Episode 2974 CWSA 09/30/25

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Well, I'd like to begin with a product review.

I said to myself, I'll bet I could get a better camera than the one that's built into my laptop, my Macintosh.

So, I used Grock and I used Chat GPT and I asked people for recommendations for a good webcam and people said the best one would be this Logitech um Bri Brio I don't know kind of thing what whatever is the top of the line.

But, um I would like to make a point.

So, this is supposed to hang on the top of your laptop.

And the little tiny tiny tiny little lip is the only thing that keeps it on there.

And then in addition, there's this device which apparently is made because they hate people.

There's no other reason I can think of.

Whoever designed this, for the past 20 years or so, I've been buying Logitech and other cameras, trying them out, and then as soon as you breathe, it falls off.

So this morning, after the 50th time of not being able to adjust the color temperature or to get it anywhere near as good as the one that's built into my laptop, I finally threw it across the room and took care of it.

Now, this is the way you you have to you have to handle these this way.

You just have to break them because once that thing falls off your laptop for the third time, if you're dumb enough to let it happen to you a fourth time, well, you deserve what you're getting.

You deserve it.

No, that has to be broken and publicly humiliated.

So, I did that for you.

So, we're back to our Face.

Time camera, which is really good, by the way.

Very good camera.

Well, I saw a piece of work by Jay Plemens uh today on or yesterday in Acts who took my book God's Debris and uh used AI to animate it.

I animated it um to create a uh AI movie and the just the first scene, you know.

And that's the problem with making movies is that you can make a good, you know, 15-second scene.

But apparently that's as far as you can go, even if you make lots of them, they don't fit together or something.

But just to see uh what the future holds.

Wow.

It's really amazing.

It's in my X feed or you can go to Jay's uh feed.

He's at J A Y Plemens P L E M O Ns.

He'd be a good follow if you want to see some good video clips.

Um, and it features uh the character in the book uh is called the Avatar.

So that's the main character.

It's a fictional fictional account and uh um Jay put me in as the Avatar.

Now, the funny thing about that is that the the Avatar character is described as, you know, so old.

Uh, he looks like he looks like he's just, you know, ready to die any moment.

And I thought, oh, well, that's pretty good casting.

Pretty good.

All right.

So, uh, but I but I would ask you, if you're tempted to take, uh, that book and turn it into a fulllength movie, that would be a big copyright problem.

uh doing doing 15 seconds of it to demonstrate how it works is excellent, you know, fully approved.

That would be uh that in my in my mind that would be fair use.

That's fair use.

But if uh but if you thought, hey, I think I'll make a whole movie out of this.

No, that would not be fair use.

Speaking of that, Open AI has apparently told Hollywood Studios that uh instead of uh well, I guess they want to reverse the model of copyright.

So, they will use your copyright unless you specifically ask them not to.

So, you would have to explicitly opt out.

Otherwise, you could use OpenAI to make your own Dilbert comics or anything else you wanted.

You could do a Dilbert movie, I guess.

But now I I have to figure out um I guess I'll ask Open AI.

Do do you think if I asked Open AI what is the mechanism to explicitly opt out of my for my copyrights?

Do you think it would know the answer to that?

It might, but I'm going to guess no.

I'm not even sure this is true.

I don't have a source for it, but uh that would be a big deal.

So P Ath is talking to his uh meeting of generals, which means that we've put uh all of our most important people, including our president, all in one room.

H doesn't feel like the best play, but I'm sure they figured this out.

Well, I haven't read it all because it looks like it's going to be an all day event kind of thing.

President is speaking now, I think.

Um, but the parts I saw PX started out saying that it is unacceptable to see fat troops and even worse to see fat generals in the hallway.

So whether you're a general or a troop, you're going to have to do a physical uh, you know, a PT physical test um, twice a year.

So for all members of the military, how in the world are they going to get these 60 plus year old generals to pass the physical test?

I don't know.

That seems like a stretch.

And uh he's against wokeness and DEI for promotions and uh said they've promoted too many uh uniform leaders for the wrong reasons.

So it doesn't look like there's going to be any big announcement per se.

It looks like it's just things you knew that Exath and Trump wanted to make the military more lethal and probably it'll make some news but I don't think it's big announcement.

All right.

Um the Trump administration announced uh it was in just the news I saw it uh that they had confiscated um 1 million pounds of cocaine.

1 million pounds of cocaine worth 11 billion.

1 million pounds.

And my first question is, how do you dispose of a million pounds of cocaine?

Hold it.

Hold it.

You have to answer the question.

How do you dispose a million pounds of cocaine?

But you can't use the words Hunter or Biden.

Yeah, you can't do it, can you?

Because about half of you just wrote Hunter Biden as soon as I asked the question.

I know you.

>> Yeah, I know you.

All right.

Well, I guess we'll dump it in the ocean with the rest of it.

Our our entire ocean is going to be a cocaine ocean if we keep it up.

I'm going swimming.

Never coming back.

I saw a reframe on robot costs from a gentleman named Eler Alu.

I hope that's even close to his name.

Um, but he points out that the cost of the robot, now he's talking about industrial robots, not the kind that'll walk around in your house, but the factory kind.

Uh, he says that buying the robot is only 20% of the total cost.

The real expense is that you have to, you know, change over your system, which means discontinuing production for a while.

You got to figure out how to train your robot.

You've got to train people to work with the robot.

You're going to have maintenance problems with the robot.

Uh you got to upgrade the robot.

So 80% of the cost of the robot is on top of the price of the robot.

So that that's going to that's one of those little factoids that if you store that away, you'll feel like the the smartest person at the party when somebody brings up robots.

Well, apparently the Diddy uh sentence is upcoming.

We don't know what that's going to be yet, but uh it could be up to 11 years for prostitution related charges and blah blah blah.

So, could be up to 11 years.

We'll see.

Um, how many of you are very confident that you know the answer to the following question in recent years?

So, only talking about last last few years, that's all.

Um, has there been more right-wing violence or left-wing violence?

Tell me if you know the answer and if you're confident that you know the answer.

I have decided to give up.

There was a there was one point where I thought, huh, I'll just look at the data.

I'll just Google that data.

I don't know what to believe because I don't believe any of the data in this domain and nor should you.

Do you really think this data is accurate or do you think it's just full of opinion?

As in, well, I don't know.

That one's a little bit rightwing, but it's not completely.

So, we'll put that in the gray area.

Oh, this one's leftwing.

Oh, I could tell by how they voted.

Don't you think Don't you think that data is all So, I also don't know how much it matters as long as it's coming from both directions.

Would it matter if it's 30 70 in one direction?

How would that matter?

You would do exactly the same thing if it were 5050 30 7030.

You wouldn't do anything differently, would you?

Because you should be working on both sides of that equation.

Whether it's 3070 or 7030, it doesn't matter.

Uh all it is is getting a quick, you know, quick rhetorical point if you're debating somebody, I guess, but it doesn't have any real world uh implications.

Now I and I've also seen there are lots of examples where right-wing people and that would include me have said things like fascist or whatever.

I would argue that when the right-wing uses those words like oh you're acting like a Nazi or a fascist absolutely nobody takes that literally.

Would you agree that when the right uses those words, you can tell it's just rhetorical and that even a crazy person wouldn't think that was real?

Now, they might think it's real when they call Mami a communist.

People might think that's real and you know, you could imagine people might act on it.

So I think I feel as if uh it would be good sort of good general uh advice for both sides to maybe back off of the the Nazi references and I'm going to try to do the same thing.

Uh I will stop trying to do the same thing if the left doesn't make any progress in not doing that.

Uh but at the moment I think you know what uh even though it feels to me that there's more left-wing violence, maybe that's just because the ones that get on TV.

I don't know.

And this latest one with the church.

What was that?

That guy was a Trump supporter, but I don't think he did it for, you know, some classic political reason.

So I think the reasons that the right-wing do things violence and the leftwing they do things seems different.

The the leftwing seems often trying to change politics, you know, trying to kill Trump, trying to trying to take out not trying but taking out Charlie Kirk.

Doesn't that feel like a direct attempt to change politics?

Whereas when the right does something, it doesn't look like they're trying to change the government.

It looks like they're just mad at something or crazy or, you know, maybe that's useful to know that there's a difference.

Well, Tucker Carlson had on his show the uh one of the Wikipedia co-founders, Larry Zanger, and Larry Zanger uh walked him through um the blacklist.

I saw this on Jason Cohen uh clip.

By the way, if you want to follow Jason Cohen, I mentioned it before, but it turns out there are a lot of people with that name.

He's the one that's at Jason Jouro DC.

Jason DC, all one word.

All right.

So, the blacklist on Wikipedia are the um publications that you're not supposed to or you can't actually is blocked.

you can't use them as your source.

So if you're one of the editors on Wikipedia and you saw an article in, let's say, the Federalist or Breitbart and you said, "Oh, that looks like pretty reliable.

I'll refer to that as a source." Wikipedia would block you.

But if you wanted to use the New York Times as a source, no problem.

Washington Post, yeah, no problem.

New York New York Post, oh no.

the Federalist.

Nope.

Can't use the Federalist.

So, um, that does render, uh, Wikipedia somewhat useless for anything political.

I think you'd agree with that.

But it turns out that Elon Musk has just confirmed that uh, his XAI company, the his AI division, uh, is going to build a competitor called Groipedia.

Now given that uh AI is undependable by its nature and it hallucinates I don't know exactly uh what the business model will be but I would imagine if the only thing you did was you know add some AI elements and expanded the number of sources that could be considered legitimate um that would be a big deal.

So, this might be yet another gigantic big deal.

And it's even bigger deal if uh Musk allows other AI to train on Groipedia because I'm pretty sure that AI has trained on Wikipedia.

So, what if what if Elon says, "I'm going to open this up.

You can all you can all train on train your AI on what was created by my AI." That would be interesting because it'd be quite different.

Did you know that the ADL uh lists Turning Point USA as one of their uh groups that they accuse of extremism and hate?

So, the ADL trying to improve the I would say safety and the reputation and life of Jewish people.

um I don't think just Americans but Jewish people everywhere.

And uh they've decided that Turning Point USA is an extremist hate group.

Uh I don't know how that could be any more opposite than that.

And and so I so I wondered how does the ADL deal with the fact that Israel now they don't work for Israel.

ADL is not part of Israel.

It's it's an American group and there would be plenty of people in Israel who's not happy with them for their own reasons.

But I wondered how does the ADL handle the uh the war in Gaza?

And so I looked it up on uh Grock and uh what they do is they they argue that the word genocide doesn't apply because there's no evidence of intention.

Did do you know that in order for a genocide to be a genocide, you have to have the intention of removing or killing all the people.

So you rem removing the people is a genocide too.

just moving them where from wherever they are to somewhere else.

Um, so you don't have to kill them all, but removing them would be a genocide, but you would have to have the intention of a genocide according to the ADL uh the the leader Jonathan Greenblat.

Now, is that is that just a weasel way to get out of dealing with a question or do you find that valid?

Well, you know, Israel has never said our intention is to do a genocide or our intention, but they have said, correct me if I'm wrong, we'll talk we'll talk about the Gaza 21point plan in a moment, but haven't they said directly, we're going to move all the people out, you know, maybe with some ability for some of them to move back in the future, but is that enough?

Is that enough if if you say, "Well, yeah, we're just going to clean up some problems with Hamas and then people can come back in." So, is that enough to say that you don't have the intention of moving people out and keeping them out?

I don't know.

Feel feels like it's a little hard to navigate that situation if you're the ADL.

But as it stands, uh the 65,000 people who have been killed and the millions who are being dislocated in Gaza is not a situation of hate and extremism.

But that damn Charlie Kirk and all those Christians who are worshiping God and trying to live a holy life, they're a case of hate and extremism.

So I don't know how long the ADL is going to last.

because it just makes Jewish people look like Honestly, if if if I were a Jew, I would want the ADL to go away right away as soon as possible.

I would not want that to be part of what my reputational brand is for God's sakes.

Anyway, maybe the ADL should label itself a hate group and that would take care of everything.

Um, according to Fox News, there's an NPR Ipsos poll that says 71% of those polls say that uh crime levels in American cities are unacceptable.

It makes you wonder how would somebody answer that question any other way?

Well, if if she said, "Is the crime level in Chicago acceptable?" Apparently, there's somebody who says yes.

quite a few people.

At what point is the crime level acceptable?

I would say the acceptable level would be zero.

Acceptable.

I mean, you wouldn't I if your crime was, let's say, relatively low, you wouldn't get rid of the police department, right?

You would say, well, you know, now that we got the crime down to, you know, one murder per whatever, we we don't need a police.

I mean, it's acceptable.

It's just acceptable now.

So, I feel like it's a dumb question.

So, I'd ignore that one.

Well, I guess the government shutdown isn't inevitable now.

And, uh, that happens in the next day or so.

The government's going to shut down.

Now, it's not the whole government.

It's a whole bunch of, you know, non-essential stuff.

And I say this every time we're in this situation, but doesn't it seem weird to you?

And would you have would you have designed this system if you were the founders of the country?

You're sitting around uh in your non-airconditioned room trying to figure out how to make a constitution.

Would you have designed a system where the only way you can get a budget passed is by seeing who's willing to torture people not involved in the budget the hardest.

So the way this will work is if the Democrats are willing to torture the people who are going to lose their jobs at least temporarily and they're willing to torture the public for making sure they don't have access to these services while everything's closed.

If if they can if they can handle the torture longer than the Republicans can torture that same group of people, then they win.

They get their way.

So, whoever is the best torturer of citizens gets to decide what the budget is.

Can you imagine a worse system?

If you were going to sit down and and no system existed, you'd be like, "All right, this is what we're going to do." Um, I think a good way to do a budget would be we will torture third parties, people who are not part of the budget process, and somebody would raise their hands in the back and say, "Excuse me, wouldn't we get a much better result and faster if the only people who were tortured were the people doing the budget?" Because then they'd say, "Oh, oh, it hurts so bad.

I'm going to have to hurry up." No, no, that feels like that would be painful.

So instead, we'll torture other people.

We'll just torture nameless citizens that we don't know personally, but we'll torture a lot of them.

We'll get a lot of them.

And uh and then then it doesn't matter if we do the job or not.

We don't even have to do the work of the people.

We'll just torture people and however it comes out, that's just the way we'll do it.

So great job government.

According to the Daily Caller News Foundation, um there's a Sorosbacked group, a leftist group called Indivisible that's working the is trying to work the Democrats to make sure that they stay tight and keep the government closed until all of their uh stupid funding is returned.

Now, that would be the re that would be the funding for exactly the things that we don't want.

But, uh, they're going to work hard to keep that government closed.

Uh, Governor Nome said, uh, in a post talking about the impending shutdown, he says, "Republicans have control of the House, the Senate, and the White House.

If the government shuts down, it's on them." Now, most of you know that you got to get 60 votes.

And that means you need I think seven uh probably around sevenish Democrats have to vote for it.

And of course they won't.

So when Gavin says that the Republicans have control, if you don't pay attention too closely, you think, hey, that means they can do it if they want to.

So it's all on them.

No, they don't have any power.

They have no power.

But his base is probably um let's say 90% of them don't know that it will take some Democrat votes.

They just won't even know that.

So So his post on X works for them because they think, "Oh, those stupid damn Republicans, they ruin everything." Um, then the people who do know that he's lying are going to say, "Oh, that's a good that's a good post." Because people won't know he's lying.

He's a good liar.

He's a very good liar.

That's that's why he is dangerous.

Uh, it's not because he's not capable, it's because he's too capable at the wrong things.

Not so good at running a state, but boy can he lie.

He's a good liar.

Well, You.

Tube has agreed to pay a $24 million settlement to Trump over a lawsuit about being suspended because of January 6.

So, now he's gotten uh Meta to pay him, let's see, Meta paid him 25 million.

X paid him 10 million.

Um, which seems unfair because, you know, X was after Twitter and Twitter was the one that uh that kicked them off.

Anyway, so he's got all this money now coming in and I guess he's going to uh direct earark for the construction of the new White House ballroom.

How awesome is it that Trump sued them for his balls?

for the balls in the ballroom.

I don't know what you're talking about, but apparently he's going to get them to pay for his balls.

And uh you know, I'm going to say again what I often say that uh Trump has figured out how to monetize all of his problems.

So, here he is monetizing the fact he got kicked off these platforms and he's going to use that money to build himself a nice ballroom.

How much do I love that?

I love it totally.

It'd be one thing if he was planning to spend that money on himself, you know, doesn't need it, but uh watching him monetize it for the benefit of the people because we get we'll get a new ballroom and that will that will belong to all of us.

Pretty impressive.

Well, Axios is talking about the uh Trump's promise or his threat, I guess, to big pharma that they better lower the prices, give us the same low prices that other countries get.

And uh in response, pharma has done checking notes.

Not a thing, nothing.

They have not lowered their prices.

So, I think their deadline is passed and uh I don't know if Trump's going to come down hard on them because you don't want to do anything that would reduce our access to valuable meds.

On the other hand, you can't really have them just ignore the president and keep those prices where they are.

So, uh oh wow, Wall Street Journal just reported the White House plans to introduce Trump RX, a new government website to facilitate drug purchases.

I guess that would be to cut out the middleman.

Uh or maybe that's the only place that you get them cheap.

I don't know.

So, we'll find out.

But just know that uh Trump's going to have to do more and maybe that website is the answer.

They'll have to do more to get those prices down because big pharma is not going to do it just cuz you asked.

All right, here's my question.

Are we at war with Russia?

Now, I know we've been asking that the whole time we've been feeding weapons into the uh war, but so at this point, um we're giving them American weapons.

The weapons require American training, I believe.

So, we're probably training.

We're giving them weapons.

And the latest thing is that the new weapons will go so far into Russia that uh Ukraine is only allowed to use them with our permission.

So they'd have to get approval to do something extra deep into the country of Russia.

I'm guessing that America's satellites are helping them locate targets, right?

So, if it's true that they're American weapons and can only be used with American training and American approval and American satellites, maybe.

Um, isn't the least important part of that the soldier?

Because you could replace the soldier, but if the soldier didn't have these missiles, the war would be over.

I feel like the American part is the important part.

and the soldier is becoming the least important part.

So I'll ask again, are we at war with Russia?

Because you know the the further we go into this, oh it's not us.

It's not us.

It's it must be those darn Ukrainians that keep fighting but we're not.

Oh no, we're not part of this.

I don't know how far that could go.

Obviously, Putin would think he's at war with us, but he's smart enough not to attack the homeland cuz that would that would empty the cupboard, and he doesn't want that.

Well, uh, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has agreed to terms, uh, to Trump's 21 point Gaza proposal, uh, Wall Street Journal's reporting.

Um, but not until Netanyahu inserted some edits into his plan.

Those edits might be the kind of edits that would make it impossible to get a deal because it uh it allows Israel to have uh indefinite uh military control of Gaza no matter what else is happening.

So the the other parts of the plan would be things like you know the Arab countries would help you know monitor and uh and manage the place and the uh the Palestinians who had lived there could move back and but Hamas Hamas will be gone.

Hamas will be no more.

So they're they wouldn't be allowed to be in charge.

But until all the the risk of terrorism is removed, according to Israel, Israel can keep its military there.

That would be the plan.

Do you think Hamas will agree that Israel can have perpetual maybe military control of Gaza?

I don't know.

That might be a problem.

So, uh, let's look down some of the things.

Let's see.

Hamas has three or four days to respond according to Trump.

And uh Netanyahu had to apologize to Qatar for uh military action in Qatar that took out Hamas leaders and negotiators.

And I guess Qatar just needed an apology, so Netanyahu gave one.

I I can't imagine that was the most sincere apology.

What did that sound like?

Uh, we're totally sorry that we had this hugely successful raid in your country.

We'll definitely not do that again unless we need to.

All right.

Um, let's see what else uh was on that uh two of the countries that might be managing Gaza be Saudi, Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey.

because you know those guys all get along great.

So should be no problem at all.

Um and then if all the the new proposal um gives Israel a veto over the disarming of Hamas and things.

So I think the problem will be that that Israel is looking to have some permanent kind of control even if it's not pick up the garbage kind of control if it's only military.

So, we'll see.

And Hamas says they're taking it seriously and they're going to look at it.

We'll find out.

So, um, one possibility is that Israel knows that Hamas will never accept any kind of a deal.

Part of it also is release the hostages in 72 hours, I think.

But if you assume that Hamas will never accept anything reasonable, then all it does is give Netanyahu free pass to keep pounding him because keep negotiating this thing while Israel continues to pound them and they'll just say, "hm, I don't know, maybe we should add this thing.

Maybe we should add a little bit little tweak." And they'll get another week to pound them.

So, I don't even know if it's a serious offer or Israel is just cynically uh sort of saying, "Yeah, yeah, we totally agree with this.

We'll totally do this." So, I guess you can't blame us for war cuz we already agreed to peace.

So, if Hamas doesn't agree, well, then they're just bringing it upon themselves, wouldn't you say?

So, I think Israel wins either way.

They win if they get the end of fighting in one way and they would win a different way if they got a better excuse to keep fighting.

Well, look, we've offered we made this totally totally reasonable offer and they rejected it.

So, what are you going to do?

I guess the fighting goes on.

It's all Hamas's fault.

So anyway, um Netanyahu is becoming uh hilarious in his praising of Trump because obviously he knows that he needs to stay on Trump's good side, but he's doing it with such a heavy hand.

Um here are some things that Netanyahu said, I think just yesterday about President Trump.

There's no one like him.

He's an incredible friend and ally of Israel.

Uh I don't decide a thing for President Trump.

He is the most independent leader and amazing leader that I've seen in all my years in all of his years.

He's the best leader.

Uh, and here's my advice.

You want to dial that back about 20%.

It's It's good to say good things about Trump, especially if you believe them.

But if you go too far, it looks like you're with us.

It doesn't look like you're serious at all.

I mean, if you go from he's the most independent leader and amazing leader that I've seen in all my years, that's that's right up to the line because after that, what do you have after that?

Um, he uh he can fly in his own power.

We think he has godlike powers.

Uh he might be psychic.

I mean, it gets crazy after that.

So, you dial it back about 20%.

Well, Eric Swallwell uh reminds us why Democrats can never be in power again.

He announced he actually said this out loud in public that uh he he says when Democrats win in 2026, accountability is coming and uh that they will investigate private citizens who work for Trump will subpoena the DOJ and also private actors who have done these drug deals with the administration.

He calls them drug deals.

And here's my advice.

Once again, we always talk about how Democrats don't understand human motivation.

Why are you telling us you're going to do this if you win?

Doing it after you win might make some sense, right?

Because then you've already won.

Saying it before you get there just makes us try harder to make sure you don't win.

What What exactly were you trying to accomplish by inspiring us to try harder to make sure you never have power again?

Well, telling us you'll go after private citizens will get you there.

Uh, Senator uh, John Fedman is telling us that he's not going to switch parties.

He's just sort of likes common sense and doesn't think the Democrats are always doing the common sense thing.

But uh I saw Dana Pino on the five um say what I would have said in this situation which is Federman is very cleverly taking what could be called the Joe Mansion strategy which is if you can credibly become the only Democrat who's sometimes not often but sometimes willing to vote with the Republicans then everybody has to kiss your ass from now until the end of time cuz they can't afford to lose that one vote.

Things just are too close.

So maybe it won't be that close after after 2026.

But I've got a feeling that he's going to Joe Mansion this thing, which would be brilliant.

It would be exactly the right thing to do and smarter than switching to the Republicans.

If he switches to the Republican party, he will be considered the, you know, least good Republican because he's practically a Democrat.

But if he stays Democrat, he's got all the power.

All right.

Don Lemon said in public that white men are deeply broken and that's why they resort to violence.

Okay.

I think Joy Reid was on another podcast uh saying bad things about white people, too.

Um, but I'm going to give you some DEI refraraming in case you find yourself in a conversation about DEI.

You ready?

Um, here's what most of us have been saying, including me, and I keep realizing that it doesn't work at all.

If you say the DEI is racist, nobody cares.

Nobody cares.

There's no Democrat who's going to say, "Oh, oh, I didn't I didn't realize that." Yeah, that's it's kind of racist.

Yeah.

So, we should cut it out.

Nobody cares if the if Let me use an analogy.

If a billionaire lost a dollar, would you feel bad for them?

A billionaire lost $1.

No, you wouldn't.

Because if somebody's powerful, you don't feel empathy for them.

You just say, "Ah, I'd rather be you than me." So likewise, if you're a white guy and you say to anybody who's a Democrat, "Oh, this is racist," the Democrats going to say, "So, you probably had it coming after hundreds of years of you being the patriarchy and you getting all the good stuff and you know, all that." So, so, so what if it's a little bit racist against you?

You, you've got that coming.

So, as an argument, forget about what's right or wrong.

as an argument, no persuasion at all.

But I'm going to give you a better version of that.

I just came up with that this morning.

Did you know that there are multiple studies that show that red heads are discriminated against for employment?

Did you know that red heads are very discriminated against in employment?

It's it's repeatable.

A number of studies have found the same thing.

So instead of saying that your problem is is racist against white people, which you will never prevail in, even though it's true, you say, "Here's my problem with DEI.

It's not about anybody's gender or race or culture." You could replace black people in the example with red heads and you'd have the same problem.

So your boss would say, "Uhoh, the order came down.

I have to get more redheads because we don't have enough redheads.

And then they try to hire, you know, high technically capable redheads, but everybody's doing it, too.

All the other companies are hiring redheads.

How long will it take before you run out of topshelf redheads?

About a minute.

And you're out of red, you're out of redheads that are like really the top employees.

But what do you do if you run out of the top level redheads, but you got to hire red heads or else you lose your bonus because your boss told you you got to you got to get some diversity and that includes the redheads.

What are you going to do?

You're going to lower your standards because that's what the incentive system has given you.

Once again, I remind you that Democrats don't understand human motivation and it's behind all of their mistakes.

It's the same thing.

It's behind all their mistakes.

So the argument would be if you can get somebody to agree that you would have the same problem with a redhead such that if Charlie Kirk were still alive and he got on a flight and he saw that a red head was the uh pilot of the ship he would ask himself reasonably reasonably I wonder if that redhead only got in there because of DEI.

So, the best argument I think if you could get somebody to listen to you for more than, you know, 10 seconds is that you could replace um black or brown or women or uh LGBTQ.

You could replace any of them with red heads and you would still have a gigantic problem.

It's it's the math of it and it's the fact that the system guarantees that people do the wrong thing.

It guarantees it.

It's not maybe.

It guarantees that managers will do the wrong thing and lower their standards because that's how they make their money.

Anyway, try that out.

Let me know if that works for you.

It would only work for somebody who's willing to sit there and listen.

It's It's not going to work for a quick hit on X.

Well, we're learning now.

The Transportation Security Administration is learning that there was a uh apparently people were added to the TSA watch list under Biden if they were known mask resistors.

Can you believe that?

The people who are known as sort of activists against mask mandates, they were put on the no-fly zone, no fly list.

That is so so wrong at a level that I just go what?

That really happened?

I live I live through that because I was a anti-mask activist.

Is it possible that I was added to the no-fly list and I didn't know it?

I mean, I did fly.

Oh, but when I flew, I was not yet being uh vocal about masks that came after that.

I haven't flown.

Yeah, I haven't flown since then, but for other reasons.

So, I might actually be on some kind of nofly terrorist list just because I made a big deal about we got to get rid of these masks now that now that we know for sure that they don't make any difference.

All right.

According to Medscape, Jeff Craraven's writing that there's a sharp rise in what they call cognitive disabilities in young adults.

Now, we're not even talking about autism, and ADHD.

They're talking about concentration, memory, and decision-m.

They're saying that's way down.

Um, I don't know what the cause of that is.

I mean, you could speculate all the the usual causes from food to lack of sleep to I don't know.

You you could imagine a lot of possible answers, but I have uh one possibility that I think people would miss, which is that the world itself is getting increasingly complicated.

If you take somebody with a with a brain that's perfectly suited for the 1800s, as in, hey, this is cousin Bob.

He's not too bright, but all he has to do is uh milk the cows.

Could cousin Bob milk the cows and not have any problems with concentration, memory, or decision making?

Yeah, no decision, not much concentration.

So, if all you're doing is milking a cow, yeah, you're perfectly fine.

But what if you have to navigate your smartphone and school and try to figure out how to get into college and, you know, just getting from one place to another is is a nightmare.

um everything is so much more complicated mostly with online stuff that it could be that the people haven't changed but the the challenge of just surviving life in 2025 uh causes some people to just not be able to hold all the memories not be able to handle the decision-m etc.

So it could be that the people didn't change the environment did.

So I'll just throw that out there.

You know, I wouldn't I wouldn't bet my life that that's the answer, but maybe.

Well, allegedly, President Xi, according to the Telegraph, uh had asked Trump to oppose Taiwan independence in return for a trade deal.

Does that sound like something we should do?

To oppose Taiwan independence so you could get a trade deal?

Well, here's the fun part.

You know how I always tell you that Trump is uh incredible at creating a fake asset so he has something to negotiate away?

Apparently the Biden administration had something on the website that saying it did not support Taiwan's independence.

It wanted to just sort of keep things the way they are because then China doesn't get mad at you, etc.

And then Trump removed it.

So what uh I think what China wants is that in order in return for you know a trade deal which we want uh they would want us to put back on the website that we do not support Taiwan's independence.

We only support the status quo or something like that.

And uh so that would suggest again that Trump created an asset by taking that off the website which didn't cost us anything.

And now in order to put it back on the website and probably also say it out loud, uh they would give us a a trade deal.

Now I'm assuming that that would be a better deal than if we don't do that.

So he so he somehow again created an asset out of nothing.

I don't know how that will work but that was interesting.

And then uh related to that um apparently there's a uh plan due to US plan well it's I think it's already in motion.

They're gonna pressure Taiwan to move 50% of their chip production to the US or lose our military protection.

Ours Technica is reporting on that.

So um even the Trump officials say that that's impossible.

it.

Um I think u Jensen Wang of Nvidia uh just two years ago had estimated that moving that production that well the uh the pipeline basically moving the entire pipeline to the US might take 10 to 20 years might take two decades but we're pushing uh Taiwan to get that done or to lose our support military support I guess.

So I think it's the right direction and asking asking companies and the government to do things that look impossible is not really the worst idea because lots of times you can figure out how to do things that looked impossible.

But if you say, "Here's the deal.

We're going to leave you to China's military unless you can do this in two years." Probably they get it done in two years because they're not going to wait around for China's military to be running their island.

So, um, I'd say remain skeptical of that, but it probably makes a lot of sense to put that out there as a as an objective.

Well, Scott Presler and Nicole Shanahan are uh two people who are going to work on getting a petition in California for voter ID and get it on the ballot.

It would still have to win on the ballot, which I think it could actually.

So, they would just have to get enough signatures to get it on the ballot.

They're trying to get a million.

Um and uh that would end a particular kind of cheating because you'd have to have an ID to vote.

And uh I'll bet you they can get a million signatures of that.

I'll bet you they can.

So according to the New York Post, JP Morgan Chase has now has more employees in Texas than in New York.

And I guess it's part of a trend where people are especially money people moving stuff out of New York because it's just too darn expensive and uh complicated to do business there.

So, Texas is winning and New York is losing.

Here's a study that maybe you could have known the answer.

San Diego State University did this and discovered that um the temperature of your food and beverages will influence your digestive health.

And as you know, your stomach is part of your brain.

So, it affects how you feel, your your mood, and everything else.

Now, um did you already know that apparently cold drinks can uh increase your anxiety and disturb your uh sleep?

So, just the temperature, not not even the nature of the food, just the temperature of it.

And uh on the other hand, well, warm food um can make you feel, you know, more relaxed and less anxious and less depressed.

And uh so I don't know it's science so who knows if it's true but have you ever noticed have you ever had this experience where you're not super hungry but you have to eat something warm?

Have any of you had that experience?

You're not super hungry but man you need something warm.

And it's not because you're cold.

So it's not about the temperature of the outside world.

You just need a warm thing that you can chew on, right?

It's not just me, right?

So, what would drive that?

Because you don't have that feeling all the time.

It's just every now and then you'll be like, "Oh my god, I so need something warm." You know, if I'm doing Door Dash, looking at the menus, you know, I'll go to I'll find a food item that's delicious.

It's one of my favorite foods, but it's not warm.

And I and I say I I got to have warm tonight.

Not every day, but right now I got to have warm.

So I think I would have guessed that warm warm food makes you feel better.

I think I would have guessed.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I got for you today.

I will remind you that these books up on my bookshelf that you can see over there, the ones on the top shelf, the four of them are the ones that would change your life the most.

So, it's how to failed almost everything.

Still win big, loser, think win bigly and reframe your brain.

And the reason I mentioned it is because I think I saw I'm not going to mention who it was but at least two notable people um you know top executive types uh saying things that clearly came from me very clearly came from me and a lot of it is from these books.

So you'll uh now time has gone by so that people don't quote the book it's just something they know.

So, a lot of the things that I wrote uh over the years have morphed into common knowledge so that people just treat it like it's common knowledge.

Now, if you want to see all of the common knowledge before other people start using it, those are the books to read.

I'll go further and say I don't believe that anybody could read those four books and not have a more successful life.

I I think it would be impossible because they're written to make a change in you whether you want to or not.

You know, I'm a hypnotist, so I write it.

So, it's going to it's going to sink into you no matter how hard you try.

You don't have to try.

You just have to read it.

I I do the rest.

The the part where I attach it to you and make it part of you, that's on me.

That's what I do.

You don't have to do any work.

You just read it and have a good time.

They're all written so that they'll be funny and interesting.

So, they're they're all they're all good reads.

The best the best reviewed book I've ever written by far is uh Reframe Your Brain.

The you should see the reviews on that.

It's unbelievable the reviews.

It's a it's a five-star review.

That's my only five star.

The others are four and a half, which is pretty good.

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Well, I'd like to begin with a product

review.

I said to myself, I'll bet I could get a

better camera than the one that's built

into my laptop, my Macintosh. So, I used

Grock and I used Chat GPT and I asked

people for recommendations for a good

webcam

and people said the best one would be

this Logitech

um Bri Brio I don't know kind of thing

what whatever is the top of the line.

But, um I would like to make a point.

So, this is supposed to hang on the top

of your laptop. And the little tiny tiny

tiny little lip is the only thing that

keeps it on there. And then in addition,

there's this device which apparently is

made because they hate people.

There's no other reason I can think of.

Whoever designed this, for the past 20

years or so, I've been buying Logitech

and other cameras, trying them out, and

then as soon as you breathe, it falls

off.

So this morning, after the 50th time of

not being able to adjust the color

temperature or to get it anywhere near

as good as the one that's built into my

laptop, I finally threw it across the

room and took care of it. Now, this is

the way you you have to you have to

handle these this way.

You just have to break them because once

that thing falls off your laptop

for the third time, if you're dumb

enough to let it happen to you a fourth

time, well, you deserve what you're

getting.

You deserve it. No, that has to be

broken and publicly humiliated. So, I

did that for you.

So, we're back to our FaceTime camera,

which is really good, by the way. Very

good camera.

Well, I saw a piece of work by Jay

Plemens uh today on or yesterday in Acts

who took my book God's Debris and uh

used AI to animate it. I animated it um

to create a uh AI movie and the just the

first scene, you know. And that's the

problem with making movies is that you

can make a good, you know, 15-second

scene. But apparently that's as far as

you can go, even if you make lots of

them, they don't fit together or

something. But just to see uh what the

future holds. Wow. It's really amazing.

It's in my X feed or you can go to Jay's

uh feed. He's at

J A Y Plemens P L E M O Ns. He'd be a

good follow if you want to see some good

video clips.

Um, and it features uh the character in

the book uh is called the Avatar. So

that's the main character. It's a

fictional fictional account and uh um

Jay put me in as the Avatar.

Now, the funny thing about that is that

the the Avatar character is described

as, you know, so old. Uh, he looks like

he looks like he's just, you know, ready

to die any moment. And I thought, oh,

well, that's pretty good casting. Pretty

good.

All right. So, uh, but I but I would ask

you, if you're tempted to take, uh, that

book and turn it into a fulllength

movie, that would be a big copyright

problem. uh doing doing 15 seconds of it

to demonstrate how it works is

excellent, you know, fully approved.

That would be uh that in my in my mind

that would be fair use. That's fair use.

But if uh but if you thought, hey, I

think I'll make a whole movie out of

this. No, that would not be fair use.

Speaking of that, Open AI has apparently

told Hollywood Studios that uh instead

of uh well, I guess they want to reverse

the model of copyright. So, they will

use your copyright unless you

specifically ask them not to. So, you

would have to explicitly opt out.

Otherwise, you could use OpenAI to make

your own Dilbert comics or anything else

you wanted. You could do a Dilbert

movie, I guess. But now I I have to

figure out um I guess I'll ask Open AI.

Do do you think if I asked Open AI what

is the mechanism to explicitly opt out

of my for my copyrights? Do you think it

would know the answer to that?

It might, but I'm going to guess no. I'm

not even sure this is true. I don't have

a source for it, but uh that would be a

big deal. So P Ath is talking to his uh

meeting of generals, which means that

we've put uh all of our most important

people, including our president, all in

one room. H doesn't feel like the best

play, but I'm sure they figured this

out.

Well, I haven't read it all because it

looks like it's going to be an all day

event kind of thing. President is

speaking now, I think. Um, but the parts

I saw PX started out saying that it is

unacceptable to see fat troops and even

worse to see fat generals in the

hallway. So whether you're a general or

a troop, you're going to have to do a

physical uh, you know, a PT physical

test um, twice a year. So for all

members of the military, how in the

world are they going to get these 60

plus year old generals to pass the

physical test?

I don't know. That seems like a stretch.

And uh he's against wokeness and DEI for

promotions and uh said they've promoted

too many uh uniform leaders for the

wrong reasons. So it doesn't look like

there's going to be any big announcement

per se. It looks like it's just things

you knew that Exath and Trump wanted to

make the military more lethal and

probably it'll make some news but I

don't think it's big announcement.

All right. Um the Trump administration

announced uh it was in just the news I

saw it uh that they had confiscated

um 1 million pounds of cocaine.

1 million pounds of cocaine worth 11

billion.

1 million pounds.

And my first question is, how do you

dispose of a million pounds of cocaine?

Hold it. Hold it. You have to answer the

question. How do you dispose a million

pounds of cocaine? But you can't use the

words Hunter or Biden.

Yeah, you can't do it, can you? Because

about half of you just wrote Hunter

Biden as soon as I asked the question. I

know you.

>> Yeah, I know you.

All right. Well, I guess we'll dump it

in the ocean with the rest of it.

Our our entire ocean is going to be a

cocaine ocean if we keep it up.

I'm going swimming. Never coming back.

I saw a reframe on robot costs

from a gentleman named Eler Alu.

I hope that's even close to his name.

Um, but he points out that the cost of

the robot, now he's talking about

industrial robots, not the kind that'll

walk around in your house, but the

factory kind. Uh, he says that buying

the robot is only 20% of the total cost.

The real expense is that you have to,

you know, change over your system, which

means discontinuing production for a

while. You got to figure out how to

train your robot. You've got to train

people to work with the robot. You're

going to have maintenance problems with

the robot. Uh you got to upgrade the

robot. So 80% of the cost of the robot

is on top of the price of the robot. So

that that's going to that's one of those

little factoids that if you store that

away, you'll feel like the the smartest

person at the party when somebody brings

up robots.

Well, apparently the Diddy uh sentence

is upcoming. We don't know what that's

going to be yet, but uh it could be up

to 11 years for prostitution related

charges and blah blah blah.

So, could be up to 11 years. We'll see.

Um, how many of you are very confident

that you know the answer to the

following question in recent years? So,

only talking about last last few years,

that's all. Um, has there been more

right-wing violence or left-wing

violence?

Tell me if you know the answer and if

you're confident that you know the

answer. I have decided to give up.

There was a there was one point where I

thought, huh, I'll just look at the

data. I'll just Google that data.

I don't know what to believe because I

don't believe any of the data in this

domain and nor should you. Do you really

think this data is accurate or do you

think it's just full of opinion? As in,

well, I don't know. That one's a little

bit rightwing, but it's not completely.

So, we'll put that in the gray area. Oh,

this one's leftwing. Oh, I could tell by

how they voted.

Don't you think Don't you think that

data is all

So, I also don't know how much it

matters as long as it's coming from both

directions. Would it matter if it's 30

70 in one direction? How would that

matter? You would do exactly the same

thing if it were 5050 30 7030.

You wouldn't do anything differently,

would you? Because you should be working

on both sides of that equation. Whether

it's 3070 or 7030, it doesn't matter. Uh

all it is is getting a quick, you know,

quick rhetorical point if you're

debating somebody, I guess, but it

doesn't have any real world

uh implications.

Now I and I've also seen there are lots

of examples where right-wing people and

that would include me have said things

like fascist or whatever. I would argue

that when the right-wing uses those

words like oh you're acting like a Nazi

or a fascist absolutely nobody takes

that literally. Would you agree that

when the right uses those words, you can

tell it's just rhetorical and that even

a crazy person wouldn't think that was

real? Now, they might think it's real

when they call Mami a communist.

People might think that's real and you

know, you could imagine people might act

on it. So I think I feel as if uh it

would be good

sort of good general uh advice for both

sides to maybe back off of the the Nazi

references and I'm going to try to do

the same thing. Uh I will stop trying to

do the same thing if the left doesn't

make any progress in not doing that. Uh

but at the moment I think you know what

uh even though it feels to me that

there's more left-wing violence, maybe

that's just because the ones that get on

TV. I don't know. And this latest one

with the church. What was that? That guy

was a Trump supporter, but I don't think

he did it for, you know, some classic

political reason. So I think the reasons

that the right-wing do things violence

and the leftwing

they do things seems different. The the

leftwing

seems often trying to change politics,

you know, trying to kill Trump, trying

to trying to take out not trying but

taking out Charlie Kirk. Doesn't that

feel like a direct attempt to change

politics? Whereas when the right does

something,

it doesn't look like they're trying to

change the government. It looks like

they're just mad at something or crazy

or, you know, maybe that's useful to

know that there's a difference.

Well, Tucker Carlson had on his show the

uh one of the Wikipedia co-founders,

Larry Zanger, and Larry Zanger uh walked

him through um the blacklist. I saw this

on Jason Cohen uh clip. By the way, if

you want to follow Jason Cohen, I

mentioned it before, but it turns out

there are a lot of people with that

name. He's the one that's at Jason Jouro

DC.

Jason

DC, all one word.

All right. So, the blacklist on

Wikipedia are the um publications that

you're not supposed to or you can't

actually is blocked. you can't use them

as your source. So if you're one of the

editors on Wikipedia and you saw an

article in, let's say, the Federalist or

Breitbart and you said, "Oh, that looks

like pretty reliable. I'll refer to that

as a source." Wikipedia would block you.

But if you wanted to use the New York

Times as a source, no problem.

Washington Post, yeah, no problem. New

York New York Post, oh no. the

Federalist.

Nope. Can't use the Federalist.

So,

um, that does render, uh, Wikipedia

somewhat useless for anything political.

I think you'd agree with that. But it

turns out that Elon Musk has just

confirmed that uh, his XAI company, the

his AI division, uh, is going to build a

competitor called Groipedia.

Now given that uh AI is undependable by

its nature and it hallucinates I don't

know exactly

uh what the business model will be but I

would imagine if the only thing you did

was you know add some AI elements and

expanded the number of sources that

could be considered legitimate

um that would be a big deal. So, this

might be yet another gigantic big deal.

And it's even bigger deal if uh Musk

allows other AI to train on Groipedia

because I'm pretty sure that AI has

trained on Wikipedia. So, what if what

if Elon says, "I'm going to open this

up. You can all you can all train on

train your AI on what was created by my

AI."

That would be interesting because it'd

be quite different.

Did you know that the ADL

uh lists Turning Point USA as one of

their uh groups that they accuse of

extremism and hate? So, the ADL

trying to improve the I would say safety

and the reputation and life of Jewish

people. um I don't think just Americans

but

Jewish people everywhere.

And uh they've decided that Turning

Point USA is an extremist hate group. Uh

I don't know how that could be any more

opposite than that.

And

and so I so I wondered how does the ADL

deal with the fact that Israel now they

don't work for Israel. ADL is not part

of Israel. It's it's an American group

and there would be plenty of people in

Israel who's not happy with them for

their own reasons. But I wondered how

does the ADL

handle

the uh the war in Gaza?

And so I looked it up on uh Grock and uh

what they do is they they argue that the

word genocide doesn't apply because

there's no evidence of intention.

Did do you know that in order for a

genocide to be a genocide, you have to

have the intention of removing or

killing all the people. So you rem

removing the people is a genocide too.

just moving them where from wherever

they are to somewhere else. Um, so you

don't have to kill them all, but

removing them would be a genocide, but

you would have to have the intention of

a genocide according to the ADL uh the

the leader Jonathan Greenblat.

Now, is that is that just a weasel way

to get out of dealing with a question or

do you find that valid? Well, you know,

Israel has never said our intention

is to do a genocide or our intention,

but they have said, correct me if I'm

wrong, we'll talk we'll talk about the

Gaza 21point plan in a moment, but

haven't they said directly, we're going

to move all the people out,

you know, maybe with some ability for

some of them to move back in the future,

but is that enough? Is that enough

if if you say, "Well, yeah, we're just

going to clean up some problems with

Hamas and then people can come back in."

So, is that enough to say that you don't

have the intention of moving people out

and keeping them out? I don't know. Feel

feels like it's a little hard to

navigate that situation if you're the

ADL.

But as it stands, uh the 65,000 people

who have been killed and the millions

who are being dislocated in Gaza is not

a situation of hate and extremism. But

that damn Charlie Kirk and all those

Christians who are worshiping God and

trying to live a holy life, they're a

case of hate and extremism.

So I don't know how long the ADL is

going to last.

because it just makes Jewish people look

like Honestly, if if if I were a

Jew, I would want the ADL to go away

right away as soon as possible. I would

not want that to be part of what my

reputational brand is for God's sakes.

Anyway, maybe the ADL should label

itself a hate group and that would take

care of everything.

Um, according to Fox News, there's an

NPR Ipsos poll that says 71% of those

polls say that uh crime levels in

American cities are unacceptable.

It makes you wonder how would somebody

answer that question any other way?

Well, if if she said, "Is the crime

level in Chicago acceptable?"

Apparently, there's somebody who says

yes.

quite a few people.

At what point is the crime level

acceptable?

I would say the acceptable level would

be zero.

Acceptable. I mean, you wouldn't I if

your crime was, let's say, relatively

low, you wouldn't get rid of the police

department, right? You would say, well,

you know, now that we got the crime down

to, you know, one murder per whatever,

we we don't need a police. I mean, it's

acceptable. It's just acceptable now.

So, I feel like it's a dumb question.

So, I'd ignore that one.

Well, I guess the government shutdown

isn't inevitable now. And, uh, that

happens in the next day or so. The

government's going to shut down. Now,

it's not the whole government. It's a

whole bunch of, you know, non-essential

stuff. And I say this every time we're

in this situation, but doesn't it seem

weird to you? And would you have would

you have designed this system if you

were the founders of the country? You're

sitting around

uh in your non-airconditioned room

trying to figure out how to make a

constitution. Would you have designed a

system where the only way you can get a

budget passed is by seeing who's willing

to torture people not involved in the

budget the hardest.

So the way this will work is if the

Democrats are willing to torture the

people who are going to lose their jobs

at least temporarily and they're willing

to torture the public for making sure

they don't have access to these services

while everything's closed. If if they

can if they can handle the torture

longer than the Republicans can torture

that same group of people, then they

win. They get their way. So, whoever is

the best torturer

of citizens gets to decide what the

budget is. Can you imagine a worse

system? If you were going to sit down

and and no system existed, you'd be

like, "All right, this is what we're

going to do." Um, I think a good way to

do a budget would be we will torture

third parties, people who are not part

of the budget process, and somebody

would raise their hands in the back and

say, "Excuse me, wouldn't we get a much

better result and faster if the only

people who were tortured were the people

doing the budget?" Because then they'd

say, "Oh, oh, it hurts so bad. I'm going

to have to hurry up." No, no, that feels

like that would be painful. So instead,

we'll torture other people. We'll just

torture nameless citizens that we don't

know personally, but we'll torture a lot

of them. We'll get a lot of them. And uh

and then then it doesn't matter if we do

the job or not. We don't even have to do

the work of the people.

We'll just torture people and however it

comes out, that's just the way we'll do

it. So great job government.

According to the Daily Caller News

Foundation,

um there's a Sorosbacked group, a

leftist group called Indivisible that's

working the is trying to work the

Democrats to make sure that they stay

tight and keep the government closed

until all of their uh stupid funding is

returned. Now, that would be the re that

would be the funding for exactly the

things that we don't want.

But, uh, they're going to work hard to

keep that government closed.

Uh, Governor Nome said, uh, in a post

talking about the impending shutdown, he

says, "Republicans have control of the

House, the Senate, and the White House.

If the government shuts down, it's on

them." Now, most of you know that you

got to get 60 votes. And that means you

need I think seven

uh probably around sevenish Democrats

have to vote for it. And of course they

won't.

So when Gavin says that the Republicans

have control, if you don't pay attention

too closely, you think, hey, that means

they can do it if they want to. So it's

all on them. No, they don't have any

power. They have no power. But his base

is probably um let's say 90% of them

don't know that it will take some

Democrat votes. They just won't even

know that. So So his post on X works for

them because they think, "Oh, those

stupid damn

Republicans, they ruin everything."

Um, then the people who do know that

he's lying are going to say, "Oh, that's

a good that's a good post." Because

people won't know he's lying. He's a

good liar. He's a very good liar. That's

that's why he is dangerous. Uh, it's not

because he's not capable, it's because

he's too capable at the wrong things.

Not so good at running a state, but boy

can he lie. He's a good liar.

Well, YouTube has agreed to pay a $24

million settlement to Trump over a

lawsuit about being suspended because of

January 6. So, now he's gotten uh Meta

to pay him, let's see, Meta paid him 25

million. X paid him 10 million. Um,

which seems unfair because, you know, X

was after Twitter and Twitter was the

one that uh that kicked them off.

Anyway, so he's got all this money now

coming in and I guess he's going to uh

direct earark for the construction of

the new White House ballroom.

How awesome is it

that Trump sued them for his balls?

for the balls in the ballroom. I don't

know what you're talking about, but

apparently he's going to get them to pay

for his balls.

And uh you know, I'm going to say again

what I often say that uh Trump has

figured out how to monetize all of his

problems. So, here he is monetizing the

fact he got kicked off these platforms

and he's going to use that money to

build himself a nice ballroom.

How much do I love that? I love it

totally. It'd be one thing if he was

planning to spend that money on himself,

you know, doesn't need it, but uh

watching him monetize it for the benefit

of the people because we get we'll get a

new ballroom and that will that will

belong to all of us.

Pretty impressive. Well, Axios is

talking about the uh Trump's promise or

his threat, I guess, to big pharma that

they better lower the prices, give us

the same low prices that other countries

get. And uh in response, pharma has done

checking notes. Not a thing, nothing.

They have not lowered their prices. So,

I think their deadline is passed and uh

I don't know if Trump's going to come

down hard on them because you don't want

to do anything that would reduce our

access to valuable meds. On the other

hand, you can't really have them just

ignore the president and keep those

prices where they are. So,

uh oh wow, Wall Street Journal just

reported the White House plans to

introduce Trump RX, a new government

website to facilitate drug purchases. I

guess that would be to cut out the

middleman. Uh or maybe that's the only

place that you get them cheap. I don't

know. So, we'll find out.

But just know that uh Trump's going to

have to do more and maybe that website

is the answer. They'll have to do more

to get those prices down because big

pharma is not going to do it just cuz

you asked.

All right, here's my question. Are we at

war with Russia? Now, I know we've been

asking that the whole time we've been

feeding weapons into the uh war, but so

at this point, um we're giving them

American weapons.

The weapons require American training, I

believe. So, we're probably training.

We're giving them weapons. And the

latest thing is that the new weapons

will go so far into Russia that uh

Ukraine is only allowed to use them with

our permission. So they'd have to get

approval to do something extra deep into

the country of Russia.

I'm guessing that America's satellites

are helping them locate targets, right?

So,

if it's true that they're American

weapons and can only be used with

American training and American approval

and American satellites, maybe.

Um, isn't the least important part of

that the soldier?

Because you could replace the soldier,

but if the soldier didn't have these

missiles, the war would be over. I feel

like the American part is the important

part. and the soldier is becoming the

least important part. So I'll ask again,

are we at war with Russia?

Because you know the the further we go

into this, oh it's not us. It's not us.

It's it must be those darn Ukrainians

that keep fighting but we're not. Oh no,

we're not part of this. I don't know how

far that could go. Obviously, Putin

would think he's at war with us, but

he's smart enough not to attack the

homeland cuz that would that would empty

the cupboard, and he doesn't want that.

Well, uh, Israeli Prime Minister

Netanyahu

has agreed to terms, uh, to Trump's 21

point Gaza proposal, uh, Wall Street

Journal's reporting. Um, but not until

Netanyahu inserted some edits into his

plan. Those edits might be the kind of

edits that would make it impossible to

get a deal because it uh it allows

Israel to have uh indefinite

uh military control of Gaza no matter

what else is happening. So the the other

parts of the plan would be things like

you know the Arab countries would help

you know monitor and uh and manage the

place and the uh the Palestinians who

had lived there could move back and but

Hamas Hamas will be gone. Hamas will be

no more. So they're they wouldn't be

allowed to be in charge. But until all

the the risk of terrorism is removed,

according to Israel, Israel can keep its

military there. That would be the plan.

Do you think Hamas will agree that

Israel can have perpetual maybe military

control of Gaza?

I don't know. That might be a problem.

So,

uh, let's look down some of the things.

Let's see. Hamas has three or four days

to respond according to Trump. And uh

Netanyahu had to apologize to Qatar for

uh military action in Qatar that took

out Hamas leaders and negotiators. And I

guess Qatar just needed an apology, so

Netanyahu gave one. I I can't imagine

that was the most sincere apology. What

did that sound like? Uh, we're totally

sorry that we had this hugely successful

raid in your country. We'll definitely

not do that again unless we need to.

All right.

Um, let's see what else uh

was on that uh

two of the countries that might be

managing Gaza be Saudi, Egypt, Jordan,

and Turkey.

because you know those guys all get

along great. So should be no problem at

all. Um

and then if all the the new proposal

um

gives Israel a veto over the disarming

of Hamas and things. So I think the

problem will be that that Israel is

looking to have some permanent kind of

control even if it's not pick up the

garbage kind of control if it's only

military.

So, we'll see.

And Hamas says they're taking it

seriously and they're going to look at

it. We'll find out.

So, um, one possibility is that Israel

knows that Hamas will never accept any

kind of a deal. Part of it also is

release the hostages in 72 hours, I

think.

But if you assume that Hamas will never

accept anything reasonable, then all it

does is give Netanyahu

free pass to keep pounding him because

keep negotiating this thing while Israel

continues to pound them and they'll just

say, "hm, I don't know, maybe we should

add this thing. Maybe we should add a

little bit little tweak." And they'll

get another week to pound them. So, I

don't even know if it's a serious offer

or Israel is just cynically

uh sort of saying, "Yeah, yeah, we

totally agree with this. We'll totally

do this." So, I guess you can't blame us

for war cuz we already agreed to peace.

So, if Hamas doesn't agree, well, then

they're just bringing it upon

themselves, wouldn't you say? So, I

think Israel wins either way. They win

if they get the end of fighting in one

way and they would win a different way

if they got a better excuse to keep

fighting. Well, look, we've offered we

made this totally totally reasonable

offer and they rejected it. So, what are

you going to do? I guess the fighting

goes on. It's all Hamas's fault. So

anyway, um Netanyahu is becoming uh

hilarious in his praising of Trump

because obviously he knows that he needs

to stay on Trump's good side, but he's

doing it with such a heavy hand. Um here

are some things that Netanyahu said, I

think just yesterday about President

Trump. There's no one like him. He's an

incredible friend and ally of Israel. Uh

I don't decide a thing for President

Trump. He is the most independent leader

and amazing leader that I've seen in all

my years

in all of his years. He's the best

leader. Uh,

and here's my advice. You want to dial

that back about 20%.

It's It's good to say good things about

Trump, especially if you believe them.

But if you go too far,

it looks like you're with us. It

doesn't look like you're serious at all.

I mean, if you go from he's the most

independent leader and amazing leader

that I've seen in all my years, that's

that's right up to the line because

after that, what do you have after that?

Um,

he uh he can fly in his own power. We

think he has godlike powers. Uh he might

be psychic. I mean, it gets crazy after

that. So, you dial it back about 20%.

Well, Eric Swallwell uh reminds us why

Democrats can never be in power again.

He announced he actually said this out

loud in public that uh he he says when

Democrats win in 2026, accountability is

coming and uh that they will investigate

private citizens who work for Trump will

subpoena the DOJ and also private actors

who have done these drug deals with the

administration. He calls them drug

deals. And here's my advice.

Once again, we always talk about how

Democrats don't understand human

motivation.

Why are you telling us you're going to

do this if you win?

Doing it after you win

might make some sense, right?

Because then you've already won. Saying

it before you get there just makes us

try harder to make sure you don't win.

What What exactly were you trying to

accomplish by inspiring us to try harder

to make sure you never have power again?

Well, telling us you'll go after private

citizens will get you there.

Uh, Senator uh, John Fedman is telling

us that he's not going to switch

parties. He's just sort of likes common

sense and doesn't think the Democrats

are always doing the common sense thing.

But uh I saw Dana Pino on the five um

say what I would have said in this

situation which is Federman is very

cleverly taking what could be called the

Joe Mansion strategy which is if you can

credibly become the only Democrat who's

sometimes not often but sometimes

willing to vote with the Republicans

then everybody has to kiss your ass from

now until the end of time cuz they can't

afford to lose that one vote. Things

just are too close. So maybe it won't be

that close after after 2026. But I've

got a feeling that he's going to Joe

Mansion this thing, which would be

brilliant. It would be exactly the right

thing to do and smarter than switching

to the Republicans. If he switches to

the Republican party, he will be

considered the, you know, least good

Republican because he's practically a

Democrat. But if he stays Democrat, he's

got all the power.

All right. Don Lemon said in public that

white men are deeply broken and that's

why they resort to violence.

Okay. I think Joy Reid was on another

podcast uh saying bad things about white

people, too.

Um, but I'm going to give you some DEI

refraraming in case you find yourself in

a conversation about DEI. You ready?

Um, here's what most of us have been

saying, including me, and I keep

realizing that it doesn't work at all.

If you say the DEI is racist,

nobody cares.

Nobody cares. There's no Democrat who's

going to say, "Oh, oh, I didn't I didn't

realize that." Yeah, that's it's kind of

racist. Yeah. So, we should cut it out.

Nobody cares if the if Let me use an

analogy. If a billionaire lost a dollar,

would you feel bad for them? A

billionaire lost $1. No, you wouldn't.

Because if somebody's powerful, you

don't feel empathy for them. You just

say, "Ah, I'd rather be you than me."

So likewise, if you're a white guy and

you say to anybody who's a Democrat,

"Oh, this is racist," the Democrats

going to say, "So, you probably had it

coming after hundreds of years of you

being the patriarchy and you getting all

the good stuff and you know, all that."

So, so, so what if it's a little bit

racist against you? You, you've got that

coming. So, as an argument,

forget about what's right or wrong. as

an argument, no persuasion at all. But

I'm going to give you a better version

of that. I just came up with that this

morning. Did you know that there are

multiple studies that show that red

heads are discriminated against for

employment? Did you know that red heads

are very discriminated against in

employment? It's it's repeatable. A

number of studies have found the same

thing.

So instead of saying that your problem

is is racist against white people, which

you will never prevail in, even though

it's true, you say, "Here's my problem

with DEI. It's not about anybody's

gender or race or culture." You could

replace black people in the example with

red heads and you'd have the same

problem. So your boss would say, "Uhoh,

the order came down. I have to get more

redheads because we don't have enough

redheads.

And then they try to hire, you know,

high technically capable redheads, but

everybody's doing it, too. All the other

companies are hiring redheads. How long

will it take before you run out of

topshelf redheads? About a minute. And

you're out of red, you're out of

redheads that are like really the top

employees. But what do you do if you run

out of the top level redheads, but you

got to hire red heads or else you lose

your bonus because your boss told you

you got to you got to get some diversity

and that includes the redheads. What are

you going to do? You're going to lower

your standards because that's what the

incentive system has given you. Once

again, I remind you that Democrats don't

understand human motivation and it's

behind all of their mistakes. It's the

same thing. It's behind all their

mistakes.

So the argument would be if you can get

somebody to agree that you would have

the same problem with a redhead such

that if Charlie Kirk were still alive

and he got on a flight and he saw that a

red head was the uh pilot of the ship he

would ask himself reasonably reasonably

I wonder if that redhead only got in

there because of DEI.

So, the best argument I think if you

could get somebody to listen to you for

more than, you know, 10 seconds is that

you could replace um black or brown or

women or uh LGBTQ. You could replace any

of them with red heads

and you would still have a gigantic

problem. It's it's the math of it and

it's the fact that the system guarantees

that people do the wrong thing. It

guarantees it. It's not maybe. It

guarantees that managers will do the

wrong thing and lower their standards

because that's how they make their

money.

Anyway, try that out. Let me know if

that works for you. It would only work

for somebody who's willing to sit there

and listen. It's It's not going to work

for a quick hit on X.

Well, we're learning now. The

Transportation Security Administration

is learning that there was a uh

apparently people were added to the TSA

watch list under Biden if they were

known mask resistors.

Can you believe that? The people who are

known as sort of activists against mask

mandates,

they were put on the no-fly zone,

no fly list. That is so

so wrong at a level that I just go what?

That really happened? I live I live

through that because I was a anti-mask

activist. Is it possible that I was

added to the no-fly list and I didn't

know it? I mean, I did fly.

Oh, but when I flew, I was not yet being

uh vocal about masks that came after

that. I haven't flown. Yeah, I haven't

flown since then, but for other reasons.

So, I might actually be on some kind of

nofly terrorist list just because I made

a big deal about we got to get rid of

these masks now that now that we know

for sure that they don't make any

difference.

All right. According to Medscape, Jeff

Craraven's writing that there's a sharp

rise in what they call cognitive

disabilities in young adults. Now, we're

not even talking about autism, and ADHD.

They're talking about concentration,

memory, and decision-m. They're saying

that's way down. Um, I don't know what

the cause of that is. I mean, you could

speculate all the the usual causes from

food to lack of sleep to I don't know.

You you could imagine a lot of possible

answers, but I have uh one possibility

that I think people would miss, which is

that the world itself is getting

increasingly complicated.

If you take somebody with a with a brain

that's perfectly suited for the 1800s,

as in, hey, this is cousin Bob. He's not

too bright, but all he has to do is uh

milk the cows. Could cousin Bob milk the

cows and not have any problems with

concentration, memory, or decision

making? Yeah, no decision, not much

concentration. So, if all you're doing

is milking a cow, yeah, you're perfectly

fine. But what if you have to navigate

your smartphone and school and try to

figure out how to get into college and,

you know, just getting from one place to

another is is a nightmare.

um everything is so much more

complicated mostly with online stuff

that it could be that the people haven't

changed but the the challenge of just

surviving life in 2025

uh causes some people to just not be

able to hold all the memories not be

able to handle the decision-m etc. So it

could be that the people didn't change

the environment did. So I'll just throw

that out there. You know, I wouldn't I

wouldn't bet my life that that's the

answer, but maybe.

Well, allegedly, President Xi, according

to the Telegraph, uh had asked Trump to

oppose Taiwan independence in return for

a trade deal.

Does that sound like something we should

do? To oppose Taiwan independence so you

could get a trade deal? Well, here's the

fun part. You know how I always tell you

that Trump is uh incredible at creating

a fake asset so he has something to

negotiate away?

Apparently the Biden administration had

something on the website that saying it

did not support Taiwan's independence.

It wanted to just sort of keep things

the way they are because then China

doesn't get mad at you, etc. And then

Trump removed it.

So what uh I think what China wants is

that in order in return for you know a

trade deal which we want uh they would

want us to put back on the website that

we do not support Taiwan's independence.

We only support the status quo or

something like that. And uh so that

would suggest again that Trump created

an asset by taking that off the website

which didn't cost us anything. And now

in order to put it back on the website

and probably also say it out loud, uh

they would give us a a trade deal.

Now I'm assuming that that would be a

better deal than if we don't do that. So

he so he somehow again created an asset

out of nothing. I don't know how that

will work but

that was interesting.

And then uh

related to that um apparently there's a

uh plan due to US plan well it's I think

it's already in motion. They're gonna

pressure Taiwan to move 50% of their

chip production to the US or lose our

military protection. Ours Technica is

reporting on that. So um even the Trump

officials say that that's impossible.

it. Um I think u Jensen Wang of Nvidia

uh just two years ago had estimated that

moving that production that well the uh

the pipeline basically moving the entire

pipeline to the US might take 10 to 20

years might take two decades but we're

pushing uh Taiwan to get that done or to

lose our support military support I

guess.

So I think it's the right direction and

asking asking companies and the

government to do things that look

impossible is not really the worst idea

because lots of times you can figure out

how to do things that looked impossible.

But if you say, "Here's the deal. We're

going to leave you to China's military

unless you can do this in two years."

Probably they get it done in two years

because they're not going to wait around

for China's military to be running their

island. So,

um, I'd say remain skeptical of that,

but it probably makes a lot of sense to

put that out there as a as an objective.

Well, Scott Presler and Nicole Shanahan

are uh two people who are going to work

on getting a petition in California for

voter ID and get it on the ballot. It

would still have to win on the ballot,

which I think it could actually. So,

they would just have to get enough

signatures to get it on the ballot.

They're trying to get a million. Um and

uh that would end a particular kind of

cheating because you'd have to have an

ID to vote.

And uh I'll bet you they can get a

million signatures of that. I'll bet you

they can.

So according to the New York Post, JP

Morgan Chase has now has more employees

in Texas than in New York. And I guess

it's part of a trend where people are

especially money people moving stuff out

of New York because it's just too darn

expensive and uh complicated to do

business there. So, Texas is winning and

New York is losing.

Here's a study that maybe you could have

known the answer. San Diego State

University did this and discovered that

um the temperature of your food and

beverages will influence your digestive

health. And as you know, your stomach is

part of your brain. So, it affects how

you feel, your your mood, and everything

else. Now, um did you already know that

apparently cold drinks can uh increase

your anxiety and disturb your uh sleep?

So, just the temperature, not not even

the nature of the food, just the

temperature of it. And uh

on the other hand, well, warm food

um can make you feel, you know, more

relaxed and less anxious and less

depressed. And uh

so I don't know it's science so who

knows if it's true but

have you ever noticed have you ever had

this experience where you're not super

hungry but you have to eat something

warm? Have any of you had that

experience? You're not super hungry but

man you need something warm. And it's

not because you're cold. So it's not

about the temperature of the outside

world. You just need a warm thing that

you can chew on, right? It's not just

me, right? So, what would drive that?

Because you don't have that feeling all

the time. It's just every now and then

you'll be like, "Oh my god, I so need

something warm." You know, if I'm doing

Door Dash, looking at the menus, you

know, I'll go to I'll find a food item

that's delicious. It's one of my

favorite foods, but it's not warm.

And I and I say I I got to have warm

tonight. Not every day, but right now I

got to have warm. So I think I would

have guessed that warm warm food makes

you feel better.

I think I would have guessed. All right,

ladies and gentlemen, that's all I got

for you today.

I will remind you that these books up on

my bookshelf

that you can see over there, the ones on

the top shelf,

the four of them are the ones that would

change your life the most. So, it's how

to failed almost everything. Still win

big, loser, think win bigly and reframe

your brain. And the reason I mentioned

it is because I think I saw I'm not

going to mention who it was but at least

two notable people um you know top

executive types uh saying things that

clearly came from me

very clearly came from me and a lot of

it is from these books.

So you'll uh now time has gone by so

that people don't quote the book it's

just something they know. So, a lot of

the things that I wrote uh over the

years have morphed into common knowledge

so that people just treat it like it's

common knowledge. Now, if you want to

see all of the common knowledge before

other people start using it, those are

the books to read. I'll go further and

say I don't believe that anybody could

read those four books

and not have a more successful life. I I

think it would be impossible because

they're written to make a change in you

whether you want to or not. You know,

I'm a hypnotist, so I write it. So, it's

going to it's going to sink into you no

matter how hard you try. You don't have

to try. You just have to read it. I I do

the rest. The the part where I attach it

to you and make it part of you, that's

on me. That's what I do. You don't have

to do any work. You just read it and

have a good time. They're all written so

that they'll be funny and interesting.

So, they're they're all they're all good

reads. The best the best reviewed book

I've ever written by far is uh Reframe

Your Brain. The you should see the

reviews on that. It's unbelievable the

reviews. It's a it's a five-star review.

That's my only five star. The others are

four and a half, which is pretty good.

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