Episode 2953 CWSA 09/09/25

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I've been tinkering with my setup, so you never know what could happen.

Well, here's a uh text story that I don't know if I believe it.

It looks like a prank.

But allegedly there's a company called Alter Ego that's a little wearable that you put around like sort of like headphones except doesn't cover your ears.

Sort of like the uh you know the kind that just wrap around the back of your head.

Anyway, they allege that that that thing can read your thoughts uh well enough to know what you would like to be sending to a screen with almost, you know, perfect precision and happens kind of quickly.

And they showed this demo of a guy who was, you know, wearing one and he was writing an email by thinking what he wants in the email.

Now, how in the world can they pick out the words in your head that you want to send from the words in your head that you don't want to send?

And I thought to myself, how does that work with people who have a conversation in your head all the time?

The way I organize my thoughts to make sure that they make sense is I put them in sentences and I think of them as full spoken sentences and uh I'll keep rearranging them until until they make sense when I hear them because it's sort of like I'm listening to myself now.

How in the world?

And they allege that they can uh they can detect they allege that they can detect um the the thoughts, if I can say it right.

I'm I'm probably not saying it right, but something like just when you're going to verbalize a thought.

So they get it when you've decided to verbalize it, but they won't get it prior to you deciding to verbalize it.

But in this case, you don't actually verbalize it.

It just picks up your intention to verbalize it.

Do you believe that there's a thing that can attach to the outside of your head?

You know, like little headphone things, little sensors that would be currently sensitive enough and smart enough to determine what you intend to say.

Does that sound even a little bit likely that that's true?

I would love I would love to know that it is true.

That'd be kind of cool.

But I'm going to go with nope.

Let's let's let's grade that one.

Nope.

Um but like I say, yeah, I would love to be wrong.

So if that's a real thing, really cool, but nope.

All right.

Um, allegedly Open AI is uh planning to make a featurelength animated movie that would debut at the can film festival and would be done in 9 months and a budget of $30 million.

Um, do you believe that they'll be able to do that?

And if they can do it, does that mean that the tool would allow you to do it?

because seems like there going to be a a massive storage element.

You know, we're asked to store what it's already done to make sure that what it does next is compatible with all that.

Do you think that will be available to the average person?

Or or are they going to demonstrate that if you want the studio model, oh that's the studio model is $10 million a year because you're going to make so much money making movies.

Maybe I I am uh skeptical that you'll be able to use the the offtheshelf open AI to make yourself a movie anytime soon.

Someday, but no time soon.

So, we'll see.

That's pretty ambitious.

I like it.

Well, uh, Elon Musk has decided to make the, uh, the code on X for recommending what it recommends to you, uh, open source.

So, people who know how to look at code can look at it and say, "Hey, now I know why it doesn't show me James Wood or whatever it's allegedly hiding from people, and why it doesn't show me other things." So, I love that.

That's a uh that is a solid Elon Musk play that uh feels sort of uniquely him.

You know, something you wouldn't expect from other people and I like it.

So, speaking of Tesla, yesterday they had a big announcement about what's called the mega pack, which is their big battery structures that they sell into power utility grids.

So, it become part of an existing grid and it would store power uh when it was cheap to make or possible to make and use it when it was needed later.

So apparently, I didn't know this, but um apparently they're making billions of dollars on this line of business and that's part of Tesla.

So I remember hearing uh Adam or seeing Adam Townsend, he did a post several years back in which he said that Tesla was actually a energy company uh in disguise as a car company.

And I don't know if I buy that 100% or that he even meant it 100%.

But um how big could that business be?

I mean, if they're if they're the top or even number two in the business of putting in enormous battery packs, then the interesting thing is that he's got a company, the Megapac battery thing that would be benefiting from AI because AI is going to require that, you know, every form of energy and saving energy and storing energy becomes super valuable because we can't get enough of it, AI will be sucking up all that energy.

So, he's got a very compatible company there.

And at the same time, speaking of compatible companies, um his uh SpaceX company is doing a deal to buy a whole bunch of spectrum from Echoar, which apparently will will be key to turning their satellites because SpaceX is a very compatible company with Starlink, you know, the network of Elon Musk satellites that around the Earth already.

They were launched by SpaceX.

So, those are the two most compatible companies you could imagine.

Except if you if you could have a satellite company, what would be the the best thing you could introduce next?

A phone that happens to work or you work with somebody else on phone service all over the globe.

And it looks like that's what he's going to do.

So, he's going to have batteries all over the globe and AI is going to drive that demand.

He's got he's going to have a uh or he has he's already got satellites all over the world and they're not far away from turning that into um worldwide phone service that would compete with everybody.

Apparently the speeds would be great, the latency would be low and uh he's really he he's looking to take cell phones.

I mean just just even imagine the enormity of that business and and Musk is sort of you know year after year he's just building these assets they can walk right up to the the domain of cell phone industry and possibly take over the entire industry because he's built exactly the right compatible assets from rockets to satellites.

um to batteries, you know, which you need for phones.

So, and then of course they have access to the best engineers and it all kind of kind of comes together, doesn't it?

Anyway, um there's a exineer at Meta or he was at Meta who claims that uh Whats.

App, the app that's owned by Meta, um had some privacy problems.

And specifically what he said was um there were about 1,500 Listen to this.

He claims that there were 1,500 Whats.

App engineers that had full access to private user data with no logs, no audits, and no way to know if anything was taken.

Now, user data would include their messages, right?

So there were 1,500 people who all they had to do was want to and they could look at all your private messages in what you thought was your super private message thing.

Remember what I tell you about privacy.

The only protection you have is to be uninteresting.

That's it.

So there were, you know, presumably, you know, most of the millions of people who used Whats.

App had nobody look at their messages because there were no reason to.

They're not very interesting.

But if they had any reason at all to look at your messages and let let me let me just put you into the room.

Let's say you're one of those engineers.

And if this allegation is true, and I'm not sure it is, right?

So, I'm not going to take it at face value, but what if it is?

What if it's true that there were 1,500 people who could anytime they want look into everybody's messages on Whats.

App and nobody would catch them and they knew that what would happen when they get a divorce?

What would happen when, you know, they get into a relationship that breaks up?

Do you think all 1,500 of those engineers said to themselves, you know, I could just look at all of her messages back as long as I wanted to, but uh nah.

Nah, I'm not going to do that.

I'm not the kind of guy who would find out something really, really useful and have no risk whatsoever of ever getting caught.

I'm not that kind of guy.

Or am I?

So yeah, if these allegations are true, I would say that would be something to worry about.

Um, apparently there was some massive power outage in Berlin this morning.

50,000 homes without electricity.

There were two high voltage masks, you know, big artificial towers that caught on fire.

Uh, it's a suspected arson attack.

Well, I would think so if there are two of them, unless they were right next to each other, you know, you would think it would be a pretty big coincidence if two of them caught on fire.

I would even say it's weird if one of them catches on fire because how much burnable material is in a is in a cell phone tower.

I don't know.

Or high voltage tower.

Either way, it can't be much.

It's not it's not like it's made of wood.

So, yeah.

I believe they all need a Tesla power wall to get past that kind of risk.

Well, you know that Greta Tunberg is now an activist about u the Palestinian cause and uh she's uh she's on her secondh if you can call it that.

She's on a flotillaa.

uh they're going over there to protest Israel's treatment of the Gazins or something like that.

But apparently she got to Tunisia in in Tunisian waters.

She may have and uh this is disputed so we don't know if this is true but allegedly um a drone attacked her boat.

Now I think it caused something on fire.

they say, but it didn't uh didn't kill anybody.

Nobody was injured, so that's good.

But there is some dispute.

The Tunisian authorities say there was no drone hitting your boat.

Somebody dropped a cigarette on some life life preservers.

So So they were either one of two things.

They were either attacked by by another country in a bold raid in which they sent a drone from a long distance or they had somebody stationed there waiting for Greta and then they tried to assassinate her uh without leaving a trace by using their sophisticated drones.

So that's one possibility.

The other possibility is that Greta was taking a smoke break and she was she was just out by the life preservers.

You know, uh I'm having a real good time protesting this Gaza situation.

Flick.

And then she flicks her lit cigarette into the life preservers and the next thing you know, uh, we better tell people that was a drone.

So, we don't know what happened.

My point is the fog of war makes it impossible to know how much of that story is true, if any of it.

Well, you know the story about Anthropic, the AI company that got sued by a bunch of a bunch of authors and the authors, you know, bandits together as a class and sued and uh they won.

And so the authors were going to split up $1.5 billion.

That was the judgment.

And uh who knows how much their lawyers are going to get but what would be typical class action does the lawyer get or the lawyer firm do they get a third um what what is typical?

So, if it had been, let's say, 1.5 billion and the lawyers get a third, you know, they'd be looking at half a billion dollars for some lawyering.

But apparently, it was had to be overseen by a judge.

And the federal judge that was going to oversee it looked at the deal that the lawyers made and said, "Uh, really?

This doesn't even look like you did this deal for the benefit of the authors.

It looks like maybe you did the deal for the benefit of the lawyers because it would not be irrational for a lawyer to say, "Seriously, they're offering us $1.5 billion." I don't know.

Have you guys done the math?

That's $100 million a piece.

All we have to do is say yes, and we will get $100 million a piece.

we will never have to worry about money again.

All you have to do is say yes.

Or you could fight that case for months and maybe it would get appealed and maybe they'd win.

You know, maybe the other side would win.

But but you'd fight to try to get more for the authors because if the authors win with this measly $1.5 billion award, um it might first of all set the price low for other lawsuits for other entities, but uh it doesn't work out to much per author.

So an author would lose, you know, their their entire intellectual property for all practical purposes.

and in return they would get I don't know $1,000 if they were well established.

So the judge just said nope and put a pause on it.

I don't know where it goes next, but uh the federal judge didn't think it looked like a proper deal.

I don't know, maybe.

Um, so you know, you've noticed that I've been ignoring the story about the um the Ukrainian refugee woman who got stabbed to death in Charlotte when she was on the light rail train.

Well, it turns out that now it's it's morphed from a crime story um no Gary off the keyboard.

uh has morphed from a crime story uh into a big political story because now the uh let's call it the anti-Trump press of the world has decided that the way the people on the right the MAGA supporters are uh talking about it somewhat obsessively is that uh it's obviously kind of racist and so uh CNN had a big hit piece on that and I wasn't going to talk about it cuz I don't do crime, but now that it's sort of a political thing and a persuasion thing and you know it's it's now slopped into my domain, uh, I'll give you my thoughts on it.

Number one, if she had not been a hot blonde, would we be talking about it?

You tell me.

If she had not been a hot blonde, literally some kind of a model, I think, would we even be talking about this?

Don't people get stabbed and murdered kind of often?

You know, way more than, you know, because it's not somebody pretty and they're not from Ukraine and it's not a black attacker and a white victim.

But if she's pretty and we've got video, that that makes a big difference.

Um, and it fits into a narrative that a lot of people are seeing in the larger world, you know, beyond this one one thing.

There's a lot of discussion about the crime rate and who's committing the crimes and, you know, is that something that needs to be addressed?

So, it kind of fits the rights narrative perfectly and it's it's just made for memeing and um it's just made to be viral because of her looks.

So, the uh you know the anti-ag people, they're doing their best to try to figure out how it can be racist.

And I do believe I've seen it myself that in the comments, not so much what the big influencers are saying, that's that doesn't sound racist to me, but a lot of the comments are flat out as racist as you could possibly be.

Now, you could argue whether that needs to be stopped or not.

And you could also argue um is it racist if you're talking statistical?

Right?

So, that that's what people would say.

It's like, well, if I'm just talking about the statistical risk, that's not that racist, does it?

But there are other people who are using certain language that you would, most of you, I think, we would agree is over the line.

So, but that's the real world.

In the real world, there are people who are going to go over every line and you see that online.

So, I would imagine that your feed would be different from mine, which should be different from everybody else's.

I may see more of it than you do.

Um, we believe, but I'm not positive this is true.

So, there's still a little fog of war in this story.

But is it true?

because I haven't seen it and I wouldn't know if it was real if I saw it that there was a video that came out after the main murder video on the train that showed the murderer saying quote uh that he got that white girl which would um strongly suggest that he had a racial motive even if he's a crazy person.

So, you know, that's that's good enough to throw it in that uh you know, does it prove something about the bigger world box.

Um, personally, uh, I saw this as more like a crazy person situation, but I saw, uh, Greg Guffeld's monologue.

I was watching that and he points out that for a crazy person he certainly made a lot of uh let's say sane judgments about how to get away and you know how to plan it and you know the so so it's it's always a mixed bag.

It's not so crazy that you're running around naked throwing your feces but you know there there are pockets of non craziness.

Um, so what do you do with that?

So obviously race was part of the story and remains part of the story.

Um, and then Trump Trump seizing on a situation because he he's uh anti-rime as you know and uh so now CNN says he's seizing on the moment uh because it's you know it's getting a lot of attention so he wants to maybe get in front of it.

Um, and uh, anyway, he's I guess he's threatening to withhold federal dollars from the city of Charlotte because of that murder.

And uh, I don't know who said this.

I saw a quote online, but the quote might have been Trump, but somebody said, "I guarantee that if I find what I think I'm going to find, they're not going to have your federal tax dollars going to their public transportation system." Zero.

None.

So, there's some allegation, but I'm not entirely sure who's making it, unless it's Trump, um that that they know something about Charlotte that's corrupt or dirty.

Now, have you noticed the pattern yet that every local government is corrupt or it seems that way?

Except, correct me if I'm wrong?

It it feels like it's just always Democrat government.

Yeah.

Every story I I know it's not literally true.

There there are obviously Republicans who have been arrested and indicted and stuff for for crimes.

It's not like it doesn't exist.

But the news that I see, isn't it suddenly like 10 to one in one direction?

And what do you do about that?

It's like 10 to one, isn't it?

All right.

Um and then the then that murder is bringing into the larger conversation um the following statistics that I see literally every day on social media.

I don't know if these are exactly true or true enough, but it's what people are saying.

So that's the important part.

Um, but uh I keep seeing on social media people saying black people make up 13% of the US population, but they claim, and I don't know if this is true, that that black people commit 56% of the murders.

Now, is that true?

And then do you um do you further calculate how many of them were uh other black people who were the victims?

Because it would be mostly, right?

Like would it be 3/4 of their victims would also be black or more more than three quarters, right?

Um then there are a whole bunch of other statistics.

the murder rate among black people is six to eight times higher than among white people blah blah.

So that's the sort of stuff that's going around social media and Elon Musk is getting into it by saying that uh a small group of criminals um are the repeat violent offenders.

Now that is a far less racial way to approach this.

So I think Elon Musk is probably the, you know, going on the most productive path because as soon as it gets into a race, nothing happens.

Everybody just hates everybody.

So you could just forget that.

But if you were to focus on the repeat offenders, um that's purely a, you know, behavioral thing and it it only kicks in if objectively speaking somebody's been, you know, convicted a certain number of times for a certain number of things, certain type of things.

So, but the vast majority of all crime is committed by people who have at least three prior arrests.

So these are you know pretty measurable things.

Um so Elon is saying if we look at that and lock up the repeat criminals our crime situation would be vastly improved.

Um I remember when that was a that was a thing in California.

I think it got reversed, but for a time there was that three strikes thing and people argued before that was implemented that if you locked up the people who did the vast majority of the crimes, you know, the the three strike people, they re they actually argued that if you locked up in jail and kept them there forever the people who did 80% of all the crimes that it wouldn't change the crime rate.

That was actually what smart people were saying in public in their arguments.

Well, it's not going to change the crime rate just cuz you put the people who do all the crimes in jail forever.

And I used to jokingly say, "So, let me see if I understand your hypothesis.

Your hypothesis is that if they lock up 100% of the people who are doing 80% of the crimes that the crime rate won't go down, but rather the people who were not planning to do any crimes would increase the number of crimes they were committing beyond what they had planned to make up for the repeat criminals being in jail.

That's that's how you would get a balance and nothing would change, right?

And the the conversation would quickly turn into insult because when people realize how dumb their opinion is.

That's that's not really an opinion opinion, is it?

That's really just somebody's a dumb People who are in jail don't commit crimes outside of jail.

I mean, unless they have access to a telephone, I guess, or a henchman to do their work like a crime boss.

But generally speaking, if you're in jail, it does stop you from murdering mostly except in jail.

Well, if you're wondering why are some communities more dangerous than others, and you don't have enough of a racist opinion about why, let me give you a uh a lesser a lesser racist opinion about why some places are more dangerous.

Um, apparently according to neuroscience news, aggression is contagious.

Meaning that if you observe your parents in particular, so it's more a family thing.

Uh, observing strangers doesn't have the same effect.

It must have some, but uh, if you observed family members being physical, yeah, you were more likely to be that way yourself.

But I went immediately to Grock and I said, "Uh, can you tell me, Grock, is uh violence and aggression, are those things evered?" Because it would make sense to me that if they were hereditary, you know, not 100%, but at least in any way, that uh it might not be because you're watching your family be aggressive.

It might be because you all have the aggressive gene.

So it seems to you that maybe the cause is that you're observing it or you're around it.

But it could be according to Grock that uh there are some people who think that aggression is about 50% um inherited.

So the studies of twins I guess 50% of variance in aggressive behavior might be genetic.

So here's my suggestion for fixing things.

If the if the people who are who are being violent um are being perpetuated by seeing their family being violent and it becomes this this cycle.

Maybe the best thing you could do because it's hard to fix that directly.

I mean you know what are you going to do?

uh people spend time with their family.

How how are you going to stop that?

So, if you can't do anything about it, I've often wondered if the best solution isn't for people to apply for, let's call it a grant or a scholarship to move out of whatever bad place has a bad example that's being set for them.

Not just in this regard, but someplace safe where they can, you know, really concentrate on school or whatever.

Don't you think that that would be one way to save a failing neighborhood?

Literally to let people say, "All right, give me your best argument." If you're really serious about, you know, having a successful, honest life, write us a little thing or send us a video and, you know, maybe we'll sponsor you or a number of people will sponsor you to get enough money to move to a place that has lower crime, better schools.

So, it would be great if the people who have the ability to thrive in a different atmosphere had the opportunity to get there and they wouldn't always be able to do it themselves.

So, just an idea.

Well, there's a Chicago alderman who was uh ripping into um both the governor and the mayor Johnson and Prrisker um about the topic of uh Trump offering aid to Chicago.

Newsmax is reporting this Michael Katz and uh it he's basically saying and he's obviously a Democrat as well, but he's on their team and he's even he's saying um no, we got a little bit too much crime here.

Maybe maybe you should accept his help.

So, if you're wondering if uh reasonable common sense people would agree with Trump, well, there you go.

Sounds like he's a pretty reasonable alderman.

But, uh here's a question that I ask that you might be asking yourself.

How much should I care about crime in Chicago if I don't live in Chicago and the people who do live there are electing people who allow this much crime and probably could do something i.e.

let Trump come in with some extra help.

They probably could do something to lower it, but for whatever reason, their priorities are not that.

Um, so am I supposed to care a lot?

I mean, I I I very much wanted Trump to move the National Guard to Washington DC, even though I don't live there, because it's my capital, right?

It's my capital.

Of course, I want that cleaned up.

Of course, that that represents me.

But if the people in Chicago um don't want the help, should we really force it upon them?

I mean, they do have the ability to vote in people who would change that and they apparently are not choosing that path.

At what point does it just their problem?

So, I don't know how much of my tax dollars I want to spend sending the military or any form of the military into Chicago.

Uh, it's not that it wouldn't work.

I think it would work and I think politically probably be a a total winner.

Um, but uh I don't know if it's because of my empathy.

Um, don't ask me to have more empathy than they have for themselves.

That that doesn't make sense.

I I should have maybe equal to but not more empathy than they have for themselves.

Anyway, uh I guess Trump's Trump and the team won another court victory.

So now a judge is going to allow the uh the ICE, I guess, to sweep up immigrants and raids.

Um, and partially they can use the race of the people as part of their decision-making, but it can't be all of it.

So, if the only reason they stopped somebody to find out their status was because they look like they were um Hispanic, that would not be allowed.

That would be pure racism.

But um the court has allowed the Supreme Court has now allowed that it would be one of the elements you might look at.

So, for example, if they were Hispanic, uh, and standing at the Home Depot, I'm making that up, and speaking only Spanish, uh, I don't know, there there might be some other elements, but you could use it as one variable, but not the variable.

Um, I don't know how I feel about that.

Um so moving on um apparently uh Nepal is having some issues.

The parliament building is on fire and the public had revolted.

Um except there's there's something a little bit weird about this Nepal situation as in why it happened.

Um so so I guess it started because the country was trying to ban some fake social media accounts.

But the issue of banning some fake fake right fake social media accounts that turned into um the public being mad about corruption and digital censorship.

that turned into riots in the street and then the um it looks like you know maybe the country has fallen I can't tell but here's the thing when you hear that Nepal has uh you know done this street protest against the government and burned down a building and dragged down some of the politicians I don't know what happened to them but some of them got dragged out um do you assume that that happens spont spontaneously or do you believe that there's just no such thing anywhere of a you know this kind of organized thing unless there's some external source maybe a color revolution kind of a situation some foreign country maybe maybe some intelligence people within the country you know who knows but uh I I'm way beyond imagining that this kind of stuff happens on his own.

So, I would have some questions about who might have been who might have been involved behind the scenes, if you know what I mean.

Um anyway, so according to a post I saw on X by Wall Street Apes, there's some independent uh investigation uh about uh Gavin Newsome's association to some NOS's which allegedly all all these uh uh Democrat conspiracy ies and alleged corruption things were also complicated where he allegedly was doing something called beested payments.

So this would be legal.

So So allegedly somebody like Newsome could go to a bunch of rich donors and say, "Hey, uh I beest you to uh put a bunch of money into these NOS's.

It's a charity.

It's really good." And then the rich people go, "Oh, got it." Wink wink.

So, if I put a bunch of money into the charities, then you'll be good to me when I need a favor.

Well, I can't say that, but if you put a bunch of money into these charities, they sure would be good for those charities.

And then you work it out with the charities or you've chosen them because they're working with you where they say, "If you can get us a bunch of money from a bunch of rich people in return for you giving them favors, we'll make sure that a bunch of this money benefits you directly or indirectly." So, um, the allegation is that $400 million have flowed through this process and, uh, it's hard to imagine that Governor Nuome didn't give anybody any favors for being a conduit allegedly.

Don't know if any of this is true, but uh if he if he really were the conduit for $400 million flowing through, it's hard to believe he didn't get a taste of that.

Maybe not directly, but through circuitous roots, which is how they do it.

That's how they do it.

Um so again, I remind you that all local government and maybe all government is corrupt.

Um, so, Health and Human Services is going to release a report that uh seems to tie Tylenol use in pregnant women with autism.

But there is apparently uh there's some conflict in the science.

There's some science that suggests there is a link and some s some science that suggests there's not.

So, what would you and I assume about that?

We shouldn't assume that we don't know anything cuz there's some science that says there's a link, some says it isn't.

We don't really trust either one of them.

So, I don't trust any data, certainly any study like that.

Uh, I'm way beyond being able to trust them.

But at the same time, um, at the same time, let's see what else is happening.

Uh, President Trump, I guess he reposted a video on social media that, uh, linked vaccines to autism.

So, according to modernity is reporting that.

So it looks like if you read the tea leaves, the government is going to suggest that there are, you know, more than one thing that might be behind autism.

And maybe they're not going to say we know 100% sure what it is or how much each of these contribute.

They might say, well, as far as we can narrow it down, it might be these things.

So, um, but I do I do trust that if any big decisions are made about vaccines, I do trust that that would be based on data that we can all see.

So, people will have a chance to say, "You read that data wrong or they collected that data wrong." So, that's coming.

All right.

Andrew Cuomo, who as you know is running for mayor of New York against Mayor Adams and the communist guy Mam Dami.

Um, and uh, Curtis Leewa.

So, Andrew Cuomo, I just watched him on a video and he said, uh, Democrats want someone to defend them against President Trump.

I am that person because I have done that.

Now, is it my imagination or does Andrew Cuomo have the easiest job in the world, which would be to become mayor of New York given who he's running against?

Shouldn't he easily be able to win this?

It feels like he should.

But here's what he's doing wrong.

Mom Dami comes in and he talks about affordability and people go, "Oh, you have my attention.

That's exactly what I'm worrying about." Cuomo comes in and he's making it about attacking Trump.

Now, I don't argue that people are asking him to attack Trump.

I'm sure they are.

But really, he he doesn't see that that's not the winning message.

The winning message is what Mom Donniey's doing.

He says, "You got a problem?

I will I I have a magic plan to deal with your biggest problem.

So, it's just it's just jaw-dropping and headshaking that when he's talking about why you should, you know, make him the mayor, it's to fight Trump.

That that's that's just the worst reason anybody ever had to run for mayor.

Well, there's a rumor going around that Scott Bassant, Treasury Secretary, and Bill PE, um, who is the head of the Federal Housing Finance, whatever it is.

I can never remember the name of the organization, Freddy and Fanny.

And uh apparently they went to a dinner and uh Scott Bent threatened to punch Py in the face and he wanted to step outside and and fight him.

So uh and then reportedly, but I don't believe anything about this story at this point.

We never know the real context of these things.

Um, reportedly Bill wasn't sure if he was serious, but he said he was serious about punching him.

And uh, so I don't know how the dinner ended or who picked up the check, but uh, that sounds pretty bad.

I guess uh, Bent was complaining because he believed that uh, Bill Py had said something negative to him about to Trump.

Uh, I don't know what that was allegedly, but I don't know how to feel about it because it would depend entirely upon what it was he may or may not have said to Trump.

You could certainly imagine that it could have been something really important that Trump would need to know, in which case, you know, Boly had to do it.

That that would just be part of his job.

Um, but you could you could imagine that uh Bent wouldn't like it no matter what it was.

So, um I like Bill too much to have an opinion on this.

So, I'm just going to say that uh we'll never know exactly what happened in that situation, but I don't think Bill's going to be talking to anybody about anything important unless it's important.

So, we'll never know what that's about.

Um, so there's a new uh laser defense weapon to shoot down drones, and it's better than ever before.

It can kill 50 drones a minute, which actually doesn't sound like that many.

50 drones a minute if they're sending a swarm of a thousand drones.

Um, unless it's the really big ones that don't come that don't swarm.

I don't know.

But, uh, here's what I was uh wondering as I was reading that story.

What are the odds that, uh, drones become the main weapon of choice at the same time that lasers finally become cost effective to shoot them down?

Is that kind of weird that those two technologies that have both been out there for a while, you know, years and years, but they both kind of matured at the same time.

That just when the drones can do all kinds of things and there can be thousands of them in the sky, you know, autonomously attacking you is exactly the same time that we've built all these deadly lasers that can shoot them out of the sky.

I what what are the odds that those two technologies are peaking at about the same time?

I know it's weird.

It's a simulation.

Well, uh, one of the Russian advisers to Putin accused the US and accused Trump of thinking about using crypto to wipe out our debt.

Now, if you're like me, you said, "Wait, how How would you do that?

How would you wipe out $35 trillion worth of debt with crypto uh without making things worse?

Now, you might remember that I've asked that question a bunch of times, but not saying how it would happen, but asking if there's any way to make it happen.

And I the answer that I got from everyone is uh no, you you can't like do it with one magic trick of crypto.

You might be able to make crypto your only money and then inflate away the value of the dollar over time and maybe that's literally the only way we'll ever get out of it.

So that might happen.

But uh so I I went to Grock and I put that story in there and I said, "Is that something that could ever work?" And Grock said, "Not really." So Gro would went into all the details but basically said no you know every way that you could go with that.

This is me paraphrasing it but every way you could go with that with some kind of clever crypto thing would make something way worse and you know would be unacceptable.

So no that probably won't happen.

Um, but you can see why they're afraid of it because the US has played around with the gold standard, for example, in the past.

Well, Politico is talking about France's government collapsing.

A lot of collapsing happening lately.

So, the uh Joshua Berlinger is writing about this.

So, I guess Mcronone has to appoint now is fifth prime minister in less than two years.

Um, and there's protests and things are falling apart.

So, um, I don't think, I hate to say it, but I don't really see a way that France can survive.

Do you?

I suppose that would be true of everybody in the medium run, but I don't see I don't see a path.

Um, I hate to say that because, you know, I'm pretty optimistic and I generally don't buy into the, oh, this country is going down the drain.

You know, we've talked about, you know, I don't think China's really about to go down the drain.

I don't think Russia's really about to go down the drain.

And I don't think France is going down the drain this year.

Um, but it seems like just demographically they're in an unreoverable situation.

But we'll see.

And I guess uh Mcronone is mad at the US for barring visas for most Palestinians.

Like like that's the biggest problem.

He he's got 75 cities in lockdown.

Uh and he's worried about Palestinian visas.

All right.

Um, in other news, Israel has reportedly said yes to Trump's suggestion for a uh Gaza ceasefire.

So, that would make you think, ah, we're 50% toward peace because at least one side said yes.

Um except that what Israel is uh requesting and what uh I guess Trump is requesting um requesting would be too weak demanding is that they give up all the hostages and lay down their arms.

Now if you were Hamas, do you think you're going to give up your hostages and lay down your arms?

Cuz what happens to you the minute that that happens?

It's not like part of the deal is for safe passage or something.

It's not like you're going to get a, you know, you're going to be pardoned.

100% of the people who have a weapon and are in a tunnel and are working for Hamas, 100% of them are going to be in jail or killed.

Why exactly would they want to hurry that up while they have hostages?

So to me, uh, it's easy for Israel to say, uh, we will accept your total surrender so that we can do what we want with you.

So I get why they say yes, but how in the world is is Hamas ever going to say yes to that?

Well, unless, you know, they have no other choice and everything's worse.

And that's it looks like that's where things are heading.

It's going to get a lot worse.

But uh just before I got on, apparently there was some kind of big explosion in Qatar or Qatar as you like to say in Doha.

Some say it was an Israeli assassination strike as senior Hamas officials.

But uh I heard that just before I went live, so by now we probably have better information.

But we're still in fog of war.

So, I wouldn't believe anything about that story yet.

Uh, I definitely wouldn't believe that it was an Israeli attack yet.

It totally could have been.

You know, I wouldn't rule it out, but uh too soon.

I would I wouldn't jump to that conclusion.

So, I wouldn't trust any of the reports coming out.

But if it were true that uh Israel figured this was a good time to take out their leadership and Qatar, well, there's probably no no bad time to do it.

And uh uh San Mateo, one of my local airports here, uh is launching uh the first flying car with vertical takeoff.

Um, it's going to test flights at Half Moon Bay and Hollister.

And you could you could buy one for or and you could put in a pre-order for your flying car at $300,000.

Now, I think you know that that there have been news stories about flying cars for 30 years and and we're always right around the corner.

Oh, we're so close.

You are going to have a flying car any minute now.

Well, maybe it's happening.

Maybe.

We'll see.

But if it does, can we agree on one thing?

If we get our flying cars, that is the golden age.

Everybody agree?

I think that would settle it.

We still need to work on our affordability, but uh in many other ways, golden age.

All right, ladies and gentlemen.

Sorry about my cat related disturbances.

If it sounded a little choppy over here, I was fighting a cat with one hand and using my brain to entertain you with my other hand.

All right, that didn't work.

Flying cars will be a disaster.

It does seem like it would be a problem.

Um, unless the flying cars are uh self-driving by law.

I can imagine that it would keep them out of trouble.

All right.

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know what could happen.

Well, here's a uh text story that I

don't know if I believe it. It looks

like a prank. But allegedly there's a

company called Alter Ego that's a little

wearable that you put around like sort

of like headphones except doesn't cover

your ears. Sort of like the uh you know

the kind that just wrap around the back

of your head. Anyway,

they allege that that that thing can

read your thoughts

uh well enough to know what you would

like to be sending to a screen with

almost, you know, perfect precision and

happens kind of quickly. And they showed

this demo of a guy who was, you know,

wearing one and he was writing an email

by thinking what he wants in the email.

Now,

how in the world can they pick out the

words in your head that you want to send

from the words in your head that you

don't want to send? And I thought to

myself, how does that work with people

who have a conversation in your head all

the time? The way I organize my thoughts

to make sure that they make sense is I

put them in sentences and I think of

them as full spoken sentences and uh

I'll keep rearranging them until until

they make sense when I hear them because

it's sort of like I'm listening to

myself now. How in the world? And they

allege that they can uh they can detect

they allege that they can detect um the

the thoughts, if I can say it right. I'm

I'm probably not saying it right, but

something like just when you're going to

verbalize a thought. So they get it when

you've decided to verbalize it, but they

won't get it prior to you deciding to

verbalize it. But in this case, you

don't actually verbalize it. It just

picks up your intention to verbalize it.

Do you believe that there's a thing that

can attach to the outside of your head?

You know, like little headphone things,

little sensors that would be currently

sensitive enough and smart enough to

determine what you intend to say.

Does that sound even a little bit likely

that that's true?

I would love I would love to know that

it is true. That'd be kind of cool. But

I'm going to go with nope.

Let's let's let's grade that one. Nope.

Um but like I say, yeah, I would love to

be wrong. So if that's a real thing,

really cool, but nope.

All right.

Um, allegedly Open AI is uh planning to

make a featurelength animated movie that

would debut at the can film festival and

would be done in 9 months and a budget

of $30 million.

Um, do you believe that they'll be able

to do that? And if they can do it, does

that mean that the tool would allow you

to do it?

because seems like there going to be a a

massive storage element. You know, we're

asked to store what it's already done to

make sure that what it does next is

compatible with all that. Do you think

that will be available to the average

person?

Or or are they going to demonstrate that

if you want the studio model, oh that's

the studio model is $10 million a year

because you're going to make so much

money making movies. Maybe I I am uh

skeptical that you'll be able to use the

the offtheshelf open AI to make yourself

a movie anytime soon. Someday, but no

time soon. So, we'll see. That's pretty

ambitious. I like it.

Well, uh, Elon Musk has decided to make

the, uh, the code on X for recommending

what it recommends to you, uh, open

source. So, people who know how to look

at code can look at it and say, "Hey,

now I know why it doesn't show me James

Wood or whatever it's allegedly hiding

from people, and why it doesn't show me

other things." So, I love that. That's a

uh that is a solid Elon Musk play that

uh feels sort of uniquely him. You know,

something you wouldn't expect from other

people and I like it. So, speaking of

Tesla, yesterday they had a big

announcement about what's called the

mega pack, which is their big battery

structures that they sell into power

utility grids. So, it become part of an

existing grid and it would store power

uh when it was cheap to make or possible

to make and use it when it was needed

later. So apparently, I didn't know

this, but um

apparently they're making billions of

dollars on this line of business

and that's part of Tesla. So I remember

hearing uh Adam or seeing Adam Townsend,

he did a post several years back in

which he said that Tesla was actually a

energy company uh in disguise as a car

company. And I don't know if I buy that

100% or that he even meant it 100%. But

um how big could that business be? I

mean, if they're if they're the top or

even number two in the business of

putting in enormous battery packs, then

the interesting thing is that he's got a

company, the Megapac battery thing that

would be benefiting from AI because AI

is going to require that, you know,

every form of energy and saving energy

and storing energy becomes super

valuable because we can't get enough of

it, AI will be sucking up all that

energy. So, he's got a very compatible

company there. And at the same time,

speaking of compatible companies,

um his uh SpaceX company is doing a deal

to buy a whole bunch of spectrum from

Echoar, which apparently will will be

key to turning their satellites because

SpaceX is a very compatible company with

Starlink, you know, the network of Elon

Musk satellites that around the Earth

already. They were launched by SpaceX.

So, those are the two most compatible

companies you could imagine. Except if

you if you could have a satellite

company, what would be the the best

thing you could introduce next?

A phone that happens to work or you work

with somebody else on phone service all

over the globe. And it looks like that's

what he's going to do. So, he's going to

have batteries all over the globe and AI

is going to drive that demand. He's got

he's going to have a uh or he has he's

already got satellites all over the

world and they're not far away from

turning that into um worldwide phone

service that would compete with

everybody. Apparently the speeds would

be great, the latency would be low and

uh he's really he he's looking to take

cell phones. I mean just just even

imagine the enormity of that business

and and Musk is sort of you know year

after year he's just building these

assets they can walk right up to the the

domain of cell phone industry

and possibly take over the entire

industry

because he's built exactly the right

compatible assets from rockets to

satellites.

um to batteries, you know, which you

need for phones. So, and then of course

they have access to the best engineers

and

it all kind of kind of comes together,

doesn't it?

Anyway, um there's a exineer at Meta or

he was at Meta who claims that uh

WhatsApp, the app that's owned by Meta,

um had some privacy problems. And

specifically what he said was

um there were about 1,500

Listen to this. He claims that there

were 1,500 WhatsApp engineers that had

full access to private user data with no

logs, no audits, and no way to know if

anything was taken.

Now, user data would include their

messages, right? So there were 1,500

people who all they had to do was want

to and they could look at all your

private messages in what you thought was

your super private message thing.

Remember what I tell you about privacy.

The only protection you have is to be

uninteresting.

That's it.

So there were, you know, presumably, you

know, most of the millions of people who

used WhatsApp had nobody look at their

messages because there were no reason

to. They're not very interesting. But if

they had any reason at all to look at

your messages and let let me let me just

put you into the room. Let's say you're

one of those engineers. And if this

allegation is true, and I'm not sure it

is, right? So, I'm not going to take it

at face value, but what if it is? What

if it's true that there were 1,500

people who could anytime they want look

into everybody's messages on WhatsApp

and nobody would catch them and they

knew that what would happen when they

get a divorce?

What would happen when, you know, they

get into a relationship that breaks up?

Do you think all 1,500 of those

engineers said to themselves, you know,

I could just look at all of her messages

back as long as I wanted to, but uh nah.

Nah, I'm not going to do that. I'm not

the kind of guy who would find out

something really, really useful and have

no risk whatsoever of ever getting

caught. I'm not that kind of guy.

Or am I?

So yeah, if these allegations are true,

I would say that would be something to

worry about.

Um, apparently there was some massive

power outage in Berlin this morning.

50,000 homes without electricity. There

were two high voltage masks, you know,

big artificial towers that caught on

fire. Uh, it's a suspected arson attack.

Well, I would think so if there are two

of them, unless they were right next to

each other,

you know, you would think it would be a

pretty big coincidence if two of them

caught on fire. I would even say it's

weird if one of them catches on fire

because how much burnable material is in

a is in a cell phone tower.

I don't know. Or high voltage tower.

Either way, it can't be much. It's not

it's not like it's made of wood. So,

yeah.

I believe they all need a Tesla power

wall to get past that kind of risk.

Well, you know that Greta Tunberg is now

an activist about u the Palestinian

cause and uh she's uh she's on her

secondh

if you can call it that. She's on a

flotillaa.

uh they're going over there to protest

Israel's treatment of the Gazins

or something like that. But apparently

she got to Tunisia in in Tunisian

waters. She may have and uh this is

disputed so we don't know if this is

true but allegedly

um a drone

attacked her boat. Now I think it caused

something on fire. they say, but it

didn't uh didn't kill anybody. Nobody

was injured, so that's good. But there

is some dispute. The Tunisian

authorities say there was no drone

hitting your boat. Somebody dropped a

cigarette on some life life preservers.

So So they were either

one of two things. They were either

attacked by by another country in a bold

raid in which they sent a drone from a

long distance or they had somebody

stationed there waiting for Greta and

then they tried to assassinate her uh

without leaving a trace by using their

sophisticated drones.

So that's one possibility.

The other possibility is that Greta was

taking a smoke break and she was she was

just out by the life preservers.

You know,

uh I'm having a real good time

protesting this Gaza situation.

Flick.

And then she flicks her lit cigarette

into the life preservers and the next

thing you know, uh, we better tell

people that was a drone. So, we don't

know what happened. My point is the fog

of war makes it impossible to know how

much of that story is true, if any of

it.

Well, you know the story about

Anthropic, the AI company that got sued

by a bunch of a bunch of authors and the

authors, you know, bandits together as a

class and sued and uh they won. And so

the authors were going to split up $1.5

billion.

That was the judgment. And uh who knows

how much their lawyers are going to get

but what would be typical class action

does the lawyer get or the lawyer firm

do they get a third

um what what is typical? So, if it had

been, let's say, 1.5 billion and the

lawyers get a third, you know, they'd be

looking at half a billion dollars for

some lawyering.

But apparently, it was had to be

overseen by a judge. And the federal

judge that was going to oversee it

looked at the deal that the lawyers made

and said, "Uh,

really? This doesn't even look like you

did this deal for the benefit of the

authors. It looks like maybe you did the

deal for the benefit of the lawyers

because it would not be irrational for a

lawyer to say, "Seriously, they're

offering us $1.5 billion." I don't know.

Have you guys done the math? That's $100

million a piece. All we have to do is

say yes, and we will get $100 million a

piece. we will never have to worry about

money again.

All you have to do is say yes. Or you

could fight that case for months and

maybe it would get appealed and maybe

they'd win. You know, maybe the other

side would win. But but you'd fight to

try to get more for the authors because

if the authors win with this measly $1.5

billion award,

um it might first of all set the price

low for other lawsuits for other

entities, but

uh it doesn't work out to much per

author. So an author would lose, you

know, their their entire intellectual

property for all practical purposes.

and in return they would get I don't

know $1,000 if they were well

established.

So the judge just said nope and put a

pause on it. I don't know where it goes

next, but uh the federal judge didn't

think it looked like a proper deal. I

don't know, maybe.

Um,

so you know, you've noticed that I've

been ignoring the story about the um the

Ukrainian refugee woman who got stabbed

to death in Charlotte when she was on

the light rail train. Well, it turns out

that now it's it's morphed from a crime

story

um no Gary off the keyboard.

uh has morphed from a crime story uh

into a big political story because now

the uh let's call it the anti-Trump

press of the world has decided that the

way the people on the right the MAGA

supporters are uh talking about it

somewhat obsessively is that uh it's

obviously kind of racist

and so uh CNN had a big hit piece on

that and

I wasn't going to talk about it cuz I

don't do crime, but now that it's sort

of a political thing and a persuasion

thing and you know it's it's now slopped

into my domain, uh, I'll give you my

thoughts on it. Number one, if she had

not been a hot blonde, would we be

talking about it?

You tell me. If she had not been a hot

blonde, literally some kind of a model,

I think, would we even be talking about

this? Don't people get stabbed and

murdered kind of often? You know, way

more than, you know, because it's not

somebody pretty and they're not from

Ukraine and it's not a black attacker

and a white victim. But if she's pretty

and we've got video, that that makes a

big difference.

Um, and it fits into a narrative that a

lot of people are seeing in the larger

world, you know, beyond this one one

thing. There's a lot of discussion about

the crime rate and who's committing the

crimes and, you know, is that something

that needs to be addressed? So, it kind

of fits the rights narrative perfectly

and it's it's just made for memeing and

um it's just made to be viral because of

her looks.

So,

the uh you know the anti-ag people,

they're doing their best to try to

figure out how it can be racist. And I

do believe I've seen it myself that in

the comments, not so much what the big

influencers are saying, that's that

doesn't sound racist to me, but a lot of

the comments are flat out as racist as

you could possibly be.

Now, you could argue whether that needs

to be stopped or not. And you could also

argue um is it racist if you're talking

statistical?

Right? So, that that's what people would

say. It's like, well, if I'm just

talking about the statistical risk,

that's not that racist, does it? But

there are other people who are using

certain language that you would, most of

you, I think, we would agree is over the

line. So, but that's the real world. In

the real world, there are people who are

going to go over every line and you see

that online. So, I would imagine that

your feed would be different from mine,

which should be different from everybody

else's. I may see more of it than you

do. Um,

we believe,

but I'm not positive this is true. So,

there's still a little fog of war in

this story. But is it true? because I

haven't seen it and I wouldn't know if

it was real if I saw it that there was a

video that came out after the main

murder video on the train that showed

the murderer saying quote uh that he got

that white girl which would

um strongly suggest that he had a racial

motive even if he's a crazy person. So,

you know, that's that's good enough to

throw it in that uh you know, does it

prove something about the bigger world

box. Um, personally,

uh, I saw this as more like a crazy

person situation,

but I saw, uh, Greg Guffeld's monologue.

I was watching that and he points out

that for a crazy person he certainly

made a lot of uh let's say sane

judgments about how to get away and you

know how to plan it and you know the so

so it's it's always a mixed bag. It's

not so crazy that you're running around

naked throwing your feces but you know

there there are pockets of non

craziness.

Um, so what do you do with that?

So obviously race was part of the story

and remains part of the story. Um,

and then Trump Trump seizing on a

situation because he he's uh anti-rime

as you know and uh so now CNN says he's

seizing on the moment

uh because it's you know it's getting a

lot of attention so he wants to maybe

get in front of it. Um,

and uh,

anyway, he's I guess he's threatening to

withhold federal dollars from the city

of Charlotte because of that murder. And

uh, I don't know who said this. I saw a

quote online, but the quote might have

been Trump, but somebody said, "I

guarantee that if I find what I think

I'm going to find, they're not going to

have your federal tax dollars going to

their public transportation system."

Zero. None. So, there's some allegation,

but I'm not entirely sure who's making

it, unless it's Trump, um

that that they know something about

Charlotte that's corrupt or dirty. Now,

have you noticed the pattern yet that

every local government is corrupt or it

seems that way? Except, correct me if

I'm wrong?

It it feels like it's just always

Democrat government.

Yeah. Every story I I know it's not

literally true. There there are

obviously Republicans who have been

arrested and indicted and stuff for for

crimes. It's not like it doesn't exist.

But the news that I see,

isn't it suddenly like 10 to one in one

direction?

And what do you do about that? It's like

10 to one, isn't it?

All right.

Um

and then the then that murder is

bringing into the larger conversation

um the following statistics that I see

literally every day on social media. I

don't know if these are exactly true or

true enough, but it's what people are

saying. So that's the important part.

Um, but uh I keep seeing on social media

people saying black people make up 13%

of the US population, but they claim,

and I don't know if this is true, that

that black people commit 56% of the

murders.

Now, is that true?

And then

do you

um

do you further calculate how many of

them were uh other black people who were

the victims? Because it would be mostly,

right? Like would it be 3/4 of their

victims would also be black or more more

than three quarters, right?

Um then there are a whole bunch of other

statistics. the murder rate among black

people is six to eight times higher than

among white people blah blah. So that's

the sort of stuff that's going around

social media

and Elon Musk is getting into it by

saying that uh a small group of

criminals um are the repeat violent

offenders. Now that is a far less racial

way to approach this. So I think Elon

Musk is probably the, you know, going on

the most productive path because as soon

as it gets into a race, nothing happens.

Everybody just hates everybody. So you

could just forget that. But if you were

to focus on the repeat offenders,

um that's purely a, you know, behavioral

thing and it it only kicks in if

objectively speaking somebody's been,

you know, convicted a certain number of

times for a certain number of things,

certain type of things. So, but the vast

majority of all crime is committed by

people who have at least three prior

arrests.

So these are you know pretty measurable

things.

Um so Elon is saying if we look at that

and lock up the repeat criminals our

crime situation would be vastly

improved. Um I remember when that was a

that was a thing in California. I think

it got reversed, but for a time there

was that three strikes thing

and people argued before that was

implemented that if you locked up the

people who did the vast majority of the

crimes, you know, the the three strike

people, they re they actually argued

that if you locked up in jail and kept

them there forever

the people who did 80% of all the crimes

that it wouldn't change the crime rate.

That was actually what smart people were

saying in public in their arguments.

Well, it's not going to change the crime

rate just cuz you put the people who do

all the crimes in jail forever.

And I used to jokingly say, "So, let me

see if I understand your hypothesis.

Your hypothesis is that if they lock up

100% of the people who are doing 80% of

the crimes that the crime rate won't go

down, but rather the people who were not

planning to do any crimes would increase

the number of crimes they were

committing beyond what they had planned

to make up for the repeat criminals

being in jail. That's that's how you

would get a balance and nothing would

change, right? And

the the conversation would quickly turn

into insult because when people realize

how dumb their opinion is. That's that's

not really an opinion opinion, is it?

That's really just

somebody's a dumb People who are

in jail don't commit crimes outside of

jail. I mean, unless they have access to

a telephone, I guess, or a henchman to

do their work like a crime boss. But

generally speaking, if you're in jail,

it does stop you from murdering mostly

except in jail.

Well, if you're wondering why are some

communities more dangerous than others,

and you don't have enough of a racist

opinion about why, let me give you a uh

a lesser a lesser racist opinion about

why some places are more dangerous. Um,

apparently according to neuroscience

news, aggression is contagious.

Meaning that if you observe your parents

in particular, so it's more a family

thing. Uh, observing strangers doesn't

have the same effect. It must have some,

but uh, if you observed family members

being physical, yeah, you were more

likely to be that way yourself. But I

went immediately to Grock and I said,

"Uh,

can you tell me, Grock, is uh violence

and aggression, are those things

evered?"

Because it would make sense to me that

if they were hereditary, you know, not

100%, but at least in any way, that uh

it might not be because you're watching

your family be aggressive. It might be

because you all have the aggressive

gene. So it seems to you that maybe the

cause is that you're observing it or

you're around it. But it could be

according to Grock that uh there are

some people who think that aggression is

about 50%

um inherited.

So the studies of twins I guess 50% of

variance in aggressive behavior might be

genetic.

So here's my suggestion for fixing

things.

If the if the people who are who are

being violent

um are being perpetuated by seeing their

family being violent and it becomes this

this cycle.

Maybe the best thing you could do

because it's hard to fix that directly.

I mean you know what are you going to

do? uh people spend time with their

family. How how are you going to stop

that? So, if you can't do anything about

it, I've often wondered if the best

solution isn't for people to apply for,

let's call it a grant or a scholarship

to move out of whatever bad place has a

bad example that's being set for them.

Not just in this regard, but someplace

safe where they can, you know, really

concentrate on school or whatever. Don't

you think that that would be one way to

save a failing neighborhood? Literally

to let people say, "All right, give me

your best argument." If you're really

serious about, you know, having a

successful, honest life, write us a

little thing or send us a video and, you

know, maybe we'll sponsor you or a

number of people will sponsor you to get

enough money to move to a place that has

lower crime, better schools. So, it

would be great if the people who have

the ability to thrive in a different

atmosphere had the opportunity to get

there and they wouldn't always be able

to do it themselves.

So, just an idea.

Well, there's a Chicago alderman who was

uh ripping into um both the governor and

the mayor Johnson and Prrisker um about

the topic of uh Trump offering aid to

Chicago. Newsmax is reporting this

Michael Katz and uh

it he's basically saying and he's

obviously a Democrat as well, but he's

on their team and he's even he's saying

um no, we got a little bit too much

crime here. Maybe maybe you should

accept his help.

So, if you're wondering

if uh reasonable common sense people

would agree with Trump, well, there you

go. Sounds like he's a pretty reasonable

alderman.

But, uh here's a question that I ask

that you might be asking yourself. How

much should I care about crime in

Chicago if I don't live in Chicago and

the people who do live there are

electing people who allow this much

crime

and probably could do something i.e. let

Trump come in with some extra help. They

probably could do something to lower it,

but for whatever reason, their

priorities are not that.

Um,

so am I supposed to care a lot? I mean,

I I I very much wanted Trump to move the

National Guard to Washington DC, even

though I don't live there, because it's

my capital, right? It's my capital. Of

course, I want that cleaned up. Of

course, that that represents me. But if

the people in Chicago

um don't want the help,

should we really force it upon them? I

mean, they do have the ability to vote

in people who would change that and they

apparently

are not choosing that path. At what

point does it just their problem?

So, I don't know how much of my tax

dollars I want to spend sending the

military or any form of the military

into Chicago.

Uh, it's not that it wouldn't work. I

think it would work and I think

politically probably be a a total

winner. Um,

but uh I don't know if it's because of

my empathy. Um, don't ask me to have

more empathy than they have for

themselves.

That that doesn't make sense. I I should

have maybe equal to but not more empathy

than they have for themselves.

Anyway,

uh I guess Trump's Trump and the team

won another court victory. So now a

judge is going to allow the uh the ICE,

I guess, to sweep up immigrants and

raids. Um, and partially they can use

the race of the people as part of their

decision-making, but it can't be all of

it. So, if the only reason they stopped

somebody to find out their status was

because they look like they were um

Hispanic, that would not be allowed.

That would be pure racism. But um the

court has allowed the Supreme Court has

now allowed that it would be one of the

elements you might look at. So, for

example, if they were Hispanic, uh, and

standing at the Home Depot, I'm making

that up, and speaking only Spanish, uh,

I don't know, there there might be some

other elements, but you could use it as

one variable, but not the variable.

Um,

I don't know how I feel about that.

Um so moving on

um apparently uh Nepal

is having some issues. The parliament

building is on fire and the public had

revolted.

Um

except there's there's something a

little bit weird about this Nepal

situation

as in why it happened.

Um

so so I guess it started because the

country was trying to ban some fake

social media accounts.

But the issue of banning some fake fake

right fake social media accounts that

turned into

um

the public being mad about corruption

and digital censorship. that turned into

riots in the street and then the um it

looks like you know maybe the country

has fallen I can't tell but here's the

thing when you hear that Nepal has uh

you know done this street protest

against the government and burned down a

building and dragged down some of the

politicians I don't know what happened

to them but some of them got dragged out

um do you assume that that happens spont

spontaneously

or do you believe that there's just no

such thing anywhere of a you know this

kind of organized thing unless there's

some external source maybe a color

revolution kind of a situation

some foreign country maybe maybe some

intelligence people within the country

you know who knows but uh I I'm way

beyond imagining that this kind of stuff

happens on his own.

So, I would have some questions about

who might have been who might have been

involved behind the scenes, if you know

what I mean.

Um

anyway,

so according to a post I saw on X by

Wall Street Apes,

there's some independent uh

investigation

uh about uh Gavin Newsome's association

to some NOS's

which allegedly

all all these uh uh Democrat conspiracy

ies and alleged corruption things were

also complicated where he allegedly was

doing something called beested payments.

So this would be legal.

So So allegedly somebody like Newsome

could go to a bunch of rich donors and

say, "Hey, uh I beest you to uh put a

bunch of money into these NOS's. It's a

charity. It's really good." And then the

rich people go, "Oh, got it." Wink wink.

So, if I put a bunch of money into the

charities,

then you'll be good to me when I need a

favor. Well, I can't say that, but if

you put a bunch of money into these

charities, they sure would be good for

those charities. And then you work it

out with the charities or you've chosen

them because they're working with you

where they say, "If you can get us a

bunch of money from a bunch of rich

people in return for you giving them

favors, we'll make sure that a bunch of

this money benefits you directly or

indirectly."

So, um, the allegation is that $400

million have flowed through this process

and, uh, it's hard to imagine that

Governor Nuome didn't give anybody any

favors

for being a conduit allegedly. Don't

know if any of this is true, but uh if

he if he really were the conduit for

$400 million flowing through, it's hard

to believe he didn't get a taste of

that. Maybe not directly, but through

circuitous roots, which is how they do

it.

That's how they do it.

Um so again, I remind you that all local

government and maybe all government is

corrupt.

Um, so, Health and Human Services is

going to release a report that uh seems

to tie Tylenol use in pregnant women

with autism.

But

there is apparently uh there's some

conflict in the science. There's some

science that suggests there is a link

and some s some science that suggests

there's not. So, what would you and I

assume about that?

We shouldn't assume that we don't know

anything

cuz there's some science that says

there's a link, some says it isn't. We

don't really trust either one of them.

So, I don't trust any data, certainly

any study like that. Uh, I'm way beyond

being able to trust them.

But at the same time,

um,

at the same time, let's see what else is

happening. Uh, President Trump, I guess

he reposted a video on social media

that, uh, linked vaccines to autism.

So, according to modernity is reporting

that.

So it looks like if you read the tea

leaves, the government is going to

suggest that there are, you know, more

than one thing that might be behind

autism. And maybe they're not going to

say we know 100% sure what it is or how

much each of these contribute. They

might say, well, as far as we can narrow

it down, it might be these things.

So,

um, but I do I do trust

that if any big decisions are made about

vaccines, I do trust that that would be

based on data that we can all see. So,

people will have a chance to say, "You

read that data wrong or they collected

that data wrong." So, that's coming.

All right. Andrew Cuomo, who as you know

is running for mayor of New York against

Mayor Adams and the communist guy Mam

Dami. Um, and uh, Curtis Leewa.

So, Andrew Cuomo, I just watched him on

a video and he said, uh, Democrats want

someone to defend them against President

Trump. I am that person because I have

done that. Now, is it my imagination

or does Andrew Cuomo have the easiest

job in the world, which would be to

become mayor of New York given who he's

running against?

Shouldn't he easily be able to win this?

It feels like he should. But here's what

he's doing wrong. Mom Dami comes in and

he talks about affordability

and people go, "Oh, you have my

attention. That's exactly what I'm

worrying about." Cuomo comes in and he's

making it about attacking Trump. Now, I

don't argue that people are asking him

to attack Trump. I'm sure they are. But

really, he he doesn't see that that's

not the winning message. The winning

message is what Mom Donniey's doing. He

says, "You got a problem? I will I I

have a magic plan to deal with your

biggest problem. So, it's just it's just

jaw-dropping and headshaking that when

he's talking about why you should, you

know, make him the mayor, it's to fight

Trump.

That that's that's just the worst reason

anybody ever had to run for mayor.

Well, there's a rumor going around that

Scott Bassant, Treasury Secretary, and

Bill PE,

um, who is the head of the Federal

Housing Finance, whatever it is. I can

never remember the name of the

organization, Freddy and Fanny. And uh

apparently they went to a dinner and uh

Scott Bent threatened to punch Py in the

face and he wanted to step outside and

and fight him.

So

uh and then reportedly, but I don't

believe anything about this story at

this point. We never know the real

context of these things. Um,

reportedly Bill wasn't sure if he was

serious, but he said he was serious

about punching him. And uh, so I don't

know how the dinner ended or who picked

up the check, but uh,

that sounds pretty bad. I guess uh, Bent

was complaining because he believed that

uh, Bill Py had said something negative

to him about to Trump. Uh, I don't know

what that was allegedly, but I don't

know how to feel about it because it

would depend entirely upon what it was

he may or may not have said to Trump.

You could certainly imagine

that it could have been something really

important that Trump would need to know,

in which case, you know, Boly had to do

it. That that would just be part of his

job. Um, but you could

you could imagine that uh Bent wouldn't

like it no matter what it was. So, um

I like Bill too much to have an opinion

on this. So,

I'm just going to say that uh we'll

never know exactly what happened in that

situation, but I don't think Bill's

going to be talking to anybody about

anything important unless it's

important.

So, we'll never know what that's about.

Um,

so there's a new uh laser defense weapon

to shoot down drones, and it's better

than ever before. It can kill 50 drones

a minute, which actually doesn't sound

like that many. 50 drones a minute if

they're sending a swarm of a thousand

drones. Um, unless it's the really big

ones

that don't come that don't swarm. I

don't know. But, uh, here's what I was

uh wondering as I was reading that

story. What are the odds

that, uh, drones become the main weapon

of choice at the same time that lasers

finally become cost effective to shoot

them down?

Is that kind of weird that those two

technologies that have both been out

there for a while, you know, years and

years, but they both kind of matured at

the same time. That just when the drones

can do all kinds of things and there can

be thousands of them in the sky, you

know, autonomously attacking you is

exactly the same time that we've built

all these deadly lasers that can shoot

them out of the sky. I what what are the

odds that those two technologies

are peaking at about the same time? I

know it's weird.

It's a simulation.

Well, uh, one of the Russian advisers to

Putin accused the US and accused Trump

of thinking about using crypto to wipe

out our debt.

Now, if you're like me, you said, "Wait,

how How would you do that? How would you

wipe out $35 trillion worth of debt with

crypto uh without making things worse?

Now, you might remember that I've asked

that question a bunch of times, but not

saying how it would happen, but asking

if there's any way to make it happen.

And I the answer that I got from

everyone is uh no, you you can't like do

it with one magic trick of crypto. You

might be able to make crypto your only

money and then inflate away the value of

the dollar over time and maybe that's

literally the only way we'll ever get

out of it.

So that might happen. But uh so I I went

to Grock and I put that story in there

and I said, "Is that something that

could ever work?" And Grock said, "Not

really."

So Gro would went into all the details

but basically said no you know every way

that you could go with that. This is me

paraphrasing it but every way you could

go with that with some kind of clever

crypto thing would make something

way worse and you know would be

unacceptable. So no that probably won't

happen.

Um, but you can see why they're afraid

of it because the US has played around

with the gold standard, for example, in

the past.

Well, Politico

is talking about France's government

collapsing. A lot of collapsing

happening lately. So, the uh Joshua

Berlinger is writing about this. So, I

guess Mcronone has to appoint now is

fifth prime minister in less than two

years. Um, and there's protests and

things are falling apart.

So,

um, I don't think, I hate to say it, but

I don't really see a way that France can

survive.

Do you? I suppose that would be true of

everybody in the medium run, but I don't

see I don't see a path.

Um, I hate to say that because, you

know, I'm pretty optimistic and I

generally don't buy into the, oh, this

country is going down the drain. You

know, we've talked about, you know, I

don't think China's really about to go

down the drain. I don't think Russia's

really about to go down the drain. And I

don't think France is going down the

drain this year. Um, but it seems like

just demographically

they're in an unreoverable situation.

But we'll see.

And I guess uh Mcronone is mad at the US

for barring visas for most Palestinians.

Like like that's the biggest problem. He

he's got 75 cities in lockdown. Uh

and he's worried about Palestinian

visas.

All right. Um, in other news, Israel has

reportedly said yes to Trump's

suggestion for a uh Gaza ceasefire.

So, that would make you think, ah, we're

50% toward peace because at least one

side said yes.

Um except that

what Israel is uh requesting and what uh

I guess Trump is requesting

um requesting would be too weak

demanding

is that they give up all the hostages

and lay down their arms.

Now

if you were Hamas, do you think you're

going to give up your hostages and lay

down your arms? Cuz what happens to you

the minute that that happens?

It's not like part of the deal is for

safe passage or something. It's not like

you're going to get a, you know, you're

going to be pardoned.

100% of the people who have a weapon and

are in a tunnel and are working for

Hamas, 100% of them are going to be in

jail or killed.

Why exactly would they want to hurry

that up while they have hostages?

So to me, uh, it's easy for Israel to

say, uh, we will accept your total

surrender so that we can do what we want

with you. So I get why they say yes, but

how in the world

is is Hamas ever going to say yes to

that? Well, unless, you know, they have

no other choice and everything's worse.

And that's it looks like that's where

things are heading. It's going to get a

lot worse. But uh just before I got on,

apparently there was some kind of big

explosion in Qatar or Qatar as you like

to say in Doha. Some say it was an

Israeli assassination strike as senior

Hamas officials.

But uh I heard that just before I went

live, so by now we probably have better

information. But we're still in fog of

war. So, I wouldn't believe anything

about that story yet.

Uh, I definitely wouldn't believe that

it was an Israeli attack yet. It totally

could have been. You know, I wouldn't

rule it out, but uh too soon. I would I

wouldn't jump to that conclusion. So, I

wouldn't trust any of the reports coming

out. But if it were true that uh Israel

figured this was a good time to take out

their leadership and Qatar,

well,

there's probably no no bad time to do

it.

And uh

uh San Mateo, one of my local airports

here, uh is launching uh the first

flying car with vertical takeoff.

Um, it's going to test flights at Half

Moon Bay and Hollister. And you could

you could buy one for or and you could

put in a pre-order for your flying car

at $300,000.

Now,

I think you know that that there have

been news stories about flying cars for

30 years

and and we're always right around the

corner. Oh, we're so close. You are

going to have a flying car any minute

now. Well, maybe it's happening. Maybe.

We'll see. But if it does, can we agree

on one thing? If we get our flying cars,

that is the golden age. Everybody agree?

I think that would settle it. We still

need to work on our affordability,

but uh in many other ways, golden age.

All right, ladies and gentlemen. Sorry

about my cat related disturbances.

If it sounded a little choppy over here,

I was fighting a cat with one hand and

using my brain to entertain you with my

other hand. All right, that didn't work.

Flying cars will be a disaster.

It does seem like it would be a problem.

Um, unless the flying cars are uh

self-driving by law.

I can imagine that

it would keep them out of trouble.

All right. Thank you, Sergio.

I'm going to say a few words privately

to the beloved members of Locals. The

rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow, same

time, same place. I enjoy it every

morning. So, make sure you come back.

I'd miss you if you didn't.