Episode 2856 CWSA 06/01/25

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Well, apparently in Austin, there are already uh driverless Teslas.

So, if you're uh if you walk around in Austin, you're going to see these driverless cars go by.

Not only are there driverless cars now, which is really good if you don't like people, but MIT has developed a pingpong playing robot, which is better than all the other pingpong playing robots, I guess, because we've done this before.

But I'm trying to think of a future life where I I get an Uber, but there's no Uber driver, so I don't have to worry about a person.

And then I take it to my local pingpong emporium, and I I play with the robot, and then I take my self-driving auto cab home.

I can avoid people completely.

That's a That's a good world.

Well, as you know, the New York Times did a big piece alleging that Elon Musk is taking all kinds of drugs.

Um, they say he was on ketamine and ecstasy and mushrooms.

And um, Elon Musk says, "Nope, he's not any drugs at all.

It's fake news." and he was randomly tested for three years after he had one one puff of uh weed on the Joe Rogan show.

So, nope.

He's uh he's telling us quite clearly that he is not on any kinds of drugs and I think they do keep testing him because of SpaceX.

He did say he tried prescription ketamine a few years ago and uh but that wasn't you know that wasn't illegal.

So um here is something exciting in interesting engineering.

Um I keep telling you that the most um the most exciting technology would be holes.

You know, like the Boring Company can make a tunnel, big hole, but if you could go straight down and you could go far enough, you could you could get into all that geothermal.

And apparently there's a new technology that looks like it can do that.

Uh, and it's a company called Quaz Energy.

And what do they do?

They uh they have a a novel drilling method.

They use a gyotron, you know, which is how I do it.

It's a device that generates a powerful high frequency millimeter wave.

And these waves are so intense that they can literally vaporize rock functioning like a microwave on steroids that bore deep into the earth.

Well, if that works, um, the energy situation on Earth is really going to change because presumably if they can make one drill that can do that, they can make lots of drills that can do that.

So imagine having unlimited free energy.

free, meaning, you know, might cost you 20 to $40 million to drill the hole, but once you did, it would be free energy for just about ever.

Well, Paris is uh probably on fire still because the uh French soccer team won a big victory.

Uh the uh what team is it?

the uh Paris to Germans PSG.

I watched that uh match.

Oh my goodness, that was fun.

That that was such a good match.

Um it was 4 nothing or 5 nothing, but it was incredible.

And what do you do when your team wins?

Well, apparently if you've got a big immigrant um population and uh people have nothing else to do, they burn their own city.

So don't go to Paris when Paris is winning.

JP Morgan chased his uh CEO Jamie Diamond.

He was at the uh Reagan National Economic Forum and when somebody asked him about uh stockpiling Bitcoin, he said we shouldn't be stockpiling Bitcoin.

Uh the the US government should be stockpiling guns, ammunition, and drones.

Uh does Jamie Diamond know something we don't know?

Well, he does know that if we ever got into a a real missile fight with, you know, a major enemy, we would be out of missiles in about what, a week.

So, he does know that our military-industrial complex has not been doing the job or maybe we gave too much of it to Ukraine or something, but we don't really have enough stuff to have a proper war.

Part of me thinks that's good news because if we had if we had all the weapons we needed and all the ammunition we needed, don't you think we'd be a little bit more likely to want to start a war?

I like the fact that we don't anyway.

Um, and Diamond also says we should be stockpiling rare earth if we can get it.

Um, he also doesn't like immigration.

So Jamie Diamond said, "Uh, immigration, what the hell were we doing?

The bottom 20% of our population, their wages didn't go up for 20 years.

They're dying seven years younger.

Their schools don't work.

America's Americans are getting sick of it." And then he blames Democrats for all of their what he calls the blue tape instead of the red tape because he says the Democrats are the ones that like all the regulations that kill business.

So he's uh pretty close to a pretty close to a Republican, but not there yet.

We'll keep watching.

Well, uh, Joe Rogan had, uh, Rockstar Bono on his show, and Bono thinks that the, uh, funding cuts to USAID have already killed 300,000 people.

How many of you think that the funding cuts to USAID have killed 300,000 people?

Uh, I hope not, but you know, that sounds a little bit ridiculous.

I'm not even going to fact check that.

But, uh, Rogan tried to correct them and tell him that USA was a more of a money laundering operation than than anything else.

um and said that uh billions of dollars are missing and that uh Elon Musk said if any if any of this had been done by a public company, the company would be delisted and the executives would be in jail and then Musk called Bono a And apparently uh re is now just a acceptable word.

Not with everybody of course.

Well PBS according to the AP PBS is going to sue uh the Trump administration over their defunding same as NPR.

Now, how in the world can people always find a reason to sue?

You would think that sometimes it would just be they don't like, but there wouldn't be anything you could sue over.

So, apparently the lawsuit relies on the argument that they're being defunded because their opinions, because they're a little bit too liberal.

Now, does the government need a reason?

So, what if that is the reason?

Who cares?

So, anyway, I I'm just amazed that you can sue over anything, you know?

There should be a whole different kind of government where there's like a court that follows the president around and as soon as the president signs an executive order, the court says, "Well, anybody suing us?

All right, you are you are you are all right, we'll make a judgment now.

Uh, we're going to override you." But holy cow, how could it be true that everybody can sue everybody about everything in the government anyway?

Anyway, don't don't you wonder what the legal budget is for the government?

How much do you think the Trump administration spends on lawyers?

It it's got to be a billion like maybe a billion dollars just on lawsuits.

I mean, it's going to be a crazy number.

I don't know.

Well, allegedly there's according to Newsmax, there might be some kind of geostorm today.

The sun might have some kind of weird effect that could um affect our our electronics.

How many times have we heard that?

I I can't tell you how many times I've heard that the sun is exploding and your your internet's going to go out, but it seems like it never does.

Am I jinxing it?

Are we really bad at predicting sunspots and what they will do?

I'm not going to worry about that one.

Well, Trump has uh done the most Trumpian thing I've ever heard in my life.

You know how Trump likes the show?

You know, it doesn't matter if it's technically accurate sometimes, he likes to put on a show.

And apparently he truth.

So, he sent out a message on truth that uh Joe Biden was murdered in 2020 and replaced with a clone that has different eye color.

And he really did that.

That that's a real thing that happened in the real world.

Now, if it were Monday, and probably it'll happen Monday, uh the Democrats will go crazy.

It's like, my god, now he's spreading the rumor that Joe Biden's a clone.

And and I'm thinking to myself, there were a lot of uh Republicans who thought Joe Biden was a clone.

There's there's at least one Joe Biden that was too tall, and we all saw that one, but that was just a probably just a body double.

But do you think there's a Joe Biden clone with a different eye color?

How many of you think that Joe Biden died and he's he's now a clone?

Well, the best argument against it is why would you build a clone that was also incompetent?

If if you wanted to clone him, you'd clone him with somebody who could walk and talk.

you wouldn't clone him with somebody who is just as deeply deeply cognitively impaired as the original.

So, I'm gonna say no on that.

But, it's funny that Trump would post that.

Um, there's a Secret Service whistleblower according to Senator Josh Holly who saying, uh, this is in the New York Post and the Secret Service whistleblower claims that former President Biden was so out of it at the White House that he would quote get lost in his closet.

Now, I I think I may have predicted some time ago that the stories about Biden would start out being a little bit mild and then they would just get worse and worse and worse until you until you just couldn't even believe it.

Well, here it comes.

Here it comes.

He would get lost in his own closet.

Okay, you want some more?

Apparently, journalist Olivia Nuzi um was going to have a show on Bloomberg, but her show got cancelled at the last minute because she wrote an article questioning Biden's health and suggesting there was a cover up and her show got cancelled.

She got punished.

So, the Daily Mail is writing about that.

So allegedly Bloomberg literally punished her for having an accurate story about Biden.

Now do you understand why nobody could talk about it?

It's because the Democrats would punish you if he talked about it.

All right.

Is the same thing happening on the Republican side?

If uh if someone had some damning story about Trump, would that get your shows all cancelled?

And maybe, I don't know, but uh that's pretty bad.

And then uh Byron Donald on Fox News is talking about the fact that uh I think there might be some resistance as Congress is trying to get Biden's doctor to testify.

He says, "We need to issue subpoenas immediately for the White House doctor under Joe Biden and for some of his key staffers." Now, how much do you think we'll find out if his doctor actually testifies in Congress?

Do you think the doctor will tell the full truth and nothing but the truth?

Or is it possible that the doctor will weasle things like, "Well, I didn't see any problems when I talked to him." Uh, blah blah blah blah blah.

I feel like it'll be more like that because the doctor has to protect his own reputation.

Meanwhile, there was an MIT class president giving a speech at graduation.

um and ended up getting real political and said, quote, "We're watching Israel try to wipe out uh wipe Palestine off the face of the earth and it's a shame that MIT is part of it." And I guess uh people walked out and it became a big deal.

Um, she submitted a fake speech that was approved before she read her real speech, which is a trick I hear that sometimes people do.

Submit a fake speech before they read the real one.

Anyway, um, here here's the weirdest headline.

Uh, apparently China considers Harvard a party school.

Isn't that funny that the Harvard is the top party school for the Chinese?

Now, I don't have much to say about that, but usually in California when we're talking about the top party school is something like Chico State.

It's not the It's not the one of the top Ivy Leagues, but it it's kind of insulting.

Oh, your best college.

We call it a party school.

Really?

Is it that easy for you?

Um, yeah.

The top party school outside of China.

Is that real?

Uh, how many of you think that the Chinese actually think of Harvard as a top party school?

Does that seem likely?

I'm going to say maybe not.

Maybe not.

Well, according to Redfin, they uh help you sell your house.

There are nearly half a million more people selling homes than buying them right now.

And the six of the top 10 buyers markets are in Florida.

So I guess all those people who moved to Florida during the pandemic have decided that a few years of uh humidity and they're like, "I'm out of here." How many of you could handle the humidity in Florida?

If you spent time there, you know what I'm talking about.

Like in California, we basically don't have humidity.

You know, it could be super hot.

You don't want to go into it, but we don't really have humidity.

But Florida, oh my god, it's hard to walk just to the car.

So, I think a lot of people said to themselves, "Hey, I like all this freedom and republicanism, so I'll move to Florida." And then they found out that half of the year you want to kill yourself when you walk outside.

Anyway, um Trump said he's increasing the steel tariffs from 25% to 50%.

And um has it been blocked by an activist judge yet?

I'm completely lost.

So we've got hundreds of countries and then with within each country there are dozens of key products and then we've had different uh proposed tariffs on each of them which first were high and maybe they got pulled back but they got delayed.

So, every time I read a story like this, like steel tariffs go from this to that, I don't know what is real.

Has it already been blocked by a activist judge?

And if it's been blocked by the activist judge, has the Supreme Court already overruled it or will they?

it it's impossible to just follow the story about what's happening with uh with tariffs.

So, I feel like that's good for the stock market because the stock market can't be sure it's bad because nobody knows what it is.

It's just sort of confusing and then it gets boring.

If it's boring and confusing, then the market can adjust to it.

So maybe maybe that's what's happening.

Well, according to CNN, the latest inflation numbers are almost exactly where the Fed would want them, 2.1%.

The Fed would like it to be 2%.

And that's a seven-month low.

That's basically, like I said, right where the Fed would want it.

Now that's CNN.

So so far employment looks good.

And then I think there is also oh the next story is uh according to the Daily Wire and NBC personal incomes increased by8% in April well ahead of the forecasted.3.

CNBC is talking about that.

So employment looks pretty good.

Stock market looks pretty good.

Inflation looks pretty good.

Energy prices are coming down.

And personal incomes have risen more than we thought.

At the same time that we're in the middle of this tariff chaos, how could any of this be How can any of this be true?

You know, even I thought that the tariff stuff would at least temporarily knock things down and might still, you know, because the the tariffs are still a little bit more in our future than in our past, but uh things sure aren't going well for all that chaos.

Anyway, uh Larry Frink of Black Rockck, he says the next big thing in financial assets are that all of your financial assets will be tokenized.

That means every stock, every bond, every financial instrument will be on one general ledger.

Now tokenized means something like a crypto or a Bitcoin so that everybody would have public access to look at the ledger I guess you know much like Bitcoin now does that make sense?

It it seems like it would uh maybe make banks unnecessary or something.

You know, once you had all your ledger and all your money was in some kind of public thing that everybody could see and everybody would have access to, doesn't that mean that anybody could lend money and anybody could borrow it and you could charge interest to anybody you wanted?

I I feel like banks, the only thing that's keeping banks in business is if they have lobbyists.

You know, it seems like the technology has already gotten to the point where a traditional bank doesn't make any sense at all.

I mean, think about the fact that you have more than one checking account where you've got one savings account and one checking account.

Wouldn't it make more sense if when you have more when you have money in the bank, they pay you interest and when you borrow from them, you pay them interest.

It just seems like there's a way easier way to do banking.

So anyway, um yeah, I told you that the claims about Biden are just going to get worse and worse.

Here's another one.

So Jake Tapper, as you know, has his book out, Original Sin, and his new claim is that uh I think he said this on Bill Maher show that Biden's mental deterioration led to the crisis at the border.

Um and Tapper said, "You're complimenting it by calling it a policy." Meaning that he didn't really have a border policy.

Um he said he said that Senator Bennett from Colorado went to an event in 2024 where Biden seemed nonfunctioning.

He left the event thinking this is why our border policy, our immigration policy was such a mess.

So do you remember thinking as I did?

So you probably had the same thought.

What is wrong with Biden?

like why can't he close the border?

Is it really just incompetence?

And it turns out according to Jake Tapper and according to Senator Bennett, it was literally incompetence.

It was actual incompetence.

Now, there were, of course, lots of people who wanted the border open, but Biden wasn't one of them.

Biden wasn't an open border guy, but they still slipped it past the keeper and got their open border because he wasn't capable enough to stop him.

I'm not even sure he knew what was going on.

So that I think that's the most brutal thing that we've seen.

uh because it's such a direct claim that that the monstrous problem we had with immigration was literally caused by Biden's brain not being functional and by our news people not calling it out and by um Democrats lying about it.

So every time you think this is going to go away, it just gets worse.

And this this might go on for a while.

So, uh, if you're like me, you're watching the Democrats try to learn and they're trying to learn what was it we did wrong last time that cost us, you know, losing everything.

And it seems like the things they're trying to learn are from two books.

won the Jake Tapper book with Alex Thompson, original sin and that basically says that Biden was incapable and uh it was known to the insiders.

And then there's the uh Ezra Klein book, I forget his cover or his coowriter uh called abundance.

Now, abundance is basically we got to get rid of all these regulations and obstacles to building anything because we can't build anything in this country because there too many too much blue tape as Jamie Diamond would say.

So in summary, if you take these two books together, the original sin and the abundance book, the thing that the Democrats have learned is don't run incapable candidates with terrible policies.

Yes, that would really help you.

Don't do terrible policies managed by incapable leaders.

That's pretty much the whole thing.

It, you know, their their backup plan to Biden was Kla Harris.

I mean, they weren't even trying to have capable people and and they didn't even seem to be trying to have policies that would make sense, like closing the border.

And you know, I could go on, but that's that's as far as they've gotten.

Um, and then, uh, Alex Thompson, the co-writer with Jake Tapper, he was on a, uh, he was on a podcast where Megan Mardle, who writes for the Washington Post, um, asked how legacy media can avoid running cover for Democratic presidents in the future given its bias.

Now, that's a pretty good question from the Washington Post.

So, so uh Megan Mc.

Cardle is acknowledging that the mainstream media is left-leaning and she's saying, "How could we avoid, you know, running cover for Democrat presidents in the future like they did with Biden?" And Alex Thompson said uh uh I wish I had uh good answers.

Um you know maybe like one of the answers is you know you know uh get on DC more and like you know touch grass.

So in other words, there's nothing that's going to change and the Democrats are going to run cover for terrible leaders on the Democrat side and it's just going to reproduce.

So they they will have more terrible leaders that they'll tell us are excellent until they've left the office and then they'll say, "Uh, let me write a book about how bad they really were." Meanwhile, Tim Walsh, um, he's got some of the worst advice.

I I like him because he's so pathetic.

His advice is that Democrats should be a little meaner.

They should be meaner and go scorched earth against Trump.

And he says, uh, the president is a wannabe dictator.

Now, does that ring does that ring true?

Is is that what they needed?

They got two books telling them exactly what they need.

What they need is good leaders, not mentally incapable ones, and good policies.

What does Tim Wall say?

We need to be meaner.

That's the worst advice I've ever heard.

We need to be meaner because he's going to be a dictator.

Oh my god, they're so lost.

Meanwhile, in a new poll um by let's see, Breitbart was writing about this Atlas Intel poll um it said that Pete Buddha Judge got over 30% of Democrat voters uh for 2028 presidential election.

What do you think about that?

Do you think it's his beard?

As soon as Pete Buddhajed grew a beard, his popularity doubled.

Did anything else change?

I'm not aware of anything else that changed.

He just grew a beard.

And I was looking at the beard and I thought, well, it's not the best beard, but it's sort of manly.

is sort of JD Vanclike.

Uh maybe that's all it was.

Maybe he just needed a beard, ironically.

Anyway, uh Joy Reed announced that she's launching her own TV show on You.

Tube.

And uh why is she putting her own show on You.

Tube?

Well, in her words, people want trusted voices.

Is she a trusted voice?

Joy Reed, I wonder if she actually thinks that about herself or is that just something she says cuz it sounds good.

I don't know.

Anyway, uh the ex White House spokesperson, Jen Saki, um her show on MSNBC is tanking in the ratings.

Um, so I guess that just went right to hell.

So ratings have plunged according to Headline USA to humiliating new lows.

Well, I don't know where humiliating is, but and uh she's bleeding viewers just one week after moving to the coveted PM slot formerly held by Rachel Maddo.

So MSNBC is falling apart.

How many of you saw the video today of Corey Booker doing exactly the same salute that uh Elon Musk was accused of doing um as a Nazi.

So I won't do the whole salute, but it's where he he touches his heart and then he extends his hand.

And we went through weeks and weeks of well obviously that's a Nazi salute.

And then Cy Booker does it and uh Matt Von Swall gave gave us a list on acts of all the entities that did not cover it as news.

Now, don't you think that'd be news if Cy Booker did a Nazi salute identical to the one that they're sure was a Nazi salute from Elon Musk?

Cuz they're sure it's a Nazi salute.

They're not doubting that at all.

So, here are the entities that did not talk about it.

New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, MSNBC, NPR, USA Today, Reuters, Axios, ABC News, and every one of those made a pretty big deal about it when it was Elon Musk.

I'll tell you, if you ever believed that Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute, you're an idiot.

You're just an idiot.

That there's no way that any smart person could believe that that happened in the real world.

Anyway, summer vacation time and apparently we're getting fewer the US is getting fewer uh tourists from Canada, UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands.

Uh to which I say, I wonder if that means that the hotels will be empty or will people just be coming from other places.

I also wonder how long that's going to last because that that feels like sort of a one-year situation, doesn't it?

Like like it doesn't feel like Canada will now permanently not travel to the United States.

I think it's just the headlines and as soon as we get some kind of tariff thing worked out, it'll be back to where it was.

Well, the uh CEO of AI company Anthropic warns that AI could wipe out half of uh white collar jobs, entry level white collar jobs in 5 years.

Postmillennial is talking about this and he says that most of them are unaware this is about to happen.

But isn't the real question how many jobs AI will create?

Is there really nobody who's creating jobs with AI?

Nowhere.

You know, I I get that programmers are more efficient and blah blah blah blah, but it seems to me that if you took an ordinary person who has a certain set of skills and then you gave them AI, couldn't they just immediately jump into jobs that they were otherwise not capable of doing?

There must be something that creates jobs where there were no jobs.

So, I don't know the answer to that, but I I think that's our our only hope is that it creates more jobs than it takes.

Tulsi Gabbard was on Fox, head of the DNI, and uh she said that China has made it very clear that they don't want war.

Um, and you know, we've made it clear we don't want war.

Now, I definitely believe that about China because the only thing that could just totally destroy China would be a war.

And same with the US.

The only thing that could sort of totally destroy us would be a war.

So, it' be the dumbest thing we ever did, especially with each other.

But China doesn't need a war.

China can just keep growing its economy until it dominates everything, which is a way smarter way to take over the world.

So, uh, no, I don't think China wants war.

I think they want to be capable of war just in case anybody takes a run at him.

But no, I think that's the last thing they want.

Uh, speaking of China, according to John Hayward, Breitbart News, there's an EU report that finds that China is behind 80% of Russia's sanctions avoidance.

Now, didn't we already know that?

Didn't you assume that China was the one who was buying um mostly energy, I assume, from Russia?

And uh so those two are sort of attached at the hip.

And doesn't that mean that Russia is basically China's Because if China is buying 80% of their oil or probably their gas plus oil, doesn't that mean that China essentially controls Russia now?

Because the the whole reason we didn't like the uh the Russian pipeline that got blown up is that we didn't want Europe to be dependent on, you know, mainly one source of of energy.

But it works the other way, too.

If you're the customer, if you're buying 80% of the energy from Russia and energy is their main export, uh, doesn't that really mean China can make them do just about anything they want?

Seems that way to me.

So, I don't think that uh I don't think that Putin's in a good position.

like he he may be in a good position visav Ukraine, but he's not in a good position in the world because China sort of owns his ass at this point.

Seems like it.

Anyway, Greta Tunberg is on a boat and she's heading to Gaza and uh so she's going to join the latest Gazabound freedom flotillaa and they're going to protest Israel's actions.

Well, that should solve everything.

Um, it seems to me that Greta has done such a great job in other topics that if she can't end the war in Gaza, I don't know who can.

So, we'll see if she survives that.

The Times of Israel is reporting that.

Um, meanwhile, you will not be surprised to know that the latest push to get a deal with Hamas looks like it's not going to work out, as if it ever could.

Um, Steve Wickoff says Hamas's response to a Gaza ceasefire proposal is unacceptable.

And you know, there's details, but of course, you know, you you don't even need to know the details.

You just have to know that there really is no way that Hamas is going to make a deal because I think the the Israelis are offering the f the following deal.

Uh if you surrender, we'll put you in jail forever or kill you.

I don't think the Hamas fighters really have a second play.

It's not like they're going to, you know, they're they're going to find some new way to, you know, I don't know, make a better life.

They the only way they're going to stay alive is if they keep they keep their uh hostages and they stay underground.

As soon as they come above ground, things are not going to go well for them at all.

So, how could there possibly be a deal?

I don't know how there could be.

So, and I don't think they care about getting their own hostages back.

So, that's probably no big deal, even though there are lots of them.

Anyway, and then there's some fake news that came in of Israel that said that said Israel opened fire on some civilian crowds.

That appears to not be true based on based on video of the event.

And in other news, Ukraine is uh ramping it up and apparently they did a major drone hit on multiple Russian air bases.

So they're just taking out the Russian planes on the ground.

Now, that's not good because if they can reach all of these uh bases, at least the bases that would be close enough to threaten Ukraine, are most of the airplanes just sort of sitting there on the airport tarmac because it looked like they could just destroy them at will if they were willing to go that deep deeply into Russia, which apparently they are.

All right.

So, that's all I got for you today.

Um, there she is.

And, uh, I'm going to say hi to the locals people privately.

And the rest of you, thanks for joining.

And come back tomorrow, same time, same place where we'll have some more fun because on Sunday especially, what else you got to watch?

It's just me.

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Go. All right. Well, apparently in

Austin, there are already uh driverless

Teslas. So, if you're uh if you walk

around in Austin, you're going to see

these driverless cars go by. Not only

are there driverless cars now, which is

really good if you don't like people,

but MIT has developed a pingpong playing

robot, which is better than all the

other pingpong playing robots, I guess,

because we've done this before.

But I'm trying to think of a future life

where I I get an Uber, but there's no

Uber driver, so I don't have to worry

about a person. And then I take it to my

local pingpong emporium, and I I play

with the

robot, and then I take my self-driving

auto cab home. I can avoid people

completely.

That's a That's a good

world. Well, as you know, the New York

Times did a big piece alleging that Elon

Musk is taking all kinds of

drugs. Um, they say he was on ketamine

and ecstasy and mushrooms. And um, Elon

Musk says, "Nope, he's not any drugs at

all. It's fake news." and he was

randomly tested for three years after he

had one one puff of uh weed on the Joe

Rogan show. So, nope. He's uh he's

telling us quite clearly that he is not

on any kinds of drugs and I think they

do keep testing him because of SpaceX.

He did say he tried prescription

ketamine a few years ago and uh but that

wasn't you know that wasn't illegal. So

um here is something exciting in

interesting

engineering. Um I keep telling you that

the most um the most exciting technology

would be holes. You know, like the

Boring Company can make a tunnel, big

hole, but if you could go straight down

and you could go far enough, you could

you could get into all that geothermal.

And apparently there's a new technology

that looks like it can do that. Uh, and

it's a company called Quaz

Energy. And what do they do? They uh

they have a a novel drilling method.

They use a

gyotron, you know, which is how I do it.

It's a device that generates a powerful

high frequency millimeter wave. And

these waves are so intense that they can

literally vaporize rock functioning like

a microwave on steroids that bore deep

into the earth.

Well, if that works,

um, the energy situation on Earth is

really going to change because

presumably if they can make one drill

that can do that, they can make lots of

drills that can do that. So imagine

having unlimited free energy.

free, meaning, you know, might cost you

20 to $40 million to drill the hole, but

once you did, it would be free energy

for just about

ever. Well, Paris is uh probably on fire

still

because the uh French soccer team won a

big victory. Uh the uh what team is it?

the uh Paris to Germans

PSG. I watched that uh match. Oh my

goodness, that was fun. That that was

such a good match. Um it was 4 nothing

or 5 nothing, but it was incredible. And

what do you do when your team wins?

Well, apparently if you've got a big

immigrant um

population and uh people have nothing

else to do, they burn their own

city. So don't go to Paris when Paris is

winning. JP Morgan chased his uh CEO

Jamie Diamond. He was at the uh Reagan

National Economic

Forum and when somebody asked him about

uh stockpiling Bitcoin, he said we

shouldn't be stockpiling Bitcoin. Uh the

the US government should be stockpiling

guns, ammunition, and

drones.

Uh does Jamie Diamond know something we

don't know? Well, he does know that if

we ever got into a a real missile fight

with, you know, a major enemy, we would

be out of missiles in about what, a

week. So, he does know that our

military-industrial complex has not been

doing the job or maybe we gave too much

of it to Ukraine or something, but we

don't really have enough stuff to have a

proper war.

Part of me thinks that's good news

because if we had if we had all the

weapons we needed and all the ammunition

we needed, don't you think we'd be a

little bit more likely to want to start

a

war? I like the fact that we

don't anyway. Um, and Diamond also says

we should be stockpiling rare earth if

we can get it.

Um, he also doesn't like

immigration. So Jamie Diamond said, "Uh,

immigration, what the hell were we

doing? The bottom 20% of our population,

their wages didn't go up for 20 years.

They're dying seven years younger. Their

schools don't work. America's Americans

are getting sick of it." And then he

blames

Democrats for all of their what he calls

the blue tape instead of the red tape

because he says the Democrats are the

ones that like all the regulations that

kill

business. So he's uh pretty close to a

pretty close to a Republican, but not

there yet. We'll keep watching.

Well, uh, Joe Rogan had, uh, Rockstar

Bono on his show, and Bono thinks that

the, uh, funding cuts to

USAID have already killed 300,000

people. How many of you think that the

funding cuts to

USAID have killed 300,000 people?

Uh, I hope not, but you know, that

sounds a little bit

ridiculous. I'm not even going to fact

check that. But, uh, Rogan tried to

correct them and tell him that USA was a

more of a money laundering operation

than than anything else.

um and said that uh billions of dollars

are missing and that uh Elon Musk said

if any if any of this had been done by a

public company, the company would be

delisted and the executives would be in

jail and then Musk called Bono a

And apparently uh re is now just

a acceptable

word. Not with everybody of

course. Well PBS according to the AP PBS

is going to sue uh the Trump

administration over their

defunding same as NPR. Now, how in the

world can people always find a reason to

sue? You would think that sometimes it

would just be they don't like, but

there wouldn't be anything you could sue

over. So, apparently the lawsuit relies

on the argument that they're being

defunded because their opinions, because

they're a little bit too

liberal.

Now, does the government need a

reason? So, what if that is the

reason? Who

cares? So, anyway, I I'm just amazed

that you can sue over anything, you

know? There should be a whole different

kind of government where there's like a

court that follows the president around

and as soon as the president signs an

executive order, the court says, "Well,

anybody suing us? All right, you are you

are you are all right, we'll make a

judgment now. Uh, we're going to

override you."

But holy cow, how could it be true that

everybody can sue everybody about

everything in the government

anyway? Anyway, don't don't you wonder

what the legal budget is for the

government? How much do you think the

Trump administration spends on lawyers?

It it's got to be a

billion like maybe a billion dollars

just on lawsuits. I mean, it's going to

be a crazy number. I don't

know. Well, allegedly there's according

to

Newsmax, there might be some kind of

geostorm today. The sun might have some

kind of weird effect that could

um affect our our electronics.

How many times have we heard

that? I I can't tell you how many times

I've heard that the sun is

exploding and your your internet's going

to go out, but it seems like it never

does. Am I jinxing

it? Are we really bad at

predicting sunspots and what they will

do? I'm not going to worry about that

one.

Well, Trump has uh done the most

Trumpian thing I've ever heard in my

life. You know how Trump likes the show?

You know, it doesn't matter if it's

technically accurate sometimes, he likes

to put on a show. And apparently he

truth. So, he sent out a message on

truth that uh Joe Biden was murdered in

2020 and replaced with a clone that has

different eye

color. And he really did that. That

that's a real thing that happened in the

real

world.

Now, if it were Monday, and probably

it'll happen Monday, uh the Democrats

will go crazy. It's like, my god, now

he's spreading the rumor that Joe

Biden's a clone. And and I'm thinking to

myself, there were a lot of uh

Republicans who thought Joe Biden was a

clone. There's there's at least one Joe

Biden that was too tall, and we all saw

that one, but that was just a probably

just a body

double. But do you think there's a Joe

Biden clone with a different eye color?

How many of you think that Joe

Biden died and he's he's now a

clone? Well, the best argument against

it is why would you build a clone that

was also

incompetent? If if you wanted to clone

him, you'd clone him with somebody who

could walk and talk. you wouldn't clone

him with somebody who is just as

deeply deeply cognitively impaired as

the original. So, I'm gonna say no on

that. But, it's funny that Trump would

post that. Um, there's a Secret Service

whistleblower according to Senator Josh

Holly who saying, uh, this is in the New

York Post and the Secret Service

whistleblower claims that former

President Biden was so out of it at the

White House that he would quote get lost

in his closet.

Now, I I think I may have predicted some

time ago that the stories about Biden

would start out being a little bit mild

and then they would just get worse and

worse and worse until you until you just

couldn't even believe it. Well, here it

comes. Here it comes. He would get lost

in his own

closet. Okay, you want some more?

Apparently, journalist Olivia Nuzi

um was going to have a show on

Bloomberg, but her show got cancelled at

the last minute because she wrote an

article questioning Biden's health and

suggesting there was a cover up and her

show got cancelled. She got

punished. So, the Daily Mail is writing

about that. So

allegedly Bloomberg literally punished

her for having an accurate story about

Biden. Now do you understand why nobody

could talk about it? It's because the

Democrats would punish you if he talked

about it. All right. Is the same thing

happening on the Republican side? If uh

if someone had some damning story about

Trump, would that get your shows all

cancelled?

And maybe, I don't know, but uh that's

pretty bad. And then uh Byron Donald on

Fox News is talking about the fact that

uh I think there might be some

resistance as Congress is trying to get

Biden's doctor to testify. He says, "We

need to issue subpoenas

immediately for the White House doctor

under Joe Biden and for some of his key

staffers." Now, how much do you think

we'll find out if his doctor actually

testifies in

Congress? Do you think the doctor will

tell the full truth and nothing but the

truth?

Or is it possible that the doctor will

weasle things like, "Well, I didn't see

any problems when I talked to him." Uh,

blah blah blah blah blah. I feel like

it'll be more like that because the

doctor has to protect his own

reputation. Meanwhile, there was an MIT

class president giving a speech at

graduation.

um and ended up getting real political

and said, quote, "We're watching Israel

try to wipe out uh wipe Palestine off

the face of the earth and it's a shame

that MIT is part of it." And I guess uh

people walked out and it became a big

deal. Um, she submitted a fake

speech that was approved before she read

her real

speech, which is a trick I hear that

sometimes people do. Submit a fake

speech before they read the real

one. Anyway, um, here here's the

weirdest headline.

Uh, apparently

China considers

Harvard a party

school. Isn't that funny that the

Harvard is the top party school for the

Chinese? Now, I don't have much to say

about that, but usually in California

when we're talking about the top party

school is something like Chico State.

It's not the It's not the one of the top

Ivy

Leagues, but it it's kind of

insulting. Oh, your best college. We

call it a party school.

Really? Is it that easy for you?

Um, yeah. The top party school outside

of

China. Is that real?

Uh, how many of you think that the

Chinese actually think of Harvard as a

top party school? Does that seem

likely? I'm going to say maybe not.

Maybe

not. Well, according to

Redfin, they uh help you sell your

house. There are nearly half a million

more people selling homes than buying

them right now.

And the six of the top 10 buyers markets

are in

Florida. So I guess all those people who

moved to Florida during the

pandemic have decided that a few years

of uh humidity and they're like, "I'm

out of here." How many of you could

handle the humidity in

Florida? If you spent time there, you

know what I'm talking about. Like in

California, we basically don't have

humidity. You know, it could be super

hot. You don't want to go into it, but

we don't really have

humidity. But Florida, oh my god, it's

hard to walk just to the

car. So, I think a lot of people said to

themselves, "Hey, I like all this

freedom and republicanism, so I'll move

to Florida." And then they found out

that half of the year you want to kill

yourself when you walk

outside. Anyway,

um Trump said he's increasing the steel

tariffs from 25% to

50%. And

um has it been blocked by an activist

judge

yet? I'm completely lost.

So we've got hundreds of

countries and then with within each

country there are

dozens of key

products and then we've

had different uh proposed tariffs on

each of them which first were high and

maybe they got pulled back but they got

delayed. So, every time I read a story

like this, like steel tariffs go from

this to

that, I don't know what is

real. Has it already been blocked by a

activist judge? And if it's been blocked

by the activist judge, has the Supreme

Court already overruled it or will they?

it it's

impossible to just follow the story

about what's happening with uh with

tariffs. So, I feel like that's good for

the stock market because the stock

market can't be sure it's bad because

nobody knows what it is. It's just sort

of

confusing and then it gets boring. If

it's boring and confusing, then the

market can adjust to it. So maybe maybe

that's what's

happening. Well, according to CNN, the

latest inflation numbers are almost

exactly where the Fed would want them,

2.1%. The Fed would like it to be

2%. And that's a seven-month low. That's

basically, like I said, right where the

Fed would want it. Now that's

CNN.

So so far employment looks

good. And then I think there is also oh

the next story is uh according to the

Daily Wire and

NBC personal incomes increased by8% in

April well ahead of the

forecasted.3. CNBC is talking about

that. So employment looks pretty good.

Stock market looks pretty

good. Inflation looks pretty

good. Energy prices are coming

down.

And personal incomes have risen more

than we

thought. At the same time that we're in

the middle of this tariff

chaos, how could any of this be How can

any of this be true?

You know, even I thought that the tariff

stuff would at least temporarily knock

things down and might still, you know,

because the the tariffs are still a

little bit more in our future than in

our

past, but

uh things sure aren't going

well for all that

chaos. Anyway, uh Larry Frink of Black

Rockck, he says the next big thing in

financial assets are that all of your

financial assets will be

tokenized. That means every stock, every

bond, every financial instrument will be

on one general ledger. Now

tokenized means something like a crypto

or a Bitcoin so that everybody would

have public access to look at the ledger

I guess you know much like Bitcoin

now does that make

sense? It it seems like it would uh

maybe make banks unnecessary or

something. You know, once you had all

your ledger and all your money was in

some kind of

public thing that everybody could see

and everybody would have access to,

doesn't that mean that anybody could

lend money and anybody could borrow it

and you could charge interest to anybody

you wanted?

I I feel like

banks, the only thing that's keeping

banks in business is if they have

lobbyists. You know, it seems like the

technology has already gotten to the

point where a traditional bank doesn't

make any sense at all. I mean, think

about the fact that you have more than

one checking

account where you've got one savings

account and one checking account.

Wouldn't it make more

sense if when you have more when you

have money in the bank, they pay you

interest and when you borrow from them,

you pay them interest. It just seems

like there's a way easier way to do

banking. So anyway,

um yeah, I told you that the claims

about Biden are just going to get worse

and worse. Here's another one. So Jake

Tapper, as you know, has his book out,

Original Sin, and his new claim is that

uh I think he said this on Bill Maher

show that Biden's mental deterioration

led to the crisis at the

border. Um and Tapper said, "You're

complimenting it by calling it a

policy." Meaning that he didn't really

have a border policy.

Um he said he said that Senator Bennett

from Colorado went to an event in 2024

where Biden seemed

nonfunctioning. He left the event

thinking this is why our border policy,

our immigration policy was such a mess.

So do you remember thinking as I did? So

you probably had the same thought. What

is wrong with

Biden? like why can't he close the

border? Is it really just

incompetence? And it turns out according

to Jake Tapper and according to Senator

Bennett, it was literally

incompetence. It was actual

incompetence. Now, there were, of

course, lots of people who wanted the

border open, but Biden wasn't one of

them.

Biden wasn't an open border guy, but

they still slipped it past the keeper

and got their open border because he

wasn't capable enough to stop him. I'm

not even sure he knew what was going

on. So that I think that's the most

brutal thing that we've seen. uh because

it's such a direct claim that that the

monstrous problem we had with

immigration was literally caused by

Biden's brain not being functional and

by our news people not calling it out

and by um Democrats lying about

it. So every time you think this is

going to go away, it just gets worse.

And this this might go on for a while.

So, uh, if you're like me, you're

watching the Democrats try to learn and

they're trying to learn what was it we

did wrong last time that cost us, you

know, losing everything. And it seems

like the things they're trying to learn

are from two books. won the Jake Tapper

book with Alex Thompson, original sin

and that basically says that Biden was

incapable and uh it was known to the

insiders. And then there's the uh Ezra

Klein book, I forget his cover or his

coowriter uh called

abundance. Now, abundance is basically

we got to get rid of all these

regulations and obstacles to building

anything because we can't build anything

in this country because there too many

too much blue tape as Jamie Diamond

would say.

So in

summary, if you take these two books

together, the original sin and the

abundance book, the thing that the

Democrats have learned is don't run

incapable candidates with terrible

policies. Yes, that would really help

you. Don't do terrible

policies managed by incapable leaders.

That's pretty much the whole thing. It,

you know, their their backup plan to

Biden was Kla

Harris. I mean, they weren't even trying

to have capable

people and and they didn't even seem to

be trying to have policies that would

make sense, like closing the border. And

you know, I could go on, but that's

that's as far as they've gotten.

Um, and then, uh, Alex Thompson, the

co-writer with Jake Tapper, he was on a,

uh, he was on a podcast where Megan

Mardle, who writes for the Washington

Post,

um, asked how legacy media can avoid

running cover for Democratic presidents

in the future given its bias. Now,

that's a pretty good question from the

Washington Post. So, so uh Megan

McCardle is

acknowledging that the mainstream media

is left-leaning and she's saying, "How

could we

avoid, you know, running cover for

Democrat presidents in the future like

they did with Biden?" And Alex Thompson

said

uh uh I wish I had uh good answers. Um

you know maybe like one of the answers

is you know you know uh get on DC more

and like you know touch

grass. So in other

words, there's nothing that's going to

change and the Democrats are going to

run cover for terrible leaders on the

Democrat side and it's just going to

reproduce. So they they will have more

terrible leaders that they'll tell us

are excellent until they've left the

office and then they'll say, "Uh, let me

write a book about how bad they really

were." Meanwhile, Tim Walsh,

um, he's got some of the worst

advice. I I like him because he's so

pathetic. His advice is that Democrats

should be a little

meaner. They should be meaner and go

scorched earth against Trump. And he

says, uh, the president is a wannabe

dictator.

Now, does that ring does that ring true?

Is is that what they

needed? They got two books telling them

exactly what they

need. What they need is good leaders,

not mentally incapable ones, and good

policies. What does Tim Wall say? We

need to be

meaner. That's the worst advice I've

ever heard. We need to be meaner because

he's going to be a dictator. Oh my god,

they're so lost. Meanwhile, in a new

poll

um by let's see, Breitbart was writing

about this Atlas Intel poll

um it said that Pete Buddha Judge got

over 30% of Democrat voters

uh for 2028 presidential election.

What do you think about that? Do you

think it's his

beard? As soon as Pete Buddhajed grew a

beard, his popularity

doubled. Did anything else change? I'm

not aware of anything else that changed.

He just grew a beard. And I was looking

at the beard and I thought, well, it's

not the best

beard, but it's sort of manly. is sort

of JD

Vanclike. Uh maybe that's all it was.

Maybe he just needed a

beard,

ironically. Anyway, uh Joy Reed

announced that she's launching her own

TV show on

YouTube. And uh why is she putting her

own show on YouTube? Well, in her words,

people want trusted voices.

Is she a trusted

voice? Joy Reed, I wonder if she

actually thinks that about

herself or is that just something she

says cuz it sounds good. I don't

know. Anyway, uh the ex White House

spokesperson, Jen Saki,

um her show on MSNBC is tanking in the

ratings.

Um, so I guess that just went right to

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hell. So ratings have plunged according

to Headline USA to humiliating new lows.

Well, I don't know where humiliating is,

but and uh she's bleeding viewers just

one week after moving to the coveted PM

slot formerly held by Rachel

Maddo.

So MSNBC is falling

apart. How many of you saw the video

today of Corey Booker doing exactly the

same salute that uh Elon Musk was

accused of doing

um as a

Nazi. So I won't do the whole salute,

but it's where he he touches his heart

and then he extends his hand. And we

went through weeks and weeks of well

obviously that's a Nazi salute. And then

Cy Booker does it and uh Matt Von

Swall gave gave us a list on acts of all

the entities that did not cover it as

news.

Now, don't you think that'd be news if

Cy Booker did a Nazi salute identical to

the one that they're sure was a Nazi

salute from Elon

Musk? Cuz they're sure it's a Nazi

salute. They're not doubting that at

all. So, here are the entities that did

not talk about it. New York Times, CNN,

Washington Post, MSNBC, NPR, USA Today,

Reuters, Axios, ABC News, and every one

of those made a pretty big deal about it

when it was Elon

Musk. I'll tell you, if you ever

believed that Elon Musk gave a Nazi

salute, you're an

idiot. You're just an idiot. That

there's no way that any smart person

could believe that that happened in the

real world.

Anyway, summer vacation time and

apparently we're getting fewer the US is

getting fewer uh tourists from Canada,

UK, Germany, France and the

Netherlands. Uh to which I say, I wonder

if that

means that the hotels will be empty or

will people just be coming from other

places. I also wonder how long that's

going to last because that that feels

like sort of a one-year situation,

doesn't

it? Like like it doesn't feel like

Canada will now permanently not travel

to the United States. I think it's just

the

headlines and as soon as we get some

kind of tariff thing worked

out, it'll be back to where it was.

Well, the uh CEO of AI company

Anthropic warns that AI could wipe out

half of

uh white collar jobs, entry level white

collar jobs in 5 years. Postmillennial

is talking about this and he says that

most of them are unaware this is about

to happen. But isn't the real question

how many jobs AI will create?

Is there really nobody

who's creating jobs with AI?

Nowhere. You know, I I get that

programmers are more efficient and blah

blah blah blah, but it seems to me that

if you took an ordinary person who has a

certain set of skills and then you gave

them

AI, couldn't they just immediately jump

into jobs that they were otherwise not

capable of doing?

There must be

something that creates jobs where there

were no

jobs. So, I don't know the answer to

that,

but I I think that's our our only hope

is that it creates more jobs than it

takes. Tulsi Gabbard was on Fox, head of

the

DNI, and uh she said that China has made

it very clear that they don't want war.

Um, and you know, we've made it clear we

don't want war. Now, I definitely

believe that about

China because the only thing that could

just totally destroy China would be a

war. And same with the US. The only

thing that could sort of totally destroy

us would be a war. So, it' be the

dumbest thing we ever did, especially

with each other. But China doesn't need

a war.

China can just keep growing its economy

until it dominates everything, which is

a way smarter way to take over the

world. So, uh, no, I don't think China

wants war. I think they want to be

capable of war just in case anybody

takes a run at him. But no, I think

that's the last thing they want.

Uh, speaking of China, according to John

Hayward, Breitbart News, there's an EU

report that finds that China is behind

80% of Russia's sanctions

avoidance. Now, didn't we already know

that? Didn't you assume that China was

the one who was buying um mostly energy,

I assume, from

Russia? And uh so those two are sort of

attached at the hip. And doesn't that

mean that Russia is basically China's

Because if China is buying 80% of

their

oil or probably their gas plus oil,

doesn't that mean that China

essentially controls Russia now? Because

the the whole reason we didn't like the

uh the Russian

pipeline that got blown up is that we

didn't want Europe to be dependent on,

you know, mainly one source of of

energy. But it works the other way, too.

If you're the customer, if you're buying

80% of the

energy from Russia and energy is their

main export,

uh, doesn't that really mean China can

make them do just about anything they

want? Seems that way to

me. So, I don't think that

uh I don't think that Putin's in a good

position. like he he may be in a good

position visav

Ukraine, but he's not in a good position

in the world because China sort of owns

his ass at this point. Seems like it.

Anyway, Greta Tunberg is on a boat and

she's heading to Gaza and

uh so she's going to join the latest

Gazabound freedom

flotillaa and they're going to protest

Israel's

actions. Well, that should solve

everything.

Um, it seems to me that Greta has done

such a great job in other topics that if

she can't end the war in Gaza, I don't

know who

can. So, we'll see if she survives

that. The Times of Israel is reporting

that. Um,

meanwhile, you will not be surprised to

know that the latest push to get a deal

with Hamas looks like it's not going to

work

out, as if it ever could. Um, Steve

Wickoff says Hamas's response to a Gaza

ceasefire proposal is unacceptable.

And you know, there's details, but of

course, you know, you you don't even

need to know the details. You just have

to know that there really is no way that

Hamas is going to make a deal because I

think the the Israelis are offering the

f the following deal. Uh if you

surrender, we'll put you in jail forever

or kill

you. I don't think the Hamas fighters

really have a second play. It's not like

they're going to, you know, they're

they're going to find some new way to,

you know, I don't know, make a better

life.

They the only way they're going to stay

alive is if they keep they keep their uh

hostages and they stay underground. As

soon as they come above ground, things

are not going to go well for them at

all. So, how could there possibly be a

deal? I don't know how there could be.

So, and I don't think they care about

getting their own hostages back. So,

that's probably no big deal, even though

there are lots of

them. Anyway, and then there's some fake

news that came in of

Israel that said that said Israel opened

fire on some civilian crowds. That

appears to not be true based on based on

video of the event.

And in other news, Ukraine is uh ramping

it up and apparently they did a major

drone hit on multiple Russian air

bases. So they're just taking out the

Russian planes on the ground.

Now, that's not good because if they can

reach all of these uh bases, at least

the bases that would be close enough to

threaten

Ukraine, are most of the airplanes just

sort of sitting there on the airport

tarmac because it looked like they could

just destroy them at will if they were

willing to go that deep deeply into

Russia, which apparently they

are. All right. So, that's all I got for

you

today.

Um, there she

is. And, uh, I'm going to say hi to the

locals people

privately. And the rest of you, thanks

for joining. And come back tomorrow,

same time, same place where we'll have

some more fun because on Sunday

especially, what else you got to watch?

It's just me.

All right, locals coming at you.