identify you just by your writing so that's coming um but what's fun about this is the value of the combined entity would suggest that Elon Musk when everybody laughed that he overpaid for a not only did he not overpay because now it seems to be fully valued about what he paid for it but and which is the most unusual outcome um he he also changed the world he changed free speech he is directly directly uh responsible for Trump getting elected and uh that allowed him to do Doge which and doge is the only thing that could possibly sa of America from its own you know debt crisis so if you look at the the level of importance of his decision to buy X that what turned out to be we thought it was an inflated price but he's so good at this business stuff that he turned it into he turned into an asset you know like like a growing valuable business asset now one of the things that the anti- Doge people were fond of saying is like well why are you saying he's so smart when he bought Twitter and lost all those billions of dollars well how about now you all just shut up how about you just shut up because it turns out that worked out so do you have anything else that Elan mus can't do with would you like to give me a list of the things he can't do oh he'll never send a rocket up that you can reuse he'll never build a car company he'll never make X pay for itself and be an asset how many times does he have to do it maybe you'll just shut up now see if he can see if he can make Doge work all right um and also there's talk about the remember Vines Vines was that little 6sec video thing that Twitter had for a while and didn't really quite make it but uh I saw a post that suggested that Elon was open to having that revived now I don't think if he does get revived I don't know if it would get revived as a six-second video or maybe longer uh longer might make sense to compete with Tik Tock but uh that would be a huge Money Maker seems to me in other AI news chat gbt is allegedly according to S post Vladimir hedr writing about this um chat GPT used to be sort of left leaning in its opinions if you can call it opinion in its responses let's say sort of left leaning left left to Center and now they say the newest version is starting to lean right at least a little bit and I gave an example of what that means to lean right because as soon as I hear that the the AI is leaning right I say to myself you're going to need to give me an example what it it put up a flag you know what is it what exactly does it mean for an AI to lean right but here's what it said uh it it um prioritizes free market capital capitalism property rights and minimal government intervention in the economy to which I say you mean Common Sense apparently all it takes to lean right in today's world is common sense who exactly is against free market capitalism only the craziest leftists I mean you otherwise Democrats and Republicans are pretty much in agreement that free market capitalism should be the basis of country how about property rights again you'd have to be completely insane to be against property rights but you know some leftists are and what about minimal government intervention in the economy again common sense you want the fewest number of uh fewest number of your know rules and government uh uh blocking I guess so I I think it's hilarious that um what is called conservative stuff is just the thing that basically everybody who's not crazy is already in favor of just pure Common Sense stuff according to Wired Magazine uh m m Kelly's writing about this Doge has a plan to rebuild the whole Social Security Administration codebase so all the the programs that run the Social Security program um and of course the the headline is risking benefits on system collapse really is it risking benefits and system collapse or is it possible that they would be testing the thing until they knew it worked because you're not going to get rid of the old one until you know the new one works right now there'll be lots of edge cases you a lot of special cases so probably there'll be some people who you know thought they were going to get something and don't get it right away but that's all fixable you know that that would be the normal thing that would happen if you did a massive code based change over nobody thinks that that works on the first try but what's the alternative to keep a cobal based like archaic system forever so when they say stuff like is risking benefits and system collapse the real risk is not not doing it not doing it is a much bigger risk you know because we've reached that point where it's just so decrepid and you know crawling along but uh I asked this question I said uh can't AI just look at cobal code and rewrite it in a modern form in minutes you know I keep reading all these stories about people say my God I'm a programmer and I used Ai and uh I didn't even have to do any coding and it made an it made an app that runs on Apple and it totally worked and given the AI knows how to write in every language why wouldn't you be able to just tell AI to look at the cobal code all you know gazillion lines of it and you know take your time and then just say um can you write that more efficiently in a modern language and you tell it which language of course and uh an expert who says that he works in that domain so he's spent enough time to call himself an expert says Nope that wouldn't work so once again once again the critics of AI who keep saying things like well it's good for a demo but it doesn't really do any of the things it's supposed to do like have an agent you know little AI agent that can answer questions even that doesn't work but that's the most basic thing you'd want your AI to do answer questions it just still hallucinates so you can't even use it for that but I thought I thought the one thing it could definitely do uh just definitely was write code like a mofo I thought you could just show it any code and say Well we'd like this to be a little more efficient so look for inefficiencies and fix that for me apparently according to the one gentleman who says he's an expert and he wasn't guessing said no that doesn't work you you would have massive inefficiencies so it could reproduce it so reproducing it is possible but it would reproduce it so inefficiently that you'd have to you know almost better if you started over from scratch I think but then I say are you telling me that AI can't identify inefficient code and then replace it because I would think that it could do that easily if it knows how to write code does it really not know how to identify inefficient code and then know how to replace it with the efficient code even if you gave it the right prompts so I think this will be a real good test um it probably borders on almost impossible to get this ridden unless AI is helping a lot I think it borders un impossible but I'll bet you the Doge people being you know on the Leading Edge of a lot of AI and programming stuff I'll bet they're going to make this work um but remember if you're thinking that the new code will work perfectly not on the first try and nothing works like that nothing works on the first try so probably there'll be a little bit of a bump in the system um but uh maybe before before the end of the year you'd see a whole new Rewritten system and what they learn from that could be something they can take to the rest of the government systems because they have just these unlimited number of you know it systems that don't talk to each other we'll see if that's fixable I don't know well according to American first legal the Trump Administration has uh revoked the legal status of 530,000 illegal aliens these are the ones that Biden flew in so they're not the ones who walked across the border they were flown in intentionally by the Biden Administration over half a million of them from Cuba Haiti Nicaragua and Venezuela and now they must self de self-deport or face detention and removal now I got to say that that makes sense to me cuz whatever it was you know whatever it was that uh um that the Biden Administration was up to with flying in half a million people they never really explained that to us did they did the Biden Administration ever say oh these are the special people who need Asylum not really it just seemed like they were using every trick they could to bring in as many immigrants as they can and I like the fact that Trump is going to say how about we make this not our problem how about we make this the problem of the the migrants who came in I like that it should be their problem not ours so yeah um I'm in favor of that well here's the here's what I call the least surprising story of the day here's the one that every one of you could have predicted you ready according to zero Edge uh Vladimir zalinski when he got the first draft of the deal for minerals remember that Scott bassent said there would be this I know 100 page document that would explain that the deal they had already agreed to that would be some kind of mineral deal with uh Ukraine and the United States and zinsky says that keev received a draft of the new mineral deal and says it's entirely different it's an entirely different document than previous framework he says Ukraine can't accept any deal that threatens its EU integration so do don't you think you could have you could have predicted that zinsky was going to reject the deal now everything that we heard from Scott bent and even you know the indications that Trump was making is that oh yeah you know we're we're talking to Ukraine we're you know we're working on a deal apparently we just slapped together a deal and tried to shove it down their their craws but zinsky is like nope haven't even seen this kind of a deal so that is the least surprising thing of the day you absolutely could have predicted that that deal wasn't going to happen and I'm going to predict it probably won't ever happen i' I've got to that there there will be no well as long as zinski is in charge zilinski very much doesn't want a solution that isn't military and this would have given you know some argument that well you don't need boots on the ground because you'll have this economic you know interest but there's no way that zalinsky wants any of this to work I don't know what he wants but he doesn't want you know to give away land for peace so there's there's nothing that can be done um Putin has decided to to call for the removal of zalinski which is weird because I think he's always wanted the removal of zalinsky and he says that he's he can finish off the Ukrainian troops according to the defense post um and and he says Putin says he wants a transitional Administration to be put in place in Ukraine and vowed that his army would finish off Ukrainian troops blah blah blah now that's fair because zinsky has said that uh he thinks Putin will die soon and then the war will end but uh I saw somebody on social media on X saying that uh if I remember the numbers um Putin's father lived at 88 and his grandfather lived to 86 or something so I think I think Putin 72 so is Linsky really going to wait you know 15 years or something that that's his plan to just keep fighting for 15 years until Putin dies or does he have some inside information that Putin's sick and he's going to die soon I don't know I wouldn't bet on him dying soon well the United aut workers president who had previously had bad things to say about Trump you know all the usual bad things according to the Wall Street Journal now he loves he loves what Trump is doing with the tariffs the 25% tariffs on uh automobiles from other countries because that would be awesome for us um automakers so suddenly Trump switched the United Auto Workers that's pretty good you flipped them at least the president which is probably all you need to do so those tariffs how how do you feel about tariffs today compared to how you felt just a few months ago does it feel to you like Trump has first of all educated us about what you can do with tariffs but also that it looks like it's working I think it's way too early to say it is working but it looks like it is because because you know we've got big companies are already deciding to move their operations to the United States that's what we wanted we've seen uh some countries get flexible faster than you'd expect that's what we wanted we've seen other countries you know I guess April 2nd will be the real test that's when a whole bunch of uh tariffs go into effect but I feel like Trump's um totally out of the box approach to the whole tariff situation I feel like it's starting to come into focus and that even if he's not let's say technically right about everything that is true about tariffs I feel like he's going to make it work because he's using it like a club and like a tool and it looks like he's capable of doing exactly that just use it as a use it as a tool to get what he wants we'll see there's a report that Pete Heath brought his wife to some sensitive U sensitive meetings um I don't know how sensitive they were but who brings their wife to to a defense meeting in another country is that real doesn't sound real does it like I I wonder if the I wonder if he did bring his wife but it wasn't for something terribly sensitive you know maybe she was just in the area and it was a sort of a just meeting people kind of meeting but I'd hate to think that it was a highly secure sensitive classified information military meeting with other countries and he just brought his wife so I'm going to say I have a little skepticism on that story doesn't sound perfectly right meanwhile JD Vance is of in Greenland uh he made his case that uh the people of here here's what he said I like I just like how he how good he is at summarizing and wording stuff so JD Vance said in Greenland yes the people of Greenland are going to have self-determination so that's good to say that first because it sounds like Trump wants to conquer them but we don't want to conquer them we want them to say they think it's a good idea uh to join with the US he says we hope that they choose to partner with the US now he's calling it partnering that's good good framing because we're the only the only nation on Earth that will respect their sovereignty and respect their security Now that might be true well Canada might I suppose but uh it's a good it's a good uh opening opening argument but I don't think you're going to convince the greenlander greenlandic ERS the greenlanders the green landas what are they called I don't think you you're going to convince the 56,000 locals unless you say directly you're going to make money you will be richer if you do this how much richer uh maybe 20 or 30% and then you could probably get him in so the Denmark does do economic um sort of economic support for Greenland not totally but they they put a lot of money into it all we'd have to do is say that we're going to do more than that or that we're going to do some kind of productive business with them you know like do some Mining and split the difference with them um I think you could bribe them and when I say bribe I don't mean in a bad way I mean they get something we get something but I don't think anything is going to cause Greenland to want to partner with the US unless we can say directly and with um some level of certainty that they're all going to make more money so without that I'm not expecting any self-determination to want to partner with us they're going to want to make money in the real world well remember that story about Doge found that uh billion dooll annual expense that was only to make a dumb little survey that looked like a high school student made it and it was used as one of the best examples of how easy it is to find fraud and how gigantic the fraud is and how ridiculous the expenses are everybody remember that story is from yesterday well according to Jessica tarlo I saw on the five it's not true it's just not true that there's any billion dooll expense for nothing but a survey there I think the organization exists and the funding is real but that it's not just for that one thing that it was for something larger I think going forward my take is that I'm not going to believe any of the claims of Doge because I feel like the Doge claims if there's like a really good anecdote that somebody can understand they there is a tenden see for them to believe it and probably a lot of these cases are not as clean as that so remember the first time you heard that there was a billion dollars a year for nothing but a little survey that looks like you could have done it in 10 minutes what was your first impression oh my God I can't believe it right oh my God I can't believe that that's happening and what is usually true when you have that reaction to a story what's usually true is that it's not true the because the real world as wacky as it is probably isn't that wacky that somebody was getting a billion dollars a year to do a survey that nobody wanted probably not so I'm going to say that uh without knowing the details I think Jessica tarov she might be right on this one so I'm not going to use any more Doge anecdotes I do have great confidence that they're doing all the right stuff and that they're finding real fraud and waste and abuse and that everything's moving in the right direction but I'm just not going to believe any more anecdotes I I'm I'm out you know I I've been fooled now is that the second or third time that I've said something in public about some anecdote and then turned down well that's not exactly true so no I'm not going to fall for that again well the Iranians the military posted a uh according to John Hayward of Breitbart a uh video showing they have these vast underground missile cities so gigantic uh underground facilities somewhere in a mountain or something that has just gazillion high-end missiles and apparently it's like the third time they've done a video to say oh yeah if you come for us we got a lot of missiles that are going to come for you and so they've done it before but it would not surprise you that this was done right before Iran also had indicated to uh to America that they're willing to talk but only indirectly so so Iran is not willing to meet with an American and talk about anything but they're willing to have oh indirect talks and that's the way they say it they say would be willing to negotiate indirectly and I guess they're they're unwilling to talk directly as long as sanctions are on so they've got a condition to even talk which is drop the sanctions and I can see why they would have that point of view but uh I'm not expecting anything good to come out of this um I I just don't see any possibility that they're going to negotiate away anything I I think they'd rather take a chance of getting bombed so if they didn't build build all those missile City you know underground facilities 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according to the Daily Mail um
scientists have discovered that
intermittent fasting could boost bedroom
performance especially for older
men so so inent fasting could boost
bedroom performance H now coincidentally
I haven't had anything to eat in about
18 hours so if I suddenly need to take a
break you'll know
why because of
science according to uh reichman
University uh it's funny that they even
tested this a robot dog can Inspire
emergent leadership in cu
meaning that if you have a robot dog and
you tell the robot dog to uh act like
one of the humans as the leader the
other humans will just go along with it
so so you can literally have a robot dog
choose the human leader in a group and
everybody else will be like well seems
reasonable to me if the robot dog's okay
with it I'm okay with
it so but I think the larger
risk larger risk is robot
persuasion do you know how how
influential A robot's going to be if if
a robot dog can determine which human is
in charge and apparently they've tested
it in a
can what else can the robot dog do I
mean next thing I know I'm going to be
PE on fire hydrons if the robot dog
tells me
to speaking of robots there's now a tiny
little robot that they can put in your
body according to the University of
leads it's a tiny magnetic robot and it
can take 3D scans of things like uh
tumors and stuff like that so the one
they have now is for a colal cancer
so um I'm going to say it was only a
matter of time before somebody shoved a
robot up your ass it's here the robot
that goes up your ass uh
I'm sure it does good work up there
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but I I just knew it would come to this
hey Scott do you think there will be so
many robots that eventually one of them
will be shoved up your ass I would have
said H you know now that you make me
think about it I think yes well it's
here well the US uh Army according to
NextGen defense has a high-speed 3D
printed kamakazi
drone so now you can use 3D printing to
make a drone but it they don't say which
parts I can't imagine you can print the
metallic
parts I mean you you can print metal but
I don't really think you can print the
entire drone doesn't seem like it but if
you can do most of it that would be
pretty
impressive so it's all drones you can
have you can have a your 3D printed
drone which is great for terrorists so
if any of you are
terrorists a 3D printed drone it's
coming and uh there there's also going
to be all these uh drone Killers now
they've got all these anti-d drones with
missiles and stuff so you can have
drones fighting
drones before they even get to
us well according to
variety um they had an idea for making
movie theater
more inviting because I guess not enough
people are going to
movies uh and their idea is to allow pot
smoking and texting in the
movie John Noti at breit Parts writing
about this and uh I have the following
question how high would you have to be
in order to enjoy watching Snow White or
Wicked or any of the new
movies um I've experimented with with it
at home
and personally I can tell you that
there's no level
of it's impossible to get high enough to
enjoy Snow
White or Wicked I've experimented with
it so you don't have to no there's this
you know in theory there would be this
tiny
window where you'd start enjoying the
movie but you wouldn't be so high that
you would fall
asleep Snow White doesn't have a window
you can get as high as you want and you
won't enjoy the movie until you fall
asleep that's it there's no window where
in which that movie is good and I love
the
fact that the movie industry has given
up on making better movies so so somehow
they think the problem is not the
quality of the movie they think it's
something about the movie theater
experience no it's the movies the movies
are terrible you can't get people in the
theater for terrible
stuff um but I I like I like the
thinking of variety and I wonder how you
can extend that because it seems to me
that almost everything would be better
if you could be really high while you're
doing it like do you know how high I
would have to be to go visit the
pyramids and have a good
time if I were
not I'd be you know how long is the
airline flight from here to the pyramids
you know it's going to be like spend all
day on an airplane and get to the
airplane and getting off the airplane
and getting a cab and going to the
pyramids and then when I stand there I'm
pretty sure my entire impression would
be yeah I thought I thought it would be
big it's uh very big it's made out of
rocks and very big ones very big rocks
and it's shaped like a pyramid h
and I would immediately have the
impression that I'd watched enough
television shows about pyramids that I
didn't really need to see it in
person so I don't know how I i' have to
be to see a pyramid but I don't think
it's
possible the New York Post
coincidentally was talking about the
same thing and apparently there's some
movie theaters that they're
experimenting with pickle ball in the
lobby uh can you think of a worse idea
than having the the sound of pickle ball
in the lobby of your movie theater you
know I assume there's only like one qut
that they can fit in there but pickle
ball is the most obnoxiously loud
sounding
game that's the last thing you want to
see when you're go into a movie now
they're putting a bar in there and some
of them uh they're experimenting with
singalongs so so that you you can can
get over how bad the movie is but
because the sing along would be the
thing and they're looking at Live Events
like boxing matches and stuff like that
that's actually really good idea uh and
allowing
texting allowing
texting have any of you ever been to a
movie with a
woman don't all women text during
movies you tell me in the
comments uh if you ever been to a movie
with a woman
maybe below a certain
age uh don't they all text during the
movie i' I've never seen an exception
no just the ones I
know all right well I I won't make that
generalization maybe it's just the ones
I
know um apparently the Democrats during
Biden's administration had a plan for
what would happen if he died in
office there's a new book that says they
they plan for what would happen if he
died now to me that's not much of a
story because wouldn't it be weird if
they didn't have a plan I
mean it's like the military the military
always has a plan to attack you know
anybody that looks like we might ever
want to attack him so yeah of course
they should definitely plan for what
happens if uh Biden dropped dead during
office so I think that's there's no uh
no controversy there that's just them
doing a good job I
think
meanwhile um secretary Rollins was
talking about how she's done a good job
she was on Fox Business uh saying what a
good job she did bringing down egg
prices so egg prices are way down and
she said the under Joe Biden egg prices
increased 237 per but we almost
immediately um saw the market react to
their fivepoint
plan what was the fivepoint
plan
um part of it was getting eggs from
other countries so that seemed like a
good idea but as somebody said in the
comments when I saw this on
X didn't we all know the egg prices were
going to come down just about
now well isn't that just if you just
figure out when all the chck were were
killed because of the fear of bird flu
or whatever it was all you have to do is
say all right how long does it take a
chicken to grow until it can have its
own eggs and then you could just look on
the calendar and say well looks like
this would be the time that the egg
prices would come down and it would be
around now right so one of the great
things about being in power you whatever
Administration is in power whoever was
going to be in power for the next four
years was definitely going to see the
egg prices go
down that was just a free free pass you
just had to be in power and your egg
prices would come down now I do think
that they they were more active than
just waiting for them to come down but
uh I do give them credit for that the
the getting the eggs from turkey and
South Korea and wherever else that
seemed to have worked so good job on
that Trump
Administration so so Trump
Administration is cracking down more on
the colleges and universities doing Dei
now they're looking at Stanford um and
some of the UC schools like UC Berkeley
and UCLA and UC Irvine apparently they
have uh still have alleged race-based
admission
practices do you think you could drive
the Dei and of
Berkeley that would be the ultimate test
I I feel like the the berele cites would
die before they gave up on their you
know entire woke agenda so we'll see
um and uh Pam Bondi AG says that the
goal is clear to end illegal
discrimination and to restore
Merit so good uh and of course you know
there was a lot of pressure on
Colombia um
for I think it was not just eii but
making sure that they were were not
anti-semitic in effect and now the
Columbia University interim president
just stepped down so the regular
president stepped down too much pressure
and now the interim president just
stepped down I'll tell you being the
president of Columbia doesn't seem like
a good deal nobody wants the
job there a lot of stepping
down all
right according to the state of
Mississippi they've got a plan to go to
zero income tax in
Mississippi
um but you know what was left out of the
story how are they going to pay the
bills if they get rid of the income tax
now it wasn't that high it was like 4%
compared to you know where I live it's
over
11% um but they're going to replace it
according to grock so uh I don't know if
you've had this experience yet but I'm
using grock
five times a day it's always the same
it's always about context so there a lot
of the news stories lack context so if I
see a story that says Mississippi wants
to get rid of its income
tax the first thing I look for is what
are you going to replace it with because
it's not like they're going to do
without money so according to grock
they're going to replace it with a
patchwork of higher gas
taxes um sales taxes Lottery something
with more lotteries uh but some of it
they hope will be through growth because
once they're a zero income tax state
they think they'll get a lot of
businesses moving in they might be right
about that so if you're if you're income
tax is
4% and you think you can phase it out
maybe might might be a really smart you
know free market thing to do to just
bring in businesses that way so we'll
see good luck
Mississippi uh here's one of the least
surprising stories of the day uh
according to Roger Stone who knows a lot
about the JFK
assassination because he wrote a book
about it so he's done a bunch of
research knows exactly what he's talking
about Joe hoften is writing about this
so Stone says that he knows that there
are some documents that have not been
released because there documents he's
seen so so he knows they're not released
I don't know how he saw them or maybe he
just knows of them um so he said for
example where is the full FBI document
of Carlos
Marcelo where he said that he knew of
JFK's assassination before it
occurred uh he knew before it
happened that would certainly suggest
something's
up so did you really expect that the JFK
files would be complete
my prediction was if there was anything
good in there like really mind-blowing
that we'd never see it but that we'd
sort of move on because we'd think okay
they sure released a lot of stuff
nothing new and then we would just act
like like somehow we'd been satisfied
with the
truth of course there was no chance we
would see all the documents so I'm I'm
even surprised there are any documents
that would be damning in any anyway so
maybe that's already
destroyed well interestingly for you
business nerds uh Elon Musk announced
that he merged his two companies the AI
company called X aai and that is
acquired X the platform so it's an all
stock transaction it's more of a merger
and the combination will value the AI
part at 80 billion and the X part at 33
billion which is 45 billion less 12
billion in
debt so here's the fun
part um the AI will now have access to
train itself on the entire body of
X um
content isn't that going to make Elon
musk's AI the best AI like right
away because I don't know if the other
AI trained on it would be illegal if
they did I suppose without permission
but if there's an AI That's learned
everything that's on social media or
could that's going to be really really
killer so so we'll
see he's got 600 million users on
X
um and as you've learned the regular
news is lagging
X so if you had a I that could just you
know read everything on X it's going to
know a lot about a lot of
people you know what else it could do it
would know if you wrote
something it it could catch Anonymous
people because once they learned how you
send a tweet and what your writing style
is it could probably identify you just
by your writing so that's
coming um but what's fun about this is
the value of the combined entity would
suggest that Elon Musk when everybody
laughed that he overpaid for
a not only did he not overpay because
now it seems to be fully valued about
what he paid for it
but and which is the most unusual
outcome
um he he also changed the
world he changed free speech he is
directly directly uh responsible for
Trump getting
elected and uh that allowed him to do
Doge which and doge is the only thing
that could possibly sa of America from
its own you know debt
crisis so if you look at the the level
of importance of his decision to buy X
that what turned out to be we thought it
was an inflated price but he's so good
at this business stuff that he turned it
into he turned into an asset you know
like like a growing valuable business
asset now one of the things that the
anti- Doge people were fond of saying is
like well why are you saying he's so
smart when he bought Twitter and lost
all those billions of
dollars well how about now you all just
shut up how about you just shut up
because it turns out that worked out so
do you have anything else that Elan mus
can't do with would you like to give me
a list of the things he can't do oh
he'll never send a rocket up that you
can reuse he'll never build a car
company he'll never make X pay for
itself and be an asset how many times
does he have to do
it maybe you'll just shut up now see if
he can see if he can make Doge
work all
right um and also there's talk about the
remember Vines
Vines was that little 6sec video thing
that Twitter had for a while and didn't
really quite make it but uh I saw a post
that suggested that Elon was open to
having that
revived now I don't think if he does get
revived I don't know if it would get
revived as a six-second video or maybe
longer uh longer might make sense to
compete with Tik Tock but uh
that would be a huge Money Maker seems
to me in other AI news chat gbt is
allegedly according to S post Vladimir
hedr writing about this um chat GPT used
to be sort of left leaning in its
opinions if you can call it opinion in
its responses let's say sort of left
leaning left left to
Center and now they say the newest
version is starting to lean
right at least a little bit and I gave
an example of what that means to lean
right because as soon as I hear that the
the AI is leaning right I say to myself
you're going to need to give me an
example what it it put up a
flag you know what is it what exactly
does it mean for an AI to lean right but
here's what it said uh it it um
prioritizes free market capital
capitalism property rights and minimal
government intervention in the economy
to which I say you mean Common
Sense apparently all it takes to lean
right in today's world is common sense
who exactly is against free market
capitalism only the craziest leftists I
mean you otherwise Democrats and
Republicans are pretty much in agreement
that free market capitalism should be
the basis of country how about property
rights again you'd have to be completely
insane to be against property rights but
you know some leftists are and what
about minimal government intervention in
the
economy again common sense you want the
fewest number of uh fewest number of
your know rules and government uh uh
blocking I
guess so I I think it's hilarious
that um what is called conservative
stuff is just the thing that basically
everybody who's not crazy is already in
favor of just pure Common Sense
stuff according to Wired Magazine uh m m
Kelly's writing about this Doge has a
plan to rebuild the whole Social
Security Administration codebase so all
the the programs that run the Social
Security program
um and of course the the headline is
risking benefits on system
collapse really is it risking benefits
and system collapse or is it possible
that they would be testing the thing
until they knew it worked because you're
not going to get rid of the old one
until you know the new one works right
now there'll be lots of edge cases you a
lot of special cases so probably
there'll be some people who you know
thought they were going to get something
and don't get it right away but that's
all
fixable you know that that would be the
normal thing that would happen if you
did a massive code based change over
nobody thinks that that works on the
first try but what's the alternative to
keep a cobal based like archaic system
forever so when they say stuff like is
risking benefits and system collapse the
real risk is not not doing it not doing
it is a much bigger risk you know
because we've reached that point where
it's just so decrepid and you know
crawling
along but uh I asked this question I
said uh can't AI just look at cobal code
and rewrite it in a modern form in
minutes you know I keep reading all
these stories about people say my God
I'm a programmer and I used Ai and uh I
didn't even have to do any coding and it
made an it made an app that runs on
Apple and it totally worked and given
the AI knows how to write in every
language why wouldn't you be able to
just tell AI to look at the cobal code
all you know gazillion lines of it and
you know take your time and then just
say um can you write that more
efficiently in a modern language and you
tell it which language of course and uh
an expert who says that he works in that
domain so he's spent enough time to call
himself an expert says Nope that
wouldn't
work so once
again once again the critics of AI who
keep saying things like well it's good
for a
demo but it doesn't really do any of the
things it's supposed to do like have an
agent you know little AI agent that can
answer questions even that doesn't work
but that's the most basic thing you'd
want your AI to do answer questions it
just still hallucinates so you can't
even use it for that but I thought I
thought the one thing it could
definitely do uh just definitely was
write code like a
mofo I thought you could just show it
any code and say Well we'd like this to
be a little more efficient so look for
inefficiencies and fix that for me
apparently according to the one
gentleman who says he's an expert and he
wasn't guessing said no that doesn't
work you you would have massive
inefficiencies so it could reproduce it
so reproducing it is possible but it
would reproduce it so
inefficiently that you'd have to you
know almost better if you started over
from scratch I
think but then I say are you telling me
that AI can't identify inefficient code
and then replace it
because I would think that it could do
that easily if it knows how to write
code does it really not know how to
identify inefficient code and then know
how to replace it with the efficient
code even if you gave it the right
prompts so I think this will be a real
good test um it probably borders on
almost
impossible to get this ridden unless AI
is helping a lot I think it borders un
impossible but I'll bet you the Doge
people being you know on the Leading
Edge of a lot of AI and programming
stuff I'll bet they're going to make
this
work um but
remember if you're thinking that the new
code will work perfectly not on the
first
try and nothing works like that nothing
works on the first try so probably
there'll be a little bit of a bump in
the system um but uh maybe before before
the end of the year you'd see a whole
new Rewritten system and what they learn
from that could be something they can
take to the rest of the government
systems because they have just these
unlimited number of you know it systems
that don't talk to each other we'll see
if that's fixable I don't know well
according to American first legal the
Trump Administration has uh revoked the
legal status of 530,000 illegal aliens
these are the ones that Biden flew in so
they're not the ones who walked across
the border they were flown in
intentionally by the Biden
Administration over half a million of
them from Cuba Haiti Nicaragua and
Venezuela and now they must self de
self-deport or face detention and
removal
now I got to say that that makes sense
to me cuz whatever it was
you know whatever it was that uh um that
the Biden Administration was up to with
flying in half a million
people they never really explained that
to us did they did the Biden
Administration ever say oh these are the
special people who need Asylum not
really it just seemed like they were
using every trick they could to bring in
as many immigrants as they can and I
like the fact that Trump is going to say
how about we make this not our
problem how about we make this the
problem of the the migrants who came in
I like that it should be their problem
not ours so yeah um I'm in favor of
that well here's the here's what I call
the least surprising story of the day
here's the one that every one of you
could have predicted you ready according
to zero Edge uh Vladimir zalinski when
he got the first draft of the deal for
minerals remember that Scott bassent
said there would be this I know 100 page
document that would explain that the
deal they had already agreed to that
would be some kind of mineral deal with
uh Ukraine and the United States and
zinsky says that keev received a draft
of the new mineral deal and says it's
entirely different
it's an entirely different document than
previous framework he says Ukraine can't
accept any deal that threatens its EU
integration so do don't you think you
could have you could have predicted that
zinsky was going to reject the
deal now everything that we heard from
Scott bent and even you know the
indications that Trump was making is
that oh yeah you know we're we're
talking to Ukraine we're you know we're
working on a deal apparently we just
slapped together a deal and tried to
shove it down their their
craws but zinsky is like nope haven't
even seen this kind of a deal so that is
the least surprising thing of the day
you absolutely could have predicted that
that deal wasn't going to happen and I'm
going to
predict it probably won't ever
happen i' I've got to that there there
will be no well as long as zinski is in
charge zilinski very much doesn't want a
solution that isn't
military and this would have given you
know some argument that well you don't
need boots on the ground because you'll
have this economic you know interest but
there's no way that zalinsky wants any
of this to work I don't know what he
wants but he doesn't want you know to
give away land for peace so there's
there's nothing that can be
done um Putin has decided to to call for
the removal of zalinski which is weird
because I think he's always wanted the
removal of zalinsky and he says that
he's he can finish off the Ukrainian
troops according to the defense
post um and and he says Putin says he
wants a transitional Administration to
be put in place in Ukraine and vowed
that his army would finish off Ukrainian
troops blah blah blah now that's fair
because zinsky has said that uh he
thinks Putin will die soon and then the
war will
end but uh I saw somebody on social
media on
X saying that uh if I remember the
numbers um Putin's father lived at 88
and his grandfather lived to 86 or
something so I think I think Putin
72 so is Linsky really going to wait you
know 15 years or something that that's
his plan to just keep fighting for 15
years until Putin dies or does he have
some inside information that Putin's
sick and he's going to die soon I don't
know I wouldn't bet on him dying
soon well the United aut workers
president who had previously had bad
things to say about Trump
you know all the usual bad things
according to the Wall Street Journal now
he loves he loves what Trump is doing
with the tariffs the 25% tariffs on uh
automobiles from other countries because
that would be awesome for us um
automakers so suddenly Trump switched
the United Auto Workers that's pretty
good you flipped them at least the
president which is probably all you need
to do
so those
tariffs how how do you feel about
tariffs today compared to how you felt
just a few months ago does it feel to
you like Trump has first of all educated
us about what you can do with
tariffs but also that it looks like it's
working I think it's way too early to
say it is working but it looks like it
is because because you know we've got
big companies are already deciding to
move their operations to the United
States that's what we wanted we've seen
uh some countries get flexible faster
than you'd expect that's what we wanted
we've seen other
countries you know I guess April 2nd
will be the real test that's when a
whole bunch of uh tariffs go into effect
but I feel like Trump's um totally out
of the box approach to the whole tariff
situation I feel like it's starting to
come into
focus and that even if he's not let's
say technically right about everything
that is true about tariffs I feel like
he's going to make it work because he's
using it like a club and like a
tool and it looks like he's capable of
doing exactly that just use it as a use
it as a tool to get what he wants we'll
see there's a report that Pete Heath
brought his wife to some sensitive U
sensitive
meetings um I don't know how sensitive
they were but who brings their wife to
to a defense meeting in another
country is that real doesn't sound real
does it like I I wonder if the I wonder
if he did bring his wife but it wasn't
for something terribly sensitive you
know maybe she was just in the area and
it was a sort of a just meeting people
kind of
meeting but I'd hate to think that it
was a highly secure sensitive classified
information military meeting with other
countries and he just brought his
wife so I'm going to say I have a little
skepticism on that story doesn't sound
perfectly right meanwhile JD Vance is of
in Greenland uh he made his case that uh
the people of here here's what he said I
like I just like how he how good he is
at summarizing and wording stuff so JD
Vance said in Greenland yes the people
of Greenland are going to have
self-determination so that's good to say
that first because it sounds like Trump
wants to conquer them but we don't want
to conquer them we want them to say they
think it's a good idea
uh to join with the US he says we hope
that they choose to partner with the US
now he's calling it partnering that's
good good framing because we're the only
the only nation on Earth that will
respect their sovereignty and respect
their security Now that might be true
well Canada might I suppose but uh it's
a good it's a good uh
opening opening argument but I don't
think you're going to convince the
greenlander greenlandic ERS the
greenlanders the green
landas what are they called I don't
think you you're going to convince the
56,000 locals unless you say directly
you're going to make money you will be
richer if you do this how much richer uh
maybe 20 or
30% and then you could probably get him
in so the Denmark does do economic um
sort of economic support for Greenland
not totally but they they put a lot of
money into
it all we'd have to do is say that we're
going to do more than that or that we're
going to do some kind of productive
business with them you know like do some
Mining and split the difference with
them um I think you could bribe them and
when I say bribe I don't mean in a bad
way I mean they get something we get
something but I don't think anything is
going to cause Greenland to want to
partner with the
US unless we can say directly and with
um some level of certainty that they're
all going to make more money so without
that I'm not expecting any
self-determination to want to partner
with us they're going to want to make
money in the real
world well remember that story about
Doge found that uh billion dooll annual
expense that was only to make a dumb
little survey that looked like a high
school student made it and it was used
as one of the best examples of how easy
it is to find fraud and how gigantic the
fraud is and how ridiculous the expenses
are everybody remember that story is
from
yesterday well according to Jessica
tarlo I saw on the five it's not
true it's just not true that there's any
billion dooll expense for nothing but a
survey there I think the organization
exists and the funding is real but that
it's not just for that one thing that it
was for something
larger I think going forward my take is
that I'm not going to believe any of the
claims of Doge because I feel like the
Doge claims if there's like a really
good anecdote that somebody can
understand they there is a tenden see
for them to believe
it and probably a lot of these cases are
not as clean as that so remember the
first time you heard that there was a
billion dollars a year for nothing but a
little survey that looks like you could
have done it in 10 minutes what was your
first impression oh my God I can't
believe it right oh my God I can't
believe that that's
happening and what is usually true when
you have that reaction to a story what's
usually true is that it's not
true the because the real world as wacky
as it is probably isn't that wacky that
somebody was getting a billion dollars a
year to do a survey that nobody wanted
probably not so I'm going to say that uh
without knowing the details I think
Jessica tarov she might be right on this
one so I'm not going to use any more
Doge anecdotes I do have great
confidence that they're doing all the
right stuff and that they're finding
real fraud and waste and abuse and that
everything's moving in the right
direction but I'm just not going to
believe any more anecdotes I I'm I'm out
you know I I've been fooled now is that
the second or third time that I've said
something in public about some anecdote
and then turned down well that's not
exactly true so no I'm not going to fall
for that again
well the Iranians the military posted a
uh according to John Hayward of
Breitbart a uh video showing they have
these vast underground missile cities so
gigantic uh underground facilities
somewhere in a mountain or something
that has just gazillion high-end
missiles and apparently it's like the
third time they've done a video to say
oh yeah if you come for us we got a lot
of missiles that are going to come for
you and so they've done it before but it
would not surprise you that this was
done right before Iran also had
indicated to uh to America that they're
willing to talk but only
indirectly so so Iran is not willing to
meet with an American and talk about
anything but they're willing to have oh
indirect talks and that's the way they
say it they say would be willing to
negotiate indirectly
and I guess they're they're unwilling to
talk directly as long as sanctions are
on so they've got a condition to even
talk which is drop the sanctions and I
can see why they would have that point
of view but uh I'm not expecting
anything good to come out of this um I I
just don't see any possibility that
they're going to negotiate away anything
I I think they'd rather take a chance of
getting bombed so if they didn't build
build all those missile City you know
underground facilities because they want
to give it
away I think they're in for the long
term so now I don't expect anything to
happen with
Iran um at
all all right uh I remind you because
this is the end of my prepared notes
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