Episode 2833 CWSA 05/08/25

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So, uh, last I saw, no pope has been selected.

Only the black smoke is coming out of the little chimney.

Did you know that they add the chimney just for the picking of the pope?

It's not there all the time.

So now you know.

So black smoke means no pope has been selected yet.

Did you Did you all see the meme on the internet of orange smoke?

orange smoke coming out of the uh chimney suggesting that maybe Trump had been picked as the pope.

That's a pretty good meme.

Well, I hadn't mentioned this, but you probably saw the story that uh there's a very large new statue that's been added to Time Square and it's uh a black woman.

So, I believe the idea was to celebrate black women.

And but here's the problem with the black woman uh statue.

Um it turns out that uh like most things, everything turns political and you know um the Republicans don't see color, at least not in the same way.

So, I saw some people in the comments this morning uh calling it the fat lady statue.

Now, I'm not judging and I, you know, I don't do fat shaming because I don't think people are fat because they want to be.

Um, but that's as big a fail as you can get if you put up a statue celebrating black women and half of the country calls it the fat lady statue.

Oops.

Maybe they should have done a little uh market testing before they went with that that model.

Anyway, good try.

Um, according apparently there's another uh UFO sighting according to the Daily Mail.

Um, there was an alien ball that apparently dropped into Colombia.

So, they have video of it, you know, traversing the sky, but then they actually captured it.

Now, now they're looking at it.

And I don't believe I don't believe a single part of this story, but it's funny that it even exists.

So, it's a weird metal sphere and uh it's made of three dense layers and has a chip-like core, they say, and 18 tiny microsphheres inside.

No welds, no seams, and no signs.

So, humans built it.

It's cold on the outside, but reportedly hot on the inside.

How did they know that?

I'm not sure.

And it may have vaporized water and has perfect internal symmetry.

And even better, it's allegedly etched with ancient runes.

And AI says the message is about unity, energy, and transformation.

Do do you think AI successfully translated uh ancient runes from another planet?

Or maybe it's now from another planet.

You may maybe it's part of that uh ancient civilization on Earth that's been hiding in the ocean.

Anyway, I'm going to put that in the category of I don't believe a single part of it.

Well, let's check and see if there's any science that I can debunk.

Uh according to discover uh there's a therapy that's uh targeted at controlling emotions to help ease chronic pain.

So they used a uh type of therapy on emotions and they found out that it seemed to make a big difference in people's chronic pain.

Well, I'm going to give you the hypnotist take on that.

It might be that it's exactly what it what it looks like that if you get rid of people's emotional pain, it gives them some relief of their physical pain.

Because as I tell you way too often, your brain and your body are really the same thing.

You know, we just artificially treat the brain like it's separate because it's in your skull.

But it's all kind of one big brain.

Your body and your and your your little nugget inside your skull.

But uh here's my uh question as a hypnotist.

Is it possible that what really happened is that they hypnotized some portion of the people they were doing the therapy on?

Here's how easy it would be to hypnotize them.

We're going to do a thing where we talk to you and it's going to be a bunch of scientists, really smart people, and we're going to see if it eases your pain.

That's it.

You you could have frauds, you know, just actors coming in wearing um like scientific clothes and having glasses and you know clipboards and stuff and probably probably you would have a a big impact on the number of people who said, "Yeah, you know what?

That therapy really helped me.

My emotions are better and my pain went way down." So, I don't know how you would do this experiment unless you could somehow reduce the the accidental hypnosis.

And the accidental hypnosis would just be the suggestion that it might work.

Um, you know, it's sort of a placebo effect on steroids.

One of the tricks uh one of the tricks of being a hypnotist is if you want to do it professionally, you need to get an office and wear a suit and you have professional furniture and uh you know even put your diploma on the wall because if somebody walks into that environment and it looks all professional and somebody spent money on it and there's a diploma, they will get hypnotized much more easily.

than if it was just your neighbor Bob.

Hey Bob, I hear you're a hypnotist.

Yeah, just sit on this dining room table and I'll hypnotize you.

That would still work.

Yeah, if if Bob is good at it, that would still work.

But, uh, we were we were trained that you should make it look like it'll work because it makes it easier.

Um, here's one.

Maybe they could have just asked me and saved a little time.

according to the University of California of LA in LA that people who are curious it might help them stay sharp um as they get older and keep them from getting Alzheimer's.

Do you believe that that people who are curious are more protected against Alzheimer's?

Yes.

That would be compatible with everything that's ever been tested about people who might get Alzheimer's.

The more you use your brain, the less likely you get Alzheimer's.

That's one of the most commonly studied things you've ever seen.

So, of course, people who are naturally curious are going to spend more time doing intellectual things to satisfy their curiosity.

So, did they really need to do a study to find that curious people are more protected from Alzheimer's?

They did not.

They could have just asked me.

I would have saved them a lot of time.

Yes.

Hm.

Curious people, they would use their brains more.

We're pretty sure that using your brains more protects you from Alzheimer.

Yes, it will protect you.

Got it.

Uh there's another study, Eric Dolan is writing about this in Cypost.

They found that men tend to uh look at women's mouths when rating their attractiveness while women focus more on men's eyes and hair.

Now this again might be exactly true, but I have questions.

Question number one, did the women and they were looking at photos.

I believe they were looking at pictures, not actual people.

Um, did the women in the photos, were they all wearing makeup?

In other words, were their eyes all tricked out with eye makeup?

Because one of the things I've noticed is that pretty much every woman's eyes look pretty good if they have eye makeup on.

I I don't even know the words, but what are the right words?

Eye makeup, fake lashes if you need them, that sort of stuff.

So, it seems like it's a little bit unfair because it's unusual to run into anybody whose eyes are special.

I've seen it.

You know, my my last ex-wife had worldclass eyes.

You know, the kind that give you five million followers on Instagram.

Um, but it's unusual.

Your average person just has good eyes.

Your average woman just looks great.

You know, their their eyes are just perfect.

So, looking at the eyes isn't telling you a lot.

But here's my speculation.

I believe men are trained not to make too much eye contact because it's intimidating.

What do you think?

If you're if you're having a conversation with a woman, especially one that you don't know well, would you spend most of your time looking into her eyes?

Let's say there wasn't some romantic connection there.

Or would you sort of just naturally know that as a male it's intimidating to do too much eye contact?

I look at the mouth and and the reason I look at the mouth is because it's usually moving.

So, it's something to look at.

And uh I do make some judgments about the mouth.

But some of it is I just don't feel comfortable making too much eye contact cuz I think the other person would get weirded out by it.

Does anybody have that same?

Anybody have that experience?

I don't know if that's unique to me.

All right.

So, I just put that out there.

And uh women look more at men's eyes and hair.

Now, the other thing is I I don't think they were allowed to look at anything but, you know, the face.

So, that's a little limiting.

But, yeah, I like looking at mouths.

I I think there's something to that science.

And we look we tend men tend to look where they're allowed to look.

Well, you probably heard that uh Governor Nuome of California wants to work with Trump to make uh film great again in California.

So, uh Newsome has floated the idea of a 7.5 billion federal tax credit for filmmakers.

to which I asked the following question.

Why would filmmakers need an enormous tax credit in order to make films in California?

I can only think of one reason.

The reason would be that California has high taxes and high high problems that they've sort of artificially created.

just everything's more expensive and this state is just slamming you in every possible way and you know you got to watch out for herming the endangered frogs and you got to make sure you've got DEI covered why would the federal government want to cover the mistakes of the state and then beyond that if you have to pay for the industry to exist maybe that industry shouldn't exist maybe that indust industry should figure out how to make movies more inexpensively.

Now, I do know that there are uh you know other countries that give you big tax breaks and I guess they think they make their money back because there's a lot of activity that goes on.

But, uh, I don't automatically think that subsidizing the movie industry to go back to the place that they ran from, even though it's my state and it'd be good for me.

I don't know.

And then I see that the people in favor of it are Governor Nuomo and Adam Schiff.

If Adam Schiff is in favor of it, it just automatically feels like a bad idea.

So, I don't know.

Good luck with that.

Well, the White House has picked a new surgeon general um whose name is uh Dr.

Casey Means.

And uh I guess there was somebody else who had been nominated who was been withdrawn.

But Trump said that this Dr.

Casey means um has impeccable Maha credentials and she'll work well with RFK Jr.

You know, if RFK Jr.

thinks she's the right choice and uh Trump's happy with her, that's probably good enough.

When was the last time the surgeon general made a big difference in the world?

Um, you know, there was a time when the surgeon general said cigarette smoking is bad and then that got on the cigarette pack.

So, that was pretty important.

But when was the last time you remember the surgeon general made a difference?

Do you remember it was a uh Joselyn Elders who was a surgeon general under I don't remember who but she got in trouble for saying that uh masturbation was good for you and you those were simpler times to which I say probably it is and uh she got in trouble for saying that.

I can't remember if she said because she she was a black woman.

I can't remember if she was talking about black women or women in general, but she said that uh women weren't getting enough exercise cuz they worried about their hair.

You remember that?

And then everybody mocked her and said, "Come on, come on.

They're not worried about their hair." And then there were surveys done.

Turns out women don't exercise as much because it's just a huge pain in the the butt to get their hair right.

You know, if you don't have the timing right, you know, you can't do exercise and have good hair at the same time.

And I thought, wow, she was like right on target.

So Joselyn Elders in my in my view was sort of the superstar of Surgeon Generals because she said what people didn't want to hear and they weren't ready to hear.

But it was right.

So I I always had a lot of respect for her.

I saw there was some push back um from some smart people saying that they didn't think that Dr.

Casey means was sufficiently qualified.

But I feel like a a medical doctor is probably qualified, especially if they you know that they're in the Maha camp.

So, I'm going to be open-minded about that one.

The Stanford Review, which I believe is a student publication in Stanford, um they did their own research and they found that China is running this enormous spy operation in Stanford, which suggests it's probably in every major uh US college institution.

And the way it works is that if you're a uh a Chinese student whose nationality is Chinese, but you know uh it's also your um country that you were born in.

So not Americans.

We're not talking about um we're not talking about Asian-Americans.

We're talking about people who are going to school here and then they're going to go back to China.

Apparently, those students, even if they didn't want to be spies, they're forced to be spies.

And every single one of them seems to have a handler, according to the Stanford Review.

And the handler not only makes sure that they spy, but even directs them into which classes and things they should get involved in.

So, the Chinese government would say, "All right, for example, I'm just making this up.

They'd say, for example, all right, um, AI is critically important to China's future.

So, you're going to sign up for the AI class." Well, I don't want to sign up for the AI class.

Well, you're going to you're going to sign up for the AI class.

All right.

And you're going to tell us everything that you learn.

So, uh, don't you assume that this is what's happening in every major college institution?

I don't see that there's any way to stop it except for removing all those students because the students are guilty, but I would say uh they're operating under duress.

I doubt there's even one student who thinks, "Oh, I love doing this.

This sure is fun being a spy." I I'll bet they're just they just want to enjoy the college experience and learn their stuff and go on with their lives.

So, but in any case, they probably pay a lot for uh for their tuition compared to other people.

So, it's going to be tough to do anything about that.

Well, did you see the announcement?

uh from uh OMG, the O'Keefe media group.

James O'Keefe uh scored another big one and he's got some undercover video of um a very close confidant to Prince Andrew and the very drunken close confidant who was actually uh living with Prince Andrew's ex-wife and raising his kids.

And uh he wasn't just close, he was as close as you could get.

like he he was right in the middle of it.

So, this is somebody who definitely knows what was up.

And according to him in his uh drunken um babbling, he said that uh he confirmed that Prince Andrew was involved with Epstein and underage having sex with underage um females.

Now, on one hand, that is a pretty amazing undercover discovery, and on the other hand, it's the only thing about Epstein that I was sure I already knew.

Did anybody have that feeling?

Now, just because it wasn't 100% confirmed that Prince Andrew had some sex with at least one person, was it Virginia Joffrey who was making that claim?

I forget who recently passed away.

Um, but did you think it was just one?

And did you think I mean it's the only thing the only thing I knew about Epstein that I was completely certain I knew the whole story which was Prince Andrew was a I don't know a client of Epstein's or just a friend.

But wouldn't you have been more surprised to find out that he wasn't doing it?

I think it was exactly what it looked like and we all knew it for a long time.

So, on one hand, an amazing get to get the confirmation.

On the other hand, why does all this Epstein seem like we we keep we keep getting teased that we're going to hear something new and it's always something we already knew.

Like, when when is the first new thing going to be dropped?

I don't know.

But still big accomplishment.

Congratulations to O'Keefe.

Um, apparently the uh big victory that Trump got over the hoodies, getting them to say that they'll stop attacking shipping in the Red Sea might be limited in its actual real world value because the shippers say, "Uh, we don't quite trust the hoodies." Now, how many times have I told you that if you want to know what reality is, look at whatever the insurance companies are doing.

And I said to myself, as soon as, you know, I heard that the hoodies had claimed that they would stop attacking, I said to myself, but will the insurance companies believe it?

Because if the insurance companies don't believe it, the ships are just not going to go there because they they can't get insured.

So, I don't know if it's strictly because of insurance problems or if the shippers on their own are just saying, "Well, maybe maybe we'll wait and see on this a little bit." Um, but there there should be an advantage coming up at some point, but uh it won't be fast.

However, it does make it look like Trump got a big victory before he does his Middle East trip, which is upcoming.

So, politically terrific.

Practically, I don't know yet.

We'll have to wait and see.

Well, here's the big good news, if I can call it that.

Um, apparently the uh US and the UK are going to announce a trade deal today.

Probably, it's probably being announced right now.

I think it happens right now.

And the idea is that uh we've reached some kind of an agreement.

Now, I guess we didn't have the it wasn't the hardest of our trade deals because there wasn't that much in dispute.

Um and I don't know the details of it yet, but if both sides are happy, that probably means there's some advantage to the US.

And uh that's probably why the stocks are up in in part.

Um all right.

Just looking at one of your comments there.

So you remember I told you that uh the the most predictable thing is that the press is going to slam Trump on his whole uh tariff fiasco and the chaos.

But as soon as the deals start coming in, oh, here we go.

Zero Hedge is reporting that the US is going to cut tariffs on UKmade cars.

The UK makes cars um to 10%.

And the and the US UK deals to cut beef tariffs to close to zero.

Beef tariffs in which direction?

I guess our beef to them.

But isn't the problem that they don't like our beef because it has hormones?

Well, so the next thing I was going to tell you, I guess that comment got ahead of me a little bit, is that what I the most predictable thing that's going to happen is that the Democrat media is going to say, "Well, we looked at the details of this agreement and obviously this agreement is not as good as Trump says and it's not going to help in the real world and things were going to go that direction anyway." and he's saying it's a big deal, but it's really no big deal.

So, the first few are going to get poo pooed by the liberal media, the anti-Trump media.

You should expect that.

But they can't do it to all of them.

if if they just keep happening, you know, if India comes online pretty soon and, you know, maybe South Korea and Japan, there's going to be a point where it's unambiguously true that the whole tariff thing worked and then the media is going to have to figure out something else to talk about because they're going to be, you know, over a hundred of them.

you know, the news will be almost every day, well, we got another one and it's good for America in three different ways.

So, and this will all happen before the midterms.

So, Trump may have pulled off, it's way too early to say this, way too early, but you can see the glimmer of it.

He may have pulled off the greatest political economic move of all time.

Way too early to say that, but it's starting to signal in that direction cuz, you know, all the the chaos stuff seems to be dissipating and now it's turning into, oh, there must be serious people sitting around the table making serious deals that are actually good for America.

And that's exactly what's happening.

So, I don't think yet that the uh the media has accepted the fact that Trump knows what he's doing and that creating all that ambiguity and what they call the chaos, what somebody else would call uncertainty caused the entire world to want to make a deal really fast.

There's nothing else that could have done that there.

There's no amount of begging, writing uh well-worded memos, nothing.

There's nothing else that could have gotten all the major trading partners to get on an airplane and literally fly out here and say, "Can we do this right away?

Could we make a better deal?" Only Trump could do that.

And and only the way he did it.

Probably there probably wasn't a second way in all the world.

There was probably not any other way that this could have been done.

And it's starting, it's too early to say.

Anything could go wrong, but it's starting to look like he pulled off one of the greatest moves I've ever seen.

Way too early to know that for sure, but boy does it look like it.

We'll see.

Well, meanwhile, Jerome Powell at the Fed is not uh looking to lower rates anytime soon, and he's claiming it's because of the uncertainty over the tariffs and that the tariffs might um cause inflation, and he doesn't want to have inflation and at the same time that he's lowering uh interest rates.

I don't think he's making the right choice because it feels political.

Now, of course, the Fed is supposed to be famously non-political, but I don't see how he could be because Trump has been on his ass so so hard.

Uh, I feel like I just don't trust him.

I just don't trust that his that his reasoning is without political bias.

And that's a problem.

Now, you could say that maybe Trump is one that caused the political bias, but I'm not so sure because there there's an anti-Trump sort of bias that's everywhere all the time anyway.

So, I wonder if Trump had never said a thing about, you know, to criticize the Fed, would that make the Fed person more mega?

I don't think so.

Would it make the head of the Fed think um I can't go and plague company if I help Trump with my tax with my rate cuts?

I feel like the the social and political pressure on the head of the Fed would sort of cause them to want to be anti-Trump even if they weren't naturally anti-Trump, you know, for their own their own lifestyle.

But I would argue that all Trump needs is for those rate cuts to happen before the midterms.

And there's plenty of time for that.

And I think that they will because if the tariff negotiations go well for the next 6 months and especially if we get something happening with uh China and all that needs to happen with China is that we agree on a pause uh while we work on a deal.

That could be enough.

and a pause on tariffs until we work on a deal.

So, I feel like Trump is setting up the midterms really well that there should be a rate cut and there should be a whole bunch of tariff deals done by them.

He's going to be hard to beat, you know, or at least the Republicans are going to be hard to beat.

Well, I was reading Mario news summary, which I recommend by the way.

His news summaries are terrific on X.

Um, that Doge has uh put together some software to make it easier to fire government employees.

So, you know how everything is too complicated, but apparently it was sort of complicated to just fire anybody.

So, they figured out how to do a high-speed system for firing federal workers.

Now, apparently over 260,000 government employees are already have already been let go because of DOA's work.

Did you know that snuck up on me 260,000 have already been let go?

And then this will make it easier.

And apparently there's a whole bunch of others who are targeted.

So, we expect the IRS to cut 40% of its staff and maybe the VA to cut 80,000.

Um, and uh I guess the ultimate source of this is Reuters.

Wow.

Now, here's a story that you've probably already heard.

I think I've mentioned it, but I can't stop going back to it because it's blowing my brain that according to Scott Bessant in the Treasury, over one-third of the payments that were issued by the Treasury in the in the recent past can't be tracked back to the appropriations to find out if they were if they were allowed in appropriate expenses.

Onethird And keep in mind that all of the government's expenses go through the treasury and onethird did not have a code on them to say where the what it was about.

So you couldn't even judge whether they were allowed or not.

So now that's been changed.

And again, I'm going to say that this might be DOA's biggest win.

Meaning that if if expenses in the government suddenly and inexplicably go down over the next year and a half, isn't it going to look like all the fraudsters knew that they would get caught, so they stopped doing it?

Is it possible that even if they couldn't catch the fraud because the fraud was hidden too well that if they they set up a mechanism to catch it in the future?

Is it possible that we'll see this gigantic drop in expenses then nobody even understands?

Like we don't know why it went down.

If that happens and some of it happens before the midterm, oh my god.

Now again, that I'm being super optimistic, but I can't believe that a third of the payments went without some kind of a payment code and there wasn't a great deal of fraud going on.

It's hard to imagine there was anything else going on.

But also, Doge News libs of Tik Tok is talking about this on X.

Uh Doge announced that they they ended 522 contracts worth $285 million in just the last two days.

Now, h how do you terminate 522 contacts contracts in the last two days?

I I have a theory that they did it by the title because it would be pretty hard to really dig into all those contracts and talk to all the, you know, all the players, you know, the the buyers and the sellers and to find out if it's appropriate.

But but here's one that they canled.

One of the contracts included 181,000 uh USDA uh contract for and this is the the title of what the contract is technical climate advisor for central Africa.

Would would you feel that you needed to do a deep dive before you cut that?

I wouldn't.

I would just look at the title.

Do we need a technical climate advisor for central Africa?

No.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

I'm going to go with no.

So, it might be entirely possible that you could you could get rid of 522 contracts just by reading the titles and and figuring out how much you laughed.

I if if you laughed uncontrollably at just the title, that should be enough to cut it.

I'd be perfectly happy with that standard.

Why'd you cut it?

We read the title and we couldn't stop laughing.

Okay, good enough.

That's all the research I need.

Well, the center square is reporting that uh there was a failed vote to try to require voter ID in Michigan.

Now I guess uh all the Republicans voted to require voter ID and all the Democrats voted no.

So the thing failed.

It fell 16 votes shorts short.

And my question is this.

This is genuine curiosity.

So that's that's going to prevent me from getting Alzheimer's.

My curiosity.

I'm actually curious about this.

What do the normal Democrats think about this?

Because you know that, you know, the far-left really the ones who are really dug in, you know, they're going to be in favor of any crazy thing that as long as they can keep power.

But if you were just a normal Democrat, not not an elected official and not one of the crazy progressives, just a normal Democrat.

Let's take Bill Maher.

Take Bill Maher for example, a normal Democrat.

What's he think about the fact that a 100% of the Democrats don't want voter ID?

Like how how do you possibly process that other than fraud and wanting to promote fraud?

Because there's no normal Democrat who believes that black Americans can't get an ID.

You know, we've literally never found even one.

So, do they just sort of say to themselves, well, as long as it's defeating the Nazis, it's okay.

And then how normal would you be if you thought you were fighting Nazis?

It wouldn't be very normal at all.

So, does anybody know?

I've never asked any normal Democrat that question, but I can't believe that a normal person, no matter what side of the politics are on, would a normal person think you shouldn't have ID to vote in America?

I don't think so.

Right.

Doesn't it seem to you that the normal ones need to just sort of avoid the question?

is good for their team.

So, they probably like, "Well, I'll worry about other things." So, I'd love to see the press talk to normal Republicans, you know, not elected ones, and just say, "What do you think about this?

Did you know that your team voted 100% to not have good security for elections?" What would they say?

Genuinely curious.

Here's some uh good news for America.

According to The Hill, uh Trump signed an executive order on apprenticeships.

So, apprenticeships um were already I guess we had quite a bit of them, 680,000.

He wants to get that up to a million.

But there's a there was a bigger thing that was part of the executive order which might be helpful is that apparently our um uh I guess our federal standards for these apprenticeships included a whole bunch of fragmented federal workforce entities doing their own thing.

So it was a big confused um duplicative process.

And so a big part of the executive order is reducing the duplication and simplifying the whole how do you get an apprentice kind of thing.

Um so that's perfect.

So they want to identify work workforce development and education programs that are ineffective and get rid of those and but just basically make the system work for the first time or work better really.

at the same time.

Uh so so you could think of this as more the the realization that college isn't for everybody and that especially if we have a more manufacturing coming back to America, you're going to need lots of people who can just do practical things and you know they don't need to read Shakespeare to do it.

So I'm glad the government sort of understands you know the reality of the world that way.

However, it's even better.

Uh Google apparently has launched an ambitious program, this is according to Clean Technica, uh to train 100,000 electrical workers for the AI powered future.

So, I assume that means uh 100,000 electrical workers to help them set up uh you more and more data centers.

And they're also going to uh train people uh they're looking to train uh a whole bunch of people in AI.

So not not they're using AI to train them but also training them in AI.

So Google is getting really aggressive in training people that they're going to use in their own workforce which again requires no college.

It just requires the right directed um high quality training and uh it aims to equip up up to a million Americans with AI skills separately from the electrical stuff.

So good for Google.

So of course they're doing it for their own company reasons.

They need this kind of workers and they need a lot of them and uh they're going to train them.

And then the third thing, these are all related things, but they they strongly suggest a theme or a pattern that's going in the right direction.

So the postmillennials talking about this.

Apparently, US companies are looking to recruit workers in high school, you know, almost like a sports team is trying to recruit from college usually.

And the reason is that if they wait uh they won't get enough employees.

So between the Democrat, you know, the demographic problem where there are not enough young people being born and now it probably be exacerbated by the reduction in immigration.

Uh, apparently high schoolers who are 16 and 17 years old are being directly contacted by major corporations in their in their area to see if they can get them interested in working in their company as soon as they graduate.

And some of these these jobs pay over $50,000 right out of high school.

I think it could be as high as 70,000 per year for trade jobs.

And so imagine being 17 years old and maybe you're not uh maybe you're not heading for college and you've got these companies trying to recruit you and they're offering you, you know, a good starting salary.

You still have to live at home on that salary, I think, but uh that's pretty impressive.

So that's a good adjustment.

So I guess in at least three different ways, the government, Google, and all these uh smaller manufacturing companies.

And imagine how much of that they're going to need when manufacturing is, you know, really pulling back into America.

Um, what this suggests to me is that America is doing its America thing, which is it's it's reading the future and making the adjustments it needs to make.

And this is exactly the adjustment that we need to make.

And you're seeing it in three different domains, which suggests it's a now a universal, understood, accepted thing.

that we just got to figure out how to get non-ol students into the jobs that make sense for the business as well as the student.

Anyway, uh apparently the US is uh doing more spying on Greenland as part of our effort to take over their country.

And I think it's hilarious that it's not really secret.

So apparently the US says uh uh Trump has ordered that the spy networks start gathering more information about Greenland.

Specifically, they're looking to find out who in Greenland might be in favor of joining up with America and which ones are not.

Now you might say and they they would use you know their various spy apparatus for doing that which would be electronic stuff that we intercept and maybe we have some people on the ground asking questions but we wouldn't talk about that.

So it's kind of hilarious that we just say out loud, "All right, Greenland.

Uh we're going to be doing a little spying as step one to taking over your country." And that's what we're doing.

Now, this would be step one of a color revolution, wouldn't it?

Now, the color revolution has the, you know, the usual steps.

It's the thing we do to other countries where the first thing we do is figure out who would be on our side, you know, who who we could work with and then we fund them or help them become heads of organizations and have a louder voice in their own country.

And then maybe we pay for some uh protests on the streets to make it look like, oh, the public really wants this.

It's a it's a popular uprising.

And then we might uh see if we can control the media.

So if you turned on the television in Greenland, it would say, you know, people really want independence, meaning joining America.

Uh people really want this.

And so then the public would start to think that there's this gigantic, you know, natural organic movement toward whatever the thing is, but it's really just driven by us.

Um, now I don't know how far we would go in this so-called color revolution, but announce but the fact that it's publicly it's public knowledge that we're increasing our spy campaign to figure out which of the locals are on our side.

It's kind of hilarious.

So, we don't even try to hide it.

It's just fully transparent.

Anyway, Tulsi Gabbard issued a collection emphasis message to the intelligence agencies to collect as much information as possible.

Now, I am again I'm genuinely curious what is the breakdown in the actual public because I think it depends how the question gets asked.

I think there's a way to ask the question where the locals would say hell no and there's probably a way to phrase the question where the locals would say huh maybe or even yes so you have to be careful how you ask the question that's that's all well the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the fentinel question is a key to the fact that the US and China are going to be talking about trade uh when some of the some of our uh people are in Switzerland for other reasons.

Well, China was going to be in Switzerland for other reasons and we decided to meet them there to talk about it.

I think that happens this weekend.

Now the way it's being reported by the Wall Street Journal is that China started in using the fentinel opening as a way to sort of get things moving because we were stuck and they didn't quite know how to unstick things but they thought if they can just ask some questions about fentinel and the questions were what exactly do you want us to do which is a good first question.

So, it I've been fascinated watching China navigate the the dignity part of this where Trump acted like a big bully and then China quite reasonably uh said you can't bully us.

So, this can't look like bullying or it's going nowhere.

But how do you get out of that?

How do you get out of that frame?

Well, you have people meet in Switzerland instead of the US or China.

That's a good start because it, you know, seems like, all right, well, that's, you know, it's just Switzerland and it it just doesn't seem like it's a direct thing.

And then you have them asking, well, what would you like us to do about fentinel?

As if it's just a separate, unrelated, perfectly reasonable question, which it is.

And uh apparently the US answer is that uh among other things they want China to send the message out to the the makers of the uh fentinel precursors that the penalties will be severe.

Now I don't know if that's ever going to happen because I don't think China is actually serious about stopping the flow of fentinol.

I don't think they're serious at all.

But if at least gets us to talk about the other trade stuff, you know, maybe it served some weird purpose there.

Maybe.

But meanwhile, um the big question is whose economy is going to blink first?

Is the US going to have more problems because of these tariffs or is China?

And the one thing I can tell you about uh the Chinese economy, I don't believe any story about the Chinese economy.

I I feel like you could read a story that says um from somebody who seems to be an expert that China is ready to collapse any moment now and they'll give pretty good reasons.

Well, you got this bubble and you got this demographic problem and you know, you got all these factories that are closing and the workers are not getting paid and and it sounds pretty good.

And you say to yourself, all right, all right, looks like China can't hang.

So, they're going to have to make a deal.

And then five years later, China will still be there cooking along.

And I don't feel anybody knows anything about China.

And of course, we can't believe any numbers that come out of it.

So, you have to be careful.

Um, but here's something that uh Zero Hedge was saying.

Uh, according to Zero Hedge, the last cargo ships from China arriving in US ports that won't have a tariff.

So, apparently, if you were already at sea and you were shipping stuff to the US, that would not be covered by the extra high Trump tariffs.

So those are just coming into the docks now.

So if you bought anything after that, it might be, you know, part of shortages or whatever.

So if some of those shortages really hurt, it's going to cost China more than they know.

meaning that it's one thing if I can't get 30 dolls, but one of the one of the things we might not be able to get is ibuprofen because apparently it's you most of the ibuprofen there there would be other pharma products that might be a problem too.

But if I don't get ibuprofen, which is the only thing keeping me alive right now, I'm really going to be mad.

So, China has to manage not just the products and the tariffs and the economy.

I mean, it's a lot to manage, but they have to manage how we feel about it.

And there going to be some products that if they hold back on them or or somehow they're delayed, I don't know if Trump is going to get the blame for that.

I think we're going to blame China.

Um, but there was a there was a data that again, you have to be careful about believing any data about the Chinese economy, but here's what Zero Hedge said.

Um, and this surprised me that since 2018, US imports from China have dropped from 20 21% of total goods to 13%.

Did you know that?

That uh in 2018 21% of our total goods came from China, but that's dropped all the way to 13%.

What was it that happened in 2018 that would have changed that number so drastically starting in 2018?

Does anybody know?

So, this is a question for my regular viewers, people who have been with me since 2018.

Does anybody know what happened in 2018 that could have been the start of something really bad for the Chinese economy?

I'm not going to answer that question, but the people who follow me on Locals, they know what I'm talking about.

Um, and you never know.

Hey, you know, maybe we live in a big old simulation and maybe things that uh you didn't think were connected, maybe they're more connected than you thought.

You never know.

All right.

Um, apparently Nvidia shares are expected to go up because uh, Trump administration is going to end some chip export restrictions.

I guess the restrictions were developed by the Biden administration, but they were supposed to go into effect on the 15th of this month, and they were sort of complicated and stupid.

So, the Trump administration is looking to simplify them, which would be good for Nvidia.

Um, and CNBC is reporting on that.

So, it's not a change in the tariffs or anything.

It's it's simply has more to do with America deciding which of our technologies we should allow other countries to have access to.

And, uh, Trump is just going to simplify that.

So, that's good news.

All right, this is really funny.

This is a story on Twitchy.

Um, even Pete Buddha Judge is saying that it was too hard to build things in America because of excessive regulations.

Now, do you think the excessive regulations came from Republicans?

Do you think he's complaining about all the Republicanled excessive regulations?

Well, I'm going to read to you some of the uh wording of the regulations that made it hard for a Buddha judge to build any infrastructure because, as you know, he completely failed in building any infrastructure.

So, this is going to sound like a like a joke.

It'll sound like standup comedy, but I swear this is the real the real language from the government.

So, um, apparently, uh, shortly after Biden took office, he signed an executive order, uh, mandating that the beneficiaries of 40% of all federal climate and environmental programs should come from underserved communities.

If they said nothing else, that would have stopped all progress because it would be nothing but fighting over who the un under un under underserved communities are you know since it's vague all the people who said I'm underserved.

No, I'm underserved.

So, you know, that would have killed progress right there.

But it gets better.

Uh the order.

So again, this was Biden established the White House environmental justice environmental justice advisory council which monitors agencies such as the Department of Transportation and uh it was to ensure this is quote that voices, perspective and lived realities of communities with environmental justice concerns are heard in the White House and reflected in federal policies, investments, decisions.

So, how would you like to be a company that builds stuff and you run into that buzz saw?

Uh, boss, did you know about this?

What?

Hey, what?

We're applying for that big grant so we can build that thing that they want to be built.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And we know how to build things and we'll had the money to do it.

So, we're good to go, right?

Well, well, but only if we hear the voices, perspectives and lived realities of the communities with environmental justice concerns uh that are reflected in federal policies, investments, and decisions.

and that in order to qualify for the grant, the applicants must quote demonstrate how meaningful public involvement inclusive of disadvantaged communities will occur throughout a project's life cycle.

So, so you can't even like do a big thing in the beginning.

Uh it's it's better for you to uh make sure that it's spread out over the life cycle of the project.

And apparently the the phrases like public involvement are all unclear, so you don't know if you've got enough, but it should involve quote intentional outreach to underserved communities.

So, who gets to decide if it's if there's enough and if you were intentional enough?

But wait, I'm not even to the good stuff yet.

You ready for this?

According to the Department of uh Transportation, the outreach to these underserved communities can take the form of, and I swear to God I'm not making this up.

I'm not making this up.

The outreach to these communities could take the forms of games and contests, visual preference surveys, or neighborhood block parties.

so long as the grant recipient provides quote multilingual staff or interpreters to interact with community members who use languages other than English.

So, do you have any questions about why the the Biden administration didn't get anything built?

the the the incompetence that's layered in this goes beyond just oh my god it's bad.

It's actually just funny to read their actual words.

You know, anybody who's been in any kind of a real business, you know, you could never satisfy these requirements because as long as they're vague, it allows everybody who says they're in an underserved situation to say, "You haven't done enough for me." So no matter how much you're going to do, somebody's going to say, "You didn't do enough for me." All right.

Um I guess President Xi is meeting with Putin.

I think it's that's today.

I saw the video.

I think it was today.

Maybe it was yesterday.

Um and uh he's there because the you know there's the big uh victory day parade that's happening that uh Putin is putting on and I didn't realize that Putin has connected everything from Hitler to the Ukraine war and has always framed it.

I guess I knew this but somehow you forget about it.

Um, you forget that uh Putin has always said that what he was doing in Ukraine was getting rid of the Nazis.

And and then I look at the United States and, you know, the Democrats want to get rid of the Nazis, too.

Like, we're still fighting the Nazis.

And Putin apparently is making that work cuz he he's selling that version that he's just denazifying the world and he's trying to get President Xi to help I guess.

So she will join the uh celebration of getting rid of the Nazis according to them.

Well, as you know, India and Pakistan um are lobbing uh weapons in each other, artillery in one direction and missiles and drones in the other direction.

But you heard there there was an enormous dog fight.

Did you hear that news?

So both Pakistan and India had uh a large number of jets in the air who were directly fighting each other and they called it a dog fight.

And then later we find out uh later we find out that they stayed on their own side of the border.

So none of the Indian jets went into Pakistan and none of the Pakistani jets went into India but they had an enormous multi-our dog fight.

So does that raise any questions with you?

like what the hell kind of a dog fight is it if you're not even in the same country at the same time and the answer is they were shooting things from I don't know over a 100 miles away so it was all long range attacks so I guess the Indian jets were just sort of circling on their side of the border and the Pakistanis were on their side of the border and not even close they were you know hundreds of miles away and uh somebody launch a missile and sometimes it would hit and sometimes it wouldn't, I guess.

So, that was a dog fight.

But it does suggest that um they're very they're both very serious about not escalating.

So, that's the good news.

I don't think you would I don't think you would spend that much energy making sure you never cross the border with your jet.

You know, at the time when you're you're basically at war and still you're not going to cross the border, that's pretty serious indication that you don't want to escalate.

You just want to make sure you've made your point that you can't mess with us.

And I guess they both made the point that you can't mess with us or there will be problems.

So that's where that went.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I've got for today.

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here and Tesla's way

up. SPY is up. Looks like things are up.

Bitcoin is up. Rumble is

up. And Nvidia is up only a little bit,

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Go. So good. Oh, I see the complaining

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started. We got

complaining

complainers. All

right. So, uh, last I saw, no pope has

been selected. Only the black smoke is

coming out of the little chimney. Did

you know that they add the chimney just

for the picking of the pope? It's not

there all the

time. So now you know. So black smoke

means no pope has been selected yet. Did

you Did you all see the meme on the

internet of orange smoke?

orange smoke coming out of the uh

chimney suggesting that maybe Trump had

been picked as the

pope. That's a pretty good

meme. Well, I hadn't mentioned this, but

you probably saw the story that uh

there's a very large new statue that's

been added to Time Square and it's uh a

black woman. So, I believe the idea was

to celebrate black women.

And but here's the problem with the

black woman uh

statue. Um it turns out that uh like

most things, everything turns political

and you know um the Republicans don't

see color, at least not in the same way.

So, I saw some people in the comments

this morning uh calling it the fat lady

statue. Now, I'm not judging and I, you

know, I don't do fat shaming because I

don't think people are fat because they

want to be.

Um, but that's as big a fail as you can

get if you put up a statue celebrating

black women and half of the country

calls it the fat lady

statue. Oops. Maybe they should have

done a little uh market testing before

they went with that that

model. Anyway, good try.

Um, according apparently there's another

uh UFO sighting according to the Daily

Mail. Um, there was an alien ball that

apparently dropped into Colombia. So,

they have video of it, you know,

traversing the sky, but then they

actually captured it. Now, now they're

looking at it.

And I don't believe I don't believe a

single part of this story, but it's

funny that it even exists. So, it's a

weird metal sphere and uh it's made of

three dense layers and has a chip-like

core, they say, and 18 tiny

microsphheres inside. No welds, no

seams, and no signs. So, humans built

it. It's cold on the outside, but

reportedly hot on the inside. How did

they know that? I'm not sure. And it may

have vaporized

water and has perfect internal

symmetry. And even better, it's

allegedly etched with ancient

runes. And AI says the message is about

unity, energy, and

transformation. Do do you think AI

successfully translated

uh ancient runes from another

planet? Or maybe it's now from another

planet. You may maybe it's part of that

uh ancient civilization on Earth that's

been hiding in the ocean. Anyway, I'm

going to put that in the category of I

don't believe a single part of

it. Well, let's check and see if there's

any science that I can debunk.

Uh according to discover

uh there's a therapy that's uh targeted

at controlling

emotions to help ease chronic pain. So

they used a uh type of therapy on

emotions and they found out that it

seemed to make a big difference in

people's chronic

pain. Well, I'm going to give you the

hypnotist take on that.

It might be that it's exactly what it

what it looks like that if you get rid

of people's emotional pain, it gives

them some relief of their physical pain.

Because as I tell you way too often,

your brain and your body are really the

same thing. You know, we just

artificially treat the brain like it's

separate because it's in your skull. But

it's all kind of one big brain. Your

body and your and your your little

nugget inside your skull.

But uh here's my uh question as a

hypnotist. Is it possible that what

really happened is that they hypnotized

some portion of the people they were

doing the therapy on? Here's how easy it

would be to hypnotize them. We're going

to do a thing where we talk to you and

it's going to be a bunch of scientists,

really smart people, and we're going to

see if it eases your

pain. That's it.

You you could have frauds, you know,

just actors coming in wearing um like

scientific clothes and having glasses

and you know clipboards and stuff and

probably probably you would have a a big

impact on the number of people who said,

"Yeah, you know what? That therapy

really helped me. My emotions are better

and my pain went way down." So, I don't

know how you would do this

experiment unless you could somehow

reduce the the accidental

hypnosis. And the accidental hypnosis

would just be the suggestion that it

might work. Um, you know, it's sort of a

placebo effect on steroids.

One of the tricks uh one of the tricks

of being a hypnotist is if you want to

do it professionally, you need to get an

office and wear a suit and you have

professional furniture and uh you know

even put your diploma on the wall

because if somebody walks into that

environment and it looks all

professional and somebody spent money on

it and there's a diploma, they will get

hypnotized much more easily.

than if it was just your neighbor Bob.

Hey Bob, I hear you're a hypnotist.

Yeah, just sit on this dining room table

and I'll hypnotize you. That would still

work. Yeah, if if Bob is good at it,

that would still work. But, uh, we were

we were trained that you should make it

look like it'll work because it makes it

easier. Um, here's one. Maybe they could

have just asked me and saved a little

time. according to the University of

California of LA in

LA that people who are

curious it might help them stay sharp um

as they get older and keep them from

getting

Alzheimer's. Do you believe that that

people who are

curious are more protected against

Alzheimer's? Yes. That would be

compatible with everything that's ever

been tested about people who might get

Alzheimer's. The more you use your

brain, the less likely you get

Alzheimer's. That's one of the most

commonly studied things you've ever

seen. So, of course, people who are

naturally

curious are going to spend more time

doing intellectual things to satisfy

their curiosity. So, did they really

need to do a study to find that curious

people are more protected from

Alzheimer's? They did not. They could

have just asked me. I would have saved

them a lot of time. Yes. Hm. Curious

people, they would use their brains

more. We're pretty sure that using your

brains more protects you from Alzheimer.

Yes, it will protect you. Got it.

Uh there's another study, Eric Dolan is

writing about this in Cypost. They found

that men tend to uh look at women's

mouths when rating their attractiveness

while women focus more on men's eyes and

hair. Now this again might be exactly

true, but I have questions.

Question number one, did the women and

they were looking at photos. I believe

they were looking at pictures, not

actual people.

Um, did the women in the photos, were

they all wearing

makeup? In other words, were their eyes

all tricked out with eye

makeup? Because one of the things I've

noticed is that pretty much every

woman's eyes look pretty good if they

have eye makeup on. I I don't even know

the words, but what are the right words?

Eye makeup, fake lashes if you need

them, that sort of stuff. So, it seems

like it's a little bit unfair because

it's

unusual to run into anybody whose eyes

are special.

I've seen it. You know, my my last

ex-wife had worldclass eyes. You know,

the kind that give you five million

followers on Instagram. Um, but it's

unusual. Your average person just has

good eyes. Your average

woman just looks great. You know, their

their eyes are just perfect. So, looking

at the eyes isn't telling you a lot.

But here's my

speculation. I believe men are trained

not to make too much eye

contact because it's

intimidating. What do you think? If

you're if you're having a conversation

with a woman, especially one that you

don't know

well, would you spend most of your time

looking into her eyes? Let's say there

wasn't some romantic connection there.

Or would you sort of just naturally know

that as a

male it's intimidating to do too much

eye

contact? I look at the

mouth and and the reason I look at the

mouth is because it's usually moving.

So, it's something to look at. And uh I

do make some judgments about the mouth.

But some of it is I just don't feel

comfortable making too much eye contact

cuz I think the other person would get

weirded out by it. Does anybody have

that same? Anybody have that experience?

I don't know if that's unique to me. All

right. So, I just put that out

there. And uh women look more at men's

eyes and hair.

Now, the other thing is I I don't think

they were allowed to look at anything

but, you know, the face. So, that's a

little

limiting. But, yeah, I like looking at

mouths. I I think there's something to

that

science. And we look we tend men tend to

look where they're allowed to look.

Well, you probably heard that uh

Governor Nuome of California wants to

work with Trump to make uh film great

again in California. So, uh Newsome has

floated the idea of a 7.5 billion

federal tax

credit for filmmakers. to which I asked

the following

question. Why would filmmakers need an

enormous tax credit in order to make

films in

California? I can only think of one

reason. The reason would be that

California has high taxes and high high

problems that they've sort of

artificially created. just everything's

more expensive and this state is just

slamming you in every possible way and

you know you got to watch out for

herming the endangered frogs and you got

to make sure you've got DEI

covered why would the federal government

want to cover the mistakes of the state

and then beyond

that if you have to pay for the industry

to

exist maybe that industry shouldn't

exist maybe that indust industry should

figure out how to make movies more

inexpensively. Now, I do know that there

are uh you know other countries that

give you big tax

breaks and I guess they think they make

their money back because there's a lot

of activity that goes on. But,

uh, I don't automatically think that

subsidizing the movie industry to go

back to the place that they ran

from, even though it's my state and it'd

be good for me. I don't know. And then I

see that the people in favor of it are

Governor Nuomo and Adam

Schiff. If Adam Schiff is in favor of

it, it just automatically feels like a

bad idea.

So, I don't know. Good luck with

that. Well, the White House has picked a

new surgeon general

um whose name is uh Dr. Casey

Means. And uh I guess there was somebody

else who had been nominated who was been

withdrawn. But Trump said that this Dr.

Casey

means um has impeccable Maha

credentials and she'll work well with

RFK Jr. You know, if RFK Jr. thinks

she's the right choice and uh Trump's

happy with her, that's probably good

enough. When was the last time the

surgeon general made a big difference in

the world?

Um, you know, there was a time when the

surgeon general said cigarette smoking

is bad and then that got on the

cigarette pack. So, that was pretty

important. But when was the last time

you

remember the surgeon general made a

difference? Do you remember it was a uh

Joselyn Elders who was a surgeon general

under I don't remember who but she got

in trouble for saying that uh

masturbation was good for

you and you those were simpler

times to which I say probably it is and

uh she got in trouble for saying that. I

can't remember if she said because she

she was a black woman. I can't remember

if she was talking about black women or

women in general, but she said that uh

women weren't getting enough exercise

cuz they worried about their hair. You

remember that? And then everybody mocked

her and said, "Come on, come on. They're

not worried about their hair." And then

there were surveys done. Turns out women

don't exercise as much because it's just

a huge pain in the the butt to get their

hair right. You know, if you don't have

the timing right, you know, you can't do

exercise and have good hair at the same

time. And I thought, wow, she was like

right on target. So Joselyn Elders in my

in my view was sort of the superstar of

Surgeon Generals because she said what

people didn't want to hear and they

weren't ready to hear. But it was right.

So I I always had a lot of respect for

her. I saw there was some push back

um from some smart people saying that

they didn't think that Dr. Casey means

was sufficiently qualified. But I feel

like a a medical

doctor is probably qualified, especially

if they you know that they're in the

Maha camp.

So, I'm going to be open-minded about

that one.

The Stanford Review, which I believe is

a student publication in Stanford, um

they did their own research and they

found that

China is running this enormous spy

operation in Stanford, which suggests

it's probably in every major uh US

college institution. And the way it

works is that if you're a uh a

Chinese student whose nationality is

Chinese, but you know uh it's also your

um country that you were born in. So not

Americans. We're not talking about um

we're not talking about Asian-Americans.

We're talking about people who are going

to school here and then they're going to

go back to China. Apparently, those

students, even if they didn't want to be

spies, they're forced to be

spies. And every single one of them

seems to have a handler, according to

the Stanford Review. And the handler not

only makes sure that they spy, but even

directs them into which classes and

things they should get involved in. So,

the Chinese government would say, "All

right, for example, I'm just making this

up. They'd say, for example, all right,

um, AI is critically important to

China's future. So, you're going to sign

up for the AI class." Well, I don't want

to sign up for the AI class. Well,

you're going to you're going to sign up

for the AI class. All right. And you're

going to tell us everything that you

learn.

So,

uh, don't you assume that this is what's

happening in every major college

institution? I don't see that there's

any way to stop it except for removing

all those students because the students

are guilty,

but I would say uh they're operating

under duress. I doubt there's even one

student who thinks, "Oh, I love doing

this. This sure is fun being a spy." I

I'll bet they're just they just want to

enjoy the college experience and learn

their stuff and go on with their lives.

So, but in any case, they probably pay a

lot for uh for their tuition compared to

other people. So, it's going to be tough

to do anything about

that. Well, did you see the

announcement?

uh from uh OMG, the O'Keefe media group.

James O'Keefe uh scored another big one

and he's got some undercover video of

um a very close confidant to Prince

Andrew and the very drunken close

confidant who was actually uh living

with Prince Andrew's ex-wife and raising

his kids. And uh he wasn't just close,

he was as close as you could get. like

he he was right in the middle of it. So,

this is somebody who definitely

knows what was

up. And according to him in his uh

drunken

um babbling, he said that uh he

confirmed that Prince Andrew was

involved with Epstein and underage

having sex with underage

um females.

Now, on one hand, that is a pretty

amazing

undercover

discovery, and on the other hand, it's

the only thing about Epstein that I was

sure I already knew. Did anybody have

that feeling? Now, just because it

wasn't 100%

confirmed that Prince Andrew had some

sex with at least one person, was it

Virginia Joffrey who was making that

claim? I

forget who recently passed away.

Um, but did you think it was just

one? And did you think I mean it's the

only thing the only thing I knew about

Epstein that I was completely certain I

knew the whole story which was Prince

Andrew was a I don't know a client of

Epstein's or just a friend. But wouldn't

you have been more surprised to find out

that he wasn't doing it? I think it was

exactly what it looked like and we all

knew it for a long time. So, on one

hand, an amazing get to get the

confirmation. On the other hand, why

does all this Epstein seem like we we

keep we keep getting teased that we're

going to hear something new and it's

always something we already

knew. Like, when when is the first new

thing going to be dropped? I don't know.

But still big accomplishment.

Congratulations to O'Keefe.

Um, apparently the uh big victory that

Trump got over the hoodies, getting them

to say that they'll stop attacking

shipping in the Red Sea might be limited

in its actual real world value because

the shippers say, "Uh, we don't quite

trust the hoodies."

Now, how many times have I told you that

if you want to know what reality is,

look at whatever the insurance companies

are doing. And I said to myself, as soon

as, you know, I heard that the hoodies

had claimed that they would stop

attacking, I said to myself, but will

the insurance companies believe it?

Because if the insurance companies don't

believe

it, the ships are just not going to go

there because they they can't get

insured.

So, I don't know if it's strictly

because of insurance problems or if the

shippers on their own are just saying,

"Well, maybe maybe we'll wait and see on

this a little bit." Um, but there there

should be an

advantage coming up at some point, but

uh it won't be fast. However, it does

make it look like Trump got a big

victory before he does his Middle East

trip, which is upcoming. So, politically

terrific. Practically, I don't know yet.

We'll have to wait and

see. Well, here's the big good news, if

I can call it that. Um, apparently the

uh US and the UK are going to announce a

trade deal today. Probably, it's

probably being announced right now. I

think it happens right now. And the idea

is that uh we've reached some kind of an

agreement. Now, I guess we didn't have

the it wasn't the hardest of our trade

deals because there wasn't that much in

dispute. Um and I don't know the details

of it yet, but if both sides are happy,

that probably means there's some

advantage to the US.

And uh that's probably why the stocks

are up in in

part.

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Um all

right. Just looking at one of your

comments

there. So you remember I told you that

uh the the most predictable thing is

that the press is going to slam Trump on

his whole uh tariff fiasco and the

chaos. But as soon as the deals start

coming in, oh, here we go. Zero Hedge is

reporting that the US is going to cut

tariffs on UKmade cars. The UK makes

cars

um to

10%. And the and the US UK deals to cut

beef tariffs to close to

zero. Beef tariffs in which direction? I

guess our beef to them. But isn't the

problem that they don't like our beef

because it has hormones? Well, so the

next thing I was going to tell you, I

guess that comment got ahead of me a

little bit, is that what I the most

predictable thing that's going to happen

is that the Democrat media is going to

say, "Well, we looked at the details of

this agreement and obviously this

agreement is not as good as Trump says

and it's not going to help in the real

world and things were going to go that

direction anyway." and he's saying it's

a big deal, but it's really no big deal.

So, the first few are going to get poo

pooed by the liberal media, the

anti-Trump media. You should expect

that. But they can't do it to all of

them. if if they just keep happening,

you know, if India comes online pretty

soon and, you know, maybe South Korea

and Japan, there's going to be a point

where it's unambiguously true that the

whole tariff thing

worked and then the media is going to

have to figure out something else to

talk about because they're going to be,

you know, over a hundred of them. you

know, the news will be almost every day,

well, we got another one and it's good

for America in three different ways. So,

and this will all happen before the

midterms. So, Trump may have pulled off,

it's way too early to say this, way too

early, but you can see the glimmer of

it. He may have pulled

off the greatest political economic move

of all time.

Way too early to say

that, but it's starting to signal in

that direction cuz, you know, all the

the chaos stuff seems to be dissipating

and now it's turning into, oh, there

must be serious people sitting around

the table making serious deals that are

actually good for

America. And that's exactly what's

happening.

So, I don't think

yet that the uh the media has accepted

the fact that Trump knows what he's

doing and that creating all that

ambiguity and what they call the chaos,

what somebody else would call

uncertainty caused the entire world to

want to make a deal really

fast. There's nothing else that could

have done that there. There's no amount

of begging, writing uh well-worded

memos, nothing. There's nothing else

that could have gotten all the major

trading partners to get on an airplane

and literally fly out here and say, "Can

we do this right away? Could we make a

better deal?" Only Trump could do that.

And and only the way he did it. Probably

there probably wasn't a second

way in all the world. There was probably

not any other way that this could have

been done.

And it's starting, it's too early to

say. Anything could go wrong, but it's

starting to look like he pulled off one

of the greatest moves I've ever

seen. Way too early to know that for

sure, but boy does it look like it.

We'll see.

Well, meanwhile, Jerome Powell at the

Fed is not uh looking to lower rates

anytime soon, and he's claiming it's

because of the uncertainty over the

tariffs and that the tariffs might um

cause

inflation, and he doesn't want to have

inflation and at the same time that he's

lowering uh interest rates. I don't

think he's making the right choice

because it feels political. Now, of

course, the Fed is supposed to be

famously

non-political, but I don't see how he

could be because Trump has been on his

ass so so hard. Uh, I feel

like I just don't trust him. I just

don't trust that his that his reasoning

is without political

bias. And that's a problem. Now, you

could say that maybe Trump is one that

caused the political bias, but I'm not

so sure because there there's an

anti-Trump sort of bias that's

everywhere all the time anyway. So, I

wonder if Trump had never said a thing

about, you know, to criticize the

Fed, would that make the Fed person more

mega? I don't think so. Would it make

the head of the Fed think um I can't go

and plague company if I help Trump with

my tax with my rate

cuts? I feel like the the social and

political pressure on the head of the

Fed would sort of cause them to want to

be

anti-Trump even if they weren't

naturally anti-Trump, you know, for

their own their own lifestyle.

But I would argue that all Trump needs

is for those rate cuts to happen before

the midterms. And there's plenty of time

for that. And I think that they will

because if the tariff negotiations go

well for the next 6 months and

especially if we get something happening

with uh China and all that needs to

happen with China is that we agree on a

pause uh while we work on a deal. That

could be enough. and a pause on tariffs

until we work on a deal. So, I feel like

Trump is setting up the

midterms really well that there should

be a rate

cut and there should be a whole bunch of

tariff deals done by

them. He's going to be hard to beat, you

know, or at least the Republicans are

going to be hard to beat.

Well, I was reading

Mario news summary, which I recommend by

the way. His news summaries are terrific

on X. Um, that Doge has uh put together

some software to make it easier to fire

government employees. So, you know how

everything is too complicated, but

apparently it was sort of complicated to

just fire anybody. So, they figured out

how to do a high-speed system for firing

federal workers. Now, apparently over

260,000 government employees are already

have already been let go because of

DOA's work. Did you know

that snuck up on me

260,000 have already been let

go? And then this will make it easier.

And apparently there's a whole bunch of

others who are targeted. So, we expect

the IRS to cut 40% of its staff and

maybe the VA to cut

80,000.

Um, and uh I guess the ultimate source

of this is

Reuters. Wow. Now, here's a story that

you've probably already heard. I think

I've mentioned it,

but I can't stop going back to it

because it's blowing my brain that

according to Scott Bessant in the

Treasury, over one-third of the payments

that were issued by the Treasury in the

in the recent past can't be tracked back

to the appropriations to find out if

they were if they were allowed in

appropriate expenses. Onethird

And keep in mind that all of the

government's expenses go through the

treasury and onethird did not have a

code on

them to say where the what it was about.

So you couldn't even judge whether they

were allowed or not. So now that's been

changed. And again, I'm going to say

that this might be DOA's biggest win.

Meaning that if if expenses in the

government suddenly and inexplicably go

down over the next year and a

half, isn't it going to look like all

the fraudsters knew that they would get

caught, so they stopped doing it?

Is it

possible that even if they couldn't

catch the fraud because the fraud was

hidden too well that if they they set up

a mechanism to catch it in the

future? Is it possible that we'll see

this gigantic drop in expenses then

nobody even understands? Like we don't

know why it went down.

If that

happens and some of it happens before

the

midterm, oh my

god. Now again, that I'm being super

optimistic, but I can't believe that a

third of the payments went without some

kind of a payment code and there wasn't

a great deal of fraud going on. It's

hard to

imagine there was anything else going

on. But also, Doge News libs of Tik Tok

is talking about this on X. Uh Doge

announced that they they ended 522

contracts worth $285 million in just the

last two days.

Now, h how do you terminate 522 contacts

contracts in the last two

days? I I have a

theory that they did it by the

title because it would be pretty hard to

really dig into all those contracts and

talk to all the, you know, all the

players, you know, the the buyers and

the sellers and to find out if it's

appropriate.

But but here's one that they canled. One

of the contracts included 181,000

uh USDA uh contract for and this is the

the title of what the contract is

technical climate advisor for central

Africa. Would would you feel that you

needed to do a deep dive before you cut

that? I wouldn't. I would just look at

the title. Do we need a technical

climate advisor for central Africa? No.

Yeah, that's what I thought. I'm going

to go with

no. So, it might be entirely possible

that you could you could get rid of 522

contracts just by reading the titles and

and figuring out how much you

laughed. I if if you laughed

uncontrollably at just the

title, that should be enough to cut it.

I'd be perfectly happy with that

standard. Why'd you cut it? We read the

title and we couldn't stop laughing.

Okay, good enough. That's all the

research I

need. Well, the center square is

reporting that uh there was a failed

vote to try to require voter ID in

Michigan.

Now I guess uh all the Republicans voted

to require voter ID and all the

Democrats voted no. So the thing failed.

It fell 16 votes shorts short. And my

question is this. This is genuine

curiosity. So that's that's going to

prevent me from getting Alzheimer's. My

curiosity. I'm actually curious about

this.

What do the normal Democrats think about

this? Because you know that, you know,

the far-left really the ones who are

really dug in, you know, they're going

to be in favor of any crazy thing that

as long as they can keep power. But if

you were just a normal

Democrat, not not an elected official

and not one of the crazy progressives,

just a normal Democrat. Let's take Bill

Maher.

Take Bill Maher for example, a normal

Democrat. What's he think about the fact

that a 100% of the Democrats don't want

voter

ID? Like how how do you possibly process

that other than

fraud and wanting to promote fraud?

Because there's no normal Democrat who

believes that black Americans can't get

an

ID. You know, we've literally never

found even one. So, do they just sort of

say to themselves, well, as long as it's

defeating the Nazis, it's

okay. And then how normal would you be

if you thought you were fighting Nazis?

It wouldn't be very normal at all. So,

does anybody know? I've never asked any

normal Democrat that question, but I

can't believe that a normal person, no

matter what side of the politics are on,

would a normal person think you

shouldn't have ID to vote in

America? I don't think so.

Right. Doesn't it seem to you that the

normal ones need to just sort of avoid

the question?

is good for their team. So, they

probably like, "Well, I'll worry about

other

things." So, I'd love to see the press

talk to normal

Republicans, you know, not elected ones,

and just say, "What do you think about

this? Did you know that your team voted

100% to not have good security for

elections?" What would they

say? Genuinely

curious. Here's some uh good news for

America. According to The Hill, uh Trump

signed an executive order on

apprenticeships. So, apprenticeships

um were already I guess we had quite a

bit of them, 680,000. He wants to get

that up to a million. But there's a

there was a bigger thing that was part

of the executive order which might be

helpful is that apparently our

um uh I guess our federal standards for

these

apprenticeships included a whole bunch

of fragmented federal workforce entities

doing their own thing. So it was a big

confused

um duplicative process. And so a big

part of the executive order is reducing

the duplication and simplifying the

whole how do you get an apprentice kind

of thing. Um so that's perfect. So they

want to identify work workforce

development and education programs that

are ineffective and get rid of those and

but just basically make the system work

for the first time or work better

really. at the same

time. Uh so so you could think of this

as more the the realization that college

isn't for everybody and that especially

if we have a more manufacturing coming

back to America, you're going to need

lots of people who can just do practical

things and you know they don't need to

read Shakespeare to do it. So I'm glad

the government sort of understands you

know the reality of the world that way.

However, it's even better. Uh

Google apparently has launched an

ambitious program, this is according to

Clean Technica,

uh to train 100,000 electrical workers

for the AI powered future. So, I assume

that means uh 100,000 electrical workers

to help them set up uh you more and more

data centers.

And they're also going to uh train

people uh they're looking to train

uh a whole bunch of people in

AI. So not not they're using AI to train

them but also training them in AI. So

Google is getting really aggressive in

training people that they're going to

use in their own workforce which again

requires no college. It just requires

the right directed um high quality

training and uh it aims to equip up up

to a million Americans with AI skills

separately from the electrical stuff. So

good for Google. So of course they're

doing it for their own company reasons.

They need this kind of workers and they

need a lot of them and uh they're going

to train

them. And then the third thing, these

are all related things, but they they

strongly suggest a theme or a pattern

that's going in the right direction. So

the postmillennials talking about this.

Apparently, US companies are looking to

recruit

workers in high

school, you know, almost like a sports

team is trying to recruit from college

usually. And the reason is that if they

wait

uh they won't get enough

employees. So between the Democrat, you

know, the demographic problem where

there are not enough young people being

born and now it probably be exacerbated

by the reduction in immigration. Uh,

apparently high schoolers who are 16 and

17 years old are being directly

contacted by major corporations in their

in their area to see if they can get

them interested in working in their

company as soon as they graduate. And

some of these these jobs pay over

$50,000 right out of high school. I

think it could be as high as 70,000 per

year for trade jobs.

And so imagine being 17 years old and

maybe you're not uh maybe you're not

heading for college and you've got these

companies trying to recruit you and

they're offering

you, you know, a good starting salary.

You still have to live at home on that

salary, I think, but uh that's pretty

impressive. So that's a good adjustment.

So I guess in at least three different

ways, the government, Google, and all

these uh smaller manufacturing

companies. And imagine how much of that

they're going to need when manufacturing

is, you know, really pulling back into

America.

Um, what this suggests to me is that

America is doing its America thing,

which is it's it's reading the future

and making the adjustments it needs to

make. And this is exactly the adjustment

that we need to make. And you're seeing

it in three different domains, which

suggests it's a now a universal,

understood, accepted thing. that we just

got to figure out how to get non-ol

students into the jobs that make sense

for the business as well as the

student. Anyway, uh apparently the US is

uh doing more spying on

Greenland as part of our effort to take

over their country. And I think it's

hilarious that it's not really secret.

So apparently the US says uh uh Trump

has ordered that the spy networks start

gathering more information about

Greenland. Specifically, they're looking

to find out who in Greenland might be in

favor of joining up with America and

which ones are not. Now you might say

and they they would use you know their

various spy apparatus for doing that

which would be electronic stuff that we

intercept and maybe we have some people

on the ground asking questions but we

wouldn't talk about that.

So it's kind of hilarious that we just

say out loud, "All right, Greenland. Uh

we're going to be doing a little spying

as step one to taking over your

country." And that's what we're doing.

Now, this would be step one of a color

revolution, wouldn't it? Now, the color

revolution has the, you know, the usual

steps. It's the thing we do to other

countries where the first thing we do is

figure out who would be on our side, you

know, who who we could work with and

then we fund them or help them become

heads of organizations and have a louder

voice in their own country. And then

maybe we pay for some uh protests on the

streets to make it look like, oh, the

public really wants this. It's a it's a

popular uprising. And then we might uh

see if we can control the media. So if

you turned on the television in

Greenland, it would say, you know,

people really want independence, meaning

joining America. Uh people really want

this. And so then the public would start

to think that there's this

gigantic, you know, natural organic

movement toward whatever the thing is,

but it's really just driven by us.

Um, now I don't know how far we would go

in this so-called color revolution, but

announce but the fact that it's

publicly it's public knowledge that

we're increasing our spy campaign to

figure out which of the locals are on

our

side. It's kind of hilarious. So, we

don't even try to hide

it. It's just fully

transparent.

Anyway, Tulsi Gabbard issued a

collection emphasis message to the

intelligence agencies to collect as much

information as possible. Now, I am again

I'm genuinely

curious what is the breakdown in the

actual public because I think it depends

how the question gets asked. I think

there's a way to ask the question where

the locals would say hell no and there's

probably a way to phrase the question

where the locals would say huh maybe or

even yes so you have to be careful how

you ask the question that's that's

all well the Wall Street Journal is

reporting that the fentinel question is

a key to the fact that the US and China

are going to be talking about trade

uh when some of the some of our

uh people are in Switzerland for other

reasons. Well, China was going to be in

Switzerland for other reasons and we

decided to meet them there to talk about

it. I think that happens this weekend.

Now the way it's being reported by the

Wall Street Journal is that China

started in using the fentinel opening as

a way to sort of get things moving

because we were stuck and they didn't

quite know how to unstick things but

they thought if they can just ask some

questions about fentinel and the

questions were what exactly do you want

us to do which is a good first question.

So, it I've been fascinated watching

China navigate the the dignity part of

this where Trump acted like a big bully

and then China quite reasonably

uh said you can't bully us. So, this

can't look like bullying or it's going

nowhere. But how do you get out of that?

How do you get out of that frame? Well,

you have people meet in Switzerland

instead of the US or China. That's a

good start because it, you know, seems

like, all right, well, that's, you know,

it's just Switzerland and it it just

doesn't seem like it's a direct thing.

And then you have them asking, well,

what would you like us to do about

fentinel? As if it's just a separate,

unrelated, perfectly reasonable

question, which it is.

And uh apparently the US answer is that

uh among other things they want China to

send the message out to the the makers

of the uh fentinel precursors that the

penalties will be

severe. Now I don't know if that's ever

going to happen because I don't think

China is actually serious about stopping

the flow of fentinol. I don't think

they're serious at all. But if at least

gets us to talk about the other trade

stuff, you know, maybe it served some

weird purpose

there. Maybe. But meanwhile, um the big

question is whose economy is going to

blink first? Is the US going to have

more problems because of these tariffs

or is China? And the one thing I can

tell you about uh the Chinese

economy, I don't believe any story about

the Chinese

economy. I I feel like you could read a

story that says um from somebody who

seems to be an expert that China is

ready to collapse any moment now and

they'll give pretty good reasons. Well,

you got this bubble and you got this

demographic problem and you know, you

got all these factories that are closing

and the workers are not getting paid and

and it sounds pretty good. And you say

to yourself, all right, all right, looks

like China can't hang. So, they're going

to have to make a deal. And

then five years later, China will still

be there cooking

along. And I don't feel anybody knows

anything about China. And of course, we

can't believe any numbers that come out

of it. So, you have to be careful. Um,

but here's something that uh Zero Hedge

was saying. Uh, according to Zero Hedge,

the last cargo ships from China arriving

in US ports that won't have a tariff.

So, apparently, if you were already at

sea and you were shipping stuff to the

US, that would not be covered by the

extra high Trump tariffs.

So those are just coming into the docks

now. So if you bought anything after

that, it might be, you know, part of

shortages or whatever. So if some of

those shortages really

hurt, it's going to cost China more than

they know. meaning that it's one thing

if I can't get 30

dolls, but one of the one of the things

we might not be able to get is

ibuprofen because apparently it's you

most of the

ibuprofen there there would be other

pharma products that might be a problem

too. But if I don't get

ibuprofen, which is the only thing

keeping me alive right

now, I'm really going to be

mad. So, China has to

manage not just the products and the

tariffs and the economy. I mean, it's a

lot to manage, but they have to manage

how we feel about it. And there going to

be some products that if they hold back

on them or or somehow they're delayed, I

don't know if Trump is going to get the

blame for

that. I think we're going to blame

China. Um, but there was a there was a

data that again, you have to be careful

about believing any data about the

Chinese economy, but here's what Zero

Hedge said. Um, and this surprised me

that since

2018, US imports from China have dropped

from 20 21% of total goods to

13%. Did you know

that? That uh in 2018 21% of our total

goods came from China, but that's

dropped all the way to 13%.

What was it that happened in

2018 that would have

changed that number so drastically

starting in

2018? Does anybody know? So, this is a

question for my regular viewers, people

who have been with me since

2018. Does anybody know what happened in

2018 that could have been the start of

something really bad for the Chinese

economy?

I'm not going to answer that question,

but the people who follow me on

Locals, they know what I'm talking

about.

Um, and you never know. Hey, you know,

maybe we live in a big old

simulation and maybe things that uh you

didn't think were connected, maybe

they're more connected than you

thought. You never know.

All right. Um, apparently Nvidia shares

are expected to go up because uh, Trump

administration is going to end some chip

export restrictions. I guess the

restrictions were developed by the Biden

administration, but they were supposed

to go into effect on the 15th of this

month, and they were sort of complicated

and stupid. So, the Trump administration

is looking to simplify them, which would

be good for

Nvidia. Um, and CNBC is reporting on

that. So, it's not a change in the

tariffs or anything. It's it's simply

has more to do with America deciding

which of our technologies we should

allow other countries to have access to.

And, uh, Trump is just going to simplify

that. So, that's good news.

All right, this is really funny. This is

a story on

Twitchy. Um, even Pete Buddha

Judge is saying that it was too hard to

build things in America because of

excessive

regulations. Now, do you think the

excessive

regulations came from

Republicans? Do you think he's

complaining about all the Republicanled

excessive regulations?

Well, I'm going to read to you some of

the uh wording of the regulations that

made it hard for a Buddha judge to build

any infrastructure because, as you know,

he completely failed in building any

infrastructure.

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So, this is going to sound like a like a

joke. It'll sound like standup comedy,

but I swear this is the real the real

language from the government.

So, um, apparently,

uh, shortly after Biden took office, he

signed an executive order, uh, mandating

that the

beneficiaries of 40% of all federal

climate and environmental programs

should come from underserved

communities.

If they said nothing else, that would

have stopped all

progress because it would be nothing but

fighting over who the un under un under

underserved communities are you know

since it's

vague all the people who said I'm

underserved. No, I'm

underserved. So, you know, that would

have killed progress right there. But it

gets

better. Uh the order. So again, this was

Biden established the White House

environmental justice environmental

justice advisory council which monitors

agencies such as the Department of

Transportation and uh it was to ensure

this is quote that voices, perspective

and lived realities of communities with

environmental justice concerns are heard

in the White House and reflected in

federal policies, investments,

decisions.

So, how would you like to be a company

that builds stuff and you run into that

buzz

saw? Uh, boss, did you know about this?

What? Hey, what? We're applying for that

big grant so we can build that thing

that they want to be built. Yeah. Yeah.

And we know how to build things and

we'll had the money to do it. So, we're

good to go, right? Well, well, but only

if we hear the voices, perspectives and

lived realities of the communities with

environmental justice concerns uh that

are reflected in federal policies,

investments, and decisions. and that in

order to qualify for the grant, the

applicants must quote demonstrate how

meaningful public involvement inclusive

of disadvantaged communities will occur

throughout a project's life cycle. So,

so you can't even like do a big thing in

the

beginning. Uh it's it's better for you

to uh make sure that it's spread out

over the life cycle of the

project. And apparently the the phrases

like public involvement are all unclear,

so you don't know if you've got enough,

but it should involve quote intentional

outreach to underserved communities. So,

who gets to decide if it's if there's

enough and if you were intentional

enough? But

wait, I'm not even to the good stuff

yet. You ready for this? According to

the Department of uh Transportation, the

outreach to these underserved

communities can take the form of, and I

swear to God I'm not making this up. I'm

not making this up. The outreach to

these communities could take the forms

of games and contests, visual preference

surveys, or neighborhood block parties.

so long as the grant recipient provides

quote multilingual staff or interpreters

to interact with community members who

use languages other than

English. So, do you have any questions

about why the the Biden administration

didn't get anything

built? the the the incompetence that's

layered in

this goes beyond just oh my god it's

bad. It's actually just

funny to read their actual words. You

know, anybody who's been in any kind of

a real business, you know, you could

never satisfy these

requirements because as long as they're

vague, it allows everybody who says

they're in an underserved situation to

say, "You haven't done enough for me."

So no matter how much you're going to

do, somebody's going to say, "You didn't

do enough for

me." All

right. Um I guess President Xi is

meeting with Putin. I think it's that's

today. I saw the video. I think it was

today. Maybe it was yesterday.

Um and uh he's there because

the you know there's the big uh victory

day parade that's happening that uh

Putin is putting on and I didn't

realize that Putin has connected

everything from Hitler to the Ukraine

war and has always framed it. I guess I

knew this but somehow you forget about

it.

Um, you forget that uh Putin has always

said that what he was doing in Ukraine

was getting rid of the

Nazis. And and then I look at the United

States and, you know, the Democrats want

to get rid of the Nazis, too. Like,

we're still fighting the Nazis.

And Putin apparently is making that work

cuz he he's selling that version that

he's just denazifying the world and he's

trying to get President Xi to help I

guess. So she will join the uh

celebration of getting rid of the

Nazis according to them.

Well, as you know, India and Pakistan um

are

lobbing uh weapons in each other,

artillery in one direction and missiles

and drones in the other direction. But

you heard there there was an enormous

dog fight. Did you hear that news? So

both Pakistan and India had uh a large

number of jets in the air who were

directly fighting each other and they

called it a dog

fight. And then later we find out

uh later we find out that they stayed on

their own side of the

border. So none of the Indian jets went

into Pakistan and none of the Pakistani

jets went into

India but they had an enormous multi-our

dog

fight.

So does that raise any questions with

you? like what the hell kind of a dog

fight is it if you're not even in the

same country at the same time and the

answer is they were shooting things from

I don't know over a 100 miles away so it

was all long range

attacks so I guess the Indian jets were

just sort of circling on their side of

the border and the Pakistanis were on

their side of the border and not even

close they were you know hundreds of

miles away and uh somebody launch a

missile and sometimes it would hit and

sometimes it wouldn't, I

guess. So, that was a dog fight. But it

does

suggest that um they're very they're

both very serious about not

escalating. So, that's the good news. I

don't think you would I don't think you

would spend that much energy making sure

you never cross the border with your

jet. You know, at the time when you're

you're basically at war and still you're

not going to cross the border, that's

pretty serious indication that you don't

want to escalate. You just want to make

sure you've made your point that you

can't mess with us. And I guess they

both made the point that you can't mess

with us or there will be problems.

So that's where that went. All right,

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