Episode 3000 CWSA 10/26/25

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You know what I need a little bit more of is focus on the locals comments on my second device.

Then we'll have something.

Well, as tradition requires, I'll be reading you a reframe from my book, the best book in the world.

Reframe your brain.

Changing people's lives everywhere, one sentence at a time.

So, so we've been doing one frame a day.

We'll actually get through the whole book if I survive.

All right, we'll see how far we get.

Um, here we go.

We already did that one.

I want to pick the best one.

Um, all right.

Here's one that's a little cynical, but it's also really, really useful.

You ready for this?

Uh the usual frame is that your hard work will be rewarded.

Do you think that's true?

Do you think it's true that people would notice if you're a hard worker and they will reward you?

That's kind of true.

So the you know the normal frame trueish.

They'll they'll recognize your hard work and you'll be rewarded.

But here's a reframe that's better than that.

The illusion of hard work will be rewarded.

the illusion of hard work.

If you would just come in five minutes earlier than your boss, your boss will have a greater illusion of how hard you work.

If you could find a way to stay later, five minutes, than your boss, your boss again will think that you're working really hard.

Maybe it was only 5 minutes.

If you carry papers around when you walk back and forth in the hallway, it'll look like you're on a mission.

If you have nothing in your hand when you're walking back and forth, no laptop, no phone, it just looks like you're going to the restroom.

So, I would argue that you should do what my co-workers did.

My old boss, the one who actually named Dilbert, he came up with the name Dilbert.

Uh he he used to answer all questions about how you doing with answers about how hard he's working.

And when he at first, I didn't really realize the brilliance of it.

But over time, it's sort of a Trumpian hypnosis that makes you think he's the hardest working guy.

And and I'm here to tell you I I I loved my old boss, Mike Goodwin.

Great guy, but he was not the hardest working guy in the office.

He was just not the guy who talked about it the most.

So you'd say, "Hey, Mike, how you doing?" Let's say it's Monday, you haven't seen him.

He'd be like, "Um, jumping on hand grenades and crawling through the swamp and I got five jobs to do today." Some of it was true, but the illusion of how much work he was doing was great and his career went pretty well.

It's the illusion of work that you need to master.

Well, I wonder if there's any science that they didn't need to do because they could have just asked Scott.

Oh, here's some inpost.

Karina Petrova is writing about this.

There's a 35 days.

I'm going to guess that you could have all guessed this one, too.

I'm not going to take any credit for getting this one right.

Uh, a 35day study of couples finds that being present and non-judgmental during sex is associated with greater sexual well-being for you and your partner.

So, paying you're saying that paying attention to the person you're having sex with while you're having sex can make the experience better.

Well, apparently that's what I've been doing wrong my whole life.

I learned to doom scroll and eat a sandwich while I'm having intercourse.

And I wasn't getting very good reviews, if you know what I mean.

So, uh, apparently don't be using your phone while you're in mid intercourse.

Uh, that's what science tells us.

I don't know if you could guess that on your own, but I have full confidence that many of you could.

Many of you could.

There's another study from Mone University that listening to or playing music when you're over 75 is linked to up to a 39% reduction in dementia risk.

So learning to play music was good, but apparently just listening to it all the time is really good, too.

Do you believe this study that they can measure the dementia risk based on how much music you listen to?

Do you think that's true?

It might be.

It might be.

I won't rule this one out.

It seems to me that anything that engages your mind would probably reduce your risk of dementia.

Every other time we look at anything that that activates your mind.

Yeah.

Serno disagrees.

I I'm a famous anti-musicer because I think if you are if you have a regular life, music is just pollution in your brain cuz your brain is just so full of stuff.

You're not going to get dementia when you're 40, if it has anything to do with how much you have to think about.

Cuz when you're 40, you're thinking about a lot of stuff.

But if you're 75 and you got nothing going on and you just be otherwise walking around the house listening to whatever's on the news, feels like it'd be better to listen to music.

I don't know.

That one might be real.

Well, according to Fox News, Sarah Rumpwitten, uh, that's a that's a tough name.

I see why she hyphenated it.

Rump.

Um, the No Kings protest was largely made up of uh older white educated women in their 40s.

And uh there's this expert Jonathan Elbert who hypothesizes that they're using it for therapy that that the reason it's this particular demographic.

You know, we've speculated why is it this demographic?

And you know, we thought, well, maybe it's the retired They're the ones who watch Legacy News.

And probably all those are factors, but it might be that Jonathan Alper has the exact right uh answer, which is that it's exactly the same group that are having mental problems about Trump and they believe that marching around with other people who have the same same viewpoint would be a form of group therapy.

And I thought to myself, you know what?

It is group therapy.

And you know what else?

I'll bet it works.

I'll bet it works.

Just just feeling validated by marching around with people who agree with you and tell you that you're right on you're right on point.

Oh yeah, you see the world clearly.

You don't have any mental problems.

There are just real problems in the world.

It's called Donald Trump.

So if you see these protests as more uh group therapy, everything makes sense.

Like all the pieces come together.

It's like, oh, oh, now I get it.

It's just group therapy.

That's why there's no violence, right?

That's why there's no looting because that's not why they're there.

They're not there to change policy because that's when things get a little violent.

When they're trying to change something, they're not really trying to change anything except how they feel and then it explains everything.

Well, according to WTF detective, whatever that is, a study in Michigan State University said that one in five adults don't want children and that people decide early in life that they don't want them and they actually stick to it.

They don't change their minds.

Do you think we're in trouble if only 20% of the people don't want children?

Because it feels like that's not that different than it ever was.

Was it?

Did 20% Was it always true that more than 80% of people had children?

I feel like 20% is sort of what it's always been.

Or was it 10%.

I don't know.

Maybe it doubled.

All right.

There's a uh new economic study out by let's see Nicole Ganakus Tobias and Cretchmer.

It's in the CR whatever that is.

Anyway, so it's a new economic study and what they did was they wanted to study to find out if confusopies are real and if they're being used.

Now, have you ever heard that word confuse?

It was coined in the 90s.

Do you know who coined that phrase in the 90s?

I did.

It was in my book.

Uh I think it was in the deliberate future.

It's it's now in the economic literature.

So if you were to Google confuseopy, you would find out that it's attributed to me.

Uh I think Wikipedia still talks about it.

And uh the theory was that I invented in the '9s is that big companies that had confusing pricing were being confusing intentionally because their product was the same as their competitors.

So the only way they could argue that you should buy theirs is if you couldn't tell the difference between theirs and somebody else's.

So the confusopoly is the idea that cell phone companies and insurance companies I use them as my examples.

They would they would give you pricing that you could not compare to anything else.

So the cell phone company would be like well you're paying by minutes but this one has uh rollovers but only for family members but you have to pay first to be eligible for the rollover but you had to buy your phone instead of Yeah.

So even AI wouldn't be able to figure out which phone service was best for you.

Nor could you necessarily easily tell if you had coverage in the places that you were personally going to go.

It's easier now, but but in the early days you couldn't even tell if you'd have coverage.

So that's a confusy.

Everybody gets their piece of the business because they all sort of collude without colluding to be confusing and they know that they all know that that works.

So this economic study was done and they concluded that it is highly plausible that the firms do act in a confuseopy uh fashion.

So now now it has some uh actual rigorous economic backing to the confuseopoly thing.

Have you ever tried to buy insurance?

Oh my god, insurance is is just a monster of complexity and confusopoly.

According to the New York Post, Georgia Warl is writing that US homeownership dipped in 2025 for the first time in nearly a decade.

And that is mostly because of interest rates.

I think uh interest rates plus the general affordability of everything is worse.

So it's not a big change.

It's just a tiny little down tick.1%.

But uh we need US home ownership to go up.

You you don't last long if that goes down forever.

That's not a good sign.

But it's just a blip at the moment.

Um, I talk about this all the time, but but this market is developing that the loneliness market, especially for senior citizens.

So, now there's a new AI startup called MA that's like a little chatbot for your senior citizen family members.

And apparently they like it.

They're pretty happy with it, the seniors.

Now the part I don't understand is that the company slightly added a memory to it so that your little chatbot will remember your conversations to which I say okay how could that possibly be true that they added memory to it that they don't have memory on uh Chad GPT at least memory that's um you know going to be reliable.

Grock doesn't have memory.

It has memory during the conversation, but it doesn't remember you when it comes back.

So, are you telling me that this little app for seniors has has cracked the hardest part in AI that literally nobody can crack?

I don't think so.

I think maybe the old people don't know that it has the wrong answers.

Maybe their memories are as bad as the app, so they can't tell the difference.

40 bucks a month gets you one.

If I did not have all of you, I'd be using that app.

I mean, why not?

All right, here's another uh Scott was right without being an expert.

It's Scott against the experts today.

So, the head of Meta's AI is this guy, Yan Lun.

You may have seen him.

he gets gets a lot of attention, but he was in some event and he was saying that uh the current way that we train AI will never get you to intelligence basically and that uh the whole pattern you language the large language models you could train them forever and it would never create intelligence.

So the head of AI at Meta is saying exactly what I've said for two years that there's no logical way you can get from pattern recognition of words to intelligence.

But it might look like people.

It might look and act like people because what we would discover is that people are just operating on patterns too and we don't have intelligence.

Was I right about any of that?

Yeah, I was right about all of it.

I was right about all of it.

Now, what he says, and you've heard other people like Elon say this, I think that the current models, they look like they're going to be PhD smart, but they never will be.

There's no way they can get there.

And I've been saying that.

I was like, I think this all looks like a fraud.

It doesn't look like the thing they're doing with these gigantic data centers would ever under any circumstances could ever succeed.

It's just logically impossible.

I guess he agrees.

But there's a solution.

I don't know if the solution makes any more sense, but the solution is that the models have to look at things happening in the real world and understand real world physics.

So, so the thinking is if your AI could just observe humans or other robots doing things, it could learn sort of the way that humans learn by observing and then trying to imitate it.

So that that would get get the robots and the AI to something like real intelligence.

But that's untested.

It's definitely the approach that I'm pretty sure this is what Elon's doing now.

I think he's training his with with real world physics as opposed to large language models.

Talking about his robots specifically.

Um, something else I was going to say about that.

I guess as things like the robots hands get more sensitive, Tesla has good hands on their optimist says uh says Elon.

Uh the hands would capture a lot of stuff in the real world, too.

As long as it's doing stuff.

All right.

So, that's coming.

So, the the robots now are being trained on artificial worlds, which they imagine, and I'm trying to figure out if that matches how humans learn be.

That was weird.

Hold on.

Oh, you're kidding.

>> It's the worst lamp in the world.

So, I've got a lamp that doesn't have any raised buttons.

So, when the lamp goes off, you have no idea where to touch it to turn on the light.

And if you hit the wrong button, it goes on a 45minut timer instead of just turning on.

Who designed that?

Who designed a light that you can't find the switch if the light is off?

I mean, seriously, did they test that even one time?

Did they test their light in a lit room?

Every time they turned it on, it's like, "Oh, look how easy it is to find this button." I swear to God, I have so many products that could not possibly have been tested even once.

Even once that could not have been tested.

God.

Anyway, so these uh models are imagining what the world looks like and then learning from their own imagination.

So, so the same way that you would create a video AI, you tell it, oh, imagine a cat as a sam samurai or something.

Uh the AI is doing the same thing.

So, it's imagining a world and then it's observing its own imagined world and then it's trying to learn the physics from the world it created.

which I'm not sure makes sense, but people smarter than me say it does, so I'll accept it.

Apparently, Apple, according to Doge Designer, this is the only place I saw it was uh one account on X.

Doge designer says that Apple's in talks with SpaceX to work on Starlink, meaning that your future i.

Phone could work on Starlink alone as opposed to a phone company.

H.

Now we're getting interesting.

Does that suggest that uh SpaceX and Starlink will not make their own phone?

Now, apparently they're not talking to Android.

Don't know why.

We're not talking to him yet, but uh they're talking about it in terms of dead zones.

So, if the only thing that Apple is doing is agreeing that Starlink will fire up if you're in a dead zone, but only in a dead zone, then it's not that big a story, but it's kind of cool.

I don't really have any dead zones where I live.

Do you guys still have dead zones for cell?

When was the last time you were somewhere where your cell didn't work?

On a mountain somewhere?

I don't do a lot of hiking.

All right.

So, uh, Trump's got this lawsuit he's had for a while against the De Mo Register newspaper because one of their pollsters, uh, close to the election, this last election, published what most people would consider a fake poll.

So, it's one of it was one of the most respected pollsters, but it uh this an Selzer pollster uh but just before the election dropped a poll that said that Kamla was doing great and none of that was true.

So, people thought that the poll was intentionally fake to bolster Kamla and that's what uh Trump is claiming.

you know, I guess he has some kind of a state court win that is not a victory on the case, but rather allows him to press it.

So that the only thing that's changed is that he's allowed to go forward with his case.

I think he's got a case that it it was so obvious that that was a fake poll.

I mean, again, I'm not an expert at polling, but I knew it was fake as soon as I saw it.

didn't you?

There there's a lot of stuff you don't have to be an expert about to know it's fake when you see it.

That's sort of my only skill.

I don't have technical skill, but I can spot pretty easily.

Pretty easily.

Not every time.

There there's a center square voters voice poll that found out that almost half of adults between 18 and 29 either have not much confidence or no confidence at all in the the midterm elections coming up.

So half of people in that young category don't think you can trust the elections.

That's just that's MAGA.

Do you think that came from Trump or is it just a generic young people don't trust stuff?

Could be both.

Anyway, my question would be why would any young person trust an election?

I understand the argument for not trusting it, but what would be the argument for trusting it?

Like how how inexperienced in the world would you have to be to think that there's something like you know any big organization that has any kind of power over you that also operates completely ethically.

We don't really see that when there's some big organization has power over you.

They're always operating unethically.

Always.

How's your How's your financial world?

How's your How's your healthcare world?

How's your NOS's?

How's your taxes?

How's your professional gambling and sports?

It's everything.

You know, if you're between 18 and 29, you think you didn't notice that literally everything is rigged.

And and to believe that the only thing that's not rigged is the thing that rigged the most and probably have the most access to rig.

Probably.

Really?

Is that what you believe?

That everything else is observably provably rigged from from the lawfare to the government.

You name it, right?

The climate change was a hoax.

All the news is fake.

Everything's rigged except the elections.

How can you believe that?

Like how how inexperienced in the world would you have to believe that everything is rigged provably so except the elections I don't know people today's the first day of early voting for New York City so I would say that the result is over there was you know some hail Mary hope that maybe Leewall would drop out before the voting started.

He did not.

And apparently it was just a huge day of first voting, just lots and lots of numbers, which would suggest that the conclusion is already a done deal.

And it would suggest the Mandami is going to win easily.

We'll have to wait for the result, but that's what it suggests.

So, I wasn't really following this whole Canada and Ronald Reagan tariff advertising story, but it just persisted a little bit longer than I wanted, so I'll mention it.

So, the basic idea was that things were starting to go well with negotiating a trade deal with Canada, but then the uh who was it?

This guy for Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

Somehow he got millions and millions of dollars to run an ad campaign that used uh Ronald Reagan and I think they aed him to make it look like he didn't like tariffs.

Um and uh he did that to sort of embarrass Trump in the United States and to and to essentially use our our golden Reagan against us.

Trump didn't like that at all and so he decided to cancel their uh just cancel the trade talks based on an advertisement on TV and add another 10% to their tariffs and uh he said uh apparently they had agreed to take it down earlier than they are.

They're going to let it run through the the weekend and that's what he was mad about.

If they had taken it down immediately when he asked, I guess he'd be okay with it grudgingly.

But they seem to have he he's indicating Trump is that they may have misled him, possibly lied to him.

And I think it's the lying to him part that he's responding to as much as the Reagan part.

But he's got two things that got under his skin.

Don't with our Reagan neighbors and don't lie to us.

You don't get to do that.

Yeah, we we'll still be your best friends, but don't with our Reagan.

Don't lie to us.

Then we're fine.

We're not asking a lot there.

Let's not ask a lot.

Anyway, we'll see where that goes.

That'll probably calm down a little bit.

Trump's over in Asia right now doing what I hope will be some kind of a victory tour.

He's good at this overseas stuff, but he's already he's already gone viral for dancing when he got off the Malaysian plane.

So, he lands in Malaysia and they have this giant welcoming party outside the plane on the tarmac.

And uh most of the people there are dancers.

So, they're doing some, you know, native dance.

And Trump sees the dancers.

He starts Yeah.

He He joins right in with his Trump uh fist pump dance that doesn't move much except the the fists, but he still like seeing it.

I don't know why, but we all like seeing him do it.

And then that became a giant story that he was, you know, bonding with the locals just so immediately because leaders of major countries don't get off the plane and start dancing, right?

Can you imagine Putin going out there and seeing the dancers like, "Yeah, yeah." And you know, he starts doing that Russian dance.

Can't imagine it.

Can you imagine President Xi coming out with his Winnie the Pooh face that never changes and then suddenly you see the dancers and going oh you can't even imagine it right you can't even imagine it the if I wanted to imagine a leader who would be let's say loose enough and celebrity enough to do what Trump did which is just a little bit dance, you'd have to go all the way to uh uh Boris Johnson just to give somebody that you could even imagine would try it.

So, only Trump and uh I'm sure they love him for it.

They probably that will be the the the Malaysian news will probably just cover that non-stop for all day long, just showing him dancing with the locals and then everybody like, "Hey, we like this guy." So, he's uh signed some deals, I think, already, but they were sort of things we knew were going to happen.

Maybe some improvements on the trade.

I think he's already signed some of that.

And uh and and I guess he's finalizing a deal that would already been done between Thailand and Cambodia so that they're no longer on a waring basis.

That was already a done deal, but I guess they made it official.

So he's got stuff to sign that's not, you know, groundbreaking, but it's all good news.

This end of fighting, end of trade negotiations, so we can get a get ourselves a good deal.

So that's all good.

Um, and Thailand, according to Reuters, Thailand and Malaysia are going to play a bigger role with our critical minerals.

So if what Trump gets out of this is they like him better over there and he gets some better trade deals, he nails down his eight out of nine or eight or nine wars that he's ended according to him.

And he gets some extra mineral play.

Pretty successful.

Pretty good.

And uh we just have access to three countries markets that have been Reuters says enhanced.

Good.

That's just free money.

Now, didn't he promise us that the trade deals would basically just be free money?

Free money.

It looks like we got a better deal.

And it's not 100% obvious that these Asian companies also feel they got a better deal.

They might just cuz more trade is more better.

But, uh, it looks like he's winning.

Have you heard Peter Zion talk about the impending collapse of China for demographic reasons?

He's got a fairly strong argument that China doesn't have any mechanism for survival that there there's no path and that it's brought on by by their demographic uh manipulations.

So they have so few young people compared to old people that they really don't have any way to survive if you're looking 10 20 years out.

Now I'm confident that they'll figure it out.

Robots or some damn thing, but uh he does make a strong argument that the size of their problem is not like the size of our problems.

the US actually, even though we've got that demographic problem, too, it's it's small compared to theirs.

So maybe this is the biggest thing that'll happen in the future.

Well, I'm still loving the ballroom story distraction cuz Trump can go over there and make a bunch of news that all looks like good news for him.

Well, while the Democrats are left to argue that you should not upgrade a building that is often upgraded, that's what they have.

Okay, you guys go work on you don't like upgrading the building that has been upgraded many times and is the responsibility of the president to upgrade it.

All right, we'll be making some trade deals while you're doing that.

Um, but the ballroom story has so many legs because it's the perfect story for lazy podcasters and lazy news, including myself, because I don't have to do a lot of research to understand construction of a ballroom.

Yeah, we all understand that prior presidents built basketball courts and swimming pools and stuff.

We all understand what it costs.

Now, we know we we got the full list yesterday of who's donating to the $350 million.

Turns out it was really easy to get $350 million.

Those companies coughed that money up so fast.

Oh, yeah.

Get it get us on this because they're all smart enough to know that this one's sort of a a passion project for Trump.

It means more it's got a sort of an emotional hook.

So they're smart enough to know this is not like other things.

Oh yeah, we'll put some money behind this.

Yeah, we're all in.

So a lot of the big companies stepped up.

It's already funded.

Uh they might even have more money than they need, which is funny.

Um but it turns out that it's fake news, according to Trump, that he had ever anticipated naming it after himself.

Do you remember the news yesterday or the day before said that Trump uh was going to name it the uh Donald J.

Trump ballroom?

Trump says that never happened.

We're not we have have not even talked about a name for it.

He's leaning toward the presidential ballroom.

Do you believe that that will be the the name?

Apparently the staff is already sort of cheekily referring it to it as the, you know, the Trump ballroom, but Trump is very smart to act like that's not a done deal after it gets built and you can't take it back.

Do you think you'll still want it to be the presidential ballroom or will he wait to name it when it's done?

And the first time you'll hear its actual name is when he cuts the ribbon.

And when he cuts the ribbon, he'll say, "I'm introducing the what?" Just before he cuts the ribbon.

Introducing the presidential ballroom or the Donald J.

Trump ballroom clip.

too late to change it.

Already made the signs.

So, I wouldn't bet against him naming it after himself.

And I wouldn't mind it either because he is the one who took the heat and got it done.

If it gets done, we assume it will.

Anyway, um I guess Tennessee filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court challenging birthright citizenship on behalf of 24 states.

So 24 states don't want people to be a citizen just because they their parents from some other country came in and had them here.

But I talked to Grock a little bit about this issue.

And Grock believes there is no way in the world that the 14th amendment which talks about the birthright citizenship will be altered.

Uh, it knows that Trump would like to either narrow it or get rid of it, but it thinks there's no chance of that.

Is that your understanding, too, that there's really no chance at all that the Supreme Court will get rid of that birthright citizenship?

I don't know enough about the law to have a independent opinion about this.

But the only thing it relies on, the people who wanted to go away, the birthright citizenship, is this one line that the people born here would be citizens if they are quote subject to the jurisdiction therein, meaning the laws of the United States.

So if they're born in the United States, they live in the United States, and they're subject to all the laws, it would have to be all the laws of the United States, then they're Americans according according to the 14th Amendment.

So you would have to come up with some example where the babies born here who are not citizens until they're born.

Of course, uh you'd have to come up with some example where the jurisdiction does not apply to them.

And Grock did not have any examples.

It said no, there's no example.

Somebody who's born here naturally will be treated exactly the same under our laws.

I think that's true, right?

Would they not be draftable?

They could be drafted, right?

I I feel like if you could be drafted, that's the end of the conversation.

How many would agree with me?

If you're born here and you can be drafted You know, there's not a draft, but if there were, you could be drafted.

You're a citizen.

I I don't need I don't need to have that conversation expand to any other part of the conversation.

If you could be drafted, you're on my team.

Maybe I don't like it.

Maybe I wish the law were different.

That's a different conversation.

But as long as that's the truth, the reality is that you could be drafted to fight for my freedom.

Oh, you're on my team.

Yeah, that's a Yeah, I I I hear you if you're disagreeing with it.

I understand the arguments on both sides.

Yeah.

But for me, if you're in if you're going to be in the military and take up arms and defend me and my country, you're on my team.

That's the end of that story.

Um, but I would like it to go away actually.

Yeah, if I if I could choose, um, I would want that loophole to go away, but I can't choose.

Apparently, the Trump administration found more than a billion dollars in taxpayer money that was going to illegals.

I think this was just in one place.

Um, have you been paying attention to this stupid argument on the news where the Democrats will say no money ever goes to healthcare for illegals because it's literally illegal to give illegals healthcare money?

And then the what what do the Republicans say as a response to that?

Well, it's not true.

and then they say some word salad dumb thing that makes the Democrat look like they were right.

I don't think the Democrats are right.

But why can't any Republican explain the other side of this issue?

And I I'm not even sure what it is.

Is it something like we don't directly give the we don't directly give the money to the illegals for healthcare because that would be illegal.

So instead we fund we fund the hospitals who recovering them.

Is that the argument?

The the Republican response to that is so poor that I've experienced the argument going back and forth several times and I still don't know what the I don't know what the Republican argument is.

Do you?

Because then I also saw was it Elizabeth Warren or something who said that if your argument is that they're getting treated at the hospitals that would be the same under all scenarios.

There's nothing that would change the fact that they'll still get treated at emergency rooms.

So what exactly is the Republican argument to that?

I believe the Republican argument is the correct one that there is money that's being used for those purposes.

But why can't they explain it in a way that sounds like a counterpoint to it's illegal so we don't do it?

It's kind of confusing.

Bad messaging by Republicans.

Do better.

I'd help, but I don't understand.

I don't even understand what they're trying to say.

Like I can't I can't fix their messaging because I don't even know what it is.

I don't know what they're trying to say, much less what they're saying.

So, there's a Bill Gates, I've mentioned this before now, but they're really close to approval.

Uh, Terrap Power is a Gen 4 nuclear power plant that uses that molten salt and it's safe and cheaper and they'll make it modular and it'll be the greatest thing.

Apparently, they got through their environmental approvals, which is one of the hardest things to do if you're if you're a new nuclear power company.

And now they have to get uh a safety so so the environment will be fine but they need a general you know safety check so they have to go for that approval.

But the thing that was interesting about this, because you've heard about this before, is I wondered when did Bill Gates get first involved in funding this because I wondered how long it took and the answer was 2006 according to Grock.

So, Bill Bill Gates started funding this highly speculative generation 4 nuclear power with who knows what the odds of this succeeding were.

But in 2006 or was it nine?

Where was it?

2006.

Yeah, that's when the company was founded and and Gates got into it.

So I I mentioned that only so that you can know how long it takes to develop a new nuclear technology, but also to remind you of the value of our billionaires.

Don't you think that if Bill Gates had not invested a ton of money in 2006 on something that was very much not proven that we would not be here today?

And this might be one of the biggest things that ever happened in the world.

If we get the Gen 6 um nuclear power plants commoditized so we can just pound them out and that and they they're safe.

That changes everything.

just so I wonder how much credit you would be willing to give him.

I know you think he's the devil for other reasons, vaccinations and stuff.

I'm not going to change your mind about him in general.

I'm just saying, would you acknowledge that the United States has this billionaire asset where our billionaires will take a risk on something for 20 freaking years and and still take a flyer on it?

it.

Do you know how long ago Elon Musk got into robots and AI?

It was about the same time, and it's only just now starting to pay off.

Some of our billionaires are serious long-term thinkers with serious riskreward nuts to do things that nobody else would do and nobody else could do really.

So you can you can be mad at Bill Gates for all of your other reasons, but he's the guy developing the, you know, clean water for Africa and toilets for Africa and nuclear power that's safe and not everything he's doing is the devil.

Not everything.

Anyway, the army is also going to bring nuclear micro reactors to their bases by 2028.

I don't know if those nuclear mini reactors will be molten salt or not, but there's a greater chance that they will be.

Now, uh Steven Miller is suggesting that Illinois Governor Pritsker could be arrested on sedicious conspiracy charges if they block ICE deportations.

Cassandra Mc.

Donald's writing about this in the Gateway Pundit.

Um, what do you think of that?

As a as a threat, it's probably pretty good.

But would you want to see Pritsker perwalked with handcuffs because he tried to stop ICE deportations?

Would you be okay with that?

I would not be okay with that.

That would be a case of uh I get that it would be a real crime and I get that it could happen.

I wouldn't be happy with it.

Uh I am happy when I see Trump going after the people who lawfared him.

If they lawfared him, yeah, do what you need to do.

If the only thing they did is continually say bad things about him, which I think is Pritkar's situation.

He's more like a perpetual critic.

I don't think you perpwalk the perpetual critics even though there's a real crime potentially.

The the hypothetical is that there's a real crime involved.

I don't know how you ignore a real crime.

You know, again, it's hypothetical, but if he if he did it, if he did commit a real crime and it really got to safety of the of the population, which it would, I could see why they do it, but I wouldn't love it.

I wouldn't love it.

Anyway, uh Candace Owens has some new claims.

Um, she's claiming that uh Elon Mus Alman and Peter Teal, they have sort of a nonhuman vibe and she wonders if they're alien hybrids.

So, so that's happening.

Uh, I remind you again that I uh I'm a big fan of Candace and somebody reminded me today on X that she had uh she had come out very favorably with some comments about me uh in May of May of last year maybe.

I can't remember if it was after I got cancelled or after I came out with my health problems, but Candice without any prompting just one day decided to say very kind things about me and the value of my work.

And so I'm completely biased in her favor.

And I've told you I've met her and she's very warm person and person, very warm and uh and very talented, one of the most talented people in the game.

So, I'm just pro Candace front to back, top to bottom.

I'm just pro Candace.

So, and you all know that doesn't mean I have to agree with all the takes, right?

That's the way it works.

But love her to death.

All right.

Uh there's at least one scientist, Harvard scientist, who's teasing us about this giant uh comet that's heading through our solar system.

And apparently it changed it.

It grew a tail.

It didn't have a comet tail, but now it does.

And uh so one scientist is teasing that it might be a alien craft and that that's sign of its maneuvering.

That's basically firing thrusters in a different direction to maneuver.

I don't think that there are any other scientists who are agreeing with that take.

But I love that plucky scientist who says it might be.

It might be full of aliens.

What we don't know is if that's the the alien Uber that's coming to pick up uh Elon and Sam and Teal.

So, if Kansas is right, that big comet is going to land somewhere in Silicon Valley and a big door will open and then our billionaires will all get back on board and go back to their home planet.

No, they're not aliens, I don't think.

Probably good chance they're not.

At least 50% chance they're not aliens.

All right.

Um, speaking of aliens, Daily Mail has a story, Chris Mallure, about uh allegedly evidence of nonhuman intelligence near US nuclear sites.

So, apparently since the 40s, we've been observing that there are some things that get extra bright in the sky if it's over a nuclear test before the nuclear test.

And the thinking is that we've been observed for all these many years by aliens who seem to know when we're going to do a nuclear test.

And so they put assets around and you can see the assets in the air above the site.

They'd be sort of extra glowing something somethings.

Well, that's the claim.

Do you believe any of that?

I'm going to go with no.

I'm going to go with no.

There are no aliens watching our nuclear tests.

might be.

I mean, I can't rule it out, but I'm going to go with no.

Um, I saw a Democrat Ram Emanuel with a really good turn of a phrase that I liked so much I wanted to share it.

He was talking about what the Democrats did wrong in 2024.

And he used this phrase.

He said, "Democrats allowed themselves to be framed in a cultural culde-sac." To which I said, "Damn, that's good.

That's really good.

It's good writing.

Uh, it's not really great persuasion, but it's really good writing." A cultural culdeac.

It's sort of perfect.

He's very smart.

Rah Emanuel is.

Somebody said in the comments that he's he's got the right message, but he's the wrong messenger.

I think that's true.

He's another older white guy.

I just don't know that the Democrat party has patience for another older white guy.

And he's more famous for being tough than for, you know, charisma.

So being tough, I think, works a little bit better as a mayor.

He's been a mayor.

Uh he's been a diplomat.

I don't know that he's got the presidential vibe though.

He doesn't have the Bill Clinton, um, Barack Obama, you know, or the Bush vibe.

There's like an extra there's an extra thing that all those guys had.

Even Hillary Hillary had the thing.

Um, but he doesn't have the thing.

He just doesn't have the thing.

Whatever that is that makes you look like a president.

Um, Kamla did Kamla had the thing.

She She didn't act like a president, but she had sort of the I don't know the charisma or the vibe or, you know, the just the feel of it.

Doesn't uh but he has lots of good points about what the Democrats should have done.

They should have listened to him.

Speaking of old white Democrats, Carville is James Carville is off the reservation again and he says that Trump what he calls collaborators and I have to wonder if I'm one of them.

Would he consider me a Trump collaborator?

I mean, I think Bill Maher considers me on the collaborator team.

He doesn't use that word, but uh would Carville consider me a collaborator?

because he said the collaborators should have their heads shaved.

Okay, I do need to get my head shaved.

Uh, put in orange pajamas.

Okay, I like orange and I do like wearing pajamas.

So, it's not so bad so far.

Basically, it's my it's my normal day wearing pajamas and having a shaved head and then march down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Well, I like taking walks.

I like Well, so far this good.

I'm getting exercises in my pajamas and then somebody shaved my head for free.

Okay, where's the downside?

There's got to be a downside to this.

Oh, here it is.

This Well, the public spits on them.

Well, that's not good.

Uh, that's after Trump leaves office.

Well, what I would do is I would declare if if I were in this situation, I would declare a COVID emergency and I would demand all the Democrats wear masks so that they were only spitting on the inside of their own mask while I got some exercise taking a walk in my pajamas and somebody shaved my head for free.

That's how I'd play it.

So, um, now if I were to assume that Carville includes people like me on his collaborator list, what would be my incentive for arguing that Trump should not have a third term?

He just gave me a reason to argue for Trump's third term because he's basically saying, looks pretty direct, that I will personally be punished if I'm alive.

and Trump gets out of office, they'll be punished for for being a collaborator.

Now, unless he wants to define this collaborator thing a lot more narrowly, wouldn't you think that podcasters who um are reliably support him would be called collaborators?

If if this were Nazi Germany, I'd be a collaborator, right?

just cuz I'm on a team.

Well, maybe it could be that Steve Bannon's trying to stay in the jail for a second time and that he knows the only way to do it is if Trump stays in office because I do believe that the so-called collaborators and Bannon would certainly be on that list even if I'm not.

uh they would be in for some trouble and it could be real life trouble as in go to jail as in lose everything you have as in lose your family.

Is that what we're looking at?

Because James Carville, if that's what you're really promising us, if you're promising us that you and your you you and your clan are going to come after Trump collaborators, and you're not going to define in advance what a collaborator is.

Well, you just flipped me to a third term.

I'm going to make the change right now.

As long as this is talking like this, I'm in favor for a third term.

If you can calm down this I'll be on your side.

No third terms for anybody.

That's where I was 10 minutes ago.

Now I'm looking at this and I'm saying, "Fuck you.

you.

If you're going to give this vague threat that when Trump leaves people like me are going to be victimized, yeah, we're going to go for a third term." And that's on you, That's all on you, Because I was absolutely 100% against a third term until right now.

And the the longer I look at this, the madder I get.

Yeah, third term.

Or shut the up about this collaborator getting spit on You need to take that back right away.

And until he takes it back, I'm all down on third term.

So, got to put the you got to put it at stake now.

All right.

Um, apparently the heist at the Louv where the French jewels got stolen.

Um, looks like it was an inside job.

Of course.

Don't you always assume it's an inside job when somebody pulls off an impressive theft?

Yeah.

So, they think one of the insiders told them about the security problem uh and that that's how it all got done.

Um, Moscow successfully tested some new nuclear powered cruise missile.

I guess because it's nuclearpowered, it can fly around all day.

And it did.

So, that's scary.

We know who the donor was who gave the 130 million to pay the soldiers during the government shutdown.

It was billionaire businessman Timothy Melon according to the New York Post Jeff Earl.

Um I guess he's a billionaire whose family is worth 43 billion or something.

He's part of the Melon Bank uh heirs and uh he just warned to pay that.

So, I guess he did.

But the part that's not being reported is that the Pentagon can't spend it.

Apparently, there's a some of regulation that would not allow them to use that money.

So, he gave the money, but it's not clear that the money can be spent.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is everything I wanted to tell you today.

Not bad for a Sunday.

I stretched that lack of news all the way to top of the hour.

But I'm going to say a few words privately to the beloved local subscribers who get a little bit extra.

Last night uh uh we uh did another drawing session in the man cave uh where I um I do some writing and some drawing.

So I'm loving my new uh device.

It's a It's a necklace that holds my phone so I can show you what my hands are doing when I'm drawing.

People seem to love it because it's some kind of calming vibe.

So, it's got some kind of ASMR quality to it.

Most of the time I'm not talking, you know, but I but when I do, I'm telling you what I'm doing with the drawing.

So, I'll say things like, "Well, flip this around and turn this backwards." you know, this Dilbert's a little bit too big, all shrinken down.

So, it's sort of a Bob Ross situation.

Anyway, it's very popular, but we don't have a lot of people who watch it.

Uh, and they they mostly hang out with each other.

They chat with each other while they're watching me draw.

Yep.

It's a Scott Adams POV.

Exactly.

Add a happy little PHP over here.

All right.

So, just so you know that that's happening.

All right, locals.

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You know what I need a little bit more

of is focus on the locals comments on my

second device.

Then we'll have something. Well, as

tradition requires,

I'll be reading you a reframe from my

book, the best book in the world.

Reframe your brain. Changing people's

lives everywhere, one sentence at a

time.

So, so we've been doing one frame a day.

We'll actually get through the whole

book

if I survive. All right, we'll see how

far we get.

Um,

here we go.

We already did that one. I want to pick

the best one.

Um,

all right. Here's one that's a little

cynical, but it's also really, really

useful. You ready for this?

Uh the usual frame is that your hard

work will be rewarded.

Do you think that's true? Do you think

it's true that people would notice if

you're a hard worker and they will

reward you? That's kind of true. So the

you know the normal frame

trueish. They'll they'll recognize your

hard work and you'll be rewarded. But

here's a reframe that's better than

that. The illusion of hard work will be

rewarded.

the illusion of hard work. If you would

just come in five minutes earlier than

your boss,

your boss will have a greater illusion

of how hard you work. If you could find

a way to stay later, five minutes, than

your boss, your boss again will think

that you're working really hard. Maybe

it was only 5 minutes. If you carry

papers around when you walk back and

forth in the hallway, it'll look like

you're on a mission. If you have nothing

in your hand when you're walking back

and forth, no laptop, no phone, it just

looks like you're going to the restroom.

So, I would argue that you should do

what my co-workers did. My old boss, the

one who actually named Dilbert, he came

up with the name Dilbert. Uh

he he used to answer all questions about

how you doing with answers about how

hard he's working.

And when he at first, I didn't really

realize the brilliance of it. But over

time, it's sort of a Trumpian hypnosis

that makes you think he's the hardest

working guy. And and I'm here to tell

you I I I loved my old boss, Mike

Goodwin. Great guy, but he was not the

hardest working guy in the office. He

was just not the guy who talked about it

the most. So you'd say, "Hey, Mike, how

you doing?" Let's say it's Monday, you

haven't seen him. He'd be like, "Um,

jumping on hand grenades and crawling

through the swamp and I got five jobs to

do today."

Some of it was true, but the illusion of

how much work he was doing was great and

his career went pretty well. It's the

illusion of work that you need to

master.

Well, I wonder if there's any science

that they didn't need to do because they

could have just asked Scott. Oh, here's

some inpost. Karina Petrova is writing

about this. There's a 35 days.

I'm going to guess that you could have

all guessed this one, too. I'm not going

to take any credit for getting this one

right. Uh, a 35day study of couples

finds that being present and

non-judgmental during sex is associated

with greater sexual well-being for you

and your partner.

So, paying you're saying that paying

attention to the person you're having

sex with while you're having sex can

make the experience better.

Well, apparently that's what I've been

doing wrong my whole life. I learned to

doom scroll and eat a sandwich while I'm

having intercourse. And I wasn't getting

very good reviews, if you know what I

mean.

So, uh, apparently don't be using your

phone while you're in mid intercourse.

Uh, that's what science tells us. I

don't know if you could guess that on

your own, but I have full confidence

that many of you could. Many of you

could.

There's another study from Mone

University that listening to or playing

music when you're over 75 is linked to

up to a 39% reduction in dementia risk.

So learning to play music was good, but

apparently just listening to it all the

time is really good, too. Do you believe

this study that they can measure the

dementia risk based on how much music

you listen to?

Do you think that's true?

It might be. It might be. I won't rule

this one out. It seems to me that

anything that engages your mind

would probably reduce your risk of

dementia. Every other time we look at

anything that that activates your mind.

Yeah. Serno disagrees. I I'm a famous

anti-musicer

because I think if you are if you have a

regular life, music is just pollution in

your brain cuz your brain is just so

full of stuff. You're not going to get

dementia when you're 40, if it has

anything to do with how much you have to

think about. Cuz when you're 40, you're

thinking about a lot of stuff. But if

you're 75 and you got nothing going on

and you just be otherwise walking around

the house listening to whatever's on the

news, feels like it'd be better to

listen to music. I don't know. That one

might be real.

Well, according to Fox News, Sarah

Rumpwitten,

uh, that's a that's a tough name. I see

why she hyphenated it. Rump. Um, the No

Kings protest was largely made up of uh

older white educated women in their 40s.

And uh there's this expert Jonathan

Elbert who hypothesizes that they're

using it for therapy

that that the reason it's this

particular demographic.

You know, we've speculated why is it

this demographic? And you know, we

thought, well, maybe it's the retired

They're the ones who watch Legacy News.

And probably all those are factors, but

it might be that Jonathan Alper has the

exact right uh answer, which is that

it's exactly the same group that are

having mental problems about Trump and

they believe that marching around with

other people who have the same same

viewpoint would be a form of group

therapy.

And I thought to myself, you know what?

It is group therapy. And you know what

else? I'll bet it works.

I'll bet it works. Just just feeling

validated by marching around with people

who agree with you and tell you that

you're right on you're right on point.

Oh yeah, you see the world clearly. You

don't have any mental problems. There

are just real problems in the world.

It's called Donald Trump.

So if you see these protests as more uh

group therapy,

everything makes sense.

Like all the pieces come together. It's

like, oh, oh, now I get it. It's just

group therapy. That's why there's no

violence,

right? That's why there's no looting

because that's not why they're there.

They're not there to change policy

because that's when things get a little

violent. When they're trying to change

something, they're not really trying to

change anything except how they feel and

then it explains everything.

Well, according to WTF detective,

whatever that is, a study in Michigan

State University said that one in five

adults don't want children and that

people decide early in life that they

don't want them and they actually stick

to it. They don't change their minds. Do

you think we're in trouble if only 20%

of the people don't want children?

Because it feels like that's not that

different than it ever was. Was it? Did

20%

Was it always true that more than 80% of

people had children?

I feel like 20% is sort of what it's

always been. Or was it 10%. I don't

know. Maybe it doubled.

All right. There's a uh

new economic study out by let's see

Nicole Ganakus Tobias and Cretchmer.

It's in the CR whatever that is. Anyway,

so it's a new economic study and what

they did was they wanted to study to

find out if confusopies

are real and if they're being used. Now,

have you ever heard that word confuse?

It was coined in the 90s.

Do you know who coined that phrase in

the 90s?

I did. It was in my book. Uh I think it

was in the deliberate future. It's it's

now in the economic literature.

So if you were to Google confuseopy, you

would find out that it's attributed to

me. Uh I think Wikipedia still talks

about it. And uh the theory was that I

invented in the '9s is that big

companies that had confusing pricing

were being confusing intentionally

because their product was the same as

their competitors. So the only way they

could argue that you should buy theirs

is if you couldn't tell the difference

between theirs and somebody else's. So

the confusopoly is the idea that cell

phone companies and insurance companies

I use them as my examples. They would

they would give you pricing that you

could not compare to anything else. So

the cell phone company would be like

well you're paying by minutes but this

one has uh rollovers but only for family

members but you have to pay first to be

eligible for the rollover but you had to

buy your phone instead of Yeah. So even

AI wouldn't be able to figure out which

phone service was best for you. Nor

could you necessarily easily tell if you

had coverage in the places that you were

personally going to go. It's easier now,

but but in the early days you couldn't

even tell if you'd have coverage. So

that's a confusy.

Everybody gets their piece of the

business because they all sort of

collude without colluding to be

confusing and they know that they all

know that that works. So this economic

study was done and they concluded that

it is highly plausible that the firms do

act in a confuseopy

uh fashion. So now now it has some uh

actual rigorous economic backing to the

confuseopoly thing. Have you ever tried

to buy insurance?

Oh my god, insurance is is just a

monster of complexity and confusopoly.

According to the New York Post, Georgia

Warl is writing that US homeownership

dipped in 2025

for the first time in nearly a decade.

And that is mostly because of interest

rates. I think uh interest rates plus

the general affordability of everything

is worse. So it's not a big change. It's

just a tiny little down tick.1%.

But uh we need US home ownership to go

up.

You you don't last long if that goes

down forever. That's not a good sign.

But it's just a blip at the moment.

Um, I talk about this all the time, but

but this market is developing that the

loneliness market, especially for senior

citizens. So, now there's a new AI

startup called MA that's like a little

chatbot for your senior citizen family

members. And apparently they like it.

They're pretty happy with it, the

seniors. Now the part I don't understand

is that the company slightly added a

memory to it so that your little chatbot

will remember your conversations to

which I say

okay how could that possibly be true

that they added memory to it that they

don't have memory on uh Chad GPT

at least memory that's um you know going

to be reliable. Grock doesn't have

memory. It has memory during the

conversation, but it doesn't remember

you when it comes back. So, are you

telling me that this little app for

seniors has has cracked the hardest part

in AI that literally nobody can crack? I

don't think so. I think maybe the old

people don't know that it has the wrong

answers. Maybe their memories are as bad

as the app, so they can't tell the

difference.

40 bucks a month gets you one.

If I did not have all of you, I'd be

using that app. I mean, why not?

All right, here's another uh Scott was

right without being an expert.

It's Scott against the experts today.

So, the head of Meta's

AI is this guy, Yan Lun. You may have

seen him. he gets gets a lot of

attention, but he was in some event and

he was saying that uh the current way

that we train AI will never get you to

intelligence basically and that uh the

whole pattern you language the large

language models you could train them

forever and it would never create

intelligence.

So

the head of AI at Meta is saying exactly

what I've said for two years

that there's no logical way you can get

from pattern recognition of words to

intelligence.

But it might look like people. It might

look and act like people because what we

would discover is that people are just

operating on patterns too and we don't

have intelligence.

Was I right about any of that? Yeah, I

was right about all of it. I was right

about all of it. Now, what he says, and

you've heard other people like Elon say

this, I think that the current models,

they look like they're going to be PhD

smart, but they never will be. There's

no way they can get there. And I've been

saying that. I was like, I think this

all looks like a fraud. It doesn't look

like the thing they're doing with these

gigantic data centers would ever under

any circumstances could ever succeed.

It's just logically impossible.

I guess he agrees. But there's a

solution. I don't know if the solution

makes any more sense, but the solution

is that the models have to look at

things happening in the real world and

understand real world physics.

So, so the thinking is if your AI could

just observe

humans or other robots doing things, it

could learn sort of the way that humans

learn by observing and then trying to

imitate it. So that that would get get

the robots and the AI to something like

real intelligence.

But that's untested.

It's definitely the approach that I'm

pretty sure this is what Elon's doing

now. I think he's training his with with

real world physics as opposed to large

language models. Talking about his

robots specifically.

Um, something else I was going to say

about that.

I guess as things like the robots hands

get more sensitive, Tesla has good hands

on their optimist says uh says Elon. Uh

the hands would capture a lot of stuff

in the real world, too. As long as it's

doing stuff.

All right. So, that's coming. So, the

the robots now are being trained on

artificial worlds, which they imagine,

and I'm trying to figure out if that

matches how humans learn

be.

That was weird.

Hold on. Oh, you're kidding.

>> It's the worst lamp in the world. So,

I've got a lamp that doesn't have any

raised buttons.

So, when the lamp goes off, you have no

idea where to touch it to turn on the

light. And if you hit the wrong button,

it goes on a 45minut timer instead of

just turning on. Who designed that? Who

designed a light that you can't find the

switch if the light is off? I mean,

seriously, did they test that even one

time? Did they test their light in a lit

room? Every time they turned it on, it's

like, "Oh, look how easy it is to find

this button."

I swear to God, I have so many products

that could not possibly have been tested

even once. Even once that could not have

been tested.

God. Anyway, so these uh models are

imagining what the world looks like and

then learning from their own

imagination.

So, so the same way that you would

create a video

AI, you tell it, oh, imagine a cat as a

sam samurai or something. Uh the AI is

doing the same thing. So, it's imagining

a world and then it's observing its own

imagined world and then it's trying to

learn the physics from the world it

created.

which I'm not sure makes sense, but

people smarter than me say it does, so

I'll accept it. Apparently, Apple,

according to Doge Designer, this is the

only place I saw it was uh one account

on X. Doge designer says that Apple's in

talks with SpaceX to work on Starlink,

meaning that your future iPhone could

work on Starlink alone as opposed to a

phone company.

H.

Now we're getting interesting. Does that

suggest that uh SpaceX and Starlink will

not make their own phone? Now,

apparently they're not talking to

Android. Don't know why. We're not

talking to him yet, but uh they're

talking about it in terms of dead zones.

So, if the only thing that Apple is

doing is agreeing that Starlink will

fire up if you're in a dead zone, but

only in a dead zone, then it's not that

big a story, but it's kind of cool. I

don't really have any dead zones where I

live. Do you guys still have dead zones

for cell?

When was the last time you were

somewhere where your cell didn't work?

On a mountain somewhere?

I don't do a lot of hiking.

All right. So, uh, Trump's got this

lawsuit he's had for a while against the

De Mo Register newspaper because one of

their pollsters, uh, close to the

election, this last election, published

what most people would consider a fake

poll. So, it's one of it was one of the

most respected pollsters,

but it uh this an Selzer pollster uh but

just before the election dropped a poll

that said that Kamla was doing great and

none of that was true. So, people

thought that the poll was intentionally

fake to bolster Kamla and that's what uh

Trump is claiming. you know, I guess he

has some kind of a state court win that

is not a victory on the case, but rather

allows him to press it. So that the only

thing that's changed is that he's

allowed to go forward with his case.

I think he's got a case that it it was

so obvious that that was a fake poll. I

mean, again,

I'm not an expert at polling,

but I knew it was fake as soon as I saw

it. didn't you?

There there's a lot of stuff you don't

have to be an expert about to know it's

fake when you see it. That's sort of my

only skill. I don't have technical

skill, but I can spot pretty

easily. Pretty easily. Not every time.

There there's a center square voters

voice poll that found out that almost

half of adults between 18 and 29 either

have not much confidence or no

confidence at all in the the midterm

elections coming up. So half of people

in that young category

don't think you can trust the elections.

That's just that's MAGA.

Do you think that came from Trump or is

it just a generic young people don't

trust stuff? Could be both.

Anyway, my question would be why would

any young person trust an election?

I understand the argument for not

trusting it, but what would be the

argument for trusting it?

Like how how inexperienced in the world

would you have to be to think that

there's something like you know any big

organization that has any kind of power

over you that also operates completely

ethically.

We don't really see that when there's

some big organization has power over

you. They're always operating

unethically.

Always. How's your How's your financial

world? How's your How's your healthcare

world? How's your NOS's? How's your

taxes? How's your professional gambling

and sports? It's everything.

You know, if you're between 18 and 29,

you think you didn't notice that

literally everything is rigged. And and

to believe that the only thing that's

not rigged is the thing that rigged the

most and probably have the most access

to rig. Probably.

Really? Is that what you believe? That

everything else is observably provably

rigged

from from the lawfare to the government.

You name it, right? The climate change

was a hoax. All the news is fake.

Everything's rigged except the

elections.

How can you believe that?

Like how how inexperienced in the world

would you have to believe that

everything is rigged provably so

except the elections

I don't know people

today's the first day of early voting

for New York City so I would say that

the result is over there was you know

some hail Mary hope that maybe Leewall

would drop out before the voting

started. He did not. And apparently it

was just a huge day of first voting,

just lots and lots of numbers, which

would suggest that the conclusion is

already a done deal. And it would

suggest the Mandami is going to win

easily. We'll have to wait for the

result,

but that's what it suggests.

So, I wasn't really following this whole

Canada and Ronald Reagan tariff

advertising story, but it just persisted

a little bit longer than I wanted, so

I'll mention it. So, the basic idea was

that things were starting to go well

with negotiating a trade deal with

Canada, but then the uh who was it? This

guy for Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

Somehow he got millions and millions of

dollars to run an ad campaign that used

uh Ronald Reagan and I think they aed

him to make it look like he didn't like

tariffs. Um

and uh he did that to sort of embarrass

Trump in the United States and to and to

essentially use our our golden Reagan

against us.

Trump didn't like that at all and so he

decided to cancel their uh just cancel

the trade talks based on an

advertisement on TV and add another 10%

to their tariffs and uh he said uh

apparently they had agreed to take it

down earlier than they are. They're

going to let it run through the the

weekend and that's what he was mad

about. If they had taken it down

immediately when he asked, I guess he'd

be okay with it grudgingly. But they

seem to have he he's indicating Trump is

that they may have misled him, possibly

lied to him. And I think it's the lying

to him part that he's responding to as

much as the Reagan part. But he's got

two things that got under his skin.

Don't with our Reagan neighbors

and don't lie to us.

You don't get to do that. Yeah, we we'll

still be your best friends,

but don't with our Reagan.

Don't lie to us.

Then we're fine. We're not asking a lot

there. Let's not ask a lot.

Anyway, we'll see where that goes.

That'll probably calm down a little bit.

Trump's over in Asia right now doing

what I hope will be some kind of a

victory tour. He's good at this overseas

stuff, but he's already he's already

gone viral for dancing when he got off

the Malaysian plane. So, he lands in

Malaysia and they have this giant

welcoming party outside the plane on the

tarmac. And uh most of the people there

are dancers. So, they're doing some, you

know, native dance. And Trump sees the

dancers. He starts Yeah. He He joins

right in with his Trump uh fist pump

dance that doesn't move much except the

the fists, but he still like seeing it.

I don't know why, but we all like seeing

him do it. And then that became a giant

story that he was, you know, bonding

with the locals just so immediately

because

leaders of major countries don't get off

the plane and start dancing,

right? Can you imagine Putin going out

there and seeing the dancers like,

"Yeah, yeah." And you know, he starts

doing that Russian dance. Can't imagine

it. Can you imagine President Xi coming

out with his Winnie the Pooh face

that never changes

and then suddenly you see the dancers

and going oh

you can't even imagine it right you

can't even imagine it the if I wanted to

imagine a leader who would be let's say

loose enough and celebrity enough to do

what Trump did which is just a little

bit dance, you'd have to go all the way

to uh

uh Boris Johnson

just to give somebody that you could

even imagine would try it. So, only

Trump and uh I'm sure they love him for

it. They probably that will be the the

the Malaysian news will probably just

cover that non-stop for all day long,

just showing him dancing with the locals

and then everybody like, "Hey, we like

this guy."

So, he's uh signed some deals, I think,

already, but they were sort of things we

knew were going to happen. Maybe some

improvements on the trade. I think he's

already signed some of that. And uh

and and I guess he's finalizing a deal

that would already been done between

Thailand and Cambodia so that they're no

longer on a waring basis. That was

already a done deal, but I guess they

made it official. So he's got stuff to

sign

that's not, you know, groundbreaking,

but it's all good news. This end of

fighting, end of trade negotiations, so

we can get a get ourselves a good deal.

So that's all good.

Um, and Thailand, according to Reuters,

Thailand and Malaysia are going to play

a bigger role with our critical

minerals.

So if what Trump gets out of this is

they like him better over there and he

gets some better trade deals, he nails

down his eight out of nine or eight or

nine wars that he's ended according to

him. And he gets some extra mineral

play.

Pretty successful. Pretty good.

And uh we just have access to three

countries markets that have been Reuters

says enhanced. Good. That's just free

money. Now, didn't he promise us that

the trade deals would basically just be

free money? Free money. It looks like we

got a better deal. And it's not 100%

obvious that these Asian companies also

feel they got a better deal. They might

just cuz more trade is more better.

But, uh, it looks like he's winning.

Have you heard Peter Zion talk about the

impending collapse of China for

demographic reasons?

He's got a fairly strong argument that

China doesn't have any mechanism for

survival that there there's no path and

that it's brought on by by their

demographic uh manipulations. So they

have so few young people compared to old

people that they really don't have any

way to survive if you're looking 10 20

years out. Now I'm confident that

they'll figure it out. Robots or some

damn thing, but uh he does make a strong

argument that the size of their problem

is not like the size of our problems.

the US actually, even though we've got

that demographic problem, too, it's it's

small compared to theirs.

So maybe this is the biggest thing

that'll happen in the future. Well, I'm

still loving the ballroom story

distraction cuz Trump can go over there

and make a bunch of news that all looks

like good news for him. Well, while the

Democrats are left to argue that you

should not upgrade a building that is

often upgraded, that's what they have.

Okay, you guys go work on you don't like

upgrading the building that

has been upgraded many times and is the

responsibility of the president to

upgrade it. All right, we'll be making

some trade deals while you're doing

that.

Um, but the ballroom story has so many

legs because it's the perfect story for

lazy podcasters and lazy news, including

myself, because I don't have to do a lot

of research to understand

construction of a ballroom.

Yeah, we all understand that prior

presidents built basketball courts and

swimming pools and stuff. We all

understand what it costs. Now, we know

we we got the full list yesterday of

who's donating to the $350 million.

Turns out it was really easy to get $350

million.

Those companies coughed that money up so

fast. Oh, yeah. Get it get us on this

because they're all smart enough to know

that this one's sort of a a passion

project for Trump. It means more it's

got a sort of an emotional hook. So

they're smart enough to know this is not

like other things. Oh yeah, we'll put

some money behind this. Yeah, we're all

in. So a lot of the big companies

stepped up. It's already funded. Uh they

might even have more money than they

need, which is funny. Um but it turns

out that it's fake news, according to

Trump, that he had ever anticipated

naming it after himself. Do you remember

the news yesterday or the day before

said that Trump uh was going to name it

the uh Donald J. Trump ballroom? Trump

says that never happened. We're not we

have have not even talked about a name

for it. He's leaning toward the

presidential ballroom.

Do you believe that that will be the the

name? Apparently the staff is already

sort of cheekily referring it to it as

the, you know, the Trump ballroom,

but Trump is very smart to act like

that's not a done deal after it gets

built and you can't take it back. Do you

think you'll still want it to be the

presidential ballroom or will he wait to

name it when it's done? And the first

time you'll hear its actual name is when

he cuts the ribbon. And when he cuts the

ribbon, he'll say, "I'm introducing the

what?"

Just before he cuts the ribbon.

Introducing the presidential ballroom

or the Donald J. Trump ballroom clip.

too late to change it. Already made the

signs.

So, I wouldn't bet against him naming it

after himself. And I wouldn't mind it

either because he is the one who took

the heat and got it done. If it gets

done, we assume it will.

Anyway, um I guess Tennessee filed an

amicus brief with the Supreme Court

challenging birthright citizenship on

behalf of 24 states. So 24 states don't

want people to be a citizen just because

they their parents from some other

country came in and had them here. But I

talked to Grock a little bit about this

issue. And Grock believes there is no

way in the world that the 14th amendment

which talks about the birthright

citizenship will be altered.

Uh, it knows that Trump would like to

either narrow it or get rid of it,

but it thinks there's no chance of that.

Is that your understanding, too, that

there's really no chance at all that the

Supreme Court will get rid of that

birthright citizenship? I don't know

enough about the law to have a

independent opinion about this. But the

only thing it relies on, the people who

wanted to go away, the birthright

citizenship, is this one line that the

people born here would be citizens if

they are quote subject to the

jurisdiction therein, meaning the laws

of the United States. So if they're born

in the United States, they live in the

United States, and they're subject to

all the laws, it would have to be all

the laws of the United States, then

they're Americans according according to

the 14th Amendment. So

you would have to come up with some

example

where the babies born here who are not

citizens until they're born. Of course,

uh you'd have to come up with some

example where the jurisdiction does not

apply to them.

And Grock did not have any examples. It

said no, there's no example. Somebody

who's born here naturally will be

treated exactly the same under our laws.

I think that's true, right?

Would they not be draftable?

They could be drafted, right? I I feel

like if you could be drafted, that's the

end of the conversation.

How many would agree with me?

If you're born here

and you can be drafted

You know, there's not a draft, but if

there were, you could be drafted.

You're a citizen.

I I don't need I don't need to have that

conversation expand to any other part of

the conversation. If you could be

drafted,

you're on my team. Maybe I don't like

it. Maybe I wish the law were different.

That's a different conversation.

But as long as that's the truth, the

reality is that you could be drafted to

fight for my freedom.

Oh, you're on my team. Yeah, that's a

Yeah, I I I hear you if you're

disagreeing with it. I understand the

arguments on both sides. Yeah. But for

me, if you're in if you're going to be

in the military and take up arms and

defend me and my country, you're on my

team. That's the end of that story.

Um, but I would like it to go away

actually.

Yeah, if I if I could choose,

um, I would want that loophole to go

away, but I can't choose.

Apparently, the Trump administration

found more than a billion dollars in

taxpayer money that was going to

illegals. I think this was just in one

place. Um, have you been paying

attention to this stupid argument on the

news where the Democrats will say no

money ever goes to healthcare for

illegals because it's literally illegal

to give illegals healthcare money?

And then the what what do the

Republicans say as a response to that?

Well,

it's not true.

and then they say some word salad dumb

thing that makes the Democrat look like

they were right.

I don't think the Democrats are right.

But why can't any Republican explain the

other side of this issue? And I I'm not

even sure what it is. Is it something

like we don't directly give the we don't

directly give the money to the illegals

for healthcare because that would be

illegal. So instead we fund we fund the

hospitals who recovering them.

Is that the argument? The the Republican

response to that is so poor that I've

experienced the argument going back and

forth several times and I still don't

know what the I don't know what the

Republican argument is. Do you?

Because then I also saw was it Elizabeth

Warren or something who said that if

your argument is that they're getting

treated at the hospitals that would be

the same under all scenarios.

There's nothing that would change the

fact that they'll still get treated at

emergency rooms. So what exactly is the

Republican argument to that? I believe

the Republican argument is the correct

one that there is money that's being

used for those purposes. But why can't

they explain it in a way that sounds

like a counterpoint to it's illegal so

we don't do it?

It's kind of confusing. Bad messaging by

Republicans.

Do better.

I'd help, but I don't understand. I

don't even understand what they're

trying to say. Like I can't I can't fix

their messaging because I don't even

know what it is. I don't know what

they're trying to say, much less what

they're saying.

So, there's a Bill Gates, I've mentioned

this before now, but they're really

close to approval. Uh, Terrap Power is a

Gen 4 nuclear power plant that uses that

molten salt and it's safe and cheaper

and they'll make it modular and it'll be

the greatest thing. Apparently, they got

through their environmental approvals,

which is one of the hardest things to do

if you're if you're a new nuclear power

company. And now they have to get

uh a safety

so so the environment will be fine but

they need a general you know safety

check so they have to go for that

approval. But the thing that was

interesting about this, because you've

heard about this before, is I wondered

when did Bill Gates get first involved

in funding this because I wondered how

long it took and the answer was 2006

according to Grock. So, Bill Bill Gates

started funding this highly speculative

generation 4 nuclear power

with who knows what the odds of this

succeeding were. But in 2006

or was it nine? Where was it?

2006. Yeah, that's when the company was

founded and and

Gates got into it. So I I mentioned that

only so that you can know how long it

takes to develop a new nuclear

technology, but also to remind you of

the value of our billionaires.

Don't you think that if Bill Gates had

not invested

a ton of money in 2006 on something

that was very much not proven that we

would not be here today? And this might

be one of the biggest things that ever

happened in the world. If we get the Gen

6 um nuclear power plants commoditized

so we can just pound them out and that

and they they're safe. That changes

everything.

just

so

I wonder how much credit you would be

willing to give him. I know you think

he's the devil for other reasons,

vaccinations and stuff. I'm not going to

change your mind about him in general.

I'm just saying, would you acknowledge

that the United States has this

billionaire asset where our billionaires

will take a risk on something for 20

freaking years

and and still take a flyer on it? it. Do

you know how long ago Elon Musk got into

robots and AI? It was about the same

time, and it's only just now starting to

pay off.

Some of our billionaires are serious

long-term thinkers with serious

riskreward

nuts

to do things that nobody else would do

and nobody else could do really. So you

can you can be mad at Bill Gates for all

of your other reasons, but he's the guy

developing the, you know, clean water

for Africa and toilets for Africa and

nuclear power that's safe and not

everything he's doing is the devil.

Not everything.

Anyway, the army is also going to bring

nuclear micro reactors to their bases by

2028.

I don't know if those nuclear mini

reactors will be molten salt or not, but

there's a greater chance that they will

be. Now,

uh Steven Miller is suggesting that

Illinois Governor Pritsker could be

arrested on sedicious conspiracy charges

if they block ICE deportations.

Cassandra McDonald's writing about this

in the Gateway Pundit.

Um, what do you think of that?

As a as a threat, it's probably pretty

good. But would you want to see Pritsker

perwalked with handcuffs because he

tried to stop ICE deportations?

Would you be okay with that?

I would not be okay with that.

That would be a case of uh I get that it

would be a real crime and I get that it

could happen. I wouldn't be happy with

it. Uh I am happy when I see Trump going

after the people who lawfared him. If

they lawfared him, yeah, do what you

need to do. If the only thing they did

is continually say bad things about him,

which I think is Pritkar's situation.

He's more like a perpetual critic. I

don't think you perpwalk the perpetual

critics

even though there's a real crime

potentially. The the hypothetical is

that there's a real crime involved. I

don't know how you ignore a real crime.

You know, again, it's hypothetical, but

if he if he did it, if he did commit a

real crime and it really got to safety

of the of the population, which it

would, I could see why they do it, but I

wouldn't love it. I wouldn't love it.

Anyway, uh Candace Owens has some new

claims. Um, she's claiming that uh Elon

Mus Alman and Peter Teal, they have sort

of a nonhuman vibe and she wonders if

they're alien hybrids.

So, so that's happening. Uh, I remind

you again that I uh I'm a big fan of

Candace and somebody reminded me today

on X that she had uh she had come out

very favorably with some comments about

me uh in May of

May of last year maybe. I can't remember

if it was after I got cancelled or after

I came out with my health problems, but

Candice without any prompting just one

day decided to say very kind things

about me and the value of my work. And

so I'm completely biased in her favor.

And I've told you I've met her and she's

very warm person and person, very warm

and uh and very talented, one of the

most talented people in the game. So,

I'm just pro Candace

front to back, top to bottom.

I'm just pro Candace. So, and you all

know that doesn't mean I have to agree

with all the takes, right? That's the

way it works. But love her to death.

All right. Uh there's at least one

scientist, Harvard scientist, who's

teasing us about this giant uh comet

that's heading through our solar system.

And apparently it changed it. It grew a

tail. It didn't have a comet tail, but

now it does. And uh so one scientist is

teasing that it might be a alien craft

and that that's sign of its maneuvering.

That's basically firing thrusters in a

different direction to maneuver. I don't

think that there are any other

scientists who are agreeing with that

take. But I love that plucky scientist

who says it might be. It might be full

of aliens. What we don't know is if

that's the the alien Uber that's coming

to pick up uh Elon and Sam and Teal. So,

if Kansas is right, that big comet is

going to land somewhere in Silicon

Valley and a big door will open and then

our billionaires will all get back on

board and go back to their home planet.

No, they're not aliens, I don't think.

Probably

good chance they're not.

At least 50% chance they're not aliens.

All right. Um,

speaking of aliens, Daily Mail has a

story, Chris Mallure, about uh allegedly

evidence of nonhuman intelligence near

US nuclear sites. So, apparently since

the 40s, we've been observing that there

are some things that get extra bright in

the sky if it's over a nuclear test

before the nuclear test. And the

thinking is that we've been observed for

all these many years by aliens who seem

to know when we're going to do a nuclear

test. And so they put assets around and

you can see the assets in the air above

the site. They'd be sort of extra

glowing something somethings. Well,

that's the claim. Do you believe any of

that?

I'm going to go with no.

I'm going to go with no. There are no

aliens watching our nuclear tests. might

be. I mean, I can't rule it out, but I'm

going to go with no.

Um,

I saw a Democrat Ram Emanuel with a

really good turn of a phrase that I

liked so much I wanted to share it. He

was talking about what the Democrats did

wrong in 2024. And he used this phrase.

He said, "Democrats allowed themselves

to be framed in a cultural culde-sac."

To which I said, "Damn, that's good.

That's really good. It's good writing.

Uh, it's not really great persuasion,

but it's really good writing." A

cultural culdeac.

It's sort of perfect. He's very smart.

Rah Emanuel is.

Somebody said in the comments that he's

he's got the right message, but he's the

wrong messenger. I think that's true.

He's another older white guy. I just

don't know that the Democrat party has

patience for another older white guy.

And

he's more famous for being tough than

for, you know, charisma.

So being tough, I think, works a little

bit better as a mayor. He's been a

mayor. Uh he's been a diplomat. I don't

know that he's got the presidential vibe

though. He doesn't have the Bill

Clinton,

um, Barack Obama,

you know, or the Bush vibe. There's like

an extra there's an extra thing that all

those guys had. Even Hillary Hillary had

the thing. Um, but he doesn't have the

thing. He just doesn't have the thing.

Whatever that is that makes you look

like a president.

Um, Kamla did Kamla had the thing. She

She didn't act like a president, but she

had sort of the I don't know the

charisma or the vibe or, you know, the

just the feel of it.

Doesn't

uh but he has lots of good points about

what the Democrats should have done.

They should have listened to him.

Speaking of old white Democrats,

Carville is James Carville is off the

reservation again and he says that Trump

what he calls collaborators

and I have to wonder if I'm one of them.

Would he consider me a Trump

collaborator?

I mean, I think Bill Maher considers me

on the collaborator team. He doesn't use

that word, but uh would Carville

consider me a collaborator? because he

said the collaborators should have their

heads shaved. Okay, I do need to get my

head shaved. Uh, put in orange pajamas.

Okay, I like orange and I do like

wearing pajamas. So, it's not so bad so

far. Basically, it's my it's my normal

day wearing pajamas and having a shaved

head

and then march down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Well, I like taking walks. I like Well,

so far this good. I'm getting exercises

in my pajamas and then somebody shaved

my head for free. Okay, where's the

downside? There's got to be a downside

to this. Oh, here it is. This Well, the

public spits on them.

Well, that's not good. Uh, that's after

Trump leaves office. Well, what I would

do is I would declare if if I were in

this situation, I would declare a COVID

emergency and I would demand all the

Democrats wear masks so that they were

only spitting on the inside of their own

mask while I got some exercise taking a

walk in my pajamas and somebody shaved

my head for free. That's how I'd play

it.

So, um, now if I were to assume

that Carville includes people like me on

his collaborator list, what would be my

incentive for arguing that Trump should

not have a third term?

He just gave me a reason to argue for

Trump's third term because he's

basically saying, looks pretty direct,

that I will personally be punished if

I'm alive. and Trump gets out of office,

they'll be punished

for for being a collaborator.

Now, unless he wants to define this

collaborator thing a lot more narrowly,

wouldn't you think that podcasters who

um are reliably support him would be

called collaborators?

If if this were Nazi Germany, I'd be a

collaborator, right? just cuz I'm on a

team.

Well, maybe it could be that Steve

Bannon's trying to stay in the jail for

a second time and that he knows the only

way to do it is if Trump stays in office

because I do believe that the so-called

collaborators and Bannon would certainly

be on that list even if I'm not. uh they

would be in for some trouble and it

could be real life trouble as in go to

jail as in lose everything you have as

in lose your family.

Is that what we're looking at? Because

James Carville, if that's what you're

really promising us, if you're promising

us that you and your

you you and your clan are going to come

after Trump collaborators, and you're

not going to define in advance what a

collaborator is. Well, you just flipped

me to a third term.

I'm going to make the change right now.

As long as this is

talking like this, I'm in favor for a

third term.

If you can calm down this I'll

be on your side. No third terms for

anybody. That's where I was 10 minutes

ago. Now I'm looking at this and I'm

saying, "Fuck you.

you.

If you're going to give this vague

threat that when Trump leaves people

like me are going to be victimized,

yeah, we're going to go for a third

term." And that's on you,

That's all on you, Because I

was absolutely 100% against a third term

until right now.

And the the longer I look at this, the

madder I get.

Yeah, third term. Or shut the up

about this collaborator getting spit on

You need to take that back right

away. And until he takes it back, I'm

all down on third term.

So, got to put the you got to put it at

stake now. All right. Um,

apparently the heist at the Louv where

the French jewels got stolen.

Um, looks like it was an inside job. Of

course.

Don't you always assume it's an inside

job when somebody pulls off an

impressive theft? Yeah. So, they think

one of the insiders told them about the

security problem

uh and that that's how it all got done.

Um, Moscow successfully tested some new

nuclear powered cruise missile. I guess

because it's nuclearpowered, it can fly

around all day. And it did. So, that's

scary.

We know who the donor was who gave the

130 million to pay the soldiers

during the government shutdown.

It was billionaire businessman Timothy

Melon according to the New York Post

Jeff Earl. Um I guess he's a billionaire

whose family is worth 43 billion or

something. He's part of the Melon Bank

uh heirs and uh he just warned to pay

that. So, I guess he did. But the part

that's not being reported is that the

Pentagon can't spend it.

Apparently, there's a some of regulation

that would not allow them to use that

money. So, he gave the money, but it's

not clear that the money can be spent.

And that, ladies and gentlemen,

is everything I wanted to tell you

today.

Not bad for a Sunday. I stretched that

lack of news all the way to top of the

hour. But I'm going to say a few words

privately to the beloved local

subscribers who get a little bit extra.

Last night uh uh we uh did another

drawing session in the man cave

uh where I

um I do some writing and some drawing.

So I'm loving my new uh device. It's a

It's a necklace that holds my phone so I

can show you what my hands are doing

when I'm drawing. People seem to love it

because

it's some kind of calming vibe. So, it's

got some kind of ASMR quality to it.

Most of the time I'm not talking, you

know, but I but when I do, I'm telling

you what I'm doing with the drawing. So,

I'll say things like, "Well, flip this

around and turn this backwards." you

know, this Dilbert's a little bit too

big, all shrinken down. So, it's sort of

a Bob Ross situation.

Anyway, it's very popular, but we don't

have a lot of people who watch it. Uh,

and they they mostly hang out with each

other. They chat with each other while

they're watching me draw. Yep. It's a

Scott Adams POV. Exactly.

Add a happy little PHP over here.

All right. So, just so you know that

that's happening. All right, locals. I'm

going to come at you privately.

Everybody else will see you tomorrow.

Low battery. Apparently, my laptop was

just about ready to die,

but I didn't know it.