Episode 2940 CWSA 08/27/25

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So, good.

All right.

Well, let's uh check in with science and see if there's any work they did that maybe they didn't need to do.

Maybe they could have just asked me.

Oh, here we go.

Fabiana Bontempo is writing about a new study that says, uh, if you're a husband, there you are, Paul.

Uh, if your husband has one of these jobs, he's more likely to cheat.

All right, so these are the jobs of people most likely to cheat for the men.

CEO, surgeon, physician, or unemployed.

All right.

Well, you know, you really didn't need to do that study cuz let me explain to you, CEOs, surgeons, and physicians.

They would be what we would call the ones that women are chasing after.

And they also go to work in a place that's filled with women who are subordinate to them at their place of work.

So yeah, all the men who are high targets and women are trying to sleep with them, they are most likely to cheat.

But also the unemployed because they've got the time.

So, if you have time or a really rocking job, you're more likely to cheat.

They did not need to do that as a study.

They could have just asked me.

Well, uh, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are engaged.

Finally, the Yeah, the fairy tale is real.

Um, what do you think are the odds of Travis and Taylor making it, oh, let's say retirement and living happily ever after?

Well, who would be more likely to cheat?

A CEO, a surgeon, a physician, or a famous basketball player who's married to Taylor Swift?

I don't know.

She'd better uh put a ring camera on that guy to follow him around.

I'm just saying not it's not not a comment about Travis.

I'm sure he's a perfectly upstanding person, but he's in that kind of a job, you know, kind of a job.

And uh the other most likely to cheat would probably be Rockstar.

So, and they both have jobs where they have to travel around the world without the other one.

So I don't know they they do have the highest odds against them.

But on the other hand, both of them have defeated uh very long odds to be in the jobs they're in.

So if you want to put if you want to look at on the golden age way, let's do that.

Let's let's put the positive spin on it that uh if anyone could pull off the unlikely, it would be those two because they've both already pulled off the unlikeliest of unlikeliness.

According to Chris Williamson, who I believe had Rob Anderson on his show recently, and Rob was saying that married men and women disagree on how much sex they have.

Okay, Rob.

Again, may maybe you could have asked me and I would have known that part, but there's more.

Maybe I didn't know this part.

Um, that women typically believe their marriages have about the right frequency of sex, whereas men wish for more, twice as much.

So, and it suggests that couples adjust their sexual frequency to the lower rate of desire by the wife.

Okay.

Um, how could it ever be different?

It would only be different if if the wife took sort of a prostitute point of view and said, "I'll tell you what, some of the time I'll have this sex and I'll enjoy it.

But other times, I'll look like I'm just waiting for it to be over and then you can have as much as you want." Then the guy says, "Uh, I'll just take the stuff where you're into it because if if they're just looking at you like, gosh, I I got to do some chores, that's not really good for the guy." So, yes, the man adjusts to the to the preference of the woman most of the time.

Well, it looks like Raiden Camera, speaking of them, they've got a new device that's a uh a little drone that works inside your house when you're gone.

So, the drone, it's kind of a small one, will patrol the rooms of your house uh automatically, so you don't have to do anything.

It just does it by itself and creates a little video, I guess.

Now, how much do you want that?

I I want that so much.

Do you ever see a a new product where you go, "Uh, I already know I'm going to have one of those someday." You know, maybe not right away, but yeah, I want one of those.

I want one for the outside of the house, too.

Uh, I would like to to know that if somebody rings a doorbell or if my security camera picks up, you know, any motion that looks like a person, that uh my my drone on my roof, there's a flat area on the roof.

I have the perfect place to stage it would take off and, you know, do a little uh do a little surveillance to make sure it's not anything bad.

Well, enough about me.

Vanity Fair employees say they're going to walk out the mother effing door.

That's a quote.

Walk going to walk out the mother effing door if Melania Trump is on the cover.

because I guess there's some talk about putting her there because there's no way they'd keep their incredibly lucky job to be at the Venity Fair if they put some beautiful model on the cover that was not their preferred political preference.

Um, I would say unless these are the most irreplaceable people in the history of magazines, I would let them walk out the mother effing door.

I would say goodbye to all of them because who's running that place?

Do do the uh employees get to decide what's on the cover?

I mean, the lower lower end employees.

I don't think so.

So, but we'll see.

Um, speaking of Melania, apparently she's announced a K through 12 presidential AI challenge according to the Hill.

And I guess it would be like a contest and they would urge students across the country to use AI to um compete I guess to for who could come up with the the most awesome AI app I guess.

And how much do I love that?

I I love this so much.

You know, your first ladies traditionally they get involved in some cause, but often the cause is sort of a just a first ladyish, you know, kind of a thing like, you know, with lots of empathy or something with some group that that deserves it.

But I love the fact that Melania would be working on AI for our youth because that's like as basic to the survival of our country as anything could be.

So instead of working on things like you know beautifying something or you know having better dishes or whatever she's uh she's directly working on the thing that is the only thing that would keep the country you know in good shape in the future.

It's kind of impressive.

It's exactly the right place for um so I don't know if this is real but I think it is.

I saw a picture of it, so it must be real because I saw a picture.

But now that I'm now that I'm getting ready to tell you, I'm losing my confidence that this wasn't AI.

It could have been an AI picture, but the picture showed a perfectly orange shark allegedly swimming off of Costa Rica, and I guess they caught it.

And um it it would be a very rare kind of shark, perfectly orange.

And I said to myself, you know what?

That would make a great national fish for the United States.

Wouldn't it be great if Trump said, "Hey, I just found our new national fish.

It's the orange shark." That should be his new logo, an orange shark.

All right.

Well, uh I guess SpaceX, the company SpaceX has been uh is now officially the most valuable private company in the world.

Now, obviously, there are public companies that are worth more, but of private companies, it's the most valuable private company in the world.

It's worth uh reportedly $350 billion.

So that's bigger than Bite Dance um that owns Tik Tok that's 300 billion and Open AI at 300 billion.

So that's pretty impressive.

They're sending up some more rockets yesterday.

I guess everything's working out well.

Well, believe it or not, Cracker Barrel is going back to the old logo.

So they're giving up on their new logo.

They're going back to the old one.

Uh, if you remember what the old one looked like, it was a a picture of Mike Pence next to a barrel.

Now, I don't know what Mike Pence was doing next to that barrel, but I don't think it was about crackers, if you know what I mean.

Anyway, that happened only a few hours after Trump had done a truth social post saying that they should go back to the old uh the old logo.

And a few hours later, they Cracker Barrel said, "Yep, we listened to our customers." They didn't say anything about Trump, but they said, "We listened to our customers." And sure enough, I think they may have been listening to their investors, too.

Because they they they got just hammered.

Will it help that they're going to change their minds?

I don't know.

Does that uh change any of your minds?

Do you feel like, "Oh, yeah, now now we could go to Cracker Barrel because they changed that logo back." Well, if you didn't like that they were being uh woker than most companies are woke, that would be what they're doing.

So, changing the logo back wouldn't really change anything, right?

Except they got a better logo now than they had.

So, they got some free publicity, but I don't feel like people are going to go back because of the logo.

That's not really why they stopped going.

That that was more just emblematic of the fact that uh you know, white men were being demoted and everybody else in the world was being promoted.

Um I saw Matt Walsh had some things to say about that apparently.

And the vigilant fox picked this up that uh Matt Walsh is saying that there were eight women and no men on the Cracker Barrels all female marketing team.

I don't know how he knew that, but I'm sure he's right.

Um and the all women marketing team basically destroyed a 55year-old legacy.

And he says that DEI isn't diversity, it's displacement.

All right.

I don't like to argue the definitional things, but that's fair enough.

And uh then Matt goes further and he says, "Take any organization that has gone out of its way to bring down the number of white males in leadership.

Have any of those organizations improved as a result?

Any of them?" And we all know the answer is no.

Well, actually, I don't know that.

I I feel like it's a big world.

Somebody must have an example of at least one major company that uh introduced massive diversity and they did better.

That's got that has to exist, doesn't it?

I'm not a big fan of discriminating against white men as you know, but I'm sure it's worked out at least once.

Um even if you don't like it.

Well, Trump had his uh big uh what do you call it?

Cabinet meeting.

And I am so impressed with how innovative Trump is for his age.

You really don't expect him to innovate just all over the place all the time.

And I would say that even, you know, his rallies are innovative.

He's doing crypto that's innovative.

He's he's letting the uh he's stimulating all the right businesses at the moment.

That's innovative.

And uh but I love his uh he did what over 3 hours of an open to questions with his uh cabinet.

Now it's like he's done it several times now, but nobody's ever done that or anything like it.

and it makes all kinds of news because he's got all kinds of quotes on different topics.

So, I wrote down a bunch of them because everything he says is a little bit it's a little bit news making every time he talks.

Um, one of the things Trump said about the accusations that he's a dictator, he said, "I'm not a dictator.

I just know how to stop crime." Now, he said it kind of with like with a smile.

So, he's sort of mocking the people who say he's he's a dictator.

Um, but obviously, as long as Adam Schiff is still alive, he's not a dictator.

If you want to know the canary in the coal mine, as long as Adam Schiff can just go to work, do talk on TV anytime he wants and still gets his paycheck and still does his thing.

Um, it's hard to say Trump's a dictator, but the Department of Justice may have something to say about that.

We'll see.

Um, but I like how he he put it.

I'm not a dictator.

I just know how to stop crime.

And that's like perfect framing because you have to talk about both of them in the same sentence.

And then it reminds people he knows how to stop crime because he's doing it in DC.

Anyway, that apparently it's working.

National Guard in DC to reduce crime is uh apparently the numbers are down.

But I warn you that you can't trust any any crime numbers anywhere there.

There are no crime numbers that you can trust.

And you also don't know that it'll stay that way.

You know, if they if they take their foot off the pedal, what happens then?

I don't know.

But uh the locals, every every time you see interview on the street, it's a local saying, you know, I'm really glad they're doing this.

They should do it in Chicago.

So the news is having a terrible time finding somebody who says, "Oh, we don't like this.

We don't like this dictator stuff." So apparently the whole dictator thing is something that the news has to talk about, but it doesn't appear to be anything that resonates with the public.

Even the people who don't like like Trump, they're just not really seeing him stealing the democracy so much.

I I think they are seeing him reducing crime.

So that looks like another, you know, 8020 or maybe 6020, whatever it is, Trump wins.

And then we get to watch people like uh the professional liar class like Jamie Rascin.

Um he's he's basically almost coming out in favor of not fighting crime and it just makes him look like such a joker and such a such a loser.

It's hilarious.

Um and apparently I saw Eric Dohy had a post on X.

He said uh just came out according to the AP there's a new poll that says Trump's approval rating has surged five points since he did the DC crackdown and his new approval on uh crime is a majority of 53%.

So now now Trump is solidly in the majority of the country who who's enjoying him cracking down on crime.

So he wins again.

Golden age.

And 81% of Americans in that survey said crime is a major problem.

Yeah.

Yeah, they do.

Kevin Ori agrees.

He was just on CNN and he said, uh, we haven't even mentioned war zones like downtown San Francisco after 700 p.m.

where I work or Hollywood or Los Angeles where I work two months of the year.

He goes, "There are war zones.

You can't walk outside at night.

Period.

There are places there are major cities where you can't walk outside anywhere.

I mean, aren't are there not rich parts of that city where you can walk outside?" Or you must mean the uh sort of the business districts in those places, so to speak.

Probably too dangerous.

You're right.

Um, so you know how we joke that the Democrats have to be against literally everything that Trump is for or anything he does, right?

So you you remember that when Pagath and RFK Jr.

did this uh exercise challenge with a bunch of uh push-ups and pull-ups.

And the New York Times writes an article warning against exercise, the dangers of exercise.

Now, I didn't read the article, but I believe it's probably something like, you know, don't overdo it, you know, which is just reasonably good advice.

Uh, but the fact that the New York Times would have anything to say about exercise that's not you need more of it.

H how how deep did they have to dig to find out something bad to say about exercise?

Well, there was that one guy several years ago who tried to exercise and dropped out on the treadmill.

So, so you better consider that.

All right, here is some serious fun that's coming.

It's a very It's a ser it's a serious topic.

So, I don't mean to make light of the topic, but we're going to have a real interesting time ahead.

So, here's some foreshadowing.

Just just feel how big this is.

All right.

This also came out at the cabinet meeting.

Um, so Trump said to uh Bobby Kennedy during that meeting, he goes, "Uh, Bobby, autism, the autism is such a tremendous horror show.

What's happening in our country and some other countries, but mostly our country?

How are you doing on that?" Now, as you know, Bobby Kennedy was working on uh you know, looking at all the science to figure out what is most likely the cause of a gigantic surge in autism among newborns.

And uh and Kennedy said that he'd have something by September.

So, Kennedy says, "We're doing very well.

We we will have announcements as promised in September." And then listen to this.

We're finding interventions, certainly interventions now that are clearly almost certainly causing autism, and we're going to be able to address those in September.

Wow.

Wow.

Now, Bobby Kennedy is not one who falls into u let's say hyperbole, does he?

the the fact that he says we're going to give you an answer.

It may not be the 100% answer, but he's going to tell us something that he's they've apparently determined with data, they're not guessing at this point, is causing autism.

What do you think that's going to be?

Do you think it'll be the the medicines or do you think it will be the food or will it be both?

I don't know.

But I'll tell you, if they actually discover the cause of autism, doesn't somebody have a lawsuit coming, you know?

Well, I guess if they didn't know it, maybe it's not so bad.

I don't know.

But if if there's some food companies who are making food, for example, would they be liable if anybody wanted to sue them?

I don't know how that works.

If they didn't know, maybe they're not as liable.

or is ignorance unrelated to that?

I don't know.

We'll find out.

But boy, September is going to be really interesting, however that goes.

Uh Trump said the wages for blue collar workers are now rising at the fastest rate in 60 years.

Well, maybe.

But uh here's my caution.

Uh if you're not willing to believe the data when it's not good data that that your team has done something good um if you don't believe the bad data you shouldn't believe the good data is what I'm saying.

So I don't know that we have good enough data that we can tell that there's been a 2% increase in wages.

Do you believe that we can measure that?

You know, I I famously laugh at the fact that scientists say they can measure the temperature of the Earth.

No, you can't.

No, you can't.

I I've lived in the world long enough to know.

No, you can try really hard and you can all agree that you did it, but no, you can't you can't measure the temperature of the Earth accurately.

I mean, you could get a number, but uh no.

Um, and this the same thing with the blue collar workers.

Is there really a database that can tell you that wages went up 2% over 5 months?

Maybe.

I'd love I'd love for it to be true.

And I do think the the president is doing all the right stuff that, you know, should lead to that.

So whether or not it's an accurate number, I I still think they get the A+ for doing all the things that would lead you to the point whether it's happened yet or not is a little less important.

Um so here's another thing that Trump did just just sort of off the top of his head that's going to have this lasting uh you know major impact.

Listen to this.

So, you all know how when uh Governor Nuomoe talks, he he gets a a lot of crap for his jazz hands.

And we don't know what that's about.

Like he, you know, his hands are a little too active.

It doesn't doesn't look like he always did that.

It's like a new thing with the jazz hands.

So Trump says, he's talking about Newsome.

He goes, "You have an incompetent governor, Gavin.

He's a nice guy.

Looks good.

Hi everybody.

How you doing?

And then he says, "Got some strange hand action going on.

I don't know what the hell his problem is.

It's a little weird to be honest.

Something's shaky going on there." All right.

Here's why that's genius.

It's the same thing he did with uh Marco Rubio when he when they were debating against each other uh for the primary and he said that he said that Marco sweats too much.

If you tell somebody who has a sweating problem that they sweat too much, you've completely ruined their game in public because that's all they're going to be thinking about.

He he is so good at trash talk and getting into people's heads.

Now, uh those of us on X have chatted and joked about Nuome having, you know, funny jazz hands and what's up with that, but we're not the president of the United States.

So when Trump says it, you know, it's it's a headline and and now there's no way that Nuome is not going to think about while he's talking what he's doing with his hands at the same time.

Now, he might not change, but he's definitely going to have to think about it at the same time he's doing it.

So, it's just a way to to throw an athlete off their best game.

It's so It's so effective and so easy.

And Trump just does it like he's just shrugging and and suddenly Nuome looks like a crazy man with his hands.

And that's all you'll ever see when you watch him now is his hands.

I literally can't wait to see the next video of Newsome talking because I just want to see if he does anything different with his hands now.

Now it's a thing.

Uh, Trump is so good at that.

Uh, Trump on windmills.

He goes, "They're ruining our country." Now, I'm not a fan of windmills.

I think his argument is pretty strong.

It's not great for the environment and, you know, we can do better and blah blah blah.

It's ugly to look at, but I'm not sure they're ruining our country, but I do like his hyperbole.

Um, however, do you believe that he's on the side of the majority in his hatred of windmills?

Well, no.

So, this is a rare situation where he's in the closer to the 20 than the 80.

Um, the public likes windmills, turns out.

So there's a uh there was a the Washington Post said there was a University of Maryland poll in 23 that found that uh 68% Americans would be comfortable living near wind turbines and the Pew Research Center in 2023 said that 77% of US adults support expanding wind turbine farms.

So, this is one of those rare situations where Trump is on the, you know, on the uh the minority side.

But keep an eye on this because this will be a good test of Trump's persuasion.

The more he talks about it, I'll bet you that this it was 2023 that these numbers came out.

I'll bet if you did a 2025 poll, you would find that support for windmills is maybe not negative, but I'll bet it's I'll bet it's closer to half now.

Oh, no.

Damn it.

Here we are.

Gary the cat is visiting if you hear some commotion on my desk.

Um, all right.

All right.

Don't sit on my notes.

Um then speaking of uh Trump's hyperbole, this he said all these things u during the during the cabinet meeting.

He said that MSNBC maybe is worse than Trenda Arawa.

Real scum.

Now here's why this is so clever.

He said that they're worse than Trendy Aragon.

And I spent 10 minutes this morning trying to decide if they were actually literally worse.

Now, if you added up all the people that trend Ragua has, let's say, killed or victimized in the United States, it wouldn't be a gigantic number, would it?

you know, I mean there it might be an alarmingly large number uh in raw numbers like oh hundreds or something but it wouldn't be you know 10% of the population died or anything.

Um so yeah trenda as horrible as they are and how you know important it is to get rid of them.

Um, I'm thinking that MSNBC is torn has torn the entire structure of the country apart and that what they're doing is closer to treason in the biggest country, you know, most powerful military country in the world and that u although they have may not have killed as many people, they have destroyed the quality of life.

I mean, they're part of they're part of a larger structure that um has been propagandists and not news.

And so I so I spend all this time I don't have an answer for you.

It could be that Trenagua is winning on murders, but MSNBC is winning on destroying the fabric of society.

So he makes me think about the comparison.

If the only thing he'd done is say uh MSNBC is scum, then I would just go.

He always says that and I would move on.

I would spend no time thinking about it.

But when he says they're worse than Trend Ragua, first I laugh because it's such a wild a wild comparison coming from a president.

I mean no president would ever say that.

That's why it's catches your attention.

But then I actually spend time thinking whether it's true.

And that is so much more persuasive if it if it makes you spend time on it.

Well, Denmark is apparently uh uh angry because they say there are some Americans over in Greenland, which Denmark owns and controls, um who are trying to influence the locals in Greenland to want to join with the US, I guess.

And so Denmark has summoned a US top US diplomat in the country because they gota he's got to give them a talking to.

So does it make sense that we would have sent some undercover people, some intelligence assets to try to talk the Greenlanders into Love America?

It kind of makes sense.

It it fits with everything I know about how the world works.

So, yeah, makes sense.

Well, you know the story of the 600,000 Chinese students that Trump says he will allow to go to college in our country.

And if you're like me, you said, "Uh, I'd like to know more about that.

I'd like to know a little more about that.

Why would you say yes to that?

And how is that America first?

Now, part of the answer is that uh the foreign students pay so much for tuition that it's the only thing keeping a lot of the colleges in business.

So, it could be that Trump doesn't want a bunch of colleges to close on his watch.

and he figures if the majors that they're pursuing are, you know, let's say not STEM majors, maybe there's no harm and maybe we're just making a bunch of people who like America.

You know, if 600,000 people came here from China and they went home really liking America and wishing they could come back and thinking about working here, that might be good, but I don't know if that's why we're doing it.

Um, but here's my question that I I don't see an answer to.

Maybe you do.

Um, if colleges have room for 600,000 people, which again would be twice as many as we have now, so an extra 300,000 people.

Who is it who is not going to get accepted in college because of the Chinese students?

Let me give you a quiz.

and see how well you do it.

All right, let's say there's an American college and suddenly they can admit to twice as many Chinese students.

So to make room for the Chinese students, will they uh decline admission for black women?

Black women, anybody?

Do you think fewer black women will be allowed into college?

No.

The answer is no.

It's not black women.

Do you think that they will accept fewer LGBTQ because they need room for the Chinese?

No.

No, it won't be that.

No.

How about women?

Just women in general?

Nope.

Nope.

Um, no.

It seems to me that every single one of these 300,000 extra Chinese students is going to go to college at the expense of a white guy.

Am I wrong?

So, President Trump, I feel like we need a clarification here.

I know it would be illegal for these colleges to discriminate based on, you know, gender or ethnicity, but what is going to stop them from doing it?

What would stop them?

It's obviously going to come out of the pockets of white guys.

obviously.

And uh so let me just say hard no on this because if you don't have a way to do it without hurting white men specifically, then you don't have a plan that I could ever be behind.

So yeah, um I saw Jack Basabek was uh coming out clearly opposed to this and I joined with Jack in clearly opposed to it.

Now, if there's some good reason that I have not yet heard that's beyond anything I've mentioned, I'm open to the argument.

I mean, I I do believe that Trump has earned uh some flexibility, but he also owes us an explanation.

And if he can't promise me that this isn't coming out of almost entirely white men, um, no.

No.

hard.

No.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

And no.

Um, according to I saw a post by Wall Street apes talking about how um, juries are very biased.

Now, I'm not sure I totally believe these stats, but they're shocking.

And the there's some study, let's see if there's a source, I don't know, some study that claims that uh black juries have a 12% conviction rate against black defendants, but a 59% uh conviction rate against whites.

So that would indicate that they're far less likely to convict somebody like themselves.

Uh and then we should expect to see this everywhere, right?

like everybody would be the same.

They they would all be less likely to convict somebody looks like them.

Except white juries have a 33% conviction rate against white defendants versus a 26% against blacks.

Meaning that white juries are more likely to convict a white person than a black person.

And also black juries are more likely to convict a white person than a black person.

Does that sound like the data is real?

I'm a little uncertain whether these are I don't know if I would bet my life that this is accurate data.

This looks a little fishy to me, but that's out there.

Um, so Lisa Cook, the uh Fed governor, and by the way, what does a Fed governor do for work?

Is that even a real job?

So yeah, they they have their experts crunch some numbers and they make some decisions on interest rates.

What else do they do?

Because I don't see that Lisa Cook and the other Fed governors are going to be there with their spreadsheets and their and you know bunch of papers in the desk like all right I'm independently trying to figure out what the interest rates will be and when I've got my number I'll compare it with all the other Fed governors and we'll take a vote.

I mean, probably there's like one or two people who are not Fed governors but work for them who figure out what the interest rates should be based on, you know, what would happen if you did this versus that.

And then the bosses just sort of look at the politics and put their, you know, finger in the wind and say, "Ah, yeah, these other factors, we're going to go this way." But what else does the Fed governor do?

because I don't think that they have much to do with what the interest rate is.

Not the Fed governors, you know, except for their one vote, I guess.

It's not like they're doing the spreadsheet.

What do they do?

Anyway, so Lisa Cook uh has been fired by President Trump, but she's doing her best George Castanza impression and has decided that despite being fired, she's going to keep coming to work.

George Castanza.

All right.

Um I mean it's a version of Castanza.

I know he quit.

He didn't get fired in the TV show.

So don't be pedantic and tell me that.

Um but uh of course she's going to sue and then the Fed will decide uh based on how the lawsuit goes, I guess.

So that's happening.

Um, I saw on CNN it was uh Kugman, the economist, who was arguing that uh since she did this alleged problem with the mortgage where she said she had two primary homes, but it was years ago and it was in a prior job when she was a professor.

So, you know, maybe that shouldn't haunt her during this job.

and uh he made the example of you know you wouldn't want to punish somebody in their adulthood cuz they cheated on a test in third grade.

So sure enough Trump has made Democrats support crime.

They're actually downplaying the importance of what would be a jailable offense.

I don't know if it's jailable, but it looks pretty bad.

Oh my god, you can't win any harder than that.

All right, let's talk about experts.

Um, I saw a comic Dave Smith was on Joe Rogan again and they were talking about how, you know, Dave Smith gets a lot of heat for getting into all these conversations mostly about Israel but other topics as well.

And Dave Smith is a comic, not a comedian.

I'm sorry, not an expert.

And so people say they, you know, shouldn't listen to him because he's not an expert.

Um, here's my take on that.

We live in a world where the joker and the expert, you can't tell which one's right.

So, the person who's a joker may just have a cleaner look at the uh the world than the expert because the expert's usually working for a paycheck.

The joker is outside the system and observing it and saying, "Hey, that doesn't look right." So, if you believe you live in a world where the experts have better opinions than the jokers, that's not the world I'm in.

I I don't see that at all.

I listen to people's opinions all day long.

It's what I do.

And I don't see I don't see these experts beating the non-experts.

And I also think there there's value in listening to the non-experts try to uh navigate um the fake news, you know, because most of the news is fake, but that's all we have.

So watching the expert deal with the fake news doesn't mean as much because they might be part of the scheme.

You know, they might be on the side of the fake news.

But if you watch somebody whose expertise is that they watch the news uh and you're seeing them try to you know wrestle with the news the same as you are to me that's really useful.

So to say that uh because he's not an expert yet he is capable of having uh I would say winning debates with people who are experts on their field of expertise.

I definitely want to hear more of that.

Why wouldn't I?

So, um, and also there is something to be said for people who are better at spotting BS.

So, if the only thing that u that comic Dave Smith brings to the debate is they can spot things that are obviously, you know, they just don't smell right or they're too on the nose or, you know, they're they're just sort of obvious hyperbole or stuff like that.

The people who are good at spotting are the most valuable people you could ever listen to.

And there's there's not any uh recognized expertise or college major or anything that teaches you to be good at it.

But I would argue that some people can demonstrate by their, you know, continuous opinionating that they are experts.

And uh you know if a jester happens to be one of them who's just really good at spotting Yeah, you want to watch that.

You don't always want to watch the experts because they have a really bad track record lately.

Speaking of experts, just to make my point about how bad the experts are.

So, Governor uh Kathy Hokll of New York um is complaining that apparently they changed the law.

So, she was part of that changing the law to allow bail.

So, it's not all, you know, no cash bail.

They do have situations in New York and it's because of recent law changes where uh presumably the cases that make the most sense there is bail.

Um, but the judges, she complains, are acting like it's still the old way.

So literally the governor is complaining that the judges, let's call them the experts on the law, don't know the law.

That's the governor of the state saying that the judges who probably are mostly the same political party.

Um that the problem is the experts don't understand the law and that therefore they're not applying it.

So there's your experts.

How hard would it be to I mean Kathy Hokll is not an expert on the law.

Or is she?

Is she a lawyer?

I don't know.

Um but she knows that the experts are wrong or she believes it in this case.

Well, apparently the DOJ um is investigating whether the FBI under the Joe Biden regime uh destroyed some documents that were uh would have been bad for Kobe and Brandon.

I guess gateway pundits writing about this Christina Leila.

Um, and I guess that's because they found a bunch of sensitive documents in burn bags, which would suggest that there was an effort to hide or conceal a bunch of documents on, you know, certain topics.

So, were some of the burn bags burned and some of them were not?

And we just found the one obviously the ones that were not.

Um, I don't know.

So, that might be interesting.

Breitbart's uh reporting Jerome Hudson's writing that uh Hollywood is really quiet lately politically.

Have you noticed that?

I've kind of noticed that that the Hollywood Democrat um boosters.

They don't seem to be running a lot of fundraisers and they're sort of keeping their head down because Trump is doing so well and Biden was such a disaster and the Democrat party is in total collapse.

But um apparently uh uh reportedly they're laying low and the the people who would normally fund the Democrat party just are not seeing enough to fund.

And apparently now uh uh some of the big bankers are starting to admit the Daily Color News is writing about this.

William Flake.

Um there's some big bankers who are now confessing that the reason they debanked some people for political reasons uh was not because there was some risk to the bank, but because the Biden administration put pressure on them.

And apparently they were not admitting that that that was the real reason they did it.

They were trying to act like, "Oh, yeah.

These are just normal business decisions that these kinds of people would be debanked." Apparently, that wasn't the case.

It w it was pressure from the Biden administration.

So, now we have some some people admitting it according to the Daily Color News.

Well, there was a Chinese doctor who was working on, I think, an American base in Germany, and he was caught red-handed stealing cancer research and uh was taking it back to Beijing with him.

Um, so New York Post is reporting that.

So, don't you wonder if we're doing that, too?

Do you think we have spies in China that are stealing Chinese secrets or it feels racist to me, but we have this uh pervasive belief in the US that the Asian countries aren't so good at innovating.

I don't know if there's anything to that.

It just feels a little bit racist to me or a little bit a little bit uh what is it when you love your country more than other countries.

I'm not sure that's a real thing.

Um or maybe it was.

I don't know.

Now I have heard that different cultures have different approaches to um failure.

So, one of the one of the superpowers in the US is if you tell somebody you started three startups uh and none of them worked out.

In America, you're you're almost as likely to say, "Oh, wow.

You're really experienced.

You do you want to try another startup?" Um, so failure doesn't hit Americans like it other countries.

You know, there's a shame to your family or whatever is going on there.

So, I can imagine that maybe everybody is equally capable of innovation as far as I know.

I mean, I've never seen anything to the contrary, but that there are some cultures that uh would so punish you for getting one wrong that uh maybe there's just less experimentation.

Maybe that's the whole deal.

I don't know.

Well, the Trump administration is uh going hard in their investments to uh have rare earth minerals being made and processed in the US so we break China's grip.

Newsmax Money is reporting about that.

So, there's just a lot going on there.

So, the the bottom line is that the Trump administration is doing the right thing, which is going really hard on rare earths.

Now, I was thinking today before the show, how many how many things that Trump is pushing hard that are exactly the right things to push hard?

And then I asked, why wasn't Biden doing any of that?

For example, um this pushing hard on the rare earths, I'm sure Biden did a little bit, but probably nothing compared to what China what Trump's doing.

It's this vital area.

Uh then Trump's doing this major thing with uh ship building.

Uh I don't know if Biden did anything on the topic of ship building, but you know, it's a strategic critical area for us to be good at and and Trump is going hard at it.

I mean, like really serious.

Um Trump of course is uh you know, innovating on crypto like that.

Uh Trump seems to be I'm guessing he probably got rid of a lot of um problems for the AI companies that want to open up their own energy sucking AI business.

I feel like what Trump did is say you're you're welcome to do it, but you're going to have to build your own power plant.

And then they said thank you.

You know, we'll do whatever we have to because we have to be an AI.

We'll figure it out.

And then they build their own power plants.

Now, to me, again, that seems like amazingly the right thing to do.

So, there are all these areas, I can go on, but I feel like there are all these major areas where Trump has either already solved it, like the border, or he's putting major resources exactly where you'd want them to be.

And is it true that Biden just was incompetent or he didn't have the vision to get this through or he didn't have Congress?

Maybe maybe that's the difference.

But I'll tell you the the the big stuff that Trump is doing that would have long-term strategic impact to the country, they really seem right on point, like exactly what you and I would have said should be done.

So, I'm very impressed that Trump seems to be leading us into the golden age in all the right ways.

You know, there there's smaller stuff that I, you know, can find things to complain about like the extra Chinese students, etc., but overall, oh my god, Trump is pushing all the right competitive strategic buttons.

And we were we didn't have that before.

nothing like that before.

Um Trump says about the magnets, you know, that we get from China, but we're trying to make here.

We're going to have a lot of magnets in a pretty short period of time.

In fact, we'll have so many you won't know what to do with them.

You'll have so many magnets, you won't know what to do with them.

Every time he says something like that, it makes me laugh.

He He has such a distinct character and way of talking.

There's just nobody who talks like him.

Maybe never will be.

Here's what it feels like.

What it feels like when you watch the Trump administration wisely and smartly go after one thing after another.

I I could throw tariffs in there, too.

Maybe it's too early, but it sure looks like the whole tariff thing is going to work, right?

Is it too early?

I don't know.

Looks like it works.

Um, so it seems to me when you put all of these together, you know, the emphasis on ship building and AI and releasing energy and um, and all that stuff, everything I've mentioned, doesn't it feel like the IQ of America has just doubled?

Because you can look at any topic and you see that we're doing the smart thing that you do in that situation.

Take Ukraine.

Wasn't the smartest thing to do of the things that were possible to be done that we just stopped funding it and we turned it into a profit center.

That was absolutely the smartest thing to do.

No doubt about it.

Um, I can go on, you know, and list other Trump accomplishments, but if you were to look at them collectively, it's almost like the country's IQ doubled.

We're we're suddenly doing all the smart things.

Look at Washington DC.

It won't be long, if if it hasn't happened already, that everyone will admit how smart it was for Trump to go in hard against crime.

Everyone will admit that eventually, you know, there right now they have something to to complain about, but after he after he's out of office, people are going to look at it and go, "Oh, yeah.

Obviously, we didn't want all that crime and he's the only one who did something about it." So, it just feels like the country's IQ doubled.

Just we just are doing all smart stuff.

Yeah.

Now, I don't, again, that doesn't mean I agree with everything Trump does.

We're not a cult, right?

One of the things that makes Trump, in my opinion, the best president we've ever had, is that he's very keyed into the opinion of of the base and and the non-base as well.

And so, I believe that he benefits when we show skepticism about something like the 600,000 Chinese students.

doesn't mean he's going to change his mind, but I'll bet you that he would see either my opinion or Jack Bavic's opinion and it will play a part.

It will be it will definitely make a difference that there are people he's heard from before who he will pause and say, "Okay, why is this person disagreeing?" Like, I I need to listen to that.

And he's really good at that.

Uh, one of the things that everyone says about Trump, everyone.

He's a great listener when you're there in person.

He you that's what I experienced the same thing when I met him briefly.

I I left and the first thing I thought my major impression and takeaway he's a good listener.

So, it's a superpower.

Um, I guess Trump is demanding a half a billion dollar settlement from Harvard.

So, that negotiation is ongoing.

I believe Harvard offered some settlement that was less than that.

And Trump must feel like he has the uh negotiating advantage and he definitely does.

But half a billion from Harvard, will he actually get that half a billion?

I don't know.

Maybe.

Um, so the Ukraine war of course continues to escalate within within their borders.

Um, and smart people are saying that nothing good will happen toward peace until Zilinski and Putin get together and they're in the same room.

Do you believe that Zilinski and Putin can ever be in the same room?

Like what?

that doesn't it doesn't track.

Now, I could see why, you know, if if somebody lost a war, you know, they could be in the room with their enemy because, well, you lost the war.

But if if nobody lost the war and they're just trying to negotiate, these are two guys who really really want to kill each other.

They want to kill each other.

And I guarantee you both of them have spent ex extensive time looking over plans to kill the other one.

Now apparently they haven't pulled the trigger on it or if they have it didn't work.

But don't you believe that they've both put serious effort into killing literally killing the other one?

How did those two guys sit in a room and say, "Hey, glad to meet you finally.

Good job in that war.

Hey, you did better than I thought.

Should we talk about uh how to wind this thing down?

Afterwards, we'll have some drinks.

That's not going to happen.

In what world do you think Zilinski and Putin are ever going to sit in the same room and work out a peace deal?

So, I'm going to make a prediction.

I don't know which one, but the only way you're going to get to peace is one of these guys dies or leaves office, which might be the same thing, right?

We might someday have peace, but not until one of them dies.

And you know, I'm not suggesting that anybody kill anybody.

You know, people can die of natural reasons and they can leave office for any number of reasons, but they could leave office.

That might get you to a good place.

But I don't think either one of them will ever leave office unless they die.

That's what it looks like.

So, I'm not expecting any peace deals as long as the two of them are the leaders.

Um, Wickoff has noted that nobody's done more than Trump in narrowing the issues between Ukraine and Russia, but I say uh if they can't agree on the who owns what land, it really doesn't matter what else they agreed on, does it?

There's only one one important part of that.

Uh everything else obviously they could work that out.

Anyway, I guess uh the uh head of Germany has said that they can't sustain their welfare state and Victor Orban of uh what is he Hungary is doing a little victory dance because he did not go full socialist and I guess he thinks things are going better in his country.

I don't know about that, but it's interesting that Germany is realizing that they can't be so woke anymore.

It's not going to work.

I hope they don't go hard in the other direction because as Norm Mc.

Donald pointed out once, I don't know if you're a history I don't know if you're a student of history when he talks about Germany.

I don't know if you're a student of history, but it's the only country I worry about.

They take on the world.

He does a whole uh act on that.

It's great.

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

Look how close to one hour I was.

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Well, let's uh check in with science and

see if there's any work they did that

maybe they didn't need to do. Maybe they

could have just asked me. Oh, here we

go. Fabiana

Bontempo is writing about a new study

that says, uh, if you're a husband,

there you are, Paul. Uh, if your husband

has one of these jobs, he's more likely

to cheat. All right, so these are the

jobs of people most likely to cheat for

the men. CEO,

surgeon, physician, or unemployed.

All right. Well, you know, you really

didn't need to do that study cuz let me

explain to you, CEOs, surgeons, and

physicians.

They would be what we would call the

ones that women are chasing after.

And they also go to work in a place

that's filled with women who are

subordinate to them at their place of

work.

So yeah,

all the men who are high targets and

women are trying to sleep with them,

they are most likely to cheat. But also

the unemployed

because they've got the time.

So, if you have time or a really rocking

job, you're more likely to cheat. They

did not need to do that as a study. They

could have just asked me.

Well, uh, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift

are engaged. Finally,

the Yeah, the fairy tale is real. Um,

what do you think are the odds of Travis

and Taylor making it, oh, let's say

retirement and living happily ever

after? Well,

who would be more likely to cheat? A

CEO, a surgeon, a physician, or a famous

basketball player who's married to

Taylor Swift?

I don't know.

She'd better uh put a ring camera on

that guy to follow him around. I'm just

saying not it's not not a comment about

Travis. I'm sure he's a perfectly

upstanding person, but he's in that kind

of a job, you know, kind of a job. And

uh the other most likely to cheat would

probably be Rockstar.

So,

and they both have jobs where they have

to travel around the world without the

other one. So

I don't know they they do have the

highest odds against them.

But on the other hand, both of them have

defeated uh very long odds to be in the

jobs they're in. So if you want to put

if you want to look at on the golden age

way, let's do that. Let's let's put the

positive spin on it that uh if anyone

could pull off the unlikely, it would be

those two because they've both already

pulled off the unlikeliest of

unlikeliness.

According to Chris Williamson, who I

believe had Rob Anderson on his show

recently, and Rob was saying that

married men and women disagree on how

much sex they have. Okay, Rob. Again,

may maybe you could have asked me and I

would have known that part, but there's

more. Maybe I didn't know this part. Um,

that women typically believe their

marriages have about the right frequency

of sex, whereas men wish for more, twice

as much.

So, and it suggests that couples adjust

their sexual frequency to the lower rate

of desire by the wife.

Okay.

Um, how could it ever be different? It

would only be different if if the wife

took sort of a prostitute point of view

and said, "I'll tell you what, some of

the time I'll have this sex and I'll

enjoy it. But other times, I'll look

like I'm just waiting for it to be over

and then you can have as much as you

want." Then the guy says, "Uh,

I'll just take the stuff where you're

into it because

if if they're just looking at you like,

gosh, I I got to do some chores, that's

not really good for the guy." So, yes,

the man adjusts to the to the preference

of the woman most of the time.

Well, it looks like Raiden Camera,

speaking of them, they've got a new

device that's a uh a little drone that

works inside your house when you're

gone. So, the drone, it's kind of a

small one, will patrol the rooms of your

house uh automatically, so you don't

have to do anything. It just does it by

itself and creates a little video, I

guess. Now, how much do you want that?

I I want that so much.

Do you ever see a a new product where

you go, "Uh, I already know I'm going to

have one of those someday." You know,

maybe not right away, but yeah, I want

one of those. I want one for the outside

of the house, too. Uh, I would like to

to know that if somebody rings a

doorbell or if my security camera picks

up, you know, any motion that looks like

a person, that uh my my drone on my

roof, there's a flat area on the roof. I

have the perfect place to stage it would

take off and, you know, do a little uh

do a little surveillance to make sure

it's not anything bad.

Well, enough about me. Vanity Fair

employees say they're going to walk out

the mother effing door. That's a quote.

Walk going to walk out the mother effing

door if Melania Trump is on the cover.

because I guess there's some talk about

putting her there because there's no way

they'd keep their incredibly lucky job

to be at the Venity Fair if they put

some beautiful model on the cover that

was not their preferred

political preference.

Um, I would say unless these are the

most irreplaceable people in the history

of magazines, I would let them walk out

the mother effing door.

I would say goodbye to all of them

because who's running that place? Do do

the uh employees get to decide what's on

the cover? I mean, the lower lower end

employees. I don't think so. So, but

we'll see. Um, speaking of Melania,

apparently she's announced a K through

12 presidential AI challenge according

to the Hill.

And I guess it would be like a contest

and they would urge students across the

country to use AI to

um compete I guess to for who could come

up with the the most awesome AI app I

guess. And how much do I love that? I I

love this so much. You know, your first

ladies traditionally they get involved

in some cause, but often the cause is

sort of a just a first ladyish,

you know, kind of a thing like, you

know, with lots of empathy or something

with some group that that deserves it.

But I love the fact that Melania

would be working on AI for our youth

because that's like as basic to the

survival of our country as anything

could be. So instead of working on

things like you know beautifying

something or you know having better

dishes or whatever she's uh she's

directly

working on the thing that is the only

thing that would keep the country you

know in good shape in the future. It's

kind of impressive. It's exactly the

right place for

um so I don't know if this is real but I

think it is. I saw a picture of it, so

it must be real because I saw a picture.

But now that I'm now that I'm getting

ready to tell you, I'm losing my

confidence that this wasn't AI.

It could have been an AI picture, but

the picture showed a perfectly orange

shark allegedly swimming off of Costa

Rica, and I guess they caught it. And

um it it would be a very rare kind of

shark, perfectly orange.

And I said to myself, you know what?

That would make a great national fish

for the United States. Wouldn't it be

great if Trump said, "Hey, I just found

our new national fish. It's the orange

shark."

That should be his new logo, an orange

shark.

All right. Well, uh I guess SpaceX, the

company SpaceX has been uh is now

officially the most valuable private

company in the world. Now, obviously,

there are public companies that are

worth more, but of private companies,

it's the most valuable private company

in the world.

It's worth uh reportedly $350 billion.

So that's bigger than Bite Dance

um that owns Tik Tok that's 300 billion

and Open AI at 300 billion.

So that's pretty impressive.

They're sending up some more rockets

yesterday. I guess everything's working

out well. Well, believe it or not,

Cracker Barrel

is going back to the old logo. So

they're giving up on their new logo.

They're going back to the old one. Uh,

if you remember what the old one looked

like, it was a a picture of Mike Pence

next to a barrel.

Now, I don't know what Mike Pence was

doing next to that barrel, but I don't

think it was about crackers, if you know

what I mean. Anyway, that happened only

a few hours after Trump had done a truth

social post saying that they should go

back to the old uh the old logo.

And a few hours later, they Cracker

Barrel said, "Yep, we listened to our

customers." They didn't say anything

about Trump, but they said, "We listened

to our customers." And sure enough, I

think they may have been listening to

their investors, too. Because they they

they got just hammered.

Will it help that they're going to

change their minds? I don't know.

Does that uh change any of your minds?

Do you feel like, "Oh, yeah, now now we

could go to Cracker Barrel because they

changed that logo back." Well, if you

didn't like that they were being uh

woker than most companies are woke, that

would be what they're doing.

So, changing the logo back wouldn't

really change anything, right? Except

they got a better logo now than they

had.

So, they got some free publicity, but I

don't feel like people are going to go

back because of the logo. That's not

really why they stopped going.

That that was more just emblematic of

the fact that uh you know, white men

were being demoted and everybody else in

the world was being promoted.

Um I saw Matt Walsh had some things to

say about that apparently. And the

vigilant fox picked this up that uh Matt

Walsh is saying that there were eight

women and no men on the Cracker Barrels

all female marketing team. I don't know

how he knew that, but I'm sure he's

right. Um and the all women marketing

team basically destroyed a 55year-old

legacy. And he says that DEI isn't

diversity, it's displacement.

All right. I don't like to argue the

definitional things, but that's fair

enough.

And uh then Matt goes further and he

says, "Take any organization that has

gone out of its way to bring down the

number of white males in leadership.

Have any of those organizations improved

as a result? Any of them?" And we all

know the answer is no. Well, actually, I

don't know that. I I feel like it's a

big world. Somebody must have an example

of at least one major company

that uh introduced massive diversity and

they did better. That's got that has to

exist, doesn't it? I'm not a big fan of

discriminating against white men as you

know, but I'm sure it's worked out at

least once.

Um even if you don't like it.

Well, Trump had his uh big uh what do

you call it? Cabinet meeting. And I am

so impressed with how innovative Trump

is for his age. You really don't expect

him to innovate just all over the place

all the time. And I would say that even,

you know, his rallies are innovative.

He's doing crypto that's innovative.

He's he's letting the uh he's

stimulating all the right businesses at

the moment. That's innovative. And uh

but I love his uh he did what over 3

hours of an open to questions with his

uh cabinet. Now it's like he's done it

several times now, but nobody's ever

done that or anything like it. and it

makes all kinds of news because he's got

all kinds of quotes on different topics.

So, I wrote down a bunch of them because

everything he says is a little bit it's

a little bit news making every time he

talks. Um, one of the things Trump said

about the accusations that he's a

dictator, he said, "I'm not a dictator.

I just know how to stop crime."

Now, he said it kind of with like with a

smile. So, he's sort of mocking the

people who say he's he's a dictator. Um,

but obviously, as long as Adam Schiff is

still alive, he's not a dictator.

If you want to know the canary in the

coal mine, as long as Adam Schiff can

just go to work, do talk on TV anytime

he wants and still gets his paycheck and

still does his thing. Um, it's hard to

say Trump's a dictator, but the

Department of Justice may have something

to say about that. We'll see. Um, but I

like how he he put it. I'm not a

dictator. I just know how to stop crime.

And that's like perfect framing

because you have to talk about both of

them in the same sentence. And then it

reminds people he knows how to stop

crime because he's doing it in DC.

Anyway, that apparently it's working.

National Guard in DC to reduce crime is

uh apparently the numbers are down. But

I warn you that you can't trust any any

crime numbers anywhere there. There are

no crime numbers that you can trust. And

you also don't know that it'll stay that

way. You know, if they if they take

their foot off the pedal, what happens

then? I don't know.

But uh the locals, every every time you

see interview on the street, it's a

local saying, you know, I'm really glad

they're doing this. They should do it in

Chicago. So the news is having a

terrible time finding somebody who says,

"Oh, we don't like this. We don't like

this dictator stuff." So apparently the

whole dictator thing is something that

the news has to talk about, but it

doesn't appear to be anything that

resonates with the public. Even the

people who don't like like Trump,

they're just not really seeing him

stealing the democracy so much. I I

think they are seeing him reducing

crime.

So that looks like another, you know,

8020 or maybe 6020, whatever it is,

Trump wins.

And then we get to watch people like uh

the professional liar class like Jamie

Rascin. Um he's he's basically almost

coming out in favor of not fighting

crime and it just makes him look like

such a joker and such a such a loser.

It's hilarious.

Um and apparently I saw Eric Dohy had a

post on X. He said uh just came out

according to the AP there's a new poll

that says Trump's approval rating has

surged five points since he did the DC

crackdown and his new approval on uh

crime is a majority of 53%. So now now

Trump is solidly

in the majority of the country who who's

enjoying him cracking down on crime. So

he wins again. Golden age.

And 81% of Americans in that survey said

crime is a major problem.

Yeah. Yeah, they do. Kevin Ori agrees.

He was just on CNN and he said, uh, we

haven't even mentioned war zones like

downtown San Francisco after 700 p.m.

where I work or Hollywood or Los Angeles

where I work two months of the year. He

goes, "There are war zones. You can't

walk outside at night. Period.

There are places

there are major cities where you can't

walk outside anywhere.

I mean, aren't are there not rich parts

of that city where you can walk

outside?" Or you must mean the uh sort

of the business districts in those

places, so to speak. Probably too

dangerous. You're right. Um,

so

you know how we joke that the Democrats

have to be against literally everything

that Trump is for or anything he does,

right? So you you remember that when

Pagath and RFK Jr. did this uh exercise

challenge with a bunch of uh push-ups

and pull-ups. And the New York Times

writes an article warning against

exercise, the dangers of exercise.

Now, I didn't read the article, but I

believe it's probably something like,

you know, don't overdo it, you know,

which is just reasonably good advice.

Uh, but the fact that the New York Times

would have anything to say about

exercise that's not you need more of it.

H how how deep did they have to dig to

find out something bad to say about

exercise? Well, there was that one guy

several years ago who tried to exercise

and dropped out on the treadmill. So, so

you better consider that.

All right, here is some serious fun

that's coming. It's a very It's a ser

it's a serious topic. So, I don't mean

to make light of the topic, but we're

going to have a real interesting time

ahead. So, here's some foreshadowing.

Just just feel how big this is. All

right. This also came out at the cabinet

meeting. Um,

so Trump said to uh Bobby Kennedy during

that meeting, he goes, "Uh, Bobby,

autism, the autism is such a tremendous

horror show. What's happening in our

country and some other countries, but

mostly our country? How are you doing on

that?" Now, as you know, Bobby Kennedy

was working on uh you know, looking at

all the science to figure out what is

most likely the cause of a gigantic

surge in autism among newborns.

And

uh and Kennedy said that he'd have

something by September. So, Kennedy

says, "We're doing very well. We we will

have announcements as promised in

September."

And then listen to this. We're finding

interventions, certainly interventions

now that are clearly almost certainly

causing autism, and we're going to be

able to address those in September.

Wow.

Wow. Now, Bobby Kennedy is not one who

falls into

u let's say hyperbole, does he? the the

fact that he says we're going to give

you an answer.

It may not be the 100% answer, but he's

going to tell us something that he's

they've apparently determined with data,

they're not guessing at this point, is

causing autism. What do you think that's

going to be? Do you think it'll be the

the medicines or do you think it will be

the food

or will it be both?

I don't know. But I'll tell you, if they

actually discover the cause of autism,

doesn't somebody have a lawsuit coming,

you know? Well, I guess if they didn't

know it, maybe it's not so bad. I don't

know. But if if there's some food

companies who are making food, for

example, would they be liable if anybody

wanted to sue them? I don't know how

that works. If they didn't know, maybe

they're not as liable. or is ignorance

unrelated to that? I don't know.

We'll find out. But boy, September is

going to be really interesting, however

that goes.

Uh Trump said the wages for blue collar

workers are now rising at the fastest

rate in 60 years. Well, maybe.

But uh here's my caution. Uh if you're

not willing to believe the data when

it's not good data that that your team

has done something good um if you don't

believe the bad data you shouldn't

believe the good data is what I'm

saying. So I don't know that we have

good enough data that we can tell that

there's been a 2% increase in wages. Do

you believe that we can measure that?

You know, I I famously laugh at the fact

that scientists say they can measure the

temperature of the Earth. No, you can't.

No, you can't. I I've lived in the world

long enough to know. No, you can try

really hard and you can all agree that

you did it, but no, you can't you can't

measure the temperature of the Earth

accurately. I mean, you could get a

number, but uh no. Um, and this the same

thing with the blue collar workers.

Is there really a database that can tell

you that wages went up 2% over 5 months?

Maybe. I'd love I'd love for it to be

true. And I do think the the president

is doing all the right stuff that, you

know, should lead to that. So whether or

not it's an accurate number, I I still

think they get the A+ for doing all the

things that would lead you to the point

whether it's happened yet or not is a

little less important.

Um

so here's another thing that Trump did

just just sort of off the top of his

head that's going to have this lasting

uh you know major impact.

Listen to this. So, you all know how

when uh Governor Nuomoe talks, he he

gets a a lot of crap for his jazz hands.

And we don't know what that's about.

Like he, you know, his hands are a

little too active. It doesn't doesn't

look like he always did that. It's like

a new thing with the jazz hands. So

Trump says, he's talking about Newsome.

He goes, "You have an incompetent

governor, Gavin. He's a nice guy. Looks

good. Hi everybody. How you doing?

And then he says, "Got some strange hand

action going on. I don't know what the

hell his problem is. It's a little weird

to be honest. Something's shaky going on

there."

All right. Here's why that's genius.

It's the same thing he did with uh Marco

Rubio when he when they were debating

against each other uh for the primary

and he said that he said that Marco

sweats too much.

If you tell somebody who has a sweating

problem that they sweat too much, you've

completely ruined their game in public

because that's all they're going to be

thinking about.

He he is so good at trash talk and

getting into people's heads. Now, uh

those of us on X have chatted and joked

about Nuome having, you know, funny jazz

hands and what's up with that, but we're

not the president of the United States.

So when Trump says it, you know, it's

it's a headline and

and now there's no way that Nuome is not

going to think about while he's talking

what he's doing with his hands at the

same time. Now, he might not change, but

he's definitely going to have to think

about it at the same time he's doing it.

So, it's just a way to to throw an

athlete off their best game.

It's so It's so effective and so easy.

And Trump just does it like he's just

shrugging and and suddenly Nuome looks

like a crazy man with his hands. And

that's all you'll ever see when you

watch him now is his hands.

I literally can't wait to see the next

video of Newsome talking because I just

want to see if he does anything

different with his hands now. Now it's a

thing. Uh, Trump is so good at that. Uh,

Trump on windmills. He goes, "They're

ruining our country."

Now, I'm not a fan of windmills. I think

his argument is pretty strong. It's not

great for the environment and, you know,

we can do better and blah blah blah.

It's ugly to look at, but I'm not sure

they're ruining our country, but I do

like his hyperbole. Um, however, do you

believe that he's on the side of the

majority in his hatred of windmills?

Well, no. So, this is a rare situation

where he's in the closer to the 20 than

the 80. Um, the public likes windmills,

turns out. So there's a uh there was a

the Washington Post said there was a

University of Maryland poll in 23 that

found that uh 68% Americans would be

comfortable living near wind turbines

and the Pew Research Center in 2023 said

that 77% of US adults support expanding

wind turbine farms. So,

this is one of those rare situations

where Trump is on the, you know, on the

uh the minority side. But keep an eye on

this because this will be a good test of

Trump's persuasion. The more he talks

about it, I'll bet you that this it was

2023 that these numbers came out. I'll

bet if you did a 2025 poll,

you would find that support for

windmills is maybe not negative, but

I'll bet it's I'll bet it's closer to

half now. Oh, no. Damn it.

Here we are. Gary the cat is visiting if

you hear some commotion on my desk.

Um, all right. All right. Don't sit on

my notes.

Um then speaking of uh Trump's

hyperbole, this he said all these things

u during the during the cabinet meeting.

He said that MSNBC maybe is worse than

Trenda Arawa. Real scum.

Now here's why this is so clever. He

said that they're worse than Trendy

Aragon.

And I spent 10 minutes this morning

trying to decide if they were actually

literally worse.

Now, if you added up all the people that

trend Ragua has, let's say, killed or

victimized in the United States,

it wouldn't be a gigantic number, would

it? you know, I mean there it might be

an alarmingly large number uh in raw

numbers like oh hundreds or something

but it wouldn't be you know 10% of the

population died or anything. Um so yeah

trenda as horrible as they are and how

you know important it is to get rid of

them. Um, I'm thinking that MSNBC

is torn has torn the entire structure of

the country apart and that what they're

doing is closer to treason in the

biggest country, you know, most powerful

military country in the world and that u

although they have may not have killed

as many people, they have destroyed the

quality of life. I mean, they're part of

they're part of a larger structure that

um has been propagandists and not news.

And so I so I spend all this time I

don't have an answer for you. It could

be that Trenagua is winning on murders,

but MSNBC is winning on destroying the

fabric of society.

So he makes me think about the

comparison.

If the only thing he'd done is say uh

MSNBC is scum,

then I would just go. He always says

that and I would move on. I would spend

no time thinking about it. But when he

says they're worse than Trend Ragua,

first I laugh because it's such a wild a

wild comparison coming from a president.

I mean no president would ever say that.

That's why it's catches your attention.

But then I actually spend time thinking

whether it's true.

And that is so much more persuasive if

it if it makes you spend time on it.

Well, Denmark is apparently uh uh angry

because they say there are some

Americans over in Greenland, which

Denmark owns and controls, um who are

trying to influence the locals in

Greenland to want to join with the US, I

guess. And so Denmark has summoned a US

top US diplomat in the country because

they gota he's got to give them a

talking to.

So

does it make sense that we would have

sent some undercover people, some

intelligence assets to try to talk the

Greenlanders into Love America? It kind

of makes sense.

It it fits with everything I know about

how the world works. So, yeah, makes

sense.

Well, you know the story of the 600,000

Chinese students that Trump says he will

allow to go to college in our country.

And if you're like me, you said, "Uh,

I'd like to know more about that. I'd

like to know a little more about that.

Why would you say yes to that? And how

is that America first? Now, part of the

answer is that uh the foreign students

pay so much for tuition that it's the

only thing keeping a lot of the colleges

in business. So, it could be that Trump

doesn't want a bunch of colleges to

close on his watch. and he figures if

the majors that they're pursuing are,

you know, let's say not STEM majors,

maybe there's no harm and maybe we're

just making a bunch of people who like

America. You know, if 600,000 people

came here from China and they went home

really liking America and wishing they

could come back and thinking about

working here, that might be good, but I

don't know if that's why we're doing it.

Um,

but here's my question that I I don't

see an answer to. Maybe you do. Um, if

colleges have room for 600,000 people,

which again would be twice as many as we

have now, so an extra 300,000 people.

Who is it who is not going to get

accepted in college because of the

Chinese students? Let me give you a

quiz. and see how well you do it.

All right, let's say there's an American

college and suddenly they can admit to

twice as many Chinese students.

So to make room for the Chinese

students,

will they uh decline admission for black

women? Black women, anybody? Do you

think fewer black women will be allowed

into college? No. The answer is no. It's

not black women.

Do you think that they will accept fewer

LGBTQ

because they need room for the Chinese?

No. No, it won't be that. No. How about

women? Just women in general? Nope.

Nope. Um, no. It seems to me that every

single one of these 300,000

extra Chinese students is going to go to

college at the expense of a white guy.

Am I wrong?

So, President Trump, I feel like we need

a clarification here. I know it would be

illegal for these colleges to

discriminate based on, you know, gender

or ethnicity,

but what is going to stop them from

doing it? What would stop them? It's

obviously going to come out of the

pockets of white guys. obviously.

And uh so let me just say hard no on

this because if you don't have a way to

do it without hurting white men

specifically,

then you don't have a plan that I could

ever be behind.

So yeah,

um I saw Jack Basabek was uh coming out

clearly opposed to this and I joined

with Jack in clearly opposed to it. Now,

if there's some good reason that I have

not yet heard that's beyond anything

I've mentioned, I'm open to the

argument. I mean, I I do believe that

Trump has earned

uh some flexibility,

but he also owes us an explanation.

And if he can't promise me that this

isn't coming out of almost entirely

white men,

um, no. No. hard. No. Nope. Nope. Nope.

And no.

Um, according to I saw a post by Wall

Street apes talking about how

um, juries are very biased. Now, I'm not

sure I totally believe these stats, but

they're shocking. And the there's some

study, let's see if there's a source,

I don't know, some study that claims

that uh black juries have a 12%

conviction rate against black

defendants, but a 59% uh conviction rate

against whites. So that would indicate

that they're far less likely to convict

somebody like themselves.

Uh and then we should expect to see this

everywhere, right? like everybody would

be the same. They they would all be less

likely to convict somebody looks like

them. Except white juries have a 33%

conviction rate against white defendants

versus a 26% against blacks. Meaning

that white juries are more likely to

convict a white person than a black

person. And also black juries are more

likely to convict a white person than a

black person.

Does that sound like the data is real?

I'm a little uncertain whether these are

I don't know if I would bet my life that

this is accurate data.

This looks a little fishy to me, but

that's out there. Um, so Lisa Cook, the

uh Fed governor, and by the way, what

does a Fed governor do for work?

Is that even a real job?

So yeah, they they have their experts

crunch some numbers and they make some

decisions on interest rates. What else

do they do? Because I don't see that

Lisa Cook and the other Fed governors

are going to be there with their

spreadsheets and their and you know

bunch of papers in the desk like all

right I'm independently trying to figure

out what the interest rates will be and

when I've got my number I'll compare it

with all the other Fed governors and

we'll take a vote. I mean,

probably there's like one or two people

who are not Fed governors but work for

them who figure out what the interest

rates should be based on, you know, what

would happen if you did this versus

that. And then the bosses just sort of

look at the politics and put their, you

know, finger in the wind and say, "Ah,

yeah, these other factors, we're going

to go this way." But what else does the

Fed governor do? because I don't think

that they have much to do with what the

interest rate is. Not the Fed governors,

you know, except for their one vote, I

guess. It's not like they're doing the

spreadsheet. What do they do?

Anyway, so Lisa Cook uh has been fired

by President Trump, but she's doing her

best George Castanza impression and has

decided that despite being fired, she's

going to keep coming to work. George

Castanza. All right. Um I mean it's a

version of Castanza. I know he quit. He

didn't get fired in the TV show. So

don't be pedantic and tell me that. Um

but uh of course she's going to sue and

then the Fed will decide uh based on how

the lawsuit goes, I guess. So

that's happening.

Um, I saw on CNN it was uh

Kugman, the economist, who was arguing

that uh since she did this alleged

problem with the mortgage where she said

she had two primary homes, but it was

years ago and it was in a prior job when

she was a professor. So, you know, maybe

that shouldn't haunt her during this

job.

and uh he made the example of you know

you wouldn't want to punish somebody in

their adulthood cuz they cheated on a

test in third grade. So sure enough

Trump has made Democrats

support crime.

They're actually downplaying the

importance of what would be a jailable

offense. I don't know if it's jailable,

but it looks pretty bad.

Oh my god, you can't win any harder than

that.

All right, let's talk about experts.

Um, I saw a comic Dave Smith was on Joe

Rogan again and they were talking about

how, you know, Dave Smith gets a lot of

heat for getting into all these

conversations mostly about Israel but

other topics as well. And Dave Smith is

a comic, not a comedian. I'm sorry, not

an expert. And so people say they, you

know, shouldn't listen to him because

he's not an expert.

Um, here's my take on that. We live in a

world where the joker and the expert,

you can't tell which one's right. So,

the person who's a joker may just have a

cleaner look at the uh the world than

the expert because the expert's usually

working for a paycheck. The joker is

outside the system and observing it and

saying, "Hey, that doesn't look right."

So, if you believe you live in a world

where the experts have better opinions

than the jokers, that's not the world

I'm in. I I don't see that at all. I

listen to people's opinions all day

long. It's what I do. And I don't see I

don't see these experts beating the

non-experts.

And I also think there there's value in

listening to the non-experts

try to uh navigate

um the fake news, you know, because most

of the news is fake, but that's all we

have. So watching the expert deal with

the fake news doesn't mean as much

because they might be part of the

scheme. You know, they might be on the

side of the fake news.

But if you watch somebody whose

expertise is that they watch the news

uh and you're seeing them try to you

know wrestle with the news the same as

you are to me that's really useful. So

to say that uh because he's not an

expert yet he is capable of having uh I

would say winning debates with people

who are experts on their field of

expertise. I definitely want to hear

more of that. Why wouldn't I? So, um,

and also

there is something to be said for people

who are better at spotting BS.

So, if the only thing that u that comic

Dave Smith brings to the debate is they

can spot things that are obviously, you

know, they just don't smell right or

they're too on the nose or, you know,

they're they're just sort of obvious

hyperbole or stuff like that. The people

who are good at spotting

are the most valuable people you could

ever listen to. And there's there's not

any

uh recognized expertise or college major

or anything that teaches you to be good

at it. But I would argue that some

people can demonstrate

by their, you know, continuous

opinionating that they are experts. And

uh you know if a jester happens to be

one of them who's just really good at

spotting Yeah, you want to

watch that. You don't always want to

watch the experts because they have a

really bad track record lately.

Speaking of experts, just to make my

point about how bad the experts are. So,

Governor uh Kathy Hokll of New York um

is complaining that apparently they

changed the law. So, she was part of

that changing the law to allow bail. So,

it's not all, you know, no cash bail.

They do have situations in New York and

it's because of recent law changes where

uh presumably the cases that make the

most sense there is bail.

Um, but the judges, she complains, are

acting like it's still the old way.

So literally the governor is complaining

that the judges, let's call them the

experts on the law, don't know the law.

That's the governor of the state saying

that the judges who probably are mostly

the same political party. Um that the

problem is the experts don't understand

the law

and that therefore they're not applying

it.

So there's your experts. How hard would

it be to I mean Kathy Hokll is not an

expert on the law. Or is she? Is she a

lawyer? I don't know. Um

but she knows that the experts are wrong

or she believes it in this case.

Well, apparently the DOJ

um is investigating whether the FBI

under the Joe Biden regime uh destroyed

some documents that were uh would have

been bad for Kobe and Brandon. I guess

gateway pundits writing about this

Christina Leila. Um,

and I guess that's because they found a

bunch of sensitive documents in burn

bags, which would suggest that there was

an effort to hide or conceal a bunch of

documents on, you know, certain topics.

So, were some of the burn bags burned

and some of them were not? And we just

found the one obviously the ones that

were not. Um, I don't know. So, that

might be interesting.

Breitbart's uh reporting Jerome Hudson's

writing that uh Hollywood is really

quiet lately politically. Have you

noticed that? I've kind of noticed that

that the Hollywood Democrat um boosters.

They don't seem to be running a lot of

fundraisers and they're sort of keeping

their head down because Trump is doing

so well and Biden was such a disaster

and the Democrat party is in total

collapse. But um apparently uh

uh reportedly

they're laying low and the the people

who would normally fund the Democrat

party just are not seeing enough to

fund.

And apparently now uh uh some of the big

bankers are starting to admit the Daily

Color News is writing about this.

William Flake. Um

there's some big bankers who are now

confessing that the reason they debanked

some people for political reasons uh was

not because there was some risk to the

bank, but because the Biden

administration put pressure on them. And

apparently they were not admitting that

that that was the real reason they did

it. They were trying to act like, "Oh,

yeah. These are just normal business

decisions that these kinds of people

would be debanked." Apparently, that

wasn't the case. It w it was pressure

from the Biden administration. So, now

we have some some people admitting it

according to the Daily Color News.

Well, there was a Chinese doctor who was

working on, I think, an American base in

Germany, and he was caught red-handed

stealing cancer research and uh was

taking it back to Beijing with him. Um,

so New York Post is reporting that. So,

don't you wonder if we're doing that,

too? Do you think we have spies in China

that are stealing Chinese secrets or

it feels racist to me, but we have this

uh pervasive belief in the US that the

Asian countries aren't so good at

innovating.

I don't know if there's anything to

that. It just feels a little bit racist

to me or a little bit a little bit uh

what is it when you love your country

more than other countries. I'm not sure

that's a real thing. Um

or maybe it was. I don't know. Now I

have heard that different cultures have

different approaches to

um failure.

So, one of the one of the superpowers in

the US is if you tell somebody you

started three startups uh and none of

them worked out. In America, you're

you're almost as likely to say, "Oh,

wow. You're really experienced.

You do you want to try another startup?"

Um, so failure doesn't hit Americans

like it other countries. You know,

there's a shame to your family or

whatever is going on there. So, I can

imagine that maybe everybody is equally

capable of innovation as far as I know.

I mean, I've never seen anything to the

contrary, but that there are some

cultures that uh would so punish you for

getting one wrong that uh maybe there's

just less experimentation.

Maybe that's the whole deal.

I don't know. Well, the Trump

administration is uh going hard in their

investments to uh have rare earth

minerals being made and processed in the

US so we break China's grip. Newsmax

Money is reporting about that. So,

there's just a lot going on there. So,

the the bottom line is that the Trump

administration is doing the right thing,

which is going really hard on rare

earths. Now, I was thinking today before

the show, how many how many things that

Trump is pushing hard that are exactly

the right things to push hard? And then

I asked, why wasn't Biden doing any of

that? For example, um this pushing hard

on the rare earths, I'm sure Biden did a

little bit, but probably nothing

compared to what China what Trump's

doing. It's this vital area. Uh then

Trump's doing this major thing with uh

ship building. Uh I don't know if Biden

did anything on the topic of ship

building, but you know, it's a strategic

critical area for us to be good at and

and Trump is going hard at it. I mean,

like really serious. Um

Trump of course is uh you know,

innovating on crypto like that. Uh Trump

seems to be I'm guessing he probably got

rid of a lot of um problems for the AI

companies that want to open up their own

energy sucking AI business. I feel like

what Trump did is say you're you're

welcome to do it, but you're going to

have to build your own power plant. And

then they said thank you. You know,

we'll do whatever we have to because we

have to be an AI. We'll figure it out.

And then they build their own power

plants. Now, to me, again, that seems

like amazingly the right thing to do.

So, there are all these areas, I can go

on, but I feel like there are all these

major areas where Trump has either

already solved it, like the border, or

he's putting major resources exactly

where you'd want them to be.

And

is it true that Biden just was

incompetent or he didn't have the vision

to get this through or he didn't have

Congress? Maybe maybe that's the

difference.

But I'll tell you the the the big stuff

that Trump is doing that would have

long-term strategic impact to the

country, they really seem right on

point, like exactly what you and I would

have said should be done. So, I'm very

impressed that Trump seems to be leading

us into the golden age in all the right

ways. You know, there there's smaller

stuff that I, you know, can find things

to complain about like the extra Chinese

students, etc., but overall,

oh my god, Trump is pushing all the

right competitive strategic buttons. And

we were we didn't have that before.

nothing like that before.

Um Trump says about the magnets, you

know, that we get from China, but we're

trying to make here. We're going to have

a lot of magnets in a pretty short

period of time. In fact, we'll have so

many you won't know what to do with

them.

You'll have so many magnets, you won't

know what to do with them.

Every time he says something like that,

it makes me laugh.

He He has such a distinct character and

way of talking. There's just nobody who

talks like him. Maybe never will be.

Here's what it feels like. What it feels

like when you watch the Trump

administration

wisely and smartly go after one thing

after another. I I could throw tariffs

in there, too. Maybe it's too early, but

it sure looks like the whole tariff

thing is going to work, right? Is it too

early? I don't know. Looks like it

works. Um,

so it seems to me when you put all of

these together, you know, the emphasis

on ship building and AI and releasing

energy and um, and all that stuff,

everything I've mentioned, doesn't it

feel like the IQ of America has just

doubled?

Because you can look at any topic and

you see that we're doing the smart thing

that you do in that situation. Take

Ukraine.

Wasn't the smartest thing to do of the

things that were possible to be done

that we just stopped funding it and we

turned it into a profit center.

That was absolutely the smartest thing

to do. No doubt about it. Um, I can go

on, you know, and list other Trump

accomplishments, but if you were to look

at them collectively,

it's almost like the country's IQ

doubled. We're we're suddenly doing all

the smart things. Look at Washington DC.

It won't be long, if if it hasn't

happened already, that everyone will

admit how smart it was for Trump to go

in hard against crime.

Everyone will admit that eventually, you

know, there right now they have

something to to complain about, but

after he after he's out of office,

people are going to look at it and go,

"Oh, yeah. Obviously, we didn't want all

that crime and he's the only one who did

something about it." So, it just feels

like

the country's IQ doubled.

Just we just are doing all smart stuff.

Yeah. Now, I don't, again, that doesn't

mean I agree with everything Trump does.

We're not a cult, right? One of the

things that makes Trump, in my opinion,

the best president we've ever had,

is that he's very keyed into the opinion

of of the base and and the non-base as

well. And so, I believe that he benefits

when we show skepticism about something

like the 600,000 Chinese students.

doesn't mean he's going to change his

mind, but I'll bet you that he would see

either my opinion or Jack Bavic's

opinion and it will play a part. It will

be it will definitely make a difference

that there are people he's heard from

before who he will pause and say, "Okay,

why is this person disagreeing?"

Like, I I need to listen to that. And

he's really good at that. Uh, one of the

things that everyone says about Trump,

everyone. He's a great listener when

you're there in person. He you that's

what I experienced the same thing when I

met him briefly. I I left and the first

thing I thought my major impression and

takeaway he's a good listener.

So, it's a superpower. Um, I guess Trump

is demanding a half a billion dollar

settlement from Harvard. So, that

negotiation is ongoing. I believe

Harvard offered some settlement that was

less than that. And Trump must feel like

he has the uh negotiating advantage and

he definitely does. But half a billion

from Harvard,

will he actually get that half a

billion? I don't know. Maybe. Um,

so the Ukraine war of course continues

to escalate within within their borders.

Um, and smart people are saying that

nothing good will happen toward peace

until Zilinski and Putin get together

and they're in the same room. Do you

believe that Zilinski and Putin can ever

be in the same room?

Like what? that doesn't it doesn't

track.

Now, I could see why,

you know, if if somebody lost a war, you

know, they could be in the room with

their enemy because, well, you lost the

war. But if if nobody lost the war and

they're just trying to negotiate, these

are two guys who really really want to

kill each other.

They want to kill each other. And I

guarantee you both of them have spent ex

extensive time looking over plans to

kill the other one. Now apparently they

haven't pulled the trigger on it or if

they have it didn't work. But don't you

believe that they've both put serious

effort into killing

literally killing the other one? How did

those two guys sit in a room and say,

"Hey, glad to meet you finally. Good job

in that war. Hey, you did better than I

thought. Should we talk about uh how to

wind this thing down? Afterwards, we'll

have some drinks.

That's not going to happen. In what

world do you think Zilinski and Putin

are ever going to sit in the same room

and work out a peace deal? So, I'm going

to make a prediction.

I don't know which one, but the only way

you're going to get to peace is one of

these guys dies or leaves office,

which might be the same thing, right?

We might someday have peace, but not

until one of them dies. And you know,

I'm not suggesting that anybody kill

anybody. You know, people can die of

natural reasons and they can leave

office for any number of reasons, but

they could leave office. That might get

you to a good place. But I don't think

either one of them will ever leave

office unless they die.

That's what it looks like. So, I'm not

expecting any peace deals as long as the

two of them are the leaders.

Um,

Wickoff has noted that nobody's done

more than Trump in narrowing the issues

between Ukraine and Russia, but I say

uh if they can't agree on the who owns

what land, it really doesn't matter what

else they agreed on, does it? There's

only one one important part of that.

Uh everything else obviously they could

work that out. Anyway, I guess uh

the uh head of Germany has said that

they can't sustain their welfare state

and Victor Orban

of uh what is he Hungary is doing a

little victory dance because he did not

go full socialist and I guess he thinks

things are going better in his country.

I don't know about that, but

it's interesting that Germany is

realizing that they can't be so woke

anymore. It's not going to work. I hope

they don't go hard in the other

direction because as Norm McDonald

pointed out once, I don't know if you're

a history I don't know if you're a

student of history

when he talks about Germany.

I don't know if you're a student of

history, but it's the only country I

worry about. They take on the world.

He does a whole uh act on that. It's

great. Anyway, that's all I got for you

today.

Look how close to one hour I was.

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