Episode 2975 CWSA 10/01/25

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Well, I got to tell you a little story involves me.

So, as you know, I'm going through this prostate cancer situation and it's quite a journey in which I'm learning many things, but let me tell you what I learned this week.

So, my PSA started to spike again.

So, I had to went in for a battery of um blood tests because that's you know what you do and um they give you the results so you can see them online before you've talked to a doctor.

Now, a few times this has caused me some really big problems because I look at the results before I know what before I'm smart enough to interpret them.

So on Friday, uh I looked at the results and the the test for your liver function was uh I I don't know the exact numbers it's supposed to be, but let's say it was supposed to be under I don't know under 10 or 50 or something and it was about a thousand.

Now, that would suggest that your liver has died and you might not be able to get it back and that might be the end of the game.

And so, I kept wondering when the symptoms of liver death would kick in.

It took me a few days to get a, you know, it was a weekend, so it took me a few days to get an appointment with my oncologist.

And so that morning I'm waiting to hear how long I have because if your liver is completely dead, well, there's not a whole lot of things you can do that are very pleasant, right?

So for about three or four days, I was under the belief that my liver was dead and probably there was nothing I could do about it.

I talked to my uh oncologist by Zoom yesterday and there were a number of things we needed to talk about.

But after we talked about a few things, he had not mentioned the obvious problem that my liver had died and the the blood test very clearly.

I mean, you don't you don't have to be a doctor to look at those numbers and know, oh I'm I'm dead.

I'm so dead.

So, if I look like I was a little down the last time I talked to you, it's because I believed I would be dead maybe that week or at least hospitalized forever or something horrible.

So, it looks like he's about done with his comments and I go, "Okay, now give me the bad news.

Tell me about the liver." He goes, "Oh, your liver is fine." I said, "No, no, it's not.

I I saw the I saw the blood test.

I saw it was way out of range.

Um he goes, "Oh no.

Uh that's a fake positive because of your bone your bone cancer.

If you have bone cancer, it influences the liver blood test, but not because there's anything wrong with your liver." Because there there was some other blood indicator goes, "Oh, actually your your liver is improved.

It's better than it was last time." Yeah, there's no problem.

Your liver is fine.

Now, have you ever gone through a turn like that?

Three, four days, I thought I was dead.

And all I was doing was reading a a blood test wrong.

It's not the first time I've done that.

It's not the first time, but indeed, my PSA is up.

So, we'll um one possibility is they'll they'll add or change my testosterone blocking stuff.

Um so, I took a testosterone test yesterday.

Um oh, you want to know the results?

I wonder if I have them.

Who wants to know the results of my testosterone tests?

Cuz I believe it probably didn't get knocked down as much as it should have from the other drugs.

I'm now on steroids as I mentioned.

So if I start yelling at you.

Oh, I do have I do have a result.

So you're going to find out in real time maybe.

Except their computers are slow.

All right.

Testosterone test.

Sure enough.

Let's see how I did.

I'll look at my trend.

Huh.

Oh, I've only done one test.

So the normal range.

Oh So this this is the one time you don't want to be in the normal range because normal range means you're going to die because testosterone is basically fuel for the cancer.

So the whole point of the testosterone blockers is to get it, you know, below the normal range.

And I'm right in the middle of the normal range of testosterone.

Well, that's bad news.

It's 357.

The normal range is 240 to 900.

Oh, wait.

Oh.

Oh, I do have What?

Yeah.

You know what's funny?

It's I did I did take the testosterone test years ago, 2009.

So, it's it's on the history.

So, it's telling me that my testosterone I'm on two very powerful testosterone blockers and my testosterone is substantially higher than it was in 2009 before I'd had any meds for anything or any cancer.

So, my testosterone is actually up.

All right.

Well, I'm probably dead, but today's show will be fine because the predinazone is working.

So, I feel actually better than normal because the drugs do that.

But, uh, no, the if you missed the first part, I will um I've got an option now for a different med because these didn't work.

The new med is quite promising and there's at least one one thing we could try with more testosterone blockers which I imagine we'll do first.

All right, but enough about me.

I wonder if there's any science in the news that they didn't have to do because they could have just asked me.

Oh, here's some.

According to Karina Petroa and Sai Post, the ketogenic diet is associated with a 70% decrease in depression symptoms in a new pilot study.

So, let me tell you what I know and why they didn't have to do that.

Number one, keto is a low sugar diet.

If you simply stopped eating as much sugar as you used to, you would have more energy.

That that's a wellestablished fact that everybody knows, including me.

And you know what I've been saying and totally ignored by all of medical science because obviously I can't read blood tests.

And uh I should be ignored on all things medical.

I I recommend that you ignore me on all things medical.

However, I I already knew the sugar made you tired because you'd spike and then crash.

And my hypothesis, which I refuse to release, is that depression symptoms are a result of low energy because I know in my life and every single person I've ever known or observed, when their energy is high, they can find a way to be in a good mood.

And when their energy is low, they very well might feel depressed.

So, I'm going to say it for the millionth time.

I do believe there's a form of depression that is not affected too much by diet.

You know, some real deep depression, the kind that you know, you were born with some different structure in your brain.

But I'll bet you that 90% of what we call depression or depression symptoms about 90% that's my just my guess is energy because I have never once been sad and had a lot of energy at the same time.

Never once.

If it happens to you, let me know.

Well, I saw just as I was getting ready to go live here that I think this is true that ADP uh revised its job numbers from plus 54,000 for the month to uh -3,000.

So, have I ever mentioned that all data is fake?

If it matters, if the data matters, somebody's faking it.

If the data doesn't matter or nobody else is looking into it except, you know, maybe one scientist who surprisingly doesn't make any any money from it.

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Well, Zero Hedge is reporting that uh Walmart is removing artificial dyes from its US brands and maybe 30 other ingredients that are sketchy, too.

Another win for Maha.

I'll tell you, Maha is one of the brightest lights in the entire country.

Um, there are very few things that make me happier than watching Maha succeed because we're doing all the right things.

We got the right people.

We're having the right fights, the right disagreements, the right debates, and things are happening like real legitimate things.

Now, will some of them have to be reversed at some point?

you know, probably not the food additive part, but maybe something about, I don't know, vaccination schedules and something maybe, maybe.

But we should still be doing everything we're doing to challenge the accepted standards for all that stuff.

Here's some more possibly backward science.

According to the University of Liverpool, leisure activities boost self-esteem and well-being in teens.

So if they're doing sports or hobbies or something that boosts their self-esteem back up.

Is it possible that people with high self-esteem are more likely to engage in things which they might not do great at at least at the beginning?

Yes, it is.

Let let me speak uh anecdotally about one experience and see if you can generalize from that.

When I was young, um, I participated in almost every sport.

You know, there'd be days when you do five sports a day.

Um, now, why did I participate in five sports a day?

Was it because I knew I would be awesome at all of those things on day one?

And the answer was no.

I was born with high self-esteem.

And I didn't give a if you thought I did good at that sport or not.

I just thought I needed the ex the the expertise or the experience or the exercise and uh I just did it.

And then of course if I eventually got good at something, you know, like pingpong, I got pretty good at.

Not what you saw on video the other day, but uh when I was younger, I was quite good at it.

So there were some things tennis for example that I got better than average and I suppose that helped my self-esteem but the self-esteem was there first.

Um maybe maybe my mother put it into me.

Maybe I was born that way.

I feel like I was born that way.

I I don't feel that somebody else's um opinion of me was making me happier or less happy or more motivated or less.

I never felt any of that.

From from the minute I was born, I just knew that I was going to go get the I needed to get and nothing was going to stop me.

And so I was just born with self-esteem.

So, of course, I participated in whatever was happening.

Oh, we're playing this today.

Handball, sure.

Never done that.

You'll beat me, you know, 21 to zero, but I'm all in.

Raet ball.

Yep.

Sure.

Everything.

So, no, I I think that some of the science is backwards.

Uh having good self-esteem might get you on the field.

Um but then being on the field, if you did well, or maybe even if you don't, might boost your self-esteem.

So, it's sort of a two-way situation is my guess.

Um, Door Dash has been uh testing for a few years now some autonomous devices.

One of them it looks like they'll have something for automobiles to deliver uh deliver food without uh human.

But before we see that, um Stanley Tang is writing on X that uh they're introducing DOT.

It's a robot that will deliver your food and it will go on bike lanes and roads and sidewalks.

Um, it's small, so onetenth the size of a car.

It can go up to 20 miles an hour.

Now, people are already complaining that, "Oh, no, don't put that on sidewalks.

Sidewalks are not for machines." To which I say, well, the machine will probably be not looking at his phone like you are.

What would be more dangerous?

A autonomous device on the sidewalk that sees you and adjusts and moves out of your way or a human looking at their phone and walking down the middle of the sidewalk?

Which do you prefer?

How about two fat people in front of you that don't get out of the way?

What's better?

Well, see, sidewalks are a problem.

Have you ever had anybody in a wheelchair attack you?

I had that experience in San Francisco there.

Apparently, there was some well-known wheelchair guy who would literally just run his wheelchair into you and it hurt.

It hurt cuz it's a wheelchair and it's, you know, moving into you.

And he was just some bastard that would just target people and wheelchair into him because nobody was willing to call the police on the wheelchair guy, including me.

Yeah, I just I just took it.

Moved on.

Anyway, I'm not too worried about the Door Dash robot, but uh it won't be completely smooth sailing, but I think they have to get there eventually.

Got to do it.

Open AAI has released a list of work tasks.

It says chat GP can already do uh in replacement of human activity.

Now apparently open AI is is sort of uh trying to walk this fine line between scaring you that AI will take all your jobs and then reassuring you that it will allow you to keep your job but do it better.

So I think this is along the mode of telling people that some of their tasks might go away, but you might still need the person to oversee the task.

So So they're not going so far as to say here's a whole bunch of things that uh these people will lose their jobs.

It might be just their jobs will be different.

They got 44 occupations and whole bunch of tasks.

And I think this um I think that the permanent situation will be you need a human to closely watch almost everything the AI does and you can't get can't get rid of the human because the LLM AIs the ones we use are prone to hallucination and you really can't have anything in the workplace that you're responsible for that could be a hallucination.

You can't do that even once.

I mean, that would be terrible for your career.

So, I'm going to say that um what AI would like you to believe is that getting really really close to being completely able to do a human's job means that if you just wait a little bit longer, it's going to close the gap and then for sure it'll be able to do the human's job without intervention.

I'm going to say no.

I'm going to say that the closest you can get is somewhere around where we are, which is you can't trust it.

I think can't trust it is its cap with current technology.

And I'm not aware of any technology that would change that.

So, I'm not worried really much at all about losing jobs to AI.

Um, I think the nature of jobs will change a lot and the nature of, you know, life will change a lot, but I don't know about jobs.

It doesn't doesn't seem to me that, you know, there's some straight line from where we are now to fewer jobs.

I just don't see it.

All right.

Unitry, which is another humanoid robot outfit you hear a lot about.

Um it was discovered according to interesting engineering a Thurva Gavi is writing that uh these robots are built with a Bluetooth connection which is just a convenience for helping you hook your Wi-Fi up to your robot.

Now, the Wi-Fi may have its own, you know, security issues, but apparently the Bluetooth feature is very hackable.

And on top of that, they discovered that the Unree robots send data back to China every five minutes.

What?

It sends data to China every five minutes.

Now presumably if you looked at that that data it would be necessary data for making the robot work or work better something like that I I assume something like that uh but uh just imagine the risk that you could hack it through the Bluetooth and it's already sending data to China so and it could affect other infect other robots are in range of its Bluetooth so that's not ideal Now, it's good that they found it.

I'm sure they'll figure out a way around it.

Uh, all right.

Uh, there's CBS News had an article.

I saw a post on it on X.

It said, "Meet the man behind onethird of what's on Wikipedia." And I thought to myself, well, that can't be true.

It can't be true that one person is writing one-third of the articles or editing one-third of the articles on Wikipedia.

But he is there's one guy and the funniest thing about it is the guy looks exactly like a popular meme.

I don't want to be unkind, but you can't you can't overlook the fact that he looks exactly like one of the most popular memes.

You know, there's a cartoon guy that is just a little heavy and he's he's got, you know, a humorous face.

This guy looks just like the meme.

It's awesome.

But uh you know I have to admit on one hand it's probably bad that there's one person who has that much influence.

On the other hand how impressed are you that he was smart enough to write a third of the articles on all manner of different topics and the other editors allowed them to be published.

Meaning that other editors thought yeah that's that looks accurate to me.

That is really impressive.

Like if you're wondering what is the the upper limit of human ability.

Well, I would look at this guy.

What whatever he does, his human ability of writing and understanding and uh absorbing new information.

I've never seen anything like this.

I mean, if this news is true that he wrote or edited one-third of the articles on on this, I I don't even need Wikipedia.

Could I just have this guy's, you know, DM?

Can I just DM him and ask him if I have a question?

Skip the middleman.

Well, the government is officially shut down because they can't come up with a budget.

And now you're probably thinking to yourself, Scott, who's right and who's wrong on this this budget stuff?

Is it the Democrats who are lying about what they're asking for, or is it the Republicans who are lying about what the Democrats are asking for?

Have you noticed that both sides are very obviously lying?

Now, lying by omission more than lying by commission, but probably a little lying by commission as well.

Now, would you agree with me that uh the Republicans, all of them, all of them are absolutely full of about what they're claiming the Democrats are asking for?

And would you agree that what the Democrats say they're asking for is absolute They're both lying.

Am I right?

Would you agree with me that they're both lying?

So, obviously right now, here's the trick.

This is a this is a trick I learned from my old boss at Pacific Bill.

If you know that both sides are lying about us spending, the decision is easy.

That that's your decision.

Both sides are lying.

So the answer is you don't give them a penny.

You got that?

If both sides are lying, you don't give them a penny.

That That's the rule.

This one's easy.

This is the easiest rule ever.

You don't know to need to know the details.

You don't need to know anything about the national debt.

You don't need to know what their plans are for the, you know, next phase of negotiations.

You don't need to know what they lied about.

You don't.

All you need to know is both sides are lying.

you.

Not a penny more.

That's it.

Now, that happens to, you know, be to the benefit of Republicans, but I'm not I'm not giving the Republicans a gift here.

They're lying, too.

It's just if you can't do your job and you can't even tell us the truth, maybe you don't get a penny.

Now, I learned this trick, a version of it, sort of the cousin of it, from my old boss, now deceased, uh, from Pacific Bill.

He was a staunch Republican and he would vote in all the all the elections, especially the lo local California ones.

And I would say to him, how do you really understand all these um what do you call it?

These uh the thing, what do you call it when you put something on the ballot that the voters can vote for the law or the regulation directly?

That's called a you know what it is.

Anyway, so I would ask him, "How do you understand all of these things on the ballot?" I mean, I could I could understand how you might figure out which candidate you want, but how do you the uh what are they called?

Referendums, propositions.

Propositions is what I was looking for.

But I said, "How do you understand all these propositions?" That's what in California they're called propositions.

of a referendum would be a descriptive descriptive uh for it.

And here was his answer.

What do you think his answer was?

Staunch Republican.

How do you understand all of these different propositions?

Like whether you know you you could read about him, but you can't really believe everything you read.

So, how do you even vote?

And he looked at me and he said, "I vote against everything they asked me for more money." And I laughed at him.

I laughed.

I go, "God, that's that is so that's so dumb." I I didn't say that because I liked him.

He was a very smart guy.

And I was thinking, "God, what what a terrible technique.

You just vote against everything that costs money." And then I would say, "All right, but what about, you know, if it's this or that?" And I would mention something that you would think anybody would want to spend more money on.

And he would look at me and he would say, "They already have enough money.

they can cut their budget somewhere else.

And then I looked at him and I said, "Damn it, that's the smartest thing I ever heard in my life." That was the wisest, cleanest uh political opinion I have ever heard.

No one has ever beat that opinion.

They have enough money.

They can get it from somewhere else.

And that was it.

He never had to look at the proposition details.

He said, "If you think it's a good idea, go nuts.

Just don't get the money from me.

I'm done." So, that's what I'm that's what I'm doing with this.

If you guys can't agree, that's fine.

Shut the government.

Keep it closed.

If if if the government can't do the most basic job of government, well, it needs to go away.

It needs to completely just go away.

We'll find something else.

I guess we'll find something else.

maybe a dictator, but we're not going to put up with this.

So, if you guys can't agree and all you're doing is lying about it, no money for anybody.

No money.

Easy decision.

Well, AOC, who I remind you should not be underestimated, something I've been saying since she first emerged.

And so many of you said, "Scott, you're so wrong." Cuz just listen to her.

listen to all these dumb socialist things.

She's a bartender.

She's no politician.

And I kept saying, "Don't underestimate her.

She's got the game.

She's got the goods." And she proved it again.

Now, and and I'll say the obvious again.

It doesn't mean I agree with her.

Blah blah blah.

She's just talented.

Just genuinely talented in this domain.

and uh Breard News reporting that uh she was on some show and she uh she denied that Chuck Schumer might be forcing the shutdown for his own political benefit because he would be worried that AOC might try to primary him.

And uh apparently AOCC's answer uh was uh that um my office is open and uh you're free to walk in and negotiate with me directly.

So that she's she gave a message to the Republicans without really saying that she would or would not primary Schumer kind of glosses over that.

again, don't underestimate her and instead says, "Hey, no, you you Republicans can come to my office.

My office is open.

You're free to walk in and negotiate with me directly." Now, do you see how damaging that is to Schumer?

She basically just took his job without an election.

All she had to do is point out that he's not doing his job, but she'll do his job.

You just have to walk in my office.

Door's open.

Just walk in and I I'll do Schumer's job for him.

Now, could she?

Well, she doesn't have the authority.

But suppose she worked out an agreement with the Republicans and then made it public.

Could she embarrass Schumer into taking it?

Maybe.

It doesn't have to be a hard yes.

It only has to be maybe.

and suddenly you're thinking of her as the speaker or the the minority leader uh just because she put that in your head.

Now, do you understand why I say don't underestimate her?

This was purely brilliant.

That was just brilliant.

Yeah.

So, we'll see where that goes.

I don't think any Republicans are going to boost her by going into her office, but the fact that she put that frame out there is just kind of perfect.

Um, so Hakee Jeff, you know what I'm going to talk about.

So I think you all saw the uh the Trump meme that he sent around.

He didn't make the meme, but he sent it around and it was uh Hakee Jeff talking, but somebody put a uh with, you know, some AGI or something.

They put a Mexican hat and a fake Mexican mustache on him and I think they had some mariachi music playing in the background, but that might have been a different meme.

And they just had him, you know, talking like a clown basically.

But so so that that became one of the big stories.

And when he complained, he complained and said it was deeply racist because they put a Mexican hat on him.

What does Trump do?

He sends around another meme with yet another Mexican hat on Keem Jeff except it's even funnier.

And then people complained and what does Trump do?

He sends around a third meme with with Hakee Jeff with the same hat and mustache, but now there's a mariachi band playing behind him, but all of the players of the mariachi band are are Trump.

Oh, so we've gotten to the point where calling a a Republican racist is going to get you the hat.

You know, maybe not always the hat, but treating you as a clown for even going down this stupid path of racism is going to get you the clown treatment.

And and if you complain about getting the clown treatment, guess what happens?

More clown treatment.

And if you complain again, guess what happens?

More clown treatment.

And it gets funnier every single time.

Absolutely hilarious.

But to be fair, to be fair, these these are comic exaggerations about uh Keem Jeff, right?

They're comic exaggerations.

So, you can't take it seriously.

I mean, it's not like he's an actual, you know, incompetent clown or anything, right?

Well, Abby Phillip on CNN uh asked him this question of Hakee Jeff.

Once the government is shut down, which it will be in two hours, she said yesterday, "How do you get out of this?

How do you get out of this?" So, thank goodness he's not some crazy clown because, you know, he's got a serious question of great importance.

So, he'll give a serious answer.

He said the GOP is in charge of the Congress, so it's up to them.

Uh, Hakee, are you really leaving out the part where the GOP can't do a thing without 60 votes and they've only got 50 whatever and they need, I think, nine uh maybe nine votes from the Democrats, which they're not getting.

Uh, so to prove he's not a clown, he went on TV and lied.

He just he just left out the most important thing.

The most important thing is they need 60 votes.

They can't get it without the Democrats.

And he says that, "Oh, the GO GOP is in charge of the Congress, so you know, why don't you talk to them?" That is the most incompetent clownlike answer you will ever see.

Absolutely incompetent.

No, no, no, no, no.

The the other thing that uh I I'm positive that Hakee is uh blind to is something I've been telling you for a long time.

You know, if you live in California, you're you're always immersed in Hispanic culture.

Um and I'm here to tell you I like it.

Like if you actually, you know, if you become, let's say, saturated in or immersed in the culture, you're going to like it.

They're they're the most American people you'll ever see.

I know you hate it when I say this, but whether they have legal or illegal status, they're the most American people you're ever going to see.

They love their God, they love their family, they they do hard work and willingly and enthusiastically.

They are excellent people.

Um but you know, we do have to have a we do have to have border controls.

That's just a separate topic.

But the people by and large are really excellent people.

Uh, one of the things I like most about them is they are not woke at all.

If you were to show that meme to, I don't know, 10 randomly chosen Mexicans, do you think they'd be insulted?

Not a chance.

No chance.

They would either think it was funny or they would think it wasn't funny.

But do you think that they would spend even one second complaining about the racism of it all?

No.

No.

It just wouldn't even occur to them.

It just isn't important.

It's not my family.

It's not my god.

It's not my job.

I don't care.

You want to put a put a Mexican hat on somebody, laugh at him, no problem.

I see some wildly racist things in the comments.

I guess I can't cure you all.

Um, but just take my word for it.

If you had if you were immersed in the community, you would have you would have a higher opinion.

All right.

Uh, the other thing, one one of the memes referred to Hakee Jeff as a dollar store Obama.

Now, I would say that's not racist, but it is racial.

It is possible to make a joke that involves race that is not racist.

I think this is a perfect example.

I don't think that's racist.

I I I think it's obvious that people's color has some impact on whether they get elected.

Everybody agrees in that.

or they also call him Teemo Teimmo Obama.

To me, that's just funny.

Then apparently Hakee Jeff and Schumer were in the Oval Office to try to see if they could do last minute negotiations yesterday about the budget and uh nothing important happened, of course.

And uh Trump apparently had some uh Trump 2028 hats prominently displayed on the on the Oval Office desk.

So all the all the cameras would make it look like they had that Jeff and Schumer had to look at them.

There was a there was a story that he gave them in the hats, but that didn't happen.

I don't think it happened.

Well, you may have seen the Pete Hagsth clips and the meeting of the generals and admirals.

Now we're told that the reason that they were collected there is for the purpose of what they were told by you know uh their secretary of war PX and later also by uh Trump.

But uh I'd like to inject my own conspiracy theory into the mode.

Okay.

Imagine if you will that the US was preparing for some major military action, maybe against the Venezuelan cartels, maybe uh maybe against something else.

Now, would they would they give up would the world know what we were planning if the only people who got invited were the the most directly involved with whatever that military action would be?

Because there there are different leaders for different parts of the world, different theaters, right?

So if you only invited in all the leaders from one theater, then people would say, "Oh shoot, something's going to happen over there and then maybe they could prepare for it and we wouldn't want that to happen, especially if we decide not to do it." You know, you don't want to cause a whole thing.

So is it possible that although there were you know genuine reasons to have the meeting that we saw that maybe it was the only way they could disguise that they were planning some action against one part of the world and they didn't want to signal which part it was right and I and I ask you do you think that communications that our military communications are sufficient that if we just said, "Well, you don't all have to come here.

We'll just send you this top secret, secret, top secret, encrypted, double encrypted, triple encrypted, military encrypted thing, and everything will be fine." But we all know that stuff leaks, you know, and we could suspect that maybe some adversaries have access to it.

The only thing you could really do is bring in the top people and put them in a secure room like a skiff and just say, "All right, guys." Yeah, don't tell anybody yet, but make sure you guys are operationally ready for some action that's coming.

All right, if they didn't do that and yet they are also planning a military action, well, they did something wrong because that's the way they should have done it.

They should have disguised it as an all hands meeting and then secretly pulled off the subset of people when nobody's watching and say, "All right, you guys, you know, you 20 people come this way." That's what I think.

Anyway, we'll see.

Um, but uh so the uh things that Hagath mentioned uh I kind of liked.

I liked it a lot actually.

He he was uh telling the generals and the admirals uh that uh the military is going to get rid of wokeness.

No dudes in dresses, no no fatties in the military, including the generals in the hallway.

No more emphasis on climate change.

Only emphasis on lethality and effectiveness and professionalism basically.

Uh I like it.

And uh Trump mentioned getting rid of uh when he talked getting rid of political correctness in the military.

He says the purpose of American military is not to protect anyone's feelings.

It's it's to protect our republic.

Correct.

Um I would say that I was skeptical about the value of this all hands meeting, but I'm not now.

I I thought uh Hagsth did a a stellar job.

I thought he did a really good job.

He uh got rid of the beards and the beardos.

He called them the beardos.

Uh so anyway, good job Pete Higs.

Then the president spoke and I'm going to echo something I believe Steve Bannon noticed too.

Trump looked um dangerously tired yesterday in at least two different events.

Now, he has a right to be tired because he's doing about four jobs and you I've never seen anybody work harder, but it's unusual.

It's unusual to see him that tired.

It what it makes you wonder if he's taken on too much.

Maybe he's not getting enough help from his staff.

That's what Steve Bannon was suggesting.

Maybe maybe people need to step up, give the guy time to take a nap.

Um, I think this is good for any president and and Trump, of course, is famously the highest energy president.

Well, Clinton was pretty high energy, but uh, you know, nobody nobody doubts his energy in general, but he looked like he looked like maybe he was, I don't know, coming down with something or he lost some sleep recently over something.

I don't know, but I am worried about him.

Um, and if if all it is is exhaustion because he's taking on so much, well, I act like that's nothing.

Um, I guess that would be the best case scenario if it's just, you know, he's taken on too much, but uh, keep an eye on that.

I'm I'm concerned for his, uh, his health and safety at this point.

Um MSNBC as cats.

All right.

Trouble troublemakers.

They have found the highest point in my office on top of some equipment.

Don't break anything.

All right.

MSNBC, as a number of people noticed, is back to calling Trump Hitler, or at least some of their guests are.

Um and uh they don't like the fact that Trump referred to the enemy within which is all the the wokeness stuff is the enemy within.

Um and he wasn't he wasn't making a big deal about diversity being a value might actually be a disadvantage in the military.

Certainly you don't want too much diversity of opinion in the military.

You kind of need everybody to do what they're told.

Um, so MSNBC learned nothing.

Still a bunch of Hitler stuff.

Um, and other big news, although it might take a while for this to be implemented.

So the White House has announced that they're going to have a website for selling uh pharmaceutical products.

Not all of them.

There'll be a limited number.

First it would be only Fizer products and not all of them.

just a few of them.

Um, and you would be able to buy them directly on that website and bypass the the middle people.

So, you'd save money by p bypassing the middle people.

Now, I think that means that Fizer still gets their full profit.

I have a lot of questions about this, so don't um don't believe what I say yet on this topic.

It seems to me um that we don't know if Fizer took any any hit because maybe they just agreed to be on this website, you know, primarily so that uh the middle people lose their profit but not Fizer.

But there is at least one category that uh prescription Medicaid drugs um oh I guess the prescription Medicaid are the only ones that are going to be on this at the beginning.

Um so Medicaid but not Medicare, right?

Why why Medicaid but not Medicare?

I don't know.

Seems like the argument for one would be the same as the argument for the other.

And anyway, um, but, uh, Chris Clump, who was, I guess, in charge of putting that deal together, says it's the first of many deals.

So, I guess what we'll find out is how much this grows, how successful it is.

Um, it's going to take a while for this to be implemented and uh we we'll see if it has any impact on Mark Cuban's business selling uh lowerc cost meds.

Um, initially it might actually be positive because any any pressure you put on the pharma companies and any efforts to lower their costs probably works for everybody who wants to do the same thing.

and uh and Cuban has a several year head start in doing that kind of business.

So, we'll see.

And why wouldn't it be available on the government website, but also on the Mark Cuban uh business model?

Is there a reason that Fiser wouldn't make the same deal available to both?

I don't know.

A lot of questions.

We shall see.

Well, pollster Frank Luntz uh was on CNN and probably didn't give them the answer that they wanted.

So, there's a new poll um that says that Trump is losing quite a bit of support among uh groups that put him over the top like Hispanic voters and voters under 30.

And uh I think LZ was supposed to say, "Oh, now that Trump has lost all this support of these subgroups, um you know, it's it's bad news for the midterms." Instead, he said, quote, about Trump, he should be concerned about it and the Democrats should be concerned because their numbers have dropped even further.

So the right answer is yeah, Trump lost support in a couple of groups, but not as much as the Democrats lost overall.

Uh, and he even predicted that if you looked at history, the Democrats should take control of the House in the midterms.

That that would be based on history.

That would be the typical most common normal thing that could happen.

But he says, uh, if he asked me who was in a better position talking about the midterms, I would say to you that history says the Democrats should win, but based on where things stand right now, you have to give Republicans the edge.

Do you know how bad your party has to be for you you to lose the midterms when the party out of power pretty much automatically wins the midterms?

I don't know.

So, I'm not uh yet going to say that Republicans have a lock on the midterms because I don't believe that's the case.

This this really looks like a coin toss to me.

I believe the Republicans could do well.

That doesn't mean they will.

And I believe the Democrats could do well because it's not a presidential race.

And the Democrats will just say, "I like Democrats maybe." And if more of them go, if the Republicans don't show up, anything could happen.

Well, here's a delicious little story.

Black Lives Matter is suing a Sorosbacked uh group called Tides, Tides Foundation, because they think that the Tides Foundation had promised them $33 million that is now being distributed.

So the lawsuit was filed last year, but the stakes were ri raised on Monday.

Uh I guess there's some other things happening that raised the stakes.

So the it's just funny that Black Lives Matter doesn't trust Soros organization and the Soros organization doesn't trust them apparently enough to give them more money.

Uh so they're blaming uh accuse the tides foundation of alleged deceptive business practices and egregious mismanagement of its money while demanding its its return.

Okay.

So how much did you love that story that Black Lives Matter is suing Osorus funded organization?

All right.

Um, here's another story you might appreciate.

You may or may not know that the ADL um had on their website uh criticism of I I guess Charlie Kirk and also uh Turning Point USA, but they got a lot of push back from uh influential people.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump were mentioned.

I'm reading Joel Pollock's story in Breitbart about this.

And apparently the Anti-Defamation League uh deleted uh an entire part of their website called the Glossery of Extremism because there was something on there that was sort of anti-uh TPUSA and uh the Jewish insiders reporting this.

It says, "Under oppression from Elon Musk and Donald Trump and prominent right-wing activists in the wake of the assassination of Charlotte K, the anti-defamation league is removing its glossery blah blah." But um the data the database had identified over a thousand terms relating to extremist ideology.

Uh so they got rid of that.

Um and the an ADL spokesperson confirmed that they removed that glossery and it does not consider uh TPUSA Turning Point to be a quote extremist group.

So So they don't have that there.

But there was more.

They also had a backgrounder page on Turning Point USA which remains there but they've edited it.

So the original version said uh Kirk has created a vast platform for extremists and far-right conspiracy theorists to speak and attend his annual America fest and other events sponsored by.

So so their backgrounder was that it's a it's a big platform and there could be some extremists uh who are attending.

The new version adds that Kirk himself publicly condemned such groups.

Yeah.

That seems like that would be important to include.

He publicly condemned such groups insisting that they did not represent TPOC and their beliefs.

And uh so and now it also their page also includes the fact that Kirk spoke out against anti-semitism and in defense of Israel.

Okay.

Um, I call that a step in the right direction, but I do not forgive or forget the ADL because I um I I think they put a stain on Jewish Americans.

They put a stain on America and they put a stain on Israel and I don't think they have a good reason for existing at the moment.

If your only point of existing is to be the moral judges and say these people are bad and these people are good, you'd better be really good at it.

You know what I'm saying?

If if your job is to destroy people and destroy organizations, but only if they're bad, you better be really good at knowing who's good and who's bad.

And you're not.

You're not.

If you can't learn to be good at it, you should go out of business.

Nobody should give them a penny.

Now, I told my uh locals followers before the the regular show here that uh for health reasons, I'm temporarily on some steroids.

Uh if any of you remember what happened to me with the last time I was on prednazone, this is not predinazone, but it's a different steroid.

Um, I get pretty aggressive.

I might curse a little bit more if you don't mind.

Does anybody mind if I get a little more aggressive than usual?

No, you don't mind.

And then I said to myself after hearing that the BLM was after Soros and and the ADL was um really just a stain on America.

Um I wondered what does the ADL think of BLM?

Do you ever wonder that?

What does the ADL think of Black Lives Matter?

So I went to Grock and looked it up and apparently it's complicated.

uh they they're all in favor of the sort of general concept of it, you know, that everybody's important and black lives matter and, you know, they don't like uh police excess police actions, you know, just sort of the ordinary stuff that most people would say, "Oh, yeah, that makes sense." But they're not in favor of, you know, all the leaders.

Some of the leaders have embarrassed themselves and they're not supporting that.

Um, but did you know that the ADL promotes BLM in its curricula?

Did you know that the ADL has created a curricula that it provides to schools to uh help educate children?

So, apparently part of that curricula promotes Black Lives Matter.

So, a 2021 lesson plan for high school students uh teaches that the history of this is from Grock, that the history of Black Lives Matter analyzes a controversy about using the term all lives matter.

Okay, I don't need to say anything about that, do I?

Um, and uh blah blah blah blah.

And the ADL tweeted back then, it's Black History Month.

show high school students how they can raise their voices to create positive change.

Our lesson plan on Black Lives Matter is a great place to start.

So, I would say that ADL and Black Lives Matters have tied their futures together and uh that makes sense because both of them should disappear from America forever for the better.

Anyway, there's that.

Um, so the ADL, whose job is it to know who's good and who's bad, thought uh the Christian uh the Christian approach of Turning Point USA was bad for reasons and that Black Live Matters was mostly good.

You know, a few bad actors, but mostly good for reasons.

And the ADL's job is to know who's good and who's bad.

Uh, have I made my case?

Nothing else to say about that.

All right.

Uh, Candace Owens continues to be entertaining.

Let Let me just say about Candace.

I know she's super controversial at the moment.

Um, I don't think that anybody in the world agrees with everything she says.

Would that be fair?

Like, even her closest supporters probably don't agree with everything she says.

So, you know, I'm no different.

Um, but I am uh completely biased in her favor because she is just one of the nicest, warmest people you'll ever meet in your life.

You know, I had the the pleasure of meeting her very briefly.

You know, we didn't even chat much, but I've told this story before.

Uh, we were both on a morning show.

Um, and uh, she saw me from across the room while we were waiting for the next hit and ran over to me, opened her arms with this gigantic smile, and just laid a hug on me that I really needed at that moment.

And I thought to myself, I really like you.

I like her because she liked me, and she was so warm and open and embracing.

Anyway, so if something comes up that I really really don't like about her, I don't know if I'd be honest about it, honestly, because I have such a just a positive vibe.

It's hard to get past that.

I have the same problem with Trump, you know, having spent time with him in the Oval Office just cuz he wanted to chat.

um you walk away with such a positive and feeling about the the human being that you you can't really fully you can't really fully untangle that from what you think of their opinions.

It's just hard to dislike somebody you like.

Anyway, so I like Candace.

Um she's she was pointing out that uh 48 hours before Charlie Kirk's death he was getting pressure from pro-Israel groups to be pro-Israel when at the same time apparently he had already informed just two days before he was killed he had informed allegedly now this is Candace's claim that she knows this for sure um they had informed team Turning Point USA members that he had no choice but to abandon the pro-Israel cause because he was being bullied by pro-Jewish voters.

Now, apparently Candace has challenged TPUSA to deny that that happened, but be direct.

Did he or did he not say he was about to abandon the pro-Israel cause?

Now, if you want to turn that into a conspiracy theory, then everything turns into, you know, Israel's behind every plot and secretly they're plotting.

I don't think that I would uh treat these two two facts if they're facts.

I don't think I would connect them.

So, here would be where I would disagree with Candace.

Um, you can just have two facts.

It could be that they were getting some pressure.

Could be that he was considering changing his approach to it.

At the same time, it could be some crazy guy who just disagreed with everything he was doing and thought he was a hater, decided that was the time to take him out.

So, the coincidence probably had more to do with the fact that the opportunity to get a shot from a rooftop just happened to happen around the same time that these conversations were going on.

So, I would uh I think it's a fair question.

I I think Candace deserves a direct answer because she had a she had a very close personal relationship with Charlie Kirk.

She's allowed to ask this question.

Absolutely allowed to ask the question.

Personally, I don't think they're connected.

Now, at the same time, let me say that I don't support Israel.

I don't support Israel.

The ADL is a big reason that I don't.

It's not the only reason, but Israel is not my country.

So, I've said this before.

I have to say it every time Israel comes up.

You understand that, right?

Even though you've all heard this little thing, I have to say it every time.

Um, Israel is not my country.

So, when I talk about them, I observe.

Sometimes I predict, but I don't approve.

I I don't tell you my morality or ethical sense should dominate their sense of national self-interest.

So if I observe them operating in what appears to be, as far as they can tell, in their self-interest, that's the end of my analysis.

They're operating in their self-interest or they're not.

They're operating in the United States self-interest or they're not.

Those things are important and I'll talk about them.

Uh, but I'm it's not up to me to say he was a good guy.

I I don't think there are any good guys in the Middle East.

There's just power, self-interest.

That's it.

Anyway, um, apparently the Department of Homeland Security, this is also in Breitbart, Neil Monroe is writing about this.

Um, they've exposed massive fraud by migrants in Minneapolis.

So they did a survey of migrants in Minneapolis and found out that 50% of them were involved in some major fraud.

Um sometimes it was fake marriages.

Sometimes it was people here illegally.

Sometimes they were, you know, working some fraud like the the healthc care frauds we've heard of recently that are massive.

But 50% forged documents, abuse of the H1B, 50% were involved with a major fraud.

So this gets back to how much um how much uh immigration should we have and from where?

Can we finally say out loud without getting cancelled that not every destin not every source of immigration is the same?

Can I say out loud now that if we uh if we imported some Europeans, especially let's say Christians, if we imported some Christian Europeans of any color, doesn't matter the color, they could be black or white, but they're Christians and they're Europeans, would there be any problem with assimilation?

Probably not, right?

It' probably be insulent.

What about uh Mexicans?

Well, here the only the only issue I think is quantity because they assimilate really well.

Really well.

The second generation is just full American.

And but you have to put a limit on it.

I mean, you can't just say everybody come in because you're really good at assimilating.

If you got too many, then they wouldn't have to bother.

They, you know, they'd be stuck in their own communities, might not even learn English.

Who knows?

So, that would be a question of quantity.

But clearly there are cultures that have a different approach to all the things that we hold dear as in uh if you can steal should you do it.

There are some cultures in which within the culture stealing something that you can steal isn't so bad.

And there are some cultures in which doing something bad to a group that to somebody who's not in your group is not such a big deal.

For example, some Muslim cultures that might say in the Middle East, not so much here, but in the Middle East, they might say, "Well, we can we can rape those women because they're not Muslim.

Do you want more of that?

Do you want a lot of that in the United States?" Now, I don't know how much of that has already been imported, but not zero.

Not zero.

We have, in fact, imported people who probably would say out loud if they felt they could get away with it, "Oh, yeah, you can definitely rape people who are not Muslims.

They're not even human, basically." Yeah.

How many of those do you want?

So, likewise in uh in uh is it Minnesota or Minneapolis?

I always confuse the two in Minneapolis.

Um, if it's true that the type of uh immigrants in Minneapolis have a cultural, let's say, eccentricity or something different about them that doesn't fit with our culture.

And maybe this this fraud stuff might be part of it.

I don't know.

Uh, I I just know that if you took a bunch of Christians and a bunch of Buddhists and put them in a room and said, "All right, you have the opportunity to do a fraud and steal things and you probably get away with it." They wouldn't all do it.

You know what I mean?

They wouldn't all do it.

Some would.

Some would, but they wouldn't all do it.

I I do believe that there are cultures, and I don't know which ones, so I won't be more specific, in which most of them would do it.

Maybe because they're not like you, they go, "Well, we don't owe these, you know, these American devils anything.

If we can get their stuff, take it." I don't know if anybody has that view.

But if they do, and you know, some people do.

If they do, you don't want a lot of them, right?

You don't want a lot of those.

So, we we're never really honest about immigration.

That's part of the reason it's so hard to deal with it.

But I feel like honesty is breaking down everywhere, even if you're not on steroids like I am.

All right.

Uh the EU is going to send 4 billion euros to Ukraine today, but they say uh um that uh they will have to be repaid if Russia ends up paying reparations to Ukraine.

What What are the odds that Russia is going to pay reparations to Ukraine?

Is this is this just the EU being stupid?

because they don't want to say we're just giving away our money.

So they're going to act like well there's one possibility the some of it might come back.

Who believes that?

Nobody.

All right.

Also in Ukraine, according to Vizigrad 24, uh there's a major UK um not Ukraine, but in Russia, there's a major oil refinery.

It's one of the five largest refineries in Russia.

There's no indication it was attacked, but it's on fire.

Uh they're saying it wasn't caused by a drone attack, but I don't know if they would necessarily have noticed it.

don't know.

So, as I've said before, the reason that I always talk about the refinery attacks and the refinery fires is that my estimate is that if you take down Russia's energy economy by 20% that they'll end up at the negotiating table pretty fast.

You don't have to take 80%.

20% and growing means they're going to start talking to you real fast.

So, I don't know how close we are to 20% or Ukraine is to getting 20% of their energy stuff offline, but I'll bet they're somewhere in the 10% range and growing.

Meanwhile, in Germany, October Fest in Munich got closed down because of bomb threats and an actual bomb went off.

And I guess they found a a backpack with additional bombs has also been found.

You know, I do worry that mass gatherings will just have to be stopped.

You know, uh I'm still impressed that we can put on major sporting events without an attack.

I don't know how long that will last, but it probably only would take one attack on a sporting event before we say, "All right, we're done with these.

We're not going to do this anymore." I feel like that could happen in my lifetime and that would be super tragic.

Well, President Trump says he's open to meeting with Kim Jong-un without preconditions, which is exactly the right approach.

Just act like he's our friend.

And I would go further.

I would invite him to America to a basketball game.

I would invite him to an NBA game.

Sit in the good box, you know, have tons of security.

Have Trump sitting next to him.

just watch the game and just say, "Uh, we don't even need to talk any politics if you don't want to.

I'm just inviting you over to watch the basketball game." Would he come?

I don't think so.

I I don't think he would feel safe.

But what would you do if if you knew that he had been friendly to you the whole time, Trump, and you knew that he could protect you if he wanted to, would you feel comfortable coming to America and being, you know, essentially at the mercy of American security?

I don't know.

So, uh, but it might it might be worth something just to invite him and let him say no.

Because imagine if it's your favorite thing and you genuinely don't really feel a risk.

Maybe I mean just the invitation would be I think valuable because it would just change the way you thought about everything.

Stop thinking about nuclear weapons and start thinking about three-point shots.

Just just change change the conversation.

Well, uh, according to the New York Times, um, uh, I guess, uh, Marco Rubio is in charge of working with the opposition groups in Venezuela, trying to get them to overthrow their dictator, Maduro, uh, without the US moving his military in.

What would the US do to help the opposition take over the country?

Well, it's called a color revolution.

And they would do the exact same thing that the Democrats did to the Republicans.

They would fund a bunch of fake organizations.

So, it looked like there was a, you know, a major some kind of a major, you know, uh, movement on the streets.

They would try to bribe the uh the media, but probably the media is firmly under the control of the dictator, so that might not work.

Um they would uh probably make promises to people like if you get this done, something good will be coming your way.

Maybe all kinds of CIA dirty tricks to to weaken things and change the narrative, etc.

Do you think that they could pull that off without any weapons being fired?

Well, the answer is, according to Democrats, yes.

It turns out that you can overthrow a country uh just by wandering around without weapons in one of the buildings you're not supposed to be in.

Now, we all learned that, right?

In January 6, we learned that uh a proper insurrection really is just trespassing in one building with no weapons.

So maybe maybe that's what the CIA is doing.

It's like, "Hey guys, um if you really want to run an insurrection, look at the way we did it in America.

We get some unarmed people to wander around and take selfies in a building where they're not allowed to be in.

Do you hear me?

Do you hear me?

This could work.

Uh, wouldn't it be better if you supported us with your intense gigantic military that's right outside our door?

Don't need to.

Don't need to.

All you need to do is trespass without weapons because we know the Democrats have taught us that is how you overtake a country.

The the military won't even act.

the that you think the Venezuelan military is going to come in and try to remove you?

No.

No, they they won't.

Anyway, apparently 70% of the population allegedly voted for uh somebody who's not Madura, somebody named Gonzalez.

And so they would try to um try to get people to accept Gonzalez as already the leader and go from there.

Um New York University did a study of 5 to 11 year olds in the US and China and found out that uh children's belief that their family and friends would support their pursuit of political leadership as adults predicted their expressed motivation to become political leaders, specifically president or chairman if you're in China.

So the idea was that the reason uh more males than females become presidents and leaders is because they learn very early between 5 and 11 that their parents would support a boy trying to become president, but they would not support a girl trying to become president.

Do you believe that?

Or are you watching the cats behind my shoulder?

uh seemingly having some kind of some kind of sexual encounter, but uh pretty sure it's not.

I'm about 80% sure that's not sexual.

Yeah.

Anyway, do you believe that that's why uh girls don't become leaders as often because their parents did not support them when they were between five and 11?

I don't I don't believe that.

Here's what I believe.

When I was between the ages of five and 11, um I wanted to be rich and famous and somehow impactful in the world.

But uh my father's advice was to work for the post office.

True story.

He worked for the post office and he couldn't stop raving about how good the benefits were.

Get a lot of vacation days.

Uh you get a good pension which he got.

He had a very good pension and uh it's hard to get fired.

So while I was born planning to be, you know, something important someday, CEO or something, uh, my father was guiding me toward the postal arts.

Did it make any difference?

No.

No.

Because I was always ambitious.

I was just born that way.

Didn't it didn't come from anywhere.

I was just born ambitious.

I believe that these 5 to 11 year olds are mostly just born ambitious.

Yes, it's true that the boys might get more, you know, more encouragement, but I don't think that matters because I think that anybody who is so weak that their childhood experience told them that they could or could not be president, they're not really presidential material.

You want somebody who is, you know, sits up in the crib and goes, you know, I've only been here a day, but I think I could run this place.

Like me, like Trump.

Those are the ones that become president, the one the ones who are sure that you can't talk him out of it.

So, I don't believe that study, but although I I will acknowledge that there's something to it.

You know, more more encouragement would be better than less.

But how much did uh JD Vance get encouragement to be the vice president?

Probably the president later.

How much encouragement did he get at home?

Do you think that was the difference?

His addicted mom was saying, "Yeah, sure.

You could probably go from poverty to the president.

Yeah, go do it." Probably not.

Probably not.

Uh Trump is giving Hamas a yesterday he said 3 to four days ultimatum to accept the Gaza peace plan.

Uh to which I give you this bit of advice.

A deadline of 3 to four days is a deadline of four days.

There's no such thing as a deadline of three or four days.

That's four days.

Four days deadline.

Forget about the three.

It's funny.

I think it's funny when Trump talks like that because it makes you it it makes you not be able to turn away from what he said.

If all he said is, you know, deadline in four days, it wouldn't be nearly as interesting or stick in my mind as when he says three or four.

So, what's he gonna do on day three?

He's gonna yank it.

I said three or four.

Oh, no.

No.

You thought you had another day.

Look at what I said.

I said three or four days.

This is the third day.

So, deal's done.

And Hamas says, "But you said three or four." I know.

And this three or four.

Anyway, there's no I think there's no chance in the world that the deal will be accepted.

So, I think Israel will just get another a free pass to do whatever they think they need to do.

Meanwhile, apparently the uh Israel was using something called unit 8200.

So, that's one of their I don't know dark arts people or something, but they were using Microsoft's uh cloud uh storage to keep all the mass surveillance on Gaza about all their telephone calls.

I guess they had every telephone call and they were storing it on a Microsoft servers and Microsoft when they found out that's what it was being used for they said um come to my office.

So the uh CEO of Microsoft summoned the head of unit 8200 and uh I don't know exactly what he said the CEO but uh something along the lines of we're shutting this down and uh they moved all their data so they didn't lo they didn't lose their data they just moved it to Europe or something.

Um but uh good for Microsoft good for them.

Um, I think that had more to do with managing their customer base and their employee base than any real feeling about it, my guess is.

But, uh, it was the right business decision.

By the way, I do have some Microsoft um, stock.

Blowing my nose wouldn't help.

I know you're trying to help.

The only time my nose does this is when I do the podcast.

It It won't do this all day.

It'll it'll stop as soon as I'm done.

And the blowing the nose makes no difference.

It, you know, it's not like I haven't tried.

I I love some of your suggestions.

All right.

Um, how about that Microsoft Word, though?

Stay away from unusual whales today.

Okay, that's a an account on X.

Okay, they may be saying something bad about the economy.

That would be my guess.

All right, ladies and gentlemen.

Um, shall I tell you my uh story that I was going to tell only the locals people, but I'll think I already told you.

Bill Gates is not a doctor.

All right, that's all I got for you.

I'm going to uh talk privately to the beloved subscribers on Locals.

So, don't you wish you were one now?

We're going to get extra 30 seconds.

I'll be private with just the local subscri

That's not right.

Hold on. I'm almost ready.

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>> No, there's not two of me. There's not

two of me.

>> Let's go for a ride.

>> Turn that off. All right, let me just

adjust my background view here

and it will be amazing.

Come on. Why?

Why? Why? All right, everything's

working now. How are all you doing?

Everybody good?

Well, I got to tell you a little story

involves me.

So, as you know, I'm going through this

prostate cancer situation

and it's quite a journey in which I'm

learning many things, but let me tell

you what I learned this week. So, my PSA

started to spike again. So, I had to

went in for a battery of um blood tests

because that's you know what you do and

um they give you the results so you can

see them online before you've talked to

a doctor. Now, a few times this has

caused me some really big problems

because I look at the results before I

know what before I'm smart enough to

interpret them.

So on Friday,

uh I looked at the results and the the

test for your liver function

was uh I I don't know the exact numbers

it's supposed to be, but let's say it

was supposed to be under I don't know

under 10 or 50 or something and it was

about a thousand.

Now, that would suggest that your liver

has died and you might not be able to

get it back and that might be the end of

the game. And so, I kept wondering when

the symptoms of liver death would kick

in. It took me a few days to get a, you

know, it was a weekend, so it took me a

few days to get an appointment with my

oncologist.

And so that morning I'm waiting to hear

how long I have because if your liver is

completely dead, well, there's not a

whole lot of things you can do that are

very pleasant, right? So for about three

or four days, I was under the belief

that my liver was dead and probably

there was nothing I could do about it.

I talked to my uh oncologist by Zoom

yesterday and there were a number of

things we needed to talk about. But

after we talked about a few things, he

had not mentioned the obvious problem

that my liver had died and the the blood

test very clearly. I mean, you don't you

don't have to be a doctor to look at

those numbers and know, oh I'm I'm

dead. I'm so dead. So, if I look like I

was a little down the last time I talked

to you, it's because I believed I would

be dead maybe that week or at least

hospitalized forever or something

horrible.

So, it looks like he's about done with

his comments and I go, "Okay, now give

me the bad news. Tell me about the

liver." He goes, "Oh, your liver is

fine." I said, "No, no, it's not. I I

saw the I saw the blood test. I saw it

was way out of range. Um he goes, "Oh

no. Uh that's a fake positive because of

your bone your bone cancer. If you have

bone cancer, it influences the liver

blood test, but not because there's

anything wrong with your liver." Because

there there was some other blood

indicator goes, "Oh, actually your your

liver is improved.

It's better than it was last time."

Yeah, there's no problem. Your liver is

fine.

Now,

have you ever gone through a turn like

that?

Three, four days,

I thought I was dead.

And all I was doing was reading a a

blood test wrong. It's not the first

time I've done that.

It's not the first time, but indeed, my

PSA is up. So, we'll um one possibility

is they'll they'll add or change my

testosterone blocking stuff. Um so, I

took a testosterone test yesterday.

Um oh, you want to know the results? I

wonder if I have them. Who wants to know

the results of my

testosterone tests?

Cuz I believe it probably didn't get

knocked down as much as it should have

from the other drugs. I'm now on

steroids as I mentioned. So if I start

yelling at you. Oh, I do have I do have

a result. So you're going to find out in

real time

maybe.

Except their computers are slow.

All right. Testosterone test. Sure

enough. Let's see how I did.

I'll look at my trend.

Huh. Oh, I've only done one test. So the

normal range. Oh

So this this is the one time you don't

want to be in the normal range because

normal range means you're going to die

because testosterone is basically fuel

for the cancer. So the whole point of

the testosterone blockers is to get it,

you know, below the normal range.

And I'm right in the middle of

the normal range of testosterone.

Well, that's bad news. It's 357. The

normal range is 240 to 900.

Oh, wait.

Oh. Oh, I do have

What?

Yeah.

You know what's funny?

It's I did I did take the testosterone

test years ago, 2009. So, it's it's on

the history. So, it's telling me that my

testosterone

I'm on two very powerful testosterone

blockers and my testosterone is

substantially higher than it was in 2009

before I'd had any meds for anything or

any cancer.

So, my testosterone is actually up.

All right. Well, I'm probably dead, but

today's show will be fine because the

predinazone is working. So, I feel

actually better than normal because the

drugs do that. But, uh, no, the if you

missed the first part, I will

um I've got an option now for a

different med because these didn't work.

The new med is quite promising and

there's at least one one thing we could

try with more testosterone blockers

which I imagine we'll do first. All

right, but enough about me. I wonder if

there's any science in the news that

they didn't have to do because they

could have just asked me. Oh, here's

some. According to Karina Petroa and Sai

Post, the ketogenic diet is associated

with a 70% decrease in depression

symptoms in a new pilot study.

So,

let me tell you what I know and why they

didn't have to do that. Number one, keto

is a low sugar diet.

If you simply stopped eating as much

sugar as you used to, you would have

more energy.

That that's a wellestablished fact that

everybody knows, including me. And you

know what I've been saying and totally

ignored by all of medical science

because obviously I can't read blood

tests. And uh I should be ignored on all

things medical. I I recommend that you

ignore me on all things medical.

However,

I I already knew the sugar made you

tired because you'd spike and then

crash.

And my hypothesis, which I refuse to

release, is that depression symptoms are

a result of low energy

because I know in my life and every

single person I've ever known or

observed, when their energy is high,

they can find a way to be in a good

mood. And when their energy is low, they

very well might feel depressed. So, I'm

going to say it for the millionth time.

I do believe there's a form of

depression that is not affected too much

by diet. You know, some real deep

depression, the kind that you know, you

were born with some different structure

in your brain. But I'll bet you that 90%

of what we call depression or depression

symptoms about 90%

that's my just my guess is energy

because I have never once been sad and

had a lot of energy at the same time.

Never once. If it happens to you, let me

know.

Well, I saw just as I was getting ready

to go live here that I think this is

true that ADP uh revised its job numbers

from plus 54,000 for the month to uh

-3,000.

So, have I ever mentioned that all data

is fake? If it matters, if the data

matters, somebody's faking it. If the

data doesn't matter or nobody else is

looking into it except, you know, maybe

one scientist who surprisingly doesn't

make any any money from it.

Oh,

is something missing?

Did Did I forget to do something?

What could it be? What could it be?

That's right, people.

It's time for the simultaneous sip. I

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That should make angry everybody who

fast forwards through the s. Oh, I know

you do. I know you fast forward me, too.

Which is approved.

Well, Zero Hedge is reporting that uh

Walmart is removing artificial dyes from

its US brands and maybe 30 other

ingredients that are sketchy, too.

Another win for Maha.

I'll tell you, Maha is one of the

brightest lights in the entire country.

Um, there are very few things that make

me happier than watching Maha succeed

because we're doing all the right

things. We got the right people. We're

having the right fights, the right

disagreements, the right debates, and

things are happening like real

legitimate things. Now, will some of

them have to be reversed at some point?

you know, probably not the food additive

part, but maybe something about, I don't

know, vaccination schedules and

something maybe, maybe. But we should

still be doing everything we're doing to

challenge the accepted standards for all

that stuff.

Here's some more possibly backward

science. According to the University of

Liverpool, leisure activities boost

self-esteem and well-being in teens. So

if they're doing sports or hobbies or

something that boosts their self-esteem

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back up.

Is it possible that people with high

self-esteem are more likely to engage in

things which they might not do great at

at least at the beginning? Yes, it is.

Let let me speak uh anecdotally about

one experience and see if you can

generalize from that. When I was young,

um, I participated in almost every

sport. You know, there'd be days when

you do five sports a day. Um, now, why

did I participate in five sports a day?

Was it because I knew I would be awesome

at all of those things on day one? And

the answer was no. I was born with high

self-esteem.

And I didn't give a if you thought

I did good at that sport or not. I just

thought I needed the ex the the

expertise or the experience or the

exercise and uh I just did it. And then

of course if I eventually got good at

something, you know, like pingpong, I

got pretty good at. Not what you saw on

video the other day, but uh when I was

younger, I was quite good at it. So

there were some things tennis for

example that I got better than average

and I suppose that helped my self-esteem

but the self-esteem was there first. Um

maybe maybe my mother put it into me.

Maybe I was born that way. I feel like I

was born that way. I I don't feel

that somebody else's um opinion of me

was making me happier or less happy or

more motivated or less. I never felt any

of that. From from the minute I was

born, I just knew that I was going to go

get the I needed to get and nothing

was going to stop me. And so I was just

born with self-esteem. So, of course, I

participated in whatever was happening.

Oh, we're playing this today. Handball,

sure. Never done that. You'll beat me,

you know, 21 to zero, but I'm all in.

Raet ball. Yep. Sure. Everything.

So, no, I I think that some of the

science is backwards. Uh having good

self-esteem might get you on the field.

Um but then being on the field, if you

did well, or maybe even if you don't,

might boost your self-esteem. So, it's

sort of a two-way situation is my guess.

Um, Door Dash has been uh testing for a

few years now some autonomous devices.

One of them it looks like they'll have

something for automobiles to deliver uh

deliver food without uh human. But

before we see that, um Stanley Tang is

writing on X that uh they're introducing

DOT. It's a robot that will deliver your

food and it will go on bike lanes and

roads and sidewalks. Um, it's small, so

onetenth the size of a car. It can go up

to 20 miles an hour. Now, people are

already complaining that, "Oh, no, don't

put that on sidewalks. Sidewalks are not

for machines." To which I say, well, the

machine will probably be

not looking at his phone like you are.

What would be more dangerous? A

autonomous device on the sidewalk that

sees you and adjusts and moves out of

your way or a human looking at their

phone and walking down the middle of the

sidewalk? Which do you prefer? How about

two fat people in front of you that

don't get out of the way? What's better?

Well, see, sidewalks are a problem. Have

you ever had anybody in a wheelchair

attack you? I had that experience in San

Francisco there. Apparently, there was

some well-known wheelchair guy who would

literally just run his wheelchair into

you and it hurt. It hurt cuz it's a

wheelchair and it's, you know, moving

into you. And he was just some bastard

that would just target people and

wheelchair into him because nobody was

willing to call the police on the

wheelchair guy, including me. Yeah, I

just I just took it. Moved on.

Anyway, I'm not too worried about the

Door Dash robot, but uh it won't be

completely smooth sailing, but I think

they have to get there eventually. Got

to do it.

Open AAI has released a list of work

tasks. It says chat GP can already do uh

in replacement of human activity. Now

apparently open AI is

is sort of uh trying to walk this fine

line between scaring you that AI will

take all your jobs and then reassuring

you that it will allow you to keep your

job but do it better. So I think this is

along the mode of telling people that

some of their tasks might go away, but

you might still need the person to

oversee the task. So So they're not

going so far as to say here's a whole

bunch of things that uh these people

will lose their jobs. It might be just

their jobs will be different. They got

44 occupations and whole bunch of tasks.

And

I think this

um I think that the permanent situation

will be you need a human to closely

watch almost everything the AI does and

you can't get can't get rid of the human

because the LLM AIs the ones we use are

prone to hallucination and you really

can't have anything in the workplace

that you're responsible for

that could be a hallucination. You can't

do that even once. I mean, that would be

terrible for your career. So, I'm going

to say that um what AI would like you to

believe is that getting really really

close to being completely able to do a

human's job means that if you just wait

a little bit longer, it's going to close

the gap and then for sure it'll be able

to do the human's job without

intervention. I'm going to say no. I'm

going to say that the closest you can

get is somewhere around where we are,

which is you can't trust it. I think

can't trust it is its cap with current

technology. And I'm not aware of any

technology that would change that. So,

I'm not worried really much at all about

losing jobs to AI. Um, I think the

nature of jobs will change a lot and the

nature of, you know, life will change a

lot, but I don't know about jobs. It

doesn't doesn't seem to me that, you

know, there's some straight line from

where we are now to fewer jobs. I just

don't see it. All right.

Unitry, which is another humanoid robot

outfit you hear a lot about. Um it was

discovered according to interesting

engineering a Thurva Gavi is writing

that uh these robots are built with a

Bluetooth connection which is just a

convenience for helping you hook your

Wi-Fi up to your robot. Now, the Wi-Fi

may have its own, you know, security

issues, but apparently the Bluetooth

feature is very hackable. And on top of

that, they discovered that the Unree

robots send data back to China every

five minutes.

What? It sends data to China every five

minutes. Now presumably if you looked at

that that data it would be necessary

data for making the robot work or work

better something like that I I assume

something like that uh but uh just

imagine the risk that you could hack it

through the Bluetooth and it's already

sending data to China so

and it could affect other infect other

robots are in range of its Bluetooth so

that's not ideal

Now, it's good that they found it. I'm

sure they'll figure out a way around it.

Uh, all right. Uh, there's CBS News had

an article. I saw a post on it on X. It

said, "Meet the man behind onethird of

what's on Wikipedia." And I thought to

myself, well, that can't be true. It

can't be true that one person is writing

one-third of the articles or editing

one-third of the articles on Wikipedia.

But he is there's one guy and the

funniest thing about it is the guy looks

exactly like a popular meme.

I don't want to be unkind, but you can't

you can't overlook the fact that he

looks exactly like one of the most

popular memes. You know, there's a

cartoon guy that is just a little heavy

and he's he's got, you know, a humorous

face. This guy looks just like the meme.

It's awesome. But uh you know I have to

admit on one hand it's probably bad that

there's one person who has that much

influence. On the other hand how

impressed are you that he was smart

enough to write a third of the articles

on all manner of different topics and

the other editors allowed them to be

published. Meaning that other editors

thought yeah that's that looks accurate

to me. That is really impressive. Like

if you're wondering what is the the

upper limit of human ability. Well, I

would look at this guy. What whatever he

does, his human ability of writing and

understanding and uh absorbing new

information.

I've never seen anything like this. I

mean, if this news is true that he wrote

or edited one-third of the articles on

on this, I I don't even need Wikipedia.

Could I just have this guy's, you know,

DM? Can I just DM him and ask him if I

have a question? Skip the middleman.

Well, the government is officially shut

down

because they can't come up with a

budget. And now you're probably thinking

to yourself, Scott, who's right and

who's wrong on this this budget stuff?

Is it the Democrats who are lying about

what they're asking for, or is it the

Republicans who are lying about what the

Democrats are asking for? Have you

noticed that both sides are very

obviously lying? Now, lying by omission

more than lying by commission, but

probably a little lying by commission as

well. Now, would you agree with me that

uh the Republicans, all of them, all of

them are absolutely full of about

what they're claiming the Democrats are

asking for? And would you agree that

what the Democrats say they're asking

for is absolute

They're both lying. Am I right? Would

you agree with me that they're both

lying? So, obviously

right now, here's the trick. This is a

this is a trick I learned from my old

boss at Pacific Bill. If you know that

both sides are lying about us spending,

the decision is easy.

That that's your decision. Both sides

are lying. So the answer is you don't

give them a penny. You got that?

If both sides are lying, you don't give

them a penny.

That That's the rule. This one's easy.

This is the easiest rule ever. You don't

know to need to know the details. You

don't need to know anything about the

national debt. You don't need to know

what their plans are for the, you know,

next phase of negotiations. You don't

need to know what they lied about. You

don't. All you need to know is both

sides are lying. you. Not a penny

more. That's it. Now, that happens to,

you know, be to the benefit of

Republicans, but I'm not I'm not giving

the Republicans a gift here. They're

lying, too. It's just if you can't do

your job and you can't even tell us the

truth, maybe you don't get a

penny. Now, I learned this trick, a

version of it, sort of the cousin of it,

from my old boss, now deceased, uh, from

Pacific Bill. He was a staunch

Republican and he would vote in all the

all the elections, especially the lo

local California ones. And I would say

to him, how do you really understand all

these um what do you call it? These uh

the thing, what do you call it when you

put something on the ballot that the

voters can vote for the law or the

regulation directly? That's called a you

know what it is. Anyway, so I would ask

him, "How do you understand all of these

things on the ballot?" I mean, I could I

could understand how you might figure

out which candidate you want, but how do

you the uh what are they called?

Referendums, propositions. Propositions

is what I was looking for. But I said,

"How do you understand all these

propositions?" That's what in California

they're called propositions.

of a referendum would be a descriptive

descriptive uh for it. And here was his

answer. What do you think his answer

was? Staunch Republican. How do you

understand all of these different

propositions? Like whether you know you

you could read about him, but you can't

really believe everything you read. So,

how do you even vote? And he looked at

me and he said, "I vote against

everything they asked me for more

money." And I laughed at him. I laughed.

I go, "God, that's that is so that's so

dumb." I I didn't say that because I

liked him. He was a very smart guy. And

I was thinking, "God, what what a

terrible technique. You just vote

against everything that costs money."

And then I would say, "All right, but

what about, you know, if it's this or

that?" And I would mention something

that you would think anybody would want

to spend more money on. And he would

look at me and he would say, "They

already have enough money. they can cut

their budget somewhere else.

And then I looked at him and I said,

"Damn it, that's the smartest thing I

ever heard in my life."

That was the wisest, cleanest

uh political opinion I have ever heard.

No one has ever beat that opinion. They

have enough money. They can get it from

somewhere else.

And that was it. He never had to look at

the proposition details. He said, "If

you think it's a good idea, go nuts.

Just don't get the money from me. I'm

done."

So, that's what I'm that's what I'm

doing with this. If you guys can't

agree, that's fine. Shut the government.

Keep it closed. If if if the government

can't do the most basic job of

government, well, it needs to go away.

It needs to completely just go away.

We'll find something else. I guess we'll

find something else. maybe a dictator,

but we're not going to put up with this.

So, if you guys can't agree and all

you're doing is lying about it, no money

for anybody. No money.

Easy decision.

Well, AOC, who I remind you should not

be underestimated,

something I've been saying since she

first emerged. And so many of you said,

"Scott, you're so wrong." Cuz just

listen to her. listen to all these dumb

socialist things. She's a bartender.

She's no politician. And I kept saying,

"Don't underestimate her. She's got the

game. She's got the goods." And she

proved it again. Now, and and I'll say

the obvious again. It doesn't mean I

agree with her. Blah blah blah. She's

just talented. Just genuinely talented

in this domain. and uh Breard News

reporting that uh she was on some show

and she uh she denied that Chuck Schumer

might be forcing the shutdown for his

own political benefit because he would

be worried that AOC might try to primary

him. And uh apparently AOCC's answer uh

was uh that um my office is open and uh

you're free to walk in and negotiate

with me directly. So that she's she gave

a message to the Republicans

without really saying that she would or

would not primary Schumer kind of

glosses over that. again, don't

underestimate her and instead says,

"Hey, no, you you Republicans can come

to my office. My office is open. You're

free to walk in and negotiate with me

directly."

Now, do you see how damaging that is to

Schumer?

She basically just took his job without

an election.

All she had to do is point out that he's

not doing his job, but she'll do his

job. You just have to walk in my office.

Door's open. Just walk in and I I'll do

Schumer's job for him. Now, could she?

Well, she doesn't have the authority.

But suppose she worked out an agreement

with the Republicans and then made it

public. Could she embarrass Schumer into

taking it?

Maybe. It doesn't have to be a hard yes.

It only has to be maybe. and suddenly

you're thinking of her as the speaker or

the the minority leader uh just because

she put that in your head.

Now, do you understand why I say don't

underestimate her? This was purely

brilliant. That was just brilliant.

Yeah. So, we'll see where that goes. I

don't think any Republicans are going to

boost her by going into her office, but

the fact that she put that frame out

there is just kind of perfect.

Um,

so Hakee Jeff,

you know what I'm going to talk about.

So I think you all saw the uh the Trump

meme that he sent around. He didn't make

the meme, but he sent it around and it

was uh Hakee Jeff talking, but somebody

put a uh with, you know, some AGI or

something. They put a Mexican hat and a

fake Mexican mustache on him and I think

they had some mariachi music playing in

the background, but that might have been

a different meme.

And they just had him, you know, talking

like a clown basically. But so so that

that became one of the big stories. And

when he complained, he complained and

said it was deeply racist because they

put a Mexican hat on him. What does

Trump do? He sends around another meme

with yet another Mexican hat on Keem

Jeff except it's even funnier. And then

people complained and what does Trump

do? He sends around a third meme with

with Hakee Jeff with the same hat and

mustache, but now there's a mariachi

band playing behind him, but all of the

players of the mariachi band are are

Trump.

Oh, so

we've gotten to the point where calling

a a Republican racist is going to get

you the hat. You know, maybe not always

the hat, but treating you as a clown for

even going down this stupid path of

racism is going to get you the clown

treatment. And and if you complain about

getting the clown treatment, guess what

happens? More clown treatment. And if

you complain again, guess what happens?

More clown treatment. And it gets

funnier every single time. Absolutely

hilarious. But to be fair, to be fair,

these these are comic exaggerations

about uh Keem Jeff, right? They're comic

exaggerations. So, you can't take it

seriously. I mean, it's not like he's an

actual, you know, incompetent clown or

anything, right?

Well,

Abby Phillip on CNN uh asked him this

question of Hakee Jeff. Once the

government is shut down, which it will

be in two hours, she said yesterday,

"How do you get out of this? How do you

get out of this?"

So, thank goodness he's not some crazy

clown because, you know, he's got a

serious question of great importance.

So, he'll give a serious answer. He said

the GOP is in charge of the Congress,

so

it's up to them.

Uh, Hakee,

are you really leaving out the part

where the GOP can't do a thing without

60 votes and they've only got 50

whatever and they need, I think, nine

uh maybe nine votes from the Democrats,

which they're not getting. Uh, so to

prove he's not a clown, he went on TV

and lied. He just he just left out the

most important thing. The most important

thing is they need 60 votes. They can't

get it without the Democrats. And he

says that, "Oh, the GO GOP is in charge

of the Congress, so you know, why don't

you talk to them?" That is the most

incompetent

clownlike answer you will ever see.

Absolutely incompetent.

No, no, no, no, no. The the other thing

that uh I I'm positive that Hakee is uh

blind to is something I've been telling

you for a long time. You know, if you

live in California, you're you're always

immersed in Hispanic culture. Um and I'm

here to tell you I like it. Like if you

actually, you know, if you become, let's

say, saturated in or immersed in the

culture, you're going to like it.

They're they're the most American people

you'll ever see. I know you hate it when

I say this, but whether they have legal

or illegal status, they're the most

American people you're ever going to

see. They love their God, they love

their family, they they do hard work and

willingly and enthusiastically.

They are excellent people. Um but you

know, we do have to have a we do have to

have border controls. That's just a

separate topic. But the people

by and large are really excellent

people. Uh, one of the things I like

most about them is they are not woke at

all. If you were to show that meme to, I

don't know, 10 randomly chosen Mexicans,

do you think they'd be insulted?

Not a chance. No chance. They would

either think it was funny or they would

think it wasn't funny. But do you think

that they would spend even one second

complaining about the racism of it all?

No. No. It just wouldn't even occur to

them. It just isn't important. It's not

my family. It's not my god. It's not my

job.

I don't care. You want to put a put a

Mexican hat on somebody, laugh at him,

no problem.

I see some wildly racist things in the

comments. I guess I can't cure you all.

Um,

but just take my word for it. If you had

if you were immersed in the community,

you would have you would have a higher

opinion.

All right.

Uh, the other thing, one one of the

memes referred to Hakee Jeff as a dollar

store Obama.

Now,

I would say that's not racist, but it is

racial.

It is possible to make a joke that

involves race that is not racist. I

think this is a perfect example. I don't

think that's racist. I I I think it's

obvious that people's color has some

impact on whether they get elected.

Everybody agrees in that. or they also

call him Teemo Teimmo Obama.

To me, that's just funny.

Then apparently Hakee Jeff and Schumer

were in the Oval Office to try to see if

they could do last minute negotiations

yesterday about the budget and uh

nothing important happened, of course.

And uh Trump apparently had some uh

Trump 2028 hats prominently displayed on

the on the Oval Office desk. So all the

all the cameras would make it look like

they had that Jeff and Schumer had to

look at them. There was a there was a

story that he gave them in the hats, but

that didn't happen. I don't think it

happened.

Well, you may have seen the Pete Hagsth

clips and the meeting of the generals

and admirals. Now we're told that the

reason that they were collected there is

for the purpose of what they were told

by you know uh their secretary of war PX

and later also by uh Trump. But uh I'd

like to inject my own conspiracy theory

into the mode. Okay. Imagine if you will

that the US was preparing for some major

military action, maybe against the

Venezuelan cartels, maybe uh maybe

against something else. Now, would they

would they give up would the world know

what we were planning if the only people

who got invited were the the most

directly involved with whatever that

military action would be? Because there

there are different leaders for

different parts of the world, different

theaters, right? So if you only invited

in all the leaders from one theater,

then people would say, "Oh shoot,

something's going to happen over there

and then maybe they could prepare for it

and we wouldn't want that to happen,

especially if we decide not to do it."

You know, you don't want to cause a

whole thing. So is it possible that

although there were you know genuine

reasons to have the meeting that we saw

that maybe it was the only way they

could disguise that they were planning

some action against one part of the

world and they didn't want to signal

which part it was

right and I and I ask you do you think

that communications that our military

communications are sufficient that if we

just said, "Well, you don't all have to

come here. We'll just send you this top

secret, secret, top secret, encrypted,

double encrypted, triple encrypted,

military encrypted thing, and everything

will be fine." But we all know that

stuff leaks, you know, and we could

suspect that maybe some adversaries have

access to it. The only thing you could

really do is bring in the top people and

put them in a secure room like a skiff

and just say, "All right, guys." Yeah,

don't tell anybody yet, but make sure

you guys are operationally ready for

some action that's coming.

All right, if they didn't do that and

yet they are also planning a military

action, well, they did something wrong

because that's the way they should have

done it. They should have disguised it

as an all hands meeting and then

secretly pulled off the subset of people

when nobody's watching and say, "All

right, you guys, you know, you 20 people

come this way." That's what I think.

Anyway, we'll see. Um, but uh so the uh

things that Hagath mentioned uh I kind

of liked. I liked it a lot actually. He

he was uh telling the generals and the

admirals uh that uh the military is

going to get rid of wokeness. No dudes

in dresses, no no fatties in the

military, including the generals in the

hallway. No more emphasis on climate

change. Only emphasis on lethality and

effectiveness and professionalism

basically. Uh I like it. And uh Trump

mentioned getting rid of uh when he

talked getting rid of political

correctness in the military. He says the

purpose of American military is not to

protect anyone's feelings. It's it's to

protect our republic. Correct.

Um I would say that I was skeptical

about the value of this all hands

meeting, but I'm not now. I I thought uh

Hagsth did a

a stellar job. I thought he did a really

good job. He uh got rid of the beards

and the beardos. He called them the

beardos.

Uh

so anyway, good job Pete Higs. Then the

president spoke and I'm going to echo

something I believe Steve Bannon noticed

too. Trump looked um dangerously tired

yesterday in at least two different

events. Now, he has a right to be tired

because he's doing about four jobs and

you I've never seen anybody work harder,

but it's unusual. It's unusual to see

him that tired. It what it makes you

wonder if he's taken on too much. Maybe

he's not getting enough help from his

staff. That's what Steve Bannon was

suggesting. Maybe maybe people need to

step up, give the guy time to take a

nap. Um, I think this is good for any

president and and Trump, of course, is

famously the highest energy president.

Well, Clinton was pretty high energy,

but uh, you know, nobody nobody doubts

his energy in general, but he looked

like he looked like maybe he was, I

don't know, coming down with something

or he lost some sleep recently over

something. I don't know,

but I am worried about him. Um, and if

if all it is is exhaustion because he's

taking on so much, well, I act like

that's nothing. Um, I guess that would

be the best case scenario if it's just,

you know, he's taken on too much, but

uh, keep an eye on that. I'm I'm

concerned for his, uh, his health and

safety at this point.

Um

MSNBC as

cats.

All right. Trouble troublemakers. They

have found the highest point in my

office on top of some equipment. Don't

break anything.

All right. MSNBC, as a number of people

noticed, is back to calling Trump

Hitler, or at least some of their guests

are. Um and uh they don't like the fact

that Trump referred to the enemy within

which is all the the wokeness stuff is

the enemy within. Um and he wasn't he

wasn't making a big deal about diversity

being a value might actually be a

disadvantage in the military. Certainly

you don't want too much diversity of

opinion in the military. You kind of

need everybody to do what they're told.

Um, so MSNBC learned nothing.

Still a bunch of Hitler stuff. Um,

and other big news, although it might

take a while for this to be implemented.

So the White House has announced that

they're going to have a website for

selling uh pharmaceutical

products. Not all of them. There'll be a

limited number. First it would be only

Fizer products and not all of them. just

a few of them. Um, and you would be able

to buy them directly on that website and

bypass the the middle people. So, you'd

save money by p bypassing the middle

people. Now,

I think that means that Fizer still gets

their full profit. I have a lot of

questions about this, so don't um don't

believe what I say yet on this topic. It

seems to me

um

that we don't know if Fizer took any any

hit because maybe they just agreed to be

on this website, you know, primarily

so that uh the middle people lose their

profit but not Fizer. But there is at

least one category that uh prescription

Medicaid drugs

um oh I guess the prescription Medicaid

are the only ones that are going to be

on this at the beginning. Um

so Medicaid

but not Medicare,

right? Why why Medicaid but not

Medicare? I don't know. Seems like the

argument for one would be the same as

the argument for the other.

And anyway, um, but, uh, Chris Clump,

who was, I guess, in charge of putting

that deal together, says it's the first

of many deals. So, I guess what we'll

find out is

how much this grows, how successful it

is. Um, it's going to take a while for

this to be implemented

and uh we we'll see if it has any impact

on Mark Cuban's business selling uh

lowerc cost meds. Um, initially

it might actually be positive because

any any pressure you put on the pharma

companies and any efforts to lower their

costs probably works for everybody who

wants to do the same thing. and uh and

Cuban has a several year head start in

doing that kind of business. So, we'll

see. And why wouldn't it be available on

the government website, but also on the

Mark Cuban uh business model? Is there a

reason that Fiser wouldn't make the same

deal available to both?

I don't know. A lot of questions. We

shall see. Well, pollster Frank Luntz

uh was on CNN and probably didn't give

them the answer that they wanted. So,

there's a new poll um that says that

Trump is losing quite a bit of support

among uh groups that put him over the

top like Hispanic voters and voters

under 30. And uh I think LZ was supposed

to say, "Oh, now that Trump has lost all

this support of these subgroups,

um you know, it's it's bad news for the

midterms."

Instead, he said, quote, about Trump, he

should be concerned about it and the

Democrats should be concerned because

their numbers have dropped even further.

So the right answer is yeah, Trump lost

support in a couple of groups, but not

as much as the Democrats lost overall.

Uh, and he even predicted that if you

looked at history, the Democrats should

take control of the House in the

midterms. That that would be based on

history. That would be the typical most

common normal thing that could happen.

But he says,

uh, if he asked me who was in a better

position talking about the midterms, I

would say to you that history says the

Democrats should win, but based on where

things stand right now, you have to give

Republicans the edge. Do you know how

bad your party has to be for you you to

lose the midterms when the party out of

power pretty much automatically wins the

midterms? I don't know. So, I'm not uh

yet going to say that Republicans have a

lock on the midterms because I don't

believe that's the case. This this

really looks like a coin toss to me. I

believe the Republicans could do well.

That doesn't mean they will. And I

believe the Democrats could do well

because it's not a presidential race.

And the Democrats will just say, "I like

Democrats

maybe." And if more of them go, if the

Republicans don't show up, anything

could happen.

Well, here's a delicious little story.

Black Lives Matter is suing a

Sorosbacked uh group called Tides, Tides

Foundation, because they think that the

Tides Foundation had promised them $33

million that is now being distributed.

So

the lawsuit was filed last year, but the

stakes were ri raised on Monday.

Uh

I guess there's some other things

happening that raised the stakes. So the

it's just funny that Black Lives Matter

doesn't trust Soros organization and the

Soros organization doesn't trust them

apparently enough to give them more

money.

Uh so they're blaming uh accuse the

tides foundation of alleged deceptive

business practices and egregious

mismanagement of its money while

demanding its its return. Okay.

So how much did you love that story that

Black Lives Matter is suing Osorus

funded organization? All right. Um,

here's another story you might

appreciate. You may or may not know that

the ADL

um had on their website uh criticism of

I I guess Charlie Kirk and also uh

Turning Point USA, but they got a lot of

push back from uh influential people.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump were

mentioned. I'm reading Joel Pollock's

story in Breitbart about this. And

apparently the Anti-Defamation League uh

deleted uh an entire part of their

website called the Glossery of Extremism

because there was something on there

that was sort of anti-uh

TPUSA

and uh the Jewish insiders reporting

this. It says, "Under oppression from

Elon Musk and Donald Trump and prominent

right-wing activists in the wake of the

assassination of Charlotte K, the

anti-defamation league is removing its

glossery blah blah." But um the data the

database had identified over a thousand

terms relating to extremist ideology.

Uh so they got rid of that. Um

and the an ADL spokesperson confirmed

that they removed that glossery

and it does not consider uh TPUSA

Turning Point to be a quote extremist

group.

So So they don't have that there. But

there was more. They also had a

backgrounder page on Turning Point USA

which remains there but they've edited

it. So the original version said uh Kirk

has created a vast platform for

extremists and far-right conspiracy

theorists to speak and attend his annual

America fest and other events sponsored

by. So so their backgrounder was that

it's a it's a big platform and there

could be some extremists

uh who are attending. The new version

adds that Kirk himself publicly

condemned such groups. Yeah. That seems

like that would be important to include.

He publicly condemned such groups

insisting that they did not represent

TPOC and their beliefs. And uh so and

now it also their page also includes the

fact that Kirk spoke out against

anti-semitism and in defense of Israel.

Okay.

Um, I call that a step in the right

direction, but I do not forgive or

forget the ADL because I um I I think

they put a stain on Jewish Americans.

They put a stain on America and they put

a stain on Israel and I don't think they

have a good reason for existing at the

moment. If your only point of existing

is to be the moral judges and say these

people are bad and these people are

good, you'd better be really

good at it. You know what I'm saying? If

if your job is to destroy people and

destroy organizations, but only if

they're bad, you better be really

good at knowing who's good and

who's bad. And you're not. You're not.

If you can't learn to be good at

it,

you should go out of business. Nobody

should give them a penny.

Now, I told my uh locals followers

before the the regular show here

that uh for health reasons, I'm

temporarily on some steroids.

Uh if any of you remember what happened

to me with the last time I was on

prednazone, this is not predinazone, but

it's a different steroid. Um, I get

pretty aggressive.

I might curse a little bit more if you

don't mind. Does anybody mind if I get a

little more aggressive than usual?

No, you don't mind.

And then I said to myself after hearing

that the BLM was after Soros and and the

ADL was um really just a stain on

America. Um I wondered what does the ADL

think of BLM? Do you ever wonder that?

What does the ADL think of Black Lives

Matter? So I went to Grock and looked it

up and apparently it's complicated.

uh they they're all in favor of the sort

of general concept of it, you know, that

everybody's important and black lives

matter and, you know, they don't like uh

police excess police actions, you know,

just sort of the ordinary stuff that

most people would say, "Oh, yeah, that

makes sense." But they're not in favor

of, you know, all the leaders. Some of

the leaders have embarrassed themselves

and they're not supporting that. Um, but

did you know that the ADL promotes BLM

in its curricula? Did you know that the

ADL has created a curricula that it

provides to schools to uh help educate

children? So, apparently part of that

curricula promotes Black Lives Matter.

So, a 2021 lesson plan for high school

students uh teaches that the history of

this is from Grock, that the history of

Black Lives Matter analyzes a

controversy about using the term all

lives matter.

Okay, I don't need to say anything about

that, do I? Um,

and uh blah blah blah blah. And the ADL

tweeted back then, it's Black History

Month. show high school students how

they can raise their voices to create

positive change. Our lesson plan on

Black Lives Matter is a great place to

start. So, I would say that ADL and

Black Lives Matters have tied their

futures together and uh that makes sense

because both of them should disappear

from America forever for the better.

Anyway,

there's that.

Um, so the ADL, whose job is it to know

who's good and who's bad, thought uh the

Christian

uh the Christian approach of Turning

Point USA was bad for reasons and that

Black Live Matters was mostly good. You

know, a few bad actors, but mostly good

for reasons. And the ADL's job is to

know who's good and who's bad.

Uh, have I made my case? Nothing else to

say about that. All right. Uh, Candace

Owens continues to be entertaining. Let

Let me just say about Candace. I know

she's super controversial at the moment.

Um, I don't think that anybody in the

world agrees with everything she says.

Would that be fair? Like, even her

closest supporters probably don't agree

with everything she says.

So, you know, I'm no different. Um, but

I am uh completely biased in her favor

because she is just one of the nicest,

warmest people you'll ever meet in your

life. You know, I had the the pleasure

of meeting her very briefly. You know,

we didn't even chat much, but I've told

this story before. Uh, we were both on

a morning show. Um, and uh, she saw me

from across the room while we were

waiting for the next hit and ran over to

me, opened her arms with this gigantic

smile, and just laid a hug on me that I

really needed at that moment. And I

thought to myself, I really like you. I

like her because she liked me, and she

was so warm and open and embracing.

Anyway, so if something comes up that I

really really don't like about her, I

don't know if I'd be honest about it,

honestly, because I have such a just a

positive vibe. It's hard to get past

that. I have the same problem with

Trump, you know, having spent time with

him in the Oval Office just cuz he

wanted to chat.

um you walk away with such a positive

and feeling about the the human being

that you you can't really fully you

can't really fully untangle that from

what you think of their opinions. It's

just hard to dislike somebody you like.

Anyway, so I like Candace.

Um she's

she was pointing out that uh 48 hours

before Charlie Kirk's death he was

getting pressure from pro-Israel groups

to be pro-Israel when at the same time

apparently he had already informed just

two days before he was killed he had

informed allegedly now this is Candace's

claim that she knows this for sure um

they had informed team Turning Point USA

members

that he had no choice but to abandon the

pro-Israel cause because he was being

bullied by pro-Jewish voters.

Now, apparently Candace has challenged

TPUSA

to deny that that happened, but be

direct. Did he or did he not say he was

about to abandon the pro-Israel cause?

Now, if you want to turn that into a

conspiracy theory, then everything turns

into, you know, Israel's behind every

plot and secretly they're plotting. I

don't think that I would uh treat these

two two facts if they're facts. I don't

think I would connect them. So, here

would be where I would disagree with

Candace. Um, you can just have two

facts. It could be that they were

getting some pressure. Could be that he

was considering changing his approach to

it. At the same time, it could be some

crazy guy who just disagreed with

everything he was doing and thought he

was a hater, decided that was the time

to take him out. So, the coincidence

probably had more to do with the fact

that the opportunity to get a shot from

a rooftop just happened to happen around

the same time that these conversations

were going on. So, I would uh I think

it's a fair question. I I think Candace

deserves a direct answer because she had

a she had a very close personal

relationship with Charlie Kirk. She's

allowed to ask this question. Absolutely

allowed to ask the question. Personally,

I don't think they're connected.

Now, at the same time, let me say that I

don't support Israel.

I don't support Israel. The ADL is a big

reason that I don't. It's not the only

reason, but Israel is not my country.

So, I've said this before. I have to say

it every time Israel comes up. You

understand that, right? Even though

you've all heard this little thing, I

have to say it every time. Um, Israel is

not my country. So, when I talk about

them, I observe. Sometimes I predict,

but I don't approve. I I don't tell you

my morality or ethical sense should

dominate their sense of national

self-interest. So if I observe them

operating in what appears to be, as far

as they can tell, in their

self-interest,

that's the end of my analysis. They're

operating in their self-interest or

they're not. They're operating in the

United States self-interest or they're

not. Those things are important and I'll

talk about them. Uh, but I'm it's not up

to me to say he was a good guy. I I

don't think there are any good guys in

the Middle East. There's just power,

self-interest. That's it.

Anyway,

um,

apparently the Department of Homeland

Security, this is also in Breitbart,

Neil Monroe is writing about this. Um,

they've exposed massive fraud by

migrants in Minneapolis. So they did a

survey of migrants in Minneapolis and

found out that 50% of them were involved

in some major fraud. Um sometimes it was

fake marriages. Sometimes it was people

here illegally. Sometimes they were, you

know, working some fraud like the the

healthc care frauds we've heard of

recently that are massive. But 50%

forged documents, abuse of the H1B,

50% were involved with a major fraud.

So this gets back to how much um how

much uh immigration should we have and

from where?

Can we finally say out loud without

getting cancelled that not every destin

not every source of immigration is the

same? Can I say out loud now that if we

uh if we imported some Europeans,

especially let's say Christians, if we

imported some Christian Europeans of any

color, doesn't matter the color, they

could be black or white, but they're

Christians and they're Europeans, would

there be any problem with assimilation?

Probably not, right? It' probably be

insulent. What about uh Mexicans?

Well, here the only the only issue I

think is quantity

because they assimilate really well.

Really well. The second generation is

just full American. And but you have to

put a limit on it. I mean, you can't

just say everybody come in because

you're really good at assimilating. If

you got too many, then they wouldn't

have to bother. They, you know, they'd

be stuck in their own communities, might

not even learn English. Who knows? So,

that would be a question of quantity.

But clearly there are cultures

that have a different approach to all

the things that we hold dear

as in

uh if you can steal should you do it.

There are some cultures in which within

the culture stealing something that you

can steal isn't so bad. And there are

some cultures in which doing something

bad to a group that to somebody who's

not in your group is not such a big

deal. For example, some Muslim cultures

that might say in the Middle East, not

so much here, but in the Middle East,

they might say, "Well, we can we can

rape those women because they're not

Muslim. Do you want more of that? Do you

want a lot of that in the United

States?" Now, I don't know how much of

that has already been imported, but not

zero. Not zero. We have, in fact,

imported people who probably would say

out loud if they felt they could get

away with it, "Oh, yeah, you can

definitely rape people who are not

Muslims. They're not even human,

basically." Yeah. How many of those do

you want? So, likewise in uh in uh is it

Minnesota or Minneapolis?

I always confuse the two in Minneapolis.

Um, if it's true that the type of uh

immigrants in Minneapolis have a

cultural,

let's say, eccentricity or something

different about them that doesn't fit

with our culture. And maybe this this

fraud stuff might be part of it. I don't

know. Uh, I I just know that if you took

a bunch of Christians and a bunch of

Buddhists

and put them in a room and said, "All

right, you have the opportunity to do a

fraud and steal things and you probably

get away with it." They wouldn't all do

it. You know what I mean? They wouldn't

all do it. Some would. Some would, but

they wouldn't all do it.

I I do believe that there are cultures,

and I don't know which ones, so I won't

be more specific, in which most of them

would do it. Maybe because they're not

like you, they go, "Well, we don't owe

these, you know, these American devils

anything. If we can get their stuff,

take it." I don't know if anybody has

that view. But if they do, and you know,

some people do. If they do, you don't

want a lot of them, right? You don't

want a lot of those.

So, we we're never really honest about

immigration. That's part of the reason

it's so hard to deal with it. But I feel

like honesty is breaking down

everywhere, even if you're not on

steroids like I am. All right. Uh the EU

is going to send 4 billion euros to

Ukraine today, but they say uh

um that uh they will have to be repaid

if Russia ends up paying reparations to

Ukraine.

What What are the odds that Russia is

going to pay reparations to Ukraine?

Is this is this just the EU being

stupid? because they don't want to say

we're just giving away our money. So

they're going to act like well there's

one possibility

the some of it might come back.

Who believes that? Nobody.

All right.

Also in Ukraine, according to Vizigrad

24, uh there's a major UK um not

Ukraine, but in Russia, there's a major

oil refinery.

It's one of the five largest refineries

in Russia. There's no indication it was

attacked, but it's on fire. Uh they're

saying it wasn't caused by a drone

attack, but I don't know if they would

necessarily have noticed it.

don't know. So, as I've said before, the

reason that I always talk about the

refinery attacks and the refinery fires

is that my estimate is that if you take

down Russia's energy economy by 20%

that they'll end up at the negotiating

table pretty fast. You don't have to

take 80%. 20% and growing means they're

going to start talking to you real fast.

So, I don't know how close we are to 20%

or Ukraine is to getting 20% of their

energy stuff offline, but I'll bet

they're somewhere in the 10% range and

growing.

Meanwhile, in Germany, October Fest in

Munich got closed down because of bomb

threats and an actual bomb went off. And

I guess they found a a backpack with

additional bombs has also been found.

You know, I do worry that mass

gatherings will just have to be stopped.

You know, uh I'm still impressed that we

can put on major sporting events without

an attack. I don't know how long that

will last, but it probably only would

take one attack on a sporting event

before we say, "All right, we're done

with these. We're not going to do this

anymore." I feel like that could happen

in my lifetime and that would be super

tragic.

Well, President Trump says he's open to

meeting with Kim Jong-un without

preconditions, which is exactly the

right approach. Just act like he's our

friend. And I would go further. I would

invite him to America to a basketball

game. I would invite him to an NBA game.

Sit in the good box, you know, have tons

of security. Have Trump sitting next to

him. just watch the game and just say,

"Uh, we don't even need to talk any

politics if you don't want to. I'm just

inviting you over to watch the

basketball game." Would he come? I don't

think so. I I don't think he would feel

safe.

But what would you do if if you knew

that he had been friendly to you the

whole time, Trump, and you knew that he

could protect you if he wanted to, would

you feel comfortable coming to America

and being, you know, essentially at the

mercy of American security?

I don't know. So, uh, but it might it

might be worth something just to invite

him and let him say no. Because imagine

if it's your favorite thing and you

genuinely don't really feel a risk.

Maybe I mean just the invitation would

be I think valuable because it would

just change the way you thought about

everything. Stop thinking about nuclear

weapons and start thinking about

three-point shots. Just

just change change the conversation.

Well, uh, according to the New York

Times, um,

uh, I guess, uh, Marco Rubio is in

charge of working with the opposition

groups in Venezuela, trying to get them

to overthrow their dictator, Maduro, uh,

without the US moving his military in.

What would the US do to help the

opposition take over the country? Well,

it's called a color revolution.

And they would do the exact same thing

that the Democrats did to the

Republicans. They would fund a bunch of

fake organizations. So, it looked like

there was a, you know, a major some kind

of a major, you know, uh, movement on

the streets. They would try to bribe the

uh the media, but probably the media is

firmly under the control of the

dictator, so that might not work. Um

they would uh probably make promises to

people like if you get this done,

something good will be coming your way.

Maybe all kinds of CIA dirty tricks to

to weaken things and change the

narrative, etc. Do you think that they

could pull that off without any weapons

being fired? Well, the answer is,

according to Democrats, yes.

It turns out that you can overthrow a

country uh just by wandering around

without weapons in one of the buildings

you're not supposed to be in.

Now, we all learned that, right? In

January 6, we learned that uh a proper

insurrection really is just trespassing

in one building with no weapons.

So maybe maybe that's what the CIA is

doing. It's like, "Hey guys,

um if you really want to run an

insurrection, look at the way we did it

in America. We get some unarmed people

to wander around and take selfies in a

building where they're not allowed to be

in. Do you hear me? Do you hear me? This

could work. Uh, wouldn't it be better if

you supported us with your intense

gigantic military that's right outside

our door? Don't need to. Don't need to.

All you need to do is trespass without

weapons because we know the Democrats

have taught us that is how you overtake

a country. The the military won't even

act. the that you think the Venezuelan

military is going to come in and try to

remove you? No. No, they they won't.

Anyway, apparently 70% of the population

allegedly voted for uh somebody who's

not Madura, somebody named Gonzalez.

And so they would try to um try to get

people to accept Gonzalez as already the

leader and go from there.

Um

New York University

did a study of 5 to 11 year olds in the

US and China and found out that uh

children's belief that their family and

friends would support their pursuit of

political leadership as adults predicted

their expressed motivation to become

political leaders, specifically

president or chairman if you're in

China.

So the idea was that the reason uh more

males than females become presidents and

leaders is because they learn very early

between 5 and 11 that their parents

would support a boy trying to become

president, but they would not support a

girl trying to become president.

Do you believe that?

Or are you watching the cats behind my

shoulder? uh seemingly having some kind

of

some kind of sexual encounter, but uh

pretty sure it's not. I'm about 80% sure

that's not sexual.

Yeah. Anyway, do you believe that that's

why uh girls don't become leaders as

often because their parents did not

support them when they were between five

and 11?

I don't

I don't believe that. Here's what I

believe.

When I was between the ages of five and

11, um I wanted to be rich and famous

and somehow impactful in the world. But

uh my father's advice was to work for

the post office.

True story. He worked for the post

office and he couldn't stop raving about

how good the benefits were. Get a lot of

vacation days.

Uh you get a good pension which he got.

He had a very good pension

and uh it's hard to get fired. So while

I was born planning to be, you know,

something important someday, CEO or

something, uh, my father was guiding me

toward the postal arts.

Did it make any difference? No. No.

Because I was always ambitious. I was

just born that way. Didn't it didn't

come from anywhere. I was just born

ambitious. I believe that these 5 to 11

year olds are mostly just born

ambitious. Yes, it's true that the boys

might get more, you know, more

encouragement, but I don't think that

matters because I think that anybody who

is so weak that their childhood

experience told them that they could or

could not be president, they're not

really presidential material. You want

somebody who is, you know, sits up in

the crib and goes, you know,

I've only been here a day, but I think I

could run this place. Like me,

like Trump. Those are the ones that

become president, the one the ones who

are sure that you can't talk him out of

it. So, I don't believe that study, but

although I I will acknowledge that

there's something to it. You know, more

more encouragement would be better than

less. But how much did uh JD Vance get

encouragement to be the vice president?

Probably the president later. How much

encouragement did he get at home? Do you

think that was the difference?

His addicted mom was saying, "Yeah,

sure. You could probably go from poverty

to the president. Yeah, go do it."

Probably not. Probably not.

Uh Trump is giving Hamas a yesterday he

said 3 to four days ultimatum to accept

the Gaza peace plan. Uh to which I give

you this bit of advice.

A deadline of 3 to four days

is a deadline of four days.

There's no such thing as a deadline of

three or four days. That's four days.

Four days deadline.

Forget about the three. It's funny. I

think it's funny when Trump talks like

that because it makes you it it makes

you not be able to turn away from what

he said. If all he said is, you know,

deadline in four days, it wouldn't be

nearly as interesting or stick in my

mind as when he says three or four. So,

what's he gonna do on day three? He's

gonna yank it. I said three or four. Oh,

no. No. You thought you had another day.

Look at what I said. I said three or

four days. This is the third day. So,

deal's done. And Hamas says, "But you

said three or four." I know. And this

three or four.

Anyway, there's no I think there's no

chance in the world that the deal will

be accepted. So, I think Israel will

just get another a free pass to do

whatever they think they need to do.

Meanwhile, apparently the uh Israel was

using something called unit 8200. So,

that's one of their I don't know dark

arts people or something, but they were

using Microsoft's uh cloud uh storage to

keep all the mass surveillance on Gaza

about all their telephone calls. I guess

they had every telephone call and they

were storing it on a Microsoft servers

and Microsoft when they found out that's

what it was being used for they said um

come to my office.

So the uh CEO of Microsoft summoned

the head of unit 8200

and uh I don't know exactly what he said

the CEO

but uh something along the lines of

we're shutting this down and uh they

moved all their data so they didn't lo

they didn't lose their data they just

moved it to Europe or something. Um but

uh good for Microsoft good for them. Um,

I think that had more to do with

managing their customer base and their

employee base than any real feeling

about it, my guess is. But, uh, it was

the right business decision. By the way,

I do have some Microsoft

um, stock.

Blowing my nose wouldn't help. I know

you're trying to help. The only time my

nose does this is when I do the podcast.

It It won't do this all day. It'll it'll

stop as soon as I'm done. And the

blowing the nose makes no difference.

It, you know, it's not like I haven't

tried.

I I love some of your suggestions.

All right. Um,

how about that Microsoft Word, though?

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