Episode 2942 CWSA 08/29/25

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Well, you wouldn't know this unless you um were subscribing to the Dilbert comic strip that still comes out every day.

And it's a little bit spicier than it used to be.

But I also published the uh comic from 10 years ago.

you know, exactly 10 years ago to the date.

And people who subscribe either on Axe or on locals can see both.

And the amazing thing is that the 10year ago comic is almost exactly what's happening today.

It's all about AI in the workplace and robots.

And today was about, you know, tiny nano robots in the body.

Literally one of the stories in the news is that there's a some cancer tumor eating robots that'll be in your body soon.

So the Dilbert comic is ahead of its time by 10 years.

Well, let's look at uh some science and see if there's any science that looks like it's backwards.

Um okay, here's one.

Socializing could add years to your life.

So apparently the people who socialize the most live the longest and therefore they suggest that it's the socializing that makes you live longer.

Um and then they gave some examples of the socializing and it includes joining sports teams.

Now they're talking about older adults.

This is this is for older adults, not uh teenagers.

um and volunteering and spending time with grandchildren.

You know what all of those things have in common?

There are things you don't want to do unless you're healthy.

Would you join a sports team if you're unhealthy and middle-aged?

Probably not.

you know, maybe botchi, but it seems to me if you're looking at the uh the subset of Cubans who who could join a sports team when they're middle-aged, any sports team, you know, tennis, whatever, I would say that group is probably more likely to live longer than the other people.

So, backwards science, at least partially.

It might also be true that socializing uh is good for your health.

I wouldn't be surprised.

All right, here's one that really pisses me off.

How many of you believe that there's a thing called the Bermuda Triangle and that the reason it's f famous is that an unusual number of uh ships have disappeared in it?

How many of you believe that that's a real thing?

That there is a Bermuda Triangle.

Now, that part is true.

How many of you believe that more ships disappear there than in other places?

It turns out that it's the same number of ships that disappear there as everywhere else.

It's about the same.

It's never been true.

I can't believe I you know, it's it's almost like a 100% of everything I learned, aside from math, 100% of everything I learned is just wrong.

So anyway, that's what uh we heard today.

They have a reason why they're maybe uh losing ships in that particular place.

They think it's something about rogue waves.

Maybe.

But but if it's not any worse than anywhere else in the ocean, uh I'm not really that interested.

There must be waves everywhere.

Well, once again, how many times if you're on social media and you follow any content about AI, how many times have you seen a video of a 5second clip where somebody says, "AI has turned the corner and now it can make movies.

They're as good as movies.

Look at this 5-second clip." And then you think, "Wow, you know, somebody's gonna put together a bunch of 5-second clips and next thing you know, you got a two-hour movie." But you don't.

I've never seen one.

So, yet again, um I was seeing a post by the code monk.

there's uh some new AI uh Pix Verse version five that uh is doing ultra HD flawless motion movie clips and the the thinking is guess what AI has turned the corner and it can make a 5-second movie clip and therefore any moment now any minute it's going to make a movie and then well you're going to love that movie cuz it'll be so good.

Um, do you think that there will be an HD movie in a couple of weeks?

Cuz I mean that's all it would take, right?

You don't have to hire anybody.

Just sit down and type your ideas into it and you change them as you go.

So, who wants to take a bet?

I will take a bet that there will not be a commercially successful AI movie in 12 months.

Maybe someday, but uh my estimate will be that all these things that look like they're ready now I don't think so.

And and then I imagine doing it myself.

I thought, all right, >> I'm not quite sure how to help you with that.

>> Pipe down.

Um, that was my digital assistant piping in.

So, I keep thinking about doing it myself, you know, just saying, "All right, I'm going to carve out some time and I'm going to turn one of my um my books, you know, God's Debris into a movie." And I'll just put every scene in and I'll say stuff like, "Right, he's an old man and he's wearing a he's wearing a black blanket and he's super old.

is buy a fireplace in this expensive house and then it creates a scene and then I'll look at it and I'll go hm I don't like that wheel that uh rocking chair uh make that rocking chair a little more ornate and the trouble is I would never stop doing that probably every single element of the scene I would be like yeah I don't know if I want to put that dish there.

Oh, no.

It should be a little less light.

And I believe that I would end up spending exactly as much time, like a year to make that movie as I would if I, you know, were a professional movie maker and did it the oldfashioned way.

So, I've got a feeling that there are some uh traps built into the just the process of making a movie that's going to be a lot harder than you think.

And the will the world be inundated with really bad movies because people who don't have much talent can make a movie?

Will you be so tired of AI movies?

Do you remember one of my predictions that was counter to the world?

I said that nobody's going to care about AI generated art because the thing that attracts us to art is our mating instinct.

We we're we're attracted to the artist basically.

That's that's why we're impressed by the art.

If you saw the Mona Lisa and the Mona Lisa had never existed before and AI created the Mona Lisa, would it be hanging in the Lou?

If it had never existed and AI created it for the first in the first place, would you say to yourself, "My god, that is the most amazing piece of art.

That must be worth $100 million.

we better put it in the Lou.

Or would you think about sending it to your friend and then think, h, she's kind of ugly.

This isn't going anywhere.

And then you wouldn't even send it because it wouldn't even be memew worthy.

Yeah, AI art.

Um, it might be the same for movies.

It could be that there'll be something about the lack of humanity in the movie that even though it looks perfect, your brain might say uncanny valley or something.

All right.

Apparently, Chat GBT is admitting that their guard rails for safety on their uh AI uh might weaken in long conversations, which is a big deal because some parents are suing the AI company over their teens um taking their own lives because the AI said something that either advised them to do it or taught them how to do it or both.

So, So, the uh the AI might kill you.

Uh that's what the lawsuit says that it might kill you, but I don't think it'll make a 2-hour movie anytime soon.

Well, according to digital information world, these large language model AIs, which is the kind that all of them are right now, large language models, all they do is look at patterns as we know.

So, they're not really thinking.

They're just doing pattern recognition and going with the most dominant patterns.

And uh the uh the new article in uh what is it?

Digital information world says that uh even when it looks like it's thinking, you know, sometimes it'll show you its thought process.

So it looks like it's thinking that there's no thought process.

It it's just sort of a trick, the pattern recognition.

And uh I'm going to um I'm going to remind you, you know how I always tease that when people have analogies as part of their argument that they don't have logic because analogies are not part of argument.

Sometimes analogy is good to describe what something is, but it's never good as a prediction or an argument.

It's just a bad way to use it.

But that's exactly like what the large language models are.

So a human who says, "hm that uh that president reminds me of Hitler, so I predict he will invade Poland." Right?

That that would be an analogy thinker.

Not very good.

But that's sort of what the large language models do.

So what I predicted would happen but didn't happen.

maybe it won't is that the the AI would reproduce how humans think, but it would take us a while to realize that.

We we would imagine that the AI is thinking in a totally different way than a human thinks.

And then we would keep, you know, working on trying to get the AI to think the way a human does.

And then someday we would realize it already does.

It's exactly the way we think.

All we do is recognize patterns.

And if we're bad at it, we're analogy thinkers.

And if we're good at it, maybe it just, you know, gives you an idea of what things to think about or look into more deeply.

Um, but there might be some people who can get closer to logic.

Not many.

Well, according to John Christian Futurism, um there's a uh there's a some lawsuits about authors wanting to get paid and apparently is Anthropic decided to just pay the authors instead of go ahead with the lawsuit, which if they lost, and I guess they thought that was a good enough chance they might, they would lose a trillion dollars.

So, the authors that were uh suing Anthropic, an AI company, for uh what they would say would be illegally using their copyrighted materials to train it.

Um rather than fight it, they're going to figure out some kind of payment system.

So, author is going to get paid.

And then what happens to the other AI companies who no doubt will also get sued if one of the big ones already settled and said, "All right, all right, we'll just change our business model and you'll get some money." But I would expect that the amount of money will be similar to the outrage that musicians have when they look at their Spotify income.

I think somebody said if you if you have a song on Spotify and it plays a million times, uh, you would get $4,000.

It's pretty hard to get a million plays of anything.

So, I feel like as an author, I should be celebrating that the AI companies might have to send me money because I've got several books that may have been tiny tiny part of what they trained on, but there'll be so many authors I feel like we're all going to get five cents.

So, I'm not sure this is much of a victory, but who knows?

Well, here's what you can call the Trump effect.

He's doing such a good job uh fighting crime, and the public likes it when he fights crime.

Whether it's the No, it doesn't matter what he's doing.

The public likes fighting crime by majority.

So, Eric Adams, mayor of New York, is going to um surge a thousand extra police into the Bronx because there's been a surge of shootings there.

And at the same time, Gavin Newsome just announced that he's also surging a whole bunch of new law enforcement people.

So, New York and California are are basically uh copying Trump because they realize that they can't say, "No, we're actually in favor of crime," a sort of losing argument.

To their credit, they figured out that being in favor of crime is politically bad.

And so at least some of their smarter Democrats are saying, "Uh, we better try to get ahead of this.

At least act like we're doing something so you don't need Trump to do something." So they're doing the best they can, but this is totally the Trump effect.

I would give Trump the credit for Eric Adams and Gavin Newsome surging law enforcement because I don't believe they would have done it otherwise.

I I think they had to do it politically.

It was just too much pressure because somebody was doing it and it was working and that was Trump.

Well, the funniest thing that came out of Nuome's announcement about his new law enforcement push is uh it came I think a day after Trump had mocked him for his jazz hands.

You know, he his justiculations when he's talking because they seem a little crazy, a little too much.

Uh, and so I had predicted that Trump's such a good trash talker that he would get in Newsome's head that Nuome would be thinking about his hands while he talked.

It would make him less effective because his, you know, brain would have to do two things.

Well, he's sitting at the the table for the announcement about his uh law enforcement surge and he's locked his hands together, which looks to me like he did it intentionally.

and he saw that his, you know, his hands wouldn't be jumping around, but but he didn't talk it over with his thumb because even though his hands were properly, you know, just in front of him, not moving, he had one rogue thumb that kept trying to do what his hands do.

So, he's talking and his thumb is just wiggling around.

And there's no way that wasn't caused by Trump.

There's nothing you could tell me that wouldn't tell me that all of that was because he was trying to compensate and I have jazz hands because it totally worked.

Trump got in his head.

And now every time we watch him, especially since, you know, that that one uh rogue thumb situation, I'm going to be looking for his hand gestures.

And I'll bet you that you will see him have to think about it every time he talks from now on.

just so good.

And Trump's Trump's get in your head game.

It's just so good.

Well, Trump is winning in so many ways.

Now, there's a Chicago pastor, according to Fox News, um was blasting the Democrats for outright lying about crime, and he says he wants Trump to send the National Guard to Chicago.

So, some prominent Chicago mayor, Pat Cory Brooks, and uh he basically says, "Yes, please, Trump, do more of that." Now, how many prominent uh black residents of Chicago have to come out in favor of Trump uh his push on crime?

How many of them have to do it before it's impossible to say no?

It's not.

It won't take that many.

It just takes a few brave people say, "Hell yes, we need some help." Yeah, whatever you got.

We'll take whatever you got to have less crime.

So, Corey Brooks, one of the smart ones, going first.

At the same time, uh, Maryland Governor Wes Moore, who's sometimes talked about as a possible Democrat presidential candidate, um, he said, "I would absolutely welcome federal support." So, he knows he needs to get on the right side of this crime thing.

Um, I don't know much about Wes Moore, Maryland's governor, but uh, I hear good stuff about him all the time.

So, um, he would be one to watch.

So, he was on Will Kaine's show when he said that.

Uh, all right.

So, President Trump, you know, I think I said the other day that for his age, it's especially impressive that he's the most innovative president we've ever had.

And I feel like nobody was even close.

I mean, I don't need to go through the list, right?

The things that Trump did that are different from what anybody had in mind, but worked out great, from tariffs to you name it.

But now he's come up with the idea of holding a uh national Republican convention before the midterm elections.

Now, that's never been done because they typically think that's something for a presidential election year, not a not a in between election.

But since the uh the party always gets a bump from a convention, isn't that just the smartest idea?

It's so smart that it makes you think, wait a minute, why didn't they always do that?

Don't you believe that if he does that, the Democrats will have to do the same thing?

Of course they will.

And once again, he will show that he's a leader and an innovator and he does common sense, smart things.

And the Democrats, when they're doing their best, when they're doing their best, they're copying him.

You can't get much stronger than that.

That's pretty impressive.

So, big yes on the midterm convention.

And to me, that's just, you know, once you hear the idea, it's a no-brainer.

But why did it take Trump to come up with the idea?

Now, maybe somebody suggested it to him, but still, you know, he's the president who said, "Yeah, I I will entertain that idea." So, he still gets the innovation uh benefit even if someone else said it first.

Well, the Gateway Pundits writing about the fact that uh um so now we have uh some RICO investigations into the Soros organization, a big funer of maybe the biggest funer of the Democrats, but also there's this uh you heard that Bill Gates said he wasn't going to fund the Arabella group, which was yet another big funer of Democrats.

And then separately, Trump says he wants to he's authorizing audits of every NGO, everyone that gets money from the government, which is just a ton.

Now, presumably that also is a way that Dem Democrats were sort of uh in a weasly way getting taxpayer money uh that would they would work through their network to turn it into donations to Democrat candidates.

So, that might be getting squeezed.

And then you've heard that the uh what's the name of that group?

Blue something.

Project Blue Balls.

No.

What's the name of it?

ACT Blue, right?

Act Blue.

So, they were uh allegedly an organization who would take small donations for Democrats, but they're under investigation for allegedly maybe taking money from, you know, big entities and only pretending it came from small ones.

So, correct me if I'm wrong, but our current situation is that Kla Harris drained the bank account of the Democrats, uh, leaving them with very little, and then the big donors have all sewed their pockets shut because they're not seeing anything coming from the Democrats that looks promising.

So, there's nothing really to give money to.

And so they're not getting their their usual big donor donations, but all of their semillegal, probably legal, but maybe not, you know, all these dark money ways that they get money are being sort of uh either investigated or shut down or or starved.

So, boy, when the Democrats collapse, they really collapse.

We're going to find out how important money is for getting elected.

Obviously, it makes some difference.

Um, but I, you know, Trump is in a uh he can raise money like crazy at this point and the Democrats have nothing.

Is it my imagination or is it true that the Democrats are pretending that they're going to run against Trump again in another election?

Don't they act like beating Trump is still the goal when there's nothing to beat?

He he's just going to run out of his time and then he'll leave peacefully.

But they they've got this hallucination, you know, the the Gavin Newsome hallucination.

They they all have it at this point.

Uh but it's because of people like Gavin.

He doesn't really believe.

I don't think I don't think he really I'm not a mind readader, but I don't believe for one second that Gavin Newsome thinks Trump's going to stay in office um beyond his two terms.

I don't think he thinks that.

So, but he's got this weak little argument where he says there are lots of hats that say Trump 2028.

And then he added to that, why would Trump build a ballroom for the White House when he's not going to be around to enjoy it?

to which I say, how much more is he going to enjoy it anyway.

I always thought he's building it um so that they'll put his name on it.

Don't you think it'll be the Trump ballroom and then every president from there on I guess those presidents could rename it if they wanted to, but it would be it would be tacky if they did, especially if Trump pays for it.

you know, there's going to be at least a plaque on the wall that says Donald Trump paid for this.

So, so they've got this uh crazy imaginary problem that they're fighting and the imaginary problem is Trump 2028.

And Trump totally nurtured that hoax.

I guess I would call it a hoax because he's allowing them to believe it even though he denies it, but he teases it so they think, "Aha, we have finally figured out how to interpret Trump.

They're very bad at it, but we finally figured it out.

It means he's really going to run in 2028." Nah.

Well, the uh Supreme Court has uh agreed with the Trump administration that they can cut the diversity research grants at the NIH.

Apparently, there was a ginormous amount of money being used for diversity research grants.

Now, do you need to do a deep dive on that topic to know that you should cut that to zero?

No, you don't.

No.

If there is such a thing as diversity research grants in 2025, it might have make it might have made sense, you know, there might have been some point in history where that made a little bit of sense.

It doesn't make sense now.

So Trump cut it and the court agreed.

But amazingly, Justice Roberts sided with the uh the liberals who voted against everything Trump wants.

uh wasn't enough to give them the victory.

But man, what's wrong with Justice Roberts?

I got questions about that guy.

Um let's see.

I saw Mike Benz talking about how you could get the Soros organization on a RICO charge, which would mean that it's part of a big organized ongoing criminal enterprise.

So there would have to be a crime otherwise it's not a criminal enterprise and but but some of the things that apparently the Soros funded uh no actually taxpayer funded I think but Soros must have been involved somehow um in creating documents that were teaching protesters how to protest their own government in the United States and had advice such as blocking intersections and uh occupying buildings.

Now, if those things are illegal, blocking an intersection sounds like it's illegal to me.

Um, then knowing that there's written training materials and an ongoing effort to train people to act this way, it does feel a little bit RICOish.

I don't know if that's enough, though.

We'll see.

Um, so the headline says that Trump has revoked Kamla Harris's Secret Service protection, but you have to read past the headline to know that she got exactly as much as vice presidents are supposed to get.

So vice presidents are not like presidents who get a lifetime of Secret Service.

Vice presidents are only allowed 6 months and the 6 months is up.

However, um we are finding out that Biden had ordered an extra year for Kla Harris.

So what Trump is doing is simply cancelling the extra part because is there anybody in the world who wants to kill Kla Harris, maybe the Democrats to prevent her from running again, but there's no Republican who wants to kill Kla Harris.

Not one.

the the if you could find the Republican who dislikes her the most, that would be the same person who wants her to stay healthy and and be the, you know, the face of the Democrats.

So, there's no Republican who would want her to come to harm, I don't think.

Probably none like in the whole country.

And I can't imagine that that Democrats would want to take her out because she's still one of the best hopes they have.

So she's probably she might be the safest vice president in the history of vice presidents.

Um I guess uh CNN's reporting as are others that uh bunch of tariffs are kicking in now um especially on smaller items.

So there had been an under $800 exemption that wouldn't be tariffed but Trump changed that.

So even if it's smaller stuff coming in from other countries, it's all going to get tariffed.

So that's going to kick in really fast.

Um so we'll see.

We shall see how much inflation that causes.

Um h um I didn't know this until I saw it in the post millennial Hannah Nightingale is writing about how there's an alarming increase in attacks on Christian churches in the US.

So how many Christian churches would you guess if you hadn't seen the headline?

How many total number would you guess are attacked in a year?

Let's say in 2024, just a guess, how many Christian churches in the United States do you think were attacked?

The answer is 415.

Let me say that again in, you know, just in case you thought you heard it wrong.

415 Christian churches were attacked in the United States last year.

just last year, one year, and it's up 730% from, you know, the earlier period.

Uh, how's that even possible?

Were you were you aware of any of that?

I wasn't aware of that.

I don't know what they call an attack.

So, that might that might include just vandalism when nobody's home.

So, if it includes vandalism when nobody's home, it's still terrible because it, you know, shows an attitude, etc.

But, uh, I don't know.

I I would want to know a little bit more about that.

You know, I've told you that all data is fake.

It could be that that data is not exactly what it looks like.

So, um I do think it's alarming and I do think it's worthy of uh you know paying attention like extra extra attention, but I don't know for sure that the date is right.

It's but I I'll bet it's alarming no matter what it is.

Um, so all the uh smart people said that uh the John Bolton investigation was because Trump was getting revenge on all of his enemies and John Bolton was just one of them and so he went after him first.

Well, it turns out that the John Bolton investigation started under Biden.

So everything in the news was uh unless that's But apparently um the story is that our intelligence people picked up something when they were looking at some foreign people that they're allowed to do.

But uh if the foreign people communicate with domestic people such as John Bolton, well then they're going to see both sides of the conversation.

So apparently they saw some emails that Bolton sent.

And here's the wonderful part.

He used a uh unapproved email system just like just like Hillary Clinton.

You would think that people would know not to do that, but he used an unclassified email system to send some classified stuff.

Uh and it looked like he was sending it to people um who were involved in writing his book.

So, I don't think that there's an accusation that he was selling it to an adversary.

Um, am I wrong about that?

I don't believe there there was speculation, but I don't believe there's any evidence that he was selling it to an adversary country.

Um, there is evidence that because he was playing loose with it and violating the rules of classified behavior, uh, that he was allowing them to see some classified stuff, but that stuff probably is pretty close to what was in his book.

So, I don't know how classified it was.

If he if a guy who knows a lot about classified information thought, h I'll just send it to my my family members and I'll put it in my book.

So, there's something about this story that we don't understand.

And if I had to guess, one of his defenses will be um that things were overclassified.

That would probably be his defense because then it doesn't sound like he's a traitor or treasonist.

He's just a guy who knows the difference between something that's properly classified and something that isn't.

And then maybe he thought, well, there's this is You know, this wouldn't hurt anybody.

It's just happens to be classified.

So, he may have just thought, I'll just ignore the ones that are obviously overclassified.

Maybe that might be his defense.

It might be a pretty good defense actually.

So, we'd have to see examples.

Uh, or I would I'd have to see an example of what's the worst thing he did that um our adversaries saw.

I don't know.

What how would you feel about it if there wasn't a single thing that you looked at and said, "Yeah, that's a problem." You looked at and said, "That's classified.

Why is that even classified?" So, I'm going to I think I'm going to grade this one uh as a wait and see because the the part of this story that doesn't make sense is that somebody like Bolton would play so fast and loose with classified stuff if it could really hurt the United States.

I wouldn't be surprised about somebody who, you know, let's say, cut some corners if they knew it wasn't going to hurt anybody.

And he would know.

He would know if it was going to hurt anybody.

So, I'm going to wait to see if his defense looks something like, yeah, it was technically classified, but look at it for yourself.

I mean, you you judge.

Does that look like it would hurt anybody?

Maybe it wouldn't.

I don't know.

So, I'm going to be a little bit open-minded about this.

Um, I'm not a big fan of John Bolton, but uh the law is the law, you know, you got to got to look at it individually.

Um you know in the last refuge uh the publication the last refuge uh talks about how John Bolton's business model was basically selling influ information and influence.

I guess that's true.

Um but it feels like a little bit of an overstatement because I don't know selling information and influence that's just a lobbyist right?

I mean, they're all they're all doing that.

So, I don't know if that's a statement that you could just hang on that one guy.

Uh, anyway, I'm not I don't want to defend Bolton.

I'm just telling you I don't have enough information to form a final opinion on it.

Um, so you heard the story that Microsoft was doing some uh tech technology support work for the government.

Not some, but doing a lot.

And some of that included the Department of Defense.

And we found out not long ago, and just the news is reminding us that uh Microsoft was hiring Chinese um programmers to manage the Department of Defense cloud systems.

And I'm not talking about Chinese Americans.

I'm talking about Chinese programmers who live in China and are only Chinese.

Now, as you know, every every Chinese citizen has kind of an obligation to report everything to the government.

And these guys were in charge of our Department of Defense cloud system.

Do you think there was anything that they had access to that we wouldn't want the Chinese government to know about in the Department of Defense cloud system?

Well, so now that we know that Secretary Hangsath is working with uh Microsoft to make sure they don't use any more of those Chinese nationals, see if they can fix that.

Um I guess the Trump administration is looking at tightening up our visa rules.

visas where people from other countries under the under their visa are in the United States for extended periods.

But apparently visas are um currently can be open-ended and the idea is to make all of them shortterm so that they expire after a specific period of time.

I don't know about that one.

I'd like to hear an argument on both sides of that one.

I have no opinion on that.

But it does seem consistent with what Trump promised us, which is less immigration.

Um, did you know that the uh the declining birth rates in the United States are mostly because of the political left?

So apparently people who are right leaning are having about the same number of babies as they always did, you know, and that makes sense.

you know, they value family, blah blah blah.

And it makes sense also that the left um you know, they have more LGBTQ, they uh they have more progressives with, you know, with all kinds of preferences that are outside the family model, let's say that.

So, it doesn't surprise me.

But um given as we've described that the the number of registrations for voting is now heavily or starting to be heavily tilted toward Republicans.

What happens if you add on top of that just birth rates?

Don't we have a situation where the Democrat party is in a freef fall?

Because if nothing else changed except Republicans had way more babies than Democrats, doesn't that, you know, give you in 18 to 20 years kind of a big advantage?

I I feel like literally everything is going in the direction of the Republicans.

like everything demographics, the reduction in um the reduction in um immigration, the redistricting will go in the in their favor and then all the policies.

They have all the policy advantages.

So, it just feels like the Democrats are are in a world of hurt like I've never seen before.

Well, activist Robbie Starbucks, who goes after big companies for their illegal and immoral DEI practices and and their overwokeness, um reports that uh he had another big victory with Cracker Barrel.

So, you know, Cracker Barrel caved on their logo, but the logo wasn't the main events.

the logo was just, you know, you did get rid of the white guy and the logo, but if that were the only thing that happened, it would have looked like just a logo update.

But they also had uh aggressive uh woke pages, um a lot of gay pride stuff on their website, etc.

Now uh no matter what you think of those things, you may be totally in favor of gay pride etc.

But uh the question of whether it should be shoved down the the throats of the employees and the customers is different.

So apparently Cracker Barrel removed the offending websites and they are really they seem legitimately trying to work with uh the public and uh so I'm going to give them some credit.

I know a lot of people are saying they won't be happy until that uh owl wannabe CEO gets fired.

Doesn't she remind you of an owl?

Like maybe she's a furry.

No, she's not.

But she reminds me of an owl.

I don't know why.

The glasses, I guess.

So, good work.

Robbie Starbucks gets another big win.

Um, according to Remix, uh, Ukraine may have destroyed as much as 20% of Russia's, uh, oil refining capacity.

So 20%.

There are not many things that you can affect by 20% without, you know, being obvious.

Uh allegedly there are now some gas shortages in Russia.

Uh I'm not sure you can trust that though.

Might be, you know, you you could easily imagine there was one gas station that didn't have gas one day and and that turned into a bigger story.

So, I don't know if it's widespread.

Um, but interestingly, the Russian refineries that are getting taken out by the Ukrainians have technology in them that is American and there's no other place to get it.

So, they built their refineries using American parts partly that they can't replace.

Um, so they're trying to get sort of lower quality Chinese components to to rebuild.

So, and I guess uh Russia did a major attack on Kiev last night, bigger than normal or ever or something.

Um, here's what I think.

If it's true that Ukraine has taken out 20% of the refinery capacity, um the question would be what would be the collapse point?

The point where Russia really just has to seriously rethink their idea of being in a war.

20% feels close to a tipping point, but if I if I had to guess, I'd say 40%.

I think if they lose 40% of their refineries that they're going to have to make peace because they can't lose them all.

And if they go from 0 to 20 to 40 and that happens in just say a matter of a few weeks, which it looks like it could.

If it went to 40, then Russia would know that it could go to 80 and then they're really So I don't know if what they would do is maybe um upgrade their own attacks on Ukraine so that you know at least it's mutually assured destruction something like that.

I don't know why Ukraine has any energy left.

What like is there some reason that Russia can't destroy all of the energy infrastructure in Ukraine?

Because when I see, you know, pictures of Kiev and the lights are on and people are acting like things are kind of normal that day, I think to myself, really?

So, so you've got Russia has been at war for years with all these good missiles and they haven't taken out 100% of the energy infrastructure in Ukraine.

Why?

See, seems like that would be the most obvious thing to do.

Are they unable or is it actually a bad idea?

I'd love to know the answer to that.

So that's my prediction.

If uh Kiev can take out 40% of uh Russia's refineries that uh Putin would talk peace 40%.

U you're all competing against the experts.

I love it when the ex I love it when people tell me that my opinion on things like, you know, wars in other countries uh is invalid because I'm not an expert.

What exactly has been the track record of experts on anything?

Anything.

You name a topic.

Tell tell me how well the experts did on that topic.

Now, now show me the podcasters who had everything right.

There'll always be some, you know, for every topic.

It seems like there's always some podcaster who just got it all right from the start and all the experts got it wrong.

Anyway, um I guess Russia successfully used an underwater drone to sink a Ukrainian Navy vessel.

Weirdly, that's the first time.

So, I guess Russia did not have a uh any great undersea drones, but now they do.

So, I don't know how the US uh Navy can survive any kind of a war against a big country because wouldn't wouldn't any reasonably big country just send all these uh underwater drones and just take out our entire fleet?

Can we really defend against that?

I mean, I know we have, you know, entire defensive perimeters and stuff at sea, but could we really defend against that if they sense enough of them at the same time?

I don't know.

Well, according to a UC Davis study, having a sense of purpose in your life can prevent you from getting dementia.

So, let's see.

The people who have a purpose in their life don't have as much dementia.

I'm not sure it's the purpose that's causing the less dementia.

Or is it the fact that people who have less dementia can look around and say, you know, I should try to be useful.

Everything's working.

My brain's still working.

I think I'll be useful.

I'll volunteer for something.

So, I'm not so sure this study is telling us what we think.

However, I'm a big fan of people being useful.

So, yeah, having a sense of purpose um is so highly recommended for your mental health, it doesn't surprise me that it might be correlated with your physical health and your, you know, your dementia.

So, I would say even if you're not positive it works, it's all good if you can find a purpose in life.

uh popular science tells us that u some big companies I guess there are 4,000 buildings now have used this technology which is that they they use cheap electricity at night to make a bunch of ice um and then they use the ice to cool the building during the you know hot summer days and I guess the technology works you know it's and it saves a bunch of money Um, you just need room for, you know, an enormous pile of ice somewhere in your basement, I guess.

Though, it would make more sense for the ice to be in the roof, wouldn't it?

I don't know.

So, now you've got ice that they're calling it ice batteries, but it doesn't store electricity.

It just stores the coolness, which can be released to supplement your HVAC.

Well, Japanese researchers have figured out how to use quantum entanglement to boost robot posture control.

Now, that to you sounds like not a big deal.

But if you notice how no matter uh no matter how good the robot technology is over the last 25 years that the robot is always a little slow.

Have you noticed that?

Like there's just some lag or something.

But apparently using quantum computing which can uh simultaneously what's the best word simultaneously deal with lots of possibilities at the same time.

So I guess a regular robot uh has so many moving parts that affect other moving parts.

Like if it's walking, it kind of has to get every part of the robot involved.

So, it's hard to coordinate all that stuff and to do it quickly.

Um, and part of the reason is that the robot sort of has to predict, all right, if I do this, what do my other parts need to do?

And then it sort of tries several predictions and then it picks the best one.

And apparently that just will always have a time lag.

But if you use quantum computing, it looks at all the possibilities for all of the movement that the robot can do in all of its body all at the same time and then just picks a good one.

Now, apparently that would allow your robot to work as fast and efficiently and to move just like a human.

um you would have fewer degrees of movement, but if you saw it, it would just be moving like I'm moving, you know, just sort of casually moving.

So if you saw the pingpong robot that's running on a quantum computer, it would just look like a person playing pingpong.

So that's kind of cool.

I don't know how practical it is to get a quantum computer in a robot because it's not like we have a lot of quantum computer solutions.

Well, the US has a uh jet powered drone wingman.

It's basically the size of a looks like the size of a regular jet, maybe a little smaller.

and a pilot would go up and would have a whole bunch of these drones as like protectors that would be flying at the same time, but they would be unmanned.

So, I presume the pilot would control them.

You know, the one pilot would control, you know, his own plane plus or her own plane plus all the drones.

And uh that's new.

I haven't seen that before.

All right.

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All right.

Thanks for joining everybody.

Um, watching uh watching the end of the summer stories is going to be fun.

There's going to be a whole bunch of stuff that uh looks kind of weird and fun and humorous.

So, keep watching for that.

All right, I'm going to talk to the uh local subscribers.

My beloved local subscribers.

Yeah, it's beloved time.

Oh, yeah.

You're right.

Uh there was a good Thanks for reminding me.

There was a topic that I swore I wrote down in my notes, but I didn't talk about it.

So, let me do that.

Now, there there's apparently a Democratleaning organization that's paying influencers as much as $80,000 a month to say good things about Democrat policies and Democrats.

And again, they're trying to use money to do what the Republicans do without money, which is, hey, Joe Rogan, do you have common sense?

Yes.

Would you like to say some common sense things about common sense things?

Yes.

And then then you've got Joe Rogan, but that they need to pay a Joe Rogan.

So they they named David Pacman as one of the people allegedly who may be getting payments for being on one side.

Now, if I were a left-leaning influencer, I'm pretty sure I would take that money and then I would just do whatever I was going to do anyway because if you're left-leaning, you're always going to say good stuff about Democrats.

You might as well take the money.

So, I can't see that this will possibly work.

Like, it seems like, you know, they they got nothing else to try, so they might as well try something.

But I don't think I don't think any of them are going to break through and change anybody's minds.

So, um, and I have to tell you because I know some of you probably wonder.

I have never been approached by anybody who wanted to try to pay me to influence what I say.

I've never had that conversation.

I don't know anybody who's even in the business of paying Republicans or right-leaning people or just Trump supporters to say good things about Trump.

It does it's not necessary because there's so many influencers who are already there and they're they've got their own business model and they don't need to be made.

The the fact that Let me tell you what I'll compare this to.

If you see a local restaurant that used to only serve lunch and dinner and then suddenly they announced that they're going to do brunch on weekends, that's a restaurant that's going out of business because doing adding brunch is sort of like a Hail Mary because you would have to be like the, you know, most wildly successful brunch place to even make a penny for brunch.

So when you see that, you don't say to yourself, "Wow, that's a restaurant that's really making it all work.

They went from two meals to three.

They're expanding.

They're getting better." Nope.

That's a restaurant that is going to be out of business in one year.

I've seen it a million times, even with my own restaurant.

And but when you see that somebody is paying influencers to make sure that they say things on your team and the other team has never needed to pay an influencer and wouldn't even think about it.

I'll bet you nobody has even had that conversation on the right.

It's unnecessary.

How hard is it to get people to come out against crime?

Turns out not that hard.

How hard is it for to get a Republican to say, "You know what?

I'm glad that that border is closed.

You don't have to pay me a penny.

I'll do that for free." So, when you see Democrats having or thinking that they have to pay somebody to agree with them, that's like the restaurant was adding brunch to their other two meals.

It's it's sort of a reliable indicator that they're just circling the drain and they don't have an idea.

So anyway, thanks for reminding me.

I was going to talk about that and somehow didn't.

All right, we're going to go private now with the beloved members of locals and the rest of you.

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Well, you wouldn't know this unless you

um were subscribing to the Dilbert comic

strip that still comes out every day.

And it's a little bit spicier than it

used to be. But I also published the uh

comic from 10 years ago. you know,

exactly 10 years ago to the date. And

people who subscribe either on Axe or on

locals can see both. And the amazing

thing is that the 10year ago comic is

almost exactly what's happening today.

It's all about AI in the workplace and

robots. And today was about, you know,

tiny nano robots in the body. Literally

one of the stories in the news is that

there's a some cancer tumor eating

robots that'll be in your body soon. So

the Dilbert comic

is ahead of its time by 10 years.

Well, let's look at uh some science and

see if there's any science that looks

like it's backwards. Um okay, here's

one. Socializing could add years to your

life. So apparently the people who

socialize the most live the longest and

therefore they suggest that it's the

socializing

that makes you live longer.

Um and then they gave some examples of

the socializing and it includes joining

sports teams. Now they're talking about

older adults. This is this is for older

adults, not uh teenagers.

um and volunteering and spending time

with grandchildren. You know what all of

those things have in common? There are

things you don't want to do unless

you're healthy.

Would you join a sports team if you're

unhealthy and middle-aged?

Probably not. you know, maybe botchi,

but it seems to me if you're looking at

the uh the subset of Cubans who who

could join a sports team when they're

middle-aged, any sports team, you know,

tennis, whatever, I would say that group

is probably more likely to live longer

than the other people. So, backwards

science, at least partially. It might

also be true that socializing

uh is good for your health. I wouldn't

be surprised. All right, here's one that

really pisses me off.

How many of you believe that there's a

thing called the Bermuda Triangle and

that the reason it's f famous is that an

unusual number of uh ships have

disappeared in it? How many of you

believe that that's a real thing? That

there is a Bermuda Triangle. Now, that

part is true. How many of you believe

that more ships disappear there than in

other places?

It turns out that it's the same number

of ships that disappear there as

everywhere else. It's about the same.

It's never been true.

I can't believe I you know, it's it's

almost like a 100% of everything I

learned, aside from math, 100% of

everything I learned is just wrong.

So anyway, that's what uh we heard

today. They have a reason why they're

maybe uh losing ships in that particular

place. They think it's something about

rogue waves. Maybe. But but if it's not

any worse than anywhere else in the

ocean, uh I'm not really that

interested.

There must be waves everywhere.

Well, once again, how many times if

you're on social media and you follow

any content about AI, how many times

have you seen a video of a 5second clip

where somebody says, "AI has turned the

corner and now it can make movies.

They're as good as movies. Look at this

5-second clip."

And then you think, "Wow, you know,

somebody's gonna put together a bunch of

5-second clips and next thing you know,

you got a two-hour movie."

But you don't.

I've never seen one.

So, yet again, um I was seeing a post by

the code monk. there's uh some new AI uh

Pix Verse version five that uh is doing

ultra HD flawless motion

movie clips and the the thinking is

guess what AI has turned the corner and

it can make a 5-second movie clip and

therefore any moment now any minute it's

going to make a movie and then well

you're going to love that movie cuz

it'll be so good. Um, do you think that

there will be an HD movie in a couple of

weeks? Cuz I mean that's all it would

take, right? You don't have to hire

anybody. Just sit down and type your

ideas into it and you change them as you

go. So, who wants to take a bet? I will

take a bet that there will not be a

commercially successful AI movie in 12

months.

Maybe someday,

but uh my estimate will be that all

these things that look like they're

ready now

I don't think so. And and then I imagine

doing it myself. I thought, all right,

>> I'm not quite sure how to help you with

that.

>> Pipe down.

Um, that was my digital assistant piping

in. So, I keep thinking about doing it

myself, you know, just saying, "All

right, I'm going to carve out some time

and I'm going to turn one of my um my

books, you know, God's Debris into a

movie." And I'll just put every scene in

and I'll say stuff like, "Right, he's an

old man and he's wearing a he's wearing

a black blanket and he's super old. is

buy a fireplace in this expensive house

and then it creates a scene and then

I'll look at it and I'll go hm I don't

like that wheel that uh rocking chair uh

make that rocking chair a little more

ornate

and the trouble is I would never stop

doing that

probably every single element of the

scene I would be like yeah I don't know

if I want to put that dish there. Oh,

no. It should be a little less light.

And I believe that I would end up

spending exactly as much time,

like a year to make that movie as I

would if I, you know, were a

professional movie maker and did it the

oldfashioned way. So, I've got a feeling

that there are some

uh traps built into the just the process

of making a movie that's going to be a

lot harder than you think.

And the will the world be inundated with

really bad movies because people who

don't have much talent can make a movie?

Will you be so tired of AI movies? Do

you remember one of my predictions that

was counter to the world? I said that

nobody's going to care about AI

generated art

because the thing that attracts us to

art is our mating instinct.

We we're we're attracted to the artist

basically. That's that's why we're

impressed by the art. If you saw the

Mona Lisa and the Mona Lisa had never

existed before and AI created the Mona

Lisa,

would it be hanging in the Lou?

If it had never existed and AI created

it for the first in the first place,

would you say to yourself, "My god, that

is the most amazing piece of art. That

must be worth $100 million. we better

put it in the Lou. Or

would you think about sending it to your

friend and then think, h, she's kind of

ugly. This isn't going anywhere. And

then you wouldn't even send it because

it wouldn't even be memew worthy.

Yeah, AI art. Um, it might be the same

for movies. It could be that there'll be

something about the lack of humanity in

the movie that even though it looks

perfect,

your brain might say uncanny valley or

something. All right.

Apparently, Chat GBT is admitting that

their guard rails for safety on their uh

AI uh might weaken in long

conversations,

which is a big deal because some parents

are suing the AI company over their

teens um taking their own lives because

the AI said something that either

advised them to do it or taught them how

to do it or both. So,

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So, the uh the AI might kill you.

Uh that's what the lawsuit says that it

might kill you, but I don't think it'll

make a 2-hour movie anytime soon.

Well, according to digital information

world, these large language model AIs,

which is the kind that all of them are

right now, large language models, all

they do is look at patterns as we know.

So, they're not really thinking. They're

just doing pattern recognition and going

with the most dominant patterns. And uh

the uh the new article in uh what is it?

Digital information world says that uh

even when it looks like it's thinking,

you know, sometimes it'll show you its

thought process. So it looks like it's

thinking that there's no thought

process. It it's just sort of a trick,

the pattern recognition. And uh I'm

going to um I'm going to remind you, you

know how I always tease that when people

have analogies as part of their argument

that they don't have logic because

analogies are not part of argument.

Sometimes analogy is good to describe

what something is, but it's never good

as a prediction or an argument. It's

just a bad way to use it. But that's

exactly like what the large language

models are. So a human who says, "hm

that uh that president reminds me of

Hitler, so I predict he will invade

Poland."

Right? That that would be an analogy

thinker. Not very good. But that's sort

of what the large language models do. So

what I predicted would happen but didn't

happen. maybe it won't is that the the

AI

would reproduce how humans think, but it

would take us a while to realize that.

We we would imagine that the AI is

thinking in a totally different way than

a human thinks. And then we would keep,

you know, working on trying to get the

AI to think the way a human does. And

then someday we would realize it already

does. It's exactly the way we think. All

we do is recognize patterns. And if

we're bad at it, we're analogy thinkers.

And if we're good at it, maybe it just,

you know, gives you an idea of what

things to think about or look into more

deeply. Um, but there might be some

people who can get closer to logic. Not

many.

Well, according to John Christian

Futurism,

um

there's a uh

there's a some lawsuits about authors

wanting to get paid and apparently is

Anthropic decided to just pay the

authors instead of go ahead with the

lawsuit, which if they lost, and I guess

they thought that was a good enough

chance they might, they would lose a

trillion dollars.

So, the authors that were uh suing

Anthropic, an AI company, for uh what

they would say would be illegally using

their copyrighted materials to train it.

Um rather than fight it, they're going

to figure out some kind of payment

system. So, author is going to get paid.

And then what happens to the other AI

companies who no doubt will also get

sued if one of the big ones already

settled and said, "All right, all right,

we'll just change our business model and

you'll get some money."

But I would expect that the amount of

money will be similar to the outrage

that musicians have when they look at

their Spotify income. I think somebody

said if you if you have a song on

Spotify and it plays a million times,

uh, you would get $4,000.

It's pretty hard to get a million plays

of anything. So, I feel like as an

author, I should be celebrating that the

AI companies might have to send me money

because I've got several books that may

have been tiny tiny part of what they

trained on, but there'll be so many

authors

I feel like we're all going to get five

cents. So, I'm not sure this is much of

a victory, but who knows?

Well, here's what you can call the Trump

effect. He's doing such a good job uh

fighting crime, and the public likes it

when he fights crime. Whether it's the

No, it doesn't matter what he's doing.

The public likes fighting crime by

majority. So, Eric Adams, mayor of New

York, is going to um surge a thousand

extra police into the Bronx because

there's been a surge of shootings there.

And at the same time, Gavin Newsome just

announced that he's also surging a whole

bunch of new law enforcement people. So,

New York and California

are are basically uh

copying Trump because they realize that

they can't say, "No, we're actually in

favor of crime," a sort of losing

argument. To their credit, they figured

out that being in favor of crime is

politically bad. And so at least some of

their smarter Democrats are saying, "Uh,

we better try to get ahead of this. At

least act like we're doing something so

you don't need Trump to do something."

So they're doing the best they can, but

this is totally the Trump effect.

I would give Trump the credit for Eric

Adams and Gavin Newsome surging law

enforcement

because I don't believe they would have

done it otherwise. I I think they had to

do it politically. It was just too much

pressure because somebody was doing it

and it was working and that was Trump.

Well, the funniest thing that came out

of Nuome's announcement about his new

law enforcement push is uh it came I

think a day after Trump had mocked him

for his jazz hands. You know, he his

justiculations when he's talking because

they seem a little crazy, a little too

much. Uh, and so I had predicted that

Trump's such a good trash talker that he

would get in Newsome's head that Nuome

would be thinking about his hands while

he talked. It would make him less

effective because his, you know, brain

would have to do two things. Well, he's

sitting at the the table for the

announcement about his uh law

enforcement surge

and he's locked his hands together,

which looks to me like he did it

intentionally. and he saw that his, you

know, his hands wouldn't be jumping

around, but but he didn't talk it over

with his thumb because

even though his hands were properly, you

know, just in front of him, not moving,

he had one rogue thumb that kept trying

to do what his hands do. So, he's

talking and his thumb is just wiggling

around. And there's no way that wasn't

caused by Trump.

There's nothing you could tell me that

wouldn't tell me that all of that was

because he was trying to compensate and

I have jazz hands because it totally

worked. Trump got in his head. And now

every time we watch him, especially

since, you know, that that one uh rogue

thumb situation, I'm going to be looking

for his hand gestures. And I'll bet you

that you will see him have to think

about it every time he talks from now

on.

just so good. And Trump's Trump's get in

your head game. It's just so good.

Well, Trump is winning in so many ways.

Now, there's a Chicago pastor, according

to Fox News, um was blasting the

Democrats for outright lying about

crime, and he says he wants Trump to

send the National Guard to Chicago. So,

some prominent Chicago mayor, Pat Cory

Brooks,

and uh

he basically says, "Yes, please, Trump,

do more of that." Now, how many

prominent uh black residents of Chicago

have to come out in favor of Trump uh

his push on crime? How many of them have

to do it before it's impossible to say

no? It's not. It won't take that many.

It just takes a few brave people say,

"Hell yes, we need some help." Yeah,

whatever you got. We'll take whatever

you got to have less crime. So, Corey

Brooks, one of the smart ones, going

first.

At the same time, uh, Maryland Governor

Wes Moore, who's sometimes talked about

as a possible Democrat presidential

candidate,

um, he said, "I would absolutely welcome

federal support." So, he knows he needs

to get on the right side of this crime

thing. Um, I don't know much about Wes

Moore,

Maryland's governor, but uh, I hear good

stuff about him all the time. So, um, he

would be one to watch. So, he was on

Will Kaine's show when he said that. Uh,

all right. So, President Trump, you

know, I think I said the other day that

for his age, it's especially impressive

that he's the most innovative president

we've ever had. And I feel like nobody

was even close. I mean, I don't need to

go through the list, right? The things

that Trump did that are different from

what anybody had in mind, but worked out

great, from tariffs to you name it. But

now he's come up with the idea of

holding a uh national Republican

convention before the midterm elections.

Now, that's never been done because they

typically think that's something for a

presidential election year, not a not a

in between election.

But since the uh the party always gets a

bump from a convention,

isn't that just the smartest idea?

It's so smart that it makes you think,

wait a minute,

why didn't they always do that?

Don't you believe that if he does that,

the Democrats will have to do the same

thing? Of course they will. And once

again, he will show that he's a leader

and an innovator and he does common

sense, smart things. And the Democrats,

when they're doing their best, when

they're doing their best,

they're copying him.

You can't get much stronger than that.

That's pretty impressive. So, big yes on

the midterm convention. And to me,

that's just, you know, once you hear the

idea, it's a no-brainer. But why did it

take Trump to come up with the idea?

Now, maybe somebody suggested it to him,

but still, you know, he's the president

who said, "Yeah, I I will entertain that

idea." So, he still gets the innovation

uh benefit even if someone else said it

first.

Well, the Gateway Pundits writing about

the fact that uh um so now we have uh

some RICO investigations into the Soros

organization, a big funer of maybe the

biggest funer of the Democrats, but also

there's this uh

you heard that Bill Gates said he wasn't

going to fund the Arabella group, which

was yet another big funer of Democrats.

And then separately, Trump says he wants

to he's authorizing audits of every NGO,

everyone that gets money from the

government, which is just a ton. Now,

presumably that also is a way that Dem

Democrats were sort of uh in a weasly

way getting taxpayer money

uh that would they would work through

their network to turn it into donations

to Democrat candidates.

So, that might be getting squeezed. And

then you've heard that the uh what's the

name of that group?

Blue something. Project

Blue Balls. No. What's the name of it?

ACT Blue, right? Act Blue. So, they were

uh allegedly an organization who would

take small donations for Democrats, but

they're under investigation for

allegedly maybe taking money from, you

know, big entities and only pretending

it came from small ones. So, correct me

if I'm wrong,

but our current situation is that Kla

Harris drained the bank account of the

Democrats,

uh, leaving them with very little, and

then the big donors have all sewed their

pockets shut because they're not seeing

anything coming from the Democrats that

looks promising. So, there's nothing

really to give money to. And so they're

not getting their their usual big donor

donations, but all of their semillegal,

probably legal, but maybe not, you know,

all these dark money ways that they get

money are being sort of uh either

investigated or shut down or or starved.

So,

boy, when the Democrats collapse, they

really collapse.

We're going to find out how important

money is for getting elected. Obviously,

it makes some difference. Um, but I, you

know, Trump is in a uh he can raise

money like crazy at this point and the

Democrats have nothing.

Is it my imagination

or is it true that the Democrats are

pretending that they're going to run

against Trump again in another election?

Don't they act like beating Trump

is still the goal

when there's nothing to beat?

He he's just going to run out of his

time and then he'll leave peacefully.

But they they've got this hallucination,

you know, the the Gavin Newsome

hallucination. They they all have it at

this point. Uh but it's because of

people like Gavin. He doesn't really

believe. I don't think I don't think he

really I'm not a mind readader, but I

don't believe for one second that Gavin

Newsome thinks Trump's going to stay in

office um beyond his two terms. I don't

think he thinks that. So, but he's got

this weak little argument where he says

there are lots of hats that say Trump

2028. And then he added to that, why

would Trump build a ballroom for the

White House when he's not going to be

around to enjoy it? to which I say, how

much more is he going to enjoy it

anyway.

I always thought he's building it um so

that they'll put his name on it. Don't

you think it'll be the Trump ballroom

and then every president from there on I

guess those presidents could rename it

if they wanted to, but it would be it

would be tacky if they did, especially

if Trump pays for it. you know, there's

going to be at least a plaque on the

wall that says Donald Trump paid for

this. So,

so they've got this uh crazy imaginary

problem that they're fighting and the

imaginary problem is Trump 2028. And

Trump totally nurtured that hoax. I

guess I would call it a hoax because

he's allowing them to believe it even

though he denies it, but he teases it so

they think, "Aha, we have finally

figured out how to interpret Trump.

They're very bad at it, but we finally

figured it out. It means he's really

going to run in 2028."

Nah.

Well, the uh Supreme Court has uh agreed

with the Trump administration that they

can cut the diversity research grants at

the NIH. Apparently, there was a

ginormous amount of money being used for

diversity research grants. Now, do you

need to do a deep dive on that topic to

know that you should cut that to zero?

No, you don't. No. If there is such a

thing as diversity research grants in

2025, it might have make it might have

made sense, you know, there might have

been some point in history where that

made a little bit of sense. It doesn't

make sense now.

So Trump cut it and the court agreed.

But amazingly, Justice Roberts

sided with the uh the liberals who voted

against everything Trump wants. uh

wasn't enough to give them the victory.

But man, what's wrong with Justice

Roberts?

I got questions about that guy.

Um

let's see.

I saw Mike Benz talking about how you

could get the Soros organization on a

RICO charge, which would mean that it's

part of a big organized ongoing criminal

enterprise. So there would have to be a

crime otherwise it's not a criminal

enterprise and but but some of the

things that apparently the Soros funded

uh no actually taxpayer funded I think

but Soros must have been involved

somehow um in creating documents that

were teaching protesters how to protest

their own government in the United

States and had advice such as blocking

intersections and uh occupying

buildings.

Now, if those things are illegal,

blocking an intersection sounds like

it's illegal to me. Um, then knowing

that there's written training materials

and an ongoing effort to train people to

act this way, it does feel a little bit

RICOish. I don't know if that's enough,

though. We'll see.

Um,

so the headline says that Trump has

revoked Kamla Harris's Secret Service

protection, but you have to read past

the headline to know that she got

exactly as much as vice presidents

are supposed to get. So vice presidents

are not like presidents who get a

lifetime of Secret Service. Vice

presidents are only allowed 6 months and

the 6 months is up. However, um we are

finding out that Biden had ordered an

extra year for Kla Harris. So what Trump

is doing is simply cancelling the extra

part because is there anybody in the

world who wants to kill Kla Harris,

maybe the Democrats to prevent her from

running again,

but there's no Republican who wants to

kill Kla Harris. Not one. the the if you

could find the Republican who dislikes

her the most, that would be the same

person who wants her to stay healthy and

and be the, you know, the face of the

Democrats.

So, there's no Republican who would want

her to come to harm, I don't think.

Probably none like in the whole country.

And I can't imagine that that Democrats

would want to take her out because she's

still one of the best hopes they have.

So she's probably she might be the

safest vice president in the history of

vice presidents.

Um I guess uh CNN's reporting as are

others that uh bunch of tariffs are

kicking in now um especially on smaller

items. So there had been an under $800

exemption that wouldn't be tariffed but

Trump changed that. So even if it's

smaller stuff coming in from other

countries, it's all going to get

tariffed. So that's going to kick in

really fast.

Um so we'll see. We shall see how much

inflation that causes.

Um

h

um I didn't know this until I saw it in

the post millennial Hannah Nightingale

is writing about how there's an alarming

increase in attacks on Christian

churches in the US.

So how many Christian churches would you

guess if you hadn't seen the headline?

How many total number would you guess

are attacked in a year? Let's say in

2024,

just a guess, how many Christian

churches in the United States do you

think were attacked? The answer is 415.

Let me say that again in, you know, just

in case you thought you heard it wrong.

415

Christian churches were attacked in the

United States

last year.

just last year, one year, and it's up

730%

from, you know, the earlier period.

Uh, how's that even possible?

Were you were you aware of any of that?

I wasn't aware of that. I don't know

what they call an attack. So, that might

that might include just vandalism when

nobody's home. So, if it includes

vandalism

when nobody's home, it's still terrible

because it, you know, shows an attitude,

etc. But, uh, I don't know. I I would

want to know a little bit more about

that. You know, I've told you that all

data is fake.

It could be that that data is not

exactly what it looks like. So, um I do

think it's alarming and I do think it's

worthy of uh you know paying attention

like extra extra attention, but I don't

know for sure that the date is right.

It's but I I'll bet it's alarming no

matter what it is.

Um, so all the uh smart people said that

uh the John Bolton investigation was

because Trump was getting revenge on all

of his enemies and John Bolton was just

one of them and so he went after him

first. Well, it turns out that the John

Bolton investigation started under

Biden.

So everything in the news was

uh unless that's But

apparently um

the story is that our intelligence

people picked up something when they

were looking at some foreign people that

they're allowed to do. But uh if the

foreign people communicate with domestic

people such as John Bolton, well then

they're going to see both sides of the

conversation. So apparently they saw

some emails that Bolton sent. And here's

the wonderful part. He used a uh

unapproved email system just like just

like Hillary Clinton.

You would think that people would know

not to do that, but he used an

unclassified email system to send some

classified stuff. Uh and it looked like

he was sending it to people

um who were involved in writing his

book.

So, I don't think that there's an

accusation that he was selling it to an

adversary.

Um, am I wrong about that? I don't

believe there there was speculation,

but I don't believe there's any evidence

that he was selling it to an adversary

country. Um, there is evidence that

because he was playing loose with it and

violating the rules of classified

behavior, uh, that he was allowing them

to see some classified stuff, but that

stuff probably is pretty close to what

was in his book.

So, I don't know how classified it was.

If he if a guy who knows a lot about

classified information thought, h I'll

just send it to my my family members and

I'll put it in my book. So, there's

something about this story that we don't

understand.

And if I had to guess,

one of his defenses will be um that

things were overclassified.

That would probably be his defense

because then it doesn't sound like he's

a traitor or treasonist. He's just a guy

who knows the difference between

something that's properly classified and

something that isn't. And then maybe he

thought, well, there's this is

You know, this wouldn't hurt anybody.

It's just happens to be classified. So,

he may have just thought, I'll just

ignore the ones that are obviously

overclassified.

Maybe that might be his defense. It

might be a pretty good defense actually.

So, we'd have to see examples.

Uh, or I would I'd have to see an

example of what's the worst thing he did

that um our adversaries saw.

I don't know. What how would you feel

about it if there wasn't a single thing

that you looked at and said, "Yeah,

that's a problem." You looked at and

said, "That's classified. Why is that

even classified?"

So, I'm going to I think I'm going to

grade this one

uh as a wait and see because the the

part of this story that doesn't make

sense is that somebody like Bolton would

play so fast and loose with classified

stuff if it could really hurt the United

States. I wouldn't be surprised about

somebody who, you know, let's say, cut

some corners if they knew it wasn't

going to hurt anybody. And he would

know. He would know if it was going to

hurt anybody. So, I'm going to wait to

see if his defense

looks something like, yeah, it was

technically classified, but look at it

for yourself. I mean, you you judge.

Does that look like it would hurt

anybody?

Maybe it wouldn't. I don't know. So, I'm

going to be a little bit open-minded

about this. Um, I'm not a big fan of

John Bolton, but uh

the law is the law, you know, you got to

got to look at it individually.

Um

you know in the last refuge

uh the publication the last refuge uh

talks about how John Bolton's business

model was basically selling influ

information and influence.

I guess that's true.

Um

but it feels like a little bit of an

overstatement

because I don't know selling information

and influence that's just a lobbyist

right? I mean, they're all they're all

doing that. So, I don't know if that's a

statement that you could just hang on

that one guy. Uh, anyway, I'm not I

don't want to defend Bolton. I'm just

telling you I don't have enough

information to form a final opinion on

it.

Um,

so you heard the story that Microsoft

was doing some uh tech technology

support work for the government. Not

some, but doing a lot. And some of that

included the Department of Defense. And

we found out not long ago, and just the

news is reminding us that uh Microsoft

was hiring Chinese

um programmers to manage the Department

of Defense cloud systems.

And I'm not talking about Chinese

Americans.

I'm talking about Chinese programmers

who live in China and are only Chinese.

Now, as you know, every every Chinese

citizen has kind of an obligation to

report everything to the government. And

these guys were in charge of our

Department of Defense cloud system. Do

you think there was anything that they

had access to that we wouldn't want the

Chinese government to know about in the

Department of Defense cloud system?

Well, so now that we know that Secretary

Hangsath is working with uh Microsoft to

make sure they don't use any more of

those Chinese nationals, see if they can

fix that.

Um I guess the Trump administration is

looking at tightening up our visa rules.

visas where people from other countries

under the under their visa are in the

United States for extended periods. But

apparently visas are um currently can be

open-ended and the idea is to make all

of them shortterm so that they expire

after a specific period of time. I don't

know about that one. I'd like to hear an

argument on both sides of that one. I

have no opinion on that. But it does

seem consistent with what Trump promised

us, which is

less immigration.

Um,

did you know that the uh the declining

birth rates in the United States are

mostly because of the political left? So

apparently people who are right leaning

are having about the same number of

babies as they always did, you know, and

that makes sense. you know, they value

family, blah blah blah. And it makes

sense also that the left um you know,

they have more LGBTQ,

they uh they have more progressives

with, you know, with all kinds of

preferences that are outside the family

model, let's say that. So, it doesn't

surprise me. But um given as we've

described that the the number of

registrations for voting is now heavily

or starting to be heavily tilted toward

Republicans. What happens if you add on

top of that just birth rates?

Don't we have a situation where the

Democrat party is in a freef fall?

Because if nothing else changed except

Republicans had way more babies than

Democrats,

doesn't that, you know, give you in 18

to 20 years kind of a big advantage? I I

feel like literally everything is going

in the direction of the Republicans.

like everything demographics, the

reduction in um the reduction in um

immigration, the redistricting will go

in the in their favor and then all the

policies. They have all the policy

advantages.

So, it just feels like the Democrats are

are in a world of hurt like I've never

seen before.

Well, activist Robbie Starbucks, who

goes after big companies for their

illegal and immoral DEI practices and

and their overwokeness,

um reports that uh he had another big

victory with Cracker Barrel. So, you

know, Cracker Barrel caved on their

logo, but the logo wasn't the main

events. the logo was just,

you know, you did get rid of the white

guy and the logo, but if that were the

only thing that happened, it would have

looked like just a logo update. But they

also had uh aggressive uh woke pages,

um a lot of gay pride stuff on their

website, etc. Now uh no matter what you

think of those things, you may be

totally in favor of gay pride etc. But

uh the question of whether it should be

shoved down the the throats of the

employees and the customers is

different. So apparently Cracker Barrel

removed the offending websites and they

are really they seem legitimately trying

to work with uh the public and uh so I'm

going to give them some credit. I know a

lot of people are saying they won't be

happy until that uh owl wannabe CEO gets

fired. Doesn't she remind you of an owl?

Like maybe she's a furry. No,

she's not. But she reminds me of an owl.

I don't know why. The glasses, I guess.

So, good work. Robbie Starbucks gets

another big win. Um, according to Remix,

uh,

Ukraine may have destroyed as much as

20% of Russia's, uh, oil refining

capacity.

So 20%.

There are not many things that you can

affect by 20% without, you know, being

obvious. Uh allegedly there are now some

gas shortages in Russia. Uh I'm not sure

you can trust that though. Might be, you

know, you you could easily imagine there

was one gas station that didn't have gas

one day and and that turned into a

bigger story. So, I don't know if it's

widespread.

Um, but interestingly, the Russian

refineries that are getting taken out by

the Ukrainians have technology in them

that is American and there's no other

place to get it.

So, they built their refineries using

American parts partly that they can't

replace. Um, so they're trying to get

sort of lower quality Chinese components

to to rebuild. So, and I guess uh Russia

did a major attack on Kiev last night,

bigger than normal or ever or something.

Um, here's what I think. If it's true

that Ukraine has taken out 20% of the

refinery capacity,

um the question would be what would be

the collapse point? The point where

Russia really just has to seriously

rethink their idea of being in a war.

20%

feels close to a tipping point, but if I

if I had to guess, I'd say 40%.

I think if they lose 40% of their

refineries

that they're going to have to make peace

because they can't lose them all. And if

they go from 0 to 20 to 40 and that

happens in just say a matter of a few

weeks, which it looks like it could. If

it went to 40,

then Russia would know that it could go

to 80 and then they're really So

I don't know if what they would do is

maybe um upgrade their own attacks on

Ukraine so that you know at least it's

mutually assured destruction something

like that. I don't know why Ukraine has

any energy left.

What like is there some reason that

Russia can't destroy all of the energy

infrastructure in Ukraine? Because when

I see, you know, pictures of Kiev and

the lights are on and people are acting

like things are kind of normal that day,

I think to myself, really? So, so you've

got Russia has been at war for years

with all these good missiles and they

haven't taken out 100% of the energy

infrastructure in Ukraine. Why? See,

seems like that would be the most

obvious thing to do. Are they unable or

is it actually a bad idea?

I'd love to know the answer to that. So

that's my prediction. If uh Kiev can

take out 40%

of uh Russia's refineries

that uh Putin would talk peace 40%.

U you're all competing against the

experts. I love it when the ex I love it

when people tell me that my opinion on

things like, you know, wars in other

countries uh is invalid because I'm not

an expert. What exactly has been the

track record of experts on anything?

Anything. You name a topic. Tell tell me

how well the experts did on that topic.

Now, now show me the podcasters who had

everything right. There'll always be

some, you know, for every topic. It

seems like there's always some podcaster

who just got it all right from the start

and all the experts got it wrong.

Anyway,

um I guess Russia successfully used an

underwater drone to sink a Ukrainian

Navy vessel. Weirdly, that's the first

time. So, I guess Russia did not have a

uh any great undersea drones, but now

they do. So, I don't know how the US uh

Navy can survive

any kind of a war against a big country

because wouldn't wouldn't any reasonably

big country just send all these uh

underwater drones and just take out our

entire fleet? Can we really defend

against that? I mean, I know we have,

you know, entire defensive perimeters

and stuff at sea, but could we really

defend against that if they sense enough

of them at the same time? I don't know.

Well, according to a UC Davis study,

having a sense of purpose in your life

can prevent you from getting dementia.

So, let's see. The people who have a

purpose in their life don't have as much

dementia.

I'm not sure it's the purpose that's

causing the less dementia. Or is it the

fact that people who have less dementia

can look around and say, you know, I

should try to be useful. Everything's

working. My brain's still working. I

think I'll be useful. I'll volunteer for

something. So, I'm not so sure this

study is telling us what we think.

However, I'm a big fan of people being

useful. So, yeah, having a sense of

purpose um is so highly recommended for

your mental health, it doesn't surprise

me that it might be correlated with your

physical health and your, you know, your

dementia. So, I would say even if you're

not positive it works,

it's all good if you can find a purpose

in life.

uh popular science tells us that u some

big companies I guess there are 4,000

buildings now have used this technology

which is that they they use cheap

electricity at night to make a bunch of

ice um and then they use the ice to cool

the building during the you know hot

summer days and I guess the technology

works you know it's and it saves a bunch

of money Um, you just need room for, you

know, an enormous pile of ice somewhere

in your basement, I guess.

Though, it would make more sense for the

ice to be in the roof, wouldn't it? I

don't know.

So, now you've got ice that they're

calling it ice batteries, but it doesn't

store electricity. It just stores the

coolness, which can be released to

supplement your HVAC.

Well, Japanese researchers have

figured out how to use quantum

entanglement to boost robot posture

control. Now, that to you sounds like

not a big deal. But if you notice how no

matter

uh no matter how good the robot

technology is over the last 25 years

that the robot is always a little slow.

Have you noticed that? Like there's just

some lag or something. But apparently

using quantum computing

which can uh simultaneously

what's the best word simultaneously deal

with lots of possibilities at the same

time. So I guess a regular robot uh has

so many moving parts that affect other

moving parts. Like if it's walking, it

kind of has to get every part of the

robot involved. So, it's hard to

coordinate all that stuff and to do it

quickly. Um, and part of the reason is

that the robot sort of has to predict,

all right, if I do this, what do my

other parts need to do? And then it sort

of tries several predictions and then it

picks the best one. And apparently that

just will always have a time lag. But if

you use quantum computing, it looks at

all the possibilities for all of the

movement that the robot can do in all of

its body all at the same time and then

just picks a good one.

Now, apparently that would allow your

robot to work as fast and efficiently

and to move just like a human. um you

would have fewer degrees of movement,

but if you saw it, it would just be

moving like I'm moving, you know, just

sort of casually moving. So if you saw

the pingpong robot that's running on a

quantum computer, it would just look

like a person playing pingpong.

So that's kind of cool. I don't know how

practical it is to get a quantum

computer in a robot because it's not

like we have a lot of quantum computer

solutions.

Well, the US has a uh jet powered drone

wingman. It's basically the size of a

looks like the size of a regular jet,

maybe a little smaller. and a pilot

would go up and would have a whole bunch

of these drones

as like protectors that would be flying

at the same time, but they would be

unmanned. So, I presume the pilot would

control them. You know, the one pilot

would control, you know, his own plane

plus or her own plane plus all the

drones. And uh that's new.

I haven't seen that before.

All right. Um,

that story is boring. That's all that's

all I got for you. That's all you needed

today. That is all you needed. All

right. Thanks for joining everybody. Um,

watching uh watching the end of the

summer stories is going to be fun.

There's going to be a whole bunch of

stuff that uh looks kind of weird and

fun and humorous. So, keep watching for

that. All right, I'm going to talk to

the uh local subscribers. My beloved

local subscribers. Yeah, it's beloved

time.

Oh, yeah. You're right. Uh there was a

good Thanks for reminding me. There was

a topic that I swore I wrote down in my

notes, but I didn't talk about it. So,

let me do that. Now, there there's

apparently a Democratleaning

organization that's paying influencers

as much as $80,000 a month to say good

things about Democrat policies and

Democrats. And again, they're trying to

use money to do what the Republicans do

without money, which is, hey, Joe Rogan,

do you have common sense? Yes. Would you

like to say some common sense things

about common sense things? Yes.

And then then you've got Joe Rogan, but

that they need to pay a Joe Rogan.

So they they named David Pacman as one

of the people allegedly who may be

getting payments for being on one side.

Now, if I were a left-leaning

influencer,

I'm pretty sure I would take that money

and then I would just do whatever I was

going to do anyway because if you're

left-leaning, you're always going to say

good stuff about Democrats. You might as

well take the money. So, I can't see

that this will possibly work. Like, it

seems like, you know, they they got

nothing else to try, so they might as

well try something. But I don't think I

don't think any of them are going to

break through and change anybody's

minds. So, um, and I have to tell you

because I know some of you probably

wonder. I have never been approached

by anybody who wanted to try to pay me

to influence what I say. I've never had

that conversation. I don't know anybody

who's even in the business of paying

Republicans or right-leaning people or

just Trump supporters to say good things

about Trump. It does it's not necessary

because there's so many influencers who

are already there and they're they've

got their own business model and they

don't need to be made. The the fact that

Let me tell you what I'll compare this

to. If you see a local restaurant that

used to only serve lunch and dinner and

then suddenly they announced that

they're going to do brunch on weekends,

that's a restaurant that's going out of

business because

doing adding brunch is sort of like a

Hail Mary because you would have to be

like the, you know, most wildly

successful brunch place to even make a

penny for brunch. So when you see that,

you don't say to yourself, "Wow, that's

a restaurant that's really making it all

work. They went from two meals to three.

They're expanding. They're getting

better." Nope. That's a restaurant that

is going to be out of business in one

year. I've seen it a million times, even

with my own restaurant. And but when you

see that somebody is paying influencers

to make sure that they say things on

your team and the other team has never

needed to pay an influencer and wouldn't

even think about it. I'll bet you nobody

has even had that conversation

on the right. It's unnecessary. How hard

is it to get people to come out against

crime? Turns out not that hard. How hard

is it for to get a Republican to say,

"You know what? I'm glad that that

border is closed. You don't have to pay

me a penny. I'll do that for free." So,

when you see Democrats having or

thinking that they have to pay somebody

to agree with them, that's like the

restaurant was adding brunch to their

other two meals. It's it's sort of a

reliable indicator that they're just

circling the drain and they don't have

an idea.

So anyway, thanks for reminding me. I

was going to talk about that and somehow

didn't. All right, we're going to go

private now with the beloved members of

locals

and the rest of you. Thanks for coming.

I'll see you again tomorrow. Same time,

same place.