Episode 3005 CWSA 10/31/25

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Yeah, everything's a little bit harder today.

Why is my i.

Pad not working doing what I want?

Well, there it is.

Happy Halloween everybody.

You all going to trick or treat tonight?

I'll probably get a few hundred people today.

So, yesterday I had my uh radiation treatment for one of my cancer spots.

It's not a cure.

It's just uh it was just trying to fix the place in my back.

Do you want to hear the most alarming story you've ever heard?

So the radiation treatment, the the one they get has zero pain involved.

In other words, you don't feel the radiation.

So you don't feel it when it's happening and you don't feel it when it's done really.

Yeah, there might be minor side effects or something, but basically you don't feel it unless the position that you have to be in to get it happens to lie on your back in the exact place that it hurts the most.

you know, that was my situation.

So, I didn't know if I could get through the pain.

So, I wanted to make sure I knew how long it would last so that I was mentally prepared.

And I knew it was going to be not just regular pain, but we're talking about, you know, feeling like somebody's putting a spear through your chest the entire time.

I mean, real pain like you've never felt before in your life.

And I knew it would last a while.

So I asked them and they said, "Well, it could be 15 minutes to an hour." The doctor said, "15 minutes to an hour of lying completely still while somebody's putting a spear through your chest.

And if you don't if you don't make it, then you don't have a chance to get rid of the pain that is destroying your ability to walk." So that was my trade-off.

take a pain that would be the greatest pain of my life for 15 minutes to an hour or never never deal with the problem to my death.

So I decided I could do anything for 15 minutes and the doctor confirmed that in my particular case it would be 15 minutes.

So he said you know the whole procedure 15 minutes.

So now I understand it's 15 minutes right now.

How do you understand that?

You understand that the procedure is 15 minutes.

Very easy.

Very, very clear communication, wouldn't you say?

So, I get under the machine and it immediately, you know, the pain kicks in.

And as the texts are walking into the adjacent room where they'll be monitoring me allegedly, one of them says, "We start by taking X-rays." I think they meant a CAT scan, but they said X-rays.

Uh to make sure that your body's in the same position that it was when we did the test to see if you'd be, you know, we were testing to see where the tumors were, but you have to be laying in exactly the same position.

or else the the radiation won't get the right place.

So they say first we'll take the X-rays.

Now what's my first question?

Is that on top of the 15 minutes or is that included in the 15 minutes?

And I couldn't ask because they were already into the test.

So, I'm laying there and 15 minutes pass or or or what I thought was 15 minutes.

So, I felt like 15 minutes of the worst pain I've ever endured in my life.

And I knew I knew I couldn't go longer, but the 15 minutes were over.

And you know what they said next?

Well, we got the X-rays.

They hadn't started.

They hadn't started the treatment.

You know, the 15minute treatment that I didn't think I could possibly survive.

I'd already gone 15 minutes and they hadn't started.

And I bailed out.

I bailed out.

I I screamed and I said, "I'm done.

No way.

I'm not going to go 15 minutes." So they come in and of course they're a little bit distraught because you know I've wasted their time.

I've wasted the appointment.

I didn't get fixed.

Didn't get any treatment.

No treatment at all.

And I just went through the most traumatic experience of my whole life.

And it got worse.

Do you know what they said then?

You ready for this?

Then they told me for the first time, for the first time I heard this, the treatment is one minute.

The 15 minutes is all that setup that we told you we were doing.

The entire process is 15 minutes.

you were 60 seconds away from being completely done, but we they had miscommunicated.

So that I thought it was 15 minutes for the process that had not yet started.

So I bailed out.

So then I said, "Now, now that's the end of my appointment, right?

So now I'm into somebody else's appointment, which means I need to get kicked out and rescheduled.

Do you think I let them kick me out and reschedule?

No, no.

So, they rescheduled whoever was after me to some other room, I guess, and I said, "You're going to have to give me the strongest painkillers in the world.

There's just no way I can do 15 minutes more of this.

So, give me whatever you have." So, we talked about what was the strongest painkiller that they could give me.

And I was already on several.

Now, I'm not going to get into the specifics of the painkillers cuz then you'll go crazy and you'll have your opinions and I don't care.

But they gave me something really strong on top of I already had painkillers in me because I was anticipating it.

So now I have several one, two, at least three different painkillers, four maybe uh in me at the same time.

How much did the painkillers make a difference?

Not even a little bit.

Not even the slightest bit.

The strongest painkillers as you can imagine.

It was like there was no painkiller at all.

I was just sitting right on an open nerve.

But they said because of the because of the first test, they could get it down to 6 minutes inclusive of the actual radiation.

And I thought I could make it 6 minutes with these new painkillers.

I didn't realize at the time that they wouldn't make any difference, but I was like, I can do six minutes.

I can do that.

So, the six minutes starts and when the six minutes is about done, the door opens and I'm like, "Thank you.

Thank God they're coming in because I'm done." And then the text said, "Hold on.

We have to adjust your body because you're not in the right place." which means that the whole first six minutes was a nothing, which meant that it was going to be 6 plus 6.

So, it was really going to be back to 12 minutes.

And they had to start again.

But the good news was that my original position didn't hurt very much.

And I thought, I could definitely get through this because it didn't hurt that much.

As soon as they moved me into the same position as the one where I'd been tested, the one that they needed to get me in, absolute terror pain, cuz it was the position that makes the pain.

It's It wasn't natural pain.

It was the position.

Now I've got 6 minutes after the first 6 minutes after the 15 minutes of the worst pain you've ever felt in your life.

But have I ever told you about deciding versus wanting?

Oh, I was doing a lot of deciding.

A lot of deciding.

So, I got through it.

So, the the the happy ending is I got I got exactly what I wanted.

But wow.

So, I had some words with them about their communication style.

Moving on.

Did you know that there was a there was a new congressional investigation that discovered that Hunter Biden's paintings were all created entirely by autopen?

I didn't even know autopen had any art ability, but apparently the autopen did all of his art.

All right.

How many of you believed that?

Did anybody believe that?

No.

No, the autopen did not do Hunter's art, but it's kind of funny.

All right.

I wonder if there's any science that you didn't need to read because you could have just asked Scott.

Well, the American Psychological Association tells us that the study says that sharing positive emotions with the partner is good for your health.

Uh, I'm pretty sure everybody knew that.

You didn't even have to ask me that one.

Is Is sharing positive emotions with a partner going to be good for your relationship?

Yes.

Is it going to make Is a good relationship going to make you healthier?

Probably.

Yes.

Yeah.

Easy.

Next time, just ask me.

All right.

Let's see if you can guess the outcome of this study based on my patterns.

So, ABC News is talking about this.

So, they did a study where they gave somebody a small dose of LSD to see if it would help them with their long-term anxiety.

Now importantly they did not give it to him every day just once.

So just one dose.

What do you think?

What was the result?

One dose of LSD.

Did it have any lasting effects on anybody's mental health in a positive way?

You already know the answer to that cuz I talk about this almost every day.

Almost every day there's a new story about a hallucinagen.

usually not LSD but some hallucinogen that has exactly these properties that it can fix somebody's mental health with one dose.

I don't know how many studies we have to do to show that hallucinogens fix people with one dose before everybody tries one dose of hallucinagens.

I mean, aren't we sort of, you know, on the cusp of everybody just saying, "All right, all right, all right, just give me some of that." According to Science Alert, chimpanzees can revise their beliefs when shown new evidence.

Well, damn those dirty monkeys.

They're smarter than humans.

Humans don't change their mind when you give them new data, but chimps do.

Well, I would say that humans do, too.

It really depends.

But maybe the advantage that chimps have is that they they don't get embarrassed.

I mean, if you're a chimp, you're flinging your poo and probably trapped in a cage and you got bigger problems.

But no, they they will revise their beliefs based on new evidence.

Um, however, uh, there's no there's no indication what political party they're supporting.

Uh, I think what they did was maybe a test that had something to do with food or something.

Yeah.

Do you know what kind of opinion I would be willing to change easily?

My food opinions.

If the only thing they changed their opinion on was something about where the food was hidden.

I'm not impressed.

Chimps.

Sorry, chimps.

Well, apparently Meta, the Facebook company, uh they RS Technica is reporting that they've been accused of using porn to train their AI.

Uh but do you know what their defense is?

Because apparently there there must be digital records of Meta accessing a lot of porn.

A lot of porn.

Because we're talking about training AI.

If you're going to train AI, you don't need a little bit of porn.

You need lots lots of porn.

Lots.

So, they must have some kind of a digital path because there's a lawsuit.

So, Meta asked the US District Court to toss out a lawsuit alleging that they had uh basically torrented or streamed a bunch of pornography to train their AI.

How much porn was it?

And what was their defense?

Their defense was it was all downloaded for personal reasons.

So their actual court defense was, "No, no, we didn't need that much porn to train our AI.

We needed it totally for jerking off." What?

No.

Really?

Yeah.

We didn't We didn't even touch AI with it.

We did not get near AI with that porn.

It was all for us just to whack off.

That's a lot of porn.

Well, we we're young and there are a lot of us and we like our porn.

So, you know, why don't you get off my back, Dad?

Well, here's something that uh Elon Musk knew was coming, but maybe you didn't.

Um, apparently there's a solar power boom because the economics of solar power just got really good.

And one of the reasons it got really good the economics for solar is that uh there's some gigantic solar projects going on China particularly and uh it basically is just creating a very robust competitive um industry.

So the prices for solar are going down and a lot more is being installed um in countries everywhere.

The we the weird thing is that the economics of solar are so good now that even Saudi Arabia is installing solar.

They have a lot of sun so it makes sense.

But what you know one of the biggest uh regular energy carbon energy producers in the world even for them the economics of solar are good.

So I assume that maybe this has something to do with battery storage as well.

But uh I guess we're in that realm where all power is good power.

So you you might remember that uh you know this is in the category of Elon Musk being correct again.

He's been saying for a long time that uh solar would be the economical, easiest, fastest, safest kind of way to go forward.

Now obviously he's in the business so he's you know it's his job to say it's good.

But I think he's right.

You know, it looks like if I had to guess, you know, the the cost of, let's say, nuclear power might go down as they, you know, develop new ways, but that is just sort of going to go up, I think, because new things that they have to do for safety and everything else.

But solar potentially could just get cheaper and cheaper for a long time, and the batteries could get cheaper and cheaper.

So I think uh Elon was right about the future of solar.

Exon Mobile according to Zero Hedge is uh taking California to court over what they call compelled climate speech.

So they're not complaining about what the state is making them do about climate.

They're complaining about what they're making them say, which is actually pretty innovative.

And uh what is it they want them to say?

Um apparently they're being forced by California law to publicly endorse opinions about climate change that they don't agree with.

That does seem like something you should be able to sue your state for, right?

It'd be one thing if they say the laws you have to do this, but seems like a violation of the first amendment to say and when you do it, you have to talk about it this way.

What?

Really?

The state is going to tell you how to talk about climate change?

No.

No.

You don't get to tell us how to talk about it?

We'll talk about it any way we want.

But if you know, if you have some law about what we're supposed to do, well, maybe we'll do it, but we're not going to talk about it the way you want us to talk about it.

No.

So, I'm going to be on Exon Mobile's side in that.

RFK Jr.

says there is not yet.

Maybe there never will be sufficient evidence that Tylenol causes autism.

Now, I'm sure the Tylenol company has whoever makes it has been talking to him.

The Hill is reporting this, but they are in the uh in the process of looking into it.

We're doing studies to make to make the proof.

But Kennedy says there's a there there's a suggestive connection, but not yet a scientifically demonstrated one.

So he's going to make sure that the science is there before or if they say that it is a problem.

So I like that they're doing the studies.

This is exactly exactly why I like Kennedy in this job.

you know, the the anti- Kennedy guys are he would ignore science.

Well, he's clearly not.

He's clearly not ignoring science.

He's clearly creating science where there was a a hole and could be one of the most important things anybody ever did every anywhere if he finds out what's actually behind the autism.

So, yeah, that's why we that's why we like him.

Trump has apparently decided to encourage Republicans to quote go nuclear and scrap the Senate filibuster.

Now, my understanding would be that that change would allow them to uh pass the law without 60 votes.

So, they would just need a bare majority and therefore they would be able to um control the budget and reopen the government and do everything else.

the downside of getting rid of the filibuster because the filibuster is sort of what keeps the the safety vote thing alive as long as they're filibustering.

Um, but if you got rid of it, it would work both ways.

Meaning that when Democrats eventually get in power, uh, they would also have no filibuster.

So if they had just one extra vote more than Republicans, which isn't too far away, that one extra vote would allow them to do whatever they wanted.

So right now, the only control that Democrats have over Republicans doing anything they want is that they can filibuster and make this 60C vote threshold too high for the Republicans to get over.

uh it would be quite the move to go nuclear because it would change everything forever.

The the government would never be the same and even Republicans don't want to do it for that reason.

It would change everything forever and you might not like it because it it probably wouldn't change back.

I mean, it could but probably wouldn't.

So, whoever was in power would never want to change it back because it would be what the best power they'd ever had.

Anyway, I don't know if that'll happen or if it's a bluff.

It's probably the right time to bluff it because Democrats are really, really not going to want the nuclear option to be used and they're really, really, really not going to want the filibuster to go away.

But the Republicans have the power to do it.

They can make it go away.

So it could be that he's bluffing and negotiating and if he says I totally want the nuclear option and the Senate filibuster to go away forever that that might be enough for the Democrats to say whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa okay let's talk.

If that's what he's doing then it's exactly the right play.

If what he's doing is he's definitely decided to get rid of the filibuster and he can convince the Republicans which I don't think he can actually.

I don't think he would.

But if he could, would they go along with it?

I don't know.

I don't think he could get the I don't think he could get enough Republicans, but you know, he he's really good at threatening Republicans with primaries, so maybe he could.

He might be able to get them.

Here's the least surprising story of the day.

According to the New York Post, Victor Nava is writing that the Department of Justice is investigating possible fraud within Black Lives.

So, it's one particular part of Black Lives Matter.

How many times have we heard that story that Black Lives Matter is being investigated for or or suspected of money laundering and stealing money and corruption?

Surprise.

All right.

Um, so but here's what's interesting.

Apparently the investigation was launched during the Biden administration.

So if you think it's some kind of racist Trump thing that they only go after black people, you should know that this would be a continuation of a Biden administration thing.

However, I do have to wonder if Biden was sloww walking it because Democrats don't want to embarrass Black Lives Matter to which they had all bowed.

So, it might have been getting slowwalked, but it's not getting slowwalked now.

Um, looks like the civil rights division of the government is demanding, well, actually the DOJ is demanding records on what they call unexplained anomalies in the 2020 election uh after Fulton County did not comply with subpoena.

This is from the postmillennial Hannah Nightingale's writing about it.

And I guess what this means is that in the past the Department of Justice had asked for some documents or something from Fulton County and never got them.

And now people believe that there are unexplained anomalies related to the 2020 election.

Now, how long have we been hearing about these unexplained anomalies in Georgia?

It's been years.

For years.

It's like every other day there's a story about an unexplained election thing in Georgia, but none of them have so far turned into the, you know, the massive smoking gun that Republicans expect.

So there's no proof that the election was thrown.

But I do feel like like every part of my body feels like it's coming, you know, just in the way that uh Bill Gates changing his mind on climate change.

I felt like it was coming, but I wouldn't know if it was in 20 years or or one year.

Turned down came kind of fast.

So, I don't know.

We'll keep an eye on this.

Yeah.

Unexplained anomalies.

Meanwhile, Ted Cruz, uh I believe he's at an event in uh or was in Las Vegas that's the Republican Jewish Coalition.

And part of uh what Ted Cruz would like you to know is that according to him, the Republicans are drifting into anti-semitism.

He says in the I'll just read him.

He says, "In the last 6 months, I've seen more anti-semitism on the right than I have in my entire life." He says, "This is a poison, and I believe we're facing an existential crisis in our party and in our country." and he noted that the Democrats um had sort of the same problem and were too slow to to disavow the anti-semitism in their own party and that that was sort of a critical mistake for the Democrats that he would not want the Republicans to make.

Um and here's what I'm wondering.

How much of it is because of the Gaza situation?

And if Gaza had not happened, would he be would he be seeing all this anti-semitism?

Because it looks like the the way to understand the various complaints about anti-semitism is that uh and I'm going to deeply oversimplify now.

There are some people like Tucker Carlson who seem to be criticizing the state of Israel, but there are some people like uh Nick Fuentes who appears to be criticizing Jews around the world.

Totally different.

Criticizing a country, fine.

You'll still be called an anti-semite, but but at least smart people would consider that reasonable.

Uh, but if you're criticizing people, well, you're not gonna get away with that.

And Ted Cruz is calling it out.

So Ted is a very, very, very, very pro-Israel.

Uh, he would be called by some people too pro-Israel.

But uh again, if you're pro or anti- a country, that's all legal, you know, as long as it's transparent and you know, you're not hurting anybody and you're still putting your own country first, that would be important.

Uh that's one thing.

If you're if you're uh criticizing APEC or the ADL, that's okay.

Those are organizations.

That that's not direct.

Even if you were antiatic, it would be okay to criticize an organization for what the organization's doing.

So, it looks like we're conflating, you know, the two the two conversations.

You know, when are we when is somebody saying something that's criticism of the country?

When they've gone too far and said it's the people.

Um, but I would I would say that what's changed in the last 6 months is that the Gaza situation reached some kind of a peak.

Obviously, that's going to have some impact.

And that uh also maybe some changes in social media made Nick Fuentes show up on my feed every 5 seconds.

Is anybody having the Nick Fuentes social media effect that he's just there almost every time I turn on any videos on X?

He's he's in the top five.

Now, it is because I was curious like what's the difference between, you know, Tucker Carlson's view and his view and, you know, what trouble is he causing?

Because when you hear when you hear things about him, you don't always hear the specific of what he did.

So I I wanted to see see some specifics and I would agree that he comes off as anti-semitic.

I would agree if if you watch him for a while it's it's hard not to get that impression.

Now he might deny it etc.

But let's just say let's just say the vibe is unmistakable.

Now he would argue I think you know I don't want to take his argument but uh at least in some cases he would argue that he's at least in other topics that he's talking about culture less less than he's talking about people but I think that's that's not so much the anti-semitism argument as it is his argument about other immigrants I think so here's my take both Tucker And um quentes can they can represent their own opinions.

I will add nothing to their opinions nor nor do I care enough that I need to get into the the weeds on that.

But it does look like Tucker is playing with fire, but maybe still, you know, slightly on the the side of, you know, since he's going after entities and not people.

uh most of the time.

I mean, there might be some people he goes after, but they would be special cases.

That's what it looks like.

Anyway, so that's happening.

Um Cash Patel apparently found according to Just the News October surprise that was happening back in two weeks before the election in 2020.

So, we know about the Arctic Frost investigation, but did you know that on top of that, they were looking to uh do something in 2020?

What was it?

Oh, here it was.

They were desperately, it looks like, they were desperately looking like something looking for something they could go after Trump for, but they didn't have much.

So, here's how deep they went to try to find something on Trump.

Uh, there was a memo.

I'll just read what Just the News is reporting.

There's a memo buried in the middle of a 235page evidence production that Patel sent to the House Judiciary Committee this week that chronicles how the FBI's Washington field office rifled through financial records and campaign expenditure reports, producing what quote a tactical intelligence report trying to link payments from Trump's re-election campaign and a vendor named Americanmade media consultants to possible casino gambling.

Did you get all that?

Everybody follow all that?

I read it.

I don't even follow it.

In short, just the news writes.

The FBI agents believed an employee of the campaign, So, all right.

Here's the problem.

They believe that an employee of the campaign, not Trump, just an employee, uh, no, yeah, an employee of the campaign went gambling at a casino after this Americanmade media consultants thing.

Got money for campaign work.

Not exactly the crime of the century, says just the news.

How's that even a crime?

What What exactly was that?

So look, I guess the bottom line is that the FBI was looking for just absolutely anything.

They they were digging hard to try to keep Trump out of office.

That was the best they had.

Some employee went to a casino.

Okay.

According to the New York Post and uh some new new surveys, uh nearly half of New Yorkers think the New York City crime is going to spike when he becomes mayor, who he likely will.

So about half.

That's pretty scary if half of the people think that crime is going to go up.

But I'll bet that's not too different from any other every other election.

Half of the country thinks it's going to be a disaster.

Well, I didn't know this, but I guess in the past, Elon Musk has been not so much of a Bitcoin supporter, but as of today, he says uh Bitcoin might be the thing because the thing that's different about Bitcoin is that it's sort of a uh it's proof of real world power.

I think that's what um Mario was describing as but basically Bitcoin uh can only be created with energy.

So energy is in a sense the thing that backs Bitcoin in the way that the old days gold would have backed the dollar.

Not anymore.

So, Bitcoin would be one of the well, the only I think it's the only crypto that would be backed by something that has intrinsic value of its own, which is energy.

So, you need energy to make a Bitcoin.

Um, and so Elon recognizing that uh yeah, he does he says he doesn't hold any Bitcoin.

U but but he's but but energy is truth.

So I I guess the bottom line is that Elon is um believing that Bitcoin is here to stay and that there's a reason that it's different from the other crypto.

And I noticed that Bitcoin was up 3% this morning.

I don't know what it is now.

Black Rockck's Larry Frink said something that made news that I don't understand at all.

See if you understand it.

So Larry Frink says that the world is about to tokenize every financial asset.

Do any of you know what that means?

Tokize.

Now, I think it means have some kind of a crypto currency that's backed on the physical thing.

Would that make the physical objects that are about to be tokenized?

No.

But he's talking about financial assets.

The world is about to tokenize every financial asset.

I have no idea what that means.

Do you?

Yeah.

I I mean I understand they're talking about the blockchain blah blah blah, but what does it mean to tokenize every financial asset?

Does that mean we're not going to have uh financial entities?

Will we be able to do all of our financial stuff without Charles Schwab and without a bank?

Is he suggesting that banks will go away?

I don't know what this means.

Anyway, so Trump and she met the other day and uh allegedly made some deals.

Um you you saw my take on it yesterday in the morning and I said it looked like Trump got nothing.

Well, that's what the Wall Street Journal said, too.

Uh it wasn't just me.

So other people said the same thing.

Uh it looks like Trump got nothing.

Well, we'll never know cuz it's mostly promises.

But it looks like we promised nothing and they promised nothing, but we made our nothing sound like something, so it looked like something happened.

But I think nothing happened.

I I think nobody agreed on anything that they're actually going to do.

So that's weird.

But Trump did his usual thing where he claimed victory and it was a big win.

That does work.

you know, if you're a Democrat, you're just going to say he's lying.

He's lying.

He He didn't uh, you know, he didn't have a big victory.

He's lying.

But I like it when he uses his hyperbole and salesmanship in these situations because if he can make she think that the two of them won something, that the two of them look good and they had a meeting and they both won something that they won, that might soften up she for the next time, you know.

So that would maybe be good just good technique to agree that good things happened even if they didn't.

So we'll see where that goes.

I don't expect any change on fentinel.

There's no way China about that.

Um the Daily Wire is reporting Virginia Crude is writing about this.

There's a some Democrat who was it Janelle Binham Democrat from Oregon.

She's a representative.

So, she was being asked uh by the media um about the clean CR, the continuing resolution.

So, this is what the Republicans say they want the Democrats to sign or vote for.

Um that would just extend funding with no changes from what it had been before.

So, the no changes part is the important part.

But Janelle Binham says that that continuing resolution was not a clean bill and indeed that it had a poison pill in it.

Meaning that something had been added that Democrats would definitely not want to happen.

But if they wanted to open the government, they'd be forced to sign this bill that also had this new add-on that they didn't want.

That would be called the poison pill.

And then the representative or I'm sorry then the uh C-SPAN media person said what is that poison pill?

Can you name that?

And she could not because there's no poison pill.

Now, have you noticed that the Democrats can make any claim whatsoever and nobody's going to really fact check it enough that, you know, I mean, only only the nerds like us are going to fact check it, but the regular public is just going to hear that and they're going to say, "Oh, it has a poison pill in it.

It has no poison pill in it." The poison pill is imaginary.

It's just completely imaginary.

What do I tell you about Democrat beliefs and worries and policies?

They're all imaginary.

The more imaginary things you see come out of the left, the more you realize it's an imaginary party.

Everything from climate change to authoritarianism to Trump becoming a king to the to the CR uh having a poison pill, none of it's true.

to the drinking bleach to the fine people hoax to the Russia collusion hoax.

None of it's true.

None of it's true.

So the imaginary party versus the real party.

The Wall Street Journal editorial was that uh the the Republicans should kill Obamacare if they can the subsidies.

Now, what would happen if these gigantic extra uh medical costs that have gone up, especially in the last five years?

What would happen if the government just said, "All right, no more.

It's just going to be a private market and you'd have to eat these expenses." Could they?

Like, what would happen?

It It's certainly obvious that the Republicans were right when they said that Obamacare would be a disaster.

They were right.

Now Obama was right, too.

And that he knew it would be a disaster, but it would cover more people.

So, you know, at least people would get healthcare while the disaster was running.

He was right about that, too.

Cover it covered more people.

And just like the Republicans said, it's a financial disaster.

Is that fixable?

I'd sure love to hear the Republican plan to fix it that doesn't put 10 million people out of healthcare.

Is there any way to do that?

I'm not even sure that's physically possible at this point.

We'll see.

Speaking of Ted Cruz, he's also called on the House to impeach that judge Boseberg.

Um and the impeachment would be in his opinion um the reason for it would be that Boseberg uh and uh had been behind um approving the looking into all the personal phone records of a bunch of people including Ted Cruz.

And uh I guess Boseber justified looking into the records uh under what the judge wrote were reasonable grounds that the senator might destroy or tamper um with evidence in the Biden administration's investigation of Jan X.

And Cruz's response is, "There is precisely zero evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy or tamper with the ev evidence or to intimidate potential witnesses." And I'll give him that.

I'll give him that.

You know, whether you like Ted Cruz or not, there is zero evidence that he would tamper with evidence.

You know, it doesn't it doesn't seem like he'd be the guy who would ever do a dumb thing like that.

So, he's got a good point.

Reuters says that China's factory activity is down a little bit, which would be a big warning sign.

It might be down because they did a little extra before the tariffs.

So, it might be just an adjustment from a a bump, but uh it doesn't seem to be affecting other countries.

So, it's a China problem.

Russia apparently used a one of their best missiles.

Must be something new in Ukraine.

They've used it a bunch of times before, but using that missile is apparently what led Trump to quit the nuclear treaty that he'd like to get going.

So, these must be really good missiles if it's if it ruined the nuclear conversation.

And apparently whatever planned Budapest summit with Putin was going to happen with Trump is off now.

So they're not going to do that.

But Putin invited journalists into the war zone.

He wanted to show them that Russia had encircled.

They claim, but Ukraine Ukraine says this is not true.

But Russia says they've circled encircled so that they could whenever they want destroy a large part of the Ukrainian army.

You know, thousands of people are allegedly encircled and Putin wants to bring in the press and say, "See for yourself, they're encircled." But they say, "No, we're not encircled." Well, Israel launched another attack in in eastern Gaza because the the ceasefire is having a little trouble holding.

Like I say before, of course there will be violations of the ceasefire.

Of course there will.

But if they stay low grade, they can work through it.

All right, here's the dumbest thing I saw on the internet today.

University of British Columbia is uh behind this writing about it.

They they believe they have a mathematical proof that debunks the idea that the universe is a simulation.

Do you believe that?

That somebody has a mathematical proof that we're not a simulation?

No.

Of course they don't.

They couldn't possibly because the simulation by its design would prevent you from knowing that it was something else.

Who who would build a simulation in which the people in the simulation could determine that they were not a simulation?

It would just ruin the simulation.

So as long as you can program a simulation such that the all the people in it would have some point of view and can never be overturned, that's all you need.

So apparently the their mathematical proof um boils down to this.

Since the fundamental level of reality is based on non-algorithmic understanding, that would be the reality we think we're in.

Non-algorithmic understanding.

What they mean is quantum physics.

So they're saying that the world is not cause and effect, but it's sort of a quantum world where you don't know what's going to happen.

So if you don't know what's going to happen, you couldn't really call that an algorithm, right?

So therefore there can't be a computed simulation because what we observe is that we don't live in a world that acts like it's computed.

It doesn't act like cause and effect.

It acts like random things are happen.

Now what does that have to do with the simulation?

You could you could build randomness into a simulation.

You could build into the simulation that people think they see randomness.

You can build into the simulation quantum physics.

You could just say, "Act like there's quantum physics." And then the simulation would act like it had quantum physics.

And then these guys in the simulation would say, "Look, it's acting like it has quantum physics.

So therefore, it can't be a simulation." Yes, it can.

It can be a simulation pretending to be quantum physics.

It's not hard, people.

This is easy.

All right.

According to Reuters, the Pentagon's Doge unit is going to revamp the military's drone program.

Is that good news?

Do you remember?

It was just yesterday I was telling you that wars run on economics because if you got the best economics, you're going to have the best weapons.

And I told you that the the economics of drones and anti- drone technology, those two things might be the key to who has, you know, dominance in the future.

Are you good at making lots of drones?

And do you make really good drones?

That's that's going to be who has power.

So, putting Doge, which are both geniuses and they're involved in costs.

If you put the costs people in charge of the drone program, you've nailed it because you got to get the economics right so that you can make a billion drones at the cost that your enemy can only make a million.

That's the whole game.

So, the fact that the military and Hex Seth and Trump apparently understand that you got to get the economics of drones right, you you don't just get the technology, you got to get the economics of it right.

That's how you win.

So, Doge doesn't seem like the obvious um people to pick for the e for the uh drone program, but once you realize that economics and drones are really the same conversation, then it makes all the sense in the world.

You put your geniuses where they can understand not just the technology, but also how the economics of it works.

So, that seems like real good news.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I had to tell you today.

Went a little bit short.

I'm not working too well today.

Uh, my left hand and arm are just useless at this point.

I don't have a plan for fixing that.

All right, I'm going to just say a few words to my beloved local subscribers.

Give you a little extra.

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Yeah, everything's a little bit harder

today.

Why is my iPad not working doing what I

want?

Well, there it is.

Happy Halloween everybody.

You all going to trick or treat tonight?

I'll probably get a few hundred people

today. So, yesterday I had my uh

radiation treatment for one of my cancer

spots. It's not a cure. It's just uh it

was just trying to fix the place in my

back.

Do you want to hear the most alarming

story you've ever heard?

So the radiation treatment, the the one

they get has zero pain involved. In

other words, you don't feel the

radiation. So you don't feel it when

it's happening

and you don't feel it when it's done

really. Yeah, there might be minor side

effects or something, but basically you

don't feel it unless

the position that you have to be in to

get it happens to lie on your back in

the exact place that it hurts the most.

you know, that was my situation.

So, I didn't know if I could get through

the pain.

So, I wanted to make sure I knew how

long it would last so that I was

mentally prepared.

And I knew it was going to be not just

regular pain, but we're talking about,

you know, feeling like somebody's

putting a spear through your chest the

entire time. I mean, real pain like

you've never felt before in your life.

And I knew it would last a while. So I

asked them and they said, "Well, it

could be 15 minutes to an hour." The

doctor said, "15 minutes to an hour

of lying completely still while

somebody's putting a spear through your

chest.

And if you don't if you don't make it,

then you don't have a chance to get rid

of the pain that is destroying your

ability to walk."

So that was my trade-off. take a pain

that would be the greatest pain of my

life for 15 minutes to an hour

or never never deal with the problem to

my death.

So I decided I could do anything for 15

minutes and the doctor confirmed that in

my particular case it would be 15

minutes. So he said you know the whole

procedure 15 minutes. So now I

understand it's 15 minutes right now.

How do you understand that?

You understand that the procedure is 15

minutes. Very easy. Very, very clear

communication, wouldn't you say?

So, I get under the machine and it

immediately, you know, the pain kicks

in. And as the texts are walking into

the adjacent room where they'll be

monitoring me allegedly, [laughter]

one of them says, "We start by taking

X-rays." I think they meant a CAT scan,

but they said X-rays. Uh to make sure

that your body's in the same position

that it was when we did the test to see

if you'd be, you know, we were testing

to see where the tumors were, but you

have to be laying in exactly the same

position.

or else the the radiation won't get the

right place.

So they say first we'll take the X-rays.

Now

what's my first question?

Is that on top of the 15 minutes or is

that included in the 15 minutes?

And I couldn't ask because they were

already into the test. So, I'm laying

there and 15 minutes pass

or or or what I thought was 15 minutes.

So, I felt like 15 minutes of the worst

pain I've ever endured in my life.

And I knew I knew I couldn't go longer,

but the 15 minutes were over. And you

know what they said next?

Well, we got the X-rays.

They hadn't started.

They hadn't started the treatment.

You know, the 15minute treatment that I

didn't think I could possibly survive.

I'd already gone 15 minutes

and they hadn't started.

And I bailed out. I bailed out. I I

screamed and I said, "I'm done. No

way. I'm not going to go 15

minutes." So they come in and of course

they're a little bit distraught because

you know I've wasted their time. I've

wasted the appointment. I didn't get

fixed. Didn't get any treatment. No

treatment at all. And I just went

through the most traumatic experience of

my whole life.

And it got worse. Do you know what they

said then?

You ready for this?

Then they told me for the first time,

for the first time I heard this, the

treatment

is one minute.

The 15 minutes is all that setup that we

told you we were doing. The entire

process is 15 minutes. you were 60

seconds away from being completely done,

but we they had miscommunicated. So that

I thought it was 15 minutes for the

process that had not yet started.

So I bailed out. So then I said, "Now,

now that's the end of my appointment,

right? So now I'm into somebody else's

appointment, which means I need to get

kicked out and rescheduled.

Do you think I let them kick me out and

reschedule? [laughter]

No, no. So, they rescheduled whoever was

after me to some other room, I guess,

and I said, "You're going to have to

give me the strongest painkillers

in the world. There's just no

way I can do 15 minutes more of this.

So, give me whatever you have." So, we

talked about what was the strongest

painkiller that they could give me. And

I was already on several. Now, I'm not

going to get into the specifics of the

painkillers cuz then you'll go crazy and

you'll have your opinions and I don't

care. But they gave me something really

strong

on top of I already had painkillers in

me because I was anticipating it. So now

I have several

one, two, at least three different

painkillers, four maybe

uh in me at the same time. How much did

the painkillers make a difference?

Not even a little bit. Not even the

slightest bit. The strongest painkillers

as you can imagine. It was like there

was no painkiller at all. I was just

sitting right on an open nerve. But they

said because of the because of the first

test,

they could get it down to 6 minutes

inclusive of the actual radiation.

And I thought I could make it 6 minutes

with these new painkillers. I didn't

realize at the time that they wouldn't

make any difference, but I was like, I

can do six minutes. I can do that. So,

the six minutes starts and when the six

minutes is about done,

the door opens and I'm like, "Thank you.

Thank God they're coming in because I'm

done."

And then the text said, "Hold on. We

have to adjust your body because you're

not in the right place."

which means that the whole first six

minutes was a nothing,

which meant that it was going to be 6

plus 6. So, it was really going to be

back to 12 minutes.

And they had to start again. But the

good news was that my original position

didn't hurt very much. And I thought, I

could definitely get through this

because it didn't hurt that much. As

soon as they moved me into the same

position as the one where I'd been

tested, the one that they needed to get

me in, absolute terror pain, cuz it was

the position that makes the pain. It's

It wasn't natural pain. It was the

position. Now I've got 6 minutes after

the first 6 minutes after the 15 minutes

of the worst pain you've ever felt in

your life.

But have I ever told you about deciding

versus wanting?

Oh, I was doing a lot of deciding. A lot

of deciding. So, I got through it. So,

the the the happy ending is I got I got

exactly what I wanted. But wow.

So, I had some words with them about

their communication style.

Moving on.

Did you know that there was a there was

a new congressional investigation that

discovered that Hunter Biden's paintings

were all created entirely by autopen?

I didn't even know autopen had any art

ability, but apparently the autopen did

all of his art.

All right. How many of you believed

that? Did anybody believe that?

[laughter]

No. No, the autopen did not do Hunter's

art, but it's kind of funny.

All right. I wonder if there's any

science that you didn't need to read

because you could have just asked Scott.

Well, the American Psychological

Association

tells us that the study says that

sharing positive emotions with the

partner is good for your health.

Uh,

I'm pretty sure everybody knew that. You

didn't even have to ask me that one. Is

Is sharing positive emotions with a

partner going to be good for your

relationship? Yes. Is it going to make

Is a good relationship going to make you

healthier? Probably. Yes. Yeah. Easy.

Next time, just ask me. All right. Let's

see if you can guess the outcome of this

study based on my patterns. So, ABC News

is talking about this. So, they did a

study where they gave somebody a small

dose of LSD to see if it would help them

with their long-term anxiety. Now

importantly they did not give it to him

every day just once. So just one dose.

What do you think? What was the result?

One dose of LSD.

Did it have any lasting effects on

anybody's mental health in a positive

way? You already know the answer to that

cuz I talk about this almost every day.

Almost every day there's a new story

about a hallucinagen. usually not LSD

but some hallucinogen that has exactly

these properties that it can fix

somebody's mental health with one dose.

I don't know how many studies we have to

do to show that hallucinogens

fix people with one dose before

everybody tries one dose of

hallucinagens. I mean, aren't we sort

of, you know, on the cusp of everybody

just saying, "All right, all right, all

right, just give me some of that."

According to Science Alert, chimpanzees

can revise their beliefs when shown new

evidence. Well, damn those dirty

monkeys.

They're smarter than humans. Humans

don't change their mind when you give

them new data, but chimps do.

Well, I would say that humans do, too.

It really depends. But maybe the

advantage that chimps have is that they

they don't get embarrassed. I mean, if

you're a chimp, you're flinging your poo

and probably trapped in a cage and you

got bigger problems. But no, they they

will revise their beliefs based on new

evidence. Um, however, uh, there's no

there's no indication what political

party they're supporting. Uh, I think

what they did was maybe a test that had

something to do with food or something.

Yeah. Do you know what kind of opinion I

would be willing to change easily? My

food opinions. If the only thing they

changed their opinion on was something

about where the food was hidden. I'm not

impressed. Chimps.

Sorry, chimps.

Well, apparently Meta, the Facebook

company, uh they RS Technica is

reporting that they've been accused of

using porn to train their AI.

Uh

but do you know what their defense is?

Because apparently there there must be

digital records of Meta accessing a lot

of porn. A lot of porn. Because we're

talking about training AI. If you're

going to train AI, you don't need a

little bit of porn. You need lots lots

of porn. Lots. So, they must have some

kind of a digital path because there's a

lawsuit. So, Meta asked the US District

Court to toss out a lawsuit alleging

that they had uh basically torrented or

streamed a bunch of pornography to train

their AI. How much porn was it? And what

was their defense? Their defense was it

was all downloaded for personal reasons.

So their actual court defense was, "No,

no, we didn't need that much porn to

train our AI. We needed it totally for

jerking off." What? No. Really? Yeah. We

didn't We didn't even touch AI with it.

We did not get near AI with that porn.

It was all for us just to whack off.

That's a lot of porn. Well, we we're

young and there are a lot of us and we

like our porn. So, you know, why don't

you get off my back, Dad?

Well, here's something that uh Elon Musk

knew was coming, but maybe you didn't.

Um, apparently there's a solar power

boom because the economics of solar

power just got really good. And one of

the reasons it got really good the

economics for solar is that uh there's

some gigantic solar projects going on

China particularly and uh it basically

is just creating a very robust

competitive

um industry. So the prices for solar are

going down and a lot more is being

installed

um in countries everywhere. The we the

weird thing is that the economics of

solar are so good now that even Saudi

Arabia is installing solar.

They have a lot of sun so it makes

sense. But what you know one of the

biggest uh regular energy carbon energy

producers in the world even for them the

economics of solar are good. So I assume

that maybe this has something to do with

battery storage as well. But uh I guess

we're in that realm where all power is

good power.

So you you might remember that uh you

know this is in the category of Elon

Musk being correct again. He's been

saying for a long time that uh solar

would be the economical,

easiest, fastest,

safest kind of way to go forward. Now

obviously he's in the business so he's

you know it's his job to say it's good.

But I think he's right. You know, it

looks like if I had to guess, you know,

the the cost of, let's say, nuclear

power might go down as they, you know,

develop new ways, but that is just sort

of going to go up, I think, because new

things that they have to do for safety

and everything else. But solar

potentially could just get cheaper and

cheaper for a long time, and the

batteries could get cheaper and cheaper.

So I think uh Elon was right about the

future of solar.

Exon Mobile according to Zero Hedge is

uh taking California to court over what

they call compelled climate speech.

So they're not complaining about what

the state is making them do about

climate. They're complaining about what

they're making them say, [laughter]

which is actually pretty innovative. And

uh what is it they want them to say?

Um apparently they're being forced by

California law to publicly endorse

opinions about climate change that they

don't agree with.

That does seem like something you should

be able to sue your state for, right?

It'd be one thing if they say the laws

you have to do this,

but seems like a violation of the first

amendment to say and when you do it, you

have to talk about it this way.

What?

Really? The state is going to tell you

how to talk about climate change? No.

No. You don't get to tell us how to talk

about it? We'll talk about it any way we

want. But if you know, if you have some

law about what we're supposed to do,

well, maybe we'll do it, but we're not

going to talk about it the way you want

us to talk about it. No. So, I'm going

to be on Exon Mobile's side in that.

RFK Jr. says there is not yet. Maybe

there never will be sufficient evidence

that Tylenol

causes autism.

Now, I'm sure the Tylenol company has

whoever makes it has been talking to

him. The Hill is reporting this, but

they are in the uh in the process of

looking into it. We're doing studies to

make to make the proof. But Kennedy says

there's a there there's a suggestive

connection, but not yet a scientifically

demonstrated one. So he's going to make

sure that the science is there before or

if they say that it is a problem. So I

like that they're doing the studies.

This is exactly

exactly

why I like Kennedy in this job. you

know, the the anti- Kennedy guys are he

would ignore science. Well, he's clearly

not. He's clearly not ignoring science.

He's clearly creating science where

there was a a hole

and could be one of the most important

things anybody ever did every anywhere

if he finds out what's actually behind

the autism. [snorts] So, yeah, that's

why we that's why we like him.

Trump has apparently decided

to encourage Republicans to quote go

nuclear and scrap the Senate filibuster.

Now, my understanding would be that that

change would allow them to uh pass the

law without 60 votes. So, they would

just need a bare majority and therefore

they would be able to um control the

budget and reopen the government and do

everything else. the downside

of getting rid of the filibuster because

the filibuster is sort of what keeps the

the safety vote thing alive as long as

they're filibustering. Um, but if you

got rid of it, it would work both ways.

Meaning that when Democrats eventually

get in power,

uh, they would also have no filibuster.

So if they had just one extra vote more

than Republicans, which isn't too far

away, that one extra vote would allow

them to do whatever they wanted. So

right now, the only control that

Democrats have over Republicans doing

anything they want is that they can

filibuster and make this 60C vote

threshold too high for the Republicans

to get over.

uh it would be quite the move to go

nuclear because it would change

everything forever. The the government

would never be the same and even

Republicans don't want to do it for that

reason. It would change everything

forever and you might not like it

because it it probably wouldn't change

back. I mean, it could but probably

wouldn't. So, whoever was in power would

never want to change it back because it

would be what the best power they'd ever

had.

Anyway, I don't know if that'll happen

or if it's a bluff. It's probably the

right time to bluff it

because Democrats are really, really not

going to want the nuclear option to be

used and they're really, really, really

not going to want the filibuster to go

away. But the Republicans have the power

to do it. They can make it go away.

So it could be that he's bluffing and

negotiating and if he says I totally

want the nuclear option and the Senate

filibuster to go away forever

that that might be enough for the

Democrats to say whoa whoa whoa whoa

whoa okay let's talk. If that's what

he's doing then it's exactly the right

play. If what he's doing is he's

definitely decided to get rid of the

filibuster and he can convince the

Republicans which I don't think he can

actually. I don't think he would. But if

he could, would they go along with it? I

don't know. I don't think he could get

the I don't think he could get enough

Republicans, but

you know, he he's really good at

threatening Republicans with primaries,

so maybe he could. He might be able to

get them.

Here's the least surprising story of the

day. According [clears throat] to the

New York Post, Victor Nava is writing

that the Department of Justice is

investigating possible fraud within

Black Lives.

So, it's one particular part of Black

Lives Matter. How many times have we

heard that story that Black Lives Matter

is being investigated for or or

suspected of money laundering and

stealing money and corruption? Surprise.

All right.

Um,

so but here's what's interesting.

Apparently the investigation was

launched during the Biden

administration. So if you think it's

some kind of racist Trump thing that

they only go after black people, you

should know that this would be a

continuation of a Biden administration

thing. However, I do have to wonder if

Biden was sloww walking it because

Democrats don't want to embarrass Black

Lives Matter to which they had all

bowed.

So, it might have been getting

slowwalked, but it's not getting

slowwalked now.

Um,

looks like the civil rights division

of the government is demanding,

well, actually the DOJ is demanding

records on what they call unexplained

anomalies

in the 2020 election

uh after Fulton County did not comply

with subpoena. This is from the

postmillennial Hannah Nightingale's

writing about it. And I guess what this

means is that in the past the Department

of Justice had asked for some documents

or something from Fulton County and

never got them. And now people believe

that there are unexplained anomalies

related to the 2020 election. Now, how

long have we been hearing about these

unexplained anomalies in Georgia?

It's been years.

For years. It's like every other day

there's a story about an unexplained

election thing in Georgia, but none of

them have so far turned into the, you

know, the massive smoking gun that

Republicans expect. So there's no proof

that the election was thrown. But I do

feel like like every part of my body

feels like it's coming,

you know, just in the way that uh Bill

Gates changing his mind on climate

change.

I felt like it was coming, but I

wouldn't know if it was in 20 years or

or one year. Turned down came kind of

fast. So, I don't know.

We'll keep an eye on this. Yeah.

Unexplained anomalies. Meanwhile, Ted

Cruz,

uh I believe he's at an event in uh or

was in Las Vegas that's the Republican

Jewish Coalition.

And part of uh what Ted Cruz would like

you to know is that according to him,

the Republicans are drifting into

anti-semitism.

He says in the I'll just read him. He

says, "In the last 6 months, I've seen

more anti-semitism on the right than I

have in my entire life."

He says, "This is a poison, and I

believe we're facing an existential

crisis in our party and in our country."

and he noted that the Democrats um had

sort of the same problem and were too

slow to to disavow the anti-semitism in

their own party and that that was sort

of a critical mistake for the Democrats

that he would not want the Republicans

to make.

Um and here's what I'm wondering.

How much of it is because of the Gaza

situation? And if Gaza had not happened,

would he be would he be seeing all this

anti-semitism?

Because it looks like the the way to

understand the various

complaints about anti-semitism

is that uh and I'm going to deeply

oversimplify now. There are some people

like Tucker Carlson who seem to be

criticizing the state of Israel, but

there are some people like uh Nick

Fuentes

who appears to be criticizing

Jews around the world.

Totally different. Criticizing a

country, fine. You'll still be called an

anti-semite, but

but at least smart people would consider

that reasonable. Uh, but if you're

criticizing people, well, you're not

gonna get away with that. And Ted Cruz

is calling it out.

So Ted is a very, very, very, very

pro-Israel.

Uh, he would be called by some people

too pro-Israel.

But uh again, if you're pro or anti- a

country,

that's all legal, you know, as long as

it's transparent and you know, you're

not hurting anybody and you're still

putting your own country first, that

would be important. Uh that's one thing.

If you're if you're uh criticizing APEC

or the ADL,

that's okay. Those are organizations.

That that's not direct.

Even if you were antiatic, it would be

okay to criticize an organization for

what the organization's doing. So, it

looks like we're conflating, you know,

the two the two conversations.

You know, when are we when is somebody

saying something that's criticism of the

country? When they've gone too far and

said it's the people. Um,

but I would I would say that what's

changed in the last 6 months is that the

Gaza situation reached some kind of a

peak. Obviously, that's going to have

some impact. And that uh also maybe some

changes in social media made Nick

Fuentes show up on my feed every 5

seconds. Is anybody having the Nick

Fuentes social media effect that he's

just there almost every time I turn on

any videos on X? He's he's in the top

five. Now, it is because I was curious

like what's the difference between, you

know, Tucker Carlson's view and his view

and, you know, what trouble is he

causing? Because when you hear when you

hear things about him, you don't always

hear the specific of what he did. So I I

wanted to see see some specifics and I

would agree that he comes off as

anti-semitic.

I would agree if if you watch him for a

while it's it's hard not to get that

impression. Now he might deny it etc.

But let's just say let's just say the

vibe is unmistakable.

Now he would argue I think you know I

don't want to take his argument but uh

at least in some cases he would argue

that he's at least in other topics that

he's talking about culture

less less than he's talking about people

but I think that's that's not so much

the anti-semitism

argument as it is his argument about

other immigrants I think so here's my

take both Tucker And

um quentes can they can represent their

own opinions. I will add nothing to

their opinions nor nor do I care enough

that I need to get into the the weeds on

that. But it does look like Tucker is

playing with fire, but maybe still, you

know, slightly on the the side of, you

know, since he's going after entities

and not people. uh most of the time. I

mean, there might be some people he goes

after, but they would be special cases.

That's what it looks like. Anyway, so

that's happening. Um

Cash Patel apparently found according to

Just the News

October surprise that was happening back

in two weeks before the election in

2020.

So, we know about the Arctic Frost

investigation, but did you know that on

top of that, they were looking to uh do

something in 2020? What was it? Oh, here

it was.

They were desperately, it looks like,

they were desperately looking like

something looking for something they

could go after Trump for, but they

didn't have much. So, here's how deep

they went to try to find something on

Trump.

Uh, there was a memo. I'll just read

what Just the News is reporting. There's

a memo buried in the middle of a 235page

evidence production that Patel sent to

the House Judiciary Committee this week

that chronicles how the FBI's Washington

field office rifled through financial

records and campaign expenditure

reports, producing what quote a tactical

intelligence report trying to link

payments from Trump's re-election

campaign and a vendor named Americanmade

media consultants to possible casino

gambling. Did you get all that?

Everybody follow all that? I read it. I

don't even follow it.

In short, just the news writes. The FBI

agents believed an employee of the

campaign, So, all right. Here's the

problem. They believe that an employee

of the campaign, not Trump, just an

employee, uh, no, yeah, an employee of

the campaign went gambling at a casino

after this Americanmade media

consultants thing. Got money for

campaign work.

Not exactly the crime of the century,

says just the news. How's that even a

crime?

What What exactly was that? So look, I

guess the bottom line is that the FBI

was looking for just absolutely

anything. They they were digging hard to

try to keep Trump out of office. That

was the best they had. Some employee

went to a casino.

Okay.

According to the New York Post and uh

some new new surveys, uh nearly half of

New Yorkers think the New York City

crime is going to spike when he becomes

mayor, who he likely will. So about

half. That's pretty scary if half of the

people think that crime is going to go

up. But I'll bet that's not too

different from any other every other

election. Half of the country thinks

it's going to be a disaster.

Well, I didn't know this, but I guess in

the past, Elon Musk has been not so much

of a Bitcoin supporter, but as of today,

he says uh Bitcoin might be the thing

because the thing that's different about

Bitcoin is that it's sort of a uh it's

proof of real world power.

I think that's what um Mario was

describing as but basically Bitcoin uh

can only be created with energy.

So energy is in a sense the thing that

backs Bitcoin in the way that the old

days gold would have backed the dollar.

Not anymore. So, Bitcoin would be one of

the well, the only I think it's the only

crypto that would be backed by something

that has intrinsic value of its own,

which is energy. So, you need energy to

make a Bitcoin. Um,

and so Elon recognizing that

uh

yeah, he does he says he doesn't hold

any Bitcoin. U but but he's but but

energy is truth. So I I guess the bottom

line is that Elon is

um believing that Bitcoin is here to

stay and that there's a reason that it's

different from the other crypto. And I

noticed that Bitcoin was up 3% this

morning. I don't know what it is now.

Black Rockck's Larry Frink said

something that made news that I don't

understand at all. See if you understand

it. So Larry Frink says that the world

is about to tokenize every financial

asset.

Do any of you know what that means?

Tokize.

Now, I think it means have some kind of

a crypto

currency that's backed on the physical

thing. Would that make the physical

objects

that are about to be tokenized? No. But

he's talking about financial assets.

The world is about to tokenize every

financial asset. I have no idea what

that means.

Do you? [laughter]

Yeah. I I mean I understand they're

talking about the blockchain blah blah

blah, but what does it mean to tokenize

every financial asset? Does that mean

we're not going to have uh financial

entities?

Will we be able to do all of our

financial stuff without Charles Schwab

and without a bank?

Is he suggesting that banks will go

away? I don't know what this means.

Anyway,

so Trump and she met

the other day and uh allegedly made some

deals. Um you you saw my take on it

yesterday in the morning and I said it

looked like Trump got nothing. Well,

that's what the Wall Street Journal

said, too. Uh it wasn't just me. So

other people said the same thing. Uh it

looks like Trump got nothing.

Well, we'll never know cuz it's mostly

promises. But it looks like we promised

nothing and they promised nothing, but

we made our nothing sound like

something, so it looked like something

happened. But I think nothing happened.

I I think nobody agreed on anything that

they're actually going to do. So that's

weird. But Trump did his usual thing

where he claimed victory and it was a

big win. That does work.

you know, if you're a Democrat, you're

just going to say he's lying. He's

lying. He He didn't uh, you know, he

didn't have a big victory. He's lying.

But I like it when he uses his hyperbole

and salesmanship in these situations

because if he can make she think that

the two of them won something, that the

two of them look good and they had a

meeting and they both won something that

they won, that might soften up she for

the next time, you know. So that would

maybe be good just good technique to

agree that good things happened even if

they didn't.

So we'll see where that goes. I don't

expect any change on fentinel. There's

no way China about that. Um

the Daily Wire is reporting Virginia

Crude is writing about this. There's a

some Democrat

who was it Janelle Binham Democrat from

Oregon. She's a representative. So, she

was being asked uh by the media

um about the clean CR, the continuing

resolution. So, this is what the

Republicans say they want the Democrats

to sign or vote for. Um that would just

extend funding with no changes from what

it had been before. So, the no changes

part is the important part. But Janelle

Binham says that that continuing

resolution was not a clean bill and

indeed that it had a poison pill in it.

Meaning that something had been added

that Democrats would definitely not want

to happen. But if they wanted to open

the government, they'd be forced to sign

this bill that also had this new add-on

that they didn't want. That would be

called the poison pill.

And then the representative or I'm sorry

then the uh C-SPAN

media person said what is that poison

pill? Can you name that? And she could

not [laughter]

because there's no poison pill. Now,

have you noticed that the Democrats can

make any claim whatsoever and nobody's

going to really fact check it enough

that, you know, I mean, only only the

nerds like us are going to fact check

it, but the regular public is just going

to hear that and they're going to say,

"Oh, it has a poison pill in it. It has

no poison pill in it." The poison pill

is imaginary. It's just completely

imaginary. What do I tell you about

Democrat

beliefs and worries and policies?

They're all imaginary. [laughter]

The more imaginary things you see come

out of the left, the more you realize

it's an imaginary party. Everything from

climate change to authoritarianism to

Trump becoming a king to the to the CR

uh having a poison pill, none of it's

true.

to the drinking bleach to the fine

people hoax to the Russia collusion

hoax. None of it's true. None of it's

true.

So the imaginary party versus the real

party.

The Wall Street Journal editorial

was that uh the the Republicans should

kill Obamacare if they can the

subsidies.

Now, what would happen if these gigantic

extra uh medical costs that have gone

up, especially in the last five years?

What would happen if the government just

said, "All right, no more. It's just

going to be a private market and you'd

have to eat these expenses." Could they?

Like, what would happen?

It It's certainly obvious that the

Republicans were right when they said

that Obamacare would be a disaster.

They were right. Now Obama was right,

too. And that he knew it would be a

disaster, but it would cover more

people. So, you know, at least people

would get healthcare while the disaster

was running. He was right about that,

too.

Cover it covered more people. And just

like the Republicans said, it's a

financial disaster. Is that fixable?

I'd sure love to hear the Republican

plan to fix it that doesn't put 10

million people out of healthcare. Is

there any way to do that? I'm not even

sure that's physically possible at this

point. We'll see.

Speaking of Ted Cruz, he's also called

on the House to impeach that judge

Boseberg.

Um and the impeachment would be in his

opinion um the reason for it would be

that Boseberg uh and uh had been behind

um approving the looking into all the

personal phone records of a bunch of

people including Ted Cruz.

And uh I guess Boseber justified looking

into the records uh under what the judge

wrote were reasonable grounds that the

senator might destroy or tamper

um with evidence in the Biden

administration's investigation of Jan X.

And Cruz's response is, "There is

precisely zero evidence [laughter] to

conclude that I am likely to destroy or

tamper with the ev evidence or to

intimidate potential witnesses."

And I'll give him that. I'll give him

that. You know, whether you like Ted

Cruz or not, there is zero evidence that

he would tamper with evidence. You know,

it doesn't it doesn't seem like he'd be

the guy who would ever do a dumb thing

like that.

So, he's got a good point.

Reuters says that China's factory

activity is down a little bit, which

would be a big warning sign. It might be

down because they did a little extra

before the tariffs. So, it might be just

an adjustment from a a bump, but

uh it doesn't seem to be affecting other

countries. So, it's a China problem.

Russia apparently used a one of their

best missiles. Must be something new in

Ukraine. They've used it a bunch of

times before, but using that missile is

apparently what led Trump to quit the

nuclear treaty

that he'd like to get going. So, these

must be really good missiles if it's if

it ruined the nuclear conversation. And

apparently whatever planned Budapest

summit with Putin was going to happen

with Trump is off now. So they're not

going to do that.

But Putin invited journalists into the

war zone. He wanted to show them that

Russia had encircled. They claim, but

Ukraine Ukraine says this is not true.

But Russia says they've circled

encircled so that they could whenever

they want destroy a large part of the

Ukrainian army. You know, thousands of

people are allegedly encircled and Putin

wants to bring in the press and say,

"See for yourself, they're encircled."

But they say, "No, we're not encircled."

Well, Israel launched another attack in

in eastern Gaza because the the

ceasefire is having a little trouble

holding. Like I say before, of course

there will be violations of the

ceasefire. Of course there will. But if

they stay low grade, they can work

through it.

All right, here's the dumbest thing I

saw on the internet today. University of

British Columbia

is uh behind this writing about it. They

they believe they have a mathematical

proof that debunks the idea that the

universe is a simulation.

Do you believe that? That somebody has a

mathematical proof that we're not a

simulation? No. Of course they don't.

They couldn't possibly because the

simulation by its design would prevent

you from knowing that it was something

else.

Who who would build a simulation in

which the people in the simulation could

determine that they were not a

simulation? It would just ruin the

simulation.

So as long as you can program a

simulation

such that the all the people in it would

have some point of view and can never be

overturned,

that's all you need. So apparently the

their mathematical proof

um

boils down to this. Since the

fundamental level of reality is based on

non-algorithmic understanding, that

would be the reality we think we're in.

Non-algorithmic understanding. What they

mean is quantum physics.

So they're saying that the world is not

cause and effect, but it's sort of a

quantum world where you don't know

what's going to happen. So if you don't

know what's going to happen, you

couldn't really call that an algorithm,

right? So therefore there can't be a

computed simulation because what we

observe is that we don't live in a world

that acts like it's computed. It doesn't

act like cause and effect. It acts like

random things are happen.

Now what does that have to do with the

simulation? You could you could build

randomness into a simulation. You could

build into the simulation that people

think they see randomness. You can build

into the simulation quantum physics. You

could just say, "Act like there's

quantum physics." And then the

simulation would act like it had quantum

physics. And then these guys in the

simulation would say, "Look, it's acting

like it has quantum physics. So

therefore, it can't be a simulation."

Yes, it can. It can be a simulation

pretending to be quantum physics. It's

not hard, people. This is easy.

[snorts] All right.

According to Reuters, the Pentagon's

Doge unit is going to revamp the

military's drone program. Is that good

news? Do you remember? It was just

yesterday I was telling you that wars

run on economics because if you got the

best economics, you're going to have the

best weapons. And I told you that the

the economics of drones and anti- drone

technology, those two things might be

the key to who has, you know, dominance

in the future. Are you good at making

lots of drones? And do you make really

good drones? That's that's going to be

who has power. So, putting Doge, which

are both geniuses and they're involved

in costs.

If you put the costs people in charge of

the drone program, you've nailed it

because you got to get the economics

right so that you can make a billion

drones at the cost that your enemy can

only make a million.

That's the whole game. So, the fact that

the military and Hex Seth and Trump

apparently understand that you got to

get the economics of drones right, you

you don't just get the technology,

you got to get the economics of it

right. That's how you win. So, Doge

doesn't seem like the obvious um people

to pick for the e for the uh drone

program, but once you realize that

economics and drones are really the same

conversation, then it makes all the

sense in the world. You put your

geniuses where they can understand not

just the technology, but also how the

economics of it works.

So, that seems like real good news.

And that, ladies and gentlemen,

is all I had to tell you today.

Went a little bit short. I'm not working

too well today.

Uh, my left hand and arm are just

useless at this point. I don't have a

plan for fixing that. All right, I'm

going to just say a few words to my

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