Episode 2847 CWSA 05/22/25

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Well, how about a little uh update on the weirdness that's going on in the AI world?

So apparently uh Sam Alman and Open AI have plans for putting a companion in your pocket.

He's working with uh Johnny or Joanie Iive.

I don't know how to pronounce that.

It's funny.

Somebody was mocking me the other day online about how I mispronounce all the names.

You're so right.

I definitely mispronounce a lot of names.

Is it Joanie IV or Johnny Ivy?

I don't know.

But anyway, he Joanie or Johnny or whoever the hell he was.

He used to be the main designer for Apple.

And now he's designing an AI companion device that will be sort of a handheld device or a pocket size thing.

And there won't be any phone or glasses.

It won't have any any screen, but it will uh become your little companion.

Now, honestly, that sounds like a terrible idea.

Do you think they can pull that off?

When I see an idea that I say to myself, "Oh, I I wouldn't mind that." It's like, "Oh, there's something that that attracts me to that idea, even if I thought I wouldn't use it." Sometimes you just like feel that pull.

I don't feel anything for that.

I He thinks um I guess Sam thinks that they can sell 100 million AI companions.

Um but without a screen, it's not going to have a face.

And if it doesn't have a face, are you going to bond with it?

I think the face is the important part.

I don't know.

Well, we'll see.

Obviously, they're very smart people, so maybe they have an idea that doesn't make sense to me, but is brilliant.

In other news, Reuters is reporting that uh there was an AI bot that a teenager was using as his therapist.

And apparently the AI bot pushed the teenager to take his own life.

And uh the judge rejected Google's I guess it was a Google AI uh rejected Google's defense that it was free speech.

So that's dangerous.

Do you think that an AI bot convinced a teenager to take his own life?

I don't know.

It seems like they would have programmed it so it could never do that.

And if they haven't, they should really program it so it would never do that.

That's my idea.

Anyway, um and then the coolest thing, this is actually a a AI app that uh long before AI.

Uh I actually formed a company and got a URL and I tried to actually build this app myself with help, but uh didn't work out, but the AI can do it.

What it is is if you're using Google to search for clothing that you're going to buy, um the app will allow you to see yourself wearing those clothes, which is pretty cool.

And and I thought to myself, wouldn't you like to see yourself wearing the clothes before you did it?

Now, my idea was was different.

Uh my idea is that somewhere in the world there's always a person who looks like you.

Have you noticed that there's always a person who looks like you?

So in my case, you know, some balding guy a certain age with glasses and you know a white guy who's a certain height and goes to the gym.

And I thought I don't need to see myself wearing these clothes.

I need to see somebody who looks like me wearing those clothes.

So, I thought if you could just get people to put on a shirt that they like and then take a picture of themselves, I would just learn where I could find the people who look like me and then say, "Oh, there's there's my doppelganger.

It looks good in that shirt.

I'll buy that shirt." Anyway, the AI is a much better version.

Um also according to Rowan Jung who talks about AI um on X there's a now the Google Meet um app that's basically like Zoom but Google's version um allows you to do instant translations.

So you could speak in English and have it come out uh instantly as Spanish on the other side and vice versa.

They're going to add some more languages.

But weren't you waiting for that?

That doesn't that seem like that's so Star Trek to have an instant universal translator?

It's not universal yet, but doesn't look like it'd be that hard to add the universal part.

Anyway, so I got a story for you.

Do you like stories?

A little personal story.

So uh I'm going to tell you a story before the story.

Some of you have heard this but uh it will kind of dovetail with the other story.

So in the 70s my first job was a bank teller in San Francisco.

And one day this uh very distinguished gentleman wearing a nice suit came up to my window and he said, "I'd like to cash this check." And I said, "Do you have an account here, sir?" And he said, "Uh, no, I don't have a personal account here, but my company uh banks here." And of course, I had been well trained, so I knew that wasn't good enough.

And I said, "Well, you're going to have to get an approval from one of the managers because I don't have the authority to cash a check for somebody who doesn't have a personal account here." So, uh, he had already waited in line and I said, you know, there's the managers over there.

Just go over there and get one of them to approve it.

So, I waited for the argument because that's usually where the trouble starts.

Like, you you lousy bank, you're going to make me wait in line.

I'm not going to do.

But nothing like that happened.

He was just perfectly professional and goodnatured about it.

So, he immediately goes over to where the managers are, and I'm kind of watching out of the corner of my eye while I'm doing my other transactions.

And I see my supervisor running, like actually running.

And I thought, why is she running?

And she was running to the manager.

And then the manager comes out and it looked like he was sort of jogging, too.

Like, why are they in such a hurry?

What what's going on with these two people?

And uh then they signed they must have approved it.

And uh the the distinguished gentleman in the suit gets back in line at the line in front of my teller window.

And uh I noticed that he was in line.

So I I waved waved to him and said, "Oh." And I told the other people who were waiting, "He's already waited in line once, you know, please come to the front of the line." So he didn't have to wait again.

So again, completely goodnatured, you know, I've inconvenienced the hell out of him, but he's he's just playing it like it's a regular day.

He comes up, I cash his check, he goes on his way, and I think to myself, sorry that was inconvenient, but we got it done.

Uh, a few minutes later, my supervisor, who had been doing all the running, uh, comes over and she says to me, "Do you know whose check you just refused to can to to you refused the cash?" And I said, "No, I didn't really pay attention to the name." And she goes, "That's David Packard, the co-founder of Hullet Packard.

He was one of he was one of the richest people in the country at the time.

So anyway, just keep that just keep that story in mind and just just put it to the side.

All right?

Because the story I'm going to tell you has nothing to do with him, but you you might enjoy knowing that that it exists.

So yesterday I'm I'm home and uh I've been getting lots of lots of people reaching out because of my recent health related news.

And uh but I can't talk to everybody like it just it's just continual messages coming in and you know I have to kind of pace myself.

So I see a phone number coming in.

Somebody's calling me from some some number I don't recognize some something in Florida.

And I sent it to a voicemail.

And uh a little bit later, I thought I better check that voicemail and see if that was anything I need to deal with.

And uh the first the the first sentence in the transcription cuz you know the phone gives you the text version of the voicemail as well.

The the first sentence is this is your favorite president.

And I thought to myself, no.

Did I just send the most important person in the world to voicemail?

And it turns out that I had it was Trump and he was he was just calling to check in.

Now he he left a you know semilengthy little voicemail just saying he was checking on me.

He heard about heard about my health situation and uh and then he says you know you can call me back on this number.

Now, obviously, I don't call him back, right?

Because that would just be ridiculous.

It just was a nice thing for him to say because, you know, because he called me.

You could call me back on this number.

So, I didn't I didn't call him back on that number cuz I thought I'd you know what?

It's not like he's sitting at the resolute desk waiting to do waiting for my call.

I thought that what whatever it is he's doing has got to be more important, you know, than randomly taking a call from me.

So, I don't call him back.

Hours go by.

It's the afternoon, same day.

It's the afternoon.

And uh all of a sudden, another call comes through also from Florida.

And I thought to myself, "No way.

There's no way he's calling me again.

and I answer it and it's Trump.

And apparently he he'd heard my situation and he he had lots of questions.

I I won't get into the details of our conversation cuz that would be inappropriate, but he was just checking on me and he had, you know, he wanted to make sure that I was getting everything I needed.

Um, and that was it, you know.

But at the end, uh, the strangest thing happened at the end.

At the end of the call, um, you know, when he found out, you know, the situation was kind of dire and I I was still checking out some things that might help.

He said, "If you need anything, I'll make you happen." And he meant it.

He he he was completely aware of our uh let's say parallel journeys from 2015.

He mentioned it and it was just the the the most incredible weird hard to understand situation, but boy was that fun.

So anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

All right.

Um, speaking of my health situation, I have decided to, you know, look into as many potential cures as I can, but they all have what I call the one guy problem.

So, the one guy problem is that if somebody says, "I I've heard of this cure for your exact situation and I'll say, "Has anybody ever been cured by whatever it is you're suggesting?" And they'll say, "Yes, yes, there's this one guy." And then I'll look into it and the one guy's already dead or he didn't really get cured or but there's never two guys.

So, you know, I dismiss it if it's only one guy.

So, I I think I have four different one guy problems.

You know, half of the people are saying you should try Ivormectin and Fenbenzol, which which of course were the first thing I tried like a year ago.

Um, and they all have the same argument.

I've heard of a guy.

there's this one guy and it's always the same one guy which I don't even think is real but one guy um and then uh anyway so I'm using all of my BS detection to to look at these infinite number of suggestions that are medical and I couldn't possibly understand because I'm not a doctor but I can tell BS when I see I think better than most people.

You know, it's I've been demonstrating that for years here on the podcast.

And there's one left.

Um maybe two, could be two left, but uh as of this morning, I thought, "Oh my goodness, I think there's there might be more than one for this one situation." But then I checked uh AI.

I checked Grock and Grock seemed to think it might be one guy and that one guy didn't get a cure.

Maybe just extended his life expectancy a few months or something.

So, we'll see.

But I'm but just so you know, I'm still looking still looking at Hail Mary possibilities.

Well, in bad news, terrible news, two Israeli embassy staff members were gunned down in cold blood by a suspect uh 30-year-old guy who was yelling free Palestine and I did it for Gaza.

And I don't have much to say about this uh other than it feels important and so has to be noted that uh if we've gotten to the point where Americans are being gunned down in the street because of something that's happening in another part of the world, maybe we need to just rethink something.

I don't know what.

So obviously this is more not more about it's completely just about the shooter.

It's not about the two young people who were a couple as it turns out and they were about to get engaged.

So it's it's got every uh every element of tragedy to it and uh I wish the best for their families, but it's that's going to be a tough time.

Well, let's do a little update on Biden's brain.

Um Joe Scarboro on his show is now saying that he was quote obviously wrong uh when he described the the ex-president as the best Biden ever.

So, now that we've seen Jake Tapper um admit that when he was talking to Laura Trump, he was just 100% wrong and she was 100% right when she was saying that he's obviously degraded.

So, now so, so Tapper has now admitted he was wrong and Joe Scarboro now says that he was wrong.

Um although I think both of them say that they didn't see personal specific problems with him, but they didn't have that much contact with him.

I guess Scarro did actually have a little more contact with him, but there's some thought that maybe uh Biden always waited until he was in better shape to contact them.

Maybe.

Um, and then, uh, another update, Jake Tapper told Sam Harris, he was on Sam Harris's podcast, I guess, that one of the reasons that Biden's aids were sort of blinded to the fact that Biden was doing so poorly, is because he always seemed cognitively weak.

Imagine, imagine this being your reason that you couldn't tell your boss was cognitively impaired.

cuz he was always cognitively weak.

And uh this is what Jake said.

He said that they weren't sure what was going on because he was always kind of prone to some some of this behavior even when he was in fighting form.

You know, long- winded pointless stories and forgetting names and such, gaffs, lies, all those things.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong.

Did we not just go through years of being told that Trump was the one who lies?

And now now after the fact, Jake is just sort of matterofactly stating that his aids probably couldn't tell when Biden was having a bad day because he always lied.

And and you and I are saying the same thing, right?

Which is some version of we knew that we knew, you know, he ran on the fine people hoax.

Of course, of course he was the biggest liar we've ever had in that office, I think.

Well, according to uh I saw a post by Doug Mc.

Gregor that some kind of whistleblower has come forward about the autopen scandal.

And I've heard I've heard some names involved with it, but I don't want to name them yet because I think it's premature.

But apparently there are some names that would not be household names to most of you that uh had access to that thing and might have been the the auto pen people separately.

Um oh Tonkabot go yourself.

Seriously just go yourself.

Can can can you guys in the comments straighten out Tonkabot cuz you you just crossed the line.

You crossed that line pretty hard.

All right.

According to uh Nike, um I saw this on a post by Unusual Wales.

Uh Nike says they're going to increase their prices on footwear because of the tariffs.

So if you were going to pay between $100 and 150, you might get a $5 hike while sneakers priced above 150 will see a $10 increase.

To which I say, would anybody notice that?

Do do you think that there's anybody who um is going to pay $150 for sneakers who would not buy them cuz they're $160?

They say, "Oh, darn it.

I thought these would cost 150, but it looks like they're 160." I don't know.

To me, that doesn't seem like the end of the world.

Um, remember all the warnings we were getting that the tariffs were going to blast your your prices and the economy was going to fail.

I feel like they're going to sell the same amount of footwear.

So, they might be absorbing something, but they don't say.

But then there's a story the Washington Times is reporting that Target target stores um thinks they can adapt and offset most of the tariff costs by reducing their reliance on China.

So they're already working hard to make sure they don't have too much sourcing from China.

So Target won't have uh at least ridiculously higher prices because of it.

and uh and we are at the Home Depot wasn't going to have much big much higher prices.

So we might we might see story after story of uh big companies that figured out they were just going to absorb it or adjust it or something.

So that this would be the most surprising outcome if the Trump administration was completely right that the tariffs um got us what we wanted with minimal change in prices.

Could be.

It's entirely possible.

Um I I got to say I was skeptical cuz I didn't know what was going to happen.

We've never been in this situation before.

But it would be pretty amazing if Trump was right about this that the retailers would just adjust or absorb it or find other sources if they tried hard enough.

It looks like that's what's happened so far, but it's a little bit early.

You probably heard that the House uh it's not a law yet, but just the House passed the big beautiful bill.

Now, I got to say that I've never heard anybody brand a spending bill before.

I think Trump's the first one who ever did that.

And it's kind of genius that he's calling it the big beautiful bill because it would be easy to turn down a continuing resolution or some boring damn thing, but how do you say no to a big beautiful bill?

Well, anyway, so that's that's best.

Now, um, and then they say uh that this is the Wall Street Journal's reporting.

So, this is this is the wording in the Wall Street Journal.

Um, they're talking about how it would increase the deficit by 2.7 trillion.

And the Wall Street Journal says that figure was causing discomfort.

Discomfort they say for some Republicans as national debt and bond yields climb.

Republican leaders say that faster economic growth from Trump's policies would fill the gap and make it deficit neutral, a point that many economists dispute.

Now that's it.

So the Wall Street Journal, which is sort of the premier financial reporting entity in the country, they they do point out that the bill would add to the deficit.

But you know what's missing?

The part where the whole country crashes in on itself because the deficit is too big.

There's something wrong with the way everybody's talking about this.

And I saw a post on X from Data Republican um whose uh theory is that the reason that people are talking about it like it's no big deal when it's the biggest deal.

It's bigger than all the other deals.

There's nothing as important as this and we're racing toward a cliff to absolute disaster.

And then the Wall Street Journal is like, "Yeah, you know, some some economists dispute it." really that that's the best you can do is some economist dispute it and well you know Trump says that growth will take care of it.

No it won't.

Nobody thinks that.

I I well nobody serious thinks that.

So data Republican has some theories that it's cultural and corruption.

Now, I haven't seen the details of her argument, but she's digging into it harder to find out what's going on here data wise.

And uh we'll see what she comes up with.

But um the cultural part, I don't know exactly what that means, but I feel like the country has been trained, you know, the non-economists and the non-politicians.

I think they've all been trained that kicking the can down the road always works because it always worked before and we complain about it every time, but then they kick the can and we're okay.

But at some point that definitely stops working and we're at that point.

So, you'd expect that the news would, you know, kind of uh flexibly change toward, oh, no, we can't do this anymore, but it didn't.

That that would be the cultural part, I guess, that as a culture, we've just decided it's not a problem, so we treat it like it's not, even though we're blly heading toward the cliff.

And then the corruption part is that the people who could change it, you know, let's say the military-industrial complex, they like their money, so they're not going to change it.

And everybody else has a piece of the pie if they're part of the, you know, part of the deep state or, you know, part of politics.

So between corruption and the fact that we've been trained not to see it as a problem, we're we're blind to the biggest problem the country's had in my lifetime.

So So I thought that would be uh useful for me to uh solve this problem.

Um I'm going to use a technique you've heard from me before.

It's called the bad idea.

Now, the bad idea is exactly that.

I'm going to give you a bad idea for solving the deficit problem.

You're you're of course going to notice, wait a minute, there's a problem with that bad idea, but it might make you think of a good idea because it's going to be out of the box.

So, let me just put it out there.

It's a bad idea, but maybe it'll make you come up with the real good idea.

All right, suppose just suppose the uh government issues a cryptocurrency.

But if you is if you if you issue if you issued a cryptocurrency that people could use to buy anything they want, well that would be very inflationary.

So that's no good, right?

Everybody agrees.

If if you just added money, it doesn't matter if it's crypto or you printed money.

If you're just adding money, that doesn't work because it's uh hugely inflationary.

But suppose just suppose that the money that's being added uh I'll just give you one example.

Suppose that uh if you were collecting interest on a T bill you could optionally and it would just be up to you.

Nobody would force you to do it.

You could receive it in regular old dollars just like you always did or you could receive your interest in this new crypto that and let's say it's tied to the dollar so it's not fluctuating that much.

Now you might say well why would I ever take the crypto and the answer is that it would have one purpose.

You could only use it for one thing which is paying federal taxes in the United States.

It couldn't be used for anything else.

So, would that make the the price of products at Target go up?

No, because there wouldn't be any more money available to buy things at Target.

It would be the same amount of money.

It's just that you could only use this crypto.

Now, suppose I said to you that this crypto would give you a 5% discount on your taxes.

Now, you might be a person who has a tea bill and you don't pay many taxes for whatever reasons, but you could say, "All right, I'll take the crypto and then I'll just resell it to somebody who wants to pay their taxes and they can get the 5% discount and you know, I'll charge them a little extra." So, you could easily exchange it.

Then, here's the fun part.

Suppose that the one and only thing you can do with it is pay your taxes.

But that once the government received your crypto payment in taxes, it would have to burn the crypto.

it would never exist again because that would keep the government from uh just spending whatever extra money the system produced.

They could the your taxes would be paid by the crypto but the government would just not have access to it.

It would just be burned.

Being burned means in the digital world it it becomes not crypto anymore.

It just turns into garbage basically.

Now would that work?

What it would do is it would pay down the debt.

But in our current system, in our current system, if you paid down the debt a little bit, somebody would just increase spending.

But with this, you would pay down the debt and it would just disappear.

There would be nothing to allow them to increase spending.

So, it's a bad idea.

But think in terms of adding crypto but limiting it to a single purpose so it doesn't have a general inflationary possibility.

All right.

So, that's all.

Uh, you don't have to tell me it's a bad idea because that's where I started.

Well, most of you by now have seen the video of uh Trump doing what the fake news calls ambushing.

So, all the fake news got the memo to use the word ambush.

Uh the president of South Africa was in the very crowded room that uh dignitaries are greeted in the white house.

And uh Trump was complaining about white genocide in South Africa.

And I guess the president of South Africa was not convinced that it was happening.

And uh so uh so the president said, you know, turn down the lights.

We'll show this video.

And he showed some video evidence to make his case.

And then he showed a bunch of, you know, printed out documents to make his case.

And uh part of it was videos of um what looked like hundreds or thousands of white crosses next to a to the road that I think Trump called uh graves.

Now what's interesting is the president of South Africa said, "Where is that?

I've never seen that." And and Trump said, "It's in South Africa." like and how how in the world could he not know that it existed?

It's like, you know, in the United States, we've sort of all seen that picture.

And so I said to myself, oh, and Elon Musk was there giving a death stare to the president because uh he he's, you know, quite uh he's quite uh invested, at least emotionally invested in into his old country.

And uh part of it was uh showing the video of um some large gathering, political gathering in South Africa where the uh black gatherers were singing kill the boores, which would be the the white people.

And so I said to myself, I wonder if there's another side to this argument.

So, I went to Grock and I asked Grock because it was aware of the event if uh if the argument that Trump was making was valid and Grock said nope.

Now, I'm not saying that.

All right?

So, what I'm telling you is that Grock said it's all debunked.

Now, here are a few things I said.

You know, all those white crosses, those don't exist.

They did exist for a specific protest.

But it actually wouldn't be that surprising that the president of the country doesn't know they exist because he literally said, "Where's that?" And he looked like he wasn't lying.

Like he literally didn't even know what that was about.

That doesn't exist according to Grock.

Now remember, I'm making I'm I'm telling you Grock's argument.

What I'm not doing is making my own argument, right?

So you got to make that distinction.

I'll tell you my own argument when I'm when I do this.

Then Grock said that that kill the Boers song was uh was a a free speech song.

I guess the courts have decided it was just free speech and that it didn't mean kill any individuals.

It was about killing the system and it was a historical song about killing the old apartheid system.

Do you believe that?

That's what Grock says.

Again, this is not me saying it.

It's what Grock says.

And then what else I said?

Uh uh then there was one video that Trump showed with they showed some violence and Grock said that's not even South Africa.

That's from the Congo.

To which I said, "Oh, really?

I don't know." Again, it's just Grock saying it.

Um, and then it said that the alleged murders of white farmers was not real, that it was fake.

This, and again, this is not me.

Don't blame me.

I'm telling you what Grock said.

And here's what Grock said.

that it's true that white farmers, you know, their their farms were being attacked and they were being murdered, but it said it wasn't for political reasons.

It was just regular crime in a country where there's just tons of crime and murder and that nobody was taking over those farms.

They were just stealing stuff and killing the families.

So, it wasn't so much a political act, it was just crime.

and it was a little bit easier to do the crime in a remote farmhouse because there was nobody around to stop them from doing it.

And then it said that far more uh black citizens of South Africa are getting murdered as a as a raw number compared to the tiny tiny number of white South Africans that are also being murdered.

So according to Grock, there's no such thing as some unusually large number of white South Africans being murdered, not for political reasons, etc.

Then there was a question of there's some new rule that says that uh the black South Africans or the government I guess can take from the white South Africans their property but they prefer to buy it.

if they can't buy it, the law allows that under certain conditions, they can just take it and not pay anything.

But according to Grock, that's never happened.

Do you believe that?

That it's never happened.

It's just that it could happen and it would be constitutional because the law allows it.

So, let me give you my opinion.

My opinion is if you live in a country where on a regular basis a large political party uh apparently it's like the number three party.

It's not the leading in power party.

when they get together and they say things like kill the boores, you should get down at that country as soon as possible because even if they're thinking about it being the system and it's a historical song, you don't want to live in a country where people are saying that it's okay to sing that.

You don't need the law to tell you that they can or can't.

If you're in a country where they're singing kill the people who are you, you should start packing up right away.

That's my advice.

Number two, if you live in a country where there is a law that says we're going to, you know, buy your property uh because we don't think that it should be belonging to white people.

And if we can't make an agreement to buy it, well, we've got this backup plan where we can just take it for nothing.

If you live in a country with that as one of your laws, you should get out of that country as soon as possible because nothing good is going to happen.

Nothing good is going to happen.

And uh if you live in a country where there's so much violence that the argument against the white genocide is well there's no white genocide.

Look how many black people are being killed by just other black people.

You should get out of that country right away because whatever it is that's causing all these people to be killed, be they black or be they white, it's way too many.

like way way too many run get out of that country and uh that's what I say.

So what you need to know is that the news is saying it was mostly fake news and Trump was ambushing him.

Uh what you need to know is that Grock, which is actually ironically created by Elon Musk, says h not so much.

You know, you have to see the other side of this.

Um and then what you really need to know is that everything about that situation looks like trouble brewing.

Trouble brewing.

I would get out of there if I could.

So that's my advice.

Anyway, according to the publication called The Atlantic, which is really just a joke publication because it's it's such a propaganda rag that it's hard to even imagine it as a serious publication.

But, uh, one of the articles big headline is the decline and fall of Elon Musk.

the decline and fall of Elon Musk.

Now, I think they mean that he's less involved with Doge and the government, but that was the plan.

The plan is that right about now he would be removing himself from Doge and the government, which he did.

And then you look at how's how's Tesla doing?

the stock is like totally recovered and he's on the verge of unleashing robots for what could be the largest um product launch of all time and that's not even counting the auto uh you know the self-driving auto cabs.

So I would say that Elon Musk is on the border of taking his current success and fame and multiplying it by a thousand.

And I don't know what would stop him because he's got a pretty solid plan.

Build robots, auto cabs.

Anyway, so that's just propaganda.

Um, apparently Trump told some European leaders that he thinks uh Putin thinks that he's winning the war, meaning Putin thinks he's winning the war and isn't ready for peace.

Now, who told you that first?

I did.

I've been telling you for a while.

Uh, it really looks to me like Putin is not looking for peace whatsoever.

And apparently uh Trump has that opinion at the moment too.

So he's uh sorry Trump is shifted from talking about sanctions to proposing some lower level talks including the Vatican which is funny because it just it just uh offloads it offloads the failure to the Vatican so that the pope can be responsible for whatever doesn't happen.

Well, um, but here's my take.

What the hell are you going to do?

Are we going to weigh in and start refunding Ukraine like that would work and that and that, you know, Ukraine would win the war?

I don't think we're going to do that.

Is Europe going to fund them so they can win the war?

I don't think they can.

Are we going to give them enough drones and robots that they don't need any humans and they can hold off the entire Russian army?

Well, I don't know if we're right at that point yet.

Maybe.

But are we going to let Ukraine fall because it looks like uh Putin's just going to chew on it until he gets everything he wants.

So, my question is, what options do we really have?

I'm pretty sure that even the worst sanctions wouldn't change Putin's mind if he thinks he's winning that war.

I think he would just figure out a way around the sanctions.

So, do we have any options?

I can't think of any.

So, I guess Ukraine will just get ground down and uh Putin will have his way and control Ukraine.

Does it look like that's what's going to happen?

Yeah.

Well, um I've got no idea how how you can do anything except lose Ukraine at this point.

No idea.

Well, according to the Associated Press, Canada is in talks with the US about joining its so-called Golden Dome.

That would be our missile defense system.

Cuz it wouldn't make a lot of sense for Canada to build its own missile defense if it could just pay a little, not a little, but it could pay to be part of our um defense system that we're building.

So, I do like the fact that uh Carney is just sort of a good businessman and he's just well, why would we build it ourselves?

It would just make more sense to partner.

Now, do you remember when it wasn't long ago when the fake news was telling you that all the other countries were not going to be able to deal with the United States because we'd insulted them and you know they're all mad and they they'll never do business with Trump.

And then Trump goes to the Middle East and he's treated like a god king.

And then he has one meeting with Carney and they're just best friends and Carney wants to be part of our missile defense to, you know, presumably pay for it.

But I was telling you the whole time that it's a transactional world.

If Trump offers value to other countries, those other countries will treat him with the utmost respect.

That's it.

that that's the whole story.

Nobody's getting insulted.

And if they did, they wouldn't it wouldn't last that, you know, they'd get over it right away if they had some economic reason.

So there's another example of that.

According to the New York Post, Syria with its new leader is talking about joining the Abraham Accords and normalizing relationship with Israel.

Do you think there are any catches to that?

Oh, yes, there are.

Um, they want assurances that Israel would stop bombing Syria.

I don't know if they're going to get that.

Uh, they want Israel to stop fermenting sectarian divisions.

Uh, I don't know what they're doing there, but if it's good for Israel, they're not going to stop doing it.

And, uh, they want to reach a negotiated arrangement regarding the Golan Heights.

Well, I think Israel already has what they want, right?

It's not like they're going to give a little bit of the Golan Heights back to Syria.

So, I I think that this is another one of those fake peace offerings where where the head of Syria is like, "Oh, yeah, totally.

We want to be your best friends.

Oh, we'll just take the Golan Heights back.

Uh, you know, we'll we'll negotiate it.

Of course, we're not animals." So, I don't I don't think these look like pretty big problems.

I don't know if they can negotiate those away, but maybe.

Here's here's some news.

France has a new laser rifle that can melt like that's small enough that a uh one soldier can hold it like a bazooka and it can melt electronics from 500 feet away and doesn't make any noise.

So the only noise you'd hear is the electronics burning from 500 feet away.

Now, if it's small enough that a soldier can carry it, I would not want to be on the other side of that laser cuz if it can make electronics catch on fire, it could make your head catch on fire pretty quickly.

So that's scary.

According to the Daily Mail, Kim Jong-un, North Korea, uh, is not happy about the launch he attended of their new 5,000 ton North Korean warship.

Uh, cuz it launched and immediately capsized.

Imagine being the, you know, the head of North Korea and, you know, these military things, these rocket launches and these, you know, ship launches are like a gigantic part of your national ego and he attends it and the thing they launch it and it just capsizes.

So, he watched in horror as his 5,000 ton ship was severely damaged.

I think they could figure out a way to write it because it didn't sink.

It just turned sideways.

I think it's still floating.

So, we'll see if they can salvage that.

But that's Can you imagine being the whoever was in charge of launching that thing?

You know, you're you're standing next to the uh deer leader because, you know, you had an important job.

you're the one who was in charge of making sure this thing got built and launched and the Kim Jong-un is like right next to you shouldertosh shoulder and you're like man this is the best best day of my career I could get you know extra food rations based on this I'm really killing it and then your your ship gets launched and it just turns sideways in the water and you're standing right right next to Kim Jong-un that would be the scariest est thing that could ever happen to a person.

Like, what the hell would you say?

Oh, it's okay, boss.

I'll get it next time.

I'll get it next time.

All right.

So, uh I saw Dom Lucer was reporting that uh uh we learned from the Diddy trial that Diddy had ecstasy pills that were printed with the face of Obama on them.

And there were uh red Obamas, green Obamas, and orange Obamas and blue Obamas.

But uh you could take these pills if you went to one of his freakoffs.

Okay.

Do you think Obama was in any way implicated in any of that or they just thought it was funny to put his face on their ecstasy bills?

I don't know there.

I haven't seen any indication Obama is connected to any of that, but but he's connected to the pills.

All right, that's all I got for today.

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I'm going to say a few words to the locals people privately.

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I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place.

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Go. Yeah. Yeah. That was a little extra

good. Gets better every

time. Well, how about a little uh update

on the weirdness that's going on in the

AI world?

So apparently uh Sam Alman and Open AI

have plans for putting a companion in

your pocket. He's working with uh Johnny

or Joanie Iive. I don't know how to

pronounce that. It's funny. Somebody was

mocking me the other day online about

how I mispronounce all the

names. You're so right. I definitely

mispronounce a lot of names. Is it

Joanie IV or Johnny

Ivy? I don't know. But anyway, he Joanie

or Johnny or whoever the hell he was. He

used to be the main designer for Apple.

And now he's designing an AI companion

device that will be sort of a handheld

device or a pocket size thing. And there

won't be any phone or glasses. It won't

have any any screen, but it will uh

become your little

companion. Now, honestly, that sounds

like a terrible idea. Do you think they

can pull that

off? When I see an idea that I say to

myself, "Oh, I I wouldn't mind that."

It's like, "Oh, there's something that

that attracts me to that idea, even if I

thought I wouldn't use it." Sometimes

you just like feel that pull. I don't

feel anything for

that. I He thinks um I guess Sam thinks

that they can sell 100 million AI

companions. Um but without a

screen, it's not going to have a

face. And if it doesn't have a face, are

you going to bond with it? I think the

face is the important part. I don't

know. Well, we'll see. Obviously,

they're very smart people, so maybe they

have an idea that doesn't make sense to

me, but is

brilliant. In other news, Reuters is

reporting that uh there was an AI

bot that a teenager was using as his

therapist. And apparently the AI bot

pushed the teenager to take his own

life.

And uh the judge rejected Google's I

guess it was a Google AI uh rejected

Google's defense that it was free

speech.

So that's

dangerous. Do you think that an AI bot

convinced a teenager to take his own

life? I don't know. It seems like they

would have programmed it so it could

never do that. And if they haven't, they

should really program it so it would

never do that. That's my

idea. Anyway,

um and then the coolest thing, this is

actually a a AI app that uh long before

AI. Uh I actually formed a company and

got a URL and I tried to actually build

this app myself with help, but uh didn't

work out, but the AI can do it. What it

is is if you're using Google to search

for clothing that you're going to buy,

um the app will allow you to see

yourself wearing those clothes, which is

pretty

cool. And and I thought to myself,

wouldn't you like to see yourself

wearing the clothes before you did it?

Now, my idea was was different. Uh my

idea is that somewhere in the world

there's always a person who looks like

you. Have you noticed that there's

always a person who looks like you? So

in my case, you know, some balding guy a

certain age with glasses and you know a

white guy who's a certain height and

goes to the gym. And I thought I don't

need to see myself wearing these

clothes. I need to see somebody who

looks like me wearing those clothes. So,

I thought if you could just get people

to put on a shirt that they like and

then take a picture of themselves, I

would just learn where I could find the

people who look like me and then say,

"Oh, there's there's my doppelganger. It

looks good in that shirt. I'll buy that

shirt." Anyway, the AI is a much better

version. Um also according to Rowan Jung

who talks about AI

um on X there's a now the Google Meet um

app that's basically like Zoom but

Google's version

um allows you to do instant

translations. So you could speak in

English and have it come out uh

instantly as Spanish on the other side

and vice versa. They're going to add

some more languages. But weren't you

waiting for

that? That doesn't that seem like that's

so Star Trek to have an instant

universal translator? It's not universal

yet, but doesn't look like it'd be that

hard to add the universal part. Anyway,

so I got a story for

you. Do you like stories? A little

personal story.

So uh I'm going to tell you a story

before the story. Some of you have heard

this but uh it will kind of dovetail

with the other story. So in the 70s my

first job was a bank teller in San

Francisco. And one day this uh very

distinguished gentleman wearing a nice

suit came up to my window and he said,

"I'd like to cash this check." And I

said, "Do you have an account here,

sir?" And he said, "Uh, no, I don't have

a personal account here, but my company

uh banks here." And of course, I had

been well trained, so I knew that wasn't

good enough. And I said, "Well, you're

going to have to get an approval from

one of the managers because I don't have

the authority to cash a check for

somebody who doesn't have a personal

account here."

So, uh, he had already waited in line

and I said, you know, there's the

managers over there. Just go over there

and get one of them to approve it. So, I

waited for the argument because that's

usually where the trouble starts. Like,

you you lousy bank, you're going to make

me wait in line. I'm not going to do.

But nothing like that happened. He was

just perfectly professional and

goodnatured about it. So, he immediately

goes over to where the managers are, and

I'm kind of watching out of the corner

of my eye while I'm doing my other

transactions. And I see my supervisor

running, like actually

running. And I thought, why is she

running? And she was running to the

manager. And then the manager comes out

and it looked like he was sort of

jogging, too. Like, why are they in such

a hurry? What what's going on with these

two people? And uh then they signed they

must have approved it. And uh the the

distinguished gentleman in the suit gets

back in line at the line in front of my

teller window. And uh I noticed that he

was in line. So I I waved waved to him

and said, "Oh." And I told the other

people who were waiting, "He's already

waited in line once, you know, please

come to the front of the line." So he

didn't have to wait again. So again,

completely

goodnatured, you know, I've

inconvenienced the hell out of him, but

he's he's just playing it like it's a

regular day. He comes up, I cash his

check, he goes on his way, and I think

to myself, sorry that was inconvenient,

but we got it done. Uh, a few minutes

later, my supervisor, who had been doing

all the running, uh, comes over and she

says to me, "Do you know whose check you

just refused to can to to you refused

the cash?" And I said, "No, I didn't

really pay attention to the name." And

she goes, "That's David Packard, the

co-founder of Hullet

Packard. He was one of he was one of the

richest people in the country at the

time.

So anyway, just keep that just keep that

story in mind and just just put it to

the side. All right? Because the story

I'm going to tell you has nothing to do

with

him, but you you might enjoy knowing

that that it

exists. So yesterday I'm I'm

home and uh I've been getting lots of

lots of people reaching out because of

my recent health related news.

And uh but I can't talk to everybody

like it just it's just continual

messages coming in and you know I have

to kind of pace myself. So I see a phone

number coming in. Somebody's calling me

from some some number I don't recognize

some something in

Florida. And I sent it to a voicemail.

And uh a little bit later, I thought I

better check that voicemail and see if

that was anything I need to deal with.

And uh the first the the first sentence

in the transcription cuz you know the

phone gives you the text version of the

voicemail as well. The the first

sentence is this is your favorite

president. And I thought to myself, no.

Did I just send the most important

person in the world to

voicemail? And it turns out that I had

it was Trump and he was he was just

calling to check in. Now he he left a

you know semilengthy little voicemail

just saying he was checking on me. He

heard about heard about my health

situation and uh and then he says you

know you can call me back on this

number.

Now, obviously, I don't call him back,

right? Because that would just be

ridiculous. It just was a nice thing for

him to say because, you know, because he

called me. You could call me back on

this number. So, I didn't I didn't call

him back on that number cuz I thought

I'd you know what? It's not like he's

sitting at the resolute desk waiting to

do waiting for my call.

I thought that what whatever it is he's

doing has got to be more important, you

know, than randomly taking a call from

me. So, I don't call him

back. Hours go by. It's the afternoon,

same day. It's the afternoon. And uh all

of a sudden, another call comes through

also from

Florida. And I thought to myself, "No

way. There's no way he's calling me

again. and I answer it and it's

Trump. And apparently he he'd heard my

situation and he he had lots of

questions. I I won't get into the

details of our conversation cuz that

would be inappropriate, but he was just

checking on me and he had, you know, he

wanted to make sure that I was getting

everything I needed. Um, and that was

it, you know. But at the end, uh, the

strangest thing happened at the end. At

the end of the call,

um, you know, when he found out, you

know, the situation was kind of dire and

I I was still checking out some things

that might help. He said, "If you need

anything, I'll make you

happen." And he meant

it. He he he was completely aware of our

uh let's say parallel journeys from

2015. He mentioned it and it was just

the the the most

incredible

weird hard to understand

situation, but boy was that fun. So

anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking

to

it. All right.

Um, speaking of my health situation, I

have decided to, you know, look into as

many potential cures as I can, but they

all have what I call the one guy

problem.

So, the one guy

problem is that if somebody says, "I

I've heard of this cure for your exact

situation and I'll say, "Has anybody

ever been cured by whatever it is you're

suggesting?" And they'll say, "Yes, yes,

there's this one guy." And then I'll

look into it and the one guy's already

dead or he didn't really get cured or

but there's never two guys. So, you

know, I dismiss it if it's only one guy.

So, I I think I have four

different one guy

problems. You know, half of the people

are saying you should try Ivormectin and

Fenbenzol, which which of course were

the first thing I tried like a year ago.

Um, and they all have the same argument.

I've heard of a guy. there's this one

guy and it's always the same one guy

which I don't even think is real but one

guy

um and then uh anyway so I'm using all

of my BS detection to to look at these

infinite number of suggestions that are

medical and I couldn't possibly

understand because I'm not a doctor but

I can tell BS when I see

I think better than most people. You

know, it's I've been demonstrating that

for years here on the

podcast. And there's one

left. Um maybe two, could be two left,

but uh as of this morning, I thought,

"Oh my goodness, I think there's there

might be more than one for this one

situation." But then I checked uh AI. I

checked Grock and Grock seemed to think

it might be one

guy and that one guy didn't get a cure.

Maybe just extended his life expectancy

a few months or something. So, we'll

see. But I'm but just so you know, I'm

still looking still looking at Hail Mary

possibilities.

Well, in bad news, terrible news, two

Israeli embassy staff members were

gunned down in cold blood by a suspect

uh 30-year-old guy who was yelling free

Palestine and I did it for

Gaza. And I don't have much to say about

this

uh other than it feels important and so

has to be noted that uh if we've gotten

to the point where Americans are being

gunned down in the street because of

something that's happening in another

part of the

world, maybe we need to just

rethink something. I don't know what. So

obviously this is more not more about

it's completely just about the shooter.

It's not about the two young people who

were a couple as it turns out and they

were about to get engaged. So it's it's

got every uh every element of tragedy to

it and uh I wish the best for their

families, but it's that's going to be a

tough

time. Well, let's do a little update on

Biden's brain.

Um Joe Scarboro on his

show is now saying that he was quote

obviously wrong uh when he described the

the ex-president as the best Biden

ever. So, now that we've seen Jake

Tapper

um admit that when he was talking to

Laura Trump, he was just 100% wrong and

she was 100% right when she was saying

that he's obviously degraded. So, now

so, so Tapper has now admitted he was

wrong and Joe Scarboro now says that he

was wrong.

Um although I think both of them

say that they didn't see personal

specific problems with him, but they

didn't have that much contact with him.

I guess Scarro did actually have a

little more contact with him, but

there's some thought that maybe uh Biden

always waited until he was in better

shape to contact them. Maybe.

Um, and then, uh, another update, Jake

Tapper told Sam Harris, he was on Sam

Harris's podcast, I guess, that one of

the reasons that Biden's

aids were sort of blinded to the fact

that Biden was doing so poorly, is

because he always seemed cognitively

weak. Imagine, imagine this being your

reason that you couldn't tell your boss

was cognitively impaired. cuz he was

always cognitively weak. And uh this is

what Jake said. He said that they

weren't sure what was going on because

he was always kind of prone to some some

of this behavior even when he was in

fighting form. You know, long- winded

pointless stories and forgetting names

and such, gaffs, lies, all those

things.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong.

Did we not just go through years of

being told that Trump was the one who

lies? And now now after the fact, Jake

is just sort of matterofactly stating

that his aids probably couldn't tell

when Biden was having a bad day because

he always lied.

And and you and I are saying the same

thing, right? Which is some version of

we knew that we knew, you know, he ran

on the fine people hoax. Of course, of

course he was the biggest liar we've

ever had in that office, I think.

Well, according to uh I saw a post by

Doug

McGregor that some kind of whistleblower

has come forward about the autopen

scandal. And I've heard I've heard some

names involved with it, but I don't want

to name them yet because I think it's

premature. But apparently there are some

names that would not be household names

to most of you that uh had access to

that thing and might have been the the

auto pen people

separately.

Um oh

Tonkabot go yourself. Seriously

just go yourself. Can can can you

guys in the comments straighten out

Tonkabot cuz you you just crossed the

line. You crossed that line pretty

hard. All

right. According to uh

Nike, um I saw this on a post by Unusual

Wales. Uh Nike says they're going to

increase their prices on footwear

because of the tariffs. So if you were

going to pay between $100 and 150, you

might get a $5 hike while sneakers

priced above 150 will see a $10

increase. To which I say, would anybody

notice that?

Do do you think that there's anybody who

um is going to pay $150 for

sneakers who would not buy them cuz

they're

$160? They say, "Oh, darn it. I thought

these would cost 150, but it looks like

they're

160." I don't know. To me, that doesn't

seem like the end of the world.

Um, remember all the warnings we were

getting that the tariffs were going to

blast your your prices and the economy

was going to

fail. I feel like they're going to sell

the same amount of footwear. So, they

might be absorbing something, but they

don't say. But then there's a story the

Washington Times is reporting that

Target target stores

um thinks they can adapt and offset most

of the tariff costs by reducing their

reliance on China. So they're already

working hard to make sure they don't

have too much sourcing from China. So

Target won't have uh at least

ridiculously higher prices because of

it.

and

uh and we are at the Home Depot wasn't

going to have much big much higher

prices. So we might we might see story

after

story of uh big companies that figured

out they were just going to absorb it or

adjust it or something. So that this

would be the most surprising outcome if

the Trump administration was completely

right that the tariffs

um got us what we wanted with minimal

change in

prices. Could be. It's entirely

possible. Um I I got to say I was

skeptical cuz I didn't know what was

going to happen. We've never been in

this situation before.

But it would be pretty amazing if Trump

was right about this that the retailers

would just adjust or absorb it or find

other sources if they tried hard enough.

It looks like that's what's happened so

far, but it's a little bit

early. You probably heard that the House

uh it's not a law yet, but just the

House passed the big beautiful bill.

Now, I got to say that I've never heard

anybody brand a spending bill before. I

think Trump's the first one who ever did

that. And it's kind of genius that he's

calling it the big beautiful

bill because it would be easy to turn

down a continuing resolution or some

boring damn thing, but how do you say no

to a big beautiful

bill? Well, anyway, so that's that's

best. Now,

um, and then they say uh that this is

the Wall Street Journal's reporting. So,

this is this is the wording in the Wall

Street Journal. Um, they're talking

about how it would increase the deficit

by 2.7 trillion. And the Wall Street

Journal says that figure was causing

discomfort. Discomfort they say for some

Republicans as national debt and bond

yields climb. Republican leaders say

that faster economic growth from Trump's

policies would fill the gap and make it

deficit neutral, a point that many

economists

dispute. Now that's it.

So the Wall Street Journal, which is

sort of the premier financial reporting

entity in the

country, they they do point out that the

bill would add to the deficit. But you

know what's

missing? The part where the whole

country crashes in on itself because the

deficit is too

big. There's something

wrong with the way everybody's talking

about this. And I saw a post on X from

Data Republican

um whose uh theory is that the reason

that people are talking about it like

it's no big deal when it's the biggest

deal. It's bigger than all the other

deals. There's nothing as important as

this and we're racing toward a cliff to

absolute disaster. And then the Wall

Street Journal is like, "Yeah, you know,

some some economists dispute it."

really that that's the best you can do

is some economist dispute it and well

you know Trump says that growth will

take care of it. No it

won't. Nobody thinks that. I I well

nobody serious thinks that. So data

Republican has some theories that it's

cultural and corruption. Now, I haven't

seen the details of her argument, but

she's digging into it harder to find out

what's going on here data wise. And uh

we'll see what she comes up with. But um

the cultural part, I don't know exactly

what that means, but I feel like the

country has been trained, you know, the

non-economists and the non-politicians.

I think they've all been

trained that kicking the can down the

road always

works because it always worked before

and we complain about it every time, but

then they kick the can and we're okay.

But at some point that definitely stops

working and we're at that point. So,

you'd expect that the news would, you

know, kind of uh flexibly change toward,

oh, no, we can't do this anymore, but it

didn't. That that would be the cultural

part, I guess, that as a culture, we've

just decided it's not a problem, so we

treat it like it's not, even though

we're blly heading toward the

cliff. And then the corruption part is

that the people who could change it, you

know, let's say the military-industrial

complex, they like their money, so

they're not going to change it. And

everybody else has a piece of the pie if

they're part of the, you know, part of

the deep state or, you know, part of

politics. So between corruption and the

fact that we've been trained not to see

it as a problem, we're we're blind to

the biggest problem the country's had in

my

lifetime. So So I thought that would be

uh useful for me to uh solve this

problem. Um I'm going to use a technique

you've heard from me before. It's called

the bad idea.

Now, the bad idea is exactly that. I'm

going to give you a bad idea for solving

the deficit

problem. You're you're of course going

to notice, wait a minute, there's a

problem with that bad

idea, but it might make you think of a

good idea because it's going to be out

of the

box. So, let me just put it out there.

It's a bad

idea, but maybe it'll make you come up

with the real good idea. All

right,

suppose just

suppose the uh government issues a

cryptocurrency.

But if you is if you if you issue if you

issued a

cryptocurrency that people could use to

buy anything they want, well that would

be very inflationary. So that's no good,

right? Everybody

agrees. If if you just added money, it

doesn't matter if it's crypto or you

printed money. If you're just adding

money, that doesn't work because it's uh

hugely inflationary. But

suppose just

suppose that the money that's being

added uh I'll just give you one example.

Suppose that uh if you were collecting

interest on a T

bill you could optionally and it would

just be up to you. Nobody would force

you to do it. You could receive it in

regular old dollars just like you always

did or you could receive your interest

in this new crypto that and let's say

it's tied to the dollar so it's not

fluctuating that much. Now you might say

well why would I ever take the

crypto and the answer is that it would

have one purpose. You could only use it

for one thing which is paying federal

taxes in the United States. It couldn't

be used for anything else. So, would

that make the the price of products at

Target go up? No, because there wouldn't

be any more money available to buy

things at Target. It would be the same

amount of money. It's just that you

could only use this crypto. Now, suppose

I said to you that this crypto would

give you a 5% discount on your taxes.

Now, you might be a person who has a tea

bill and you don't pay many taxes for

whatever reasons, but you could say,

"All right, I'll take the crypto and

then I'll just resell it to somebody who

wants to pay their taxes and they can

get the 5% discount and you know, I'll

charge them a little extra." So, you

could easily exchange it. Then, here's

the fun part.

Suppose that the one and only thing you

can do with it is pay your

taxes. But that once the government

received your crypto payment in taxes,

it would have to burn the

crypto. it would never exist

again

because that would keep the government

from uh just spending whatever extra

money the system

produced. They could the your taxes

would be paid by the crypto but the

government would just not have access to

it. It would just be burned.

Being burned means in the digital world

it it becomes not crypto anymore. It

just turns into garbage

basically.

Now would that

work? What it would do is it would pay

down the

debt. But in our current

system, in our current system, if you

paid down the debt a little bit,

somebody would just increase spending.

But with this, you would pay down the

debt and it would just disappear. There

would be nothing to allow them to

increase

spending. So, it's a bad

idea. But think in terms of adding

crypto but limiting it to a single

purpose so it doesn't have a general

inflationary

possibility. All right. So, that's all.

Uh, you don't have to tell me it's a bad

idea because that's where I

started. Well, most of you by now have

seen the video of uh Trump doing what

the fake news calls

ambushing. So, all the fake news got the

memo to use the word ambush. Uh the

president of South Africa was in the

very crowded room that uh dignitaries

are greeted in

the white

house. And uh Trump was complaining

about white genocide in South Africa.

And I guess the president of South

Africa was not convinced that it was

happening. And

uh so uh so the president said, you

know, turn down the lights. We'll show

this video. And he showed some video

evidence to make his case. And then he

showed a bunch of, you know, printed out

documents to make his case. And uh part

of it was videos of um what looked like

hundreds or thousands of white crosses

next to a to the road that I think Trump

called uh

graves. Now what's interesting is the

president of South Africa said, "Where

is that? I've never seen

that." And and Trump said, "It's in

South Africa." like and how how in the

world could he not know that it existed?

It's like, you know, in the United

States, we've sort of all seen that

picture. And so I said to myself, oh,

and Elon Musk was there giving a death

stare to the president because uh he

he's, you know, quite uh he's quite uh

invested, at least emotionally invested

in into his old country.

And uh part of it was uh showing the

video of um some large gathering,

political gathering in South Africa

where the uh black gatherers were

singing kill the boores, which would be

the the white people.

And so I said to myself, I wonder if

there's another side to this argument.

So, I went to

Grock and I asked Grock because it was

aware of the event if uh if the argument

that Trump was making was valid and

Grock said

nope. Now, I'm not saying that. All

right? So, what I'm telling you is that

Grock said it's all

debunked. Now, here are a few things I

said. You know, all those white

crosses, those don't

exist. They did exist for a specific

protest. But it actually wouldn't be

that surprising that the president of

the country doesn't know they exist

because he literally said, "Where's

that?" And he looked like he wasn't

lying. Like he literally didn't even

know what that was about. That doesn't

exist according to Grock. Now remember,

I'm making I'm I'm telling you Grock's

argument. What I'm not doing is making

my own argument, right? So you got to

make that distinction. I'll tell you my

own argument when I'm when I do

this. Then Grock said that that kill the

Boers song was

uh was

a a free speech song. I guess the courts

have decided it was just free speech and

that it didn't mean kill any

individuals. It was about killing the

system and it was a historical song

about killing the old apartheid

system. Do you believe

that? That's what Grock says. Again,

this is not me saying

it. It's what Grock says.

And then what else I said? Uh

uh then there was one video that Trump

showed with they showed some violence

and Grock said that's not even South

Africa. That's from the

Congo. To which I said, "Oh,

really? I don't know." Again, it's just

Grock saying it.

Um, and then it said that the alleged

murders of white

farmers was not

real, that it was

fake. This, and again, this is not me.

Don't blame me. I'm telling you what

Grock said. And here's what Grock

said. that it's true that white farmers,

you know, their their farms were being

attacked and they were being murdered,

but it said it wasn't for political

reasons. It was just regular crime in a

country where there's just tons of crime

and murder and that nobody was taking

over those farms. They were just

stealing stuff and killing the

families. So, it wasn't so much a

political act, it was just crime. and it

was a little bit easier to do the crime

in a remote farmhouse because there was

nobody around to stop them from doing

it. And then it said that far more uh

black citizens of South Africa are

getting murdered as a as a raw number

compared to the tiny tiny number of

white South Africans that are also being

murdered. So according to Grock, there's

no such thing as some unusually large

number of white South Africans being

murdered, not for political reasons,

etc.

Then there was a question of there's

some new rule that says that uh the

black South Africans or the government I

guess can take from the white South

Africans their

property but they prefer to buy it.

if they can't buy it, the law allows

that under certain conditions, they can

just take it and not pay anything. But

according to Grock, that's never

happened. Do you believe

that? That it's never happened. It's

just that it could happen and it would

be

constitutional because the law allows

it. So, let me give you my opinion.

My opinion is if you live in a country

where on a regular basis a large

political party uh apparently it's like

the number three party. It's not the

leading in power party. when they get

together and they say things like kill

the

boores, you should get down at that

country as soon as

possible because even if they're

thinking about it being the system and

it's a historical song, you don't want

to live in a country where people are

saying that it's okay to sing that. You

don't need the law to tell you that they

can or can't. If you're in a country

where they're singing kill the people

who are you, you should start packing up

right away. That's my

advice. Number two, if you live in a

country where there is a law that says

we're going to, you know, buy your

property

uh because we don't think that it should

be belonging to white people. And if we

can't make an agreement to buy it, well,

we've got this backup plan where we can

just take it for nothing. If you live in

a country with that as one of your laws,

you should get out of that country as

soon as possible because nothing good is

going to

happen. Nothing good is going to happen.

And uh if you live in a country where

there's so much

violence that the argument against the

white genocide is well there's no white

genocide. Look how many black people are

being killed by just other black people.

You should get out of that country right

away because whatever it is that's

causing all these people to be killed,

be they black or be they white, it's way

too many. like way way too many run get

out of that

country and

uh that's what I

say.

So what you need to know is that the

news is saying it was mostly fake news

and Trump was ambushing him. Uh what you

need to know is that

Grock, which is actually ironically

created by Elon Musk, says h not so

much. You know, you have to see the

other side of this. Um and then what you

really need to know is that everything

about that situation looks like trouble

brewing. Trouble brewing. I would get

out of there if I could. So that's my

advice.

Anyway, according to the publication

called The

Atlantic, which is really just a joke

publication because it's it's such a

propaganda rag that it's hard to even

imagine it as a serious publication.

But, uh, one of the articles big

headline is the decline and fall of Elon

Musk. the decline and fall of Elon

Musk. Now, I think they mean that he's

less involved with Doge and the

government, but that was the

plan. The plan is that right about now

he would be removing himself from Doge

and the government, which he

did. And then you look at how's how's

Tesla doing? the stock is like totally

recovered and he's on the verge of

unleashing robots for what could be the

largest

um product launch of all time and that's

not even counting the auto uh you know

the self-driving auto cabs. So I would

say that Elon Musk is on the border of

taking his current success and fame and

multiplying it by a thousand. And I

don't know what would stop him because

he's got a pretty solid plan. Build

robots, auto cabs. Anyway, so that's

just propaganda.

Um, apparently Trump told some European

leaders that he thinks uh Putin thinks

that he's winning the war, meaning Putin

thinks he's winning the war and isn't

ready for

peace. Now, who told you that first? I

did. I've been telling you for a while.

Uh, it really looks to me like

Putin is not looking for peace

whatsoever.

And apparently uh Trump has that opinion

at the moment too.

So he's

uh

sorry Trump is shifted from talking

about sanctions to proposing some lower

level talks including the Vatican which

is funny because it just it just uh

offloads it offloads the failure to the

Vatican so that the pope can be

responsible for whatever doesn't happen.

Well,

um, but here's my take. What the hell

are you going to

do? Are we going to weigh in and start

refunding Ukraine like that would work

and that and that, you know, Ukraine

would win the war? I don't think we're

going to do that. Is Europe going to

fund them so they can win the war? I

don't think they can.

Are we going to give them enough drones

and robots that they don't need any

humans and they can hold off the entire

Russian army? Well, I don't know if

we're right at that point yet.

Maybe. But are we going to let Ukraine

fall because it looks like uh Putin's

just going to chew on it until he gets

everything he wants.

So, my question is, what options do we

really

have? I'm pretty sure that even the

worst sanctions wouldn't change Putin's

mind if he thinks he's winning that war.

I think he would just figure out a way

around the

sanctions.

So, do we have any

options? I can't think of any.

So, I guess Ukraine will just get ground

down and uh Putin will have his way and

control

Ukraine. Does it look like that's what's

going to

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happen?

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Yeah. Well, um I've got no idea how how

you can do anything except lose Ukraine

at this point. No idea.

Well, according to the Associated Press,

Canada is in talks with the US about

joining its so-called Golden Dome. That

would be our missile defense system. Cuz

it wouldn't make a lot of sense for

Canada to build its own missile defense

if it could just pay a little, not a

little, but it could pay to be part of

our um defense system that we're

building. So, I do like the fact that uh

Carney is just sort of a good

businessman and he's just well, why

would we build it ourselves? It would

just make more sense to partner. Now, do

you remember when it wasn't long

ago when the fake news was telling you

that all the other countries were not

going to be able to deal with the United

States because we'd insulted them and

you know they're all mad and they

they'll never do business with Trump.

And then Trump goes to the Middle East

and he's treated like a god

king. And then he has one meeting with

Carney and they're just best friends and

Carney wants to be part of our missile

defense to, you know,

presumably pay for

it. But I was telling you the whole time

that it's a transactional world. If

Trump offers value to other countries,

those other countries will treat him

with the utmost respect. That's it. that

that's the whole story. Nobody's getting

insulted. And if they did, they wouldn't

it wouldn't last that, you know, they'd

get over it right away if they had some

economic reason. So there's another

example of

that. According to the New York

Post, Syria with its new leader is

talking about joining the Abraham

Accords and normalizing relationship

with

Israel. Do you think there are any

catches to that? Oh, yes, there are. Um,

they want assurances that Israel would

stop bombing

Syria. I don't know if they're going to

get that. Uh, they want Israel to stop

fermenting sectarian divisions. Uh, I

don't know what they're doing there,

but if it's good for Israel, they're not

going to stop doing it. And, uh, they

want to reach a negotiated arrangement

regarding the Golan Heights. Well, I

think Israel already has what they want,

right? It's not like they're going to

give a little bit of the Golan Heights

back to Syria.

So, I I think that this is another one

of those fake peace

offerings where where the head of Syria

is like, "Oh, yeah, totally. We want to

be your best friends. Oh, we'll just

take the Golan Heights back. Uh, you

know, we'll we'll negotiate it. Of

course, we're not animals." So, I don't

I don't

think these look like pretty big

problems. I don't know if they can

negotiate those away, but

maybe. Here's here's some news. France

has a new laser rifle that can melt like

that's small enough that a uh one

soldier can hold it like a bazooka and

it can melt electronics from 500 feet

away and doesn't make any noise. So the

only noise you'd hear is the electronics

burning from 500 feet away. Now, if it's

small enough that a soldier can carry

it, I would not want to be on the other

side of that laser cuz if it can make

electronics catch on fire, it could make

your head catch on fire pretty

quickly. So that's scary. According to

the Daily Mail, Kim Jong-un, North

Korea, uh, is not happy about the launch

he attended of their new 5,000 ton North

Korean

warship. Uh, cuz it launched and

immediately

capsized. Imagine being the, you know,

the head of North Korea and, you know,

these military things, these rocket

launches and these, you know, ship

launches are like a gigantic part of

your national ego and he attends it and

the thing they launch it and it just

capsizes. So, he watched in horror as

his 5,000 ton ship was severely damaged.

I think they could figure out a way to

write it because it didn't sink. It just

turned sideways. I think it's still

floating. So, we'll see if they can

salvage

that. But that's Can you imagine being

the whoever was in charge of launching

that

thing? You know, you're you're standing

next to the uh deer leader because, you

know, you had an important job. you're

the one who was in charge of making sure

this thing got built and launched and

the Kim Jong-un is like right next to

you shouldertosh shoulder and you're

like man this is the best best day of my

career I could get you know extra food

rations based on this I'm really killing

it and then your your ship gets launched

and it just turns

sideways in the water and you're

standing right right next to Kim

Jong-un that would be the scariest est

thing that could ever happen to a

person. Like, what the hell would you

say? Oh, it's okay, boss. I'll get it

next

time. I'll get it next time. All right.

So, uh I saw Dom Lucer was reporting

that uh uh we learned from the Diddy

trial that Diddy had ecstasy pills that

were printed with the face of Obama on

them. And there were uh red Obamas,

green Obamas, and orange Obamas and blue

Obamas. But uh you could take these

pills if you went to one of his

freakoffs.

Okay. Do you think Obama was in any way

implicated in any of that or they just

thought it was funny to put his face on

their ecstasy

bills? I don't know there. I haven't

seen any indication Obama is connected

to any of that, but but he's connected

to the

pills. All

right, that's all I got for today. Oh,

there's a good picture there in the

comments. I'm going to say a few words

to the locals people

privately. And uh the rest of you,

thanks for joining. I will see you

tomorrow, same time, same place.

and hope you enjoyed it.

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